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  • September 5, 2024 11:23am
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    Today, I had no choice but to request the use of a Cloud PC by Microsoft for using a crappy app: Visio. I like this idea of renting a PC instance in the cloud, though.

  • September 4, 2024 9:37pm
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    How writing can help you solve problems - Eric Gregorich

    Writing is thinking.

    So true.

  • September 4, 2024 8:03am
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    “On your birthday, only do what you like the most and fuck the rest.” — Numeric Citizen

  • September 2, 2024 5:14pm
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    Craft developers aren’t shy of sharing teasers and opening a private beta for Craft Objects and Style. While we all wait for any official release, I made this video today.

  • September 1, 2024 7:29pm
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    I find myself preferring to listen to podcasts via Apple Podcasts web interface instead of the native app on Mac. It feels lighter.

  • September 1, 2024 10:34am
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    This is the final edition of the Creative Summary newsletter, which will be renamed “The Ephemeral Scrapbook Newsletter.” Over the past two weeks, the author has shared 20 posts, 12 photos, and one podcast episode, but no YouTube videos. The author feels conflicted about using Facebook and have rediscovered Medium, where they plan to publish more articles.

    The newsletter also includes discoveries from MG Siegler, highlights from the iPhone Photography Awards, and insights on Apple’s upcoming event. The author is considering freelancing and will document the journey on Medium. He discusses app recommendations and express concerns over AI in photography and deepfakes.

    Footnote: this summary was generated using ChatGPT as an experiment.

  • Hello Again, Facebook!

    August 31, 2024 2:36pm
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    Today, I posted something on Facebook; and honestly, it felt weird. I can’t remember exactly when I last wrote on Facebook. I also had this symptom of missing out on things from my old colleagues and friends just by glancing at my timeline for a few minutes. It felt heavy. My post was about telling my “Facebook friends” about the two sites where I share my photos online: Glass and Pixelfed. I don’t know if people will take time off their busy lives to visit or even bookmark the sites. I shouldn’t care about that. Those who pay attention might even notice a link to my digital hub, where I share all my other sites. Because I’m curious, I’ll return back to Facebook in a few days to see if I got some comments. I’ll report back here in any case.

  • August 30, 2024 9:00pm
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    Yesterday I went to see the 2024 World Press photography exposition. On our way out, there was a guestbook where I wrote: “I am speechless… but full of images… thank you to the photographers for their courage, without you, we would be in unbearable darkness.” I was troubled by the powerful images I saw.

  • August 30, 2024 11:20am
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    I always found this picture of Steve Jobs in his home office very fascinating. It’s too bad that we cannot read all the book titles. But there are two pieces of equipment that I wonder what they are. On is something that looks like a Mac Pro but the size of the computer is too small, even though Steve is using a big Apple display (30"?). Next to this is a bigger vertical device which would be a UPS, but also looks like an external GPU (but that wasn’t a thing at that time). Oh and in the left segment of the bookshelf, there are many small bottles of liquid drops. What were they for?

    Update #1: This post made it to the Hacker News site.

  • August 26, 2024 2:55pm
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    To me, this animated Apple logo is a clear visual reference to Apple Intelligence1. Expect to hear a lot about it when Apple shows off their new iPhones.


    1. Even if the service will slowly be rolled out over the course of the next 12 to 18 months. ↩︎

  • August 24, 2024 9:09am
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    A great morning read from Medium: the State of Medium. Here is something that I came across:

    “I think the fragmentation creates interesting options for people." - Medium CEO

    I like where they are going.

  • August 22, 2024 8:42am
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    Today is a day at the office which means an iPad-only day to take notes. I love those days. The iPad is such a great device for this use case.

  • August 20, 2024 5:59pm
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    I’ve been playing with Substack in recent days and boy this platform is different now compared to its initial launch. I’m not coming to write there but I do want to read more content there, a few times a week.

  • August 20, 2024 1:35pm
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    Today I experimented Slack Lists to track messages for which I want to make sure to get a response. It’s pretty useful. But I still don’t really like Slack in general🤦🏻‍♂️. The included screenshot is not from my own list but a template provided by Slack, just to give you an example.

  • August 20, 2024 7:00am
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    This morning, I submitted an article to a Medium publication. The subject is about considering going freelance. It’s been a long time since I have done this. Back in 2020 when I was much more active on Medium, submitting articles to Medium publications was the only way to get noticed and hope to make a few dollars along the way.

  • August 19, 2024 8:28pm
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    Back in May, 2023, Gruber on Bluesky. ​

    Mastodon avatar for @gruber@mastodon.social
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    Bluesky is going to skyrocket to mainstream popularity and actually replace Twitter, and Mastodon cannot, because Bluesky is being designed to be simple, fun, and — most importantly — easy to understand.

    5:18 AM • May 5, 2023 (UTC)
    Are we there, yet?​

  • I'll Never Buy a GM Car in My Life

    August 19, 2024 8:05pm
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    GM didn’t want to carry CarPlay (and Android Auto!) in their cars because they were dimmed as unsafe. Was GM in fact hoping to open up these, instead, but why? Apple didn’t want to open their platform. Now we have a better idea as to why. In other news, GM is laying off hundreds of software engineers. I guess GM learned that doing software is hard. Well, fuck them.

  • August 19, 2024 5:10pm
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    After Maps, now Podcasts. Apple is opening up more and more to the web. Why?

    Side node: ​I cancelled my Pocket Cast subscription (due for renewal in about 11 months 🙄).

  • August 19, 2024 12:50pm
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    Bye bye Apple frames shortcut1, hello Shareshot!


    1. Currently not working under iOS 18 beta. ​ ↩︎

  • August 19, 2024 12:36pm
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    I’m currently testing a new blog post editor on Micro.blog. On the surface, everything looks familiar. The preview button behaviour is the one that surprised me the most as it replaces the blog post content with the preview, unlike before where the preview was underneath. Not having “auto-save” functionality is still a bit troubling to me, in 2024, though.

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