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  • January 6, 2024 5:11pm
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    Photography

    Apps & Services

    Frankly, I had to read these instructions many times but couldn’t figure it out. The Kagi Safari Extension 2.0 looks like a major change in design and how it works. They had to revert back because too many users reported issues. I understand Apple’s guidelines and privacy protection might be the root cause for this less-than-user-friendly setup.

  • January 6, 2024 12:48pm
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    Apps & Services

    I’ll be doing a YouTube Live tomorrow, January 7th, at 11AM EST, where I’ll discuss Craft with my cohost. The show will be in French. cc @abc

  • January 6, 2024 10:31am
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    Apps & Services

    While preparing my CleanShot Cloud account closure1, I realized that I had a bad idea at some point: saving screenshots on CleanShot Cloud and referencing them in articles posted on Micro.blog, or Ghost. Closing my account will probably invalidate many links, which is really bad. 😒 It seems there are no easy way to search for past posts on Micro.blog which contains a specific URL like “cloud.numericcitizen.me/*”. Am I missing something?


    1. CleanShot Cloud is expensive and I cannot justify its cost. I’m using a free setup based on a combination of DropShare and Backblaze instead. ↩︎

  • January 6, 2024 10:19am
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    Photography

    Finally cancelled my Adobe photography subscription plan. Next to cancel: CleanShot Cloud. Just updated my subscriptions page.

  • January 5, 2024 10:38pm
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    Apple & Tech

    A great documentary about Tim Cook. Must watch.

  • Hey Calendar First Impressions

    January 5, 2024 9:41am
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    Photography

    Longer posts

    Apps & Services

    Newsletter

    HEY Calendar is being rolled out to a limited set of users. It will be free, and a separate app will be released for the Calendar in the near future. It’s not as controversial a take as the email counterpart. Day view and week view only, by design1. I’m not sure if this is a deal-breaker for many. Time tracking seems limited and cannot replace Toggl / Timery in my workflow. Continue reading →

  • January 4, 2024 12:30pm
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    Personal

    Newsletter

    This year, my writing habits will be impacted by my desire to spend more time interacting with the community here. Reaching out and connecting might lead to new opportunities and writing triggers.

  • January 4, 2024 9:23am
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    Personal

    I’m getting a few more days of vacation and looking forward to practicing my DJ skills to conclude my breakaway from my usual creative activities.

  • January 4, 2024 9:15am
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    Apps & Services

    Now that HEY calendar is officially rolling out, I’m curious about the time and habits tracking it comes with. Could they replace Toggl (very pricey subscription) and Timery? Who got the new calendar feature enabled?

  • January 3, 2024 2:40pm
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    Photography

    Apps & Services

    Why do we stilll get blank widgets on iOS 17.2? Who’s to blame? Apple? The developers? A combination of both? How do we fix these?

  • January 2, 2024 12:36pm
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    Create more. Consume less. – Manu I want to do the opposite: consume a bit more and create a bit less. For me: consuming is often a content creation trigger. Seems contradictory. But consuming more often means better quality of content creation as a source of nourishment.

  • January 1, 2024 3:38pm
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    Photography

    Misc

    1000 subscribers goal achieved! Six month later than I would have hoped. Better late than never!

  • January 1, 2024 1:58pm
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    Blogging

    Misc

    I still struggle with the idea of writing posts directly on Mastodon or Bluesky. Replying to others who write to me directly there is ok, though, if I can’t reply from Micro.blog.

  • January 1, 2024 10:09am
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    Blogging

    Newsletter

    Just finished going through my monthly newsletter come out of Micro.blog. 😳 It’s long and feels a bit messy. 🤨 For 2024, I decided to be more selective of the posts that will make it to the gate each month. Not everything is worth being summarized.

  • January 1, 2024 9:54am
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    Personal

    Newsletter

    It’s the time of the year where the page is white, everything feels possible and in its place. It’s up to me to decide how 2024 will unroll as a creator.

  • December 31, 2023 6:00pm
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    Photography

    Personal

    Newsletter

    I wish you all a happy new year! May 2024 be a better one than what 2023 was. It shouldn’t be that hard. Peace.

  • December 27, 2023 4:39pm
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    Photography

    Personal

    Newsletter

    Each year, at about the same period, I always feel a return of my desire for photography. It is as if photography is always the thing I drop first when I’m busy in life, preferring to keep the rest (writing, blogging). I hope this will change a bit in 2024.

  • December 27, 2023 3:21pm
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    Photography

    Newsletter

    Writing about leaving Adobe ecosystem and embracing once and for all the Photomator / Pixelmator combo: 1500 words and counting. 👨🏻‍💻😅

  • Is GenAI a Product or a Feature?

    December 26, 2023 9:58pm
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    Food for thought

    Longer posts

    Newsletter

    Just like Steve Jobs once said that Dropbox is not a product but a feature, I wonder if the way we consume GenAI today makes it look like a product, but it’s actually a feature. Don’t get me wrong, GenAI is utterly important and a game changer, but I feel that in the future, there will be something bigger that will encompass GenAI that will actually be THE product. Continue reading →

  • December 26, 2023 8:21am
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    Photography

    Newsletter

    If I post a photo on Pixelfed that is marked as an NSFW image 1, the image is still cross-posted on Micro.blog without any restriction. Can Micro.blog distinguish the post on Pixelfed and do something different based on that? cc @manton


    1. No sexually explicit content, but it could contain references to some partial nudity. ↩︎

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