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  • Looking for a Useful and Secure Search Engine

    I’m fed up of Google’s search capabilities and business model. Search results quality has gone downhill in recent years. I don’t like the visual design of Google’s online products in general, especially Google Search results formatting. What search engine are you using? Are … read more

  • 👉🏻 I just finished updating my complete content creator toolset with recent changes in my workflows. Enjoy the ride!

  • Since iOS 17.1 in Music.app, Favourite 🌟 replaced Love ❤️? What if I love a song but it is not one of my favourites? 🤔

  • I spent some time on Bluesky this morning… found out that I have 6 invite codes. Is anyone looking for one of them? Let me know.

  • A recent addition to Mailbrew made me discover Brief.news1. So far, I like what I’m seeing. News briefs are generated with AI (with LLM models, I’m guessing). It’s a great use case of AI, right here. The combination with Mailbrew makes perfect sense, too.

    1. It’s a free service for now. I wonder what is their business model? 🤔 ↩︎

  • I’m a subscriber of Inoreader, but I read the feeds using Reeder 90% of the time. I only wish that Reeder could update the engagement stats on Inoreader. Is that even possible from a RSS client perspective? I highly doubt it. You’ve got an opinion on this subject? Let me know.

  • Apple’s use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 17 by Timac:

    Objective-C is still at the core of iOS and is used directly or indirectly by most apps

    The adoption of Swift and SwiftUI continues to grow rapidly

    The share of Objective-C, C and C++ continues to decrease

    It’s a must-read for the curious around here.

  • If you are like me, with macOS Sonoma, you like widgets on the Mac desktop. The Mac experience can become quite busy with many widgets. This is why, more than ever, I depend on HazeOver to reduce the distraction caused by widgets1,2.

    1. I set it to 50%. Yes, I set the widgets to be in monochrome when the focus isn’t the desktop. ↩︎

    2. I know, this sounds like an ad. 😜 ↩︎

  • Why am I getting this on YouTube to watch one of my own videos? I’m using Safari and tried disabling ad blocker, NextDNS, StopTheMadness. Works fine on Firefox. 🤔 Help!

  • For some reason, I feel the urge to try iA Writer. I must be bored…1

    1. I’m a satisfied Ulysses user. But, Ulysses feels busier than iA Writer, from what I can see. ↩︎

  • There is a Midjourney plugin for Raycast… but man this is hard to configure and make it working. Moving on for now.

  • For those on Craft, this is my release analysis for v2.5.18 that just came out.

  • 404 - Page Not Found

    I have an issue with Short.io. I want to contact their support to find a solution to something that partially works, but no contact information is available in the /Support section. The /Blog section shows a small “Contact Us” button leading to a page not found error. There is no mail … read more

  • A Definitive Solution to a Simple Problem

    I finally found the right setup to definitively fix my audio record quality. The problem triggering this endless trial-and-error journey is that the Blue Yeti microphone can be too sensitive and pick up too much background noise1. On paper, the macOS Voice Isolation recording should fix this. … read more

  • I’m getting an issue with Short.io where domain name cloaking is no longer available. It used to be just fine. Something has changed recently. To get it back, I have to subscribe to the personal plan costing 250$. Looking for alternatives. Cc @Mtt who uses the same setup as mine.

  • Discovery of the day: I can use Audio Hijack with ScreenFlow to record the Mac audio from the Finch Pixel USB-C1,2 mic and the Mac screen. Why use Audio Hijack? Well, so that it can use the macOS Voice Isolation feature and output the results to the Mac audio, which the special audio driver of ScreenFlow, in turn, picks up. Without this, ScreenFlow 10.0.9, with direct voice isolation, creates distorted sound.

    1. With the Lightning version, I had no issues with the iPhone 13 Pro, macOS Voice Isolation and Screenflow. The problems come from using USB (A or C) microphone devices. It’s a known issue, apparently—no fix in sight. ↩︎

    2. I spent way too much time and money trying to fix the sound quality for my recordings. ↩︎

  • hey, bloggers and writers on WordPress1, enable the Fediverse plugin and share your blog “handle” with the world so we can follow you right from here! Can’t wait!

    1. I left WordPress.com a while back, but I’m happy to see them adopt Fediverse! ↩︎

  • Thought of the day: read-later services or applications are a consequence of facing or having too much content available and a lack of time for consuming that content in a timely matter. ☝🏻

  • I love Omnivore more and more. There, I said it.☝🏻

  • Sometimes, a website doesn’t work well (or at all), and the problem is that my NextDNS client blocks some traffic. When that happens, I turn it off… and forget about it, only to find out a few days later that I forgot to reenable it. This makes me angry—all the time.