New nerd achievement unlocked: I created a Digital Ocean droplet and spun up an instance of a Discourse Forum today.
Episodes of The Last Dance fly by so quickly. I’m just settling in and then - bam - they’re finished. Such good TV.
Podcast From The Field
Andrew checks in during a mental state refreshing bushwalk.
I’ve been investigating best value podcast editing software for my Mac. Then the penny dropped; the best software isn’t on the Mac - it’s on iOS, and it’s called Ferrite.
Keep Practising: S01, E04 - Basketball
Keep Practising: S01, E04: Basketball. Andrew reminisces about his basketball playing days, and provides us with a scouting report on his own game. 🎙
Today’s view from the porch could be worse.
Bedraggled Bear.
My kid has the best giggles.
Our work had an online Zoom-based quiz game today using Kahoot.it. It was fun and I got bragging rights - came second in the first game, and won the second game. In your face, team! 😂
I got out and shot some basketball hoops today; first time in months. I loved it. Playing basketball is the physical activity that feels perfectly natural to me. My body knows exactly what to do. There’s nothing else like it. 🏀
I watched Episode 1 of The Last Dance and was reminded of why I fell in love with basketball. 90s-era NBA offered genuine competition in what was a small commercial enterprise. Also fashion!
I have no idea as to what represents a ‘good’ number of downloads for a podcast, but I’m excited to have seen 767 for my latest effort. Thanks to everyone who did listen!
Keep Practising: S01, E03
Keep Practising: S01, E03. A potted history of computer gaming.
I’m falling deep into the audio production rabbit hole. I’ve bought Loopback and Audio Hijack Pro from @rogueamoeba. Anybody want to do a podcast with me?
Writing for the Web
Why Word documents are not great for the web, and why plain text files written in ‘Markdown’ syntax are the way to go when writing anything destined for online delivery. Microsoft Word was designed for writing in an era when the finished result would be a printed page. There is still a place for that - and often the printed page is now a generated PDF. The web, however, is of different origins.
Coffee shop visit with my baby boy.
I’m happy I bought a license for Black Ink. It’s been great using it in combination with my subscription to the NYTimes crossword. Thanks for making great software, @danielpunkass
With all the Zoom meetings in our house now, I’ve created a Siri Shortcut, “On Air" that turns one of our smart lamps red. No more accidental interruptions!
Will Coronavirus Change Society Forever?
Will our giant monuments to mass transportation soon appear as white elephants dedicated to the god of hubris? Gigantic airports, ocean ports for cruise liners, and all the planes, trains, ships and automobiles that use them - will they all become stranded assets slowly losing the war against entropy? Will our stadiums and shopping centres, designed to pack people into shared experiences, point to an irrelevant way of life? Will our next generation of people wonder what it was like to have global experiences be the norm, and consider the way we would gather en masse to watch sport and entertainment a strange and incomprehensible way of life?
Today I’m partaking in another great Easter tradition: the giant yard cleanup and other assorted handyman jobs.