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  • June 22, 2025 7:50am
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    Unpopular opinion: The Browser Company should have made Dia a part of the Arc Browser. I don’t see the need for a new paradigm to achieve what Dia is trying to do as a stand-alone app. Plus, how come a browser company rely on someone else’s browser engine to do its thing? My understanding is that Dia is built on Chromium, just like the Arc Browser.

  • June 21, 2025 9:11am
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    It’s funny how I treat my online assets like my websites. I think of these like software or apps. That is why I maintain change logs for them, just like app release notes. You can find one here, and one there. It’s fun.

  • June 20, 2025 8:59am
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    Is this a plain website? Is this a digital garden? Is this a landing page? No, it’s "Who Is Numeric Citizen?" A newly launched personal landing page where you can learn about him and his creative journey. Learn all the details (what, why, how) by visiting the website! I’ll meet you there.

  • June 19, 2025 7:37pm
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    Today, I placed my order to have my face processed through Iconfactory’s pixelated portrait service. I’m eager to see what they come up with. Maybe I’ll update my avatar that I’ve been using for so many years?

  • June 19, 2025 6:59am
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    I mentioned earlier this week that I began exploring alternatives to Mailbrew. Digest seems to be a similar service. It appears to be a clone of Mailbrew. The thing is, it looks like abandonware, too.

  • Directly from... Raycast!

    June 18, 2025 1:59pm
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    Heeeeeeere’s Johnny!! Just kidding, I’m testing a blog post from Raycast. Sounds cool, right? Yes, it is! Continue reading →

  • June 18, 2025 7:25am
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    Because of iPadOS 26, I can see a future where I could get rid of my Macs and focus on the iPad as the main computer beside my iPhone. Of course, I would probably switch to a larger size if that was the case. Using an iPad with an external monitor now makes much more sense and no longer a gimmicky thing.

  • June 17, 2025 8:41pm
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    It seems I overlooked that Inoreader can’t send email summaries of RSS feeds on the Pro plan; an Enterprise plan is necessary. That’s disappointing. I’ll search for alternatives to replace Mailbrew, then. 🤔

  • June 17, 2025 5:40pm
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    Apps & Services

    I wonder if Inoreader is working on a Pocket importer.

  • June 17, 2025 3:34pm
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    Well, I’m going to drop Mailbrew because of the lack of updates to the service in recent years. I’ll try to replace that with Inoreader, a service I already depend on. Otherwise, I might give a look at Digest.

  • I'm Already Feeling The Upcoming Loss

    June 17, 2025 2:24pm
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    The last time I used a Windows PC was with Windows 10 sometimes around 2020. Since then, Windows 11 came out with a few major releases along with it. I’ll have to relearn so many small things to flex my muscles memory. Also, and it’s probably the biggest lost: so many small utilities like Raycast, CleanShot X, Paste, PopClip and so many more that were making me much more productive are gone with Windows 11. Continue reading →

  • June 17, 2025 11:36am
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    Apple & Tech

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    So, now that we have Liquid Glass on all Apple operating systems, who lost the most of its personality? The Mac or the iPad?

  • June 17, 2025 10:35am
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    Invoking the notifications center with iPadOS 26 while using an external display will blank out the external display and bring the notifications on the iPad screen only. I’m not sure this is the final behaviour. I don’t like it at all.

  • June 17, 2025 10:18am
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    Testing iPadOS 26 with external display right now and boy this release makes the iPad THE computer we were all waiting for. Well, maybe not everybody… works really great so far.

  • June 17, 2025 10:00am
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    Starting with my new job next week, I won’t be able to use LucidChart anymore and that makes me sad. LucidChart is such a pleasure to use and has been supporting my creativity for a few years until this week. The next best thing is Apple Freeform, but I won’t have access to this either. Hello Microsoft Visio. 🙄

  • June 16, 2025 10:49am
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    Started to think about my knowledge organisation scheme with Microsoft OneNote for my next job. OneNote works with Notebooks, Sections and pages. I might start with one notebook then later subdivide the data as my knowledge accumulates. I don’t hate OneNote. It’s a rather well designed app IMO.

  • June 15, 2025 7:29pm
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    Blogging

    Who’s reading or paying attention to the Ephemeral Scrapbook newsletter?

  • June 15, 2025 11:20am
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    From 2009 to 2013, I was learning building iPhone apps as a hobbyist developer and created a few apps sold on the App Store1. This is how I learned Objective-C. It was before Swift, the iPad and Catalyst. Fast-forward to today, I wonder how my learning experience would have been if generative AI was around.


    1. I made about $5000 doing so. Not bad. ↩︎

  • June 15, 2025 9:03am
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    One of Liquid Glass’s foundational principles is to prioritize user content, at least to my knowledge. However, my experience so far has been the opposite: Liquid Glass is often “in your face” and takes center stage.

  • June 15, 2025 8:46am
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    There are many positive and some less favorable aspects in Apple’s first betas and Liquid Glass. I’m eager to see how much Apple will improve them before the official release. Will they remain stubborn, or will they show openness and make meaningful adjustments? How much can they change without appearing to compromise their design principles?

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