you can put the same iPhone onto a different MagSafe stand, and it will remember if you’ve set it up before. So without your doing anything each time, just putting the phone onto a charging stand with the phone in landscape can get you totally different results.
Did not know this. The future of iOS is being more contextual aware and perhaps take on different use cases in different situations
This UI feels so out of place
Don’t stay there cat 🐈
All ready for tomorrow!
What are you planning to set the action button to?
You can “zoom” to any focal length between 1–2× and you’ll still get a 24MP image: 1.4×, 1.7×, 1.9×, whatever. 1.2× and 1.5× get special treatment in the Camera app simply because 28 and 35mm equivalents are so popular.
Interesting. Seems like the “zoom” is really flexible
the people who are responsible for this have destroyed the privacy of billions of people while pretending this is a realistic goal. Just one more tracking script and one more data category — that ought to do it.
if you open the Links tab, you can see the For You page, an algorithmically personalized feed of all those videos, photo blogs, and random ephemera from around the web;
Oh goody. Another social network.
This years choice 👌
I thought about natural but I like more colour, even if it’s only a tad.
The snark is strong tonight.
Why can’t people let others enjoy what they enjoy without the negativity and holier than thou attitude?
If people want to buy a new iPhone each year let them and get on with your life.
Looks like the GM of iOS17 is out. 6.5gb update!
Still no mention about this new journaling app release. Just a fleeting screenshot.
Where is it?!?
Good news for once. Prices in the UK have gone down slightly, starts at £999 instead of £1049 last year.
I am really interested in how the focal lengths work on the new main camera.
With the ability to shoot in 2x now. That makes the iPhone 15 super compelling.
The question isn’t whether some people will be mad, it will instead be a question of whether a wide swath of the iPhone-buying population becomes actively upset about this.
I don’t think anyone will actually be upset. They will just appear so for internet points.
New folding phone who dis?
Matter getting YouTube transcription and now with podcasts is a perfect addition to my workflow.
I don’t like my kids going back to school, I love spending time with them.
However I love the daily routines and the full day of a quiet home that comes with it.
Started play CIV6 and I’m not sure why but I’m a little bit addicted 🕹️
There are not many better feelings than reading a book under a tree with a picnic.
If you use an external display with your mac, BetterDisplay is a must. Brings software controls to most monitors and more customisable resolutions - all from your menu bar!
#notanad
After just half a day of work I am already convince on the LG DualUp.
I work on Print and web, both of which are in portrait so it fits in perfectly.
Logged in to Threads to see what I was missing. As I expected, absolutely nothing. But Meta won’t let me de-activate my account again for 7 days.
So deletion it is. I was just hanging around waiting for federation anyway. People can find me where I want to be (here).
I’ve just taken delivery of an LG DualUp monitor and I have very mixed feelings about it.
people like pretty colors and even if people are going to use a case (most will), they still care about the color.
Agree completely. To say colour doesn’t matter to people because you don’t care is silly. I don’t want a boring colour iPhone I want something colourful and bright.
Meta will ingest these pieces of data specifically: * Username * Profile Picture * IP Address * Name of Third Party Service * Posts from profile * Post interactions (Follow, Like, Reshare, Mentions)
And so, it begins.
To be clear you give up all this data to a Mastodon server anyway, but i trust them more…
Ask yourself, what are the walls you’ve built to protect yourself? Are they helping you, or are they shielding you from the opportunities that life has waiting for you?
Good morning everyone
Shout out to @vincent. Sent me an email solving a bug in my blog before I even asked! Man’s a genius.
This is where the iPad is today. It’s good enough for what it does. If it doesn’t do it, it doesn’t do it. This is the fundamental difference between the Mac (a platform that basically lets developers and users do anything they want) and the iPad (where if Apple doesn’t specifically allow it, it can’t be done).
Most of my close friends (and even my parents) know about my blog, but hardly any of them read it and that’s the way I like it. If I knew all of them read every single post I would feel less free to write my thoughts here. But I’m quite content to keep hiding in plain sight.
We went to meet another family with a child that has the same genetic condition as Lucie today. MEF2C haploinsufficiency syndrome is extremely rare, possibly as few as 50 people are known, and to have someone just down the road from us is amazing.
Whenever anyone proposes new rules or regulations, the people affected always have reasons why this is a terrible idea that will cause huge damage.
Considering the three types of “No” is something you should always do. Is the response I don’t want to, I can’t, or in fact is it wrong.
Might have to dry the table first 🏓
If you’re not sure how screwed the world is. Just have a think about how many industries would be ruined if we all slept the amount we are supposed to.
Looks like I am will be steering clear of all social media for a few days because I still cant mute words on micro.blog.
See you when all the American politics has calmed down again ✌️
This is Barrett Lyon’s visualisation of the internet. Made using gateway routing tables. The clusters represent large network regions such as AWS or Tencent computer systems.
the Musk-Zuck cage match is an offensive waste of time—the result of a broken media system that allows those with influence and shamelessness to commandeer our collective attention at will.
It’s that time of year where I try to work out when is the optimum time to sell my iPhone.
Its a balance between getting the most money for it and not having to use an original SE for too long before the new one comes out.
Finished reading: Double Cross by James Patterson 📚
Lazy Sunday so playing around with my Homescreen. Widgy is really nice and pretty powerful.
Losing motivation on Threads. I said after a week or so I felt like I had my friends back. Unfortunately most seem to have returned to the bad place.
Anyone still there?
I’m already over 25% of the way to my fundraising target for Epilepsy Society. Huge thanks to everyone who has helped so far. Learn more about London for Lucie here www.gr36.com/2023/08/0…
Is there a way to show other activitypub replies as comments on the blog post? Currently only micro.blog replies show up. @help
When it comes to happiness and joy, there is always a seat with your name on it - Jay Shetty
all things worth having in life will require effort and time, hence the need to be able to delay gratification in order to actually fulfill whatever goal or result it is you want.
