[ { "id": 0, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Grammarly’s ‘Expert Review’ Feature Presents Fake Advice in the Names of Real Journalists and Authors — Pixel Envy\nGrammarly\u0026rsquo;s \u0026ldquo;expert review\u0026rdquo; feature uses AI-generated text attributed to real people and deceased figures without their consent or knowledge, merely slapping their names on insights they never created.\nCan we say \u0026ldquo;Corporate slop\u0026rdquo;? I think we can.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-11 07:52:11 -0400", "date": "7:52 p.m. on Mar 11, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/11/grammarlys-expert-review-feature-presents.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F11%2Fgrammarlys-expert-review-feature-presents.html" }, { "id": 1, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The Essence of a Machine — On my Om\nThe MacBook Neo is a laptop. A complete, beautiful, sufficient laptop. It costs $599, but the real disruption is not the price. It is the reminder that “enough” is not a failure of ambition. It is often the highest form of design.\nI love this.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-11 07:48:46 -0400", "date": "7:48 p.m. on Mar 11, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/11/the-essence-of-a-machine.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F11%2Fthe-essence-of-a-machine.html" }, { "id": 2, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@jarrod That’s really impressive for such a mighty little laptop!\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-11 07:36:13 -0400", "date": "7:36 p.m. on Mar 11, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/03/11/85966711.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/85966711" }, { "id": 3, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Gruber\u0026rsquo;s review of ★ The MacBook Neo:\nI’ll just say it: I think I’m done with iPads. Why bother when Apple is now making a crackerjack Mac laptop that starts at just $600? May the MacBook Neo live so long that its name becomes inapt.\n😳\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-10 21:12:33 -0400", "date": "9:12 p.m. on Mar 10, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/10/grubers-review-of-the-macbook.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F10%2Fgrubers-review-of-the-macbook.html" }, { "id": 4, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "MacBook Neo reviews are very positive. A few reviewers compare the Neo to \u0026ldquo;comparable\u0026rdquo; Windows laptops, all of them with 16GB of RAM. At the end of the day, it doesn\u0026rsquo;t help the Windows story much. Reviewers fail to mention the Windows reality: the need to include security software that will eat up precious CPU cycles in order to keep Windows secure. That\u0026rsquo;s the reality. Anyway, Apple\u0026rsquo;s offering is honest and very valuable for a lot of people. I don\u0026rsquo;t remember the last time a new Apple product generated that level of positive buzz. Bravo.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-10 19:38:07 -0400", "date": "7:38 p.m. on Mar 10, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/10/macbook-neo-reviews-are-very.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F10%2Fmacbook-neo-reviews-are-very.html" }, { "id": 5, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple’s new MacBooks have keyboard change you might notice instantly — 9to5Mac\nApple\u0026rsquo;s new M5 MacBooks drop text labels on several common keys, including tab, caps lock, and more, replacing them with glyphs that have long been the standard outside the United States.\nWelcome to 2026.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-10 13:29:35 -0400", "date": "1:29 p.m. on Mar 10, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/10/apples-new-macbooks-have-keyboard.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F10%2Fapples-new-macbooks-have-keyboard.html" }, { "id": 6, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Been experiencing this since 26.0. Anyone at Apple using the App Library? 🙄🤷🏻‍♂️😩\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-10 09:10:34 -0400", "date": "9:10 p.m. on Mar 10, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/10/been-experiencing-this-since-anyone.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F10%2Fbeen-experiencing-this-since-anyone.html" }, { "id": 7, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@pip love that one!\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-10 08:41:41 -0400", "date": "8:41 p.m. on Mar 10, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/03/10/85897437.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/85897437" }, { "id": 8, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@dfgomes oh, thanks !\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-10 06:49:05 -0400", "date": "6:49 p.m. on Mar 10, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/03/10/85892556.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/85892556" }, { "id": 9, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@jarrod oh the good idea!!!!! cc @manton\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-10 06:48:41 -0400", "date": "6:48 p.m. on Mar 10, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/03/10/85892518.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/85892518" }, { "id": 10, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@manton 😮\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-09 22:43:50 -0400", "date": "10:43 p.m. on Mar 9, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/03/09/85875091.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/85875091" }, { "id": 11, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Anybox date importation is nearly ready, complete with support for tags! I think the weekend I spent building the specs instead of rushing to start coding is paying off. Even using Claude AI for coding an app, some development rules stay the same: think before you code. Or something along this line. ", "dateiso": "2026-03-09 20:13:21 -0400", "date": "8:13 p.m. on Mar 9, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/09/anybox-date-importation-is-nearly.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F09%2Fanybox-date-importation-is-nearly.html" }, { "id": 12, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I didn\u0026rsquo;t expect Inkwell to come with an API\u0026hellip; I\u0026rsquo;m very curious about that because it could mean that I could replace the data persistence layer of my personal RSS web app with Inkwell\u0026rsquo;s. Something to think about. 🤔👨🏻‍💻\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-09 17:24:27 -0400", "date": "5:24 p.m. on Mar 9, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/09/i-didnt-expect-inkwell-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F09%2Fi-didnt-expect-inkwell-to.html" }, { "id": 13, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My use case for Inkwell, for now, is to consume content from my blogroll feeds. I asked for a sync option with Inoreader, my beloved RSS sync service, but I don\u0026rsquo;t want to break the calmness of using Inkwell. 🙏🏻\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-09 17:22:35 -0400", "date": "5:22 p.m. on Mar 9, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/09/my-use-case-for-inkwell.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F09%2Fmy-use-case-for-inkwell.html" }, { "id": 14, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@mroutley thanks!\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-09 17:18:05 -0400", "date": "5:18 p.m. on Mar 9, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/03/09/85858552.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/85858552" }, { "id": 15, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I need to start organizing a reunion for the university alumni (class of 1990), and the first challenge that arises is: how can we communicate with each other if I don\u0026rsquo;t want to use a Meta service (WhatsApp, Messenger) and I want to reach as many people as possible without everyone having to become \u0026lsquo;friends\u0026rsquo; on Facebook? ☹️\nForty years ago, before the Internet, we used the phone to talk to each other, a service often owned by a single nationwide company. We were okay with that, even if, in some jurisdictions, people talked about a monopoly. Now, it\u0026rsquo;s very different. What makes this less acceptable to me today? 🤔\nFor now, we will use Messenger because some people don\u0026rsquo;t have iPhones and can\u0026rsquo;t use FaceTime. 🙄\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-09 16:54:15 -0400", "date": "4:54 p.m. on Mar 9, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/09/i-need-to-start-organizing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F09%2Fi-need-to-start-organizing.html" }, { "id": 16, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@bradenslen thanks!\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-09 16:35:20 -0400", "date": "4:35 p.m. on Mar 9, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/03/09/85855141.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/85855141" }, { "id": 17, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Introducing Inkwell: manton.org\nManton Reece https://www.manton.org/2026/03/09/introducing-inkwell.html I was (and still am) so excited about Inkwell that I created a video tour. Very personal. I originally thought the name would be Micro.ink, but the real name is Inkwell, while the URL is micro.ink. I wasn\u0026rsquo;t sure when I recorded the video yesterday. Now I know. Thanks to @manton for this!\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-09 15:52:23 -0400", "date": "3:52 p.m. on Mar 9, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/09/introducing-inkwell-mantonorg-manton-reece.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F09%2Fintroducing-inkwell-mantonorg-manton-reece.html" }, { "id": 18, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@manton and cue the video: youtu.be/55AISa-jM…\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-09 15:46:09 -0400", "date": "3:46 p.m. on Mar 9, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/03/09/85852124.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/85852124" }, { "id": 19, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The New Apple Finally Begins to Emerge:\nThe MacBook Neo is a new kind of product for Apple, unveiled in a new way, with new materials, by an array of fresher faces. These new products being unveiled at the same time the faces of the company are beginning to change feels like a turning point. You could argue Neo is one of, if not the first product of this new Apple\nI, too, do see a different Apple vibe with the launch of the MacBook Neo. Just using a different name instead of iBook (which they could have done) is sign sign that they are willing to try different things.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-09 12:27:45 -0400", "date": "12:27 p.m. on Mar 9, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/09/the-new-apple-finally-begins.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F09%2Fthe-new-apple-finally-begins.html" }, { "id": 20, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I completely put aside OpenClaw experimentation since its creator went to OpenAI. It’s not about OpenAI owning the thing, which seems it’s not the case, I simply decided to let the thing mature while I’m finishing my other projects which consume a lot of AI credits anyway. I’ll get back to it eventually.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-09 12:15:27 -0400", "date": "12:15 p.m. on Mar 9, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/09/i-completely-put-aside-openclaw.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F09%2Fi-completely-put-aside-openclaw.html" }, { "id": 21, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "FBI is investigating breach that may have hit its wiretapping tools — The Register\nThe FBI identified and addressed suspicious activities on FBI networks related to wiretapping and surveillance systems, marking a significant breach of law enforcement infrastructure.\nThe same FBI that demanded Apple build a backdoor for them in 2016?\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-08 21:17:47 -0400", "date": "9:17 p.m. on Mar 8, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/08/fbi-is-investigating-breach-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F08%2Ffbi-is-investigating-breach-that.html" }, { "id": 22, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple Planning \u0026lsquo;MacBook Ultra\u0026rsquo; With Touchscreen and Higher Price:\nInstead of succeeding the newly announced M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pros, the \u0026ldquo;MacBook Ultra\u0026rdquo; will be a new, top-tier Apple laptop. Gurman added that the device is likely to sit above the current M5 MacBook Pros, rather than replace them, suggesting that they will remain on sale.\nWell, how many laptops can Apple have in their product line?\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-08 16:12:17 -0400", "date": "4:12 p.m. on Mar 8, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/08/apple-planning-macbook-ultra-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F08%2Fapple-planning-macbook-ultra-with.html" }, { "id": 23, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@profduweb.com pas certain que les logiciels de MSFT soient la meilleure référence toutefois! ☝🏻\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-08 15:32:09 -0400", "date": "3:32 p.m. on Mar 8, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/03/08/85782039.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/85782039" }, { "id": 24, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@profduweb.com c’est suffisant pour ma blonde!\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-08 15:30:07 -0400", "date": "3:30 p.m. on Mar 8, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/03/08/85781894.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/85781894" }, { "id": 25, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@manton can’t wait to test this. Video coming out tomorrow btw!\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-08 15:29:21 -0400", "date": "3:29 p.m. on Mar 8, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/03/08/85781854.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/85781854" }, { "id": 26, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Lil Finder Guy — Basic Apple Guy\nWho is it? What is it? Is it friend or foe? Has it arrived in peace, or is it plotting to corrupt our SSDs and fray our USB-C cables?\nI hope Apple keep the little guy for a while. It’s so cute and fun.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-08 15:25:10 -0400", "date": "3:25 p.m. on Mar 8, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/08/lil-finder-guy-basic-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F08%2Flil-finder-guy-basic-apple.html" }, { "id": 27, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The New Apple Finally Begins to Emerge — Parker Ortolani\nMolly Anderson\u0026rsquo;s already proven herself to be an incredibly talented industrial designer, and if the latest iPhones and the MacBook Neo are the first real fruits of her leadership, that bodes incredibly well for the future.\nNew product design at Apple takes a long time. How much of influence those two new figures had on the MacBook Neo?\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-07 18:25:47 -0400", "date": "6:25 p.m. on Mar 7, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/07/the-new-apple-finally-begins.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F07%2Fthe-new-apple-finally-begins.html" }, { "id": 28, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s a good start. Looks quite different than my other web app. Still a lot to implement. ", "dateiso": "2026-03-07 18:04:50 -0400", "date": "6:04 p.m. on Mar 7, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/07/its-a-good-start-looks.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F07%2Fits-a-good-start-looks.html" }, { "id": 29, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Working on my future bookmarks manager webapp. I\u0026rsquo;m still refining the specs document. I decided to add the possibility to save text quotes in addition to bookmarks. Quotes might be linked to a bookmark. My specs document is quite long and detailed. I wonder how good Claude Code will be to digest all this from the start.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-07 12:00:19 -0400", "date": "12:00 p.m. on Mar 7, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/07/working-on-my-future-bookmarks.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F07%2Fworking-on-my-future-bookmarks.html" }, { "id": 30, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Neon Signs — Take\nLet\u0026rsquo;s leave the software malaise aside for a moment, hard as that might be; the Neo is a scrappy assemblage of parts, that is trying to find a new route to what Apple considers acceptable, and that is a sign of health.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-07 08:37:11 -0400", "date": "8:37 p.m. on Mar 7, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/07/neon-signs-take-lets-leave.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F07%2Fneon-signs-take-lets-leave.html" }, { "id": 31, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "‘The Window Chrome of Our Discontent’:\nThis entire idea that application window chrome should disappear is madness. Some people — at Apple, quite obviously — think it looks better, in the abstract, but I can’t see how it makes actually using these apps more productive. Artists don’t want to use invisible tools.\nWell, if window chrome is absent, what\u0026rsquo;s left for Apple to differentiate itself from others than UI elements inside a window? Buttons!\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-06 16:29:22 -0500", "date": "4:29 p.m. on Mar 6, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/06/the-window-chrome-of-our.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F06%2Fthe-window-chrome-of-our.html" }, { "id": 32, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A UI should step back and let user content come forward. But Apple often treats the UI itself as a key part of its identity and differentiation. That creates a tension: the more the UI disappears, the harder it becomes for Apple to stand apart from Microsoft or Google.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-06 15:35:27 -0500", "date": "3:35 p.m. on Mar 6, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/06/a-ui-should-step-back.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F06%2Fa-ui-should-step-back.html" }, { "id": 33, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@heyloura certainly, we’re about to see a major shift in how devs work and what we expect from them.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-06 16:12:36 -0400", "date": "4:12 p.m. on Mar 6, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/03/06/85657943.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/85657943" }, { "id": 34, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m really tempted by the MacBook Neo, but really, it makes no sense as an owner of an M4 iPad Pro with a Magic Keyboard: it\u0026rsquo;s a powerhouse in a compact design. The only problem: iPadOS. It\u0026rsquo;s THE biggest issue in this story.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-06 13:07:13 -0500", "date": "1:07 p.m. on Mar 6, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/06/im-really-tempted-by-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F06%2Fim-really-tempted-by-the.html" }, { "id": 35, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@heyloura I would ask the director what he thinks AI will bring to you that you don’t have… he might not be able to answer the question…\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-05 13:37:34 -0400", "date": "1:37 p.m. on Mar 5, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/03/05/85574670.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/85574670" }, { "id": 36, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@numericcitizen.me 🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-05 09:28:34 -0400", "date": "9:28 p.m. on Mar 5, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/03/05/85574498.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/85574498" }, { "id": 37, "type": "post", "title": "Good Job Apple, Now Back to Software?", "text": "Ok, Apple did a great job this week. A lot has already been said about Apple\u0026rsquo;s announcements. The MacBook Neo is a killer, even as an entry device. My wife is getting one. It\u0026rsquo;s the original Mac mini in a laptop shape. Apple did a great balancing act with the Neo. The only two quibbles: only 8 GB of RAM (I wanted 12 GB) and the lack of a MagSafe port.\nNow, I hope Apple can do as good a job on the software as it did on the hardware. There is so much to fix.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-04 21:56:50 -0500", "date": "9:56 p.m. on Mar 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/04/good-job-apple-now-back.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F04%2Fgood-job-apple-now-back.html" }, { "id": 38, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One vendor doesn\u0026rsquo;t mind high RAM prices: VMware — The Register\nThe high price of memory and solid-state storage has almost everyone worried – but not VMware, because the most innovative new feature in the Cloud Foundation 9 (VCF 9) private cloud suite it launched last year is memory tiering tech that allows offload of data from RAM to NVMe drives.\nVMware has always promoted VCF 9 memory tiering as offering the chance to reduce infrastructure costs by reducing the amount of RAM needed in new servers, and by creating the opportunity to upgrade the NVMe drives in old boxes and effectively increase their memory capacity.\nWell, yeah, memory tiering certainly helps reduce the cost of servers, but even NVMe drives, which are built on electronic chips too, are impacted by price increases. And, servers must be compatible with this feature. No magic bullet here.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-04 07:44:35 -0500", "date": "7:44 p.m. on Mar 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/04/one-vendor-doesnt-mind-high.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F04%2Fone-vendor-doesnt-mind-high.html" }, { "id": 39, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "People\u0026rsquo;s reactions to Apple hardware announcements so far have been quite positive, if not enthusiastic, much more so than any software announcements in recent years. The difference is stark.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-04 07:29:55 -0500", "date": "7:29 p.m. on Mar 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/04/peoples-reactions-to-apple-hardware.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F04%2Fpeoples-reactions-to-apple-hardware.html" }, { "id": 40, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple Does Fusion.:\nTo understand what Apple launched today, we have to go back just over five years, when Apple launched the M1 in November 2020. I wrote then:\n“This approach to integration into a single chip, maximum throughput, rapid access to memory, optimal computing performance based on the task, and adaptation to machine learning algorithms is the future — not only for mobile chips, but also for desktop and laptop computers.”\nThat turned out to be right.\nWhat Apple achieved with their new M5 Pro and M5 Max is quite impressive. Even more impressive is that the architectural decisions made back in 2020 (or earlier) are still paying off today. If only Apple had the wisdom to make similar smart decisions with Siri architecture. Apple seems stuck on redoing its homework forever with software.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-04 07:21:03 -0500", "date": "7:21 p.m. on Mar 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/04/apple-does-fusion-to-understand.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F04%2Fapple-does-fusion-to-understand.html" }, { "id": 41, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@stroughtonsmith Bryce!!!\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-03 18:38:41 -0400", "date": "6:38 p.m. on Mar 3, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/03/03/85445800.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/85445800" }, { "id": 42, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "iBook \u0026gt; MacBook Neo ? 🧐\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-03 17:38:11 -0500", "date": "5:38 p.m. on Mar 3, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/03/ibook-macbook-neo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F03%2Fibook-macbook-neo.html" }, { "id": 43, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@stroughtonsmith If Apple ever decide to call the new MacBook the iBook, now that’s courage!\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-03 07:43:21 -0400", "date": "7:43 p.m. on Mar 3, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/03/03/85403703.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/85403703" }, { "id": 44, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple Does Value (Week) — On my Om\nApple has decided that $599 is the new floor for a \u0026ldquo;real\u0026rdquo; Apple device—not a hand-me-down, not last year\u0026rsquo;s leftovers, but a current-generation product with current-generation silicon.\nIf Om Malik is right, this would put the new entry-level MacBook price at 599 US$. The question now becomes: what do you get for that amount of money beyond the A18 Pro chip?\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-03 06:31:26 -0500", "date": "6:31 p.m. on Mar 3, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/03/apple-does-value-week-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F03%2Fapple-does-value-week-on.html" }, { "id": 45, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@timo these are servers…\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-02 22:13:29 -0500", "date": "10:13 p.m. on Mar 2, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/03/02/85384126.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/85384126" }, { "id": 46, "type": "post", "title": "Dim that background for me, will ya?", "text": "★ HazeOver — Mac Utility for Highlighting the Frontmost Window:\nWhat HazeOver does is highlight the active window by dimming all background windows. That’s it. But it does this simple task with aplomb, and it makes a significant difference in the day-to-day usability of MacOS. Not just MacOS 26 Tahoe — all recent versions of MacOS suffer from a design that makes it difficult to distinguish, instantly, the frontmost (a.k.a. key) window from background windows.1 Making all background windows a little dimmer makes a notable difference.\nFor some reason, I forgot about this Mac utility. It was installed on my Mac mini, but disabled. It\u0026rsquo;s now installed and enabled on my MacBook Air with a 40% dimming value. Makes a big difference.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-02 21:32:50 -0500", "date": "9:32 p.m. on Mar 2, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/02/dim-that-background-for-me.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F02%2Fdim-that-background-for-me.html" }, { "id": 47, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple is still proud of Liquid Glass. Found on the iPhone 17e mini website. 😵‍💫\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-02 17:53:46 -0500", "date": "5:53 p.m. on Mar 2, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/02/apple-is-still-proud-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F02%2Fapple-is-still-proud-of.html" }, { "id": 48, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@dave I wrote an article this weekend about that migration… updated to add more info from the TechCrunch article.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-02 17:13:03 -0500", "date": "5:13 p.m. on Mar 2, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/03/02/85367914.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/85367914" }, { "id": 49, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Prices of the new iPad Air and iPhone 17e seems in line with previous generation products they replace and not affected by the current tech environment where prices are going up drastically… it looks rather well too for the upcoming entry-level MacBook pricing.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-02 12:56:32 -0500", "date": "12:56 p.m. on Mar 2, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/02/prices-of-the-new-ipad.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F02%2Fprices-of-the-new-ipad.html" }, { "id": 50, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@JohnPhilpin in the invite email and accessible in the Account page once signed in.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-02 12:21:47 -0500", "date": "12:21 p.m. on Mar 2, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/03/02/85348318.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/85348318" }, { "id": 51, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "During any tech transition, the people who retain old-school knowledge while the new-school is developing are particularly valuable. Nobody needs to know punch cards anymore, but I’m sure that while punch cards were being phased out, extensive knowledge about them was incredibly useful.\nDaniel Jalkut https://danielpunkass.micro.blog/2026/03/02/during-any-tech-transition-the.html The same is true about cloud migration. Those who did traditional data centers and started to get interested and involved in cloud migration were (and still are) very in demand.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-02 10:21:45 -0500", "date": "10:21 p.m. on Mar 2, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/02/during-any-tech-transition-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F02%2Fduring-any-tech-transition-the.html" }, { "id": 52, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Of course, I had to create my own\u0026hellip; miniroll\u0026hellip; nice mini webapp\u0026hellip; still wondering if I\u0026rsquo;m going to support Chris. Probably.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-02 07:56:06 -0500", "date": "7:56 p.m. on Mar 2, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/02/of-course-i-had-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F02%2Fof-course-i-had-to.html" }, { "id": 53, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Welcome (back) to Macintosh, by Jesper @ Take\n\u0026ldquo;My hope is that, just as Apple crawled out of a hardware nightmare pockmarked by thermal throttling, keyboards incapacitated by strands of human hair and lack of respect for its users needs, it can choose to refocus its software and its humility too, and stop doing this to the bicycle for the mind.\u0026rdquo;\nI think we will have to wait, the upcoming week\u0026rsquo;s releases are about Apple hardware\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-01 20:02:54 -0500", "date": "8:02 p.m. on Mar 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/01/welcome-back-to-macintosh-by.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F01%2Fwelcome-back-to-macintosh-by.html" }, { "id": 54, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@JohnPhilpin you should sign with the same email address used to signin to Micro.blog.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-01 19:51:06 -0500", "date": "7:51 p.m. on Mar 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/03/01/85306383.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/85306383" }, { "id": 55, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@CodeMacLife still too early to tell… so far so good. I’m using Claude AI through Craft Assistant for now…\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-01 19:50:18 -0500", "date": "7:50 p.m. on Mar 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/03/01/85306356.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/85306356" }, { "id": 56, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Claude hits #1 on the App Store as users rally behind Anthropic’s government standoff — 9to5Mac\nWhile the long-term consequences of this disagreement are unclear, Anthropic appears to be winning in mindshare, at least for now, in terms of app downloads among iPhone users.\nIf Anthropic was a publicly traded company ten times their current valuation, would they still stand out against the US government? Asking for a fictional friend at Apple.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-01 13:15:41 -0500", "date": "1:15 p.m. on Mar 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/01/claude-hits-on-the-app.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F01%2Fclaude-hits-on-the-app.html" }, { "id": 57, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple Reportedly Expects \u0026lsquo;Major Rush\u0026rsquo; of Customers This Week:\nThe new product likely to receive the most interest is the rumored lower-cost MacBook, which is described as an \u0026ldquo;incredible value\u0026rdquo; within Apple, according to the newsletter. Apple believes that a more affordable MacBook will help to \u0026ldquo;drive a serious number of switchers from Windows machines and Chromebooks,\u0026rdquo; wrote Gurman.\nSomehow, I think that if the price is really competitive, Apple\u0026rsquo;s bet is that services will subsidize this entry-level MacBook price.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-01 11:51:07 -0500", "date": "11:51 p.m. on Mar 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/01/apple-reportedly-expects-major-rush.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F01%2Fapple-reportedly-expects-major-rush.html" }, { "id": 58, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple believes low-cost MacBook will be an ‘incredible value,’ tempting switchers: report — 9to5Mac\nInternally, the low-end MacBook is being described as an “incredible value,” with Apple believing the launch is going to drive a serious number of switchers from Windows machines and Chromebooks. It could even compel iPhone users without computers to buy their first Mac.\nI\u0026rsquo;m trying to convince my wife to buy one as she finds the iPad to be lacking for certain tasks. I suggested that we buy one of those new entry-level MacBook to try it out without much obligation as we can return the thing in less than 14 days.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-01 11:18:46 -0500", "date": "11:18 p.m. on Mar 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/01/apple-believes-lowcost-macbook-will.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F01%2Fapple-believes-lowcost-macbook-will.html" }, { "id": 59, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Done. I exported my ChatGPT memory to Claude. I\u0026rsquo;m curious to see how Claude\u0026rsquo;s answers to my prompts will change from now on. Starting March 12th, I\u0026rsquo;ll be on Anthropic / Claude AI only.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-01 10:13:06 -0500", "date": "10:13 p.m. on Mar 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/01/done-i-exported-my-chatgpt.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F01%2Fdone-i-exported-my-chatgpt.html" }, { "id": 60, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently assessing the impacts of unsubscribing from ChatGPT. Image creation is the most obvious impact, but I rarely use it. I could switch to MidJourney for a third of the monthly price. API consumption is another factor, but none of my four API keys have been used in the last 30 days. According to Claude AI\u0026rsquo;s examination of my current n8n workflows, three are configured with an OpenAI API key. Investigating further.\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-01 09:53:37 -0500", "date": "9:53 p.m. on Mar 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/01/currently-assessing-the-impacts-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F01%2Fcurrently-assessing-the-impacts-of.html" }, { "id": 61, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@flakphoto.bsky.social I love this… painting… sorry, this photo!\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-01 09:33:25 -0500", "date": "9:33 p.m. on Mar 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/03/01/85275932.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/85275932" }, { "id": 62, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Since when is this a thing: Switch to Claude? I mean, I wrote \u0026ldquo;A Case for ChatGPT Takeout\u0026rdquo; not long ago!\nMoving out of ChatGPT / OpenAI is now a movement, right?\n", "dateiso": "2026-03-01 09:22:04 -0500", "date": "9:22 p.m. on Mar 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/01/since-when-is-this-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F03%2F01%2Fsince-when-is-this-a.html" }, { "id": 63, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@AlexKucera the Livedemo link doesn’t work, BTW.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-28 17:26:08 -0500", "date": "5:26 p.m. on Feb 28, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/28/85241950.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/85241950" }, { "id": 64, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "You might have noticed more linkposts than usual here today. The reason is that I\u0026rsquo;m testing this new RSS thing in Micro.blog\u0026hellip; or part of Micro.blog future offering. It\u0026rsquo;s pretty solid.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-28 16:05:46 -0500", "date": "4:05 p.m. on Feb 28, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/28/you-might-have-noticed-more.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F28%2Fyou-might-have-noticed-more.html" }, { "id": 65, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Flickr’s URL Scheme:\nFlickr deserves a lot of praise for a number of technical advances that I wish had seen wider adoption. Their API was one of the first and honestly still one of the most enjoyable to actually use as a developer. It’s still full of incredibly interesting API calls that you wouldn’t expect from it unless you read carefully. Did you know, for example, that flickr API will provide you with the bounding box co-ordinates of different types of places? From a neighbourhood all the way up to a continent?\nMaybe one day, Glass will add these, too?\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-28 16:02:48 -0500", "date": "4:02 p.m. on Feb 28, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/28/flickrs-url-scheme-flickr-deserves.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F28%2Fflickrs-url-scheme-flickr-deserves.html" }, { "id": 66, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Why Objective-C:\nAnyone new to Objective-C thinks it’s difficult and maybe a bit harsh because [[those squareBrackets] lookInsane:YES].\nOnce you get past that, which takes a day or two given a good-faith effort, you’ll realize how small a language it is, how easy to hold in your palm and turn around and understand all sides of it. And you’ll appreciate how easy it is to make good decisions when you don’t have a surplus of language features to choose from.\nI had many great moments writing in Objective-C (2009-2013) while experimenting with iPhone app development. As someone who learned a bit of C++ in university computer science courses, I thought Objective-C was indeed more approachable. When I peek at Swift code these days, my thinking goes like this: \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m too old for this shit!\u0026rdquo;\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-28 09:44:47 -0500", "date": "9:44 p.m. on Feb 28, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/28/why-objectivec-anyone-new-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F28%2Fwhy-objectivec-anyone-new-to.html" }, { "id": 67, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@stroughtonsmith I’m happy to see others starting to kick Apple’s butt in this area.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-28 09:37:04 -0500", "date": "9:37 p.m. on Feb 28, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/28/85216489.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/85216489" }, { "id": 68, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dominik Schwind:\nIf you don\u0026rsquo;t have one yet, go start a personal website! Don\u0026rsquo;t take it too seriously, try things and it can be a nice, meditative hobby and helps against the urge to doomscroll. Also you might never know, your kind of people might find it and connect with you.\nI give this advice from time to time, and generally people\u0026rsquo;s reactions are: 🤨🤔🤷🏻‍♂️.\nEveryone will respond: \u0026ldquo;but how do you get discovered so people can read and like your posts?\u0026rdquo;. To which my reaction is: 🤦🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-28 09:29:47 -0500", "date": "9:29 p.m. on Feb 28, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/28/dominik-schwind-if-you-dont.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F28%2Fdominik-schwind-if-you-dont.html" }, { "id": 69, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@AlexKucera thanks! So I’m more into programming with AI. I’m currently working on my next web app: a bookmark manager so I can get rid of AnyBox, my current bookmark manager.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-28 09:23:58 -0500", "date": "9:23 p.m. on Feb 28, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/28/85215990.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/85215990" }, { "id": 70, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@matt_birchler Apple’s Passwords / Keychain.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-28 09:18:30 -0500", "date": "9:18 p.m. on Feb 28, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/28/85215694.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/85215694" }, { "id": 71, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How I Write Code With AI:\nI use AI coding assistants extensively, but I don\u0026rsquo;t vibe code\nI do too, but I\u0026rsquo;m not sure to understand the difference.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-28 09:13:14 -0500", "date": "9:13 p.m. on Feb 28, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/28/how-i-write-code-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F28%2Fhow-i-write-code-with.html" }, { "id": 72, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s sad to see the US act of war against Iran, a sovereign country, with the help of their \u0026ldquo;friends\u0026rdquo; from Israel. The cherry on the sundae: Russia condemning US aggression. Look who is talking\u0026hellip; 😤 What a world we are living right now\u0026hellip; nothing new but\u0026hellip; still.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-28 08:42:33 -0500", "date": "8:42 p.m. on Feb 28, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/28/its-sad-to-see-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F28%2Fits-sad-to-see-the.html" }, { "id": 73, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@matt_birchler migrated off 1Password last year. Couldn’t be happier.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-27 18:49:52 -0500", "date": "6:49 p.m. on Feb 27, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/27/85180042.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/85180042" }, { "id": 74, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I would love to build the dream bookmark manager for myself, just like I built an RSS reader and a photo-sharing website. I love AnyBox, but it\u0026rsquo;s not integrated with the rest of my workflow and doesn\u0026rsquo;t have a web version. This bookmark manager could be integrated into my RSS reader and gather data from Micro.blog Bookmarks, too. Still a lot to think about.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-27 13:33:45 -0500", "date": "1:33 p.m. on Feb 27, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/27/i-would-love-to-build.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F27%2Fi-would-love-to-build.html" }, { "id": 75, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "While waiting for Micro.blog next chapter, I\u0026rsquo;m playing with RSS feeds display strategies. This view is called \u0026ldquo;Journal\u0026rdquo;. Built using Claude Code and hosted on Vercel. ", "dateiso": "2026-02-27 11:28:42 -0500", "date": "11:28 p.m. on Feb 27, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/27/while-waiting-for-microblog-next.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F27%2Fwhile-waiting-for-microblog-next.html" }, { "id": 76, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@manton 💪🏻\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-27 11:23:08 -0500", "date": "11:23 p.m. on Feb 27, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/27/85154480.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/85154480" }, { "id": 77, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Building a custom branded Ghost theme for my main website with the help of Claude Code seems like an achievable goal, right?\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-27 08:18:37 -0500", "date": "8:18 p.m. on Feb 27, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/27/building-a-custom-branded-ghost.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F27%2Fbuilding-a-custom-branded-ghost.html" }, { "id": 78, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What is happening in Singapore? I get major spikes in visitors from this country from time to time. Both Plausible and Tinylytics are reporting the same behaviour. 🤔 ", "dateiso": "2026-02-27 07:28:05 -0500", "date": "7:28 p.m. on Feb 27, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/27/what-is-happening-in-singapore.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F27%2Fwhat-is-happening-in-singapore.html" }, { "id": 79, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Fastmail is preparing to launch an updated photo gallery functionality in approximately two weeks. I wasn\u0026rsquo;t certain they would keep updating this feature, so I\u0026rsquo;m glad it’s still available and that it keeps improving. I have a few test images there, but with my own web app for sharing photos now, I\u0026rsquo;m unsure whether I would switch to Fastmail\u0026rsquo;s version, since my version and Fastmail\u0026rsquo;s are quite similar.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-27 07:04:08 -0500", "date": "7:04 p.m. on Feb 27, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/27/fastmail-is-preparing-to-launch.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F27%2Ffastmail-is-preparing-to-launch.html" }, { "id": 80, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Three ways new Apple products next week will modernize iPhone, iPad, and Mac — 9to5Mac\nThat would mean that every new iPhone, iPad, and Mac supports Apple Intelligence for the first time — oh, and Apple Vision Pro, too.\nInstead of downplaying Apple Intelligence, Apple is doubling down on it. They must be confident, even after such a false start in 2024.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-26 21:23:09 -0500", "date": "9:23 p.m. on Feb 26, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/26/three-ways-new-apple-products.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F26%2Fthree-ways-new-apple-products.html" }, { "id": 81, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s progressing well\u0026hellip; 📺 👀\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-26 21:13:14 -0500", "date": "9:13 p.m. on Feb 26, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/26/its-progressing-well.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F26%2Fits-progressing-well.html" }, { "id": 82, "type": "post", "title": "Micro.blog + RSS = ?", "text": "Micro.blog is set to launch soon what could be its most exciting new feature yet: an integrated RSS reader. If I\u0026rsquo;m not mistaken, this could significantly change how I use the service. I currently follow many Mastodon accounts from news sites, so their updates are pushed to my timeline. With a possible RSS integration, I could use the RSS feeds directly, eliminating the need to follow the Mastodon account. I don\u0026rsquo;t know how the new feature will integrate with the rest of Micro.blog features, but I\u0026rsquo;ll find out very soon. I can\u0026rsquo;t wait. Why? Because I\u0026rsquo;m a fan of Micro.blog and of RSS.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-26 19:14:43 -0500", "date": "7:14 p.m. on Feb 26, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/26/microblog-rss.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F26%2Fmicroblog-rss.html" }, { "id": 83, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The speed at which Anthropic is adding new stuff to Claude and Claude Code on the desktop is impressive. Is OpenAI even competing?\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-26 18:02:06 -0500", "date": "6:02 p.m. on Feb 26, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/26/the-speed-at-which-anthropic.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F26%2Fthe-speed-at-which-anthropic.html" }, { "id": 84, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@manton let me know, you just got my email!