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  • January 14, 2025 11:18am
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    Photography

    I like opposing things in photography. This is such an example that I took during a short walk. #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography

    A bare-branched tree is silhouetted against a multi-story brick building with a clear sky in the background.
  • January 13, 2025 7:24pm
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    Privacy

    Newsletter

    That is why not only ads are infecting everything online, the data brokers behind them is an even worst idea. Data Broker Hack Exposes Location Info From Millions of iPhone Users - MacRumors

  • January 13, 2025 1:18pm
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    Food for thought

    Newsletter

    Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor Pixelfed
    https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/01/13/meta-pixelfed-links

    Daring Fireball https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/113822379708720515

    Meta is acting more and more like Russia.

  • January 13, 2025 7:59am
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    Apps & Services

    Newsletter

    I’m seeing more and more online stores using Shop.app for shipment tracking. It’s great to have a consolidated view of all the shipments (better than Parcel? Or what used to be Delivery?). I wish Apple would go further in that space, even including buying receipts to be standardized and electronics-only.

  • The Medium Mirage

    January 13, 2025 7:05am
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    Blogging

    Longer posts

    Newsletter

    Medium seems to suffer from another problem: AI-generated content and fake account for fake engagement to generate revenues. According to their recent article (Paywall might be enforced to read this), many accounts under the Partner Program were suspended recently to stop this fraud. I’ve returned to Medium last fall (read my comments about the reading and writing experience over there) and found that content quality has gone down compared to what we used to read there. Continue reading →

  • January 12, 2025 8:39pm
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    Apple & Tech

    Photography

    After nearly abandoning the idea, because it was too complicated to choose from the many different keyboards, today I ordered this mechanical keyboard1 for two reasons: semi-retro look with the wooden sides and the sound of the typing experience. A mechanical keyboard from Keychron


    1. Keychron K2 HE. ↩︎

  • Putting Something Out There

    January 12, 2025 1:23pm
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    Food for thought

    Longer posts

    Personal

    Newsletter

    I’m about to start a recording session for my next video about Craft and the PARA method. I wonder: why am I doing this? Is it because it might help Craft users to better take advantage of the app features? Is it because I just like being in a creative process? Is it because I love working on the Mac using different apps together to put something out there? Is it all the reasons above? Continue reading →

  • January 12, 2025 11:46am
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    Blogging

    Newsletter

    The first edition of 2025 of the Ephemeral Scrapbook newsletter is out. I’m curious if some of you look into these. Let me know.

  • January 11, 2025 2:36pm
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    Food for thought

    Newsletter

    I’m always positively surprised to read my Bluesky replies here on Micro.blog. I mean, this is the modern and open where that we should continue to promote and defend. For me, and I wish it was the case for more people, it is priceless, but the value is not as tangible as I would like.

  • January 11, 2025 11:32am
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    Apple & Tech

    Photography

    Newsletter

    Since moving into our temporary apartment, we’ve been relying entirely on the Apple TV for our “TV content” consumption. One takeaway is the realization that more than ever the TV experience is utterly fragmented, hence de proliferation of “TV” apps. The home screen of the Apple TV

  • January 11, 2025 8:04am
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    Photography

    Newsletter

    Can you figure out what’s this? It’s a macro photo of an old maple syrup bottle where we could see those crystals forming at the bottom. Shot on the iPhone 15 Pro Max. Fascinating.

    Update: for some reason, the original post didn’t include the actual image.

  • January 10, 2025 9:37am
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    Photography

    Misc

    Personal

    I NEVER take and share pictures of cats… but this one living in the building where I’m currently staying for a few months 🤩… worth enough to push to Pixelfed, too!

  • January 9, 2025 9:57pm
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    Apps & Services

    Newsletter

    Starting Up… RealMac software Elements beta. I paid for it, to show support for the team. I have three websites that I want to build with this thing eventually. Stay tuned. It’s a 2025 and beyond adventure1.


    1. I always need something new to try and experiment with. ↩︎

  • January 9, 2025 2:30pm
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    Food for thought

    Newsletter

    Why do I have the impression that we talk too much about facts checking and not enough (far not enough) about algorithm-based timelines, reality and people manipulation through these algorithms? Who’s checking Facebook or Meta in general?

  • Hell On Earth - Los Angeles & Ukraine

    January 9, 2025 11:27am
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    Photography

    Longer posts

    UkraineWar

    I don’t want to offend anyone here, but what is happening right now in Los Angeles is certainly devastating. It’s really looking like hell on earth. At the same time, we can easily find the exact same hell in Ukraine and many more people are displaced or killed by a totalitarian and evil regime. It’s hard to fight climate change, but we can and must fight what Russia1 in its current form and to for what it brings to this world. Continue reading →

  • January 8, 2025 2:18pm
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    Apps & Services

    Newsletter

    After finding an old document in Notion where my text highlights from Matter were saved, I was curious about Matter, the reader-later service that I once used a while back before trying Omnivore. Their website still refers to “Twitter”, not “X”, their last post on their X account dates back to 2023. I cannot find a Mastodon account. KI can’t find a changelog either. Is this thing still alive?

  • January 7, 2025 3:22pm
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    Food for thought

    Newsletter

    Dear David (aka DHH), I fully disagree with you, and your blog post, again.

  • January 7, 2025 1:39pm
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    Food for thought

    Newsletter

    How long before we see something like this on LinkedIn “Prompt Engineer with 15 years of experience”?

  • Who's Right? Apple Intelligence or Grammarly

    January 7, 2025 7:19am
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    Photography

    Longer posts

    Apps & Services

    Newsletter

    While working on the next edition of the Ephemeral Scrapbook newsletter, I wanted to proofread and rewrite some text portions. I first started with Apple Intelligence Writing Tools then pasted the results into Craft. Grammarly instantly took the ball and verified the pasted text, highlighting everything wrong that needed some attention. Is Apple Writing Tools sloppy or Grammarly too picky? Writing in English is not an easy thing for me to do. Continue reading →

  • January 6, 2025 3:16pm
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    Apple & Tech

    Newsletter

    The LG UltraFine 6K: this is such a nice-looking monitor. Perfect for a M4 Mac mini. Look at me, no bezels! 🤩

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