I worked on a daily boredom period last year when this started to be a thing. Worked great for creative work
Most of today’s email clients are built around the concept of Inbox Zero, which effectively turns your email inbox into a todo list with public write access
This is an interesting way to look at email. True for my relationship to it as well.
Thanks to everyone who has donated so far! I was in the top 20% of fundraisers last month.
Samsung are very kindly sending me a Galaxy Fold 5 to review.
Excited!
I’m delighted to have a place in next year’s London Marathon.
I am raising much needed funds for a cause very close to my heart. My daughter Lucie has epilepsy that affects every area of our life. Please give whatever you can.
I love that people are doing such wonderful work using iPhones, but I’ll keep my nice cameras that I enjoy using to make mediocre snapshots, thanks.
I agree with @jack. I take a lot of photos on my phone because it is usually the best camera i have with me. However, for me photography is more about the process of taking the images and the things it says to me than the perfect outcome.
The fact that phone cameras can take such amazing pictures now is brilliant, but the standard experience, at least on the iPhone, needs work.
This morning was battery changing duty on Lucies Toot Toot cars. We currently have 19 as a few of them were not recoverable ☹️
Here she is making sure I’ve lined them up straight enough.
I think I’m done with Threads. Not because I don’t like it, I just can’t be bothered to check two social networks and cross post things.
Looking forward to being able to follow people on there
I went to talk to about fedi experiences with people on the very impure Bluesky, where I had seen people casually talking about Mastodon being confusing and weird.
This is a really interesting post. Well worth a read if you’re interested in the approachability of Mastodon or other services.
Man I really wish I could use my micro.blog account on Ivory.
Being the dumbest person in the room means I am about to learn some interesting shit. I can listen, I can ask questions, and I’ll know more when I walk out of here than when I walked in.
The people that get on best in any situation are those that know their limits and are comfortable with them.
Did I see someone mentioning improvements to micro.blog bookmarks 👀
I was just about to publish this post, and then I started to think “why should I publish this text? Who is going to waste their time to read this crap?”, but you know what? I just don’t care what you think, here’s my post and you can do nothing about it
You wouldn’t think twice about a Thread or a Tweet, so why a blog post. More personal bloging please.
The most prolific thinkers aren’t thinking with external brains. If you’re a photographer, take more pictures. If you’re a writer, produce more text. The tools will work themselves out.
The biggest problem with changing tools is that it feels like progress. You suddenly feel like you’re getting something done, but you’re not. You’re merely shuffling deck chairs, but it feels like you’re making progress.
50 million people are engaging with Netflix and Dior on a platform that sat back and allowed the Rohingya people to be slaughtered in the name of ad engagement while the new proprietor of the social network next door is busy calling social justice a mind virus.
The fact that large platforms are adopting ActivityPub is not only validation of the movement towards decentralized social media, but a path forward for people locked into these platforms to switch to better providers. Which in turn, puts pressure on such platforms to provide better, less exploitative services.
You deserve growth that exists outside of the confines of shame and scarcity mindset. You deserve growth that pushes you towards freedom and away from endless comparisons—because if you spend your whole life competing with other people, when are you going to see yourself?
I think it’s about control and advertising. RSS represents a loss of control for many – especially to the new generation of founders and developers, who never knew a web without gates.
There is no other reason than advertising for site to restrict RSS
But you know what other word you can say in polite company without explanation? Tweet. Just say tweet! It has a definition in multiple dictionaries directly related to posting online. It’s a word that immediately connotes the specific kind of posting every microblog
It is busy and chaotic, but not in the same way as a bubbling restaurant or bar. It is more like a busy trade show where people are yelling motivational platitudes hoping you will buy their seminars.
One thing using Threads has made me think about, which might lead me back to using Mastodon more. Is that I feel like my shorter fleeting posts don’t really fit on my ActivityPub blog
The worst thing about Twitter dying is that there are now like 10 Twitters.
Suddenly Meta can see a much wider social graph for me. They can find any alt accounts. They can recommend those to the people I know on Threads / Instagram / Facebook – or to complete strangers.
Could this be used to widen their social graph and data colletion on others without their knowledge?
it’s also a hedge against other successful social services cropping up and Meta potentially being able to say “you can use Service X in Threads, look at how great we are
Agree with this completely. They can’t be seen the ‘de-platform’ people now, they just point to the door and tell them to move.
FYI you can’t delete your Threads profile once you activate it without deleting your instagram account! - link
Seeing that Mark Zuckerberg has tricked you into installing his dumb new app only to find out that you can’t get rid of it unless you delete your Instagram account as well
Didn’t get into the London Marathon again this year.
☹️
Sign into Threads.
Followed one person, got a feed instead full of performative, attention seeking junk and quickly deactivated again.
on an internet full of closed platforms, broken embeds, and crumbling indexes, the last reliable way to share anything is a screenshot. In other words, the camera roll is, at this point, the real content management system of the social web.
might be better this way. But the way it has all changed, and the speed with which it has happened, has left an everybody-sized hole in the internet. For all these years, we all hung out together on the internet. And now that’s just gone.
It’s for the better, but the internet is more than a little bit boring now
Wait.
Let me get this right. The business genius limited views on a platform that he sells ads on…
I have effectively endless ideas for the things I want to write about — just never enough time to write them. They each have a title and perhaps a few bullet points of content that I jot down when the idea sparks.
I have the same but very few turn into a blog post. I still have the 300 word, completely thought through, rigid structure in my head which means I only publish a few.
as platforms flattened everything into content, most news publishers, hiding behind antiquated ideas about objectivity and made desperate from vanishing ad revenue, allowed themselves to be flattened, as well. And now, even though they don’t think of themselves as a competing news fandoms, they absolutely are.
How do you make your life fulfilling, and complete meaningful tasks?
