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Starting a Journey to My Twitter-Free Digital Life
After much thinking and due to recent events on Elon Musk’s Twitter, I’m starting to put together a plan for phasing Twitter out of my digital life entirely. The journey will be long, and I made it to be one of my goals for 2023. Twitter is well entrenched in my digital life. One example of this is the Mailbrew service that I’m subscribing to: sign in requires my Twitter account. Continue reading â
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Following Mastodon Users From Micro.blog
[@anildash@mastodon.cloud](https://micro.blog/anildash@mastodon.cloud) I've been improving our ActivityPub support in Micro.blog. Just posted a video earlier today that you might find interesting: www.youtube.com/watch Manton Reece https://micro.blog/manton/14888307 Thanks to this video, I understand that I can follow Mastodon users right from Micro.blog. Continue reading â
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When Ukraine Is Home of Great Software Makers
I recently wrote my satisfaction about Readdleâs Documents.app on-boarding experience on the iPad. Now Iâm reading about Sparkâs cleverness take on emails. Without being as opinionated as Hey.com, Spark is a serious professional email client. Readdleâs home is Ukraine đșđŠ too. Iâm considering integrating both software in my toolset. All good reasons to show some support to them. Continue reading â
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Matter to begin offering a subscription early next year. It was bound to happen. Iâll have to take a position and choose sooner than I originally thought. đ€Šđ»ââïžđ«€
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Welcome to the TwitterDump
I’m not a Qwitter. I don’t think I’ll ever close my Twitter account. But, there will be a day where I no longer post original content on Twitter, only cross-posting stuff from other sources. That day, I’ll refer to Twitter as the TwitterDumpâą. Continue reading â
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Another Day, Another Rabbit Hole
Well, I almost forgot about it. Today I received my invite to start testing Post.news; another potential exit door from Twitter. From what I’m seeing, there is already quite a few people in there and I like the posting experience so far. It’s way easier to setup than anything Mastodon-related. Yeah, I know, it’s not the “federated” & “open web” et al., but hey, it’s not Elon Musk’s Twitter! Continue reading â
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Isnât that weird that we need to jump to an external website to enjoy the 2022 Replay? Why not have it within Music.app itself? đ€
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Sorry for your timeline flooding about this Mac Pro thing… probably a big in MarsEdit 5.0. Returning to normal programming now.
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The Most Divisive Mac Pro Is a Thing of Beauty
This week, a new Mac joined the family. The 2013 Mac Pro. I always dreamed of owning one. Itâs probably one of the most singular Macs Apple has ever designed. Yes, it has limited expansion. Yes, it is not the Pro Mac that the pros wanted back in 2013. Yes, you need to unplug everything from the machine to open it up. Itâs borderline baffling. But this hardware piece, just like the monolith in the 2001 Space Odyssey movie, seems to come from an alien planet, far from earth. Continue reading â
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Glass Is Evolving Nicely
Itâs good to see Glass introduce new methods for discovering photos on its platform. I would love to see percentages relative to each camera and smartphone brand. Searching by lenses tells us that Nikon is way behind Canon regarding diversity and representation. Canât wait for Glassâs next move. Continue reading â
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The Password-Less Future Looks Bright and Secure
For the first in years, I just bought something from eBay. Man, this website design sucks and seems to date back to the early web. Is there anyone who cares about design at eBay? Anyway, they do care about security, though. Upon logging in with my password this morning, there was a popup asking me if I wanted to get rid of my password. I thought it was the eBay website that was about to turn on the Touch ID but instead asked me to confirm the passkey creation. Continue reading â
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Upgraded to MarsEdit 5.0...
Because native software is cool. Because indie developers are cool. Because it supports Micro.blog but not Twitter. Because it is cheap. Because itâs a small company. Because their new Micropost (markdown) editor is nice, perfect for posting on Micro.blog. It is frictionless. Micropost & micro.blog, any coincidence? Mmmm. Anyways⊠itâs a great update that Iâm currently testing. Returning to normal programming. Written from the couch, on my M1 MacBook Air. Continue reading â
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Twitterâs Essentials
I read about so many people flocking to Mastodon, leaving Twitter behind. I actually started to see a definitive decline in my followers number. Something is really going on. I myself started to think about the possibility of leaving the platform too. Just like I did with Facebook, Flickr, and Tumblr, only to leave a place where my content is simply cross-posted from another source without a real and active presence of mine. Continue reading â
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If you read my Friday Notes series, then itâs a good way to learn about me. Just sayin. Happy Saturday night!
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I’ve been quietly testing Exposure recently, an excellent visual storytelling service. I could probably replace my Smugmug page. That’s the goal of my experiment anyway: testing Exposure service’s ability to replace Smugmug. Stay tuned. This is my first short story.
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I donât know what will happen with Musk at the helm of Twitter. Itâs probably going to turn really bad before turning potentially better (no guarantee here) but I have a backup plan: Micro.blog.
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Clear Thoughts on a Confusing iPad Lineup
There we have it, a new iPad, a new iPad Pro, joining a growing and more confusing iPad lineup than ever. I wonât repeat the best comments from MacStories (âApple Announces Strange New iPad and iPad Pro Lineupâ) and Six Colors (âThe iPadâs erratic odyssey continuesâ). How are this weekâs announcements influencing my buying decisions? Iâm currently using a 2018 11-inches iPad Pro. Going to the 2022 M2 iPad Pro would be a significant step, at least from a processing power perspective. Continue reading â
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Adobe, Lightroom and the Camera
The Adobe Max conference was held this week. With each conference comes a slew of new application update releases. Iâm not really into Adobe ecosystem except for using Adobe Lightroom on the Mac and the iPad Pro. This is my main photo processing engine, coupled with the excellent Pixelmator Pro. For About a year, Adobe spent some of its development money to âaugmentâ Lightroom, a photo-processing application, with video-processing features. Continue reading â
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On This AI-Generated Podcast Interview Between Joe Rogan and Steve Jobs
What. The. Fuck. This podcast example about a fake interview between Joe Rogan and Steve Jobs is a blatant example of where some more thoughts should take place before putting high tech to work. What is the purpose of this? Is this a tech demo or some bad-taste proof-of-concept? It’s not hard to imagine how it could derail in the future when used in politically-heated contexts. Oh, and no, I didnât waste my time listening to this garbage, and I wonât share the link to this podcast, either. Continue reading â