\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-26 12:12:13 -0500", "date": "12:12 p.m. on Feb 26, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/26/85083627.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/85083627" }, { "id": 85, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@manton so excited too. I’d love to make a video about it and share with official launch.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-26 12:07:53 -0500", "date": "12:07 p.m. on Feb 26, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/26/85083407.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/85083407" }, { "id": 86, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve been working hard on a few presentations lately at work and one of the most satisfying thing is when I remove words or phrases without changing the message.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-26 08:44:41 -0500", "date": "8:44 p.m. on Feb 26, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/26/ive-been-working-hard-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F26%2Five-been-working-hard-on.html" }, { "id": 87, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Leaker Says Apple\u0026rsquo;s Lower-Cost MacBook Will Have These 8 Limitations — MacRumors\nWhile the leaked files are real, this source currently lacks an established track record, so these claims should still be treated with some skepticism.\nWell, this information pretty much aligns with the definition of an entry-level Mac.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-26 07:45:08 -0500", "date": "7:45 p.m. on Feb 26, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/26/leaker-says-apples-lowercost-macbook.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F26%2Fleaker-says-apples-lowercost-macbook.html" }, { "id": 88, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Samsung Launches Galaxy S26 Ultra With Built-In Privacy Display and New AI Features — MacRumors\nNew to the Galaxy S26 Ultra is a built-in \u0026ldquo;Privacy Display\u0026rdquo; that makes it harder to view what\u0026rsquo;s on the screen when looking at the phone from a side angle. It\u0026rsquo;s clear when looking at it head on, but someone sitting next to you will have a hard time seeing your phone\u0026rsquo;s display. Privacy Display works at the pixel level, controlling how pixels disperse light. It can be set to activate only for certain apps or situations like entering a PIN, and there are partial and maximum privacy options.\nI want Apple to copy this. So clever and quite useful for someone like me who commutes on public transport.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-25 21:51:18 -0500", "date": "9:51 p.m. on Feb 25, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/25/samsung-launches-galaxy-s-ultra.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F25%2Fsamsung-launches-galaxy-s-ultra.html" }, { "id": 89, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I like this image for a few reasons. First, it feels a bit like the early nineties, with some mid-century design elements. But this PowerBook Duo station on the integrated desk reminds me of when I was working at an Apple Dealer; I could use a PowerBook Duo in this exact configuration. It was a great and novel product at the time.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-25 07:21:39 -0500", "date": "7:21 p.m. on Feb 25, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/25/i-like-this-image-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F25%2Fi-like-this-image-for.html" }, { "id": 90, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@maique I second that.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-25 06:37:25 -0500", "date": "6:37 p.m. on Feb 25, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/25/84991247.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/84991247" }, { "id": 91, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@andyn My guess is that if they grew to Apple’s size, they would eventually come down to speed and feeds so that those who care about that also get a Nothing phone. I’m not defending Apple’s approach, I’m realistic about how market penetration works.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-25 06:36:56 -0500", "date": "6:36 p.m. on Feb 25, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/25/84991224.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/84991224" }, { "id": 92, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@manton Oh, thanks, I was heading to the Account section. So now we can do narrated blog posts in real-time, kind of.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-24 21:18:20 -0500", "date": "9:18 p.m. on Feb 24, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/24/84968487.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/84968487" }, { "id": 93, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The recent rumors about Apple incorporating touch support into macOS for the M6 MacBook Pro, expected around fall 2026, seem a bit odd. I\u0026rsquo;m somewhat skeptical about Apple\u0026rsquo;s abilities lately, particularly after the Liquid Glass reveal. Incorporating an adaptive touch mode on the Mac feels unusual to me. In recent years, Apple made so many changes to macOS to make it look more like iPadOS. I wonder why it needs to add adaptive UI on top of that. And, introducing an M6 MacBook Pro less than 12 months after introducing new M5 models also feels strange.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-24 21:13:02 -0500", "date": "9:13 p.m. on Feb 24, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/24/the-recent-rumors-about-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F24%2Fthe-recent-rumors-about-apple.html" }, { "id": 94, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@manton how do we upgrade from Premium to Studio? i couldn’t find on help forums…\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-24 20:57:52 -0500", "date": "8:57 p.m. on Feb 24, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/24/84967628.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/84967628" }, { "id": 95, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@manton Does it create a transcription, too?\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-24 20:53:51 -0500", "date": "8:53 p.m. on Feb 24, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/24/84967338.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/84967338" }, { "id": 96, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@markgurman UI “modes”? really?\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-24 17:45:40 -0500", "date": "5:45 p.m. on Feb 24, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/24/84958240.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/84958240" }, { "id": 97, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple accelerates U.S. manufacturing with Mac mini production - Apple\nWhat the Apple press release seems to depict are workers building 2U rack servers. No Mac mini in sight. 🧐🤨\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-24 09:06:05 -0500", "date": "9:06 p.m. on Feb 24, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/24/apple-accelerates-us-manufacturing-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F24%2Fapple-accelerates-us-manufacturing-with.html" }, { "id": 98, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@lmika I think the inset value might be the same but the starting point different… 🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-24 06:19:57 -0500", "date": "6:19 p.m. on Feb 24, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/24/84915848.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/84915848" }, { "id": 99, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Ouch, 2025 was a tough year for Apple. I consider writing my own opinion on this, but it seems everything has already been said. Overall, it was a difficult year for Apple on many levels. Unfortunately, this isn\u0026rsquo;t yet clear in their financial reports; if it were, the executives might see things differently.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-23 21:41:24 -0500", "date": "9:41 p.m. on Feb 23, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/23/ouch-was-a-tough-year.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F23%2Fouch-was-a-tough-year.html" }, { "id": 100, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple is shipping a UI whose core identity depends on effects that many users can’t tolerate, so Apple has to provide ‘escape hatches’—which implies the identity is optional, and therefore poorly grounded as a universal interface language. 🙄\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-23 21:21:18 -0500", "date": "9:21 p.m. on Feb 23, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/23/apple-is-shipping-a-ui.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F23%2Fapple-is-shipping-a-ui.html" }, { "id": 101, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@manton 😳🙄\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-23 11:58:35 -0500", "date": "11:58 p.m. on Feb 23, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/23/84862442.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/84862442" }, { "id": 102, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microsoft finally makes OneDrive look like a Mac app as it gets an all-new UI — 9to5Mac\nThe all-new OneDrive Activity Center embraces the Swift UI design language, including support for Liquid Glass on macOS 26 and native accessibility options like VoiceOver and Full Keyboard Access.\nCan we say: finally?\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-23 10:51:09 -0500", "date": "10:51 p.m. on Feb 23, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/23/microsoft-finally-makes-onedrive-look.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F23%2Fmicrosoft-finally-makes-onedrive-look.html" }, { "id": 103, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@gregmorris great take here! Humans can be messy and that’s fine.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-23 07:13:51 -0500", "date": "7:13 p.m. on Feb 23, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/23/84845603.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/84845603" }, { "id": 104, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I have such a hard time explaining to people around me (family, friends and colleagues) that platforms like Meta are no good and that we should avoid them. 😔\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-22 19:53:34 -0500", "date": "7:53 p.m. on Feb 22, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/22/i-have-such-a-hard.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F22%2Fi-have-such-a-hard.html" }, { "id": 105, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple is Testing These iPhone 18 Pro and Foldable iPhone Colors — MacRumors\nWhile it was previously rumored that Apple was also considering purple and brown finishes for the iPhone 18 Pro models, Gurman said he believes that those color options are \u0026ldquo;just variants of the same red idea — given that the tones are fairly similar.\u0026rdquo; In other words, it sounds like those two color options will not actually be offered.\nI\u0026rsquo;m getting more and more nervous about Apple\u0026rsquo;s plans for the iPhone 18 Pro colors\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-22 14:26:13 -0500", "date": "2:26 p.m. on Feb 22, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/22/apple-is-testing-these-iphone.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F22%2Fapple-is-testing-these-iphone.html" }, { "id": 106, "type": "post", "title": "More MacBook Expectations", "text": "Here\u0026rsquo;s what I want for the upcoming entry-level MacBook:\nSize and design: thin and less boxy than two iPad Pro on top of each other. Just under 13-inch retina display. Full-size keyboard flush with the left and right device edges. 8GB of RAM with a 12GB option available. 256 GB of fast storage (120 GB/s) with a 512GB upgrade option. One fast USB-C port and MagSafe. Very thin bezel around the display to minimize the overall device size. Fingers crossed for a notch-less design. External display support (a bit far-fetched, though). Colors similar to the current iMac desktop. What I don\u0026rsquo;t expect:\nHeadphone jack Thunderbolt support More than one display Nano texture option Glowing Apple Logo on the back of the display The return of the wedge design Cellular option Starting price: 599 US$.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-22 14:07:07 -0500", "date": "2:07 p.m. on Feb 22, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/22/more-macbook-expectations.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F22%2Fmore-macbook-expectations.html" }, { "id": 107, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is becoming out of hand\u0026hellip; 🤣 but it\u0026rsquo;s so fun! 🤷🏻‍♂️ ", "dateiso": "2026-02-21 17:27:44 -0500", "date": "5:27 p.m. on Feb 21, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/21/this-is-becoming-out-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F21%2Fthis-is-becoming-out-of.html" }, { "id": 108, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@MikeElgan the day Pinterest introduced ads, they ruined the whole thing.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-21 10:40:00 -0500", "date": "10:40 p.m. on Feb 21, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/21/84735019.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/84735019" }, { "id": 109, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Matt Birchler\u0026rsquo;s “[Apple will kill iPadOS] article: (https://birchtree.me/blog/apple-will-kill-ipados/)”:\nMatt argues that Apple should discontinue iPadOS and instead fragment it into two distinct operating systems: iOS for casual iPads (iPad, iPad mini, iPad Air) and macOS for the iPad Pro, creating clearer software distinctions across the product lineup. This reorganization would address the current problem of one OS trying to serve devices ranging from 8\u0026quot; tablets to 13\u0026quot; laptop-style screens, and would make sense once foldable iPhones that expand to tablet size arrive. Matt contends that recent iPadOS updates have primarily added Mac-like features anyway, and that macOS\u0026rsquo;s UI elements are already compatible with touch input, making a touch-enabled macOS on iPad Pro a logical next step.\nI don\u0026rsquo;t see that happening anytime soon. Way too much investment in iPadOS. While Matt isn\u0026rsquo;t wrong per se, I think we need to look at this from the normal, non-tech user\u0026rsquo;s perspective.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-21 09:39:35 -0500", "date": "9:39 p.m. on Feb 21, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/21/matt-birchlers-apple-will-kill.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F21%2Fmatt-birchlers-apple-will-kill.html" }, { "id": 110, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@AlexKucera Oh, this resonates with me! Fully agree with you… AI gives me wings when it comes to building things!\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-21 07:17:37 -0500", "date": "7:17 p.m. on Feb 21, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/21/84725691.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/84725691" }, { "id": 111, "type": "post", "title": "A Short Conversation with ChatGPT About The Upcoming Entry-Level MacBook", "text": " Is the Apple A18 Pro more powerful than the Apple Silicon M1 ?\nIn a straight performance comparison, the Apple A18 Pro (a smartphone SoC used in the iPhone 16 Pro) and the Apple Silicon M1 (Apple’s first Mac/desktop-class chip) are closer than you might expect — but neither is strictly “more powerful” across all categories. The answer depends heavily on how you measure performance:\n🔋 Architecture \u0026amp; Design Goals\n• Apple A18 Pro\n– Built on a modern 3 nm process, very high efficiency, designed for mobile devices with tight thermal/power limits. \n• Apple M1\n– Built on 5 nm process, designed for sustained performance in laptops/desktops with active cooling and higher thermal budgets. \n🧠 CPU Performance\n• Single-core:\nBenchmarks show the A18 Pro often beats the M1 in single-core scores — meaning for individual tasks that don’t use all cores, the phone chip can actually be faster. \n• Multi-core:\nMulti-core scores are generally very close, with some tests showing A18 Pro slightly ahead and others showing the M1 slightly ahead. Overall, they are competitive in multi-core performance. \nPut simply:\nFor peak instantaneous bursts or single-threaded tasks, the A18 Pro can edge out the M1 — but in sustained, multi-core workloads where thermal headroom matters, the M1 often matches or slightly exceeds the A18 Pro. \n🎮 GPU \u0026amp; Graphics\nMany benchmark comparisons indicate the A18 Pro’s GPU performance is on par with or even better than the M1’s integrated graphics, despite being in a phone. \n⚖️ Efficiency vs Sustained Power\n• A18 Pro: incredible performance per watt due to mobile design; great for short bursts and mobile workloads. \n• M1: superior sustained performance overall thanks to active cooling and higher TDP in laptops/desktops.\n🧠 Real-World Implication\nThe A18 Pro isn’t simply a “weaker” phone chip — in many benchmarks it rivals or surpasses the original M1, especially in single-core and graphics metrics. However:\n• In true desktop/laptop sustained workloads (like long exports, heavy multitasking, compiles, etc.), the M1 typically has the edge because it can keep higher performance over time thanks to better cooling and more cores. \nBottom line:\n💡 The A18 Pro is comparable to the M1 in raw performance, often beating it in short bursts or single-threaded tests and matching it in many multi-core scenarios. But because of power and thermal limits on phones, the M1 still wins in sustained heavy workloads.\nWhat if I told you that Apple might build a MacBook based on the A18 Pro?\nIf you’re seriously suggesting Apple might put an A18 Pro in a MacBook, you’re not alone — there are credible industry rumors and code-level signs pointing exactly at that possibility for an upcoming entry-level laptop. \n📰 Current Rumors Supporting the Idea\n• Multiple outlets (including Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman) report Apple is planning a more affordable MacBook, possibly to be announced around March 4, 2026, and that this laptop would use an A-series chip instead of a traditional M-series Apple Silicon processor. \n• Recent macOS code leaks include device drivers and codenames that suggest a MacBook powered by an A18 Pro chip is real. \n• Analysts like Ming-Chi Kuo have explicitly mentioned Apple working on a MacBook using the A18 Pro in a 13-inch form factor. \n• Reports speculate that, due to the A18 Pro’s strong performance (competitive with and even exceeding the original M1 in some benchmarks), it could deliver “enough” performance for everyday computing while significantly lowering cost. \n💡 Why It Makes Some Sense Technically\n• The A18 Pro is an ARM SoC with modern performance cores and a capable GPU, so in short bursts and single-threaded tasks it can rival or even exceed the older M1 chip — which Mazda’s report shows and users have confirmed. \n• Being designed for mobile with an advanced 3 nm process, it’s extremely power-efficient — a trait that could translate into long battery life and a fanless or low-heat design in a thinner laptop.\n⚠️ Important Caveats — Even if the Rumor Is True\n• An A18 Pro-based MacBook would likely not match current MacBook Air/Pro performance with M-series chips, especially in sustained multi-core workloads and heavy creative tasks. \n• Some hardware limitations of iPhone chips (like lack of Thunderbolt support) could impose constraints that need workarounds or design trade-offs in a laptop context. \n• Because this would be a budget entry product, expect less memory, fewer ports, and lower-end displays compared to standard Air/Pro models.\n📊 Strategic Angle\nApple introducing an A-series chip in a MacBook wouldn’t just be a novelty — it’s a strategic pivot aimed at lowering price barriers to macOS hardware and competing more directly with low-cost laptops. \nIn summary: yes — there’s credible evidence that Apple might build a MacBook powered by the A18 Pro, especially as an affordable model for mainstream users. That wouldn’t make it a performance rival to high-end Apple Silicon Macs, but for everyday computing it could feel surprisingly capable. If this pans out, it would be one of the most interesting shifts in Apple’s chip strategy in years. \nWhat pricing do you think Apple will set for this little one?\nIf the rumors about an Apple A18 Pro-powered MacBook (likely unveiled at Apple’s March 4, 2026 event) are true, most leaks and industry analysis point toward a much more aggressive price point than Apple’s typical laptops — a key part of the strategy for this device. \nHere’s how analysts are thinking about potential pricing:\n🪙 Likely Price Range (US Retail)\n• $599 USD: One of the most frequently cited figures — this would put it in direct competition with mainstream Chromebooks and very affordable Windows laptops. \n• $599 – $699 USD: A common rumored range if Apple pushes slightly higher but still keeps it well under $1,000. \n• Up to $799 USD: Some external commentary and speculation suggest Apple might land closer to this level (especially if the build quality and feature set are more substantial than expected). \n📊 How That Compares to the Rest of the Lineup\n• The current MacBook Air with Apple Silicon starts around $999 USD, so pricing the A18 Pro MacBook at $599–$799 would undercut that by 200–40 %, making it a genuinely entry-level Mac rather than a price-cut older Air model. \n• It would position Apple against low-cost laptops used in education and basic consumer segments — a space traditionally dominated by sub-$500 Chromebooks. \n🎯 Strategic Positioning\nThat price positioning makes sense for Apple’s goals here:\n• Lower barrier to entry for new Mac customers (students, first-time buyers). \n• A more competitive offering against cheaper laptops running Windows or ChromeOS. \n• Stronger ecosystem lock-in by offering a full macOS experience at a price closer to mainstream devices. \n💬 Caveats \u0026amp; Market Realities\n• These are all leaks and analyst projections, not confirmed Apple pricing. Apple has historically kept its Mac lineup firmly in premium territory, so sub-$800 pricing would be a notable shift in strategy. \n• Regional pricing outside the US (i.e., Canada, Europe) could be significantly higher once taxes and duties are applied.\nIn summary: based on current leaks, most credible estimates put an A18 Pro-powered MacBook somewhere in the 599–599–799 USD range, with $699 often quoted as a realistic sweet spot — a price that would mark a genuine entry-level Mac. \nAs an owner of an M2 15-inch MacBook Air which I really enjoy using and of a M4 11-inch iPad Pro, convince me that the new MacBook still makes sense\nYou own a 15-inch MacBook Air with M2 and an 11-inch iPad Pro with M4. That’s a very balanced setup: one lightweight full Mac, one ultra-modern tablet powerhouse.\nSo let me try to convince you — rigorously — why an A18 Pro MacBook could still make sense.\n⸻\nFirst: The Air Isn’t “Pro-tier sustained compute” Your M2 MacBook Air is excellent, but it’s still:\n• Fanless\n• Thermal-limited under long, heavy workloads\n• Optimized for efficiency more than peak sustained performance\nAn A18 Pro MacBook would also be efficiency-focused — but that’s the point: it wouldn’t compete with your Air on brute force. It would compete on form factor, cost positioning, and use-case specialization.\n⸻\nThe Real Question: What Would It Change? Right now your stack looks like this:\n• iPad Pro (M4) → touch-first, pencil workflows, media, travel-light\n• MacBook Air (M2, 15”) → main laptop, writing, browsing, productivity, light creative work\nAn A18 MacBook would likely be:\n• Smaller (likely 13” or even lighter chassis)\n• Extremely power efficient\n• Possibly thinner than current Air\n• Lower RAM ceiling\n• Lower cost tier\nThat introduces a new category:\nA true “secondary Mac” that you wouldn’t hesitate to throw in a bag the way you do with an iPad.\n⸻\nWhere It Could Actually Make Sense for You You’re detail-oriented and you write. That means:\n• Long writing sessions\n• Browser tab storms\n• CMS dashboards\n• Photo selection / light editing\n• Occasional heavier creative bursts\nFor 80% of that, you do not need M-series multi-core throughput.\nYou need:\n• Instant responsiveness\n• Battery longevity\n• Silent operation\n• Full macOS (not iPadOS constraints)\nIf the A18 Pro delivers M1-class single-core responsiveness (which current data suggests it can), then for writing and publishing workflows it would feel absolutely fine.\n⸻\nThe Psychological Angle (Which Matters) Your 15-inch Air is large and premium.\nAn A18 MacBook would likely feel more:\n• Casual\n• Portable\n• “Grab-and-go”\n• Less precious\nThat changes how you use it.\nMany people with a main Mac still appreciate a smaller “companion Mac” that:\n• Lives on a kitchen counter\n• Travels as a low-stress machine\n• Handles daily browsing without risking the main workstation\nYou currently use the iPad for that role — but it still runs iPadOS.\n⸻\nThe Real Strategic Argument The strongest argument isn’t for you personally. It’s for the ecosystem.\nIf Apple ships a 599-799 Mac:\n• macOS gains a much larger base\n• Developers target lower-tier hardware more aggressively\n• The Mac platform stops being perceived as premium-only\nThat benefits your primary machine indirectly.\n⸻\nThe Hard Truth Would it replace your M2 15” Air? No.\nWould it outperform it in sustained tasks Almost certainly not.\nWould it duplicate your iPad? No — because it runs full macOS.\n⸻\nSo Should You Buy It? If I’m being precise:\n• If your M2 Air already feels perfectly balanced and portable → you likely don’t need it.\n• If you’ve ever wished your iPad were “just a Mac with insane battery life and instant wake” → this machine becomes interesting.\n• If Apple makes it radically light and aggressively priced → it becomes a compelling secondary device.\nFor someone in your position, it’s not about performance. It’s about behavioral computing patterns. And Apple knows that’s where the next expansion of the Mac lies.\nMe: I love ChatGPT. It was a fun conversation. 🤓😬😏 You made it to the bottom? Wow. Congrats.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-20 20:51:52 -0500", "date": "8:51 p.m. on Feb 20, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/20/a-short-conversation-with-chatgpt.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F20%2Fa-short-conversation-with-chatgpt.html" }, { "id": 112, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@gedeonm how do we ask for a refund since tariffs are illegal? Asking for Mr. Carney.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-20 12:05:17 -0500", "date": "12:05 p.m. on Feb 20, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/20/84672944.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/84672944" }, { "id": 113, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@manton @vincent you know how to reach me, right? 🕵🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-20 11:51:22 -0500", "date": "11:51 p.m. on Feb 20, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/20/84671947.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/84671947" }, { "id": 114, "type": "post", "title": "About This Tempting Light MacBook", "text": "If the rumors turn out to be true, Apple will announce a new entry-level MacBook line on March 4th. Why is this relevant to me? Well, I’m really curious to see what Apple will offer in terms of technical specifications and overall design, because I might be tempted to get one. But why? I already have an M2 MacBook Air 15\u0026quot;!\nThe short answer: to use while travelling instead of bringing my M4 iPad Pro! But I’ve always said that the iPad is a perfect device to bring on trips! That’s true, but it still lacks one thing: the flexibility macOS provides. Yes, we’re back to the Mac again!\nMy last trip abroad confirmed that my iPad was very suitable, but I sometimes wished I had the flexibility of a MacBook for certain tasks, as well as a larger keyboard. If the new MacBook offers reasonable power, dimensions close to those of the old 12\u0026quot; MacBook, a lightweight, and a fair price, I might be tempted.\nI owned the 11-inch MacBook Air (as explained here), and I loved it. My hope is to see a blend between the 11-inch MacBook Air and the 12-inch MacBook.\nIt seems like it’s been a long time since I’ve been excited about the prospects of a new Apple product.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-20 07:23:42 -0500", "date": "7:23 p.m. on Feb 20, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/20/about-this-tempting-light-macbook.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F20%2Fabout-this-tempting-light-macbook.html" }, { "id": 115, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For each edition of my Ephemeral Scrapbook newsletter, I have to select a header image in landscape orientation. Each time I\u0026rsquo;m struggling with that. How about that one?\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-20 06:45:34 -0500", "date": "6:45 p.m. on Feb 20, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/20/for-each-edition-of-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F20%2Ffor-each-edition-of-my.html" }, { "id": 116, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@lmika 🤭😁\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-19 18:11:48 -0500", "date": "6:11 p.m. on Feb 19, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/19/84624242.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/84624242" }, { "id": 117, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@npr.org I hope we give them a run for their money…\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-19 12:53:03 -0500", "date": "12:53 p.m. on Feb 19, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/19/84601838.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/84601838" }, { "id": 118, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@katzish.bsky.social People… 🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-19 12:52:30 -0500", "date": "12:52 p.m. on Feb 19, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/19/84601839.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/84601839" }, { "id": 119, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Early this morning, using Craft Agents, I created a new skill that enables me to save my Micro.blog Bookmarks into a Craft collection. The agent figured out the Micro.blog API, the new collection schema and how to move things around. So cool. Any questions?\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-19 12:44:49 -0500", "date": "12:44 p.m. on Feb 19, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/19/early-this-morning-using-craft.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F19%2Fearly-this-morning-using-craft.html" }, { "id": 120, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@manton do you intend to further delay the release ?\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-19 11:51:36 -0500", "date": "11:51 p.m. on Feb 19, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/19/84598792.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/84598792" }, { "id": 121, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s funny how my interactions with my colleages is evolving since I\u0026rsquo;ve been using AI. My requests to them are looking more and more like prompts: I give them a context, state my needs and expectations and provide the expected end results, in that order. All the time. 🫣\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-19 08:11:11 -0500", "date": "8:11 p.m. on Feb 19, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/19/its-funny-how-my-interactions.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F19%2Fits-funny-how-my-interactions.html" }, { "id": 122, "type": "post", "title": "When I Retire...", "text": "One of my nieces\u0026rsquo; friends works in IT and recently contacted me for advice about his career in this field. This isn\u0026rsquo;t the first time I\u0026rsquo;ve received this kind of request. Over the past year, two other colleagues have also asked me for similar career advice. I have to admit, I really enjoy it. I like listening to the concerns of the younger generation and, to the best of my knowledge, advising them to help them flourish even more.\nI have over 30 years of experience in IT, and I\u0026rsquo;m starting to think about retirement and what I will do once my career is over. I have to admit, offering my advice for free to younger people is something I would really love to do.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-19 06:50:54 -0500", "date": "6:50 p.m. on Feb 19, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/19/when-i-retire.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F19%2Fwhen-i-retire.html" }, { "id": 123, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@gedeonm yes! It was so cool and impressive…\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-19 06:39:38 -0500", "date": "6:39 p.m. on Feb 19, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/19/84580180.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/84580180" }, { "id": 124, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "9to5Mac\u0026rsquo;s article “Google launches Snapseed camera for iPhone with pro manual controls, retro film”:\nSnapseed, a photo editing app by Google, has launched a new camera feature for iOS with manual adjustments, professional mode, and various film emulation styles. The updated app allows users to customize their photos with real-time filters and provides a full editing stack that enables post-capture modifications. The app is free and available in the App Store, with plans to update the Android version in the future.\nI never quite understood why Google is making such an app. It\u0026rsquo;s great but\u0026hellip; why?\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-19 06:31:18 -0500", "date": "6:31 p.m. on Feb 19, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/19/tomacs-article-google-launches-snapseed.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F19%2Ftomacs-article-google-launches-snapseed.html" }, { "id": 125, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "9to5Mac\u0026rsquo;s article \u0026ldquo;Another AirPods Pro 3 model is coming, with one rumored upgrade\u0026rdquo;:\nApple is rumored to be developing a new, higher-end version of AirPods Pro 3 featuring infrared (IR) cameras to enhance AI capabilities and potentially support visual intelligence and hand gestures. This upcoming model is expected to be similar to the current AirPods Pro 3 but will likely come at a higher price point. The IR cameras are anticipated to help users better understand and interact with their external environment.\nOh, as an AirPods Pro 2 owner, I might want to hold up my next purchase. I\u0026rsquo;m just curious about the appeal of this upgrade.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-18 21:01:25 -0500", "date": "9:01 p.m. on Feb 18, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/18/tomacs-article-another-airpods-pro.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F18%2Ftomacs-article-another-airpods-pro.html" }, { "id": 126, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "At this point, I have to admit, the only reason I\u0026rsquo;m keeping ChatGPT is its image-generation and analysis capabilities.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-18 20:31:34 -0500", "date": "8:31 p.m. on Feb 18, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/18/at-this-point-i-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F18%2Fat-this-point-i-have.html" }, { "id": 127, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "New MacBook with ‘fun colors’ sounds like the best Mac for most people — 9to5Mac\nIt\u0026rsquo;s pretty simple: if you can get a MacBook that\u0026rsquo;s the most affordable by far, comes in fun colors, and will do everything you want—why would you choose anything else?\nI’m warming up to this. Could be a boon to my travel gears.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-18 17:11:42 -0500", "date": "5:11 p.m. on Feb 18, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/18/new-macbook-with-fun-colors.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F18%2Fnew-macbook-with-fun-colors.html" }, { "id": 128, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How many new RSS readers can we get in a week? I’m counting two so far. Might be a third one coming soon? Cc @manton\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-18 12:22:22 -0500", "date": "12:22 p.m. on Feb 18, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/18/how-many-new-rss-readers.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F18%2Fhow-many-new-rss-readers.html" }, { "id": 129, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@Christopher I love this one!\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-18 07:16:35 -0500", "date": "7:16 p.m. on Feb 18, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/18/84507991.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/84507991" }, { "id": 130, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@ner3y “Reboot your computer, have a nice day.”\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-18 06:59:01 -0500", "date": "6:59 p.m. on Feb 18, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/18/84506893.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/84506893" }, { "id": 131, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Using Claude Code, I added an OPML export feature to my RSS Flow webpage so that I could move my feeds into Current so that I could compare the reading experience of a RSS river\u0026hellip; let\u0026rsquo;s see.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-18 06:21:15 -0500", "date": "6:21 p.m. on Feb 18, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/18/using-claude-code-i-added.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F18%2Fusing-claude-code-i-added.html" }, { "id": 132, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I bought Current. I\u0026rsquo;m not sure it\u0026rsquo;s for me. It doesn\u0026rsquo;t support Inoreader. It might be in a future version. Information density is too low. I like some of its design decisions. It seems that some useful features will come the more I use the app. I\u0026rsquo;ll see.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-17 21:26:21 -0500", "date": "9:26 p.m. on Feb 17, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/17/i-bought-current-im-not.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F17%2Fi-bought-current-im-not.html" }, { "id": 133, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@thosch 👍🏻\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-17 20:36:34 -0500", "date": "8:36 p.m. on Feb 17, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/17/84483717.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/84483717" }, { "id": 134, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@thosch it seems to require an enterprise or team account…\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-17 06:59:48 -0500", "date": "6:59 p.m. on Feb 17, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/17/84435715.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/84435715" }, { "id": 135, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@manton if you want a beta tester… 🙋🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-16 12:35:06 -0500", "date": "12:35 p.m. on Feb 16, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/16/84386917.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/84386917" }, { "id": 136, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@manton 👀 can wait to see what you came up with…\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-16 12:33:26 -0500", "date": "12:33 p.m. on Feb 16, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/16/84386837.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/84386837" }, { "id": 137, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@thosch will look into this! Thanks!\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-16 10:43:12 -0500", "date": "10:43 p.m. on Feb 16, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/16/84380266.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/84380266" }, { "id": 138, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@initialcharge by the way, Windows 11 also suffers from a similar challenge…\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-16 10:33:55 -0500", "date": "10:33 p.m. on Feb 16, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/16/84379861.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/84379861" }, { "id": 139, "type": "post", "title": "We're Making a Big Mistake", "text": "I believe that IT workers who are also passionate about gen AI are making a major misjudgment. We wrongly assume that the advances we observe in our field, such as the autonomous or semi-autonomous development of applications, also translate to sectors like medicine or law. This is a false generalization.\nThe field of IT heavily relies on strict formalism: the raw material consumed by LLMs. In the legal field, for example, this is not the case: it is much more complex. Laws, regulations, and judgments are generally written and presented in standardized forms, but the content is far from being as digestible formalism as lines of code written in a programming language. In my opinion, we should remember that when we share our enthusiasm for gen AI. We must be lucid while also setting the right expectations for decision-makers and lawmakers.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-16 07:19:28 -0500", "date": "7:19 p.m. on Feb 16, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/16/were-making-a-big-mistake.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F16%2Fwere-making-a-big-mistake.html" }, { "id": 140, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Matt Shumer writes in \u0026ldquo;Something Big is Happening\u0026rdquo;:\nThe AI labs made a deliberate choice. They focused on making AI great at writing code first\u0026hellip; because building AI requires a lot of code. If AI can write that code, it can help build the next version of itself. A smarter version, which writes better code, which builds an even smarter version. Making AI great at coding was the strategy that unlocks everything else. That\u0026rsquo;s why they did it first.\nClever. Exciting. But scary, too.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-16 06:57:37 -0500", "date": "6:57 p.m. on Feb 16, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/16/matt-shumer-writes-in-something.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F16%2Fmatt-shumer-writes-in-something.html" }, { "id": 141, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@manton woah! That was unexpected… or was it? I’m curious to see where this will lead OpenAI…\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-15 19:34:53 -0500", "date": "7:34 p.m. on Feb 15, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/15/84345093.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/84345093" }, { "id": 142, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@thosch Strange indeed… who’s right then? You, me, AI? 🤣\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-15 19:30:30 -0500", "date": "7:30 p.m. on Feb 15, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/15/84344828.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/84344828" }, { "id": 143, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I Am the Great Glassholio! — Spyglass\nMeta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses, which would let wearers identify people and get information about them via an AI assistant.\nMeta being meta. Creepy.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-15 15:02:16 -0500", "date": "3:02 p.m. on Feb 15, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/15/i-am-the-great-glassholio.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F15%2Fi-am-the-great-glassholio.html" }, { "id": 144, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If Apple does a \u0026ldquo;Snow Leopard\u0026rdquo;- style release with iOS 27 (and hopefully macOS 27), then I\u0026rsquo;m all in. Software quality has taken a nosedive in recent years, and it\u0026rsquo;s no longer aligned with Apple\u0026rsquo;s \u0026ldquo;It just works\u0026rdquo;. Apple needs to do something about this. I cannot count how many times people have come to me and said, \u0026ldquo;Apple\u0026rsquo;s hardware is top-notch, but the software is such crap.\u0026rdquo;\nI bet Apple will use some level of AI to inspect code and apply AI-based suggestions and recommendations.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-15 08:55:24 -0500", "date": "8:55 p.m. on Feb 15, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/15/if-apple-does-a-snow.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F15%2Fif-apple-does-a-snow.html" }, { "id": 145, "type": "post", "title": "The Rise of Cognitive Dept", "text": "Margaret-Anne Storey introduces \u0026ldquo;cognitive debt\u0026rdquo; as a concept that may be more threatening than technical debt in AI-augmented development. Unlike technical debt (which lives in code), cognitive debt is the erosion of shared understanding that resides in developers\u0026rsquo; minds. Drawing on Peter Naur\u0026rsquo;s concept of a program as a \u0026ldquo;theory\u0026rdquo; distributed across teams, the article argues that as AI and agentic tools push for development velocity, teams risk losing their collective understanding of why systems work the way they do. Even if AI generates technically clean code, teams can become paralyzed when no one can explain design decisions or anticipate the consequences of changes. The author calls for intentional slowdowns, collaborative practices, and serious research into measuring and mitigating this growing challenge.\n\u0026ldquo;As generative and agentic AI accelerate development, protecting that shared theory of what the software does and how it can change may matter more for long-term software health than any single metric of speed or output.\u0026rdquo;\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-15 06:49:43 -0500", "date": "6:49 p.m. on Feb 15, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/15/the-rise-of-cognitive-dept.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F15%2Fthe-rise-of-cognitive-dept.html" }, { "id": 146, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When I was a teenager, programming languages like LOGO made computers and programming very accessible. In today\u0026rsquo;s world, I would argue that, to some degree, vibe coding does the same: it makes computer programming more accessible in a much more complex digital landscape.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-14 15:39:00 -0500", "date": "3:39 p.m. on Feb 14, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/14/when-i-was-a-teenager.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F14%2Fwhen-i-was-a-teenager.html" }, { "id": 147, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Do we know if Apple upgraded the local Apple Intelligence model since its initial release? In case they didn’t, it’s no wonder why Apple is so far behind as others are releasing new models at a rapid pace, even those destined at being run locally.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-14 13:39:58 -0500", "date": "1:39 p.m. on Feb 14, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/14/do-we-know-if-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F14%2Fdo-we-know-if-apple.html" }, { "id": 148, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@bkryer the entry was on the other side…\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-14 13:17:47 -0500", "date": "1:17 p.m. on Feb 14, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/14/84272158.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/84272158" }, { "id": 149, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@manton I had this vision where RSS feed articles are merged into my timeline just like other people’s blog posts. But your vision might differ from mine… 😁\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-14 11:29:59 -0500", "date": "11:29 p.m. on Feb 14, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/14/84266574.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/84266574" }, { "id": 150, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m still tweaking my RSS Flow web app using Claude Code. It\u0026rsquo;s addictive and fun. It\u0026rsquo;s becoming the exact RSS reader I always wanted.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-14 08:37:55 -0500", "date": "8:37 p.m. on Feb 14, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/14/im-still-tweaking-my-rss.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F14%2Fim-still-tweaking-my-rss.html" }, { "id": 151, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@lmika let me ask this: “Do you expose my current Credits allotment via an API that I could easily consume?”. Answer: nope.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-14 08:30:23 -0500", "date": "8:30 p.m. on Feb 14, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/14/84258051.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/84258051" }, { "id": 152, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@lmika provided this data is exposed via Claude APIs… ?