Doing serious work on the iPad now feels… exhausting. The efforts that you have to deploy to avoid the too many paper cuts is exhausting. I don’t know who, at Apple, is working on Files.app but the team should get in touch with those who work (if they are still there) on the Mac Finder. I ended up doing many of the files management tasks on… the Mac. Photomator doesn’t work well with files located on a remote SMB share, apparently. Continue reading →

Working with Files.app is still very frustrating and unpredictable. For some reason, I cannot drag & drop a file from my iPad downloads folder to a specific folder (on my Synology). The only way to get around this is to go up in the folder hierarchy, drop it there then later move it inside the intended target folder. Also experienced one crash with numerous “Content Unavailable” conditions like shown on this screenshot. Continue reading →

I just started a one-hour work session with my M4 iPad Pro connected to an external display (LG 5K Ultra Fine) running iPad OS 26.1 beta 1. I should probably update this article I wrote more than a year ago: “Using the iPad With an External Display — Space Oddities”. Let’s see how it goes. First issue: I started writing this blog post in Micro.blog client. Sadly, Micro.blog’s iPad app is buggy with an external display: I cannot set the blog post category… the little gear icon is missing and iPadOS 26 menus aren’t supported, yet. Continue reading →

The M4 iPad Pro battery health after 18 month of use and 127 cycle count: 87%. I consider this to be bad. Battery life on this device is not good at all to be frank.

I guess I was right to call the Apple Vision Pro a failure in my recent piece on Apple Failures.

Are there any Craft users here? I’m curious to see if sharing short videos¹ about Craft would be of some interest.

Please, would you be kind enough to explain this graph to me (the top portion)?

I no longer use the Mac App Store to update my apps on my Mac; I prefer using the brew “mas outdated” and “mas upgrade” commands instead.

On the Mac, I consume Apple Music via music.apple.com. Lighter. Faster. Better design. Trustable. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Another item added to my wish list… 👀

Comet, Dia: these AI-focused browsers aren’t clicking with me. I tried many times. I prefer to use a native client like ChatGPT, which will surf for me when needed.

Accenture’s layoffs of over 11,000 employees are attributed to a lack of AI-skilled workers, prompting questions about the true motivations behind the job cuts. Continue reading →

What a wonderful weekend in Montreal. The weather is ideal—just the kind that makes fall my favorite season.

I have a one-day holiday vacation on Thursday, right in the middle of the week, and I still have no plans. 🤨 Weather should be perfect, though. 🍁🍂🚲👀

Here’s another edition (Craft edition) of the world-famous Ephemeral Scrapbook newsletter. It’s also published as a free newsletter on Ghost. Maintaining this newsletter is quite fun and forces me to explore more than I would if I weren’t authoring it. My publishing cadence is also quite consistent. I wish more people knew about it and would subscribe… but hey, that’s the life of any blogger.

Is ChatGPT enshitification about to begin? It certainly looks like it. Fuck.

I created this diagram in MindNote Next today for a video about Craft and tags usage. There is a “Focus Mode” where the UI disappears, allowing us to focus on the content, as shown in this screenshot. There is one big problem with this: the “Focus Mode” status button at the top. It is highly distracting to me; I can’t focus. 😳

If the US government actually shuts down, does this include the shutdown of the white house and everyone in it? Asking for a friend. 🍊

How many ways can you write that the iPhone 17 is an improvement compared to last year’s iPhone 16? 🤨

Today, I decided to add Screen Studio to my digital toolbox. Some form of video editing is tedious and much less intuitive in ScreenFlow, and I think Screen Studio really shines here. Using this type of quick animation helps focus on what matters most.