Avatar for Numeric Citizen Blog
Numeric Citizen Blog
📔Scrapbooks 🌇Photos 📺Videos 👨🏻‍💻Replies 🗓️Monthly Digests 📁Archive 📬Subscribe ✴️Blogroll 👤About 📡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

  • August 25, 2023 7:45am
    Podcast
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Getting ready for the next podcast edition, episode number uno! Fun or not-fun fact: Apple’s Podcast Connect doesn’t support “Sign in with Apple”. Weird.

  • August 24, 2023 9:39pm
    Apple & Tech Photography Newsletter
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Am I alone who happens to get the iPhone keyboard displayed on the iPad instead of the full-size keyboard? My wife experienced the same thing many times. We don’t know how to make this thing revert to the normal size keyboard. Easy to make it disappear, but when it comes back, it’s still the small version. Very annoying to type on this.

  • August 24, 2023 9:29pm
    Apple & Tech Photography Newsletter
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    I’m probably the only one, but I liked the Touch Bar on my 2017 MacBook Pro at work. 🤷🏻‍♂️

  • August 24, 2023 12:20pm
    Misc
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    At the food court. The guy beside me is listening to some cheap TV show on his cheap-no-name Android speakerphone. Can you imagine if we all did the same? Even if he were using a top-of-the-line iPhone, I would judge him. 🤦🏻‍♂️🙉 Humans…

  • August 24, 2023 11:54am
    Personal Newsletter
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Working at the office today. Summer vacations are still ongoing hence so few people here. It’s always a reminder of the covid pandemic. This place used to be much more lively. Everything still feels different. 😒 We will never get back to pre-2020 world.

  • August 24, 2023 8:40am
    Photography Newsletter Podcast
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    I’ve been working on this for my podcast. You can tell that I’m no graphic designer. 😆

  • August 24, 2023 6:45am
    Photography Newsletter
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    I glanced at photographers and photos on Glass this morning and realized that most photographers are men. Is it reflective of the photographers’ community in general? Photography is a men’s world?? I’d love to see more women because of their different sensibilities.

  • Learned Something New Today

    August 23, 2023 8:56pm
    Longer posts Apps & Services Newsletter
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Today, while reading this blog post, I found out that we could have a “popup” note inline in a blog post. I was curious and asked the author, who gladly responded with all the required information to do the same on my blog. A plugin is required, which I gladly installed in a snap1. This blog post is a test of that feature2. The day I learn something which in turn helps me improve one of my things, is a great day. 😊 I love this community so much! 🫶🏻


    1. You can find it here, on Gitbub. ↩︎

    2. Thanks to @dandycat for your help. ↩︎

  • August 23, 2023 3:59pm
    Food for thought Newsletter
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    “At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don’t care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us at all.” — Ann Landers

  • August 23, 2023 3:36pm
    Photography Newsletter
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    I decided to stop cross-posting my photos from Glass to my Mastodon account as I feel this is not the right community/instance for my photos. I prefer to enable cross-posting from Glass to Pixelfed, which I forgot to enable. Now, all is good. 📷

  • Sorry But No Sympathy for Russian

    August 23, 2023 2:34pm
    UkraineWar
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    From a lunar rover to a plane (probably, to be confirmed) carrying the head of the infamous Wagner group (plus a few of his “friends”), they all crash and burn in hell. I don’t care about the root causes, I have no sympathy at all for Russian failures. The more, the better. Eventually, some will wake up and make a revolution.

  • August 23, 2023 7:54am
    Photography Misc
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    These transcript links give 404. Is this normal? Editing works fine, though. cc @help @manton

  • August 22, 2023 10:01pm
    Photography Apps & Services Newsletter
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Craft Docs vs CleanShot: two different apps in different categories and two philosophies of asking for user feedback. Craft is closed, and opaque while CleanShot is outgoing and openly asks for “what we should work on next”. I’m a subscriber of CleanShot Cloud, and yes, I want a few improvements. If only Craft would change their mind…

  • August 22, 2023 9:27pm
    Misc
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Mmmm, 🤔 for some reason, my Microblog RSS feeds are not updated to reflect my latest posts… Trying to rebuild the whole site. Any ideas @manton @help ?

  • Pilot Episode #2 — Testing, Testing, Testing, 1-2-3

    August 22, 2023 9:04pm
    Longer posts Apps & Services Podcast
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    This is the second pilot episode of my brand-new podcast (“Thoughts & Tribulations of a compulsive creator”). I made many changes to the recording setup. I like the results. 😊 My support templates are ready (one in Screenflow, Things and Craft) for the first real episode that should be coming soon. One last note: I discovered yesterday that Microblog will automatically generate a transcript of each episode. This is so cool! 🤯

    Transcript

  • August 22, 2023 2:56pm
    Apple & Tech Newsletter
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Tempted to install macOS Sonoma Beta 6 on my shiny new 15-inch MacBook Air… I like to be at the cutting edge of software releases… on iPhone, iPad, Watch and Apple TV, betas have been rock solid for me so far (the worst is the iPad). Any advice here besides “you’re mileage may vary”, “go ahead at your own risk”, etc.?

  • August 22, 2023 6:27am
    Newsletter Podcast
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    It was fun but a bit more challenging to record and share my first podcast episode yesterday. Editing in Ferrite is hard on the iPhone. It would be much better on the iPad or the Mac. For some reason, talking to a microphone feels less natural than recording myself on camera for a YouTube video. 🤷🏻‍♂️When I shared this thought with my wife yesterday, she responded: recording yourself on camera, then delete the video track! 😳🤯 I like her.

  • Introducing the Thoughts & Tribulations of a Compulsive Creator Podcast

    August 21, 2023 10:00pm
    Longer posts
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    I’m excited to introduce something new: a podcast. 🎙️Something short & sweet. At least, it is one of my goals. I don’t have a grand plan, just a desire to share my thoughts and tribulations of the creator that I am in a different medium: audio. Nothing fancy. It’s done with modest technical means and a dead simple workflow. The end product: something approachable. I want to keep it that way. This is a pilot episode. Listen to learn more. Your feedback is welcome. 😊

    Transcript

  • August 21, 2023 2:29pm
    Apple & Tech Newsletter
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    This week, I am getting an appointment for a screen replacement on my iPhone 13 Pro (under my paid AppleCare warranty). Three highly visible scratches are bugging me big time: the trade-in value is reduced by 485 CAN$ (at the worst timing possible: iPhone 15 Ultra is approaching😩), and I always focus on the scratches when looking at my iPhone screen. 🫣 AppleCare can be a good investment.

  • August 21, 2023 7:41am
    Misc
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Made some visual tweaks to the blog visuals: added tags to the list of bookmarks on the bookmarks page and made the blockquote blue instead of yellow. Eventually, this is going to be exactly how I like it.

← Newer Posts Older Posts →

What's Next?

Follow me on Mastodon 🔵 Numeric Citizen Space website 🔵 Numeric Citizen I/O 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 really like 👇🏻

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

Copyright © 2025 JF Martin