\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-13 21:29:02 -0500", "date": "9:29 p.m. on Feb 13, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/13/84236255.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/84236255" }, { "id": 153, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In what appears to be a mistake, Apple is moving away from the iWork branding for its productivity apps (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote) by removing the dedicated iWork webpage and redirecting it to a new \u0026ldquo;apps\u0026rdquo; page featuring Creator Studio. The change suggests a shift in how Apple markets these apps, with a new focus on the Creator Studio subscription service, which offers premium features and additional creative tools for $12.99 per month.\nIs Apple Phasing Out the iWork Brand? — MacRumors\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-13 20:59:25 -0500", "date": "8:59 p.m. on Feb 13, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/13/in-what-appears-to-be.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F13%2Fin-what-appears-to-be.html" }, { "id": 154, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I would pay to have a widget that shows an up-to-date view of Claude\u0026rsquo;s credit usage.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-13 20:39:57 -0500", "date": "8:39 p.m. on Feb 13, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/13/i-would-pay-to-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F13%2Fi-would-pay-to-have.html" }, { "id": 155, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@manton 👀 it’s the possible integration of this RSS reader into the rest of Micro.blog that really triggers my curiosity.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-13 20:07:17 -0500", "date": "8:07 p.m. on Feb 13, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/02/13/84233460.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/84233460" }, { "id": 156, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple\u0026rsquo;s apparent inaction on fixing Liquid Glass is very reminiscent of the dreaded butterfly keyboard fiasco. Apple appears stubborn until it takes bold action. And we are waiting for this bold move, probably not with OS 27, just like Apple introduced a \u0026ldquo;quick fix\u0026rdquo; in the 2018 MacBook Pro, then in 2019, both tweaks, which barely fixed the issues\u0026hellip; just like the tweaks in 26.1. Since then, crickets.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-13 13:12:09 -0500", "date": "1:12 p.m. on Feb 13, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/13/apples-apparent-inaction-on-fixing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F13%2Fapples-apparent-inaction-on-fixing.html" }, { "id": 157, "type": "post", "title": "Traveling to Egypt and Jordan: Some of My Random Travel Notes", "text": " One of my favourite things while flying is seeing a plane go in the opposite direction at a distance, ideally close enough to feel the raw speed of the plane added to mine.\nI loved Egypt, but the chaos of Cairo can be overwhelming and tiring. I prefer the relative calm of Jordan\u0026rsquo;s cities. I may be getting too old for some scenery.\nWhatsApp is a dominant communication platform worldwide, except in North America. Too bad it is so awkward to navigate and is owned by Meta.\nTaking pictures of the scene from my hublot is a good time killer and can produce fascinating images. I have so many of them.\nPosted many pictures on my personal and custom-made photo-sharing website, and it worked beautifully. Of course, a selection of my photos was also posted on my Glass page. More to come in the next few weeks.\nMy personal custom-built RSS web app proved to be super handy when I wanted a quick overview of the news.\nThese notes were gathered and written using Raycast for iOS before being edited and published. Raycast \u0026gt; Tot, in my opinion.\nI encountered several planes equipped with electronically activated polarization shields on the windows, which produce unusual lighting effects both outside and inside the cabin. Some shields do not completely block external light. Additionally, these shields are centrally controlled during flight, which can be frustrating.\nMost airports remain and will always be customer-hostile and unfriendly. It seems to be getting worse every year, everywhere, as air travel continues to increase.\nI brought my newly acquired Ubiquity Travel Router with me, but it was of no use; all hotel Wi-Fi, including the cruise ship, allowed many devices to connect with a single activation.\nTaking a break from the intensity of the digital world is salutary. But I’m glad to be back online now.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-13 05:26:10 -0500", "date": "5:26 p.m. on Feb 13, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/13/traveling-to-egypt-and-jordan.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F13%2Ftraveling-to-egypt-and-jordan.html" }, { "id": 158, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Now leaving Jordan to return home. Great vacation overall. More comments coming soon.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-12 01:49:03 -0500", "date": "1:49 p.m. on Feb 12, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/12/now-leaving-jordan-to-return.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F12%2Fnow-leaving-jordan-to-return.html" }, { "id": 159, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Better Siri is, yet again, a little farther off — BirchTree\nMaking a meaningfully better, LLM-enhanced Siri seems to be very tricky.\nWell, probably but changing the software strategy over and over might prove to be the real culprit here.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-12 01:05:48 -0500", "date": "1:05 p.m. on Feb 12, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/12/better-siri-is-yet-again.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F12%2Fbetter-siri-is-yet-again.html" }, { "id": 160, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Fact: airports aren’t created equal. 😩\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-06 07:26:17 -0500", "date": "7:26 p.m. on Feb 6, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/06/fact-airports-arent-created-equal.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F06%2Ffact-airports-arent-created-equal.html" }, { "id": 161, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Having a great time in Egypt so far. Internet connectivity is spotty which explains why I’m not posting more photos. You will be flooded in due time!\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-05 03:43:48 -0500", "date": "3:43 p.m. on Feb 5, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/05/having-a-great-time-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F05%2Fhaving-a-great-time-in.html" }, { "id": 162, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Anthropic cements its position as the not-OpenAI with no-ads pledge — The Register\nAnthropic has committed to keeping its Claude AI model ad-free, emphasizing user trust and avoiding potential conflicts of interest that could arise from advertising. The company believes serving ads in chat sessions could introduce incentives that might compromise the AI\u0026rsquo;s helpfulness and neutrality, distinguishing itself from rivals like OpenAI who are exploring ad-supported models. This decision aligns with Anthropic\u0026rsquo;s principle-driven approach and focus on maintaining user privacy and genuine assistance.\nHow long will it last? In today’s tech world, cynicism prevails.\n", "dateiso": "2026-02-05 03:34:47 -0500", "date": "3:34 p.m. on Feb 5, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/02/05/anthropic-cements-its-position-as.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F02%2F05%2Fanthropic-cements-its-position-as.html" }, { "id": 163, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@alpower Next.js on Vercel with some objects KV storage (Redis).\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-31 11:43:56 -0500", "date": "11:43 p.m. on Jan 31, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/31/83293881.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/83293881" }, { "id": 164, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " “Today, Apple is proud to report a remarkable, record-breaking quarter, with revenue of $143.8 billion, up 16 percent from a year ago and well above our expectations,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “iPhone had its best-ever quarter driven by unprecedented demand, with all-time records across every geographic segment, and Services also achieved an all-time revenue record, up 14 percent from a year ago. We are also excited to announce that our installed base now has more than 2.5 billion active devices, which is a testament to incredible customer satisfaction for the very best products and services in the world.”\nHow can Apple think they are doing anything wrong with these numbers? You tell me.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-29 17:26:40 -0500", "date": "5:26 p.m. on Jan 29, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/29/today-apple-is-proud-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F29%2Ftoday-apple-is-proud-to.html" }, { "id": 165, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The more I tweak my personal RSS reader, called “RSS Flow”, the more I like it. It wouldn’t scale to the level of Inoreader, though. But for a dozen of RSS feeds, it’s really nice.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-29 16:41:08 -0500", "date": "4:41 p.m. on Jan 29, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/29/the-more-i-tweak-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F29%2Fthe-more-i-tweak-my.html" }, { "id": 166, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Manton Reece on Aeronaut\nTrying out Aeronaut for Bluesky. Very nice. I don’t actually visit Bluesky directly that often because I post to it and follow within Micro.blog. Good to have a dedicated app for things like feeds, though.\nTried it for five minutes on my Mac. Nice, indeed. Certainly better than Bluesky’s offering which is iPhone only. The only thing is that I never quite remember what to use as my Bluesky username.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-29 16:35:34 -0500", "date": "4:35 p.m. on Jan 29, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/29/manton-reece-on-aeronaut-trying.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F29%2Fmanton-reece-on-aeronaut-trying.html" }, { "id": 167, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Let’s Keep an Eye on Apple’s Own iOS Adoption Numbers — Daring Fireball\nI presume, or at least hope, that they’ll update these numbers for iOS 26 any day now.\nApple will wait as long as the numbers look favorable. The longer it will take, the more we can assume that this year’s OSes adoption isn’t where it was in previous years.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-29 16:31:46 -0500", "date": "4:31 p.m. on Jan 29, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/29/lets-keep-an-eye-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F29%2Flets-keep-an-eye-on.html" }, { "id": 168, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@lapcatsoftware indeed, I rarely browse the store… for me, it’s mostly a conduit for app downloads… and I don’t download many these days…\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-29 08:49:41 -0500", "date": "8:49 p.m. on Jan 29, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/29/83134662.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/83134662" }, { "id": 169, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Halide cofounder Sebastiaan de With joins Apple’s design team — 9to5Mac\nHalide and Lux co-founder and designer Sebastiaan de With announced today that he is joining Apple\u0026rsquo;s human interface design team.\nWoah! I\u0026rsquo;m happy for him, and I think it\u0026rsquo;s a big plus for Apple in general. I always admired his work, both in Halide and on his website.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-28 17:24:50 -0500", "date": "5:24 p.m. on Jan 28, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/28/halide-cofounder-sebastiaan-de-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F28%2Fhalide-cofounder-sebastiaan-de-with.html" }, { "id": 170, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Yesterday night I installed and configured ClawdBot on my M4 Mac mini sitting on my home office desk. Now, I\u0026rsquo;m remote-controlling it with Discord, preferring it over Telegram or iMessage because Discord support in ClawdBot felt more mature. I can ask simple things and get simple answer. It\u0026rsquo;s exciting. Yet, it was more complicated than I originally thought. ClawdBot is a nerdy thing for really nerd people. More comments about ClawdBot can be found on MacStories.\nI see a lot of potential for learning and testing new things with ClawdBot. I\u0026rsquo;ll probably dedicate a lot of my spare time to it in the coming months. But for now, because I\u0026rsquo;m very close to leaving for a vacation trip to Egypt, I\u0026rsquo;ll put that aside for a few weeks.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-26 21:13:06 -0500", "date": "9:13 p.m. on Jan 26, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/26/yesterday-night-i-installed-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F26%2Fyesterday-night-i-installed-and.html" }, { "id": 171, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@jeroensangers Inwas being sarcastic… was trying to emulate “it’s the year of Linux”.. I failed miserably.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-26 17:07:14 -0500", "date": "5:07 p.m. on Jan 26, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/26/82934151.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/82934151" }, { "id": 172, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Open source vs. open platforms — Manton Reece\nOpen source gives power to developers. An open platform gives power to everyone. The web needs business models that can sustain both.\nWell balanced point of view, something we see less and less often these days.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-26 12:22:46 -0500", "date": "12:22 p.m. on Jan 26, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/26/open-source-vs-open-platforms.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F26%2Fopen-source-vs-open-platforms.html" }, { "id": 173, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@jeroensangers 2026.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-26 12:13:43 -0500", "date": "12:13 p.m. on Jan 26, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/26/82912284.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/82912284" }, { "id": 174, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@manton started testing it yesterday. Got my Discord channel up and running. Yes, it’s a bit overwhelming. Yes, security wise, it might become a nightmare. Yet, I see a lot of potential for learning about agentic capabilities.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-26 09:50:55 -0500", "date": "9:50 p.m. on Jan 26, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/26/82902042.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/82902042" }, { "id": 175, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Yesterday, I suscribed to Edovia\u0026rsquo;s Screens so that I could remote control my Mac mini upstair to configure ClawdBot where it is running. Like many other apps, Screens now comes with Liquid Glass support and it\u0026rsquo;s a mixed bag. Plus, this thing is a battery drain powerhouse! 🫣 I\u0026rsquo;ve been using Screens 3 a long time ago when we couldn\u0026rsquo;t remote control into other Macs via FaceTime. I\u0026rsquo;m happy to see it still around, especially that I know the developer behind it.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-26 06:50:15 -0500", "date": "6:50 p.m. on Jan 26, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/26/yesterday-i-suscribed-to-edovias.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F26%2Fyesterday-i-suscribed-to-edovias.html" }, { "id": 176, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@manton 👀\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-25 15:06:00 -0500", "date": "3:06 p.m. on Jan 25, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/25/82850470.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/82850470" }, { "id": 177, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@numericcitizen.me Un court clip montrant l’affichage d’un article RSS avec sommaire et extraits choisis à la volée. Il s’Agit d’une app bâtie avec Claude Code et s’exécutant sur Vercel.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-25 14:55:14 -0500", "date": "2:55 p.m. on Jan 25, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/25/82850462.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/82850462" }, { "id": 178, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here\u0026rsquo;s a very short demo of RSS Flow.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-25 14:51:03 -0500", "date": "2:51 p.m. on Jan 25, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/25/heres-a-very-short-demo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F25%2Fheres-a-very-short-demo.html" }, { "id": 179, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "At this rate, I wonder if I could create a custom-build, highly feature-focused Inoreader replacement using Claude Code. My experience so far with RSS Flow seems to confirm that I could, piece-by-piece.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-25 14:47:24 -0500", "date": "2:47 p.m. on Jan 25, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/25/at-this-rate-i-wonder.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F25%2Fat-this-rate-i-wonder.html" }, { "id": 180, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m putting the final touches on a few of my web apps before going on a two-week vacation. One nice thing is that my RSS Flow app can call my Microblog Poster app to quickly create a link post from a text selection in RSS Flow.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-25 13:58:27 -0500", "date": "1:58 p.m. on Jan 25, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/25/im-putting-the-final-touches.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F25%2Fim-putting-the-final-touches.html" }, { "id": 181, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m not sure it was a good idea to put my GitHub repos inside iCloud Drive Documents folder. Some of my projects have more than 50K files inside of them, thanks to dependancies. The fileproviderd process consumes quite a lot of CPU cycles at times.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-25 13:16:49 -0500", "date": "1:16 p.m. on Jan 25, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/25/im-not-sure-it-was.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F25%2Fim-not-sure-it-was.html" }, { "id": 182, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I visited some friends this weekend and talked about Apple’s latest software updates. The general sentiment seems to be that they don’t like the updates (iOS 26 as well as the “new weird and fuzzy look”). Apple no longer delights users. 😔\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-25 10:37:52 -0500", "date": "10:37 p.m. on Jan 25, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/25/i-visited-some-friends-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F25%2Fi-visited-some-friends-this.html" }, { "id": 183, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It seems a big one is coming… the first biggy of 2026.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-24 14:22:38 -0500", "date": "2:22 p.m. on Jan 24, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/24/it-seems-a-big-one.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F24%2Fit-seems-a-big-one.html" }, { "id": 184, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@thosch my Pro subscription.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-24 10:45:04 -0500", "date": "10:45 p.m. on Jan 24, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/24/82769220.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/82769220" }, { "id": 185, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "iPhone 18 Pro: Leaker Reveals Alleged Size of Smaller Dynamic Island — MacRumors\nThe account \u0026ldquo;Ice Universe\u0026rdquo; today claimed the Dynamic Island cutout on the iPhone 18 Pro models will be approximately 35% narrower than it is on the iPhone 17 Pro models. Specifically, they said it will have a width of around 13.5mm, down from around 20.7mm, and they shared the mockup image above to show what it would look like.\nWhen Apple eliminates the camera and sensor cutout from the display, maybe next year or the year after, what will happen with the dynamic island? My take is that the dynamic island continues to show content popping up from the top of the screen, just like before.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-23 07:26:04 -0500", "date": "7:26 p.m. on Jan 23, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/23/iphone-pro-leaker-reveals-alleged.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F23%2Fiphone-pro-leaker-reveals-alleged.html" }, { "id": 186, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Intel puts consumer chip production on back burner as datacenters make a run on Xeons — The Register\nIf you notice PC prices creeping up over the next few months, the rising cost of memory won’t be the only reason, because on Thursday Intel said it is reallocating foundry capacity from client chips to meet surging demand for Xeon processors used in AI servers.\nI wonder if Apple can manage to keep iPhone prices stable this fall with the release of the iPhone 18. They are certainly facing headwinds.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-22 22:22:45 -0500", "date": "10:22 p.m. on Jan 22, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/22/intel-puts-consumer-chip-production.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F22%2Fintel-puts-consumer-chip-production.html" }, { "id": 187, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m learning so much non-AI stuff by using AI — BirchTree\na year into my AI-accelerated coding adventure, I am far, far, far more knowledgeable about development than I was when I started.\nMy experience with n8n, Claude Code, Vercel and GitHub in recent weeks not only exposed me to obscure things in web app development, but to useful use cases of generative AI.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-22 21:55:03 -0500", "date": "9:55 p.m. on Jan 22, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/22/im-learning-so-much-nonai.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F22%2Fim-learning-so-much-nonai.html" }, { "id": 188, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So far this year, AI and Claude Code have completely changed my plans to learn writing extensive Apple Shortcuts. In fact, I would even argue that Apple has to find a way to enable a Claude Code like experience to write Apple Shortcuts (and why not AppleScript while at it).\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-22 12:04:18 -0500", "date": "12:04 p.m. on Jan 22, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/22/so-far-this-year-ai.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F22%2Fso-far-this-year-ai.html" }, { "id": 189, "type": "post", "title": "Something Is Going On", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m still working on this, but I\u0026rsquo;m heading in the right direction. I realize that every blog post should have a title so that my RSS flow feed looks great. 👀\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-22 07:31:24 -0500", "date": "7:31 p.m. on Jan 22, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/22/something-is-going-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F22%2Fsomething-is-going-on.html" }, { "id": 190, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@macrumors no, but ads will come.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-21 17:24:21 -0500", "date": "5:24 p.m. on Jan 21, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/21/82571806.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/82571806" }, { "id": 191, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Asking Claude Code to suggest new features and improvements for my photo-sharing app is a lot of fun. Reviewing the list, I see several valid suggestions. However, as a \u0026ldquo;product manager\u0026rdquo;, I must decide what gets implemented and what does not. It\u0026rsquo;s kind of a power trip. You know \u0026ldquo;A thousand no for each yes\u0026rdquo;? 😎\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-20 22:24:53 -0500", "date": "10:24 p.m. on Jan 20, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/20/asking-claude-code-to-suggest.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F20%2Fasking-claude-code-to-suggest.html" }, { "id": 192, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@manton I’m building my own RSS reader a la Tapestry for a much simpler, web-only app to consume RSS feed as a river flow… all with Claude Code….\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-20 22:10:51 -0500", "date": "10:10 p.m. on Jan 20, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/20/82508963.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/82508963" }, { "id": 193, "type": "post", "title": "I'm rebuilding Flickr! ", "text": "Well, maybe not, but here\u0026rsquo;s a description of my recently created photo-sharing webapp. And I have many more ideas to improve this.\nPhoto Sharing WebApp - Feature Overview A modern, full-stack travel photo gallery built with Next.js 15, featuring intelligent photo management, interactive maps, and seamless cloud storage integration.\n🌟 Highlights Zero-Database Architecture: Uses Vercel Blob for photos and Redis (via Vercel KV) for metadata Privacy Controls: Public, unlisted, and private album visibility options Interactive World Map: Displays photo locations extracted from EXIF GPS data Responsive Design: Optimized for all devices from mobile to desktop Admin Panel: Complete photo management without leaving the browser 🎨 Public Gallery Features Album Management Collapsible Albums: Each travel album can be expanded or collapsed independently Smart Defaults: Most recent album automatically expands on page load Album Metadata: Title, description, and date for each collection Privacy Levels: Public: Visible to everyone on the homepage Unlisted: Only accessible via direct link Private: Visible only to authenticated admins Photo Display Grid Layout Options: Three display modes to suit your preference Comfortable: Spacious 2-5 column grid with square thumbnails Compact: Dense 3-6 column grid for maximum photos per screen Masonry: Pinterest-style layout preserving original aspect ratios Layout Persistence: Grid preference saved in browser localStorage Newest First: Photos automatically sorted by upload date (newest at top-left) Rounded Thumbnails: Modern, elegant aesthetic with subtle shadows Hover Effects: Smooth scale and brightness animations on interaction Upload Date Display: Shows when each photo was added (in comfortable/masonry modes) Lightbox Viewer Full-Screen Experience: Distraction-free photo viewing Navigation Controls: Keyboard arrows (← →) for previous/next On-screen navigation buttons ESC key to close Photo Captions: Optional descriptions displayed below photos Smooth Transitions: Animated photo changes with loading states Mobile Optimized: Touch-friendly controls and responsive sizing Interactive Features World Map Integration: Leaflet-based interactive map Clustered markers for photos with GPS coordinates Click markers to view photos from that location Automatic bounds fitting to show all locations Album information in marker popups Random Featured Photo: Displays a random photo from all albums on homepage Changes on each page load Shows caption if available Mini Thumbnails: Collapsed albums show preview of first 5 photos Smooth animation on expand/collapse Photo count badge for albums with 6+ photos Content Syndication RSS Feed: Subscribe to new photo uploads at /feed.xml Analytics: Vercel Analytics integration for visitor tracking 🔐 Admin Panel Features Authentication Vercel Authentication: Secure login using your Vercel account Protected Routes: /admin and sub-routes require authentication Session Management: Logout functionality with redirect Album Management Create Albums: Title (required) Description (optional) Date (optional, ISO format) Privacy setting (public/unlisted/private) Edit Albums: Update all metadata including privacy settings Inline editing interface Cancel without saving Delete Albums: Confirmation dialog before deletion Automatically deletes all photos in album Removes both metadata and blob files Photo Management Bulk Upload: Multi-file selection support Drag-and-drop interface Progress tracking for each file Batch processing with individual status indicators Total size calculation before upload Upload Features: Automatic EXIF extraction (GPS, camera, capture settings) Optional captions (for single photo uploads) Format support: JPG, PNG, WebP, and more Visual upload progress bar Success/error status for each file Photo Organization: Clickable photo count badges link to management page Grid view of all photos in an album Displays metadata: upload date, GPS, camera info Empty state with call-to-action Delete Photos: Individual photo deletion from management page Confirmation dialog with photo caption Removes both Vercel Blob file and metadata Instant UI update on successful deletion Admin Dashboard Album Overview: List of all albums (sorted by date, newest first) Photo count for each album Privacy status indicators with icons Quick access buttons (Edit, Upload, Manage, Delete) Status Indicators: 🌍 Public: Green badge with globe icon 🔗 Unlisted: Yellow badge with link icon 🔒 Private: Red badge with lock icon Responsive Layout: Optimized for tablet and mobile management 🛠️ Technical Architecture Frontend Framework: Next.js 15 with App Router Language: TypeScript for type safety Styling: Tailwind CSS with custom configurations Icons: Lucide React for consistent iconography Image Optimization: Next.js Image component with automatic optimization State Management: React hooks (useState, useEffect) Client-Side Rendering: Dynamic imports for map components (SSR bypass) Backend API Routes: Next.js server-side API endpoints File Upload: FormData with multipart handling EXIF Parsing: exif-parser library for metadata extraction Image Processing: Automatic format conversion and compression Storage \u0026amp; Database Photo Storage: Vercel Blob (CDN-backed object storage) Metadata Storage: Redis via Vercel KV Marketplace integration Database Client: ioredis for Redis connections Data Structure: Albums stored as JSON array in albums key Photos stored per album in photos:{albumId} keys No SQL database required Deployment Platform: Vercel Environment: BLOB_READ_WRITE_TOKEN: Vercel Blob access KV_REDIS_URL: Redis connection string CDN: Automatic edge caching for photos and pages Domain: Custom domain support with automatic SSL 📊 Data Models Album { id: string; // album_timestamp_random title: string; // \u0026#34;Japan 2025\u0026#34; description: string; // Trip description date: string; // ISO date \u0026#34;2025-01-15\u0026#34; createdAt: number; // Unix timestamp visibility: \u0026#34;public\u0026#34; | \u0026#34;unlisted\u0026#34; | \u0026#34;private\u0026#34;; } Photo { id: string; // photo_timestamp_random albumId: string; // Reference to album blobUrl: string; // Vercel Blob URL caption?: string; // Optional description uploadedAt: number; // Unix timestamp metadata?: { gps?: { latitude: number; longitude: number; altitude?: number; }; camera?: { make?: string; // \u0026#34;Canon\u0026#34; model?: string; // \u0026#34;EOS R5\u0026#34; lens?: string; }; capture?: { dateTaken?: string; // When photo was taken exposureTime?: string; // \u0026#34;1/1000\u0026#34; fNumber?: number; // 2.8 iso?: number; // 100 focalLength?: number; // 50mm }; dimensions?: { width: number; height: number; }; orientation?: number; }; } 🎯 User Flows Visitor Journey Land on homepage → See random featured photo View interactive world map with photo locations Browse albums (newest expanded by default) Click photo → Open lightbox viewer Navigate with arrows or keyboard Subscribe to RSS feed for updates Admin Journey Navigate to /admin → Vercel auth redirect View dashboard with all albums and photo counts Create new album: Click \u0026ldquo;Create Album\u0026rdquo; → Fill form → Set privacy Upload photos: Click \u0026ldquo;Upload Photos\u0026rdquo; → Drag files → Add captions → Upload Manage photos: Click photo count badge → View grid → Delete unwanted photos Edit album: Click \u0026ldquo;Edit\u0026rdquo; → Update metadata/privacy → Save Delete album: Click \u0026ldquo;Delete\u0026rdquo; → Confirm → Album and all photos removed 🚀 Performance Optimizations Image Optimization: Next.js automatic WebP conversion and lazy loading CDN Caching: Vercel Edge Network caches photos globally Code Splitting: Dynamic imports for heavy components (map) Responsive Images: Multiple sizes served based on viewport Minimal JavaScript: Client-side JS only where needed Fast Page Loads: Static generation where possible Efficient Queries: Single Redis calls for album/photo lists LocalStorage: Grid layout preference cached client-side 🎨 Design Philosophy Visual Design Color Palette: Blue gradient accents with dark mode support Typography: Clear hierarchy with responsive font sizes Spacing: Generous whitespace for comfortable reading Shadows: Layered depth with hover elevations Animations: Subtle 300ms transitions throughout Icons: Consistent Lucide icon library User Experience Progressive Disclosure: Collapsed albums reduce cognitive load Keyboard Navigation: Full keyboard support in lightbox Touch Optimization: Tap targets sized for mobile Loading States: Spinners and skeletons during data fetches Error Handling: User-friendly error messages Confirmation Dialogs: Prevent accidental deletions Accessibility Semantic HTML: Proper heading hierarchy Focus States: Visible keyboard focus indicators Alt Text: Image descriptions for screen readers Color Contrast: WCAG AA compliance Responsive Design: Works on all screen sizes 📈 Use Cases Personal Travel Blog Document trips with organized photo albums Share adventures with family and friends Keep private memories secure with privacy controls Photography Portfolio Showcase work by location or project Professional presentation with grid layouts Metadata display for technical details Family Photo Sharing Create unlisted albums for family-only access Easy upload from mobile devices No complicated software required Educational Projects Demonstrate modern web development practices Showcase Next.js 15 App Router patterns Example of cloud storage integration 🔮 Future Enhancement Ideas Photo Features Bulk photo deletion (select multiple) Photo reordering (drag-and-drop) Photo editing (crop, rotate, filters) Download full-resolution images Print/photo book export Search \u0026amp; Discovery Full-text search across captions Tag system for categorization Timeline view (chronological) Favorites/highlights collection Social Features Photo comments system Social media share buttons Individual photo permalinks Public photo embeds Analytics View count tracking Popular photos dashboard Storage usage metrics Visitor analytics Mobile App Native iOS/Android apps Offline photo viewing (PWA) Camera integration for uploads Push notifications for new albums 💡 Why This Architecture? Serverless-First No server maintenance: Vercel handles infrastructure Auto-scaling: Handles traffic spikes automatically Global CDN: Photos served from edge locations Cost-effective: Pay only for usage Modern Stack Type Safety: TypeScript catches bugs at compile time React 19: Latest React features and optimizations Next.js 15: App Router for improved performance Tailwind CSS: Utility-first styling for rapid development Cloud Storage Vercel Blob: Purpose-built for media storage Redis: Fast key-value storage for metadata No database: Simpler architecture, fewer failure points Atomic operations: Redis ensures data consistency 📝 Technical Decisions Why ioredis instead of @vercel/kv? The Vercel KV Marketplace integration provides a standard Redis URL, which works better with the ioredis package. This offers more flexibility and standard Redis features.\nWhy client-side rendering for the homepage? The random featured photo and map interactions require JavaScript. Client-side rendering provides the most interactive experience while keeping the codebase simple.\nWhy separate manage page instead of edit-in-place? Separating photo management from display keeps each view focused and performant. The upload page stays lightweight for quick uploads, while the manage page provides detailed controls.\nWhy not use a traditional database? For a photo gallery, the access patterns are simple (list albums, list photos). Redis provides sub-millisecond reads and sufficient storage for metadata, while Vercel Blob handles the large files. This eliminates the need for PostgreSQL/MySQL.\n🏗️ Project Structure voyages-photo-gallery/\r├── app/\r│ ├── admin/\r│ │ ├── manage/[albumId]/ # Photo management page\r│ │ ├── upload/[albumId]/ # Photo upload page\r│ │ └── page.tsx # Admin dashboard\r│ ├── api/\r│ │ ├── admin/\r│ │ │ ├── albums/\r│ │ │ │ ├── [albumId]/ # Update/delete album\r│ │ │ │ └── route.ts # Create album\r│ │ │ ├── photos/\r│ │ │ │ └── route.ts # Delete photo\r│ │ │ └── upload/\r│ │ │ └── route.ts # Upload photos\r│ │ ├── albums/\r│ │ │ └── route.ts # Get all albums (public)\r│ │ ├── photos/\r│ │ │ └── route.ts # Get all photos (public)\r│ │ └── auth/ # Login/logout\r│ ├── feed.xml/\r│ │ └── route.ts # RSS feed generation\r│ ├── layout.tsx # Root layout with Analytics\r│ ├── page.tsx # Public gallery homepage\r│ └── globals.css # Global styles\r├── components/\r│ ├── AlbumSection.tsx # Collapsible album component\r│ ├── GridLayoutToggle.tsx # Layout switcher\r│ ├── Lightbox.tsx # Photo viewer\r│ └── WorldMap.tsx # Interactive map\r├── lib/\r│ └── db.ts # Redis database functions\r├── types/\r│ └── index.ts # TypeScript type definitions\r├── middleware.ts # Auth protection\r└── package.json # Dependencies 🎓 Learning Resources This project demonstrates:\nNext.js 15 App Router patterns TypeScript in React applications Tailwind CSS utility-first styling Vercel deployment and storage Redis data modeling EXIF metadata extraction Responsive design principles File upload handling Authentication middleware Dynamic routing Client/server component separation Perfect for developers learning modern full-stack web development!\n📄 License MIT License - Feel free to use this as a learning resource or starting point for your own projects.\n🤝 Contributing Built with Claude Code - AI-assisted development for rapid prototyping and feature implementation.\nTechnologies: Next.js 15 • React 19 • TypeScript • Tailwind CSS • Vercel • Redis • Leaflet\nBuilt by: AI enthusiasts exploring the intersection of modern web development and AI-assisted coding\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-20 21:40:06 -0500", "date": "9:40 p.m. on Jan 20, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/20/im-rebuilding-flickr.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F20%2Fim-rebuilding-flickr.html" }, { "id": 194, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@jimmitchell 😳🫣 Can you imagine a sort of Tapestry, but hyper-customized? I’m currently trying to build one…\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-20 21:10:39 -0500", "date": "9:10 p.m. on Jan 20, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/20/82506404.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/82506404" }, { "id": 195, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This weekend, I wanted to work on my next YouTube video, but I fell into this \u0026ldquo;photo-sharing website for my close family and friends\u0026rdquo; rabbit hole. It took most of the day to refine that I completely forgot about my video. 🤦🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-19 21:58:03 -0500", "date": "9:58 p.m. on Jan 19, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/19/this-weekend-i-wanted-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F19%2Fthis-weekend-i-wanted-to.html" }, { "id": 196, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Miniroll: what a great idea, and a well-designed one above all. Is it for me? I don\u0026rsquo;t know. I barely update my blogroll on Micro.blog. I\u0026rsquo;ll certainly keep an eye on the changelog to see where it\u0026rsquo;s going, and who knows\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-19 21:51:13 -0500", "date": "9:51 p.m. on Jan 19, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/19/miniroll-what-a-great-idea.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F19%2Fminiroll-what-a-great-idea.html" }, { "id": 197, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Looking at my Micro.blog timeline summary I see this bad interpretation of my words in a recent post about updating my Nikon camera firmware from 1.21 to 3.0. 🤷🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-19 12:20:17 -0500", "date": "12:20 p.m. on Jan 19, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/19/looking-at-my-microblog-timeline.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F19%2Flooking-at-my-microblog-timeline.html" }, { "id": 198, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@vincent yes\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-19 10:28:46 -0500", "date": "10:28 p.m. on Jan 19, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/19/82391940.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/82391940" }, { "id": 199, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;Please, add a map of all the places I visited based on photo metadata\u0026rdquo;. \u0026ldquo;Add animation across the site to make it more dynamic, nothing too fancy\u0026rdquo;. \u0026ldquo;Please, add support for progressive web app and make sure to set the favicon with the provided image\u0026rdquo;. \u0026ldquo;Add support for swipe gestures (ledt and right) while glancing at individual image\u0026rdquo;. \u0026ldquo;Add a counter of how many images are stored in each album\u0026rdquo;.\nAre you getting it?\nThis is simple web app development in 2026 built using Claude Code, Vercel, Next.js and Tailwind CSS. 🤯\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-19 07:53:11 -0500", "date": "7:53 p.m. on Jan 19, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/19/please-add-a-map-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F19%2Fplease-add-a-map-of.html" }, { "id": 200, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Out of curiosity, yesterday I asked ChatGPT what the latest firmware release was for my Nikon Z f camera: 3.0 (it was at 1.21)! I applied the 110 mb binary update right on time for my upcoming trip. Yes, I know, my camera needs a little cleanup, too.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-19 06:48:59 -0500", "date": "6:48 p.m. on Jan 19, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/19/out-of-curiosity-yesterday-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F19%2Fout-of-curiosity-yesterday-i.html" }, { "id": 201, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@dave, and the US is dependent on China for most of the things it buys in its stores… whether bricks-and-mortar or through Amazon. 🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-19 06:40:50 -0500", "date": "6:40 p.m. on Jan 19, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/19/82379460.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/82379460" }, { "id": 202, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@gedeonm I do care.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-18 17:14:21 -0500", "date": "5:14 p.m. on Jan 18, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/18/82348789.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/82348789" }, { "id": 203, "type": "post", "title": "Building A Dedicated Photo-Sharing Website in Claude Code", "text": "Thinking about the upcoming trip to Egypt, I realized I still didn\u0026rsquo;t have a good solution for sharing photos and comments beyond the usual social networks. Drawing on my experience from the past few weeks deploying web applications on Vercel, I decided to try the same by building a website for sharing and viewing photos. The additional complexity here is that the viewing portion is separate from the photo upload section. Therefore, I need to protect this feature with a password. Additionally, image storage must be optimized to minimize costs and provide a pleasant, flexible viewing experience. I\u0026rsquo;m using Vercel-only blog storage and Redis for metadata store.\nIn less than 2 hours, I built a fully functional application with Claude Code and Vercel. Impressive.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-18 16:15:14 -0500", "date": "4:15 p.m. on Jan 18, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/18/building-a-dedicated-photosharing-website.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F18%2Fbuilding-a-dedicated-photosharing-website.html" }, { "id": 204, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@manton Scribbles.page from @vincent offers a great solution and compromise I think.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-18 12:35:42 -0500", "date": "12:35 p.m. on Jan 18, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/18/82332784.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/82332784" }, { "id": 205, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@AlexKucera consider removing your link to your JSON file as we can see your MB App Token.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-18 08:12:16 -0500", "date": "8:12 p.m. on Jan 18, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/18/82319493.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/82319493" }, { "id": 206, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@AlexKucera looking into this right now… I’m impressed.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-18 07:53:15 -0500", "date": "7:53 p.m. on Jan 18, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/18/82318526.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/82318526" }, { "id": 207, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@AlexKucera That’s intriguing… You seem to have taken a quite different path than I.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-18 07:32:48 -0500", "date": "7:32 p.m. on Jan 18, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/18/82317595.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/82317595" }, { "id": 208, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How long will it take Apple to fix the Apple Watch setup process involving restoring from previous backups? It\u0026rsquo;s been an issue for many people for years! My setup process when I upgraded from Series 6 to Series 8 was hindered by this issue. Same when I upgraded from Series 8 to Series 10. Either the backup found wasn\u0026rsquo;t recent, or there was no backup to restore from. Michael Tsai is one such person. Anyone at Apple is setting up a new watch? 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-17 20:47:22 -0500", "date": "8:47 p.m. on Jan 17, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/17/how-long-will-it-take.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F17%2Fhow-long-will-it-take.html" }, { "id": 209, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "First visit to the new Ste-Catherine Apple Store in downtown Montreal. It\u0026rsquo;s quite a different vibe than the previous store. More to come in a short article.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-17 15:06:15 -0500", "date": "3:06 p.m. on Jan 17, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/17/first-visit-to-the-new.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F17%2Ffirst-visit-to-the-new.html" }, { "id": 210, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@numericcitizen.me Fermeture de la boutique qui se trouve maintenant 100m plus à l’est\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-17 14:15:18 -0500", "date": "2:15 p.m. on Jan 17, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/17/82280963.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/82280963" }, { "id": 211, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On the impossibly thin iPhone Air, the camera protuberant area acts like a place to help secure the phone in my hand using my finger.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-17 11:57:22 -0500", "date": "11:57 p.m. on Jan 17, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/17/on-the-impossibly-thin-iphone.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F17%2Fon-the-impossibly-thin-iphone.html" }, { "id": 212, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The end of an era.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-17 11:50:43 -0500", "date": "11:50 p.m. on Jan 17, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/17/the-end-of-an-era.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F17%2Fthe-end-of-an-era.html" }, { "id": 213, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Doing multitasking on the iPad mini is… really? 🤷🏻‍♂️ Who is actually doing this?\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-17 11:04:16 -0500", "date": "11:04 p.m. on Jan 17, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/17/doing-multitasking-on-the-ipad.