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  • About Micro.blog Upcoming Update ā€” Newsletter Support

    Apparently, it looks like tomorrow, Micro.blog is going to add support for newsletters. A few weeks ago, I canā€™t remember exactly, Manton posted a screenshot (which I can no longer find) where a ā€œnewsletterā€ item was shown on the left sidebar on the Micro.blog main site. Iā€™m very curious about ā€¦ read more

  • On My Photographic Style

    The photo thumbnails are from a personal trip to Austria in 1998. When I look back at these photos, I have to come to a conclusion that my photographic style didnā€™t really change in 30 years. It feels a bit depressing. It is basically revolving about architecture, nature. Very rarely about people, ā€¦ read more

  • Changing my Mind

    Booooooā€¦ Well, it looks like I changed my mind. I didnā€™t remember that I wrote this blog post following the release of Ghost 4.0. At the time, I didnā€™t see the benefit, but now, itā€™s quite another story. I really love Ghost and I think I made the right choice for a few significant reasons: Ghost ā€¦ read more

  • Will Apple SharePlay Really Take Off?

    Readdle software released an update to PDF Expert with support for Appleā€™s SharePlay. Using FaceTime, up to 32 people can share and annotate a PDF. According to the documented workflow on The MacObserver website, while in a FaceTime call, opening a PDF file with PDF Expert enables the SharePlay ā€¦ read more

  • Photo editing while on the beach

    On my iPad Pro, in split-screen view: on the left, Lightroom. On the right, Appleā€™s Photos. Same photo in DNG format (ProRAW) edited with available features and possibilities of each application. Lightroom wins, obviously. Recent update to Lightroom adds editing masks which makes a big difference in ā€¦ read more

  • My Current Status

    My current status ā€” spending quality time on vacations in Tulum, Mexico. Itā€™s the first trip for more than 22 months. After so many sacrifices, time has come to say: enough, letā€™s enjoy life. šŸ˜ŽšŸŒ… read more

  • A New Home, Same Purposes

    Iā€™m done putting the final touches to my new home, a place where I continue sharing my newsletter and publish new posts under the Friday Notes and Photo Legend Series. Instead of using Substack, Iā€™m now on Ghost(Pro). And I love it! I hope you stay with me in this transition. Considering bookmarking ā€¦ read more

  • RTFM (Read The Fuckin Manual They Say!)

    When I got my first AirTags, I was anxious to get this wallet from this KickStarter project: ā€œSnapback Slim Air - A Wallet for AirTagsā€. This is my Snapback Slim Air. With the AirTag inserted. Can you see the problem? The AirTag hardly stays in place and has the tendency to pop out of its place. Not ā€¦ read more

  • Some of my heroes over the years. Do you have any?

  • Like the Dislike ā€” Put the Decision in Creatorā€™s Hands

    So, YouTube will remove the dislike button soon from its platform. In one of his recent video, the popular YouTuber, Marques Brownlee, expresses his dissatisfaction about Googleā€™s decision. His view echos mine. Iā€™m not a big consumer of YouTube content, but when I do spend time there, I want to ā€¦ read more

  • Android Phones Are Forā€¦?

    A story by MacRumors reports Tim Cookā€™s answer about not being able to sideload applications on the iPhone is not restricting customers choice. Hereā€™s the beginning of Tim Cookā€™s answer: ā€œI think that people have that choice today, Andrew, if you want to sideload, you can buy an Android phone.ā€ Tim ā€¦ read more

  • Revisiting My Craft Content Organization

    Even though Iā€™m using Ulysses for most of my writings, after reading the ā€œA Complete Ulysses Writing Workflowā€, it gave me the idea of revisiting the way I organize my content in Craft. As shown in the previous screenshot, my content is now organized following a similar flow often seen on Kansan ā€¦ read more

  • From ProRAW to JPEG ā€” When JPEG is Simply Enough

    Here is a situation for which Iā€™m searching for a solution. Letā€™s say Iā€™m going out with my iPhone 13 Pro to take a few pictures outside. After a while, I notice that all the pictures that I was shooting were in ProRAW format. What if the lighting conditions were great that day and my photos didnā€™t ā€¦ read more

  • Exposure Notifications ā€” Still Useful?

    The other day I was looking at my iPhone battery consumption only to find out that the Exposure notifications feature was consuming close to 10% of the power on a 24 hours period. Itā€™s not the first that I see Exposure Notifications to take so much juice out of my iPhone battery. Iā€™m not alone, ā€¦ read more

  • Here is my Sunday so farā€¦ how is yours going?

  • Got Things Done This Week

    Iā€™m feeling pretty happy again this week-end as I managed to do everything that I was sitting in my bloggerā€™s to do list (which is setup every Sunday in Craft). What youā€™re seeing in my summary newsletter here is only part of my content creator story. read more

  • Remembering Macintosh Floppies

    This seemingly insignificant box used to be sold by Apple and contained ten single-sided floppy disks. Those were meant to be used in a Macintosh computer. I had a bunch of them but somehow managed to keep an empty box. It was a great time. Each floppy contained a whopping 400 KB of storage for a ā€¦ read more

  • Comparing Notion and Craft running on an M1 MacBook Air. Notion takes 382 MB of RAM while Craft uses less than half of this. Both are native, but Notion is based on Electron. Well, Craft is based on Catalyst, it’s not pure AppKit. Yet…

  • Time to relax, itā€™s Friday after all. Whoā€™s playing?

  • Iā€™ve been experimenting with something in recent weeks. Each Sunday, I open Craft and switch to the calendar view and create my todo list for the upcoming week. I love this. It it because Iā€™m checking off most of the items on the list? Probably. Hereā€™s last week plan.

    Not bad. Now, letā€™s prepare the upcoming week. šŸ§šŸ§‘šŸ»ā€šŸ’»