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  • March 9, 2024 3:51pm
    Apps & Services Newsletter
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    I prefer Bear 2 over Craft for managing my reading notes created when using Omnivore and Readwise. This is what the following video is about: migrating from Craft to Bear and why I made that decision. Enjoy.

  • March 9, 2024 1:37pm
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    🔗 Apple hires NBCUniversal ad chief

    Apple has hired away an advertising executive from NBCUniversal, as it continues to build out its rumored video ad business for Apple TV+.

    That is not a good sign. Is this another example of enshitification? Man, I wish Apple won’t go in that direction.

  • March 9, 2024 1:28pm
    Blogging Food for thought Newsletter
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    When my sons got old enough, I offered them their first email address on Gmail. That made them happy. They didn’t have an iPhone to use it but they could sit down in front of a computer and start writing emails. I wonder if I came up with an empty but ready-to-use blog if they would react the same? Probably not.

  • March 9, 2024 9:01am
    Work
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    Yesterday at the office, during a web conference, one of my colleagues, probably around 24 years old, called me a boomer! I responded: Hey, young boy, consider take ChatGPT for a ride and ask him what is the “X” generation is? I felt insulted.

  • March 8, 2024 7:14pm
    Apple & Tech
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    Next Monday will be Christmas Monday with new iPad Pro. Fingers crossed 🤞🏻

  • March 8, 2024 9:24am
    Apps & Services
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    I’m considering buying the Elgato Prompter for use during my YouTube video recording. But I’m not sure that reading a script while recording is something that I’ll feel at ease with. Plus, writing those scripts takes some time. I’m more of an intuitive got with the flow guy when I record. Quality might suffer from this, though. Decisions, decisions, decisions. 🤔

  • March 6, 2024 1:03pm
    Apple & Tech Food for thought
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    Isn’t it strange that looking at the Apple Vision Pro today I find it’s look somewhat outdated. Already. Should I say “retro”? Is this design really iconic? 🤔

  • March 6, 2024 8:08am
    Apple & Tech
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    I wanted to push my iPad Pro article today, to beat Apple, in case they decided to release new iPad Pro today. 😅

  • March 5, 2024 6:41pm
    Apple & Tech
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    What if EU tells Apple: “you’re changes in iOS 17.4 aren’t enough or wrong”, what then?

  • March 5, 2024 9:37am
    Apple & Tech
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    I don’t want to wait next week for the new iPad Pro announcement. I want it TODAY! I need some Apple excitement in my digital life.

  • March 4, 2024 9:51pm
    Apple & Tech Photography Newsletter
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    Photo-editing on the iPad using Photomator is such a joy. I can’t wait to go with the upcoming iPad Pro. The iPad is the perfect devide for photo-editing with the Apple Pencil. With the switch to the OLED technology, it will be even better.

  • March 4, 2024 9:06pm
    Photography
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    Before. After. 📷

  • March 4, 2024 2:02pm
    Blogging Travels
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    What would be the best or the most suitable Micro.blog visual theme for a travel journal type of blog? Outpost? I find it drab. Maybe Typewriter? Currently testing the latter on numericcitizen-test.micro.blog.

  • March 4, 2024 9:31am
    Apple & Tech
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    The M2 13-inch MacBook Air stays in the lineup for 999 US$. The multiplication of price points continues. 🤪

  • March 4, 2024 9:29am
    Apple & Tech
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    The new M3 MacBook Air now supports two displays, when the laptop lid is closed.1 🤔


    1. As an M2 15-inch MBA owner, I’ll pass. ↩︎

  • AI Training: Ethics or Coverage?

    March 4, 2024 8:00am
    Food for thought Longer posts Newsletter
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    Some authors on the internet are against using their content without permission to train the models behind generative AI. As a blogger, this question often comes to my mind. On one hand, I believe that training without permission poses an ethical issue. I am unsure if we have genuinely addressed this question as a society. On the other hand, I question the danger of many authors wanting to silence their voices by blocking the training process to access their online content. Now more than ever, I feel that all voices are essential in ensuring that model training reflects our diversity as much as possible. I don’t want bots and haters to win the race. We, as authors, need to offer resistance. I’m not sure how this challenge will be solved, if ever.

  • March 3, 2024 11:04pm
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    🔗 Amit Gawande

    Micro posts don’t sit well on the platform, either. For all that, there’s no better platform than Micro.blog.

    I’m afraid I have to disagree. I found a great use case, for me, for Scribbles. Blips. I recently discovered that posts without titles are no longer shown in the Explore section of Scribbles. Sad. Yet, I’m a big supporter of Scribbles.

  • March 3, 2024 9:49pm
    Apple & Tech Newsletter
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    🔗 Source: Apple to Announce New Products This Week - MacRumors

    Apple plans to announce new products with press releases on its website this week, a proven source familiar with the matter told MacRumors.

    After over a year without any new iPad, is Apple going through the press release route? It can’t be about cost-cutting. Or is it? I can’t wait to see what’s in store for potential upgraders like me.

  • One Big Regret of My Digital Life

    March 3, 2024 9:03pm
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    One of the things I regret the most is not having had the idea of creating a blog in the 90s (and keeping it until today). Surprisingly, I learned about HTML, web servers like Apache and Netscape when it became popular1. I didn’t click with the idea of owning a small portion of the Internet to share what I was becoming at that time. What a missed opportunity.


    1. It’s not exactly true. I used to have and maintain a website about a subject that I still find fascinating: meteorology, circa 1994. ↩︎

  • March 3, 2024 11:36am
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    I spent part of my morning testing the creation of a GPT that has the function of producing a summary of the article referenced by a URL. The summary must be divided into three parts: a paragraph, a list of key elements, and finally a list of keywords. It’s easy to use and the results are usually excellent. However, to my surprise, many authors block access to engines like ChatGPT. This GPT will be used with Omnivore but integration is not possible. I need to copy and paste the article’s original URL into the GPT.

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