Misc — Numeric Citizen Blog

I’ll never buy anything other than traditional house furniture at IKEA. Don’t trust anything involving electronics or smart home appliances. I learned the hard way. 🤬

For this fall’s iPhone and iOS 27 releases, I hope Apple will include new wallpapers from the Artemis II mission.

Auto-generated description: A view of Earth rising above the horizon of the Moon, with the lunar surface prominently showing craters and terrain.

I just updated my blog at meta.numericcitizen.me with my new design. The default view on the site is now dark mode, which includes a smooth visual animation.

Announcing a New Blog Design

Finally, after so many years on Micro.blog, I’m excited to announce that this blog is now using my custom-built visual theme, built entirely with Claude AI, Claude Code, and a lot of my spare time. Bye-bye third-party visual plugin¹! This marks a major milestone for me, as I have always wanted to have my own design for this blog².

I was using the excellent Cards Theme. ↩︎
I’m still working out some issues that I didn’t have on my test blog before, but only occur on my production site. ↩︎

This year is an iPhone upgrade year for me; coming from a still-powerful iPhone 15 Pro Max. First time since my current iPhone still feels snappy for 99% of my use. Yet, I’ll move ahead with the upgrade because one of my expectations I have is that the new Siri will be more demanding.

I’m taking a quick one-week vacation, hence my silence. 🤫

It’s been a long time since I watched a rocket launch live from NASA. It was a great one 🚀. I didn’t know that two of the main engines are coming from previous space shuttles!! 😳

Apple Maps Is Getting Ads. It’s Apple’s Riskiest Bet Yet — I might like Apple ads, after all. #not

I officially lost my Apple Pencil Pro. This 200 CAN$ doesn’t support Find My??? WTF. This is the second time I’m losing an Apple Pencil. The first time was the original one.

Started working on my next YouTube video. I consider myself not very good at this. It takes way too much of my time to create a single one, but I sometimes want to share things I otherwise couldn’t in written blog posts. One of the things I should do for each video is write a script. I don’t. I never did. I’m a “go with the flow” type of guy when I record. I don’t feel at ease when reading something in front of the camera (and I don’t have the right desk setup for that).