• Reflecting on My Photo Processing Strategy

    For my next trip, I will bring my Nikon D750 and my iPhone 13 Pro (of course!), and my 2018 11-inch iPad Pro. How am I going to process my images? Will I continue using Lightroom for images from my Nikon? I usually use the iPad to import my photos into the Lightroom catalogue. What about pictures on my iPhone, which should be mostly in RAW format and shot with Halide? Continue reading →

  • Getting ready for my trip to north west Africa. Halide FTW!

  • Location check in 🗺 — I’m testing the Micro.blog checkin shortcut. Please, ignore.

  • Thanks to @Mtt & @rcrackley, I’m now using a different and quite nice Micro.blog theme for the first time in many years! I’m quite happy with the final results. Hope that you enjoy the change as much as I do!

    PS. There are a few things that I’d like to tweak, but that will be for another day!

  • 365 Days Later

    A year ago, I shared my first YouTube video on my YouTube channel. My initial goal was to share videos about using Craft, but later came videos about using Micro.blog. Here are some notable facts: 52 videos about Craft were produced; 5 videos about Micro.blog were produced; All videos totalling more than 13.5 hours of watch time; My YouTube channel has 813 subscribers as of now; Two subscribers gave me money as a sign of appreciation. Continue reading →

  • I’ve been watching my feeds analytics through FeedPress, since I made the switch. I’m surprised by the number of subscribers that keeps going up and up. I wasn’t expecting that. Should I trust the FeedPress numbers? Am I more popular than I initially thought? 🤔

  • Mmmm, it seems that I’m unable to use my test blog on Micro.blog to post from Ulysses or Micro.blog.app. Am I missing something here?

  • From the release notes of the May 30th version of Hazel:

    Added missing arm64 support for certain auxiliary binaries. Not having these meant that certain specialized functions were being run using Rosetta on Apple Silicon Macs.

    That is something so important on an 8GB MacBook Air like mine. The less memory consumed by system services like Rosetta, the better. And I applaud the developer for mentioning it in the release notes.

  • And just like that, I discovered that my original Mastodon account is enabled and active. I didn’t know my account was finally made active after I submitted my request in Dec, 2019. Now I’m up to three Mastodon addresses. I wonder if I could drop my account at techhub.social and switch to the official Mastodon instance? And how should I do that, actually?🤔

    What would you do?

  • I hate .webm files. There, I said it. Why? I don’t know.

  • My morning so far. Just finished and shared my thoughts on iA Presenter. Got myself ready to watch the WWDC 23 keynote using this handy shortcut. I tried to set up a mail address for numericcitizen.me (something like hello@numericcitizen.me) using iCloud+ Mail custom domain feature. Sadly, I won’t be able to do so as my numericcitizen.me root domain needs to be aliasing Ghost hosting website for my blog to work. This is conflicting with iCloud+ Mail custom domain requirements. Oh well, nobody use emails these days, right, right? Any suggestion on this if you are reading this? Finally, updated my Ubiquity DreamMachine to the latest release of UniFi OS.

  • Getting ready for WWDC keynote. This WWDC23 button on my Stream Deck mini triggers a screenshot of my Mac screen using Cleanshot X. Each file will be saved automatically and later processed by Hazel rules and moved to my Synology Photos library for future reference and use. 😎

  • Why my (numericcitizen.me) website is getting a lot more traffic in the last two days from … Facebook is a mystery for me 🤔

  • On Reddit API Access Pricing

    So, apparently, just like Twitter, Reddit is entering into a “kill-third-party-apps” by charging an enormous amount of money to use their APIs. It looks like it. Apollo isn’t happy, and for good reasons. Unless there was a calculation error from the makers of Apollo, it just makes no sense for them to continue. Maybe Reddit made some calculation errors, too. Perhaps they fail to read the room’s temperature. But maybe they are entitled, to some degree, I guess, to charge for their APIs, right? Continue reading →

  • I’m thinking: The Mac Pro is expected to feature the same design as its predecessor and the M2 Ultra chip. I have doubts on this. The design was highly influenced by the need of air flow that was driven in part by Intel processors, a power hungry monster. With Apple Silicon, I would expect Apple to tweak the design to reflect the lower power consumption and heat dissipation by the chip.

  • How many tech sites like MacRumors will switch to Mastondon to live-toot their comments during WWDC keynote ? Not MacRumors apparently has they still advertise their live tweets for the event. 🤔

  • I’ve been looking from a distance at the launch of Mimestream, and reactions are pretty enthusiastic. As a subscriber to HEY email, do you think/know if we could replicate the “Imbox / Feed / Paper Trail” model with a Gmail account + Mimestream? The other big issue with Mimestream: no iPhone or iPad client. 😔

    I like HEY’s service principles, but their mail client is a bit goofy. I’m due for renewal on July 9th.

  • I’m not into Mastodon besides cross-posting to it and sometimes interacting with a few people. But when I do so, I want to use a great app. Ivory seems the best. I’m still unsure if I should go ahead with the subscription.

    Tried Mona and Icecube, too. Ivory feels better in most accounts.

  • I finally checked off enough of my tasks on my to do list to make room for the WWDC conference! On that day, I’m calling off for the afternoon to watch the keynote! 🤣

  • Mentally, my creative hobbies take as much energy as my daytime work. I find it surprising how easily I can go from one world to another and back so easily.