“At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don’t care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us at all.” — Ann Landers

I decided to stop cross-posting my photos from Glass to my Mastodon account as I feel this is not the right community/instance for my photos. I prefer to enable cross-posting from Glass to Pixelfed, which I forgot to enable. Now, all is good. 📷

Sorry But No Sympathy for Russian

From a lunar rover to a plane (probably, to be confirmed) carrying the head of the infamous Wagner group (plus a few of his “friends”), they all crash and burn in hell. I don’t care about the root causes, I have no sympathy at all for Russian failures. The more, the better. Eventually, some will wake up and make a revolution.

Craft Docs vs CleanShot: two different apps in different categories and two philosophies of asking for user feedback. Craft is closed, and opaque while CleanShot is outgoing and openly asks for “what we should work on next”. I’m a subscriber of CleanShot Cloud, and yes, I want a few improvements. If only Craft would change their mind…

Pilot Episode #2 — Testing, Testing, Testing, 1-2-3

This is the second pilot episode of my brand-new podcast (“Thoughts & Tribulations of a compulsive creator”). I made many changes to the recording setup. I like the results. 😊 My support templates are ready (one in Screenflow, Things and Craft) for the first real episode that should be coming soon. One last note: I discovered yesterday that Microblog will automatically generate a transcript of each episode. This is so cool! 🤯

Pilot Episode #2 — Testing, Testing, Testing, 1-2-3

Hi, this is Numeric Citizen, and you are listening to the Thoughts and Tribulation from a Compulsive Creator podcast.

This is episode number zero.

Yep, this is episode zero.

First pilot episode was terrible, but I’m working hard to improve things.

It sounded terrible because of the room configuration, my microphone setup on the iPhone, and also I think it was obvious that I was reading something.

So I think it wasn’t very good, and it wasn’t where I thought it should be.

So now I made some change to the configuration.

Now I’m recording on the Mac with ScreenFlow.

I’m using the same microphone, but this time I enabled the voice isolation feature of macOS, so it should be better.

And since I’m recording in ScreenFlow, the post-processing should be faster, but I’ll have to use a utility called Permute, which will allow me to convert the audio file from MP4 to an MP3 file, and then I’ll have to use a website called TagMP3, where I can set the ID3 meta tags required for a podcast file.

I think my experience with my first post on microblog is a success.

It’s easy to create a new blog post and attach the audio file and then set the title, which is important here to have a title to a specific episode.

And I think microblog is very simple, straightforward, and the RSS feed is taken care of.

The thing that I find a bit strange, though, is that the podcast RSS feed contains everything that you post on microblog.

I know that because I subscribe to my own feed in Reader, and I was surprised to find that the content of the feed is way more than I thought it would be.

I thought it would be only the post with an audio file.

The other thing that I am currently having a problem with is Podcast Connect, which seems to be stuck at processing the podcast details.

I’m not sure why.

I’ll let it go for a few days and see where it goes.

I hope this second try will be much better, with much better sound.

This concludes this episode number zero, and don’t be shy and share your thoughts or comments on microblog, Mastodon, and BlueSky, where this is cross-posted automatically thanks to microblog’s cross-posting feature.

Again, thanks for listening, and please, in this challenging and constantly in crisis world where a state of emergency is omnipresent, take care.

Until the next episode, bye.

Tempted to install macOS Sonoma Beta 6 on my shiny new 15-inch MacBook Air… I like to be at the cutting edge of software releases… on iPhone, iPad, Watch and Apple TV, betas have been rock solid for me so far (the worst is the iPad). Any advice here besides “you’re mileage may vary”, “go ahead at your own risk”, etc.?

It was fun but a bit more challenging to record and share my first podcast episode yesterday. Editing in Ferrite is hard on the iPhone. It would be much better on the iPad or the Mac. For some reason, talking to a microphone feels less natural than recording myself on camera for a YouTube video. 🤷🏻‍♂️When I shared this thought with my wife yesterday, she responded: recording yourself on camera, then delete the video track! 😳🤯 I like her.