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F17%2Fdoing-multitasking-on-the-ipad.html" }, { "id": 214, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I completed implementing automated backups of all my n8n workflows to GitHub and documenting their triggering times in a compact format using Claude AI. The backup workflow is based on a template found in the n8n community.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-17 08:26:48 -0500", "date": "8:26 p.m. on Jan 17, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/17/i-completed-implementing-automated-backups.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F17%2Fi-completed-implementing-automated-backups.html" }, { "id": 215, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Tomorrow, I\u0026rsquo;m planning to visit Apple\u0026rsquo;s new Ste-Catherine store in downtown Montreal. From the outside, it certainly looks much better than the previous store on the same street, 100 m further west. I don\u0026rsquo;t plan to buy anything; I just want to look at the architectural details, the crowd, and the mood. Expect some photos and maybe a short video.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-16 20:13:33 -0500", "date": "8:13 p.m. on Jan 16, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/16/tomorrow-im-planning-to-visit.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F16%2Ftomorrow-im-planning-to-visit.html" }, { "id": 216, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@macrumors going tomorrow morning.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-16 18:40:56 -0500", "date": "6:40 p.m. on Jan 16, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/16/82229078.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/82229078" }, { "id": 217, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Digg is finally in public beta. They also introduced a refreshed design (compared to what was available during the private beta), and I think it\u0026rsquo;s way better. Also introduced are user-defined communities. It\u0026rsquo;s currently limited to two per user, which I think is fair. This is my profile. I was looking to create a community, only to realize I was about to dilute myself again. My community is here.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-14 21:01:22 -0500", "date": "9:01 p.m. on Jan 14, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/14/digg-is-finally-in-public.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F14%2Fdigg-is-finally-in-public.html" }, { "id": 218, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@AlexKucera here.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-14 06:45:28 -0500", "date": "6:45 p.m. on Jan 14, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/14/82029892.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/82029892" }, { "id": 219, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is how I glance at my Micro.blog timeline recently, using my n8n automation and my personal Discord server. The summary structure varies from one edition to another, likely due to the unpredictability of LLM on top of content variations. When something catches my interest, I go directly to the timeline or my timeline RSS feed to pick it up. I get these summaries every three hours. It\u0026rsquo;s fun.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-13 21:35:02 -0500", "date": "9:35 p.m. on Jan 13, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/13/this-is-how-i-glance.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F13%2Fthis-is-how-i-glance.html" }, { "id": 220, "type": "post", "title": "Apple Creator Studio - A Few Comments", "text": "On today\u0026rsquo;s announcement by Apple:\nNow we know why it took so long for Apple to update Pages, Numbers and Keynote. Where is iWork? Why no iWork subscription without the pro stuff? I don\u0026rsquo;t understand this bundling of pro apps with consumer-generalistic apps. Is Apple trying to upsell Pro Apps to consumers via a new subscription? They might be. I don\u0026rsquo;t think pros want to get Numbers or Pages, though. Icons are utterly un-Apple, or Apple has become something I no longer relate to software-design-wise. It\u0026rsquo;s not a good sign. Yes, Apple does look like Adobe and \u0026hellip; Microsoft. And less, Apple. No mention of Photomator. I believe merging Photomator into Photos is not a good idea; combining a photo browsing app with a photo editing app isn\u0026rsquo;t ideal. Currently, Photos functions more as a photo browser than as a dedicated editing tool, and both aspects risk becoming mediocre. I want a focused, serious photo-editing app that doesn\u0026rsquo;t try to rival Photoshop. Is that too much to ask? The challenge lies in Apple\u0026rsquo;s prioritization of profit over user needs, which makes it difficult to develop such an app. What a strange start to the year.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-13 20:42:34 -0500", "date": "8:42 p.m. on Jan 13, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/13/apple-creator-studio-a-few.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F13%2Fapple-creator-studio-a-few.html" }, { "id": 221, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@morrick not having a separate iWork subscription is weird. Creators are using Numbers and Pages? Really?\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-13 17:28:09 -0500", "date": "5:28 p.m. on Jan 13, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/13/81996009.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/81996009" }, { "id": 222, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m sorry but Apple no longer knows how to do icons. Serious downgrades. WTF is this? I could do better in a weekend.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-13 17:19:50 -0500", "date": "5:19 p.m. on Jan 13, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/13/im-sorry-but-apple-no.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F13%2Fim-sorry-but-apple-no.html" }, { "id": 223, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It appears that Photomator in MIA in today’s announcements which doesn’t bode well for its fate. 😔\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-13 12:13:16 -0500", "date": "12:13 p.m. on Jan 13, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/13/it-appears-that-photomator-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F13%2Fit-appears-that-photomator-in.html" }, { "id": 224, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Simon Willison on experimenting with Cowork from Anthropic:\n\u0026ldquo;I had Claude Code reverse engineer the Claude app and it found out that Claude uses VZVirtualMachine - the Apple Virtualization Framework - and downloads and boots a custom Linux root filesystem.\u0026rdquo;\nWhoa, this is clever. This is a reminder, too: my next Mac must have more than 16GB of RAM.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-13 06:51:45 -0500", "date": "6:51 p.m. on Jan 13, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/13/simon-willison-on-experimenting-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F13%2Fsimon-willison-on-experimenting-with.html" }, { "id": 225, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Anthropic on Cowork:\n\u0026ldquo;That said, there are still things to be aware of before you give Claude control. By default, the main thing to know is that Claude can take potentially destructive actions (such as deleting local files) if it’s instructed to. Since there’s always some chance that Claude might misinterpret your instructions, you should give Claude very clear guidance around things like this.\u0026rdquo;\nand\n\u0026ldquo;You should also be aware of the risk of “prompt injections”: attempts by attackers to alter Claude’s plans through content it might encounter on the internet. We’ve built sophisticated defenses against prompt injections, but agent safety—that is, the task of securing Claude’s real-world actions—is still an active area of development in the industry. \u0026quot;\nA world of possibilities awaits you. 🫣\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-13 06:29:22 -0500", "date": "6:29 p.m. on Jan 13, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/13/anthropic-on-cowork-that-said.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F13%2Fanthropic-on-cowork-that-said.html" }, { "id": 226, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "/rant on\nCan you believe it? I updated my M4 iPad Pro today to beta 2 of iPadOS 26.3, thinking I would see some much-needed fixes, but elas many visual bugs are still unfixed, bugs that were there in 26.1 or even 26.0. I mean, bugs that are very easy to catch and experience. I can\u0026rsquo;t believe I\u0026rsquo;m the only one experiencing those. One example: when sliding up an app to return to the home page, the background briefly disappears.\nPlease, Apple, stop piling up new features and fix your shit.\n/rant off\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-12 22:14:20 -0500", "date": "10:14 p.m. on Jan 12, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/12/rant-on-can-you-believe.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F12%2Frant-on-can-you-believe.html" }, { "id": 227, "type": "post", "title": "On Scrollbars", "text": "After reading a recent Gruber article about the macOS Tahoe window-resizing issue, I found a setting in Appearance that keeps scrollbars always visible. It\u0026rsquo;s somewhat odd because of the scrollbar\u0026rsquo;s thickness. I wish Apple would make them thinner and less noticeable. I\u0026rsquo;m unsure if I\u0026rsquo;ll get used to this.\nNote: On Windows 11, scrollbars are always visible by default but are less obtrusive. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Apple was once known for leading with excellent design and great visual taste, but this is less obvious nowadays.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-12 20:54:59 -0500", "date": "8:54 p.m. on Jan 12, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/12/on-scrollbars.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F12%2Fon-scrollbars.html" }, { "id": 228, "type": "post", "title": "On Apple’s Deal with Google", "text": "Back in November, Google announced Private AI Compute, positioning themselves to offer something like Apple’s Private Cloud Compute. It might be something that OpenAI wasn’t willing to do or didn’t see a fit in their business mission. By offering Private AI Compute, Google might have secured the business with Apple. Anyway, it’s becoming impressive how Google is taking back the lead in AI. Lastly, maybe we will see Google Gemini being added to this week’s next beta of iOS 26.3 to go side-by-side with ChatGPT?\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-12 12:24:30 -0500", "date": "12:24 p.m. on Jan 12, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/12/on-apples-deal-with-google.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F12%2Fon-apples-deal-with-google.html" }, { "id": 229, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@noelreports.com Organ is the one who weakens Europe. Get him out!\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-12 08:09:31 -0500", "date": "8:09 p.m. on Jan 12, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/12/81884681.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/81884681" }, { "id": 230, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@asharangappa.bsky.social And how do you proceed?\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-11 21:06:03 -0500", "date": "9:06 p.m. on Jan 11, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/11/81869624.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/81869624" }, { "id": 231, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@jarrod downloaded the app on my Mac. Imported my AnyBox data which was rather fast but not perfect. Definitely doesn’t feel like a… Mac app. Tried configuring the Raindrop node on n8n but it’s failing to access the data. Not the best experience. I’ll meditate on that. 😒\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-11 20:37:17 -0500", "date": "8:37 p.m. on Jan 11, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/11/81856502.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/81856502" }, { "id": 232, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I just discovered that Raindrop.io offers many integrations, including n8n! I might need to reconsider my bookmarking strategies, yet again. I\u0026rsquo;m currently using Anybox. 🤔 I\u0026rsquo;m exploring ways to move the data around. If you made a similar move, I\u0026rsquo;ll be more than happy to learn about your experience. For now, I\u0026rsquo;ll prompt ChatGPT for strategies.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-11 18:36:05 -0500", "date": "6:36 p.m. on Jan 11, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/11/i-just-discovered-that-raindropio.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F11%2Fi-just-discovered-that-raindropio.html" }, { "id": 233, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inspired by basicappleguy on Mastodon, here\u0026rsquo;s my rating of each Apple product. Design, usefulness, feature focus, maturity, and usage frequency are the key factors here.\niPhone Mac iPad Apple Watch Apple TV AirPods Vision Pro AirTag HomePod ", "dateiso": "2026-01-11 16:45:21 -0500", "date": "4:45 p.m. on Jan 11, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/11/inspired-by-a-post-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F11%2Finspired-by-a-post-from.html" }, { "id": 234, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@manton nice! I ❤️ NY\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-11 12:47:28 -0500", "date": "12:47 p.m. on Jan 11, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/11/81833090.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/81833090" }, { "id": 235, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This diagram tries to illustrate the how modern AI, Claude AI in particular, compares to traditional computing paradigm. Models more or less are processors, Agents are more or less the operating system and Applications are more or less Skills. It\u0026rsquo;s interesting, but I\u0026rsquo;m wary about agents because they open up too many pandora boxes.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-11 11:19:48 -0500", "date": "11:19 p.m. on Jan 11, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/11/this-diagram-tries-to-illustrate.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F11%2Fthis-diagram-tries-to-illustrate.html" }, { "id": 236, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@amerpie oh, I didn’t know about NameQuick. Thanks!\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-11 10:14:15 -0500", "date": "10:14 p.m. on Jan 11, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/11/81824482.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/81824482" }, { "id": 237, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I made two important changes this morning for my automation-related operating environment:\nUsing DigitalOcean monitoring, I created two resources alerts (CPU \u0026gt; 50% for 5 min, Disk usage \u0026gt; 70% for 5 min). Alerts will make me look into n8n automation misbehaviours. I switched my AI nodes to use Claude AI Haiku 4.5 instead of Sonnet 4.5 to reduce costs for comparable results. I don\u0026rsquo;t think my summarization tasks needs more powerful LLM. ", "dateiso": "2026-01-11 07:54:17 -0500", "date": "7:54 p.m. on Jan 11, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/11/i-made-two-important-changes.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F11%2Fi-made-two-important-changes.html" }, { "id": 238, "type": "post", "title": "When Things Go Wrong With AI-Generated Code", "text": "My first bad experience: the code generated by Claude Code made my dashboard unresponsive in my browser. Eventually, the data stopped updating. After a ten-minute debugging session, I asked Claude Code to revert the change, and it did so promptly. But then I started getting execution failure notices on Discord. A lot of notifications. Then I started investigating\u0026hellip;\nIt appears the browser was making frequent refresh requests to one of my workflows, which depleted my Claude pay-per-use credits. Bummber. Looking at my n8n dashboard, I saw that one of my workflows was failing because of that. Logs were confirming the problem with the interaction with Claude AI. As shown on the graphs below, my instance CPU usage went through the roof. Ouch. Now I know what happened, and the problem was fixed. Now, I should find a way to rate-limit this type of behaviour. That\u0026rsquo;s for tomorrow, I guess. 😅\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-10 22:18:50 -0500", "date": "10:18 p.m. on Jan 10, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/10/when-things-go-wrong-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F10%2Fwhen-things-go-wrong-with.html" }, { "id": 239, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Ten days into 2026, I have achieved much more than I anticipated. If I maintain this pace, I will complete my list of wild ideas soon. It\u0026rsquo;s not just about checking items off the list, but also about learning a lot along the way. It\u0026rsquo;s very fulfilling.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-10 21:52:35 -0500", "date": "9:52 p.m. on Jan 10, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/10/ten-days-into-i-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F10%2Ften-days-into-i-have.html" }, { "id": 240, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@heyloura 😊\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-10 17:29:08 -0500", "date": "5:29 p.m. on Jan 10, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/10/81788329.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/81788329" }, { "id": 241, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@AlexKucera 😏\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-10 15:39:26 -0500", "date": "3:39 p.m. on Jan 10, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/10/81782868.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/81782868" }, { "id": 242, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m making good progress on my personal dashboard idea. While people may criticize LLMs and enjoy coding for fun, for me, it opens up possibilities I couldn\u0026rsquo;t have imagined before.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-10 14:35:23 -0500", "date": "2:35 p.m. on Jan 10, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/10/im-making-good-progress-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F10%2Fim-making-good-progress-on.html" }, { "id": 243, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One of the frustrating aspects of LLMs is their lack of consistency unless you develop specific skills, which can take time to implement effectively. For example, I wanted to generate documentation for my most recent n8n automation workflow, but Claude was unable to do it, and I can\u0026rsquo;t remember the prompt that finally made it possible. I should have saved it somewhere for easy retrieval. I\u0026rsquo;m wasting precious credits. 🤦🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-10 10:57:09 -0500", "date": "10:57 p.m. on Jan 10, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/10/one-of-the-frustrating-aspects.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F10%2Fone-of-the-frustrating-aspects.html" }, { "id": 244, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@torb Let’s call this: open-minded but lucid and realistic.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-10 09:29:55 -0500", "date": "9:29 p.m. on Jan 10, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/10/81762288.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/81762288" }, { "id": 245, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Simon Willison on AI-assisted programming:\nThe more time I spend on AI-assisted programming the less afraid I am for my job, because it turns out building software - especially at the rate it\u0026rsquo;s now possible to build - still requires enormous skill, experience and depth of understanding.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-10 09:29:08 -0500", "date": "9:29 p.m. on Jan 10, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/10/simon-willison-on-aiassisted-programming.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F10%2Fsimon-willison-on-aiassisted-programming.html" }, { "id": 246, "type": "post", "title": "My Defaults as of 2026-01-10", "text": "Changes from the last edition are in bold. ✉️ Mail Client: Fastmail 📨 Mail Server: Fastmail 📝 Notes: Craft + Apple Notes ✅ To-Do: Things 3 📷 iPhone Photo Shooting: Camera.app 📚 Photo Management: Photos.app + Photomator 🗓️ Calendar: Calendar.app 🗄️ Cloud file storage: iCloud 📰 RSS: Reeder connected to Inoreader 📇 Contacts: Contacts 🕸️ Browser: Mobile Safari + ARC Browser on Mac + ChatGPT Atlas 🧠 AI: ChatGPT + Claude AI 🔎 Search: Kagi Search 💬 Chat: iMessage (WhatsApp when abroad) 🔖 Bookmarks: AnyBox 👓 Read It Later: Inoreader 📜 Word Processing: Ulysses, Craft 📊 Spreadsheets: Numbers 🛝 Presentations: Keynote 🛒 Shopping Lists: Reminders 🧑‍🍳 Meal Planning: None 💰 Budgeting \u0026amp; Personal Finance: Numbers 🗞️ News: La Presse (Apple News for English news) 🎶 Music: Apple Music 🎧 Podcasts: Apple Podcasts 🔐 Password Management: iCloud Keychain \u0026amp; Apple Passwords 👨🏻‍💻 Blog hosting: Ghost, Micro.blog, Scribbles.page 🌐 Web Services: Cloudflare, Chillidog Hosting, DigitalOcean\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-10 09:16:00 -0500", "date": "9:16 p.m. on Jan 10, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/10/my-defaults-as-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F10%2Fmy-defaults-as-of.html" }, { "id": 247, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@torb well, I think there is a danger of students depending too much on LLMs (even professionals BTW). But I think we should keep an open mind and see how Apple could add an LLM dimension to Swift Playground, just as they do in Xcode. Creating prompts is something that needs practice and experience, too, which can also be a valuable skill for the future.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-10 08:36:48 -0500", "date": "8:36 p.m. on Jan 10, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/10/81759945.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/81759945" }, { "id": 248, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In today\u0026rsquo;s world, with LLM, Claude Code, etc., is Apple\u0026rsquo;s Swift Playground still relevant, even for younger aspiring coders? A few years ago, it seems we were hearing much more about it than today.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-10 07:27:42 -0500", "date": "7:27 p.m. on Jan 10, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/10/in-todays-world-with-llm.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F10%2Fin-todays-world-with-llm.html" }, { "id": 249, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@philipbrewer cool!\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-09 12:28:18 -0500", "date": "12:28 p.m. on Jan 9, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/09/81705943.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/81705943" }, { "id": 250, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@AlexKucera 😜 I didn’t to self host at home because of security related stuff that we need to take care of in that scenario. n8n is very lightweight for what it does… in my case anyway\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-09 12:27:28 -0500", "date": "12:27 p.m. on Jan 9, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/09/81705898.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/81705898" }, { "id": 251, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m building a Dashboard. 😎\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-09 07:46:50 -0500", "date": "7:46 p.m. on Jan 9, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/09/im-building-a-dashboard.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F09%2Fim-building-a-dashboard.html" }, { "id": 252, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apparently, people are barely using Stack Overflow to ask questions, thanks to LLMs and AI. I expect a similar trend among people in a community like this one on Micro.blog. Some questions would be super easy to answer by asking ChatGPT or the like. I do understand that many people still want this human touch, though.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-09 07:02:37 -0500", "date": "7:02 p.m. on Jan 9, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/09/apparently-people-are-barely-using.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F09%2Fapparently-people-are-barely-using.html" }, { "id": 253, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Something is about to happen. Again. 🤗🫣\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-08 19:55:53 -0500", "date": "7:55 p.m. on Jan 8, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/08/something-is-about-to-happen.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F08%2Fsomething-is-about-to-happen.html" }, { "id": 254, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Updated my n8n instance from v2.0.3 to v2.2.4. Super easy to do (I\u0026rsquo;m using the Docker Compose installation provided by the DigitalOcean 1-click install droplet. Took a droplet snapshot before, just in case something goes wrong. So far, so good. Of course, Claude helped me out on this. I\u0026rsquo;m not a Linux or Docker expert. 😅\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-07 21:09:21 -0500", "date": "9:09 p.m. on Jan 7, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/07/updated-my-nn-instance-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F07%2Fupdated-my-nn-instance-from.html" }, { "id": 255, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@JohnPhilpin 🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-07 16:42:26 -0500", "date": "4:42 p.m. on Jan 7, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/07/81572450.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/81572450" }, { "id": 256, "type": "post", "title": "On Tahoe Icons", "text": "Just finished reading \u0026ldquo;It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons\u0026rdquo;, which many UI design pundits and non-UI experts, as well as simple, passionate Mac users, have been referring to a lot recently. I appreciate the documentation effort. It\u0026rsquo;s really well done. Very convincing. But\u0026hellip;\nDesigners age and are gradually replaced by a younger generation. Whether you like it or not, they bring new beliefs (justified or not), design principles (better or not), and values (questionable or not). Recently, there\u0026rsquo;s a trend where software appears much less crafted than it once was. Everything seems thrown together, flat. And still\u0026hellip;\nI like those macOS Tahoe menus with icons (🫣), but yes, there is an absolute lack of consistency.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-07 08:00:04 -0500", "date": "8:00 p.m. on Jan 7, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/07/on-tahoe-icons.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F07%2Fon-tahoe-icons.html" }, { "id": 257, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I can confidently say I\u0026rsquo;ve learned at least one significant new concept every day over the past two to three weeks. It is not only satisfying but also quite stimulating. This will keep me from aging, that\u0026rsquo;s for sure.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-06 22:04:30 -0500", "date": "10:04 p.m. on Jan 6, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/06/i-can-confidently-say-ive.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F06%2Fi-can-confidently-say-ive.html" }, { "id": 258, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@profduweb.com 3\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-06 21:52:02 -0500", "date": "9:52 p.m. on Jan 6, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/06/81511810.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/81511810" }, { "id": 259, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@kev installed yes but usefulness you configure it, so… 🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-06 08:29:50 -0500", "date": "8:29 p.m. on Jan 6, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/06/81462753.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/81462753" }, { "id": 260, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Claude Code skills are probably the most intriguing aspect of Claude Code and Claude AI. I\u0026rsquo;m not so sure yet how to take advantage of them. My understanding from this excellent video is that you have to be an expert at something to create those skills.md file.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-06 06:41:38 -0500", "date": "6:41 p.m. on Jan 6, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/06/claude-code-skills-are-probably.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F06%2Fclaude-code-skills-are-probably.html" }, { "id": 261, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@amerpie, you are a clever man.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-05 22:28:02 -0500", "date": "10:28 p.m. on Jan 5, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/05/81438276.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/81438276" }, { "id": 262, "type": "post", "title": "An Important Lesson", "text": "When I started my studies in computer science over 40 years ago, we learned to read functional specifications and then translate them into machine instructions (COBOL, FORTRAN, Pascal, etc.). It was the training of a programmer. I knew that one day I could become the person who writes functional specifications. I didn\u0026rsquo;t become a programmer, nor did I work in the development world.\nDue to my recent experience with Claude AI, Claude Code, and Vercel to create custom applications, I realize that I have become the one who writes functional specifications, but for processing by artificial intelligence. What does this tell me about the profession of a software developer? The need to write specifications remains essential, if not more so, even with powerful tools like AI. I think it\u0026rsquo;s a valuable lesson.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-05 21:26:12 -0500", "date": "9:26 p.m. on Jan 5, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/05/an-important-lesson.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F05%2Fan-important-lesson.html" }, { "id": 263, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@mathyousee oh, nice! Thanks for the suggestion.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-05 21:14:52 -0500", "date": "9:14 p.m. on Jan 5, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/05/81435231.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/81435231" }, { "id": 264, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Added a new and much-needed feature to my micro.blog front end. See my prompt below.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-05 20:42:00 -0500", "date": "8:42 p.m. on Jan 5, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/05/added-a-new-and-muchneeded.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F05%2Fadded-a-new-and-muchneeded.html" }, { "id": 265, "type": "post", "title": "On OpenRouter.ai", "text": "I just finished reading about the service openrouter.ai. I was curious to understand the purpose of this service as well as its business model. I saw several instances of this service being used in n8n workflows. The problem I see with this service is that it makes the consistency of the quality of responses from the requested LLMs even more unpredictable. Each request could be handled by LLMs with different characteristics and performance from one time to another. I\u0026rsquo;ll pass on this, but I still learned something tonight.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-05 20:13:44 -0500", "date": "8:13 p.m. on Jan 5, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/05/on-openrouterai.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F05%2Fon-openrouterai.html" }, { "id": 266, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@manton I was expecting him to use IIS… oh well… wait, what?\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-05 19:41:36 -0500", "date": "7:41 p.m. on Jan 5, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/05/81431209.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/81431209" }, { "id": 267, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@gedeonm Slop slop slop, sloppy Microslop! (we have song here!)\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-05 18:48:39 -0500", "date": "6:48 p.m. on Jan 5, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/05/81427791.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/81427791" }, { "id": 268, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@marcoarment snowflakes on a webpage??? I mean how am I supposed to focus on his words? And yet he critics Apple’s icons design? Really?\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-05 15:06:59 -0500", "date": "3:06 p.m. on Jan 5, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/05/81414170.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/81414170" }, { "id": 269, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@JohnPhilpin the last node is for sending the results to Discord. After, the workflow ends.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-04 19:46:58 -0500", "date": "7:46 p.m. on Jan 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/04/81358909.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/81358909" }, { "id": 270, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Another update to my blog: the blog post categories are no longer listed on the main page header. Categories are shown on each blog post. I think that\u0026rsquo;s enough. Categories are available in the Archive page. This makes the home page less busy.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-04 18:06:03 -0500", "date": "6:06 p.m. on Jan 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/04/another-update-to-my-blog.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F04%2Fanother-update-to-my-blog.html" }, { "id": 271, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@JohnPhilpin it’s a webhook call to send an embed to my Discord server.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-04 17:30:47 -0500", "date": "5:30 p.m. on Jan 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/04/81352595.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/81352595" }, { "id": 272, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@jthingelstad yup! Self-hosted on DigitalOcean. I’m loving it.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-04 17:24:38 -0500", "date": "5:24 p.m. on Jan 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/04/81352345.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/81352345" }, { "id": 273, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@rom the local machine gets the default router to be the Ubiquiti device… then it goes to the Teleport tunnel… my guess is no… but I’m far from a networking expert.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-04 17:17:11 -0500", "date": "5:17 p.m. on Jan 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/04/81352032.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/81352032" }, { "id": 274, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My latest n8n workflow automates summarizing my Micro.blog timeline (via its private RSS feed) and sends the results to my Discord server every hour. Pretty cool, right? ", "dateiso": "2026-01-04 17:04:56 -0500", "date": "5:04 p.m. on Jan 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/04/my-latest-nn-workflow-automates.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F04%2Fmy-latest-nn-workflow-automates.html" }, { "id": 275, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@rom It goes through my home ISP. But you can configure it to go through the local ISP by setting an adhoc Wifi instead.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-04 16:56:19 -0500", "date": "4:56 p.m. on Jan 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/04/81350863.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/81350863" }, { "id": 276, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today, I created a new blog post category. Now, all blog posts related to automation (usually n8n-based) or AI will be assigned the \u0026ldquo;Automation \u0026amp; AI\u0026rdquo; category. I went back to my blog posts and updated a few of them to reflect this change. You can follow the blog posts with this dedicated RSS feed, which is automagically created and maintained by Micro.blog.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-04 16:35:24 -0500", "date": "4:35 p.m. on Jan 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/04/today-i-created-a-new.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F04%2Ftoday-i-created-a-new.html" }, { "id": 277, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@news might explain why my GitHub archive wasn’t being updated for three months? cc @manton\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-04 15:54:30 -0500", "date": "3:54 p.m. on Jan 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/04/81346594.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/81346594" }, { "id": 278, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I am currently testing the Ubiquiti Travel Router in a café near my home. The setup operation is simple, and I have full access to my home wifi network, which is one of the goals of this purchase. The only small drawback for now is the slow startup of the device.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-04 13:50:26 -0500", "date": "1:50 p.m. on Jan 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/04/i-am-currently-testing-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F04%2Fi-am-currently-testing-the.html" }, { "id": 279, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m discovering this powerful n8n node this morning. This means I could trigger that workflow from an external source, such as a Telegram message, and receive a response with some RSS content.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-04 09:11:26 -0500", "date": "9:11 p.m. on Jan 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/04/im-discovering-this-powerful-nn.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F04%2Fim-discovering-this-powerful-nn.html" }, { "id": 280, "type": "post", "title": "Launching Numeric Citizen Blog Digests", "text": "Today, I\u0026rsquo;m excited to share my latest idea and creation: a website collecting my Micro.blog posts, monthly digests. What, another website? Yup.\nIn case you didn\u0026rsquo;t know, Micro.blog has a newsletter capability. My blog offers readers the opportunity to subscribe to a monthly blog post digest delivered to their inboxes. Plus, each digest is also available as a webpage (here\u0026rsquo;s the index page if you are curious). It\u0026rsquo;s a great way to get a quick overview of everything I published for a specific month. Of course, the whole thing is searchable.\nBut one day, I tried feeding one digest into ChatGPT and started asking questions about it. It was a revelation. Eventually, I asked for a structured summary, and ChatGPT promptly complied, returning a beautifully formatted summary. I spent quite some time reading the output, and I was blown away by how accurate and complete it was. This is where the idea of creating a new website to store and share those summarized digests. I think it\u0026rsquo;s a great way to get up to speed with my blog for newcomers or for people who might have missed a few months.\nSo, here we are, digests.numericcitizen.me is born. For now, you\u0026rsquo;ll find the summary of last month, but each month will be added as a single article. An AI-generated summary (by Micro.blog) describes the current month, and you need to click the title to get all the content. I plan to add some other highlights to this site. Stay tuned and enjoy.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-04 08:52:59 -0500", "date": "8:52 p.m. on Jan 4, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/04/launching-numeric-citizen-blog-digests.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F04%2Flaunching-numeric-citizen-blog-digests.html" }, { "id": 281, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " \u0026ldquo;Start a blog. Start one because the practice of writing at length, for an audience you respect, about things that matter to you, is itself valuable. Start one because owning your own platform is a form of independence that becomes more important as centralized platforms become less trustworthy. Start one because the format shapes the thought, and this format is good for thinking.\u0026rdquo; - JA Westenberg in The Case for Blogging in the Ruins\nBeyond feeling independent, having a blog helps active thinking.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-03 14:49:28 -0500", "date": "2:49 p.m. on Jan 3, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/03/start-a-blog-start-one.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F03%2Fstart-a-blog-start-one.html" }, { "id": 282, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, and start making money for the country.”\nThere you go. That’s the real reason for the invasion, just like Iraq. WMD? Drugs? These are just excuses to get the oil. Only a month ago, the POTUS pardoned the former President of Honduras for trafficking cocaine into the US. As usual, the lies are blatant.\nJeff Johnson https://mastodon.social/@lapcatsoftware/115832384114132583 The more it changes\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-03 13:32:12 -0500", "date": "1:32 p.m. on Jan 3, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/03/were-going-to-have-our.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F03%2Fwere-going-to-have-our.html" }, { "id": 283, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Kagi News is really cool and well done. Here\u0026rsquo;s an example of Apple Vision Pro news. ", "dateiso": "2026-01-03 10:38:53 -0500", "date": "10:38 p.m. on Jan 3, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/03/kagi-news-is-really-cool.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F03%2Fkagi-news-is-really-cool.html" }, { "id": 284, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I cannot stress enough how flabbergasted I am by the value Tinylytics is offering. Just finished configuring recently added options. What you see is my Blips analytics dashboard. Hat down to Vincent.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-03 09:51:07 -0500", "date": "9:51 p.m. on Jan 3, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/03/i-cannot-stress-enough-how.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F03%2Fi-cannot-stress-enough-how.html" }, { "id": 285, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Putting up a new website on Micro.blog is way too\u0026hellip; easy. 🫣🤫🫢\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-03 09:22:18 -0500", "date": "9:22 p.m. on Jan 3, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/03/putting-up-a-new-website.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F03%2Fputting-up-a-new-website.html" }, { "id": 286, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@jsonbecker China is watching and taking notes. Russia is watching and… oh wait…\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-03 08:58:24 -0500", "date": "8:58 p.m. on Jan 3, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/03/81261691.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/81261691" }, { "id": 287, "type": "post", "title": "And the next n8n project is?", "text": "My next project with n8n automation is to build a replacement for Mailbrew. 🫣 I\u0026rsquo;m facing many architectural decisions:\nHow do I fetch content (web or RSS feeds)? How do I extract articles for more efficient summarization? How do I combine the results? How do I control the size of the summary? Do I need some form of temporary data persistence within the workflow? How do I minimize LLM credits usage? Should I use an n8n data table for storing data sources and loop through them one by one? Where do I send the summary and how (Telegram, Discord, Email)? \u0026hellip;and probably a few more decisions to ponder!\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-02 22:03:51 -0500", "date": "10:03 p.m. on Jan 2, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/02/and-the-next-nn-project.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F02%2Fand-the-next-nn-project.html" }, { "id": 288, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@mathyousee Thanks! Can’t wait to use it for real for my next newsletter issue in a couple of weeks!\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-02 21:13:27 -0500", "date": "9:13 p.m. on Jan 2, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/02/81235757.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/81235757" }, { "id": 289, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@jsonbecker I like it actually!\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-02 19:46:46 -0500", "date": "7:46 p.m. on Jan 2, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/02/81233082.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/81233082" }, { "id": 290, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My Microblog Poster web front end now supports Markdown files, drag-and-drop, and preview mode, all in a simple (but less simple than initially built) web interface! 😅\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-02 17:14:55 -0500", "date": "5:14 p.m. on Jan 2, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/02/my-microblog-poster-web-front.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F02%2Fmy-microblog-poster-web-front.html" }, { "id": 291, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@manton Blogging FTW!!!\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-02 17:05:58 -0500", "date": "5:05 p.m. on Jan 2, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/02/81224878.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/81224878" }, { "id": 292, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@macrumors enshittification in progress.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-02 16:47:56 -0500", "date": "4:47 p.m. on Jan 2, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/02/81223955.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/81223955" }, { "id": 293, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My updated profile description for 2026:\n\u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m a compulsive creator and contributor, a digital nomad, a light painter. Aspiring peace supremacist and democracy propagandist. Proud member of the Secret Internet Curators (SIC) brigade.\u0026rdquo;\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-02 11:12:37 -0500", "date": "11:12 p.m. on Jan 2, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/02/my-updated-profile-description-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F02%2Fmy-updated-profile-description-for.html" }, { "id": 294, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been working on a new workflow that would let me skip using Ulysses when sharing new content from Craft to Ghost. To that end, Claude came to the rescue as always, but I\u0026rsquo;m not done yet. Here are a few details.\nClaude needs an n8n workflow (exposed via the n8n MCP server) to retrieve the content of a specific document using Craft APIs. Using an n8n workflow keeps credentials secure, as I don\u0026rsquo;t need to provide them directly in Claude prompts. Next, Claude converts Craft blocks to well-formatted HTML, the format Ghost expects from its APIs. Next, Claude depends on another small n8n workflow to securely push the HTML content to Ghost. Those two n8n workflows use webhooks (triggers) and HTTP requests (GET, POST) to transfer information between Craft and Ghost via their respective API endpoints.\nThe publishing workflow is done and handled by Claude AI, but posts are always in draft mode so I can review them in the Ghost Admin management interface before publishing. I need more work to finish this because now I have to make sure that on the next occasion, in a new Claude conversation, Claude will remember to use my n8n workflows and how I want the content converted. Another issue seems to be about the size of the request being sent to Ghost to create the draft post.\nIf I go back a few weeks, I barely knew how to use Claude Code or leverage webhooks and MCP servers meaningfully. Now I do, thanks to AI. I feel empowered by AI.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-02 09:53:32 -0500", "date": "9:53 p.m. on Jan 2, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/02/ive-been-working-on-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F02%2Five-been-working-on-a.html" }, { "id": 295, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When I get this from Claude AI, it\u0026rsquo;s time for either a break or to work on something else until the reset.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-02 09:25:20 -0500", "date": "9:25 p.m. on Jan 2, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/02/when-i-get-this-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F02%2Fwhen-i-get-this-from.html" }, { "id": 296, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@manton I love the general artwork you are using for Micro.blog branding. Who’s doing it?