Apps & Services
I love apps and enjoy testing new services to improve my workflows. These posts discuss my experiences with them.
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Since Apple bought Pixelmator, here’s what happened so far: No new features. No new subscription. No more release notes. Enjoy the silence. Couldn’t be more excited about the future of Photomator and Pixelmator. 😒
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I’m playing around with Realmac software Elements these days, and I’m working on a new website (to replace an existing one). One of the most difficult tasks is to select the right fonts for headers and body. So hard to choose from all those fonts. Google Fonts website is a great tool to help me achieve that.
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Cancelling my Ivory subscription to make room for the Bluesky version later this year. 🤷🏻♂️
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Incoming: AI subscription fatigue...
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How is it possible that the « new » Meta AI app already got reviews many of not most of them dating back to three years ago? What am I missing here? Not that I want to try it, mind you. 🤔
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I have to get myself ready to leave the ARC Browser behind and come back to Safari. It’s obvious that it is becoming abandoned. I will miss the left sidebar.
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Realmac Software Elements is going to be a powerful blogging tool. This video shows a few upcoming features for bloggers. Currently in beta, Elements should ship in coming months. Can’t wait.
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It’s now possible to change the default username provided by Ghost’s Fediverse support. Currently, it is @index@numericcitizen.me, but I’m unsure what to replace @index with. 👀
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My Next YouTube Video About Micro.blog
I finally found the subject and inspiration for my next YouTube video: how people can interact with Micro.blog users. In it, I’ll explain how posts can be cross-posted to other platforms and how people can reply to them, keeping the discussion ongoing even from seemingly different platforms.
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One thing that I really appreciate about ChatGPT is their native macOS app. It would be too easy for them to do like so many developers these days and offer the “good enough” solution.
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I wish Ghost would expand their support for what are called “social accounts.” Given our current situation, I find this approach short-sighted. I wish Mastodon and Bluesky received more attention for this type of configuration.
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Gumroad is going open source!? Are they ok is it a last-resort move? They have a detailed roadmap, though.
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Must Have Features in a Read Later Service
Read later service for me should have these features and attributes.
- Be cloud-based to enable access and syncing across different devices and platforms.
- Support metadata (tags, folders & description).
- Offer a well-designed share sheet implementation on iOS and iPadOS.
- Offer a great browser extension.
- Offer a native mobile application.
- It should work well with my go-to RSS reader, Inoreader.
- Be good at data mobility. In other words, it offers a data export option.
- Support article summarization with generative AI.
- Should be free if possible.
- It must support all Apple platforms.
Inoreader check them all.
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Can you say Chaps?
Intriguing new product coming from the makers of Craft: Chaps. It seems to be a conversational service where users can build their own AI-based agents. Not integrated with Craft in any way, at least for now. The demonstrated UI seems polished as we can expect from them, but sadly we don’t get to see how those agents are built. I think “Ch_apps_” would have been a better name than “Chaps”, though. I hope they don’t get too much distracted from Craft because it still needs a lot of work and long-lasting issues are yet to be addressed.
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I just realized there is no way for me to see the list of Micro.blog accounts that I’m following… am I missing something here? 🤨
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From my point of view, with recent security breach from the government members, more signs point to being much closer to a dictatorship than we are willing to admit. Many cabinet members are using Signal on purpose because they don’t want scrutiny, they don’t think they owe anything to the American people.
