Avatar for Numeric Citizen Blog
Numeric Citizen Blog
📔Scrapbooks 🌇Photos 📺Videos 👨🏻‍💻Replies 🗓️Monthly Digests 📁Archive 👤About 📬Subscribe ✴️Blogroll 📡Blips 🌟SupportMe ↗️Hub → Bluesky → Pixelfed → Mastodon 🔍 📌 🐦 Contact Me Guestbook Stats Feeds
  • July 15, 2025 7:38pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apps & Services

    Newsletter

    I’m really liking my experience with Realmac Software’s Elements to build my new landing page. I’m not an expert at website design but with Elements, I feel empowered. The learning curve is not the easiest one but following all the videos they publish on their YouTube channel plus visiting their forum helps a lot.

  • July 15, 2025 4:36pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    I’m betting that we will get whateverOS 26 beta 4 tomorrow, first public beta next week.

  • July 15, 2025 5:50am
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Photography

    Food for thought

    Newsletter

    How depressing this is. These are filtered Google News results with the keyword “ChatGPT”. Look at some headlines… Now, consider this quote.

    “AI will not replace humans, but those who use AI will replace those who don’t.” – Ginni Rometty

  • Bye Bye Grammarly?

    July 14, 2025 7:14am
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Longer posts

    Apps & Services

    Newsletter

    A decision was made to cancel the Grammarly subscription due to its expense, with plans to explore alternative writing tools. Continue reading →

  • July 13, 2025 3:05pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Misc

    What happened to @maique@social.lol ? I no longer see him on my MB timeline as “@maique” … 🙁👀

  • July 13, 2025 9:59am
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Just pushed out an update to my ever-growing “Who Is Numeric Citizen?” website. More photos. More intricate details. Corrected many typos and tweaked the layout, too. Tell me what you think!

  • July 11, 2025 6:43am
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apps & Services

    Newsletter

    The upcoming CMS feature in Realmac Software Elements is sooooo cool, flexible and powerful. Even RSS feeds are supported! You can see that in action in their latest Dev Diary video.

  • July 11, 2025 6:11am
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    Newsletter

    One simple thing that is missing from iPadOS 26: CMD-Q to quit an application. Other things that need work: the CMD-TAB switcher is not glassified and lacks contrats with the background view. Same comment goes for the Spotlight search field which can be really hard to see. Oh and here’s the thing: if you happen to work both on the Mac and an iPad: you kind expect that both platforms behave the same way. As an example, I want Spotlight on iPad to be the same as on the Mac by offering the four search modes.

  • July 10, 2025 8:39pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    Newsletter

    On iPadOS 26, you can resize the Settings windows as you like. I wish we could do the same on the Mac!

  • July 10, 2025 8:28pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    Newsletter

    Well, using iPadOS 26 beta3, it seems that I can’t use my iPad in «clamshell» mode while hooked to an external display… really?

  • July 10, 2025 8:16pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    Newsletter

    Currently starting my week-end long experiment with an 2024 M4 iPad Pro running iPadOS 26 with an external display. This feels so different and yet familiar to the… Mac? The iPad? I’m not sure, just yet. Expect more posts in the coming days.

  • July 9, 2025 7:36pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Personal

    Newsletter

    Work

    I often repeat this thought in my head when I’m in challenging times: “everything around me has been done by people not smarter than me.”. It’s inspired by Steve Jobs’ words from an interview he did in the early 1990s, where he was reflecting on how empowering it is to realize that the world is built by people just like us — and that we can reshape it too.

  • July 8, 2025 9:30pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    Newsletter

    Here’s a thought: I would like to ask people of all ages, specifically those between 16 and 70, how they feel about Apple Liquid Glass. Do younger individuals prefer the original version, while older ones favor the toned-down version? I suspect this might be the case.

  • July 8, 2025 6:08pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    Newsletter

    Next weekend when going to the chalet, I’ll bring my iPad, Magic Keyboard and my LG UltraFine 4K monitor so that I can experiment with iPadOS 26 with an external monitor. The last time I tried this was with iPadOS 18 with Stage Manager. It didn’t work well. Can’t wait to see the difference.

  • July 7, 2025 8:32pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    Newsletter

    I see encouraging signs with today’s releases of “whateverOS beta3”1. But there is still much work to be done as shown in exhibit #9.


    1. iOS 26 beta3, iPadOS 26 beta3, macOS Tahoe beta 3. ↩︎

  • July 7, 2025 3:59pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    Newsletter

    Maybe Apple could provide a Low, Medium and High settings for Liquid Glass and most people would probably be happy with it.

  • July 7, 2025 7:09am
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Photography

    Personal

    Newsletter

    It’s one of those Monday that will take a hard time to get started. 😅 I had such a great weekend. Let’s get this done.

  • July 7, 2025 6:08am
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    Photography

    Newsletter

    With the addition of the traffic lights buttons on iPadOS 26, it’s now easier to spot which window is active because inactive windows has their traffic light buttons grayed with three little dots as seen on this screenshot.

  • July 6, 2025 8:46pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    Newsletter

    Cloudflare Is Blocking AI Crawlers by Default

    Last year, internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare launched tools enabling its customers to block AI scrapers. Today the company has taken its fight against permissionless scraping several steps further. It has switched to blocking AI crawlers by default for its customers and is moving forward with a Pay Per Crawl program that lets customers charge AI companies to scrape their websites.

    I paid a visit to my Cloudflare dashboard and I saw the option to turn on the blocking of AI bots. I’m just not sure that I want to silence myself from LLM training. What if everyone does the same?

  • July 6, 2025 11:33am
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    Newsletter

    Do you think that a few years from now, Liquid Glass will age well? Was this even a consideration by Apple’s designers when they put that up together?

← Newer Posts Older Posts →

What's Next?

Follow me on Mastodon Follow me on Bluesky 🔵 Numeric Citizen Space website 🔵 Numeric Citizen Meta website

Explore this blog by visiting this random post, by searching, browsing the page views or by peeking at blog stats

Oh, one more thing, here's a special shoutout to something that I really like 👇🏻

This blog is powered by Micro.blog and the Cards Theme

Copyright © 2025 JF Martin