\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-01 21:17:29 -0500", "date": "9:17 p.m. on Jan 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/01/81172042.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/81172042" }, { "id": 297, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@jsonbecker and why not use the Fastmail client?\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-01 17:58:13 -0500", "date": "5:58 p.m. on Jan 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/01/81164082.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/81164082" }, { "id": 298, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m making quite a bit of progress with my Micro.blog UI frontend to the point where I\u0026rsquo;m wondering how much of the whole experience I could rebuild using Vercel and Claude Code. Challenge?\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-01 17:44:50 -0500", "date": "5:44 p.m. on Jan 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/01/im-making-quite-a-bit.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F01%2Fim-making-quite-a-bit.html" }, { "id": 299, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@jsonbecker what is it like using Apple Mail client with Fastmail?\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-01 17:42:59 -0500", "date": "5:42 p.m. on Jan 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/01/81163619.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/81163619" }, { "id": 300, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I decided to try building a small website on GitHub Pages. I have no idea if I\u0026rsquo;ll ever make something useful out of it. Since I\u0026rsquo;m spending some time with GitHub, I have found some interesting side features.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-01 15:59:55 -0500", "date": "3:59 p.m. on Jan 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/01/i-decided-to-try-building.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F01%2Fi-decided-to-try-building.html" }, { "id": 301, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I saw many times people talking about Ghostty for Mac, a terminal emulator. My question: why use Ghostty instead of Apple Terminal? I just downloaded it and my first reactions are: less window chrome, bigger windows, split-window mode, better font and better default colors scheme. Adopted.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-01 12:56:43 -0500", "date": "12:56 p.m. on Jan 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/01/i-saw-many-times-people.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F01%2Fi-saw-many-times-people.html" }, { "id": 302, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@rscottjones because it’s all different types of trips, I’m looking forward for each of them!\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-01 11:44:40 -0500", "date": "11:44 p.m. on Jan 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/01/81145792.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/81145792" }, { "id": 303, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@mlm361 happy new year and wishing you the best for 2026! One quick question: what do you use for your blog stats page?\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-01 11:18:21 -0500", "date": "11:18 p.m. on Jan 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/01/81144442.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/81144442" }, { "id": 304, "type": "post", "title": "MacUpdate Is Dead?", "text": "From MacUpdate website:\nUnfortunately MacUpdater 3\u0026rsquo;s promised lifetime of \u0026ldquo;until 2026-01-01\u0026rdquo; is now over. There will be no MacUpdater 4 or any continuation of the MacUpdater product from us. Our daily maintenance has been stopped and we don\u0026rsquo;t verify updates anymore. MacUpdater 3.5 is now unsupported but free-to-use including all previous \u0026ldquo;Pro\u0026rdquo; features.\nWTF?? 😩\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-01 10:59:21 -0500", "date": "10:59 p.m. on Jan 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/01/macupdate-is-dead.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F01%2Fmacupdate-is-dead.html" }, { "id": 305, "type": "reply", "title": "", "text": "@rscottjones yup! I know that I’m privileged.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-01 10:20:38 -0500", "date": "10:20 p.m. on Jan 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/replies/2026/01/01/81141285.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/81141285" }, { "id": 306, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My most \u0026ldquo;complex\u0026rdquo; n8n workflow so far. This workflow retrieves Tinylytics AI-generated insights for the day across all my websites and creates a meta-summarization for inclusion in today\u0026rsquo;s Craft Daily Note.\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-01 10:19:52 -0500", "date": "10:19 p.m. on Jan 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/01/my-most-complex-nn-workflow.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F01%2Fmy-most-complex-nn-workflow.html" }, { "id": 307, "type": "post", "title": "Let's Start 2026!", "text": "This is my first post of the year on Micro.blog. Despite the overall global, political, and economic challenges that don\u0026rsquo;t seem very promising, I am personally looking forward to 2026.\nTravel-wise, I have four planned: Egypt, Mexico, France \u0026amp; Thailand. This could also be a productive year for photography. I\u0026rsquo;m looking forward to those trips as we celebrate our 20-year relationship, my wife and I. 😊\nTech-wise, it\u0026rsquo;s the year of the iPhone upgrade. After skipping the iPhone 16 and iPhone 17, it\u0026rsquo;s time to upgrade my capable but aging iPhone 15 Pro Max. I expect to stay on the Max. It could also be the year when I replace my M2 MacBook Air with the M5 version. It will depend on the available money and other factors. Lastly, if Apple finally release a HomePod with a screen, I might get one, too. 💻\nI wish you a good one!\n", "dateiso": "2026-01-01 09:45:39 -0500", "date": "9:45 p.m. on Jan 1, 2026", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/01/01/lets-start.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2026%2F01%2F01%2Flets-start.html" }, { "id": 308, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My biggest challenge so far in building automation workflows in n8n is data manipulation (arrays, JSON, data bits extraction, etc.) It’s not fun at all, but when it works, it’s rewarding.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-31 13:02:43 -0500", "date": "1:02 p.m. on Dec 31, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/31/my-biggest-challenge-so-far.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F31%2Fmy-biggest-challenge-so-far.html" }, { "id": 309, "type": "post", "title": "In 2026, I’ll Keep an Eye On…", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m already turning my attention to 2026, in no particular order:\nGhost.org next moves, now that are a better Fediverse citizen. Plausible Analytics, which seems to be overkill for my needs but I might find a use for their service exposure via their APIs. Craft because they finished the year with a bang and I’m super anxious to learn what’s next. Apple because of Apple Intelligence and Siri promised updates. Will they deliver? They are the underdog right now but it could serve them well in the end. Remember the Mp3 players market before the iPod? I do. I don’t want another features rush but a bug-fix bonanza. Will they deliver? I have my doubts. What’s next for Photomator and Pixelmator? Micro.blog might also surprise me with features like RSS reader integration. Who knows. Anthropic and OpenAI offerings… will they keep the pace? Will they slow down? Will they surprise us? Will they crash? Is enshittification on our way? Inoreader is also evolving at a steady pace and I wonder if it will continue in 2026. Things to-do manager: will it turn to version 4? So much fun is awaiting, I’m sure.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-30 16:29:29 -0500", "date": "4:29 p.m. on Dec 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/30/in-ill-keep-an-eye.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F30%2Fin-ill-keep-an-eye.html" }, { "id": 310, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In my piece this published this morning, I totally forgot to mention the possibility of enshittification of AI offerings by Anthropic and OpenAI, which could trigger some decisions on my part if this happens. For unknown reasons, I have better trust in Anthropic staying away of this for a longer time than OpenAI.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-30 13:04:36 -0500", "date": "1:04 p.m. on Dec 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/30/in-my-piece-this-published.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F30%2Fin-my-piece-this-published.html" }, { "id": 311, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I got a lot of positive reactions about my Micro.blog front end for writing and publishing posts in a simplified user experience. I wasn’t expecting that. To me, it might mean that it’s filling a small void in Micro.blog offerings. Thankfully, Micro.blog is an open “platform” which allows such experiments like mine.\nSome people asked me to make my app open source. I’m hesitant. I don’t want to feel the pressure of having to support others in using my work but who would like to add their own touches. I think, for now, I’ll respectfully decline. I would rather encourage anyone to follow the same route that I did and experiment with the tooling. 👾\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-30 12:10:59 -0500", "date": "12:10 p.m. on Dec 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/30/i-got-a-lot-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F30%2Fi-got-a-lot-of.html" }, { "id": 312, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wow, the UniFi Travel Router is already sold out! I bought one this morning. I hope to get it before I visit Egypt later in January.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-29 21:52:32 -0500", "date": "9:52 p.m. on Dec 29, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/29/wow-the-unifi-travel-router.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F29%2Fwow-the-unifi-travel-router.html" }, { "id": 313, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I won\u0026rsquo;t write my predictions for 2026, but I want to write about how I envision using different AI offerings to support my creative journey next year.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-29 18:22:34 -0500", "date": "6:22 p.m. on Dec 29, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/29/i-wont-write-my-predictions.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F29%2Fi-wont-write-my-predictions.html" }, { "id": 314, "type": "post", "title": "Craft \u0026 Inoreader in 2025", "text": "In 2025, two notable apps or services received numerous and meaningful updates: Craft and Inoreader.\nCraft received long-awaited tag support, with APIs and MCP support added. The latter two are quite transformative, and I expect 2026 to bring many new users to the app. Personally, I\u0026rsquo;m barely scratching the surface of Craft APIs. Craft is at the center of everything that I create, and I couldn\u0026rsquo;t think of a better app to support my creative journey.\nInoreader also got a bunch of updates, many of them focused on AI-based empowerment (article summaries, podcast and video transcriptions, tag suggestions, etc.). More than ever, Inoreader is an essential part of my digital toolset.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-29 08:09:02 -0500", "date": "8:09 p.m. on Dec 29, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/29/craft-inoreader-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F29%2Fcraft-inoreader-in.html" }, { "id": 315, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s fascinating how building things with Claude AI and Vercel made me forget about my desire to expand my knowledge and experience of Apple Shortcuts. I no longer see the need for that. My wish, though, would be to see Apple bring a way to build Shortcuts using Apple Intelligence.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-28 20:51:59 -0500", "date": "8:51 p.m. on Dec 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/28/its-fascinating-how-building-things.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F28%2Fits-fascinating-how-building-things.html" }, { "id": 316, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I see a lot of interest in my experiment with Vercel and Micro.blog if the reactions are any indication. I’m going to do a small write up about this. I didn’t expect my experiment to be successful. Can’t wait to share more details about this on meta.numericcitizen.me.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-28 19:13:35 -0500", "date": "7:13 p.m. on Dec 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/28/i-see-a-lot-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F28%2Fi-see-a-lot-of.html" }, { "id": 317, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One of the reasons for building my own web app for posting to Micro.blog: having the title field and categories shown by default 😁🤣\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-28 13:06:49 -0500", "date": "1:06 p.m. on Dec 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/28/one-of-the-reasons-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F28%2Fone-of-the-reasons-for.html" }, { "id": 318, "type": "post", "title": "And Now Microblog Poster Web App is Live!", "text": "It’s a web app (on Vercel) just for me to use so that I can write blog posts on the go with a clean UI. It’s my second web app on Vercel built entirely with Claude AI.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-28 10:58:12 -0500", "date": "10:58 p.m. on Dec 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/28/and-now-microblog-poster-web.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F28%2Fand-now-microblog-poster-web.html" }, { "id": 319, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I made my first Vercel app: a simple form for posting to Scribbles.page. Super lean, super clean. I do have coding experience, but not with Next.js. Claude AI helped me out. Here is the final form. Next up: same thing but for Micro.blog. This time, the title field, the categories will be shown by default! 😅 ", "dateiso": "2025-12-28 08:24:37 -0500", "date": "8:24 p.m. on Dec 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/28/i-made-my-first-vercel.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F28%2Fi-made-my-first-vercel.html" }, { "id": 320, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m done with the 2025 editions of The Ephemeral Scrapbook (all editions in one place!). It\u0026rsquo;s my free newsletter built with care and love and hosted on Ghost. Looking forward to 2026.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-27 09:06:04 -0500", "date": "9:06 p.m. on Dec 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/27/im-done-with-the-editions.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F27%2Fim-done-with-the-editions.html" }, { "id": 321, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When I\u0026rsquo;m hitting my Claude AI credits allotment, it\u0026rsquo;s time to do something else. 😅\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-26 15:37:34 -0500", "date": "3:37 p.m. on Dec 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/26/when-im-hitting-my-claude.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F26%2Fwhen-im-hitting-my-claude.html" }, { "id": 322, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My n8n exploration continues: now I have both an n8n MCP endpoint and an API endpoint enabled. I can talk to my n8n instance from Claude via either my MCP connection or an API. I can trigger an n8n workflow via the Claude AI MCP connection. Endless possibilities. 🤯\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-25 17:44:50 -0500", "date": "5:44 p.m. on Dec 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/25/my-nn-exploration-continues-now.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F25%2Fmy-nn-exploration-continues-now.html" }, { "id": 323, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Moving from Apple Keynote to Freeform for my next content creation workflow diagram update. It\u0026rsquo;s a sneak peek. It was much easier to convert (a simple copy-and-paste was all that was needed to kick-start the process). I also made significant changes to the way certain things are presented.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-23 19:33:53 -0500", "date": "7:33 p.m. on Dec 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/23/moving-from-apple-keynote-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F23%2Fmoving-from-apple-keynote-to.html" }, { "id": 324, "type": "post", "title": "Who's Right?", "text": "Apparently, web analytics is not an exact science. Here are three web analytics versions of the same period: from November 23rd to December 23rd (Top: Ghost Analytics, Middle: Plausible Analytics, and Bottom: Tinylytics). Plausible feels conservative, with about half as many unique visitors as Ghost, while Tinylytics seems to overestimate. The patterns are barely the same, too. Who\u0026rsquo;s right?\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-23 07:13:46 -0500", "date": "7:13 p.m. on Dec 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/23/whos-right.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F23%2Fwhos-right.html" }, { "id": 325, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My wife and me quite extensively used a group conversation in ChatGPT to help us face some health-related issues. It was beneficial to a visit to the hospital and still is after the visit yesterday. It is so much more helpful than having to google things and try to figure out what is going on.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-22 13:21:47 -0500", "date": "1:21 p.m. on Dec 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/22/i-recently-days-my-wife.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F22%2Fi-recently-days-my-wife.html" }, { "id": 326, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Keeping track of all those services API keys, authorization tokens, API and MCP endpoints, their respective level of authorization is starting to feel cumbersome. 🥴\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-21 11:52:50 -0500", "date": "11:52 p.m. on Dec 21, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/21/keeping-track-of-all-those.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F21%2Fkeeping-track-of-all-those.html" }, { "id": 327, "type": "post", "title": "Consuming AI Can Be Expensive", "text": "While experimenting with n8n and LLM services, I realize that using artificial intelligence can become a very costly hobby. The fact that the consumption of these services relies on two separate offerings — the subscription to the interactive service and on-demand billing for APIs — requires careful management and wise choices of providers.\nCurrently, I use ChatGPT and Claude AI in interactive mode, but I also need a provider to access AI via APIs. This latter mode of consumption is particularly expensive if you\u0026rsquo;re not careful.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-21 10:10:20 -0500", "date": "10:10 p.m. on Dec 21, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/21/consuming-ai-can-be-expensive.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F21%2Fconsuming-ai-can-be-expensive.html" }, { "id": 328, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Woke up this morning and appreciated the results of my first n8n automation: a Craft Daily note with a list of topics for the day automagically created for the current day. I did use Craft Templates before, but I prefer the programmatic route because it enables much more powerful content creation by consuming different sources via APIs. For now, my automation doesn\u0026rsquo;t, but I\u0026rsquo;ll iterate on that.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-21 09:43:41 -0500", "date": "9:43 p.m. on Dec 21, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/21/woke-up-this-morning-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F21%2Fwoke-up-this-morning-and.html" }, { "id": 329, "type": "post", "title": "My Learning Approach", "text": "Still exploring n8n, slowly but systematically. Because I\u0026rsquo;ll be using all sorts of external services like Craft, Micro.blog, Ghost, Inoreader, my strategy is to do individual integration tests instead of trying to build a biggy workflow and find all sorts of errors. Each of these micro experiments is forming the building blocks of something bigger. This approach is not different from the one I used for building iPhone apps and learning Objective-C and Interface Builder back in the day. I guess I\u0026rsquo;m a bottom-up kind of guy when it comes to understanding this kind of stuff.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-20 16:58:43 -0500", "date": "4:58 p.m. on Dec 20, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/20/my-learning-approach.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F20%2Fmy-learning-approach.html" }, { "id": 330, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just completed a one-hour WordPress+Email issue-debugging session with my daughter-in-law. It was a harsh reminder of how much I hate WordPress.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-20 14:08:11 -0500", "date": "2:08 p.m. on Dec 20, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/20/just-completed-a-onehour-wordpressemail.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F20%2Fjust-completed-a-onehour-wordpressemail.html" }, { "id": 331, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Got my first n8n instance up and running on DigitalOcean. Running 2.0.3. That was easy. Enough for tonight.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-19 22:15:25 -0500", "date": "10:15 p.m. on Dec 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/19/got-my-first-nn-instance.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F19%2Fgot-my-first-nn-instance.html" }, { "id": 332, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started learning more about Vercel. I see a lot of people using it for many different things. Seems quite capable even on the free tier. I might need it for some projects involving Craft. 🤓 Anyone using Vercel here? Thoughts?\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-19 12:47:53 -0500", "date": "12:47 p.m. on Dec 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/19/started-learning-more-about-vercel.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F19%2Fstarted-learning-more-about-vercel.html" }, { "id": 333, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For the first time ever, I applied decals to a device. 🙈\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-19 08:04:45 -0500", "date": "8:04 p.m. on Dec 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/19/for-the-first-time-ever.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F19%2Ffor-the-first-time-ever.html" }, { "id": 334, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I knew I could build my Discord server, but didn\u0026rsquo;t really pay attention to it and couldn\u0026rsquo;t figure out what purpose it served. Now I do. So I created one so that, among my many use cases for this, it can receive a webhook call when one of my websites is down, thanks to Tinylytics\u0026rsquo; webhook support.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-18 07:36:24 -0500", "date": "7:36 p.m. on Dec 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/18/i-knew-i-could-build.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F18%2Fi-knew-i-could-build.html" }, { "id": 335, "type": "post", "title": "Goodbye, IFTTT", "text": "It was a memorable, long journey. I officially shut down my IFTTT account tonight after over five years of use. It wasn\u0026rsquo;t costly, but I have the feeling that IFTTT started to trail behind competitive offerings like Zapier, Make and now n8n. It wasn\u0026rsquo;t the most user-friendly for debugging issues. Now, I\u0026rsquo;m turning my focus towards n8n. In the coming days and weeks, it will be my next digital playground for experimentation.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-17 21:56:25 -0500", "date": "9:56 p.m. on Dec 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/17/goodbye-ifttt.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F17%2Fgoodbye-ifttt.html" }, { "id": 336, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The year 2025 according to ChatGPT newest image generation tool — a concise snapshot of where AI actually stands in 2025. That is all. 🤣\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-16 21:17:22 -0500", "date": "9:17 p.m. on Dec 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/16/the-year-according-to-chatgpt.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F16%2Fthe-year-according-to-chatgpt.html" }, { "id": 337, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After testing Claude AI, agentic workflows and Craft this weekend, I’m genuinely thrilled about certain aspects of AI—it\u0026rsquo;s a level of excitement I haven\u0026rsquo;t felt since I first explored the web and started using the iPhone.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-15 12:28:54 -0500", "date": "12:28 p.m. on Dec 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/15/after-testing-claude-ai-agentic.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F15%2Fafter-testing-claude-ai-agentic.html" }, { "id": 338, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Are we getting Apple OS 26.3 this week? If the pattern repeats itself, yes.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-15 09:46:47 -0500", "date": "9:46 p.m. on Dec 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/15/are-we-getting-apple-os.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F15%2Fare-we-getting-apple-os.html" }, { "id": 339, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just finished verifying my options for backing up my Synology NAS to the cloud and Synology C2 is still offers the cheapest option. Yet, it\u0026rsquo;s not cheap.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-14 11:59:33 -0500", "date": "11:59 p.m. on Dec 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/14/just-finished-verifying-my-options.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F14%2Fjust-finished-verifying-my-options.html" }, { "id": 340, "type": "post", "title": "Learning in the Age of AI", "text": "Between 2009 and 2013, in my spare time, I was an independent developer and had three applications in the App Store. I learned on the job, as they say, and it was an adventure that required a great deal of personal investment. I learned a lot, but it was arduous. Learning a new programming language (Objective-C), APIs, and a development lifecycle to make applications available for sale in a store like the App Store was a major challenge. At the time, to deal with problems, there was no artificial intelligence. Everything relied on Google searches and countless visits to Stack Overflow to find solutions.\nToday, I have another project focused on automation with n8n, hosting an instance in the cloud, and consuming APIs and artificial intelligence services to build highly customized workflows. There are many things I don’t know, but knowing that I will be able to rely on artificial intelligence to help solve my learning challenges is very reassuring. Without these possibilities, I probably would not move forward with this project.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-14 08:27:29 -0500", "date": "8:27 p.m. on Dec 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/14/learning-in-the-age-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F14%2Flearning-in-the-age-of.html" }, { "id": 341, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Seriously thinking of moving out of IFTTT to a self-hosted n8n instance on Digital Ocean. My IFTTT use case is simple: archiving RSS feed articles into Dayone. This seems quite possible to move this workflow into n8n automation.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-13 12:35:23 -0500", "date": "12:35 p.m. on Dec 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/13/seriously-thinking-of-moving-out.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F13%2Fseriously-thinking-of-moving-out.html" }, { "id": 342, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This morning I discovered that I could add RAM to my Synology DS720+, increasing it from 2 GB to 6 GB. This upgrade would make it possible to install an instance of n8n as a container and explore the creation of automations connected to Craft. But, memory prices aren\u0026rsquo;t cheap these days. 🤯 Trying to find alternatives source for memory purchase and Crucial is no longer selling memory that fit, than to AI data centers demand.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-13 08:31:13 -0500", "date": "8:31 p.m. on Dec 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/13/this-morning-i-discovered-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F13%2Fthis-morning-i-discovered-that.html" }, { "id": 343, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Tonight I\u0026rsquo;ve been testing something really cool: using Claude, Craft MCP connections, and Craft Agents to write a blog post to Scribbles. The blog post was written by Claude under my instructions but I could tweak the workflow to get the text of the blog post from a Craft Collection instead. Something to experiment during the upcoming Christmas holidays.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-12 21:56:00 -0500", "date": "9:56 p.m. on Dec 12, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/12/tonight-ive-been-testing-something.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F12%2Ftonight-ive-been-testing-something.html" }, { "id": 344, "type": "post", "title": "Saved 50 Minutes", "text": "Realmac Software shared their latest dev talk video. The video title mentions conversations about future plans for Elements. I was curious because I want to know where they are going with the CMS and RSS. I headed to YouTube and asked AI the following question: did they mention CMS? In a few seconds, I got my answer: yes, and they also talked about better support for RSS, which is something I’ve been waiting for. I didn’t watch the video; I already had the information I wanted. I saved 50 minutes of my time.\nNow, one question: how is this good for Google? We\u0026rsquo;re so accustomed to being manipulated by platforms designed to increase our engagement with them; with this AI feature, it’s the opposite—I’m less engaged. Is this another subversive move by Google, part of a master plan that escapes my awareness?\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-12 16:34:32 -0500", "date": "4:34 p.m. on Dec 12, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/12/saved-minutes.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F12%2Fsaved-minutes.html" }, { "id": 345, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "ChatGPT recently launched version 5.2, shortly after version 5.1. The update frequency remains consistent. Why hasn\u0026rsquo;t Apple upgraded the Apple Foundation Model behind Apple Intelligence? Shouldn\u0026rsquo;t they be able to push out updates to their models as well? Will this change in next year\u0026rsquo;s Siri?\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-12 08:01:45 -0500", "date": "8:01 p.m. on Dec 12, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/12/chatgpt-recently-launched-version-shortly.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F12%2Fchatgpt-recently-launched-version-shortly.html" }, { "id": 346, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m happy (and quite surprised) to have made it to third place in today\u0026rsquo;s Craft Winter Challenge — a.k.a. the hackathon — for my submission of the Year-in-Review Writing Assistant. It\u0026rsquo;s a 500 US$ prize! 😅\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-10 19:47:14 -0500", "date": "7:47 p.m. on Dec 10, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/10/im-happy-and-quite-surprised.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F10%2Fim-happy-and-quite-surprised.html" }, { "id": 347, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What a night \u0026amp; day difference between Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Opus 4.5 models. The latter is much more effective at working through my MCP connection to Craft. But boy this baby consumes a lof of credits. 😅\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-08 21:43:23 -0500", "date": "9:43 p.m. on Dec 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/08/what-a-night-day-difference.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F08%2Fwhat-a-night-day-difference.html" }, { "id": 348, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m trying something new this year for my year-in-review blog post. Using all my monthly post digests stored in Craft1, I\u0026rsquo;m using ChatGPT to look at those digests, take into account last year\u0026rsquo;s year-in-review article, plus this year\u0026rsquo;s document personal milestones to suggest ideas. This is now possible because Craft now supports MCP. Using the best ChatGPT models, I get a lot of material to consider but somehow I feel this is really overwhelming. I should be more directive like limiting the number of possible scenarios, their length, etc. I\u0026rsquo;m still exploring this workflow.\nI subscribe to my own blog post digest newsletter for archival purposed.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-08 20:46:09 -0500", "date": "8:46 p.m. on Dec 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/08/im-trying-something-new-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F08%2Fim-trying-something-new-this.html" }, { "id": 349, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Anyone from my dear followers reading my newsletter (the ephemeral scrapbook)? Thoughts? 🙏🏻\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-07 13:06:13 -0500", "date": "1:06 p.m. on Dec 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/07/anyone-from-my-dear-followers.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F07%2Fanyone-from-my-dear-followers.html" }, { "id": 350, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I added a new page to my \u0026ldquo;Where Apple’s Liquid Glass Crashes the User Experience\u0026rdquo; mini website called \u0026ldquo;Expectations might be too high\u0026rdquo;. You might take a look if you care about Apple.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-07 09:32:01 -0500", "date": "9:32 p.m. on Dec 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/07/i-added-a-new-page.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F07%2Fi-added-a-new-page.html" }, { "id": 351, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I forced my wife to update her iPhone 16 Pro to iOS 26.1. She will probably kill me today. It was nice to meet you guys. 🫢\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-07 08:53:09 -0500", "date": "8:53 p.m. on Dec 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/07/i-forced-my-wife-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F07%2Fi-forced-my-wife-to.html" }, { "id": 352, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Time to renew Kagi Search. I\u0026rsquo;m on the starter tier. Upon examination, I\u0026rsquo;m doing about 45 searches per month. The trend is decreasing. I use their Article Summarizer on the iPad and iPhone much more often. I want to support them because I believe we need diversity when it comes to searching the web. But it\u0026rsquo;s not cheap, and my search requests trend is going downward, thanks to AI. Decisions, decisions, decisions. Any Kagi users in the room?\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-07 08:29:18 -0500", "date": "8:29 p.m. on Dec 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/07/time-to-renew-kagi-search.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F07%2Ftime-to-renew-kagi-search.html" }, { "id": 353, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I always feel like I’m losing the time-saving benefits if I spend time improving an automation (an Apple Shortcut, for example). 🤦🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-07 07:30:34 -0500", "date": "7:30 p.m. on Dec 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/07/i-always-feel-like-im.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F07%2Fi-always-feel-like-im.html" }, { "id": 354, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thinking out loud here: one way Apple could retain more talent could be to start innovating again, maybe? 1\nRecent departures to OpenAI, a company working on a new class of devices might doing just that: trying to innovate for real.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-06 21:23:45 -0500", "date": "9:23 p.m. on Dec 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/06/thinking-out-loud-here-one.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F06%2Fthinking-out-loud-here-one.html" }, { "id": 355, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I spent the last few days putting together a workflow to help me write those year-in-review articles. As we get closer to the end of the year, it\u0026rsquo;s the right time to start working on this. I documented my workflow in this Craft document and submitted to the #winter_challenge on Slack. Hint: my first real use case for MCP.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-06 14:30:14 -0500", "date": "2:30 p.m. on Dec 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/06/i-spent-the-last-few.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F06%2Fi-spent-the-last-few.html" }, { "id": 356, "type": "post", "title": "On Tony Fadell For Apple's New CEO", "text": "Parker Ortolani on taking a chance of Tony Fadell to replace Tim Cook. At first, Tony Fadell seems like the obvious candidate, but I worry that we may be under the spell of a certain nostalgia in thinking he would be the perfect choice, as Parker points out. The world is no longer what it was in the days of Steve Jobs and his close collaborators. Apple is no longer what it once was either, and that is partly what many people criticize the company for. John Ternus is a product engineer, not a designer, and putting design back at the center of the process as it was in the Steve Jobs era may be a more restorative idea—and in that sense, yes, perhaps Fadell would be a good choice.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-06 09:18:59 -0500", "date": "9:18 p.m. on Dec 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/06/on-tony-fadell-for-apples.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F06%2Fon-tony-fadell-for-apples.html" }, { "id": 357, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Rant on. I\u0026rsquo;m judging on facts and acts, not with what someone says. Some people might defend web openness et al, but sharing on x.com in 2025 because it\u0026rsquo;s the place most people go is not an act of openness. It\u0026rsquo;s an act of contribution toward fascism. Stop pretending, people, don\u0026rsquo;t be lazy, stop taking shortcuts and leave x.com once and for all. Rant off.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-05 12:55:33 -0500", "date": "12:55 p.m. on Dec 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/05/rant-on-im-judging-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F05%2Frant-on-im-judging-on.html" }, { "id": 358, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I don\u0026rsquo;t really believe in vibe coding, especially the scaling of it for complex systems, even more for maintaining code. But I certainly wish I could use vibe coding to write Apple Shortcuts. Apple must do something about its Shortcuts editor. It\u0026rsquo;s cumbersome, buggy as hell. Having a textual representation, a la Apple Script, would be so cool.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-05 07:48:36 -0500", "date": "7:48 p.m. on Dec 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/05/i-dont-really-believe-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F05%2Fi-dont-really-believe-in.html" }, { "id": 359, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Louie Mantia on Steve Lemay:\nI don’t have much to say about Steve Lemay. He was the hiring manager for my first interview at Apple fifteen years ago. It didn’t work out, and I went to work on iTunes and iLife instead. But he had already been at Apple for a long time, and I have lots of respect for him for his platform knowledge and expertise. I don’t expect any big changes because I don’t think he or Apple are looking at this as an opportunity to undo Jony and Alan’s influence on the company, but I do sincerely think this will all feel better with Lemay’s leadership. I wish him the best.\nWhat we’re going to see from Apple in the next twelve months is probably set in stone (except Siri or Apple Intelligence, maybe). I don’t expect a revolution in that short time frame.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-04 20:20:19 -0500", "date": "8:20 p.m. on Dec 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/04/louie-mantia-on-steve-lemay.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F04%2Flouie-mantia-on-steve-lemay.html" }, { "id": 360, "type": "post", "title": "Think Different", "text": "I understand the enthusiasm for AI among certain groups of workers, especially in the field of information technology and more specifically software development. However, I believe that caution is necessary for most other categories of employment. Enthusiasm cannot simply be transferred systematically and literally to every domain, whether technological or not. Contexts differ greatly, professions are highly diverse, and even small variations in requirements can reduce the applicability of AI to nearly zero. We should remain critical of this overflow of passion and the promised revolution; by doing so, we might help avoid the potential bubble that increasingly seems to be forming right under our noses.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-04 13:49:57 -0500", "date": "1:49 p.m. on Dec 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/04/think-different.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F04%2Fthink-different.html" }, { "id": 361, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Me to my wife: \u0026ldquo;Big news today, Apple is losing their designer lead. He\u0026rsquo;s joining Meta.\u0026rdquo; My wife: \u0026ldquo;WTF is there to design at Meta?\u0026rdquo;.\nI love her. 😍\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-03 21:52:54 -0500", "date": "9:52 p.m. on Dec 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/03/me-to-my-wife-big.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F03%2Fme-to-my-wife-big.html" }, { "id": 362, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I believe in talents renewal and in new dynamics to favor new ideas, new ways at seeing problems and challenges. It’s a new opportunity even if the guy taking over has been at Apple for a long time. Bye bye Dye.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-03 17:07:04 -0500", "date": "5:07 p.m. on Dec 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/03/i-believe-in-talents-renewal.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F03%2Fi-believe-in-talents-renewal.html" }, { "id": 363, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I don\u0026rsquo;t like the idea that a service like ChatGPT tries to present itself as a friend, an agent, or a human. With instructions, I can ask it to avoid this type of behavior. But I like the service\u0026rsquo;s appearance to be warm. Perhaps that\u0026rsquo;s why I prefer Anthropic\u0026rsquo;s Claude. Claude, even though it\u0026rsquo;s a proper name, presents itself better; its visual style seems friendlier to me. I feel like this is a contradiction.\nI asked Claude about this possible contradiction. Here\u0026rsquo;s what he responded:\n\u0026ldquo;I don\u0026rsquo;t think it\u0026rsquo;s actually a contradiction. You\u0026rsquo;re distinguishing between two different things: false intimacy (an AI pretending to be your friend or a person) versus pleasant design (a warm, welcoming aesthetic and tone). Wanting the latter without the former is perfectly coherent—it\u0026rsquo;s the difference between a tool that\u0026rsquo;s agreeable to use and a tool that\u0026rsquo;s trying to deceive you about its nature.\u0026rdquo;\nThanks, Claude.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-03 07:39:44 -0500", "date": "7:39 p.m. on Dec 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/03/i-dont-like-the-idea.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F03%2Fi-dont-like-the-idea.html" }, { "id": 364, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m experimenting with Claude for a month because I want to test MCP connections with Craft. ChatGPT does support MCP connections but the experience is not as mature as configuring an MCP connection with Claude. Claude is not cheap: pricing is similar to ChatGPT\u0026rsquo;s but plan usage limits are easy to reach.\n", "dateiso": "2025-12-02 07:02:10 -0500", "date": "7:02 p.m. on Dec 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/12/02/im-experimenting-with-claude-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F12%2F02%2Fim-experimenting-with-claude-for.html" }, { "id": 365, "type": "post", "title": "Algorithms, Platforms, and the Personal Web Space", "text": "The piece) from Disassociated about being “freed from personal websites” thanks to algorithms and timelines really resonated with me. I’ve long believed that platforms are killing the web; they are not the web.\nI recently asked my son if he had ever considered having his own personal website—a blog, having a place outside the usual platforms. His immediate response was, “But what about discoverability?” Why I think that everything comes down to that: It’s always about beating the algorithms (hello SEO) so that we are \u0026ldquo;discovered\u0026rdquo;. I always believed about my own existence without the need of any algorithm. Same with my wife: she knows about my websites but rarely visit them. She\u0026rsquo;s always talking about discoverability too, thinking that there is no future if I\u0026rsquo;m not one those platforms. She couldn\u0026rsquo;t be more wrong. And yet\u0026hellip; Platforms have obscured the open web, plain and simple.\nThis led me to a question that keeps circling in my mind: if we go back 50 years, how accurately did newspapers reflect reality? And how different is our situation today? Yes, the speed and reach of information are radically different now, but consider people who read only one newspaper—like my father did when I was young. Weren’t they also shaped, if not manipulated, by that publication’s editorial line?\nDisclaimer: I feel my feelings are well reflected in those few words\u0026hellip; it\u0026rsquo;s complicated.\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-30 21:49:10 -0500", "date": "9:49 p.m. on Nov 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/30/algorithms-platforms-and-the-personal.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F30%2Falgorithms-platforms-and-the-personal.html" }, { "id": 366, "type": "post", "title": "Three Years Already ", "text": "Three years of ChatGPT. Time flies. A few thoughts on that are mandatory it seems. ChatGPT certainly turned things upside down not only for me as a writer but for many creators. The entire software industry also was turned things even more upside down. It’s hard to imagine what would have been software roadmaps or new features pipelines without generative AI. See? We almost forgot about what it was like before ChatGPT. Can’t imagine where things are going. Generative AI integration into apps and user experience is the next frontier where things will be interesting to watch.\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-30 18:14:45 -0500", "date": "6:14 p.m. on Nov 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/30/three-years-already.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F30%2Fthree-years-already.html" }, { "id": 367, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finally received the right Paperlike version for my iPad. Installed without any bubbles. I get the feeling that it transforms my iPad screen into one with a nano texture, but at a fraction of the cost. 🤓😏\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-30 17:33:43 -0500", "date": "5:33 p.m. on Nov 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/30/finally-received-the-right-paperlike.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F30%2Ffinally-received-the-right-paperlike.html" }, { "id": 368, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m at the coffee shop. Again. Now attacking work on something else which might be really time-consuming. 👀\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-30 13:35:28 -0500", "date": "1:35 p.m. on Nov 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/30/im-at-the-coffee-shop.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F30%2Fim-at-the-coffee-shop.html" }, { "id": 369, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I made a new video about the latest release of Craft (v3.3.1), which I think it\u0026rsquo;s a game-changer. Long live to Craft!