I’m more invested in ActivityPub than I am in Mastodon. Put another way, I’m more invested in RSS than I am in Inoreader,
Too many people think ActivityPub is Mastodon. All of the web should use it and let people subscribe to other people wherever they want. I can’t wait to be able to follow people on Instagram here.
We went to see the Seaside squad before we headed home. They all signed thank you to Lucie and it made my heart melt.
It’s easy for me to say, “Join Mastodon! Chat with me on Signal! It’s easy!” But to my sister and my college friends, it’s not.
I feel exactly the same. Could this be potentially useful, yes. Could it go wrong, yes. It brings more people I could interact with and that’s a win on my part.
There are too many people to reply too that sent good wishes for Lucie’s birthday. I really appreciate you all and your kind words. ❤️❤️
Thank you.
A good morning at the beach before it got too hot.
When work was done at work, and there was no chance of continuing your labors at home, your job didn’t seem nearly as all-consuming or onerous
Ah to go back to a world where your work stayed at work and you physically couldn’t do anything outside of it even if you wanted to.
Do any of my followers have an idea how to collect extra information on a Shopify product page?
There like a billion plugins but all charge a fortune or have really poor documentation. I need it to send the selected product options in conformation emails etc.
What’s wrong with WordPress? In my opinion it just feels overly complicated and bloated. The editing interface is too much for what I need. I’ve used it for years for a couple sites and blogs but I’ve never really liked it.
Honestly, I find the same. Every time I think about trying WordPress it seems to get further and further away from a blogging platform. The interface is bloated and overly complicated. I am sure it works for a huge number of people, but simplicity is not one of its strong points.
Plus that editor 🤮
In an effort to expand my reading notes, and also finish writing for a book, I am going to publish some of the highlights I made whilst reading - starting with Four Thousand Weeks
There were made by hand in the margins of my book, digitised and then expended on in some areas. Hope it works ok.
The Vision Pro may be merely an expensive gadget and a gimmick, but it represents a rationale that feels almost comically ill-suited to our moment: an invitation to narrow our collective aperture at a moment that asks us to bear witness and that demands our clear, unblinking gaze.
There’s a real philosophical difference in terms of how we’re approaching this. And seeing what they put out there and how they’re going to compete just made me even more excited
A social-media platform will always reflect the values of its owners, and Twitter’s credo is nearly identical to that of the lesser-known alt-tech sites.
Why are people still hanging around there?
Perfect weather for a walk in, what feels like the sky.
App launched
✅iOS
✅Android
Now. I sleep.
I thought I saw a post on displaying the Mastodon permalink to a micro.blog post in a custom theme but cant find it now.
It would be good if a reader could click a link and be able to reply on mastodon easily.
Is there anyway to use micro.blog newsletter feature and send an email for new posts but only from a specific category?
The times of Micro Camp didn’t work very well for me due to time zones, so I am planning on catching up on some of the sessions today.
It seems I am not protected from Spam even on micro.blog
At the YouTube Brandcast upfront event Wednesday in New York, execs announced the introduction of 30-second unskippable ads in top-performing YouTube content on TVs
This will get a lot of comments along the lines of “at what point do people stop watching” but the alternative is 5+minutes of them.
If you haven’t checked out micro.blog before, you really should and now is the perfect time.
The Summer of blogging is here with 4 months for just $5!
I know I have been messing with you all for the last few days, but of course I have renewed my micro.blog subscription.
Instead of unifying and establishing a stronghold on these new platforms, a section of the user base spends more time being defensive of their platform medium choice
I see this a lot, and I understand the need to reinforce your decisions. But just use what you want to use and leave everyone else alone.
I had to go for a run just to not feel so bad that I’ve played Zelda all day.
Now, back to Zelda.
I don’t think this will ever get old 🎮
This is why foldable phones are appealing, they just need refining
Zelda has been delivered. See you in a week or so 🎮
Read through this again and made a lot more notes the second time around. Super interesting book, if most of it is more common knowledge now. A must read for anyone in marketing, design or just wants to understand the world better.
I am seriously considering switching to the Pixel fold.
We live in an information ecosystem whose design is dominated by the needs of the Google Search machine — a robot whose beneficent gaze can create entire industries just as easily as its cool indifference can destroy them.
Google not so much shapes the web, more smashes it into its image.
So, update to my post yesterday about mechanical keyboards.
I bought a Keychron K3 because it was cheap and approachable. I like the click, I like the feel but the keys are at a weird angle. So I am not sold yet.
I think I might end up just sticking with a Apple Magic keyboard
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
God damn that film was dark, but entertaining still. Not sure how Guardians films manage to crow bar on so many jokes and explosions in the same film.
I paused by accident on a Jordan Peterson Instagram reel and now Meta thinks I’m some kind of incel. Showing me all sorts of misogynistic stuff.
It’s wild what people publish on the web.
I might regret this but I want my first mechanical keyboard.
used for typing, no gaming
I don’t want to piss everyone off with noise
must work well with a mac
wireless would be nice
not too expensive
available easily in the UK
looks nice
Please help 🙏
He who stands on tiptoe, doesn’t stand firm ― Lao Tzu
Sundays are for reading the holy book
Can someone just make Bear Notes but with actual folders please. That would be great.
I am absolutely delighted for Napoli winning Serie A.
I spent just over a year playing football there and the club is an amazing place to be. Their commitment to the club and the community around it deserves every success.
And the headset’s apps might not be the only thing that might remind you of the iPad; the Home Screen and Control Center will apparently look like the iPad’s as well
You cant do real work in VR
A busy life is not a symbol of status. It’s a symptom of trying to do too much for too many people. - Adam Grant
Your system has to be as easy as possible to get started and keep going. An effective system will remove barriers instead of creating them.
This is the biggest failure in most systems. “You just put this here, and that there and then this does a thing.”
Keep it simple stupid, and you might succeed
Had a great day at the cathedral yesterday
Trying out Readwise Reader. It’s the type of app I really want to use, it makes a lot of sense but there’s just something about it that doesn’t feel right.
