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  • December 5, 2024 11:01am
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    Photography

    Newsletter

    Got one of my photos selected in the monthly theme, Decay, on Glass. I’m happy. 😊

  • December 5, 2024 9:51am
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    Misc

    Caseless day™ 🙃🫣

  • December 4, 2024 11:46am
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    Apps & Services

    Newsletter

    I’m reading good comments about the new subscription from The Verge. I’m not a fan of their website design, but I do read their articles from time to time. I’m tempted to give it a try. Yet, “serving better ads” to subscribers is not exactly a turn on. 🤷🏻‍♂️

  • December 1, 2024 4:48pm
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    Blogging

    Newsletter

    Here’s the latest edition of the Ephemeral Scrapbook newsletter! I hope you enjoy! Email version coming out soon! For those asking: it is entirely built using Craft Docs.

  • November 27, 2024 4:32pm
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    Apps & Services

    Newsletter

    I’ve seen a drastic increase in new followers on my Bluesky account (+50%) in the last 3 weeks while no new followers on Mastodon in the last six months. 🧐🤨

    I’m 90% of the time posting on both (from Micro.blog), like this post.

  • November 26, 2024 5:52pm
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    Newsletter

    Work

    Today, I submitted my resume for a new job out of curiosity. The submission form included a section for adding websites, but I didn’t include any of my many sites. I often feel shy about sharing them in my professional life. I may be missing an opportunity to show some of my abilities, who knows.

  • November 26, 2024 1:55pm
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    Misc

    Newsletter

    Up until now, I was able to keep Micro.blog at the center of my blogging activities and my social networks presence but with Bluesky taking off, I can’t keep up with new follows… I follow people on Bluesky from Bluesky, not always from Micro.blog. Low friction probably explains this behaviour.

  • Selling to the Devil?

    November 25, 2024 1:12pm
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    Food for thought

    Longer posts

    Newsletter

    So I put my M1 Mac mini for sale this weekend on Facebook Marketplace. 🤢 Got an offer for 50% of my asking price. I said, no, nice try . Got a second offer from someone else with a slightly reduced priced. I said ok. I went poking his Facebook profile page just to see if I’m being scammed👀🤨🧐. From the buyer’s profile and posts I can infer the following: he believes in conspiracies, he is an anti-vaccine, he is a proud pro-Trump, and the icing on the cake: he is pro-Russian. Continue reading →

  • November 24, 2024 11:21am
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    Blogging

    Newsletter

    It’s been a while since the last edition of The Ephemeral Scrapbook edition. Here’s the latest one where I talk about Glass, Realmac Software Elements, Apple Intelligence, the iPad, Apple a many more digital tidbits. Coming up by email to subscribers later today. Hope you enjoy!

  • November 20, 2024 8:35am
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    Photography

    Newsletter

    My newest photo series on Glass: Humans.

  • November 19, 2024 6:50pm
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    Apple & Tech

    Even idle (10%-15% CPU usage), the new M4 Mac mini (with M4 Pro chip) runs much hotter than the old M1. I don’t hear the fan but according to iStats Menu, the temp inside is 56F.

  • Migrating From M1 Mac mini to M4 Mac mini - A Flawless Migration

    November 19, 2024 7:30am
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    Apple & Tech

    Longer posts

    Newsletter

    Got my M4 Mac mini yesterday and completed the migration off the old M1 Mac mini. The process took me about 2.5 hours, where about 1.25 hours for data migration only using the Apple Migration Assistant1. Upon first login, I got only a handful of security-related popups, much less than I was expecting. Many apps like Microsoft OneDrive, Synology Drive client, worked perfectly with minimum reconfiguration, which was a pleasant surprise. Continue reading →

  • November 18, 2024 7:19pm
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    Apple & Tech

    Photography

    Newsletter

    Migration in progress … 😎

  • November 18, 2024 1:45pm
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    Apps & Services

    If only Bluesky had an iPad version of their mobile app. Is this in the works? (Posted from Micro.blog but asking the Bluesky community).

  • November 18, 2024 1:43pm
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    Food for thought

    Apps & Services

    Newsletter

    How does an app get updated on a weekly basis without any new features or apparent bug fixes? Exhibit A: Medium. Is someone trying to game the App Store?

  • Paying to Be a Beta Tester? Really?

    November 18, 2024 9:45am
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    Food for thought

    Longer posts

    Apps & Services

    Newsletter

    Paying to be a beta tester: is this a new trend? Glass Series was available to patron subscribers only while being in beta testing. RealMac Software offers Elements in beta as a subscription but at a reduced price. Active beta testers are actually paying of their time to use a software still being debugged and refined. Isn’t that enough? I understand that building software is hard and requires resources… but paying to be a beta tester seems to cross a line here. Continue reading →

  • November 17, 2024 11:08pm
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    Apple & Tech

    Newsletter

    In preparation to receive the new M4 Mac mini which supports at least two screens1, I decided to rework my desk setup and bring back the LG UltraFine 4K display on my desk. Once the migration from the old Mac mini is complete, I’ll be using a two-display setup. My Synology NAS was moved to a separate table to make some room for the LG display. My Elgao StreamDeck+ was relocated too, this time on the desk shelf.


    1. Three displays, actually. ↩︎

  • November 17, 2024 10:46pm
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    Photography

    Apps & Services

    Newsletter

    I’ve been playing with Glass Series and I must say that I really like my experience with it so far. Series are like albums, like this example.

  • November 17, 2024 9:37pm
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    Apple & Tech

    Newsletter

    As I’m getting ready to receive my new M4 Mac mini1, I’m starting to think that my decision to go with a 1TB model was not really future-proof and probably downright a mistake.


    1. Remove unused apps, delete useless data (using Daisy Disk). ↩︎

  • November 17, 2024 12:06pm
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    Misc

    Newsletter

    If I’m less active here it might be because I’m more active on Bluesky. 😬 @numericciten.me

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