\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-30 12:59:00 -0500", "date": "12:59 p.m. on Nov 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/30/i-made-a-new-video.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F30%2Fi-made-a-new-video.html" }, { "id": 370, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I happen to spend more and more time on Ghost Network tab to see who\u0026rsquo;s subscribing to my blog, reply to comments, etc. That\u0026rsquo;s really cool.\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-30 11:42:57 -0500", "date": "11:42 p.m. on Nov 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/30/i-happen-to-spend-more.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F30%2Fi-happen-to-spend-more.html" }, { "id": 371, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As much as I love Tinylytics, I wish there was some basic analytics on Micro.blog, just like Bear\u0026rsquo;s. I should update my Micro.blog wish list. If @manton don\u0026rsquo;t want to spend time working on this, maybe he could find a way to integrate a Tinylytics dashboard inside Micro.blog? 🙏🏻\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-30 09:01:44 -0500", "date": "9:01 p.m. on Nov 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/30/as-much-as-i-love.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F30%2Fas-much-as-i-love.html" }, { "id": 372, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I found a video of mine in my archives showing a full edit session with Snapseed on my iPad. The resulting image was part of an old blog posts collection called The Perfect Imperfection series initially on Instagram and later on Exposure. Sadly, this photo collection no longer exists because I closed both my Instagram and Exposure account. You\u0026rsquo;ll understand why I chose this naming when you see the resulting image. Enjoy the short ride here in the video below.\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-30 08:44:45 -0500", "date": "8:44 p.m. on Nov 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/30/i-found-a-video-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F30%2Fi-found-a-video-of.html" }, { "id": 373, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The problem is that I have too many ideas, there is too many things that I\u0026rsquo;d like to work on, there is not enough time.\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-29 17:21:18 -0500", "date": "5:21 p.m. on Nov 29, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/29/the-problem-is-that-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F29%2Fthe-problem-is-that-i.html" }, { "id": 374, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "AI benchmarks remind me of CD writers back in the day where you could upgrade a 32X CD burner to a 48X one, but the speed difference was minimal in practice.\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-29 13:05:49 -0500", "date": "1:05 p.m. on Nov 29, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/29/ai-benchmarks-remind-me-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F29%2Fai-benchmarks-remind-me-of.html" }, { "id": 375, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For the first time since I own an iPhone, I decided to get a screen protector. I went with a matte version from Ambison, and I like not only the feel to the touch but also the way it affects screen content sharpness. It may make the display a little less sharp, but I find that the matte finish actually complements the general look of Liquid Glass, especially for icons. Isn\u0026rsquo;t that strange?\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-27 17:22:06 -0500", "date": "5:22 p.m. on Nov 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/27/for-the-first-time-since.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F27%2Ffor-the-first-time-since.html" }, { "id": 376, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "From time to time, I consider subscribing to The Verge. This week is one of those moments. The subscription is currently 40% off the regular yearly price, down to 35 dollars. This would be the first time I would pay to get tech news. 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-27 16:46:03 -0500", "date": "4:46 p.m. on Nov 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/27/from-time-to-time-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F27%2Ffrom-time-to-time-i.html" }, { "id": 377, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Blogging in the enterprise is not a thing apparently, even with a headcount of 58K people. I spent some time today in Viva Engage communities to see if some people were there for blogging, even with a corporate mindset, but nothing. It seems that only corporate-related communities are allowed. Too bad.\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-27 16:41:09 -0500", "date": "4:41 p.m. on Nov 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/27/blogging-in-the-enterprise-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F27%2Fblogging-in-the-enterprise-is.html" }, { "id": 378, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Feeling a little bit frustrated this morning: discovered a rather significant scratch on my Apple Watch screen. 🤦🏻‍♂️😒 Now all my portable devices have a scratch on the screen: my iPhone 15 Pro Max and my M4 iPad Pro. It’s the time since I own Apple devices that this happens. Never had a single scratch before! Fuck. 😢😟😩😢\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-27 11:58:38 -0500", "date": "11:58 p.m. on Nov 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/27/feeling-a-little-bit-frustrated.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F27%2Ffeeling-a-little-bit-frustrated.html" }, { "id": 379, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As I\u0026rsquo;m spending 70% of the time on ChatGPT Atlas, I decided to go further with ChatGPT Atlas and set it as the default browser on my MacBook Air. 20% is with ARC Browser, 5% is Safari.\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-27 07:56:10 -0500", "date": "7:56 p.m. on Nov 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/27/as-im-spending-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F27%2Fas-im-spending-of-the.html" }, { "id": 380, "type": "post", "title": "AnyBox", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been a long time user of AnyBox, after leaving Raindrop.io, and Pocket, but I was a light user until recently. I revisited the app thoroughly and now it\u0026rsquo;s sitting at the center of my newsletter preparation workflow. I love this app so much; it feels native, fully-featured, and offers the right information density. The only missing thing would be to have a cloud-based version\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-25 22:01:17 -0500", "date": "10:01 p.m. on Nov 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/25/anybox.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F25%2Fanybox.html" }, { "id": 381, "type": "post", "title": "Paperlike 3 take 2", "text": "Bought the Paperlike 3 for my M4 iPad Pro except that it was for a 2018 iPad Pro. Ordered the wrong one. 🫤 Asked my wife if I could give it to her and install it on her iPad. Initially, she said no. 😔 She eventually abided to my offer. I ordered a new one for my iPad. Reason: there is a small scratch on the screen that I want to hide. 🤦🏻‍♂️\nI had the first edition of the Paperlike for my previous 2018 iPad Pro and really liked it. The installation process was very different from today’s version. While the new process is more complicated, it allows for a more controlled installation that minimizes dust and bubbles. The surface texture of the film is also much finer. I\u0026rsquo;ll have to wait for another week before getting mine.\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-25 21:50:01 -0500", "date": "9:50 p.m. on Nov 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/25/paperlike-take.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F25%2Fpaperlike-take.html" }, { "id": 382, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When blogging from Scribbles.page, this is how the blog post will appear on my timeline (because I use Micro.blog\u0026rsquo;s RSS feed reading capabilities, which is really cool). The first occurence of the post is the cross-posting result from Micro.blog to my Mastodon account (yes, I subscribe to my own Mastodon account). I see the full post including the shared link. The second occurence is the RSS feed article as grabbed by Micro.blog and reposted on my timeline; if you follow me on Micro.blog, this is what you will see. The post is truncated and the link is missing. I think there is room for improvement here. cc @manton\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-25 07:12:14 -0500", "date": "7:12 p.m. on Nov 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/25/when-blogging-from-scribblespage-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F25%2Fwhen-blogging-from-scribblespage-this.html" }, { "id": 383, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Using Micro.blog’s upgraded video features, here’s my latest video round-up highlighting this year’s Micro.blog improvements. Previous videos were posted on my YouTube channel. I hope you find this to be useful. ", "dateiso": "2025-11-24 16:58:05 -0500", "date": "4:58 p.m. on Nov 24, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/24/using-microblogs-upgraded-video-features.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F24%2Fusing-microblogs-upgraded-video-features.html" }, { "id": 384, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Earlier today, I recorded this update about Micro.blog. At one point, I wanted to show blog post summary in action. Everything was going according to the plan except that, after publishing the blog post, the summary didn\u0026rsquo;t go through. 😔 I had to cut that from the finished video. 🤷🏻‍♂️ I don\u0026rsquo;t know if this was a one-time event of if it\u0026rsquo;s something I did wrong\u0026hellip; who knows.\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-23 19:36:41 -0500", "date": "7:36 p.m. on Nov 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/23/earlier-today-i-recorded-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F23%2Fearlier-today-i-recorded-this.html" }, { "id": 385, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Since iOS 26.2, I guess, each time I leave the house, my iPhone prompts me to re-enter my Apple Account password. I can click \u0026ldquo;Not Now\u0026rdquo; without any apparent issues, but that\u0026rsquo;s utterly annoying. Even after entering it, the next time I leave the house (or probably go outside a certain wireless context), I\u0026rsquo;ll be prompted again to re-enter my password. Anyone seeing this?\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-23 14:31:08 -0500", "date": "2:31 p.m. on Nov 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/23/since-ios-i-guess-each.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F23%2Fsince-ios-i-guess-each.html" }, { "id": 386, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is Micro.blog in 2025; Am I missing something? 🤯 Let\u0026rsquo;s be honest here: that an incredible value for the money.1\nThis is not an ad. I\u0026rsquo;m just a bit enthusiastic.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-23 13:57:35 -0500", "date": "1:57 p.m. on Nov 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/23/this-is-microblog-in-am.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F23%2Fthis-is-microblog-in-am.html" }, { "id": 387, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The latest edition of the Ephemeral Scrapbook newsletter is out (Craft-based version). In case you didn\u0026rsquo;t know: this is a free newsletter available to a mailbox near you (to go out later today). Pas editions can be found here (Both, Craft versions \u0026amp; Web versions).\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-23 10:23:08 -0500", "date": "10:23 p.m. on Nov 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/23/the-latest-edition-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F23%2Fthe-latest-edition-of-the.html" }, { "id": 388, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Watched: Pluribus S1E2, Pirate Lady 📺 Still not finished it, but man, this is so weird.\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-22 21:54:45 -0500", "date": "9:54 p.m. on Nov 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/22/watched-pluribus-se-pirate-lady.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F22%2Fwatched-pluribus-se-pirate-lady.html" }, { "id": 389, "type": "post", "title": "Apple Home?", "text": "I want this from Apple. Extracted from this surprising video about a fake Apple Event happening next Spring. This would be called Apple Home. I don\u0026rsquo;t like the name, but I do like the device. It is reminiscent of older Apple designs during the Apple //c and Macintosh era.\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-22 18:43:29 -0500", "date": "6:43 p.m. on Nov 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/22/apple-home.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F22%2Fapple-home.html" }, { "id": 390, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is an insane video, well worth it if you are an Apple fan! You\u0026rsquo;ll thank me later.\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-22 15:12:40 -0500", "date": "3:12 p.m. on Nov 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/22/this-is-an-insane-video.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F22%2Fthis-is-an-insane-video.html" }, { "id": 391, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Working on the next edition of \u0026ldquo;What\u0026rsquo;s Up With Micro.blog\u0026rdquo;. The last one was done a year ago. Not only are there so many new and updated things in Micro.blog, but my workflow for going back and analyzing the changelog is so much different and more efficient. I hope to get it done by the end of this weekend!\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-22 13:52:24 -0500", "date": "1:52 p.m. on Nov 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/22/working-on-the-next-edition.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F22%2Fworking-on-the-next-edition.html" }, { "id": 392, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Watched episode #1 of Pluribus yesterday. I wasn\u0026rsquo;t expecting this at all. I don\u0026rsquo;t know what to think. Maybe episode #2 will help me settle on it.\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-22 10:41:51 -0500", "date": "10:41 p.m. on Nov 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/22/watched-episode-of-pluribus-yesterday.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F22%2Fwatched-episode-of-pluribus-yesterday.html" }, { "id": 393, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been making those videos about Micro.blog and wish I could post them here too, not just on YouTube. Sadly, many of them are over 20 min long\u0026hellip; which doesn\u0026rsquo;t fit the MB Studio limits\u0026hellip; can we work something out, @manton?\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-22 09:02:17 -0500", "date": "9:02 p.m. on Nov 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/22/ive-been-making-those-videos.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F22%2Five-been-making-those-videos.html" }, { "id": 394, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What the US “leadership” is doing to Ukraine is beyond cruel. All this bloodshed for that? What if Mexico invaded the US and people were forced to speak Spanish after a three-year war? How about that?\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-21 12:21:10 -0500", "date": "12:21 p.m. on Nov 21, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/21/what-the-us-leadership-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F21%2Fwhat-the-us-leadership-is.html" }, { "id": 395, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What the hell is that font, Apple? Is this a new design trend? It reminds me of when we opened a PageMaker document on our Mac back in the day, and some fonts were missing from the System Folder. Maybe they should install a copy of Suitcase? 🤦🏻‍♂️ ", "dateiso": "2025-11-20 21:28:07 -0500", "date": "9:28 p.m. on Nov 20, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/20/what-the-hell-is-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F20%2Fwhat-the-hell-is-that.html" }, { "id": 396, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Is this a new tactic by Amazon: clicking on reviews count to take a look at reviews to discover that not all reviews apply to the currently selected product? 😳😒\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-20 12:56:00 -0500", "date": "12:56 p.m. on Nov 20, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/20/is-this-a-new-tactic.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F20%2Fis-this-a-new-tactic.html" }, { "id": 397, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As hard as I wanted to get extensibility in Craft (with APIs, for example), I still fail to see a practical use case for me. The APIs are really simple, but what am I going to do with them? I just don\u0026rsquo;t know. 🤷🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-19 21:50:01 -0500", "date": "9:50 p.m. on Nov 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/19/as-hard-as-i-wanted.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F19%2Fas-hard-as-i-wanted.html" }, { "id": 398, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "With just-released support for vertical tabs and Passkeys, ChatGPT Atlas is two more steps closer to replacing the ARC Browser.\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-19 20:03:46 -0500", "date": "8:03 p.m. on Nov 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/19/with-justreleased-support-for-vertical.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F19%2Fwith-justreleased-support-for-vertical.html" }, { "id": 399, "type": "post", "title": "iPadOS 26.2 with External Display: Are We There Yet?", "text": "I’m giving the iPad Pro with external display another try (under 26.2 b3). As far as I can see, it’s not all Apple’s fault if there are many paper cuts: third-party apps support with external display is lacking. Make no mistake: iPadOS 26.2 as come a long way… but iPad-only rules still make the iPad a bit too far from the macOS experience. Borderless-windows in dark mode makes it hard to distinguish which app is which.\nLong story short: no.\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-19 19:44:47 -0500", "date": "7:44 p.m. on Nov 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/19/ipados-with-external-display-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F19%2Fipados-with-external-display-are.html" }, { "id": 400, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been creating YouTube videos for several years, mainly focused on Craft, but also covering Micro.blog and a few other topics. Some of my older Craft videos seem outdated since they reference much older versions that are not relevant anymore. Should I set these videos to private now? What are other YouTubers doing in this situation?\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-19 06:54:57 -0500", "date": "6:54 p.m. on Nov 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/19/ive-been-creating-youtube-videos.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F19%2Five-been-creating-youtube-videos.html" }, { "id": 401, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Something must be going on with Apple\u0026rsquo;s iWork not being updated with Liquid Glass at this time of year. Apple might be working on better integration with Photomator and PixelMator Pro beyond Liquid Glass adoption. What is your take?\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-18 19:58:54 -0500", "date": "7:58 p.m. on Nov 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/18/something-must-be-going-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F18%2Fsomething-must-be-going-on.html" }, { "id": 402, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Another major Internet outage is ongoing, thanks to CloudFlare this time. I\u0026rsquo;m experiencing several unusual issues this morning (Inoreader, Micro.blog, Craft-hosted docs, etc.).\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-18 07:11:14 -0500", "date": "7:11 p.m. on Nov 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/18/another-major-internet-outage-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F18%2Fanother-major-internet-outage-is.html" }, { "id": 403, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A bug in the Apple Shortcuts editor on the Mac. One of so many. Can you imagine if Apple allowed third-party Shortcut editors to create shortcuts? That would be awesome.\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-18 06:37:09 -0500", "date": "6:37 p.m. on Nov 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/18/a-bug-in-the-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F18%2Fa-bug-in-the-apple.html" }, { "id": 404, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Tweaks to iPadOS 26 b3 multitasking are so very much welcomed! Is Apple finally getting there where they take the best of iPadOS 18 and iPadOS 26? It might be the case. Still experimenting.\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-17 18:47:50 -0500", "date": "6:47 p.m. on Nov 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/17/tweaks-to-ipados-b-multitasking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F17%2Ftweaks-to-ipados-b-multitasking.html" }, { "id": 405, "type": "post", "title": "Bye Bye Zapier, IFTTT, Still a Keeper", "text": "I have finally deleted my Zapier account after a few years of inactivity. It\u0026rsquo;s significantly more complicated than IFTTT and much more expensive. IFTTT is far from perfect. It seems to be stagnant even. But, for my needs, it\u0026rsquo;s ok. I have two applets: 1) Save all posts on my RSS superfeed into a **Day One **journal, 2) Save a link into a Google sheet of a YouTube video that I like. The latter could probably be eliminated.\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-16 21:23:52 -0500", "date": "9:23 p.m. on Nov 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/16/bye-bye-zapier-ifttt-still.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F16%2Fbye-bye-zapier-ifttt-still.html" }, { "id": 406, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I might have made some progress\u0026hellip; last try for today. Please, ignore. 🙏🏻\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-16 13:55:35 -0500", "date": "1:55 p.m. on Nov 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/16/i-might-have-made-some.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F16%2Fi-might-have-made-some.html" }, { "id": 407, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m not particularly skilled at making API calls, apparently. 😔\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-16 13:49:14 -0500", "date": "1:49 p.m. on Nov 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/16/im-not-particularly-skilled-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F16%2Fim-not-particularly-skilled-at.html" }, { "id": 408, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Like I said, things never work the first time. And rarely the second time, too.\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-16 13:35:07 -0500", "date": "1:35 p.m. on Nov 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/16/like-i-said-things-never.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F16%2Flike-i-said-things-never.html" }, { "id": 409, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently testing Craft API capabilities to save this blog post via my blog\u0026rsquo;s RSS feed via IFTTT. Let\u0026rsquo;s see what happens. Things never work the first time.\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-16 13:18:42 -0500", "date": "1:18 p.m. on Nov 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/16/currently-testing-craft-api-capabilities.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F16%2Fcurrently-testing-craft-api-capabilities.html" }, { "id": 410, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "With iPadOS 26 multitasking, I found that the best way for me to add another app besides an existing one is to go through the App Library, search for it, then tap and drag into place. Is there a more efficient way?\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-15 09:07:21 -0500", "date": "9:07 p.m. on Nov 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/15/with-ipados-multitasking-i-found.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F15%2Fwith-ipados-multitasking-i-found.html" }, { "id": 411, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In recent days, while on vacation, I spent some time cleaning up my Shortcuts library. It was a mess: unused shortcuts, non-working ones, unnecessary settings for Apple Watch or search availability, wrong tile color, etc. I’m still not done yet.\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-14 12:41:57 -0500", "date": "12:41 p.m. on Nov 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/14/in-recent-days-while-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F14%2Fin-recent-days-while-on.html" }, { "id": 412, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Opening a link to the App Store now defaults to opening the App Store web version, requiring another tap to go in the App Store to download the app. Why forcing people to visit the web version first?\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-14 12:18:27 -0500", "date": "12:18 p.m. on Nov 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/14/opening-a-link-to-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F14%2Fopening-a-link-to-the.html" }, { "id": 413, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m so proud of us Canadians 🇨🇦 who avoided the US for vacations creating a four billion dollar deficit in tourism this year. I hope this will continue as long as the US is acting like an enemy. Power to the people who dare to defy stupidity and autocracy.\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-12 13:17:30 -0500", "date": "1:17 p.m. on Nov 12, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/12/im-so-proud-of-us.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F12%2Fim-so-proud-of-us.html" }, { "id": 414, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Experimenting with new video support of Micro.blog. Please, ignore. Now returning to normal programming. ", "dateiso": "2025-11-12 12:21:30 -0500", "date": "12:21 p.m. on Nov 12, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/12/experimenting-with-new-video-support.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F12%2Fexperimenting-with-new-video-support.html" }, { "id": 415, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I learned that Day One offers an MCP server for the Mac. Craft is about to launch its own MCP support. Now, could this mean I could build a bridge for exporting data from Day One to Craft (using a Shortcut for example)?\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-12 11:04:29 -0500", "date": "11:04 p.m. on Nov 12, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/12/i-learned-that-day-one.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F12%2Fi-learned-that-day-one.html" }, { "id": 416, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The iPhone Pocket is, thankfully, a limited edition so not all is lost. 😞\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-11 09:24:13 -0500", "date": "9:24 p.m. on Nov 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/11/the-iphone-pocket-is-thankfully.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F11%2Fthe-iphone-pocket-is-thankfully.html" }, { "id": 417, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After Craft, Ulysses, still in beta, might be the second-best take on Liquid Glass adoption. I love it.\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-06 07:20:54 -0500", "date": "7:20 p.m. on Nov 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/06/after-craft-ulysses-still-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F06%2Fafter-craft-ulysses-still-in.html" }, { "id": 418, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "According to the reactions I\u0026rsquo;m seeing on my Micro.blog timeline (which also includes some people on Bluesky and Mastodon) shows that everyone is a democrat. Cool because I don\u0026rsquo;t like nazis.\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-05 06:45:49 -0500", "date": "6:45 p.m. on Nov 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/05/according-to-the-reactions-im.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F05%2Faccording-to-the-reactions-im.html" }, { "id": 419, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apparently, you can upload a .shortcut file into ChatGPT for analysis!? 🧐😱🤯 it’s great for learning. Will try it soon.\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-04 10:15:07 -0500", "date": "10:15 p.m. on Nov 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/04/apparently-you-can-upload-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F04%2Fapparently-you-can-upload-a.html" }, { "id": 420, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m tempted to start a sticker collection and put them on my M2 MacBook Air. I\u0026rsquo;ve never done such a thing because I always keep in mind that I\u0026rsquo;ll resell my Mac, and my sticker taste might not match the buyer\u0026rsquo;s taste. I\u0026rsquo;ll probably start with the M-Series stickers from Basic Apple Guy.\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-03 21:31:09 -0500", "date": "9:31 p.m. on Nov 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/03/im-tempted-to-start-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F03%2Fim-tempted-to-start-a.html" }, { "id": 421, "type": "post", "title": "Google and Apple - A Convenient Wedding?", "text": "Apparently, if rumors are any indication, Apple’s next AI provider for integration into Apple Intelligence is Google’s Gemini, or a derivative of it. It would go along with Apple’s own LLM models running on Private Cloud Compute.\nI wonder if Google’s contribution is free for Apple or part of a larger deal, tied to the Google search agreement, where Google is the default search engine on the iPhone.\nImagine that1, Apple probably said: “You know what, I’ll reduce your cost for this search deal, but you accept to build a specific version of Gemini LLM for use on Private Cloud Compute and develop a conduit for Gemini on-device that integrates with Apple Intelligence.”\nMatters are probably more complex than that.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-02 12:52:11 -0500", "date": "12:52 p.m. on Nov 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/02/google-and-apple-a-convenient.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F02%2Fgoogle-and-apple-a-convenient.html" }, { "id": 422, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In my latest video, this is how I\u0026rsquo;m using, for now, Craft + ChatGPT via Atlas. My reading workflow is finally taking the right direction. AI haters, I hear you but not everything is bad in AI land.\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-01 13:30:48 -0500", "date": "1:30 p.m. on Nov 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/01/in-my-latest-video-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F01%2Fin-my-latest-video-this.html" }, { "id": 423, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just pushed an update to the Projects section on my personal landing page.\n", "dateiso": "2025-11-01 08:13:20 -0500", "date": "8:13 p.m. on Nov 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/11/01/just-pushed-an-update-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F11%2F01%2Fjust-pushed-an-update-to.html" }, { "id": 424, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I just rewatched Thriller, like I do every year on Halloween. What a great music video! Everything is in there: music, storytelling, special effects, dance, great décor, and a good ending. Pure and genuine entertainment.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-31 18:25:23 -0500", "date": "6:25 p.m. on Oct 31, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/31/i-just-rewatched-thriller-like.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F31%2Fi-just-rewatched-thriller-like.html" }, { "id": 425, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I experimented with a few agentic prompts using ChatGPT Atlas browser on my Micro.blog timeline. I asked it to list my posts for the day. It took only 17 seconds, and voila! It\u0026rsquo;s quite impressive when it functions correctly.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-31 15:53:37 -0500", "date": "3:53 p.m. on Oct 31, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/31/i-experimented-with-a-few.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F31%2Fi-experimented-with-a-few.html" }, { "id": 426, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple\u0026rsquo;s strong quarter in services revenue shows that people are willing to pay for additional storage, among other things. I don\u0026rsquo;t think Apple will feel the need to increase the free storage tier beyond 5 GB anytime soon.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-31 15:21:55 -0500", "date": "3:21 p.m. on Oct 31, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/31/apples-strong-quarter-in-services.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F31%2Fapples-strong-quarter-in-services.html" }, { "id": 427, "type": "post", "title": "Building a 'Relationship' With Corporations", "text": "I tend to be super loyal. I\u0026rsquo;ve been an Apple fan forever (read \u0026ldquo;The Roots of my Passion for Apple\u0026rdquo;), even though there are things that put me off (too many to list here). The same is slowly happening with OpenAI. I\u0026rsquo;ve tested alternative services but always come back to OpenAI\u0026rsquo;s offerings. They’re far from perfect—just like Apple—both from a corporate point of view and in terms of products and services. And yet, I’m increasingly hooked on ChatGPT, Atlas, and their LLM “personality.” The conversation memory in ChatGPT and the browser memories are helping build this relationship on the knowledge OpenAI is slowly building on me. It\u0026rsquo;s scary.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-31 06:08:43 -0500", "date": "6:08 p.m. on Oct 31, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/31/building-a-relationship-with-corporations.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F31%2Fbuilding-a-relationship-with-corporations.html" }, { "id": 428, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I hate creating Shortcuts in Apple Shortcuts. There is no easy way to debug this shit. No quick start for anything. It\u0026rsquo;s not fun at all. There, I said it (again).\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-30 16:14:19 -0500", "date": "4:14 p.m. on Oct 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/30/i-hate-creating-shortcuts-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F30%2Fi-hate-creating-shortcuts-in.html" }, { "id": 429, "type": "post", "title": "ChatGPT Atlas is for?", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been testing the ChatGPT Atlas browser heavily in recent days. It\u0026rsquo;s already controversial, but I\u0026rsquo;m in the camp that likes it. Of course, this is Chromium with a ChatGPT button bolted on. But that\u0026rsquo;s the point: helping eliminate app switching that I was constantly doing anyway. Of course, it\u0026rsquo;s not the real web experience, but who said OpenAI was pretending to offer the classic web as we\u0026rsquo;ve known it over the last 30 years? Those years are already behind us, you like it or not. One thing I do is summarize my browsing activities, focusing on reading my RSS feeds in Inoreader. It\u0026rsquo;s very impressively done, complete with a back link to each Inoreader article. I\u0026rsquo;m not using, and don\u0026rsquo;t plan to use, agentic browsing activities due to their apparent lack of maturity and highly questionable security issues.\nSpeaking of Inoreader: the service allows you to summarize a bunch of selected articles using AI, but it\u0026rsquo;s an extra that costs more! With ChatGPT Atlas, a simple prompt while browsing an RSS feed or a group of RSS feeds does the job wonderfully.\nMore to come soon.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-30 06:40:23 -0500", "date": "6:40 p.m. on Oct 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/30/chatgpt-atlas-is-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F30%2Fchatgpt-atlas-is-for.html" }, { "id": 430, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If Apple were to introduce a new MacBook (not in the Air or Pro line), smaller than the 13-inch Air, in the 12-inch range, with an iPhone-class processor, I would probably buy one. Why? Because for me, having an ultra-portable yet powerful macOS-based machine for travelling would be a killer.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-30 05:51:26 -0500", "date": "5:51 p.m. on Oct 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/30/if-apple-were-to-introduce.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F30%2Fif-apple-were-to-introduce.html" }, { "id": 431, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "John Gruber is asking:\nBut even if Apple is correct about that, at some point, after being handed loss after loss in rulings from courts and regulatory bodies around the globe, shouldn’t they change their strategy and start trying to offer their own concessions, rather than wait for bureaucrat-designed concessions to be forced upon them?\nI\u0026rsquo;m glad he is asking this question. If Gruber is fed up with this attitude, I guess it\u0026rsquo;s time to think differently, Apple.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-27 16:34:41 -0500", "date": "4:34 p.m. on Oct 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/27/john-gruber-is-asking-but.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F27%2Fjohn-gruber-is-asking-but.html" }, { "id": 432, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If ChatGPT could read RSS feeds for summarization and other tricks, it would probably be a game-changer for me. Inoreader offers such a thing, but it\u0026rsquo;s a paid addition on top of an already rather expensive subscription.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-27 06:40:26 -0500", "date": "6:40 p.m. on Oct 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/27/if-chatgpt-could-read-rss.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F27%2Fif-chatgpt-could-read-rss.html" }, { "id": 433, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It appears that Apple will go ahead with paid ads in Maps sometime next year. I\u0026rsquo;m not happy about this for a few reasons. One is that Apple is becoming\u0026hellip; less and less\u0026hellip; Apple. Two, I hate ads. I despise the implications behind a platform that supports ads (user tracking, data collection, etc.). I hate the business model behind that, too. I hope that it\u0026rsquo;s a false rumors, but if recent years are any indication, it\u0026rsquo;s going to be a thing.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-27 06:24:36 -0500", "date": "6:24 p.m. on Oct 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/27/it-appears-that-apple-will.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F27%2Fit-appears-that-apple-will.html" }, { "id": 434, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Why would an Android developer would use Apple\u0026rsquo;s Swift language now that it\u0026rsquo;s available for Android? Single code base?\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-26 07:06:45 -0500", "date": "7:06 p.m. on Oct 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/26/why-would-an-android-developer.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F26%2Fwhy-would-an-android-developer.html" }, { "id": 435, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "MCP support is coming soon to Craft. They are taking a more cautious approach than Notion\u0026rsquo;s. Oh, and APIs are also coming, too. I like that. We will see how things go. So far, it\u0026rsquo;s fun to play with.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-25 16:23:47 -0500", "date": "4:23 p.m. on Oct 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/25/mcp-support-is-coming-soon.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F25%2Fmcp-support-is-coming-soon.html" }, { "id": 436, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m reading some pushback against ChatGPT Atlas — or, more generally, against browsers that aren\u0026rsquo;t really web browsers but skins on top of Chromium that enable user behaviour and data collection in novel ways. I\u0026rsquo;m not sure how I feel about these opinions. For now, the way I\u0026rsquo;m using ChatGPT Atlas is like ChatGPT client. I don\u0026rsquo;t use agents. I never will. It\u0026rsquo;s mostly about content summarization and analysis.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-24 06:17:27 -0500", "date": "6:17 p.m. on Oct 24, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/24/im-reading-some-pushback-against.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F24%2Fim-reading-some-pushback-against.html" }, { "id": 437, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In \u0026ldquo;Creative neglect: What about the apps in Apple?\u0026rdquo; Joe Rosensteel from SixColors discusses the lack of attention and updates for Apple\u0026rsquo;s creative apps. Of particular interest to me: Photomator. It didn\u0026rsquo;t receive meaningful updates since its acquisition. Don\u0026rsquo;t get me started with the Apple Intelligence support, it\u0026rsquo;s a gimmick. At the same time, I\u0026rsquo;m afraid of the Liquid Glass treatment Photomator will eventually get. It\u0026rsquo;s a strange vibe, not to be excited about any impending updates.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-23 19:30:31 -0500", "date": "7:30 p.m. on Oct 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/23/in-creative-neglect-what-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F23%2Fin-creative-neglect-what-about.html" }, { "id": 438, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "**OpenAI acquired Software Applications Inc **— a startup building an AI-powered user interface for Mac desktops. I\u0026rsquo;m not to aware of the product that company was building, but I wonder how portable it was. OpenAI is a multi-platform company, so focusing on a Mac-only app is strange. As a Mac user, I\u0026rsquo;m very curious to what will happen with this.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-23 18:57:36 -0500", "date": "6:57 p.m. on Oct 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/23/openai-acquired-software-applications-inc.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F23%2Fopenai-acquired-software-applications-inc.html" }, { "id": 439, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I can\u0026rsquo;t remember when the last time I visited an Apple Store. This means I didn\u0026rsquo;t go to see the new iPhone 17 series. Now with the availability of the M5 iPad Pro or M5 MacBook Pro, I might decide to go even if I\u0026rsquo;m not upgrading any of my things. What\u0026rsquo;s wrong with me?\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-23 05:21:49 -0500", "date": "5:21 p.m. on Oct 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/23/i-cant-remember-when-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F23%2Fi-cant-remember-when-the.html" }, { "id": 440, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Using ChatGPT Atlas for my personal browsing activities offers an unexpected plus: at the end of the day I can ask to summarize my browsing activities and group them by subjects and themes. It\u0026rsquo;s very cool.😎 But is it secure? 👀\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-22 18:18:27 -0500", "date": "6:18 p.m. on Oct 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/22/using-chatgpt-atlas-for-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F22%2Fusing-chatgpt-atlas-for-my.html" }, { "id": 441, "type": "post", "title": "Hot Take on ChatGPT Atlas - More Thoughts", "text": "The original ChatGPT Mac client is now mostly integrated into this new web browser. Chrome extensions are supported. My use of the Mac client might decrease significantly over time. Having ChatGPT inside the browser has big implications for my reading and information workflows. Processing YouTube videos is easy; everything happens within the same app. Thought: Google’s cautious AI integration in its browser (Gemini) might stem from a fear of conflicting with its business model, which involves tracking users to sell ads. How do you sell ads within AI-generated content? I could try using ChatGPT Atlas as my main desktop browser for a few days to see if it truly makes a difference.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-21 21:09:13 -0500", "date": "9:09 p.m. on Oct 21, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/21/220913.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F21%2F220913.html" }, { "id": 442, "type": "post", "title": "Hot Take on ChatGPT Atlas", "text": "From the initial download, install up to a few visited websites and prompts. Here\u0026rsquo;s my hot take. Nice icon. Nice onboarding, but with a few typical sets of questions (default browser, import current bookmarks). Minimalistic browser window. Just like Dia! Another Chromium wrapper? It better be good. I like the integration with ChatGPT and the browser memory. I wonder if it is linked to my ChatGPT memory. It seems yes! I wonder if ChatGPT Atlas could replace the ChatGPT client altogether because all my past conversations are available in a collapsible left sidebar. The integration of ChatGPT’s past conversation, memory, and current browser context seems a powerful combination. Bye-bye, Dia, please, return to developing the ARC Browser. More to come soon.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-21 19:58:29 -0500", "date": "7:58 p.m. on Oct 21, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/21/hot-take-on-chatgpt-atlas.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F21%2Fhot-take-on-chatgpt-atlas.html" }, { "id": 443, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Still no update to Apple iWork, more than a month after the official release of Liquid Glass. I can't remember when Apple lagged so much to update iWork after a major OS release. https://crafted.numericcitizen.me/apple-liquid-glass-fails #apple #LiquidLiquid #appleliquidglass\nnumericcitizen https://techhub.social/@numericcitizen/115409481310676609 ", "dateiso": "2025-10-20 20:17:57 -0500", "date": "8:17 p.m. on Oct 20, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/20/still-no-update-to-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F20%2Fstill-no-update-to-apple.html" }, { "id": 444, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I would be curious to do the exercise of going back in time and counting the number of occasions where Apple, after introducing a significant change in the design of a user interface element or its functionality, following users outcry, reversed its decision by adding a parameter in the Settings app to appease frustrated users. I applaud this change. ", "dateiso": "2025-10-20 18:06:27 -0500", "date": "6:06 p.m. on Oct 20, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/20/i-would-be-curious-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F20%2Fi-would-be-curious-to.html" }, { "id": 445, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "We are not out of the woods but this new Apple Liquid Glass toggle in iOS 26.1 beta 4 makes a significative improvement. We wish we had a more gradual toning, but hey, it’s better than nothing.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-20 14:26:03 -0500", "date": "2:26 p.m. on Oct 20, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/20/we-are-not-out-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F20%2Fwe-are-not-out-of.html" }, { "id": 446, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple cemetery: Aperture. iWeb. TouchBar. iTunes Ping. iTunes Radio. iTunes. iPhoto. iLife. Clips. I very much like the first two.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-19 19:44:20 -0500", "date": "7:44 p.m. on Oct 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/19/apple-cemetery-aperture-iweb-touchbar.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F19%2Fapple-cemetery-aperture-iweb-touchbar.html" }, { "id": 447, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I visited a friend this weekend, who had an Amazon Echo Show 8 in his kitchen. Physically, not a bad-looking device, but man, this thing is slow, and Alexia isn\u0026rsquo;t that good. I\u0026rsquo;m really curious to see what Apple will do in this space in the coming years. I would probably get such a thing if software execution proves to be better.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-19 16:28:52 -0500", "date": "4:28 p.m. on Oct 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/19/i-visited-a-friend-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F19%2Fi-visited-a-friend-this.html" }, { "id": 448, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thinking of subscribing to VSCO pro plan. Just for fun. This would be the third photo-sharing service that I use. But it feels so different than Glass and Pixelfed. It’s all about filters!