Plus it’s annoying that the app doesn’t do all that the website does.
Got 28 days left so we’ll see
Saw someone using a silver Leica M11 today whilst in London.
Wildly expensive but damn if that isn’t a nice looking camera.
Went for a walk and saw some sheep 🐑
Me: oh this post looks interesting
Medium: you need a free account to read the rest of this post
If people want a twitter like experience (well a replica) it’s awesome that that’s provided. I’m just not sold on the idea, I’d rather just use Mastodon or something else plugged into activity pub. I have hope they will.
Never stop doing your best just because someone doesn’t give you credit - Dan Green
Stop looking at me swan
V shadows
‘Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can’t be right. I need a change - Bilbo Baggins
Me too Bilbo, Me too
I think we need a UK micro.blog meet up 🇬🇧
Anyone interested?
Can we agree this is the cutest little tag they put on Lucie’s swimming kit at school.
That was a weird read, my least favourite of the series, but of course I’ll read the next one!
Today rules!
Updated my tools I use page because a few of them have changed slightly.
I really love Ulysses for making writing and publishing easy but i forgot how easy it is to write in regular old markdown, with nothing getting in the way.
No popups, no app thinking they can do it better, but trying.
The characters have developed specific routines, such as waking up, taking a shower, cooking breakfast, interacting with their families, then going to work every day.
That’s progress now, the steady accumulation of various tools to avoid other human beings, leaving people free to consume #content that is by design totally, existentially disposable
There have been about a dozen times a sapient species has created a more intelligent successor species …and in each case, the successor species has wiped out its predecessor. So the base rate for more intelligent successor species killing everyone is about 100%
an increasingly typical Silicon Valley type, with a thin veneer of moral self-congratulation imperfectly obscuring a thick layer of obedience to perverse incentives
Because nothing Musk does isn’t without asterisks.
😂
Bank holidays are made for washing the car
Reading all the wondering on why people still use Twitter seems redundant. If you speak to anyone outside of tech or news circles that uses Twitter, they don’t care who owns the company.
It still provides what it has done for more than a decade and until it dies completely will continue to do so.
Read for a second time and although I understand the ideas I still feel as if all this PKM stuff is a solution looking for a problem.
Today is new book day!
Like Martin, I’ve been thinking about the intersection of Mastodon and micro.blog a little recently. As much as I dont want to consume social media like I did with twitter, I am starting to think that perhaps the amount of updates I post sometimes dont fit very well as being part of my blog
Whatever you think about Samsung. Trygalaxy is pretty damn impressive as a marketing push.
We have a carer starting with Lucie today.
It hurts to not be the one looking after her all the time, but I have to accept that she needs her independence and her dad looking after her all the time doesn’t always promote that.
we’re not doing competitive swimming, we’re doing synchronized swimming.” It’s a much harder sport, much harder to execute, but much more beautiful to look at when it works. Synchronized swimming that doesn’t work is just a mess.
Natural-language processing provides, like all the other technologies, the humbling at the end of empowerment, the condition of lonely apes with fancy tools.
I’ve officially finished paying for our trip to southern Spain! Now counting down the days until we leave.
Back to travelling and enjoying seeing the world again. 🧳
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. - Hamlet
Every moment, we have the opportunity to wake up to wonder, to awe, to everyday miracles. It is enough to make your heart leap with joy, to overwhelm your soul, if you let it. Every day, we have access to this, in so much abundance.
I’m not mad
I’m disappointed
Spending the day making app preview videos and writing promotional text and app descriptions.
“[A strong ruling against Section 230] would really crash the digital economy with all sorts of effects on workers and consumers, retirement plans and what have you,” worried Brett Kavanaugh.
Because of course thats what you should be thinking about 🤦♂️
An 1894 New York Times article told readers, “There is not the slightest doubt that bicycle riding, if persisted in, leads to weakness of mind, general lunacy, and homicidal mania.”
Some of my favourites from last years championships (I can’t share then best ones I’m afraid). Glad to have my photographers spot for this years Nationals and just under 3 weeks to go!
Stories of people who threw away great lives because they couldn’t stop drinking have long been cliche, but there are many untold stories of relationships severed, jobs lost, and lives ending in misery because people couldn’t put down their phones.
This is one of the most life changing books I have read in a while. It has given me a new way of not just looking at my work, but also life itself.
Meaningful Highlights
good luck finding a time management system that makes any room for engaging productively with your fellow citizens, with current events, or with the fate of the environment.
There is an ‘anti hustle culture’ uprising going on at the moment. All of a sudden people are realising that we do not need to hustle through the best years of our lives and not leave room for things that make us happy. After all what is the point in living if not enjoying it.
Productivity is a trap. Becoming more efficient just makes you more rushed, and trying to clear the decks simply makes them fill up again faster.
There will always be more work. If you live in a capitalist society and you work for a company that holds the notion they are forced to grow, you are always screwed. Companies expect more and more from their workers, and getting towards the end of your list only leads to more tasks. It is only when you realise that you can only get done what you can the real freedom comes.
There is absolutely no point stressing about getting to the end because modern life is a treadmill you can never get off. Much like inbox zero only leads to more emails, all the modern productivity punchlines just lead to more work. By embracing the fact that the end will never arrive, you can relax, knock as many tasks off as you can and get some downtime.
in attempting to eliminate only the tedious experiences, we accidentally end up eliminating things we didn’t realise we valued until they were gone.
Many people must feel as I do that resting and doing atelic tasks are a ‘waste of time’. We are encouraged to squeeze every moment for the most return. A return on a later date that may never arrive.
Where’s the logic in constantly postponing fulfilment until some later point in time when soon enough you won’t have any ‘later’ left?
Using your time wisely is the best thing to do. But constantly using it for the benefit of the future is like a hoarder. Keeping everything just incase. The very definition of the word ‘purposiveness’ (using time well for future purposes) but never actually using it.
