Avatar for Numeric Citizen Blog
Numeric Citizen Blog
📔Scrapbooks 🌇Photos 📺Videos 👨🏻‍💻Replies 🗓️Monthly Digests 📁Archive 👤About 📬Subscribe ✴️Blogroll 📡Blips 🌟SupportMe ↗️Hub → Bluesky → Pixelfed → Mastodon 🔍 📌 🐦 Contact Me Guestbook Stats Feeds

Apple & Tech

Apps & Services

Blogging

Food for thought

Longer posts

Misc

Narrated

Newsletter

Personal

Photography

Podcast

Privacy

Qwitter

Travels

UkraineWar

Work

  • December 18, 2023 3:57pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    Newsletter

    Contingent pricing for subscriptions on the App Store — a new feature that helps you attract and retain subscribers — lets you give customers a discounted subscription price as long as they’re actively subscribed to a different subscription.

    It’s often better to change something in a position of strength, not weakness. That is a good preemptive move by Apple, IMO.

  • December 18, 2023 10:37am
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    Photography

    Newsletter

    Apple Pausing Sales of Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 in U.S. Due to Patent Dispute https://www.macrumors.com/2023/12/18/apple-pausing-series-9-ultra-2-sales-in-us/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

    MacRumors.com https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/111601838273362581

    Massive blow. We don’t get to see Apple stopping selling a product often.

  • December 18, 2023 8:26am
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    Newsletter

    That could be a clever tool for developers to attract new customers and subscribers with the following change to the App Store. I’m all for it.

  • December 17, 2023 5:20pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Food for thought

    Newsletter

    Thought of the day: 500 years from now, when someone discovers a piece of plastic with a QRCode on it, intact and readable, I wonder what they will think of it and if they’ll try to “decode” the thing.

  • December 17, 2023 1:14pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Blogging

    Newsletter

    It’s Sunday; it’s time for the next weekly creative summary! Edition 2023-50 will be my last one… until 2024!1 The email version is coming up later today for my lovely subscribers! Expect some improvements in 2024! Stay tuned!


    1. Were you afraid that it would be my last edition like forever? 😌 ↩︎

  • December 17, 2023 11:04am
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Misc

    Newsletter

    Time for a shameless promotion. To #Craft users out there looking for a great calendar year template for 2024, head to Gumroad (link). Only 5$. Starting in January, the price will go up. End of the shameless ad.

  • December 16, 2023 4:46pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    Newsletter

    I’m considering replacing/upgrading from an M1 Mac mini to the Mac Studio🤑. Upon looking at Apple’s Mac Studio website, I was surprised that the Mac Studio wasn’t yet updated to the M3 processor yet🤨. For some reason, I thought it was updated with the MacBook Pro this fall. I should have known better. 🤷🏻‍♂️ I’ll wait for the next update.

  • December 16, 2023 3:11pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Photography

    Misc

    Newsletter

    Just finished creating my 25-minute mix! I’m slowly getting there! I’m super excited for this. For those who might ask, I’m using Djay with a Pioneer DDJ-400. #techno #technomelodic 🎧🎶🕺🏻

  • December 16, 2023 1:24pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apps & Services

    Newsletter

    I’m curious: who in this room is using Apple Advanced Data Protection? If yes, are there any issues? If not, why? 🤔

  • December 16, 2023 12:38pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Photography

    Misc

    Newsletter

    Coffee shop time! 😃 For some reason, I always test their Wifi service each place I visit. Always1. 🤷🏻‍♂️


    1. The same goes for hotels while I travel. ↩︎

  • December 16, 2023 12:18pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Newsletter

    Podcast

    I went to the Micro.blog’s Discovery section and set the category to Podcasts. I didn’t know there were that many podcasts hosted here on Micro.blog. 😳

  • Episode 06 — Wrapping Up 2023

    December 16, 2023 11:43am
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Longer posts

    Newsletter

    Podcast

    It’s time to wrap up 2023! In this last podcast episode for the year😌, I reflect on twelve months of creative work. It was a busy year😅👨🏻‍💻, and I’m grateful for all of it.🙏🏻

    Links to some of the things I’m referring to:

    • Bye Bye WordPress — Hello (Again) Ghost

    • My Creator Workflow

    • My Creator toolset

    • Craft templates for sale on Gumroad

    • Celebrating and Reflecting on my 30 Years Career in IT

    Transcript

  • December 16, 2023 9:25am
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    Newsletter

    I’m not really fond of this rumoured design.

  • December 15, 2023 6:03pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Personal

    One week left to work before “vacations”. 🥴

  • December 15, 2023 9:01am
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apps & Services

    Newsletter

    Added Kagi search to my subs. F*** Google and their business model!

  • December 14, 2023 1:14pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apps & Services

    Newsletter

    Believe it or not, I’m looking at use cases for Capacities. 🙄

  • December 14, 2023 8:06am
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Misc

    Apps & Services

    Newsletter

    After the My Defaults trend, here comes the My Subscriptions trend.

  • December 13, 2023 10:24pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Blogging

    Newsletter

    I’ve been a long-time blogger with WordPress.com before switching to Ghost. Today, I wanted to leave a comment on someone’s blog but was rebuffed with a login form. Authentication methods offered were WordPress.com, Facebook1, and Email. Am I alone who finds this to be a show-stopper for leaving simple feedback?2


    1. Really, Facebook? ↩︎

    2. Even on my blog, you need to be a subscriber to drop a comment on an article. I know this becomes a natural “filter” and prevents some form of spamming. But it also prevents some spontaneity. ↩︎

  • December 12, 2023 2:14pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apps & Services

    Newsletter

    Omnivore is out with a new beta today (1.4). Boy, this thing is moving in the right direction and pretty fast. It makes me wonder if one day I’ll get rid of my RSS reader to be all in with Omnivore’s RSS reader. I can see that happening.

  • December 12, 2023 10:32am
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    Newsletter

    Today is the day I realize that my M1 Mac mini doesn’t support two external displays. 😒 I wish I had that capability for today’s work I need to do1.


    1. Is this the beginning of an excuse to buy a Mac Studio? ↩︎

← Newer Posts Older Posts →

What's Next?

Follow me on Mastodon Follow me on Bluesky 🔵 Numeric Citizen Space website 🔵 Numeric Citizen Meta website

Explore this blog by visiting this random post, by searching, browsing the page views or by peeking at blog stats

Oh, one more thing, here's a special shoutout to something that I really like 👇🏻

This blog is powered by Micro.blog and the Cards Theme

Copyright © 2025 JF Martin