🔗 Link Post: “Daring Fireball: Financial Times Reports the Obvious: Trump Resisted Testing ‘Too Many People’ Lest the Results Spook the Stock Market”
John Gruber writing for Daring Fireball:
“The problem isn’t testing, the problem is sick people, and testing is a way to get a handle on the problem. Trump’s stance is like telling your girlfriend not to take a pregnancy test because you don’t want a baby.”
What a great line.
Thanks to this video I have discovered how to use my old Nikon D7000 with 50mm lens as a webcam. Which led me to buying an adaptor to convert a mic boom arm into a dSLR mount. High quality video conferencing coming up.
Colour-a-Day Challenge: Blue 📷🌈
COVID-19 has been a boon for improving my friendships. Since the outbreak my closest knit guys have held a weekly group Zoom meeting plus chatting in WhatsApp. The bonds of friendship have been strengthened. I love it.
Battle of the iOS email heavyweights - BryceWray.com Bryce Wray assesses power-user mobile email apps in an enjoyable review (and references one of my articles 🙂). I’ve been trialling Preside and can vouch for the responsiveness of the developer.
Colour-a-Day Challenge: Green 📷🌈
The number of apps able to post to micro.blog are growing. The native app, Gluon, Drafts, MarsEdit and now the one I’m using here: iA Writer. No excuse not to post.
Colour-a-Day Challenge: Yellow 📷🌈
Keep Practising: S01, E06: I reflect on how COVID-19 has impacted life at home and on Perth more broadly. In “Nerd Corner” this week, I talk about using Stream Deck in combination with Keyboard Maestro.
Colour-a-Day Challenge: Orange 📷🌈
My wife and our kids were featured in a newspaper article over the weekend as part of Mother’s Day.
Happy Mother’s Day!
The details are not the details; they make the product.
‒ Charles Eames 💬
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
‒ Frank Tibolt 💬
As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.
‒ John Glenn 💬
I got a Stream Deck today. Will be fun to see what interesting shortcuts and automations I can concoct with it and Keyboard Maestro.
Life is not about finding yourself. It’s about creating yourself.
‒ George Bernard Shaw 💬
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon 💬
Big storm here tonight. We’ve had a backyard fence blow down. ⛈