By trying too hard to make the most of his time, he misses his life.
there’s usually the unspoken fantasy that you might one day finally reach the state of having no problems whatsoever.
I find some peoples lives as if they are living a [[Provisional Life]] as if they are preparing for the one that comes next by doing all of these things. Confucius says “We have two lives, and the second begins when we realise we only have one.”
Zen teacher Charlotte Joko Beck puts it, it’s only unbearable for as long as you’re under the impression that there might be a cure.
I like this a lot to our struggles with Luice care. There is not solution or magic bullet to fix it, so there is no point fooling ourselves that anything is ever going to change.
The original Latin word for ‘decide’, decidere, means ‘to cut off’, as in slicing away alternatives; it’s a close cousin of words like ‘homicide’ and ‘suicide’.
This is why deciding feels painful sometimes.
It didn’t take Brown long to figure out that their pulsing sense of urgency was a form of self-medication – something they were doing as a way not to feel something else.
This quote from psychotherapist Stephanie Brown who had a practice in Silicon Valley on the 90’s hit me hard. Not being able to sit still and rest or enjoy a basic activity is a defence mechanism against being alone with yourself. This is an addict self medicating by distracting instead of intoxicating themselves.
keep a ‘done list’,
There is no better example of this than my task list at work. It is constantly filled with things I need to do. Like the heads of a hydra, as soon as I check one off, there is at least another to take its place. Which is fine, until a certain point where you realise you’re on a treadmill with no escape. It starts to feel a bit overwhelming and often leads to a lack of motivation. Pretty quickly, life could become untenable.
So let’s flip the thinking here. Instead of looking at the outstanding tasks, let’s look at the ones already checked off. Focus on a done list rather than a to-do list. Any time I feel a bit overwhelmed by what’s on my plate, not only do I remember there will always be more work, but also flip through my Bullet Journal and look at all the crossed off items.
I found that if you have a goal, you might not reach it. But if you don’t have one, then you are never disappointed - Vince Vaughn in Dodgeball (2004)
I’ve started buying quite a few physical books lately. Copies of ones I have read but want to be able to go over them several times (like Meditations) and I’ve always opted to buy used.
I prefer a worn book to a brand new one and I’m hoping i might find some margin notes in some!
‘to know about something’ isn’t the same as ‘knowing something’. Just knowing about a thing is less than superficial since knowing about is merely to be certain of its existence, nothing more.
“The people talking about generative AI right now were the people talking about Web3 and blockchain until recently—the Venn diagram is a circle,” says Ben Waber
Eventually, brands will find purchase in Mastodon’s rocky soil and grow engagement. Billionaires will order the construction of new marketplaces of ideas. Everything will centralize again,
I’m not saying ChatGPT is a grift, but I do think it’s interesting that it employs some of the same strategies (albeit unintentionally) a human would use to to convince you of something false.
Which is a more satisfying experience: woozily tapping your phone to silence the alarm in the morning, or smacking the “Snooze” button on a clock radio?
it’s bad enough not getting what you want, but it’s even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out at the end of the journey that it isn’t, in fact, what you wanted all along. - Alain de Botton
My new Field Notes packages arrived.
Now I have the annoying time where I have to wait for my current notebook to be filled before I use the new one!
when you get angry, you say ‘X thing made me angry’ you will get angry often. If you say ‘I made myself angry because of X thing’ you will get angry less often. Your emotional response is your fault and responsibility.
There are a lot of books that I read now that could of very easily been a blog post. I barely get past the first chapter before I get the point of it.
I always take a picture of this thing every time I see it.
No matter what profession you find yourself in, the most essential function of the pocket notebook is to provide a place to capture the ideas that spring to mind throughout the day.
Does anyone know someone that works at Field Notes?
I’ve placed an order that has an issue that I’m desperate to get resolved before they dispatch it wrong to the UK. I have emailed but it would be great to get some reassurance so I stop worrying.
Not sure if my writing sucks, or what, but I don’t get the interaction using just my micro.blog account that I do if I post to a separate mastodon one.
I don’t know what it is but when I’m tired I am laser focused at work. I can’t get so much done and have loads of ideas.
Probably because I don’t have the energy to concentrate on anything else but one thing at a time.
I don’t worry about formatting for each social network. That’s a distraction.
There’s quite a bit I agree with in this post, but this statement, nope. You should be crafting the content for each network and making it as zero click as possible.
The monthly fee is incurred whether you print or not, and the ink cartridges occupy some liminal ownership space. You possess them, but you are, in essence, renting both them and your machine while you’re enrolled in the program.
There’s nothing wrong with emotion, with the feelings of anguish and anger, but you don’t have to cling to those feelings. You don’t have to feel a certain amount of bad to validate your experience.
Just heading up
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If your show is exclusive to Apple Podcasts, I will not listen to it. If it’s exclusive to Spotify, I won’t either.
Amen 🙌
Note to self: My wife does not like being refered to as my ex-girlfriend.
Having a spot of tea
Thank you micro.blog for keeping my timeline so quiet but still allowing me to interact with Mastodon 🙏
YouTube: hey guys this is my super minimalist bullet journal set up for 2023.
gets out 13 different markers, a full set water colours to draw a super intricate design on the first page that just says the year
I think the word minimalist has lost all meaning.
Anyone else noticed the weird spacing with micro.blog posts viewed on Mastodon? Usually around block quotes.
Not something I would see but someone just asked why they are always formatted weird. MB bug or issue with Mastodon?
I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make other people happy, because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless, and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that ~ Robin Williams
Come to think of it, it seems absurd to not be happy given that we are on this planet spinning in the middle of nowhere, that its taken us billions of years to get to this very moment, and that we are here only for a short period of time.
The entity will build on the success of Robinhood’s popular daily markets newsletter, Snacks, and will serve as a branding and customer acquisition tool.
“Men are born for the sake of each other. So either teach or tolerate.” - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
There are some thoughts swirling in my head about not building your buisness on the back of someone else’s. But I need to get them straight before writing anything down.