\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-17 18:02:33 -0500", "date": "6:02 p.m. on Oct 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/17/thinking-of-subscribing-to-vsco.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F17%2Fthinking-of-subscribing-to-vsco.html" }, { "id": 449, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Existential question: I follow a very popular author who writes constantly about Apple. I know he uses a lot of AI-generated artwork. One caught my attention today. Since he didn\u0026rsquo;t create this artwork himself, am I entitled to copy it and use it without permission? 👀\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-16 16:38:42 -0500", "date": "4:38 p.m. on Oct 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/16/existential-question-i-follow-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F16%2Fexistential-question-i-follow-a.html" }, { "id": 450, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve just noticed that YouTube appears to offer an \u0026ldquo;Ask\u0026rdquo; button for each video, as shown in this screenshot. I tried it twice and found the summary quite clear and helpful. The consequence is profound: I didn\u0026rsquo;t watch the videos. As someone who creates videos, I\u0026rsquo;m pondering the implications for my and all other video creators.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-15 20:10:58 -0500", "date": "8:10 p.m. on Oct 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/15/ive-just-noticed-that-youtube.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F15%2Five-just-noticed-that-youtube.html" }, { "id": 451, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Statistically, nobody cares about Liquid Glass. There has been no user revolt, no viral TikToks, no nothing. Nobody's even complaining about the Music app. On the flipside, nobody is proclaiming its virtues, either. It just kinda… is, and everybody is moving on with their lives.\nThe only thing anybody seems to care about is transparent \u0026 tinted icons — which a certain kind of person seems to *love*\nSteve Troughton-Smith https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/115377668456835693 True.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-15 06:17:56 -0500", "date": "6:17 p.m. on Oct 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/15/statistically-nobody-cares-about-liquid.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F15%2Fstatistically-nobody-cares-about-liquid.html" }, { "id": 452, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "At work, I moderate a user forum for iOS and iPadOS products. I recently asked community members for their general opinion of iOS 26 and iPadOS 26. Although it\u0026rsquo;s not a scientific survey, the responses I received surprised me. A majority of respondents say they have a generally positive impression of the latest versions of iOS and iPadOS. Well\u0026hellip; 🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-14 20:34:32 -0500", "date": "8:34 p.m. on Oct 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/14/at-work-i-moderate-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F14%2Fat-work-i-moderate-a.html" }, { "id": 453, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As reported by 9to5Mac:\n\u0026ldquo;Apple will be leaning into the vertical stack of Apple TV in Apple TV on Apple TV\u0026rdquo;\nAll bets are on the table.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-14 19:09:55 -0500", "date": "7:09 p.m. on Oct 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/14/as-reported-by-tomac-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F14%2Fas-reported-by-tomac-apple.html" }, { "id": 454, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "iOS 26.1 b3 breaks the folders appearance in a big way if you are using tinted icons. WTF! 🫣😵‍💫\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-14 16:05:36 -0500", "date": "4:05 p.m. on Oct 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/14/ios-b-breaks-the-folders.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F14%2Fios-b-breaks-the-folders.html" }, { "id": 455, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It took one question from someone who watched my latest video to realize that I might have rushed that one out a bit. I failed to explain and mention the reasons why I still need an app like Craft while I use Ulysses, another app for writing. 🤦🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-13 19:36:29 -0500", "date": "7:36 p.m. on Oct 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/13/it-took-one-question-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F13%2Fit-took-one-question-from.html" }, { "id": 456, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "TV is hard, and Apple not only never shipped a TV set, but it also never quite figured out the whole Apple TV branding (hardware, software, service). Removing the + from Apple TV won\u0026rsquo;t help unless something else comes along. I\u0026rsquo;m betting that Apple will double down on the HomePod brand moniker1.\nThe HomePod TV is a good bet.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-13 15:53:45 -0500", "date": "3:53 p.m. on Oct 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/13/tv-is-hard-and-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F13%2Ftv-is-hard-and-apple.html" }, { "id": 457, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If Apple TV+ now becomes Apple TV, how Apple should name Apple TV next generation of hardware?\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-13 10:55:11 -0500", "date": "10:55 p.m. on Oct 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/13/if-apple-tv-now-becomes.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F13%2Fif-apple-tv-now-becomes.html" }, { "id": 458, "type": "post", "title": "The Illusion of Decline: Apple, Complexity, and the Myth of Falling Quality", "text": "Reading The Great Software Quality Collapse by Denis Stetskov reminded me of a recurring conversation in the Apple community: that Apple’s software quality isn’t what it used to be. Every release cycle brings the same chorus—bugs, regressions, performance oddities—and the sense that the polish once synonymous with Apple is fading. But Stetskov’s essay helped me reframe that perception. Modern software isn’t just “worse”; it’s exponentially more complex. Apple now maintains multiple platforms—macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, visionOS—each with deep integrations and overlapping technologies. What once felt like craftsmanship at the scale of a single ecosystem is now a sprawling web of dependencies that even Apple struggles to tame.\nSo, maybe the cracks we see aren’t evidence of negligence but of scale. Perfection doesn’t scale well. The discipline that Stetskov calls “boring engineering” still exists within Apple, but it’s buried under layers of ambition, abstraction, and velocity. His piece is a reminder that our expectations of elegance must evolve alongside the complexity of what we ask these systems to do. The problem isn’t just that software breaks—it’s that we’ve forgotten how miraculous it is that it works at all.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-12 18:49:07 -0500", "date": "6:49 p.m. on Oct 12, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/12/the-illusion-of-decline-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F12%2Fthe-illusion-of-decline-apple.html" }, { "id": 459, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Every now and then, I fire up Obsidian on my Mac and test the waters. I wonder if, back in 2020, before Craft came out, Obsidian would have clicked with me. I\u0026rsquo;m not so sure, but I still somewhat like it. 🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-11 14:23:36 -0500", "date": "2:23 p.m. on Oct 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/11/every-now-and-then-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F11%2Fevery-now-and-then-i.html" }, { "id": 460, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m done with the latest edition of The Ephemeral Scrapbook newsletter (Craft-based version). Enjoy. BTW, past editions are available here (Craft-based versions).\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-11 12:27:06 -0500", "date": "12:27 p.m. on Oct 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/11/im-done-with-the-latest.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F11%2Fim-done-with-the-latest.html" }, { "id": 461, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Not only Apple is losing its touch for desktop operating systems, apparently.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-11 12:23:24 -0500", "date": "12:23 p.m. on Oct 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/11/not-on-apple-is-losing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F11%2Fnot-on-apple-is-losing.html" }, { "id": 462, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Watched: The Gorge. I don\u0026rsquo;t watch enough movies, but yesterday I was tempted by The Gorge on Apple TV+. The trailer hinted at a science fiction film with a vibe similar to Silo. Despite an atmosphere that sometimes reminds me of Severance in terms of the soundtrack, the shift toward a romance between the two antagonists was a bit too easy. The environment deep inside this gorge is sometimes surprising and well done, though. I never would have guessed the presence of these\u0026hellip; creatures. I don\u0026rsquo;t want to reveal any more.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-11 07:59:15 -0500", "date": "7:59 p.m. on Oct 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/11/i-dont-watch-enough-movies.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F11%2Fi-dont-watch-enough-movies.html" }, { "id": 463, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s sad to see Micro Social being abandoned. Are there other ways? Why not make the source code open source? Or sell it? Can someone take over the development?\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-10 05:52:12 -0500", "date": "5:52 p.m. on Oct 10, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/10/its-sad-to-see-micro.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F10%2Fits-sad-to-see-micro.html" }, { "id": 464, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m surprised that the new Movies section here on Micro.blog didn\u0026rsquo;t end up in a revamped Discovery section. To me, it\u0026rsquo;s seems like a good fit.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-09 05:36:25 -0500", "date": "5:36 p.m. on Oct 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/09/im-surprised-that-the-new.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F09%2Fim-surprised-that-the-new.html" }, { "id": 465, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As reported by 9to5Mac, AltStore is to support Fediverse with its own Mastodon instance:\nAltStore is embracing ActivityPub and the fediverse, with its own Mastodon server, allowing developers and users to have a more direct channel of communication and interaction.\nThis is, among other things, what we are missing with Apple\u0026rsquo;s tight control on its App Store.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-07 20:58:21 -0500", "date": "8:58 p.m. on Oct 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/07/as-reported-by-tomac-altstore.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F07%2Fas-reported-by-tomac-altstore.html" }, { "id": 466, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I agree with Eric Schwarz, yep, it\u0026rsquo;s utterly curious:\nCuriously, I am surprised that the iWork suite, as well as GarageBand, Pixelmator Pro, and other Apple apps have not been updated—it’s a really weird thing when Cupertino’s own have been sent to squircle jail.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-07 20:28:05 -0500", "date": "8:28 p.m. on Oct 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/07/i-agree-with-eric-schwarz.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F07%2Fi-agree-with-eric-schwarz.html" }, { "id": 467, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m juggling with two options to make Liquid Glass bearable: Reduce Transparency and Display Borders. The latter is a newly discovered option. Moreover, beta 2 of iOS 26.1 seems to include tweaks to Liquid Glass effects and transparency. I\u0026rsquo;m hoping some YouTubers will highlight those tweaks, if I\u0026rsquo;m not mistaken.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-07 19:16:34 -0500", "date": "7:16 p.m. on Oct 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/07/im-juggling-with-two-options.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F07%2Fim-juggling-with-two-options.html" }, { "id": 468, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For a few reasons, I\u0026rsquo;m tempted to subscribe to\u0026hellip; The Verge. This would be the first such case of subscribing to a news site. I kind of like the site design and content; there is a community vibe if commenters are any indication. However, even as a subscriber, I may still receive ads served to me. 😑 Anyone subscribing to The Verge here? Thoughts?\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-07 06:24:06 -0500", "date": "6:24 p.m. on Oct 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/07/for-a-few-reasons-im.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F07%2Ffor-a-few-reasons-im.html" }, { "id": 469, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "OpenAI unveiled some impressive developments today at their developer conference, including apps in ChatGPT and Agent Builder. I\u0026rsquo;m much more impressed by this than by Sora. 👀\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-06 20:48:23 -0500", "date": "8:48 p.m. on Oct 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/06/openai-unveiled-some-impressive-developments.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F06%2Fopenai-unveiled-some-impressive-developments.html" }, { "id": 470, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What a beautiful day it is. I had an 11 KM hike today. We touched 30 °C, which is astonishing for October 5th. I mean, this is autumn, guys!\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-05 14:42:00 -0500", "date": "2:42 p.m. on Oct 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/05/what-a-beautiful-day-it.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F05%2Fwhat-a-beautiful-day-it.html" }, { "id": 471, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Weirdly, Apple Music Replay are web-only\u0026hellip;. even when using music.apple.com, Replay is located on a separate website.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-05 13:26:38 -0500", "date": "1:26 p.m. on Oct 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/05/weirdly-apple-music-replay-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F05%2Fweirdly-apple-music-replay-are.html" }, { "id": 472, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Location check in 🗺 — It’s going to be a great hike. More to come.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-05 10:57:18 -0500", "date": "10:57 p.m. on Oct 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/05/location-check-in-its-going.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F05%2Flocation-check-in-its-going.html" }, { "id": 473, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Contrary to their usual bullshit about the App Store, Apple has lost control over it in a sense\u0026hellip; The App Store is a junkyard. I find it disheartening to see the current state of the App Store; it is a place where deception has been flourishing for ages. It\u0026rsquo;s un-Apple.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-05 08:19:42 -0500", "date": "8:19 p.m. on Oct 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/05/contrary-to-their-usual-bullshit.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F05%2Fcontrary-to-their-usual-bullshit.html" }, { "id": 474, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The most troubling thing about iPadOS 26.1beta1 is that I don’t see any improvements to Liquid Glass or the general multitasking experience.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-04 16:20:47 -0500", "date": "4:20 p.m. on Oct 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/04/the-most-troubling-thing-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F04%2Fthe-most-troubling-thing-about.html" }, { "id": 475, "type": "post", "title": "Using My M4 iPad Pro (iPadOS 26.1b1) With An External Display - Observation #5", "text": "\nOne of the most frustrating and hard-to-understand behaviours in the new iPadOS 26 multitasking is when iPadOS, for some reason, breaks all the running apps and window arrangements. I often find myself in need of relaunching the apps and doing window placement to my liking. Again, iPadOS 26 is exhausting to use. I think this happens if I disconnect the external display. Restoring computing state is a basic principle in UI and UX design. Am I demanding too much?\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-04 16:05:32 -0500", "date": "4:05 p.m. on Oct 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/04/170532.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F04%2F170532.html" }, { "id": 476, "type": "post", "title": "Using My M4 iPad Pro (iPadOS 26.1b1) With An External Display - Observation #4", "text": "\nLocking the iPad while the iPad is using an external display is brutal. Dragging an app from the built in display to an external display is also brutal, forcing a full app content redraw, nothing compared to the Mac experience. I couldn’t record the experience with screen recording, so I used my iPhone.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-04 09:54:42 -0500", "date": "9:54 p.m. on Oct 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/04/105442.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F04%2F105442.html" }, { "id": 477, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Yesterday night I got one of my macOS feedback answered by Apple. It was about the Mac Appe Store app Reload menu item not being enabled which prevented me to reload and refresh apps with pending updates. It was fixed in macOS 26.1 beta 1. I can\u0026rsquo;t remember when was the last time one of my feedback reports being processed.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-04 09:37:11 -0500", "date": "9:37 p.m. on Oct 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/04/yesterday-night-i-got-one.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F04%2Fyesterday-night-i-got-one.html" }, { "id": 478, "type": "post", "title": "Using My M4 iPad Pro (iPadOS 26.1b1) With An External Display - Observation #3", "text": "\nDoing serious work on the iPad now feels… exhausting. The efforts that you have to deploy to avoid the too many paper cuts is exhausting. I don’t know who, at Apple, is working on Files.app but the team should get in touch with those who work (if they are still there) on the Mac Finder. I ended up doing many of the files management tasks on… the Mac.\nPhotomator doesn’t work well with files located on a remote SMB share, apparently. After granting permission to the root folder as requested, Photomator is stacked in a “Processing…” loop. Not good.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-04 09:30:30 -0500", "date": "9:30 p.m. on Oct 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/04/103030.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F04%2F103030.html" }, { "id": 479, "type": "post", "title": "Using My M4 iPad Pro (iPadOS 26.1b1) With An External Display - Observation #2", "text": "\nWorking with Files.app is still very frustrating and unpredictable. For some reason, I cannot drag \u0026amp; drop a file from my iPad downloads folder to a specific folder (on my Synology). The only way to get around this is to go up in the folder hierarchy, drop it there then later move it inside the intended target folder. Also experienced one crash with numerous “Content Unavailable” conditions like shown on this screenshot. So far, no file management done. WTF? Let’s try harder.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-04 08:55:31 -0500", "date": "8:55 p.m. on Oct 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/04/095531.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F04%2F095531.html" }, { "id": 480, "type": "post", "title": "Using My M4 iPad Pro (iPadOS 26.1b1) With An External Display - Observation #1", "text": "\nI just started a one-hour work session with my M4 iPad Pro connected to an external display (LG 5K Ultra Fine) running iPad OS 26.1 beta 1. I should probably update this article I wrote more than a year ago: “Using the iPad With an External Display — Space Oddities”. Let’s see how it goes.\nFirst issue: I started writing this blog post in Micro.blog client. Sadly, Micro.blog’s iPad app is buggy with an external display: I cannot set the blog post category… the little gear icon is missing and iPadOS 26 menus aren’t supported, yet. My fallback plan: Ulysses. Works great. Next step: doing some files management with Files.app using an SMB share on my Synology NAS. Let’s see how it goes. Oh, and ShareShot works… but not without strange visual issues.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-04 08:28:29 -0500", "date": "8:28 p.m. on Oct 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/04/using-my-m-ipad-pro.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F04%2Fusing-my-m-ipad-pro.html" }, { "id": 481, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The M4 iPad Pro battery health after 18 month of use and 127 cycle count: 87%. I consider this to be bad. Battery life on this device is not good at all to be frank.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-04 07:48:53 -0500", "date": "7:48 p.m. on Oct 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/04/the-m-ipad-pro-battery.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F04%2Fthe-m-ipad-pro-battery.html" }, { "id": 482, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I guess I was right to call the Apple Vision Pro a failure in my recent piece on Apple Failures.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-02 18:15:16 -0500", "date": "6:15 p.m. on Oct 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/02/i-guess-i-was-right.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F02%2Fi-guess-i-was-right.html" }, { "id": 483, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Are there any Craft users here? I\u0026rsquo;m curious to see if sharing short videos1 about Craft would be of some interest.\nMicro.blog is soon launching better video hosting; I might take advantage of that instead of YouTube.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-02 16:16:22 -0500", "date": "4:16 p.m. on Oct 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/02/are-there-any-craft-users.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F02%2Fare-there-any-craft-users.html" }, { "id": 484, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Please, would you be kind enough to explain this graph to me (the top portion)?\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-02 16:07:31 -0500", "date": "4:07 p.m. on Oct 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/02/please-would-you-be-kind.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F02%2Fplease-would-you-be-kind.html" }, { "id": 485, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I no longer use the Mac App Store to update my apps on my Mac; I prefer using the brew \u0026ldquo;mas outdated\u0026rdquo; and \u0026ldquo;mas upgrade\u0026rdquo; commands instead.\n", "dateiso": "2025-10-01 06:10:24 -0500", "date": "6:10 p.m. on Oct 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/10/01/i-no-longer-use-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F10%2F01%2Fi-no-longer-use-the.html" }, { "id": 486, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On the Mac, I consume Apple Music via music.apple.com. Lighter. Faster. Better design. Trustable. 🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-30 13:26:18 -0500", "date": "1:26 p.m. on Sep 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/30/on-the-mac-i-consume.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F30%2Fon-the-mac-i-consume.html" }, { "id": 487, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Another item added to my wish list\u0026hellip; 👀\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-30 10:44:21 -0500", "date": "10:44 p.m. on Sep 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/30/another-item-added-to-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F30%2Fanother-item-added-to-my.html" }, { "id": 488, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Comet, Dia: these AI-focused browsers aren\u0026rsquo;t clicking with me. I tried many times. I prefer to use a native client like ChatGPT, which will surf for me when needed.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-30 06:42:01 -0500", "date": "6:42 p.m. on Sep 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/30/comet-dia-these-aifocused-browsers.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F30%2Fcomet-dia-these-aifocused-browsers.html" }, { "id": 489, "type": "post", "title": "AI Unsuspected Collaterals", "text": "Accenture reportedly laid off over 11,000 employees, citing a lack of demand for workers without the necessary AI skills. Additionally, Accenture warns that further layoffs could occur if remaining employees cannot quickly acquire AI skills in a rapidly evolving world. I believe we should look beyond the headlines and question the real motives. What were the laid-off employees doing? What value did they bring to Accenture\u0026rsquo;s clients? Or is it simply because there is less demand for consulting services? Is it more appropriate to frame the layoffs as linked to \u0026ldquo;AI\u0026rdquo;? If you\u0026rsquo;re aware of some AI limitations in a complex business environment, where layoffs are supposedly driven by AI replacing workers, I would argue that they didn\u0026rsquo;t significantly impact the company initially. Alternatively, framing AI as a questionable strategy is a dubious approach. And it\u0026rsquo;s only the beginning.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-29 19:56:59 -0500", "date": "7:56 p.m. on Sep 29, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/29/ai-unsuspected-collaterals.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F29%2Fai-unsuspected-collaterals.html" }, { "id": 490, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What a wonderful weekend in Montreal. The weather is ideal—just the kind that makes fall my favorite season.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-28 14:46:55 -0500", "date": "2:46 p.m. on Sep 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/28/what-a-wonderful-weekend-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F28%2Fwhat-a-wonderful-weekend-in.html" }, { "id": 491, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I have a one-day holiday vacation on Thursday, right in the middle of the week, and I still have no plans. 🤨 Weather should be perfect, though. 🍁🍂🚲👀\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-28 10:10:48 -0500", "date": "10:10 p.m. on Sep 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/28/i-have-a-oneday-holiday.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F28%2Fi-have-a-oneday-holiday.html" }, { "id": 492, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here\u0026rsquo;s another edition (Craft edition) of the world-famous Ephemeral Scrapbook newsletter. It\u0026rsquo;s also published as a free newsletter on Ghost. Maintaining this newsletter is quite fun and forces me to explore more than I would if I weren\u0026rsquo;t authoring it. My publishing cadence is also quite consistent. I wish more people knew about it and would subscribe\u0026hellip; but hey, that\u0026rsquo;s the life of any blogger.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-28 08:07:51 -0500", "date": "8:07 p.m. on Sep 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/28/heres-another-edition-craft-edition.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F28%2Fheres-another-edition-craft-edition.html" }, { "id": 493, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Is ChatGPT enshitification about to begin? It certainly looks like it. Fuck.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-27 18:13:04 -0500", "date": "6:13 p.m. on Sep 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/27/is-chatgpt-enshitification-about-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F27%2Fis-chatgpt-enshitification-about-to.html" }, { "id": 494, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I created this diagram in MindNote Next today for a video about Craft and tags usage. There is a \u0026ldquo;Focus Mode\u0026rdquo; where the UI disappears, allowing us to focus on the content, as shown in this screenshot. There is one big problem with this: the \u0026ldquo;Focus Mode\u0026rdquo; status button at the top. It is highly distracting to me; I can\u0026rsquo;t focus. 😳\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-27 16:39:37 -0500", "date": "4:39 p.m. on Sep 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/27/i-created-this-diagram-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F27%2Fi-created-this-diagram-in.html" }, { "id": 495, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If the US government actually shuts down, does this include the shutdown of the white house and everyone in it? Asking for a friend. 🍊\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-27 16:08:13 -0500", "date": "4:08 p.m. on Sep 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/27/if-the-us-government-actually.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F27%2Fif-the-us-government-actually.html" }, { "id": 496, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How many ways can you write that the iPhone 17 is an improvement compared to last year’s iPhone 16? 🤨\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-27 13:43:20 -0500", "date": "1:43 p.m. on Sep 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/27/how-many-ways-can-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F27%2Fhow-many-ways-can-you.html" }, { "id": 497, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today, I decided to add Screen Studio to my digital toolbox. Some form of video editing is tedious and much less intuitive in ScreenFlow, and I think Screen Studio really shines here. Using this type of quick animation helps focus on what matters most.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-26 20:47:15 -0500", "date": "8:47 p.m. on Sep 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/26/today-i-decided-to-add.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F26%2Ftoday-i-decided-to-add.html" }, { "id": 498, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I have a deep feeling that AI and Apple Intelligence are consuming a significant amount of development resources at Apple, which could explain why this year\u0026rsquo;s releases are so buggy.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-26 06:21:32 -0500", "date": "6:21 p.m. on Sep 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/26/i-have-a-deep-feeling.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F26%2Fi-have-a-deep-feeling.html" }, { "id": 499, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In the article \u0026ldquo;Why Everybody Is Losing Money On AI,\u0026rdquo; Edward Zitron discusses the unsustainable financial model of generative AI companies, highlighting that they are consistently unprofitable due to high operational costs and escalating expenses associated with model inference.\nIn other words, AI is a money pit.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-26 06:04:01 -0500", "date": "6:04 p.m. on Sep 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/26/in-the-article-why-everybody.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F26%2Fin-the-article-why-everybody.html" }, { "id": 500, "type": "post", "title": "The Future of Technical Training According to Microsoft", "text": "Today, I\u0026rsquo;m completing a four-day course from Microsoft (AS-104 if you are curious). It\u0026rsquo;s all virtual, of course, through Microsoft Teams, and instructor-led. We\u0026rsquo;re a group of 50 people from all around the world, primarily from the US, from what I can see. The one fascinating thing is how pushy the instructors are for us to use\u0026hellip; Copilot. They use it all the time to answer questions and paste the answers in the group chat. They offer ways to utilize Copilot to prepare for the certification exam. Etc. Copilot is really their assistant, the undergraduate who\u0026rsquo;s doing the dirty job, the gopher, if you will. The course is so strictly structured and formatted that I\u0026rsquo;m seeing a future where there won\u0026rsquo;t be any instructors. Only Copilot. 😳\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-26 05:44:50 -0500", "date": "5:44 p.m. on Sep 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/26/the-future-of-technical-training.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F26%2Fthe-future-of-technical-training.html" }, { "id": 501, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s been two weeks (if not three) since Apple released iOS/iPadOS/macOS 26 are out\u0026hellip; and still no iWork update. 👀 It must be hard to implement Liquid Glass\u0026hellip; even for Apple.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-25 20:27:50 -0500", "date": "8:27 p.m. on Sep 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/25/its-been-two-weeks-if.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F25%2Fits-been-two-weeks-if.html" }, { "id": 502, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m concluding that without an external screen, multitasking on the iPad is best experienced with Stage Manager. It’s a more controlled experience (hence requiring less management). With an external monitor, then going all in with windowing is the way to go. That’s my conclusion anyway.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-25 11:00:17 -0500", "date": "11:00 p.m. on Sep 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/25/im-concluding-that-without-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F25%2Fim-concluding-that-without-an.html" }, { "id": 503, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "With flexibility comes mandatory management. That’s the case with iPadOS multitasking. Ideally, management should be kept at the minimum. That’s not the case with the current state of iPadOS windowing system. It. Is. So. Cumbersome. It. Is. A. Regression.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-25 10:44:47 -0500", "date": "10:44 p.m. on Sep 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/25/with-flexibility-comes-mandatory-management.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F25%2Fwith-flexibility-comes-mandatory-management.html" }, { "id": 504, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I think that, from what I observed and experienced since Apple OS 26 releases, some apps inherently lend themselves better at Apple’s Liquid Glass adoption because of dev abilities but also because of the very nature of the app. Craft and Reeder are good examples. There are a few others.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-25 08:48:42 -0500", "date": "8:48 p.m. on Sep 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/25/i-think-that-from-what.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F25%2Fi-think-that-from-what.html" }, { "id": 505, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The latest ludicrous bug found, this time on iPadOS 26.1 beta1. That is really one of its kind. 🥴\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-24 15:57:07 -0500", "date": "3:57 p.m. on Sep 24, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/24/the-latest-ludicrous-bug-found.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F24%2Fthe-latest-ludicrous-bug-found.html" }, { "id": 506, "type": "post", "title": "Journaling While Traveling - A Third Option?", "text": "Journaling and documenting my experiences while travelling has always been something that I wish I could do effectively, without too much friction. I did it in Italy in 2022 using Craft and again this past summer with Apple Journal. Two different kinds of vacations, totally different solutions. I\u0026rsquo;m still not satisfied with either of these options. Next time, maybe I should consider using the real deal: Day One?\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-24 05:49:39 -0500", "date": "5:49 p.m. on Sep 24, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/24/journaling-while-traveling-a-third.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F24%2Fjournaling-while-traveling-a-third.html" }, { "id": 507, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m still exploring ways around Liquid Glass.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-23 18:03:50 -0500", "date": "6:03 p.m. on Sep 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/23/im-still-exploring-ways-around.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F23%2Fim-still-exploring-ways-around.html" }, { "id": 508, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I received a notification in the Settings app about an AppleCare renewal for my iPhone 15 Pro Max. I\u0026rsquo;m uncertain whether I should proceed with the renewal or leave it to chance. It\u0026rsquo;s 15 CAN$ a month. Not cheap. I got a scratch on the screen.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-22 20:18:47 -0500", "date": "8:18 p.m. on Sep 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/22/i-received-a-notification-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F22%2Fi-received-a-notification-in.html" }, { "id": 509, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple\u0026rsquo;s iWork (Pages, Numbers, Keynote) is still not updated for Liquid Glass. Mmmmm. 👀\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-22 19:46:31 -0500", "date": "7:46 p.m. on Sep 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/22/apples-iwork-pages-numbers-keynote.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F22%2Fapples-iwork-pages-numbers-keynote.html" }, { "id": 510, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Yes, Om, I should go out and get some air, indeed. I might visit an Apple Store this weekend to take a closer look at the iPhone Air, even though I\u0026rsquo;m not upgrading or replacing my current iPhone. Comments are generally positive.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-22 19:37:23 -0500", "date": "7:37 p.m. on Sep 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/22/yes-om-i-should-go.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F22%2Fyes-om-i-should-go.html" }, { "id": 511, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "There are very few changes in OS26 beta 1\u0026hellip; this will be a long journey.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-22 18:56:17 -0500", "date": "6:56 p.m. on Sep 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/22/there-are-very-few-changes.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F22%2Fthere-are-very-few-changes.html" }, { "id": 512, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "OS26 beta1: are we there, yet?\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-22 11:40:22 -0500", "date": "11:40 p.m. on Sep 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/22/os-beta-are-we-there.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F22%2Fos-beta-are-we-there.html" }, { "id": 513, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "There is no clipboard manager on my office PeeCee… at least, nothing that I could install anyway if such a thing exists on Windozzzz. 😒\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-22 11:24:32 -0500", "date": "11:24 p.m. on Sep 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/22/there-is-no-clipboard-manager.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F22%2Fthere-is-no-clipboard-manager.html" }, { "id": 514, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I like this iOS 26 Home Screen customization options for my iPhone when going to bed.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-21 21:22:37 -0500", "date": "9:22 p.m. on Sep 21, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/21/i-like-this-ios-home.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F21%2Fi-like-this-ios-home.html" }, { "id": 515, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Flighty is increasing by 33% their yearly subscription fees. This is… massive. I recognize the constant improvements to this app but boy, that makes me pause and reconsider.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-21 10:54:10 -0500", "date": "10:54 p.m. on Sep 21, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/21/flighty-is-increasing-by-their.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F21%2Fflighty-is-increasing-by-their.html" }, { "id": 516, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I have to say that this year\u0026rsquo;s Apple OS releases are the most unfinished, unpolished, uneven and buggy .0 releases in a long, long time. It\u0026rsquo;s the only unifying thing across the board, not Liquid Glass. It will take many more releases for Apple to bring some order to this mess. Every day, I discover a new issue.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-20 07:48:42 -0500", "date": "7:48 p.m. on Sep 20, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/20/i-have-to-say-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F20%2Fi-have-to-say-that.html" }, { "id": 517, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Don\u0026rsquo;t tell me, Apple, Liquid Glass is all about the content. It\u0026rsquo;s not. With Liquid Glass, UI elements jump into your face! They are distracting. It doesn\u0026rsquo;t take a master degree in design to understand and experience that. It\u0026rsquo;s obvious. Let\u0026rsquo;s play the video, ladies \u0026amp; gentlemen.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-19 16:45:14 -0500", "date": "4:45 p.m. on Sep 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/19/dont-tell-me-apple-liquid.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F19%2Fdont-tell-me-apple-liquid.html" }, { "id": 518, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Watch out, Synology, you\u0026rsquo;ve got some serious competition. I like what Ubiquity is doing these days, not only in the networking equipment space but in other devices, too. Who knows, I might replace my Synology NAS with one of these.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-19 06:35:17 -0500", "date": "6:35 p.m. on Sep 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/19/watch-out-synology-youve-got.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F19%2Fwatch-out-synology-youve-got.html" }, { "id": 519, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "While read later services are enticing and convenient, I often forget about the saved content and the service itself. 🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-17 06:49:00 -0500", "date": "6:49 p.m. on Sep 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/17/while-read-later-services-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F17%2Fwhile-read-later-services-are.html" }, { "id": 520, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just tried Apple Live Translation with my wife. She was purposely talking in English while I was speaking French with my AirPods Pro 2. This is so seemless, powerful and cool.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-16 18:06:01 -0500", "date": "6:06 p.m. on Sep 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/16/just-tried-apple-live-translation.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F16%2Fjust-tried-apple-live-translation.html" }, { "id": 521, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been installing and applying app updates en masse for a few days. There is a clear trend. Big corporations like Medium, OpenAI, LinkedIn, Reddit, etc. release notes that are like \u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;ve been hard at work updating our app so you get a better experience, blah blah blah\u0026rdquo;. At the same time, indie devs will write, \u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;re happy to introduce support for Apple\u0026rsquo;s latest innovations like Liquid Glass, transparent widgets and on-device Apple Fondational Model for a richer experience.\u0026rdquo; See the difference?\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-16 10:49:19 -0500", "date": "10:49 p.m. on Sep 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/16/ive-been-installing-and-applying.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F16%2Five-been-installing-and-applying.html" }, { "id": 522, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How long before iOS 26.1 beta 1? Asking for a friend.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-16 06:52:16 -0500", "date": "6:52 p.m. on Sep 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/16/how-long-before-ios-beta.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F16%2Fhow-long-before-ios-beta.html" }, { "id": 523, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I spent a few moments this morning reading user reactions to Apple Liquid Glass on r/ios on Reddit. 😳 Ouch. It\u0026rsquo;s messy. Maybe each major release of iOS brings this level of criticism, but I doubt it. A lot of people who upgraded ask how to return to iOS 18 or plan to leave the Apple ecosystem altogether. The latter is something easier said than done, but still, the sentiments seem really negative.\nNow, let\u0026rsquo;s take a look at how things are going on Digg. 👀\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-16 05:45:08 -0500", "date": "5:45 p.m. on Sep 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/16/i-spent-a-few-moments.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F16%2Fi-spent-a-few-moments.html" }, { "id": 524, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s really fascinating how third-party apps adopt Apple\u0026rsquo;s Liquid Glass. For some apps, like Things, changes are minimal\u0026hellip; but for Craft, it\u0026rsquo;s a godsend. Flighty seems to sit in the middle. Does it depend entirely on Liquid Glass, or is it an interpretation by the developer of how far to take this new visual metaphor? It\u0026rsquo;s probably mostly the latter.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-15 16:48:02 -0500", "date": "4:48 p.m. on Sep 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/15/its-really-fascinating-how-thirdparty.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F15%2Fits-really-fascinating-how-thirdparty.html" }, { "id": 525, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Well, I\u0026rsquo;m thinking of upgrading my M4 Mac mini to macOS 26 Tahoe\u0026hellip; I know, I know, I\u0026rsquo;m very critical of Apple Liquid Glass, especially what it does to the Mac\u0026hellip; but now, my Mac on Sequoia feels\u0026hellip; should I say it\u0026hellip; outdated? 🫣\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-15 16:44:47 -0500", "date": "4:44 p.m. on Sep 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/15/well-im-thinking-of-upgrading.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F15%2Fwell-im-thinking-of-upgrading.html" }, { "id": 526, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My wife truly is a typical Apple user. Usually, I\u0026rsquo;d encourage her to update all her devices to Apple\u0026rsquo;s latest OSes. But this year, I think she would resent me for it. 🫣\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-15 06:50:11 -0500", "date": "6:50 p.m. on Sep 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/15/my-wife-truly-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F15%2Fmy-wife-truly-is-a.html" }, { "id": 527, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today, Apple releases a slew of operating system updates, including Liquid Glass, an already controversial, divisive, and well-documented user-hostile unified visual language across all of their operating system. I\u0026rsquo;m pleased to announce the addition of a \u0026ldquo;Before \u0026amp; After\u0026rdquo; section in my now-famous website: \u0026ldquo;Where Apple’s Liquid Glass Crashes the User Experience\u0026rdquo;. Have a look and see how developers adopted Liquid Glass.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-15 06:26:57 -0500", "date": "6:26 p.m. on Sep 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/15/today-apple-releases-a-slew.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F15%2Ftoday-apple-releases-a-slew.html" }, { "id": 528, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here\u0026rsquo;s a really strange thing: for some apps, adopting Liquid Glass seems to be a step back (lower information density, too much spacing in some areas), while for others, it appears to do the opposite and enhances the app. That\u0026rsquo;s the case for Craft. I genuinely believe Craft with Liquid Glass is much better. Craft\u0026rsquo;s take on Liquid Glass is well-balanced and executed. Bravo. ", "dateiso": "2025-09-14 14:20:23 -0500", "date": "2:20 p.m. on Sep 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/14/heres-a-really-strange-thing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F14%2Fheres-a-really-strange-thing.html" }, { "id": 529, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Even if I wanted to order a new iPhone 17 Pro Max to replace my 15 Pro Max, since I also need to buy two new protective cases—one for everyday use and the other for use with my bike—the operation would cost nearly 2,500 Canadian dollars with taxes. I don\u0026rsquo;t have that money. 