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  • Quick Thoughts and Observations About Wavelength

    After reading Gruberā€™s article about Wavelength, I decided to try it. Iā€™m not sure I require another messaging solution. Besides using Appleā€™s iMessage and Telegram to get news from Ukraine, the rest of my messaging app usage is anecdotic. So, what are my thoughts about this? The initial few moments ā€¦ read more

  • From A to B ā€” Another Digital Journey Completed

    From the Numeric Citizen Blog to the Numeric Citizen Space. The former was my WordPress site, now on Ghost and merged with what used to be the Numeric Citizen Introspection, the home for my Friday Notes Series newsletter. It took me a while, but here I am. Iā€™m so relieved from not having to use ā€¦ read more

  • It Was (Probably) a Rough Day at Craft

    Craft version 2.4.5 came out today after more than six weeks since the previous release. Usually, releases come out every two to three weeks. I guess peopleā€™s expectations were pretty high after having waited so long. Not only did the update bring very limited functionality, it broke a seemingly ā€¦ read more

  • Spending Most of Your Life Running a Blog

    Kottke.org turns 25. Itā€™s quite a remarkable journey. I didnā€™t know about this website until recently. Iā€™m not a frequent reader of it, although I spent quite some time today on it to better get the gist of it. Yet, Iā€™m barely sure how to pronounce it. But Iā€™m quite impressed to see someoneā€™s life ā€¦ read more

  • Here's The Weekendā€¦ Suggestions Instead of Infinite Social Media Scrolling...

    It’s the week-end in a few hours, consider those suggestions by Shawn Blanc: A few alternative things you can do when youā€™re bored (instead of scrolling social media) Here are a few alternatives to what I call the ā€œJust Checksā€. ā€“ Scroll through your Day One timeline and read a previous ā€¦ read more

  • About This Special Apple Device

    I couldn’t agree more with 9to5Mac here: There’s something special about the 2018 iPad Pro - 9to5Mac The 2018 iPad Pro deserves a prominent spot in the Apple hardware hall-of-fame. No other product from Apple has remained so functional for so long without appearing long in the tooth. The ā€¦ read more

  • Another Day, Another Discovery: TimeStory

    After Anybox earlier this week, now is the turn of TimeStory to make its debut on my list of apps under consideration. About TimeStory, from the application’s website: TimeStory is a Mac app for illustrating events on a timeline, designed to help you easily create plans and roadmaps, capture ā€¦ read more

  • Testing Micro.blog Bookmarking Feature

    For the first time today, I diligently tested Micro.blogā€™s bookmarking feature. I donā€™t know if this is a popular feature among MB users, but I wonder if I should find a place for MB bookmarks in my workflow. Letā€™s see a typical workflow. So, I start reading an article from my now favourite RSS ā€¦ read more

  • Coming out of another rabbit holeā€¦

    šŸ‘Øā€šŸ’» Iā€™ve been extensively testing Inoreader recently and I have to say that as much as I like the service, I find the support for third-party services seriously lacking. Inoreader supports many third-party services like Blogger, Telegram, Buffer, Evernote, LinkedIn, Hootsuite, Pocket, Google Drive, ā€¦ read more

  • AI Comes to WordPressā€¦ Who Knew

    The pervasiveness of AI is starting to look troubling at best. This week as I was heading to my WordPress admin page, I got this message at the top. Who knew? I was curious so I read the official ā€œAI Engineā€ plugin page on WordPress.org. Hereā€™s something that I found dubious. Five stars reviews only ā€¦ read more

  • A Typical Morning Rabbit Hole

    Iā€™m heading to Micro.blog and start reading on my timeline, I read someoneā€™s post about note taking apps, mentioning how Bear Notes is great. I switch to Bear Notes website. After watching the introduction video, I head to the websiteā€™s blog section. Bear Notes certainly looks great. This particular ā€¦ read more

  • The Computer is Wrong ā€” Stay Critical & Curious

    This evening, using an Apple Shortcut called Clips, I imported the Ā«Ā Apple in 2022 The Six Colors report cardĀ Ā» by Six Colors into Craft. Itā€™s a 25 000 article that I started reading on my iPad, within Craft. Then, fifteen minutes into my reading, I asked Craft assistant to summarize the Mac ā€¦ read more

  • Eternally Unsatisfied With My Reading Apps

    Iā€™ve been a News Explorer RSS reader user for a long time. Itā€™s a less-known RSS reader compared to Reeder or anything else. Itā€™s really good, but missing a few things that keep bugging me. There is no web version, no filtering feature, and no text highlighting either. I started testing Inoreader ā€¦ read more

  • Highly Troublingā€”Ops are Taking Over Apple My Friends

    Don’t bother reading too much into the latest Apple financial numbers. They’re not too bad. What you should be paying attention to is this: Apple is eliminating one of its most high-profile executive positions. According to a new report today, Apple is eliminating the role of ā€œindustrial ā€¦ read more

  • My Taxi Ride to The Past

    I recently took a taxi ride to leave the airport as Uber taxis were unavailable and plagued with longer than usual delays. We were directed to the traditional taxi lines. I couldnā€™t use an app on my iPhone to call a taxi instead. Boy, it was a trip in the past. The taxi driver had no Google or Waze ā€¦ read more

  • Integrating Adobe Enhance Voice Tech Into My Video Production Workflow ā€” In Search of a Solution

    I don’t know if anyone knows about this free web tool by Adobe: Enhance Voice (link), but it is really impressive (@MattBirchler knows about it). Here is what I’d like to do: find a way to integrate this tool into my video production workflow. So, I’m producing YouTube videos with ā€¦ read more

  • Thanks for Paying Attention

    Thereā€™s this question that keeps popping up in my mind all the time since Iā€™m being more active on Micro.blog. Why am I getting way more interactions with others on Micro.blog compared to Twitter? What am I doing differently? I write about the same subjects, albeit maybe more frequently. I think I ā€¦ read more

  • When Matter Made a Major Strategic Error

    Today I spent some time in Matter to read a few articles. I went to the Staff Picks section, noticed those tweets between articles and remembered Matter's decision to leave the social portion in their early days. They preferred to go the Twitter route instead. That was before the Elon Musk fiasco. ā€¦ read more

  • What's Really Behind a Subscription Fee?

    This video from birchtree@mastodon.social resonated greatly with me today. Here’s why. First, someone is finally calling out something about software subscriptions that I always wanted to call out myself. Every developer seems entitled to charge a subscription for whatever reason. Matt ā€¦ read more

  • Should Apple Offer AI-based Services at the OS Level?

    In recent months, weā€™ve seen the addition of many AI-based features in apps like Notion and Craft, two apps that I know pretty well. Now Iā€™m wondering if it would be a good idea that Apple integrates such features at the operating system level. Just like we can double tap a word in a text and get ā€¦ read more