Still sucks for app developers though. My presumption is they will all pivot to Mastodon apps now.
Aaron was persistent in not just advocating, but enacting, greater transparency, seamless interoperability, and actionable impact in the technology and systems that govern our lives.
The amount of things on the web we have Aaron to thank for is crazy long. We all
miss him terribly.
Twitter is a place where the average person can subject others to their displeasure.
47 tasks in my ever growing task list is WAY to many for my liking.
Good news is today is done so I can make a start on tomorrow!
Carrots help us see much better in the dark
Don’t talk to girls, they’ll break your heart
And this is my head, and this is my spout
They work together, they can’t figure anything out
taking us out of ourselves and expanding our sense of time, it counteracts the self-focus and narcissism that is the root of so much modern disenchantment.
as minimalism began to dovetail with financial planning and whole food health claims, I got off the bus.
The minimalism cult annoys me. Adverts suck, apart from my course, and my Patreon and my book…
After having no end of problems with Matter recently with content not showing and loads of newsletter issues I’m exploring options.
I like Readwise reader but its too fiddly to use. The web app especially is really confusing to navigate and I can’t quite put my finger on why.
Winter sun at the Cathedral
Oh fantastic
My amazing daughter has been nominated for the Child Of Courage award again! She’s already won in 2017 as recognition of everything she goes through with a smile on her face.
“In America, you watch television; in Soviet Russia, television watches you!” In 2022, TVs track your activity to an extent the Soviets could only dream of. But hey, at least that television is really, really cheap.
Something something, you’re the product.
My illness had gone from headache and drained > Annoying head cold > cough that just wont go away.
It also seems like everyone I know is currently ill with something
Has Dropbox completly messed up anyone else mac?
My new year’s resolution is less, fewer, lighter, easier.
I am finding myself checking Mastodon too much and falling into very similar bad practices that I had around twitter.
I know some people don’t believe in them but I’m interested to hear your New Year’s resolutions or aims for 2023.
No one has ever found its animal reservoir. No one knows quite what vaccinia is—even as it has been used to inoculate billions of people and saved hundreds of millions of lives
I am glad that I found social.lol. Were it not there I might not have used mastodon at all. The usefulness of a good instance can’t be understated
Outside of Twitter, Day one must be my most downloaded and deleted app. It stays on my phone for a bit only to be deleted again when I don’t really know what to do.
I think its time micro.blog bumped the truncation limit up to 500 characters and just chopped it down if you share to Twitter.
Still, I rely on this user stylesheet to keep my sanity when browsing the web today. Unlike browser extensions, there are no security or privacy questions to worry about, and it is entirely controlled by the user.
I’m convinced that it is only a matter of time before legal issues become an issue to some Mastodon instance owners. With more users comes more scrutiny and more red tape.
It can be expanded on for your usage, hope it helps
Decided I’m going to uncouple of micro.blog from Mastodon. It’s just too noisy in this app.
I can’t transfer followers back so could I trouble you all for a follow @gr36@social.lol
Maybe Tim Cook should read the Elon Musk book on how to do business?
Just imagine Twitter owned by Automattic.
What a place it would be.
Every time I check LinkedIn:
“Oh look someone added me”
“I don’t recognise the name”
“Oh they are trying to sell me something”
click I don’t know this person.
I have two overlapping categories on my blog (micro and photo) and for the life of me I can’t work out how to filter photo out of micro.
Every way I try using Hugo examples doesn’t work (crash) or gives me zero results.
😢
My life is so much quieter off Twitter it’s unreal.
If Zuck could now mess up Facebook so my wife would get off the dam thing that would be perfect.
Finished reading: Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card 📚
Not the result we wanted but a great experience taking my boy to his first game are the Emirates.
I think I am going to start the slow and painful process of migrating back to using my Mastodon account. I cant migrate out of micro.blog like I can in to the service so I have a feeling this is going to suck!
After being pressed by journalists over some of his inconsistencies, Musk abruptly left the conversation, and shortly after the entire Spaces feature itself started playing up. At the time of writing, it’s not possible to start a new Spaces conversation or join an existing one,
Jesus Christ what a man child
Anyone know what the train strikes are like in London tomorrow? Was thinking about going to Arsenal
Is it worth getting the official Steam Deck dock or are there better third party options!
I know they are expensive, and not for everyone but the AirPods Max are the best headphones I have ever owned.
Users of Mastodon spill a lot of digital ink writing about what is commonly referred to there as “the bird site.” The overall environment on Mastodon is very meta. It’s social media about social media.
Instagram? They moved to Meta’s store for obvious reasons, so you can no longer receive updates unless you also install Meta’s store That note taking app you’ve been using for years? They’re tired of paying Apple 30%, so they’re now in Epic’s store!"
This is a well thought after book in some circles but I really had to force myself to read it. It was full of stories ancestors medical anecdotes that felt forced.
I just realised I haven’t played on my Steamdeck for more than a week.
Perhaps the novelty is wearing off? Not that I have the time to anyway 😂
Another cold morning with lots of frost. 🥶
Oh Lordy. Thank you Gluon for all the filters!
This solves one of my issues with moving everything to micro.blog
I’ve limited the RSS feed from my blog to just longer posts now as I think thats better for consuming. If you really want everything the json feed is untouched.
This is a really interesting thread on user requested features, leading inevitably to Mastodon and quote boosts.
I am really interested in the cognitive difference between your quote being at the top (a la Twitter), and your comments being underneath more like a link post.
I am really enjoying just having one touch point for the social web. I am sure there are downsides but they seem manageable.
Following Mastodon accounts on micro.blog seems much calmer with no boosts.
My 11 year old just told me he hates his life and he hates me.
They grow up so fast.
I forgot how good Silicon Valley was. Seems ripe for a new series.
Stop number two!
First stop of the day
Another foggy and cold dog walk, but I kinda dig it.
