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My Current Status
My current status ā spending quality time on vacations in Tulum, Mexico. Itās the first trip for more than 22 months. After so many sacrifices, time has come to say: enough, letās enjoy life. šš
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A New Home, Same Purposes
Iām 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, Iām now on Ghost(Pro). And I love it! I hope you stay with me in this transition.
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RTFM (Read The Fuckin Manual They Say!)
When I got my first AirTags, I was anxious to get this wallet from this KickStarter project: āSnapback 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 great at all. I always found the fitting to be so so. Then, today I got an email from KickStarter with the following promotional photo. Can you see what Iām doing wrong?
I happen to insert my AirTag the wrong side. Duh! The white side (the best looking one IMHO) must be inside and the silver side exposed outside. Ooops. Hereās the result.
As you can see, the fitting is a bit better but not that much better. Iām already looking for alternatives. Any suggestions?
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Some of my heroes over the years. Do you have any?
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Revisiting My Craft Content Organization
Even though Iām using Ulysses for most of my writings, after reading the āA 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 boards. As you might expect, everything start in the Inbox folder then eventually get āpromotedā to the next folder, according to the contentās maturity. I like this a lotāitās much cleaner than before. I should have known better, as I experienced the Kanban method a few years ago at work.
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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…
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Time to relax, itās Friday after all. Whoās playing?
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Google, Are You Kidding Me?
Google, recently on Twitter, announcing their adoption of Appleās UIKit design language instead of using their Material design:
āDoes a switch really need to be built custom in alignment with a generic design system? Or might it be sufficient to simply use the system solution and move on?ā
I donāt buy Googleās explanation. Google is trying to say that UIKit wasnāt good enough for them, so they went their own way. Bullshit. The other way to look at this: building native apps is a better way to go than trying to build apps on unifying frameworks.
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E-Bikes: #VanmoofV ā What Is Going on Here?
Today, Vanmoof announced their latest e-bike, the Vanmoof V model. The announcement video, reminiscent of Appleās product reveals, is light on details. The singular design, in white, is both intriguing and looks heavy on the look. Some specs are impressive, on paper. But, there is something absolutely troubling: the V model is going to ship near the end of 2022. Yep, in more than a year. What is going on here? What this premature announcement could mean for Vanmoof? Well, obviously they are trying to gain mind share among potential e-bike buyers, and they are afraid to lose market share.
Weāll be developing the VanMoof V over the upcoming year, and will keep you updated with news and features as the bike comes to life.
Can you imagine if Apple were to announce a new flagship product iteration, the next iPhone, more than a year in advance? I wonder if Vanmoof is aware of the Osborne effect. š§
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Dear @AppleInsider STOP THIS!
I don’t know who got the idea at AppleInsider of putting video auto-play right in the middle of every articles, but this doesn’t enable a great reading experience. Even worst, scrolling the page to the bottom while reading will put the video in the bottom right corner on top of the content. It makes me wonder if I should stop reading their content altogether. Ads are bad but this is even worst. It’s not a good reading experience at all. Please, reconsider. Thanks. A long time reader.
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E-Bike and the Apple Watch ā a Quick Question
So, youāve got an e-Bike. Good for you. Iām jealous. Youāve got an Apple Watch too. Good for you, just like me. Now you want to go for a ride and record this activity with your Apple Watch. Which activity type will you select? Selecting Bike will probably record wrong data as you can move much faster than a regular bike and getting lower than normal heartbeat rate. Should Apple provide another type of biking activity?
Photo by Wolfram Bƶlte on Unsplash
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Canāt wait to try this
This is the Opal webcam. For the Mac. Made by Apple people. Canāt wait to try this out. Not cheap, though. Not ready yet either.
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Quick Ranting On Medium App Updates
Consider this screenshot of the Medium.app updates streak. Itās not a joke. At least one update a week for reimagining their app. I used to like Medium but their app, probably a major conduit to their content, is broken on the iPad and it never gets fixed (mainly layout issues).
How are we supposed to take online publishers seriously when for months they let bugs hinder the user experience ofā¦ reading their content? I greatly reduced my use of Medium for reading content, partly because of this.
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Gosh, importing my stuff from Notion into Craft is not funny. There has to be a better way. šµāš«
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Documenting past home screen arrangements
Matt Birchler had an interesting blog post this week about a screenshot of his 2013 iPhone home screen. There are a few interesting things to note. In 2013, it was the arrival of the controversial iOS 7 redesign. It’s interesting to look at the Camera+ icon design which was still not updated for the new style. The dock design style was pretty basic and felt out of place. A few apps are not longer among us these days: Path (which was really a great design example) but most of the third-party apps are still available today.
I wish I had kept screen shots of previous home screen arrangements in the past. Something that I have kept is many screen shots of my password manager user interface dating back pre-iOS 7 era. Here is an example below. When I saw iOS 7, I didnāt have the courage to rework my design. The development of my app stopped right there. I made five thousands dollars with this adventure, between 2009 and 2013. Now Iām using a combinaison of 1Password and Appleās passwords vault.
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Four days week day? We can only dream it seems
Again, Matt Birchler:
technology and improved general productivity always had the promise of letting us work less, and yet today we work more than ever and have less than before Source: A Four Day Work Week? Yes, Please!
I sure wish we had this four days work week. I cannot see the day it will become reality. The problem in IT where I work, there is a worsening trend of a lack of qualified people for many IT fields. This trend puts pressure on those who are qualified to do more working hours.
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Hey, @Medium, what are these updates all about? Are you counting weeks, days? Meanwhile, on my iPad, using splitviewā¦ this has been an ongoing bug since foreverā¦ If you want to be taken seriously as a reading platform, get your act together and fix your app, once and for all. ā¤ļø
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Thought of the day: you know that you are entering a post-COVID world when you’ve had your two vaccin doses for a while and when you get your first cold in nearly two years. š³š¤§