It was a bit misty and cold walking the dog this morning but the Christmas lights cheered me up no end!
Hey do you guys remember Twitter?
How do I move my current Mastodon to the micro.blog ActivityPub one? There doesnt seem to be a way of doing it like there is transfering instances.
Do I have to just start again?
Downloaded and imported all of my Instagram data into my blog. I’ve done the same as I have done with Twitter (apart from left a few photos up), leave my account open but change the password to one I don’t know and leave.
Morning Dew - the staple of winter photogrpahy when you live in a boring place
Learnt the expression “eat the frog” earlier this week and I’ve always wanted a more disgusting way to say “just get it done”
Will not support the billionaire baby, but annoyingly I can kinda get onboard with the direction of “Twitter 2.0”
How do I get replies to posts on mastodon to show up as replies on blog posts?
Bridgy doesn’t seem to work any more and just messes up the post on micro.blog.
This may just be my tiredness talking but social media as a whole is starting to feel a bit pointless. The interaction and enjoyment I get is decreasing fast, and I suspect it is because others are feeling the same.
Finished reading: Cat & Mouse by James Patterson 📚
I was just looking back at some gr36.com archives and found my very first Wordpress blog. I kind of still dig it.
A very quick visit to Nottingham Christmas market. It was really busy and far too stressful punching a wheelchair around
I absolutely love the filters on Mastodon. I haven’t needed to use them much, but they actually mute the words properly. When compared to other services this is a breath of fresh air, I can really curate my feed to be what I want to see.
Well I know what I’m going to be playing this weekend 🎮
Chilling On The Beach
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Bit frosty out
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#x100v #fujifilmuk #fujiweekly #fujifilmx #fujixphotographer #fujifilm #fujixphotographer #fujixshooters #frostymorning
Bit frosty out 🥶
If I want to follow some micro.blog accounts using the mastodon app how do I find their compatible usernames easily?
You can still find beauty in winter
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Some random flowers that came out quite well.
Elmo has invented blogs everyone.
Panic over.
Currently trying to get to grips with Pixelfed, and work out how all these indieweb things are going to for together.
At the minute it’s a mess.
This is an interesting idea. What if loads of buisness had instances, communication with employees could be as universal as email
“People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures” -F. M. Alexander
“it turns out that most people do not want to participate in horrible unmoderated internet spaces full of shitty racists and not-all-men fedora bullies.” - Welcome to hell, Elon
Shocking I know.
So, I’ve finally put my Apple Watch Ultra on Charge with 17% battery left:
All no problem and only 12% battery used. Thanks Apple Watch Ultra.
I dont think it’s the time for mass abondonment of Twitter just yet, but I can see where it’s going already with the Meme lord in charge.
It’s definitely a time to think about where you want to post and what you want to do online.
You drip
And just like that I’m back on the beta train 🚂
“A “heavy tweeter” is defined as someone who logs in to Twitter six or seven days a week and tweets about three to four times a week,” - Twitter report
I’m been reminded of one of the most painful posts have written in my life but also one of the most cathartic.
Still painful to read because I remember the emotions, but I am happy that I can now face them.
Sold my Series 7 today so I’m all in on the Apple Watch Ultra. So I think it’s time for some words, a review of sorts.
Need to do this for a bit. Getting fed up with the time wasting I do and the way it makes me feel afterwards.
I have no idea why, but I’ve decided to bring my Buy Me A Coffee page up to scratch.
If you like my stuff, buy me a cup of joe I guess. ❤️
Ok Apple Watch Ultra. You win.
For those interested this is with three hour long workouts and quite a bit of time on cellular each day.
Saw random graffiti the other day that said:
“Do more, say less”
And I feel like that’s a life lesson.
We had a very relaxing day today. Mainly because the weather was really rubbish but Lucie had a big seizure and wasn’t herself for most of the afternoon.
Very weird being able to walk the dog in a tee shirt whilst surrounded by fallen leaves but enjoyable.
I love this time of year.
The prickles have fallen ð°
#autumn #conkers #iphone14pro #nature #scenicbritain
A few iPhone snaps from Lillie’s match last night. Raised more than £3000 for Birmingham Children’s Hospital.
I geniuinly need help with using Day One. I’ve had it for years but what do I write that is not repetitive naval-gazing.
Should I set up prompts or are there any tips to get me going?
No idea why but I’ve fallen back in love again with Shortcuts and have built loads of them over the last few days to automate hyper specific tasks.
Technology is wonderful, when it works.
Not sure when it happened but it would appear Bridgy doesn’t work with micro.blog any longer? the few replies I just tested removed all the conversation from the post and duplicated it numerous times. @manton
As I get older, my answer to more and more things is “I don’t know”. What is short for, I’m not interested enough to think about it.
I shrug my way through the day in blissful ignorance of most things that might have otherwise occupied my brain, and it’s fantastic.
Does anyone use Blinkest or similar service to “read” books.
Inspired by @maique I made a Shortcut to update your omg status including emojis.
I will write up a bit more information in a little while, but if you want to beta test it, grad it here
Implemented a custom version of status.lol into my blog because why not.
Editing some old ‘non keepers’ to see what I find.
This year is the first year I haven’t done an iPhone review (or several) and I’ve got the itch to do a small one. Mainly to take the product shots… so I might just do that 😂
I wish I was this happy
I went around and tried all the ai copy writing bots do you don’t have to.
In a surprise to absolutely no one. They all suck.
On reflection, I would have to conclude that the ethics of early Buddhism do not offer blanket solutions to all the complex predicaments of the human situation. Perhaps that was never their intention—perhaps their intention was to issue guidelines rather than proclaim moral absolutes, to posit ideals even for those who cannot perfectly fulfill them. Nevertheless, the complexity of the human condition inevitably confronts us with circumstances in which moral obligations run at crosscurrents.
Annoyingly. After a bit of curation I’ve found instagram Reels to be a good resource for a wide range of things.
Illustrator tips, design advice, SEO resources etc. I guess it’s not all memes and dancing.
It’s happening!
Like father, like son
I think my internet friends are better than my real life ones ❤️
I need some more newsletters to read. Drop your favourite 👇
Like father like son
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#fujifilmuk #fujiweekly #fujifilmx100v #fujifilm
Got up and walked the dog purely because I could see the sun rising out my window.
I’m a sucker for the colours and the quietness of early mornings. It stirs a certain type of majesty for the world we live in.
I love photographing at The Contemporary
#streetphotography #nottinghamstreetphotography #x100v #35mm #fujifilm #fujifilmx100v #fujiweekly #streetphotographer #nottinghamcontemporary
Spending my Sunday assessing task management options for my team.
It’s currently between Todoist and Notion.
Oh my god. New episodes of the best podcast series ever made!
You really suck as a manager if the only metric you have on your staff is based on if you can see them or not.
I think I figured out that my desire to buy an Apple Watch Ultra has nothing to do with the actual watch.
It’s simply that I want something different after 7 years wearing essentially the same thing.
“What boat you are in is far more important than how hard you row.” — Charlie Munger
Two weeks after COVID I can’t complain
🎶 what happens when you loose everything, you just start again.
I prayed to the gods.
And spent too much!
Lucie Loves Shoes!
I think he wants one
Laying in bed listening to Lucie playing and laughing her head off is my kind of medicine.
The house, and probably the whole street, is still sleeping apart from us two and despite my tiredness it’s wonderful.
Remember to enjoy these times my friends because they don’t last.
Pushing them up
Out the darkness
Out of the darkness
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The fact that people seem to think the Apple Watch Ultra is a replacement for the old Edition range topper rather than a version to use in pretty specific circumstances is strange.
I understand the upload limit for podcast on micro.blog is 45mb.
What is the longest recording this could be whilst still sounding good.
I blame @maique because I am now playing around with Drafts
All the concerns I have stem from this “user-engagement-at-all-cost” business practice. Irrespective of how pleasing this interaction feels in the moment, it leaves me furious for the time wasted.
I guess this makes sense really, not just online but in our lives. We are constantly moulding ourselves to be ‘better’ but not always better in the grand scheme of things. Better for something or usually someone.
I love Matter and everything, but it really has to get better at recomendations. I am so sick of American politics and old posts.
The fact I can now export reading notes in Matter into Apple Notes and really round off my note taking system is brilliant
After seeing a few posts about it. Here’s how I post to micro.blog including an image upload shortcut.
Hope this helps people.
Sunrise at the beach huts
The fact that when people refer to “the notch” everyone knows exactly what you mean is justification enough
be careful of “doesn’t that already exist? have you heard of XYZ?” when analyzing or sharing an idea for a product. Yes, sometimes a new solution is very well redundant, but sometimes there is still untapped opportunity.
There was some great light when we were shopping in Nottingham this morning. It’s a shame I couldn’t hang around a bit longer and roam around with my camera.
I am tempted to just move to one blog rather than splitting things between micro.gregmorris.co.uk and gregmorris.co.uk. Seems redundant having both.
Few milkshake treats 🥤
I thought this was supposed to be easier on m1?
Woke up to lots of engagement on my two blog posts yesterday and I am a bit overwhelmed.
I realise that not everyone expects a reply but it seems weird if I don’t.
Thanks though! Some interesting points raised.
Why do companies value new customers so much highly than retaining current ones? Where is the loyalty and appreciation for those already supporting the business?
Seems like a poor decision to me but it’s absolutely rampant.
This is me but with Twitter. Not sure if everyone has grown up and has lives to live but my timeline is nothing like it was a few years ago.
Now I am no longer podcasting I’m considering returning to a newsletter.
Perhaps every two weeks.
Best description of Instagram I’ve seen, and all in one sentence!
Lucie loves her new chair that will make a big difference to her social inclusion. Simple things like sitting at the table with us at meal times or doing activities will be drastically improved.
Really happy with it.
Using Instagram in the browser removes all ads and all the full screen messing about.
Much better.
Trying to slim down on some upcoming purchases because times are hard at the moment and due to get worse.
Cancelled Readwise, Glass, Fantastical and Apple One already. There will probably be some more cutting to do yet.
Why do I find my self tempted to buy, of all things, a Surface Duo?
I’ve even confused myself with this one.
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.
T.E. Lawrence
Currently reading: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 📚
Take a seat
At a time when staged narratives and rendered images are popular, I am excited by the fact that life itself offers situations far more strange and beautiful than anything I could set up?
Melanie Einzig
Met a friend on our evening dog walk. He’s called Larry 🦎
It’s ok to delete people you like but you hate their tweets right?
I keep thinking about writing something, saving notes and thinking of good topics to cover. Yet when I open an app and actually try and do it, I simply can’t be bothered.
Twice today I’ve tried to finish off a post that has been in drafts for weeks.
Suck it up
Life is a weird thing isn’t it.
I’m reminded of some techno I used to listen to 20 years ago and I’m automatically back there. Feeling the same feeling I felt then and all the experiences that went with it.
How can I feel so old and so young with one track.
“One thing all humans share is that we’re a ghost trapped in a skeleton covered by a sack of meat” - Today in tabs
Possibly the best opener to a newsletter ever
“Twitter built a superhighway from your foot to your mouth.”
There is something about the Nottingham Contemporary that makes almost every image look interesting. I am looking forward to when all of the builing work is finished around it and I can take some more images
I am currently at the stage of
Yes I need a microblog
No I don’t know where to put it
So I have two.
I’ll never change.
Spotted this on Reddit earlier today, and it stuck out to me.
Perhaps it is because I’ve had circling conversations with my friends about ‘hustling’, or perhaps I am just tired of this crap all together.
Have you got a table for one?
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Into the upside down
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One of my favourites from earlier this year in Lincoln
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