😥\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-14 06:18:45 -0500", "date": "6:18 p.m. on Sep 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/14/even-if-i-wanted-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F14%2Feven-if-i-wanted-to.html" }, { "id": 530, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " \u0026ldquo;Liquid Glass is the software equivalent to the butterfly keyboard\u0026rdquo; - Jeff Johnson\n😳\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-11 17:45:13 -0500", "date": "5:45 p.m. on Sep 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/11/liquid-glass-is-the-software.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F11%2Fliquid-glass-is-the-software.html" }, { "id": 531, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I can\u0026rsquo;t agree with John Gruber\u0026rsquo;s take on this dinner with Trump and tech company CEOs. Can you imagine if all tech CEOs refused to attend this dinner, abandoning Trump? How can they be so foolish as to think everything will be fine? Do you think Trump would then impose sanctions and tariffs on Meta, Google, Apple, and Amazon all at once? Trump\u0026rsquo;s invitations are traps that serve only his interests, nothing else. And if he can humiliate everyone, that\u0026rsquo;s just a bonus. Criticism should be directed at Trump and those CEOs, everyone. This whole situation is disgusting.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-11 06:50:25 -0500", "date": "6:50 p.m. on Sep 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/11/i-cant-agree-with-john.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F11%2Fi-cant-agree-with-john.html" }, { "id": 532, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Among all the hands-on videos about the new iPhone 17 Pro, I didn\u0026rsquo;t see any tech pundits comment on the heat dissipation of the latest devices while handling them in their hands. I mean, just taking a bunch of photos and videos should have been enough. I can\u0026rsquo;t believe that they couldn\u0026rsquo;t feel it for a few minutes and reflect on their perception. They all miss the mark. Huh!\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-11 06:33:56 -0500", "date": "6:33 p.m. on Sep 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/11/among-all-the-handson-videos.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F11%2Famong-all-the-handson-videos.html" }, { "id": 533, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple Liquid Glass not only creates usability issues (harder to read, user content conflicts with prominent UI elements), but also somewhat reduces information density as well as content space, as illustrated in the following example with 1Blocker, before \u0026amp; after animated GIF.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-10 19:20:09 -0500", "date": "7:20 p.m. on Sep 10, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/10/apple-liquid-glass-not-only.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F10%2Fapple-liquid-glass-not-only.html" }, { "id": 534, "type": "post", "title": "Impressive, But I'll Pass", "text": "Finished watching the Awe Dropping infomercial from Apple. Quick thoughts. Impressive video production quality as usual. Apple Watch personal stories were touching. iPhone Air (not iPhone 17 Air) looks impressive without too many compromises. This iPhone 17 Pro Orange colour looks gorgeous, can\u0026rsquo;t wait to see that in person. Am I getting tired of Apple Headquarters shots? The jury is still out on that one. The AirPods Pro 3 is much better than rumours were predicting. I liked the new voice-overs for the iPhone Air design showcase as well as the iPhone 17 Pro. Somewhat similar to Jony Ive\u0026rsquo;s tone. Unibody for the iPhone 17 Pro, a first. Many features announced today are also available to previous-generation devices (hypertension for Apple Watch Series 11 is also available to Series 10). Cool. Same price as last year\u0026rsquo;s? Apparently, for a double the starting memory size configuration. Not bad. Who said Apple is greedy? Yet, I\u0026rsquo;ll probably pass this year and wait for next year. Thanks to Tim Cook\u0026rsquo;s relationship with some of the US government representatives.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-09 19:32:34 -0500", "date": "7:32 p.m. on Sep 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/09/impressive-but-ill-pass.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F09%2Fimpressive-but-ill-pass.html" }, { "id": 535, "type": "post", "title": "Going Apple TV-Only?", "text": "Based on our experience earlier this year with Apple TV as the only way to watch TV content, along with rising costs and an unstable service, we are seriously considering cutting our cable service and keeping only our Internet service. Even though the apps on Apple TV are far from perfect, they generally allow us to replace cable service. Rumors suggest that Apple is working on a new iteration of the Apple TV, which could make the timing even more favorable.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-09 05:40:34 -0500", "date": "5:40 p.m. on Sep 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/09/going-apple-tvonly.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F09%2Fgoing-apple-tvonly.html" }, { "id": 536, "type": "post", "title": "Why All This?", "text": "Read later services (Readwise, Pocket, Readwise, Inoreader, etc.), bookmarking apps and services (Anybox, Raindrop, etc.), downloading, summarizing, and tagging—whether used together or separately—the issue remains the same: I rarely revisit content. Content quickly becomes outdated and loses relevance. This pattern reflects a common challenge in digital content management. Despite the ease of saving and organizing information for future reference, the practical use of these saved digital tidbits often diminishes over time. As new information emerges and contexts change, what once seemed valuable or interesting can fade into obscurity, making the effort of saving feel less worthwhile. This raises questions about the effectiveness of these tools and whether they truly serve my long-term informational needs.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-08 19:14:39 -0500", "date": "7:14 p.m. on Sep 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/08/why-all-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F08%2Fwhy-all-this.html" }, { "id": 537, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s really, I mean REALLY hard to get excited for tomorrow\u0026rsquo;s Apple announcements. It\u0026rsquo;s definitely the most leaked-ahead event.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-08 18:53:17 -0500", "date": "6:53 p.m. on Sep 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/08/its-really-i-mean-really.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F08%2Fits-really-i-mean-really.html" }, { "id": 538, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Will Apple ever fix this? How do you clean this mess?\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-08 06:59:19 -0500", "date": "6:59 p.m. on Sep 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/08/will-apple-ever-fix-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F08%2Fwill-apple-ever-fix-this.html" }, { "id": 539, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "While testing MyMind and reading this article, I discovered the existence of Recall. 😳😅\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-08 06:24:40 -0500", "date": "6:24 p.m. on Sep 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/08/while-testing-mymind-and-reading.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F08%2Fwhile-testing-mymind-and-reading.html" }, { "id": 540, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "While I\u0026rsquo;m testing and experimenting with MyMind, I realize that there is a lot happening these days in the apps and services space for reading and processing information. Besides the traditional read-later services that have existed for years, we now have AI-powered summarizers available through various platforms, including apps, websites, APIs, and browsers. The experience also differs between desktop and mobile devices. It\u0026rsquo;s hard to ever settle on a digital toolset and workflows.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-08 05:38:54 -0500", "date": "5:38 p.m. on Sep 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/08/while-im-testing-and-experimenting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F08%2Fwhile-im-testing-and-experimenting.html" }, { "id": 541, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I don\u0026rsquo;t see many developers sharing details, such as screenshots of their apps updated for Liquid Glass, except in a few cases. Is it still too soon? Is this a result of a silent pushback? Or a bit of both?\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-07 20:25:20 -0500", "date": "8:25 p.m. on Sep 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/07/i-dont-see-many-developers.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F07%2Fi-dont-see-many-developers.html" }, { "id": 542, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Josh Ginter in Sunday Edition 09-07-25 about MyMind:\nI am obsessed with this app. It is unlike any other app on my devices. It uses AI in unique ways, has limitations that I wish it didn’t but which make good sense, and looks as beautiful as Things or Day One or Ulysses or Craft. I want to save everything in my life to MyMind — quotes, links, screenshots, thoughts, highlights, books — and I want to use the app all day long. I truly haven’t felt this way about an app in a long, long time.\nIt\u0026rsquo;s far from the first time that I read about MyMind, but I never experienced it. With Ginter\u0026rsquo;s words, I couldn\u0026rsquo;t help myself and opened a free account. It\u0026rsquo;s very early, but I like what I\u0026rsquo;m seeing. It\u0026rsquo;s not cheap, and I\u0026rsquo;m not sure there is a place in my digital toolset. I will see.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-07 18:28:58 -0500", "date": "6:28 p.m. on Sep 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/07/josh-ginter-in-sunday-edition.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F07%2Fjosh-ginter-in-sunday-edition.html" }, { "id": 543, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "With Liquid Glass, Apple really missed the huge opportunity to revisit the Mac beachball. So flat. So sad.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-07 14:10:34 -0500", "date": "2:10 p.m. on Sep 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/07/with-liquid-glass-apple-really.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F07%2Fwith-liquid-glass-apple-really.html" }, { "id": 544, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Home sweet home. I\u0026rsquo;m back and working from my M4 Mac mini running macOS 15.6.1. Feels good to be out of this Liquid Glass turmoil. I\u0026rsquo;ll probably wai a long time before upgrading my Mac mini.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-07 12:22:39 -0500", "date": "12:22 p.m. on Sep 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/07/home-sweet-home-im-back.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F07%2Fhome-sweet-home-im-back.html" }, { "id": 545, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I spent two hours today experimenting with Riverside.fm to see if this solution could replace ScreenFlow. So far, the experience is good, but I will need to try again at home with my M4 Mac mini and my usual recording setup.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-06 13:05:47 -0500", "date": "1:05 p.m. on Sep 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/06/i-spent-two-hours-today.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F06%2Fi-spent-two-hours-today.html" }, { "id": 546, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "At this point, with all the rumors and leaks, Apple should just call it off, cancel the infomercial next week and update its website now and be done with it. 😔\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-05 11:31:05 -0500", "date": "11:31 p.m. on Sep 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/05/at-this-point-with-all.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F05%2Fat-this-point-with-all.html" }, { "id": 547, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Remember Apple Clips? Adobe Premiere for iPhone is coming soon… Was Clips another waste of time by Apple?\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-04 12:06:50 -0500", "date": "12:06 p.m. on Sep 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/04/remember-apple-clips-adobe-premiere.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F04%2Fremember-apple-clips-adobe-premiere.html" }, { "id": 548, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It seems that the browser war is heating up with Atlassian buying the Browser Company and all other AI startups working on building their own AI-browser, the future conduits to the next web.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-04 10:01:02 -0500", "date": "10:01 p.m. on Sep 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/04/it-seems-that-the-browser.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F04%2Fit-seems-that-the-browser.html" }, { "id": 549, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What is more depressing than spending the day inside Microsoft’s productivity suite, on Windows?\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-04 09:27:12 -0500", "date": "9:27 p.m. on Sep 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/04/what-is-more-depressing-than.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F04%2Fwhat-is-more-depressing-than.html" }, { "id": 550, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I just submitted one of my comments about Google and Apple deals to Techmeme, and it got picked up. Am I famous now? I\u0026rsquo;ve been following Techmeme more closely in the last few weeks; it\u0026rsquo;s a strange but informative place to be.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-04 06:34:00 -0500", "date": "6:34 p.m. on Sep 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/04/i-just-submitted-one-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F04%2Fi-just-submitted-one-of.html" }, { "id": 551, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple seems to be closer to repeating with Google what they do for search, but this time with AI. I would prefer Apple to do search, too, and I understand the challenge in offering LLMs that have a chance to compete, at the perception level, at least.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-03 17:32:55 -0500", "date": "5:32 p.m. on Sep 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/03/apple-seems-to-be-closer.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F03%2Fapple-seems-to-be-closer.html" }, { "id": 552, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "To everyone who is afraid of losing their job because of generative artificial intelligence (or one of its variations), now is the right time to ask yourself: am I giving my best at work? Don\u0026rsquo;t give your employer any reasons or desire to replace you with AI.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-03 13:43:59 -0500", "date": "1:43 p.m. on Sep 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/03/to-everyone-who-is-afraid.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F03%2Fto-everyone-who-is-afraid.html" }, { "id": 553, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Generative AI is making us suspicious of everything online.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-02 17:50:02 -0500", "date": "5:50 p.m. on Sep 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/02/generative-ai-is-making-us.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F02%2Fgenerative-ai-is-making-us.html" }, { "id": 554, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Recent additions and improvements by Inoreader for podcast listeners and YouTube content consumption are game changer for me. It will take some time to process that and see how I adapt to this. Of course, AI is not far.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-02 16:42:14 -0500", "date": "4:42 p.m. on Sep 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/02/recent-additions-and-improvements-by.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F02%2Frecent-additions-and-improvements-by.html" }, { "id": 555, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When all apps look pretty much the same, there is no fun, no distinctiveness. Looking at you, Apple and your stock apps with whateverOS 26.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-02 09:02:02 -0500", "date": "9:02 p.m. on Sep 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/02/when-all-apps-look-pretty.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F02%2Fwhen-all-apps-look-pretty.html" }, { "id": 556, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What are the mistakes Apple, under Tim Cook’s leadership, did since 2011? I’m working on something, your input will help define what I’m working on.\n", "dateiso": "2025-09-01 15:39:58 -0500", "date": "3:39 p.m. on Sep 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/01/what-are-the-mistakes-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F09%2F01%2Fwhat-are-the-mistakes-apple.html" }, { "id": 557, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thought of the day: writing with AI is not writing, it\u0026rsquo;s something else. Eventually, there will be a word for it, but meanwhile, let\u0026rsquo;s not call this writing. Looking at you, Tiago Forte.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-31 07:19:09 -0500", "date": "7:19 p.m. on Aug 31, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/31/thought-of-the-day-writing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F31%2Fthought-of-the-day-writing.html" }, { "id": 558, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "ooh.directory appears to be dead, already. It didn\u0026rsquo;t last long. But the guy behind it is still active.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-31 06:44:15 -0500", "date": "6:44 p.m. on Aug 31, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/31/oohdirectory-appears-to-be-dead.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F31%2Foohdirectory-appears-to-be-dead.html" }, { "id": 559, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sometimes, I start writing a blog post on Micro.blog but then switch to Scribble.pages at the last minute to post it there. 🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-30 13:25:59 -0500", "date": "1:25 p.m. on Aug 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/30/sometimes-i-start-writing-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F30%2Fsometimes-i-start-writing-a.html" }, { "id": 560, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When posting a new photo on Glass, I always look at my previous posts on my profile page to see my previous posts. I like to create a nice visual rhythm in my feeds for those who follow me.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-30 07:19:24 -0500", "date": "7:19 p.m. on Aug 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/30/when-posting-a-new-photo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F30%2Fwhen-posting-a-new-photo.html" }, { "id": 561, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Can\u0026rsquo;t wait to see Apple Liquid Glass on a Pro Display XDR. 👀😳🫣\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-29 06:05:24 -0500", "date": "6:05 p.m. on Aug 29, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/29/cant-wait-to-see-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F29%2Fcant-wait-to-see-apple.html" }, { "id": 562, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently, I\u0026rsquo;m testing and experimenting with Inoreader\u0026rsquo;s Email Digests. I like what I\u0026rsquo;m seeing. But it\u0026rsquo;s not cheap.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-27 21:17:21 -0500", "date": "9:17 p.m. on Aug 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/27/currently-im-testing-and-experimenting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F27%2Fcurrently-im-testing-and-experimenting.html" }, { "id": 563, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "With my new job, I get to use a Windows 11 laptop. It\u0026rsquo;s not a powerhouse, but it is decent—except when it\u0026rsquo;s not plugged in. As a Mac user at home, I take for granted the speed and battery life that an Apple Silicon Mac offers. It\u0026rsquo;s night and day. I don\u0026rsquo;t notice any difference when using the Mac on battery; I never hear the fan because there isn\u0026rsquo;t one. It\u0026rsquo;s night and day. We should always remember that.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-27 16:36:12 -0500", "date": "4:36 p.m. on Aug 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/27/with-my-new-job-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F27%2Fwith-my-new-job-i.html" }, { "id": 564, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "iOS 7 \u0026gt; Liquid Glass. There, I said it.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-26 06:27:06 -0500", "date": "6:27 p.m. on Aug 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/26/ios-liquid-glass-there-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F26%2Fios-liquid-glass-there-i.html" }, { "id": 565, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The Notification Center on macOS is a mess. It\u0026rsquo;s ugly and needlessly hard to use. I don\u0026rsquo;t understand this design. If you want to clear it from all the notifications, you have to go way down the list and hit this little circled \u0026ldquo;x\u0026rdquo;. Then again on another section. I do understand the difference between immediate time sensitive notifications, but man this is bad. I much prefer the Windows 11\u0026rsquo;s take on it.\nUpdate: added an example of confusing design decision: two places to clear notifications. ", "dateiso": "2025-08-26 06:04:12 -0500", "date": "6:04 p.m. on Aug 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/26/the-notification-center-on-macos.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F26%2Fthe-notification-center-on-macos.html" }, { "id": 566, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I began my writing project for the Apple Journal review. For this project, I will try a different approach1. I started experimenting with the Perplexity Comet browser to survey past reviews. I use genAI to create quick summaries of previous articles. I save text highlights in Inoreader for the most interesting past reviews. I use Craft to compile all my knowledge and copy-paste the genAI summaries. However, I\u0026rsquo;m unsure where this will lead.\nDare I say \u0026lsquo;modern approach\u0026rsquo;?\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-25 06:35:31 -0500", "date": "6:35 p.m. on Aug 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/25/i-began-my-writing-project.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F25%2Fi-began-my-writing-project.html" }, { "id": 567, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been using Apple Journal this summer to record my experience at a chalet by a small, beautiful lake. It\u0026rsquo;s really an inspiring place. Now that I fully experienced Apple Journal, and Apple\u0026rsquo;s vision of personal journaling, it\u0026rsquo;s probably time for me to put together a write-up. Spoiler alert: Apple Journal is full of paper cuts.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-24 16:33:18 -0500", "date": "4:33 p.m. on Aug 24, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/24/ive-been-using-apple-journal.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F24%2Five-been-using-apple-journal.html" }, { "id": 568, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here is a strange issue in Photomator: during photo editing, an .XMP file is created, which likely contains the editing steps applied to the photo. Additionally, a Photomator native file is also generated. Some of these files are very small, while others are quite large. For example, one file is less than 300 KB, while another is nearly 120 MB. Despite using the same editing process, the file sizes vary significantly. These files aren\u0026rsquo;t package files, it\u0026rsquo;s impossible to peek inside them. This is strange.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-24 08:12:06 -0500", "date": "8:12 p.m. on Aug 24, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/24/here-is-a-strange-issue.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F24%2Fhere-is-a-strange-issue.html" }, { "id": 569, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As a blogger and someone curious about many topics, I often feel I miss opportunities to become an expert in certain fields. Generative AI is one example. It gained public attention in the fall of 2022. At that time, when generative AI started to gather attention in the public, I should have recognized this important moment. I should have taken the chance to gather knowledge and organize it like a true researcher. I\u0026rsquo;m very analytical in general. I ask good questions. I have the tools and the motivation to do this work. Now, it feels overwhelming to catch up.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-24 07:35:50 -0500", "date": "7:35 p.m. on Aug 24, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/24/as-a-blogger-and-someone.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F24%2Fas-a-blogger-and-someone.html" }, { "id": 570, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m spending a lot of time online and on my computer each week for my blogs, probably around 10 to 25 hours. I wonder how skilled I could become if I dedicated those hours to learning a new field like psychology or music.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-23 07:57:23 -0500", "date": "7:57 p.m. on Aug 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/23/im-spending-a-lot-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F23%2Fim-spending-a-lot-of.html" }, { "id": 571, "type": "post", "title": "Something Is Wrong", "text": "We\u0026rsquo;re getting close to the end of August and moving into September, which means Apple\u0026rsquo;s usual rush of new product launches. We already know quite a bit about Apple\u0026rsquo;s upcoming iPhone. We also know that Apple\u0026rsquo;s unifying Liquid Glass is likely to cause major issues when it encounters hundreds of millions of devices. We can probably expect Apple to be in damage control again. And I\u0026rsquo;ll probably have to explain why Apple did this to my friends and colleagues.\nUsually, around this time of year, I would have one or two articles ready to publish about all this. But not this year. I won\u0026rsquo;t upgrade to the iPhone 17 Pro Max, even though I normally would every two iPhone generations. I\u0026rsquo;m voting with my dollars by skipping this year, because I disagree with Tim Cook\u0026rsquo;s (and Apple\u0026rsquo;s) stance on the orange clown.\nSomething is wrong.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-23 06:52:51 -0500", "date": "6:52 p.m. on Aug 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/23/something-is-wrong.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F23%2Fsomething-is-wrong.html" }, { "id": 572, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Out of curiosity, are you considering getting more RAM with your next computer to run local LLMs in the future?\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-20 07:14:02 -0500", "date": "7:14 p.m. on Aug 20, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/20/out-of-curiosity-are-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F20%2Fout-of-curiosity-are-you.html" }, { "id": 573, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If you have digital assets on GitHub, if your software dev workflows depend on GitHub, you might want to read this. Should we trust Microsoft, now?\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-19 20:56:50 -0500", "date": "8:56 p.m. on Aug 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/19/if-you-have-digital-assets.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F19%2Fif-you-have-digital-assets.html" }, { "id": 574, "type": "post", "title": "AI as a Complementary Tool", "text": "One of my rules for using generative AI is to avoid starting a creative project with AI prompts. Today, someone at the office challenged this rule, arguing that beginning with AI can effectively kick-start the creative journey. While that may be true, I prefer to keep the human touch at the center and use AI as a complement to the process. Starting with AI risks making us lazy in the long run.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-19 19:23:15 -0500", "date": "7:23 p.m. on Aug 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/19/ai-as-a-complementary-tool.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F19%2Fai-as-a-complementary-tool.html" }, { "id": 575, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just got two invites for Digg. Interested? Find my email and I\u0026rsquo;ll send a code.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-18 20:10:35 -0500", "date": "8:10 p.m. on Aug 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/18/just-got-two-invites-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F18%2Fjust-got-two-invites-for.html" }, { "id": 576, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Fun fact: I keep a log (or a journal) of everything I do in a day at work. I’ve been doing this for decades. I always used digital tools for that but the guy who gave me the inspiration for doing this when I started my career was doing the same but on paper. I thought Incould improve his process. I did.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-18 14:07:42 -0500", "date": "2:07 p.m. on Aug 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/18/fun-fact-i-keep-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F18%2Ffun-fact-i-keep-a.html" }, { "id": 577, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The Kyiv Independent’s take on the “sickening,” “shameful,” and “useless” meeting in Alaska is spot on.\nMark Stoneman https://markstoneman.com/2025/08/15/editorial-that-meeting-was-sickening.html China is watching, too. And probably smiling.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-16 05:38:12 -0500", "date": "5:38 p.m. on Aug 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/16/the-kyiv-independents-take-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F16%2Fthe-kyiv-independents-take-on.html" }, { "id": 578, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When creating backlinks in apps like Craft, if there is no automatic suggestions based on current document\u0026rsquo;s content, as the number of documents grows, it becomes mostly impossible to select related documents to potentially link to.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-15 19:56:45 -0500", "date": "7:56 p.m. on Aug 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/15/when-creating-backlinks-in-apps.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F15%2Fwhen-creating-backlinks-in-apps.html" }, { "id": 579, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I began to unpublish several posts from numericcitizen.me, mainly those imported from Substack. It\u0026rsquo;s fascinating how quickly content can become irrelevant in our rapidly changing world.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-15 16:02:04 -0500", "date": "4:02 p.m. on Aug 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/15/i-began-to-unpublish-several.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F15%2Fi-began-to-unpublish-several.html" }, { "id": 580, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Learning to use Confluence when you already know a lot about Notion feels like a major step back. 🥴\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-15 11:28:25 -0500", "date": "11:28 p.m. on Aug 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/15/learning-to-use-confluence-when.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F15%2Flearning-to-use-confluence-when.html" }, { "id": 581, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If Liquid Glass is about unifying all Apple’s platforms, why is it so toned down on the Mac? Asking for a friend.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-14 17:38:40 -0500", "date": "5:38 p.m. on Aug 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/14/if-liquid-glass-is-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F14%2Fif-liquid-glass-is-about.html" }, { "id": 582, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Do you remember the SETI program? I think this is what it was called. Anyway, it was about providing or contributing personal computing resources to help find extraterrestrial life from background noises or signals coming from space. You would install an app on your computer and when you weren’t using it, its processing power was diverted to the app for computing purposes. Now, fast forward to 2025: could something similar be done e for running LLMs on personal computers? This could then generate usage credits applicable to the AI provider.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-13 17:43:31 -0500", "date": "5:43 p.m. on Aug 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/13/do-you-remember-the-yeti.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F13%2Fdo-you-remember-the-yeti.html" }, { "id": 583, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Frankly, my data processing and reading workflows are such a mess, I cannot figure an effective way to process data, select the right tools, identify the right flow… this is baffling…\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-13 16:16:15 -0500", "date": "4:16 p.m. on Aug 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/13/frankly-my-data-processing-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F13%2Ffrankly-my-data-processing-and.html" }, { "id": 584, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I am curious to explore other providers of generative artificial intelligence services. I am a paying subscriber to ChatGPT, but I haven\u0026rsquo;t seriously explored other alternatives yet, though I plan to do so. I fear missing things out if I ever leave OpenAI behind. I tested Perplexity, but I don\u0026rsquo;t believe in their business model. I think Claude from Anthropic seems to be the most interesting candidate. They have an iPhone and iPad app, just like OpenAI. From now on, I will systematically query both ChatGPT and Claude for my research needs and compare their performance.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-13 06:39:58 -0500", "date": "6:39 p.m. on Aug 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/13/i-am-curious-to-explore.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F13%2Fi-am-curious-to-explore.html" }, { "id": 585, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I started documenting before-and-after comparisons of different betas of Apple Liquid Glass. Search for \u0026ldquo;beforeandafter\u0026rdquo; in the document to locate those comparisons. Honestly, things are improving. That wasn\u0026rsquo;t expected.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-12 17:21:39 -0500", "date": "5:21 p.m. on Aug 12, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/12/i-started-documenting-beforeandafter-comparisons.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F12%2Fi-started-documenting-beforeandafter-comparisons.html" }, { "id": 586, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Discovered a fun Easter egg in iPadOS 26 beta6 Preview.app. It\u0026rsquo;s documented as exhibit #50 right here.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-12 07:25:26 -0500", "date": "7:25 p.m. on Aug 12, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/12/discovered-a-fun-easter-egg.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F12%2Fdiscovered-a-fun-easter-egg.html" }, { "id": 587, "type": "post", "title": "A Strange \u0026 Frustrating Mac App Store Issue", "text": "Here\u0026rsquo;s a strange and frustrating issue with the Mac App Store on macOS Tahoe: I cannot re-download an app after testing it through TestFlight. This first occurred with Craft, which I tested this summer. When the version I was testing became official, I tried to download it, but the download froze at the end. Quitting the Mac App Store and rebooting my machine did not resolve the problem. Now, I am facing the same issue with Reeder. I tested the beta a few months ago, only to discover that the developer removed the build from TestFlight. When I went to the Mac App Store to download the official version, the download froze again and never completed. Now I\u0026rsquo;m unable to use an app for which I\u0026rsquo;m paying for. Submitted a feedback to Apple. Beta6 doesn\u0026rsquo;t fix the issue. I\u0026rsquo;m really hoping for a fix soon. See the behavior here.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-12 07:02:44 -0500", "date": "7:02 p.m. on Aug 12, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/12/a-strange-frustrating-mac-app.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F12%2Fa-strange-frustrating-mac-app.html" }, { "id": 588, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Am I starting to like Liquid Glass for the good and the bad things? Like they say: with beta6, it might be growing on me.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-11 17:24:04 -0500", "date": "5:24 p.m. on Aug 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/11/am-i-starting-to-like.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F11%2Fam-i-starting-to-like.html" }, { "id": 589, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "People are excited with generative AI and this is legitimate but this excitement overshadow a question we should ask more often about genAI (and about any new tech trends): what do we lose in return? My guess is that we lose a lot but we’re not sure what exactly. When we start to learn about the losses through experience and studies, we will question, hopefully, our use of AI in general. That’s my hope.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-11 08:49:55 -0500", "date": "8:49 p.m. on Aug 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/11/people-are-excited-with-generative.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F11%2Fpeople-are-excited-with-generative.html" }, { "id": 590, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In my opinion, the best place for Liquid Glass is on the Apple Watch, because the overall graphic content is much more standardized and controlled. You rarely get weird backgrounds under UI elements.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-10 17:34:40 -0500", "date": "5:34 p.m. on Aug 10, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/10/in-my-opinion-the-best.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F10%2Fin-my-opinion-the-best.html" }, { "id": 591, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Updated my \u0026ldquo;Remembering The Story Behind Every Apple Computers I Ever Owned\u0026rdquo; page with more up-to-date info.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-10 16:31:40 -0500", "date": "4:31 p.m. on Aug 10, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/10/updated-my-remembering-the-story.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F10%2Fupdated-my-remembering-the-story.html" }, { "id": 592, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m about to move some stuff to Chillidog… advice?\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-09 11:26:03 -0500", "date": "11:26 p.m. on Aug 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/09/im-about-to-move-some.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F09%2Fim-about-to-move-some.html" }, { "id": 593, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I see a big increase in subscribers to my blog on Ghost since Ghost 6 was released this week. I don\u0026rsquo;t know if that will last, but hey, I\u0026rsquo;ll take it!\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-06 19:08:05 -0500", "date": "7:08 p.m. on Aug 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/06/i-see-a-big-increase.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F06%2Fi-see-a-big-increase.html" }, { "id": 594, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This week, I had a conversation about genAI with my youngest son, who’s 21 and just completed his bachelor’s degree in communication. He shared that he was relieved to be finishing his studies at a time when students are increasingly turning to these tools—sometimes appropriately, sometimes not—for their coursework and assignments. He also felt that many of his professors were unprepared for the changes AI is bringing to education. I completely understand his perspective. We live in a fascinating but scary times.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-06 19:04:40 -0500", "date": "7:04 p.m. on Aug 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/06/this-week-i-had-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F06%2Fthis-week-i-had-a.html" }, { "id": 595, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Looking at the latest dev diary video from The Realmac software company, Elements CMS is progressing well, in my opinion. I can\u0026rsquo;t wait to try it out on Who Is Numeric Citizen website. But before that, I\u0026rsquo;ll have some more work to do, particularly on the highlights section that will be broken up in a few subsections. Stay tuned.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-06 18:58:49 -0500", "date": "6:58 p.m. on Aug 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/06/looking-at-the-latest-dev.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F06%2Flooking-at-the-latest-dev.html" }, { "id": 596, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Yesterday I showed my iPhone running iOS 26 to my son. I was scrolling through my notifications on the lock screen. The first thing he said was: woah… that is so… much harder to read.\nNot cool. Not impressed. Just harder to read. He is 21. 🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-06 11:26:41 -0500", "date": "11:26 p.m. on Aug 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/06/yesterday-i-showed-my-iphone.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F06%2Fyesterday-i-showed-my-iphone.html" }, { "id": 597, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "HELP! I can\u0026rsquo;t redownload a specific app from the MAS! Other apps are downloading fine. How can I fix this? Was testing a TestFlight version of Craft, now I want to download the official release from the MAS. Tried deleting the app and rebooting, re-logging to the MAS, no avail. Running macOS Tahoe, both beta4 and beta5 experienced the same thing.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-06 05:22:54 -0500", "date": "5:22 p.m. on Aug 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/06/help-i-cant-redownload-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F06%2Fhelp-i-cant-redownload-a.html" }, { "id": 598, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Please Apple, do me a favor, and ship beta5 today because I want to see the light but not through this Liquid Glass.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-05 11:42:17 -0500", "date": "11:42 p.m. on Aug 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/05/please-apple-do-me-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F05%2Fplease-apple-do-me-a.html" }, { "id": 599, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Mornings are great for these scenes.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-03 20:32:41 -0500", "date": "8:32 p.m. on Aug 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/03/mornings-are-great-for-these.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F03%2Fmornings-are-great-for-these.html" }, { "id": 600, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I wrote these articles on Medium under the Numeric Citizen Journey in the last year and I wonder how different my readership would have been if I wrote these articles on Substack. Substack isn\u0026rsquo;t having a great time these days\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-03 20:06:21 -0500", "date": "8:06 p.m. on Aug 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/03/i-wrote-these-articles-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F03%2Fi-wrote-these-articles-on.html" }, { "id": 601, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here\u0026rsquo;s the latest edition of the Ephemeral Scrapbook newsletter. About this edition: “Amid Apple Intelligence delays, Apple still makes money, a lot of it. Doomsayers will have to wait. This edition isn’t AI-news free. Sorry.\u0026quot;\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-03 07:59:30 -0500", "date": "7:59 p.m. on Aug 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/03/heres-the-latest-edition-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F03%2Fheres-the-latest-edition-of.html" }, { "id": 602, "type": "post", "title": "Bye Bye (Again) Medium", "text": "My Medium membership is up for renewal on August 17th. I returned to Medium last year to share a special set of articles about my potential career pivot to freelancing. I wrote over a dozen articles on this topic, believing Medium was a suitable platform for personal and career-focused content. Unfortunately, it wasn\u0026rsquo;t. Despite following all the SEO tricks, I earned only $1.64 in revenue, which I won\u0026rsquo;t receive since the minimum payout is $10. 😳 I expected my earnings to at least cover the cost of my Medium membership, but that didn\u0026rsquo;t happen. I also intended to read more content on the platform, but I didn\u0026rsquo;t. I thought I would gain more followers, but that didn\u0026rsquo;t occur either. I understand now that I need to move on1, 2.\nGoodbye, Medium. It was one of my numerous experiments3. I\u0026rsquo;ll keep my account active but won\u0026rsquo;t write or share anything further.\nThe vibe on Medium feels strange. The presence of generative AI often lingers in my mind while reading content there.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nI aim to focus my creative energy on the right things; doing less often leads to a more sustainable and enjoyable journey.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nWrite.as, Substack were other experiments, too.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-02 07:25:00 -0500", "date": "7:25 p.m. on Aug 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/02/bye-bye-again-medium.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F02%2Fbye-bye-again-medium.html" }, { "id": 603, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Some are doing vibe coding but me, I’m having a good vibe because of the view. 😬😜\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-01 19:38:31 -0500", "date": "7:38 p.m. on Aug 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/01/some-are-doing-vibe-coding.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F01%2Fsome-are-doing-vibe-coding.html" }, { "id": 604, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Using an external display with iPadOS 26 beta4 is still very problematic, especially when invoking the Control Center, the Notifications Center and dragging windows from the iPad to the external display.\n", "dateiso": "2025-08-01 17:42:08 -0500", "date": "5:42 p.m. on Aug 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/08/01/using-an-external-display-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F08%2F01%2Fusing-an-external-display-with.html" }, { "id": 605, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Still no clear effects of Apple Intelligence delays on Apple\u0026rsquo;s bottom line, apparently. Apple is not doomed, just yet.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-31 15:49:53 -0500", "date": "3:49 p.m. on Jul 31, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/31/still-no-clear-effects-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F31%2Fstill-no-clear-effects-of.html" }, { "id": 606, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Even the mouse cursor in iPadOS 26 is now distracting. As seen in the following short video, the cursor transparency adapts to the background. Even more troubling is that for the same area, the cursor can end up being either black or white. Another case documented in the Liquid Glass crashes against the user experience.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-31 12:09:57 -0500", "date": "12:09 p.m. on Jul 31, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/31/even-the-mouse-cursor-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F31%2Feven-the-mouse-cursor-in.html" }, { "id": 607, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Om Malik\u0026rsquo;s analysis on recent corporate memo from Zuckerberg at Meta:\nThere is about 25 percent genuine strategic content, the rest is aspirational marketing and corporate positioning. For instance, infrastructure commitments and device strategy show the seriousness of the effort. However, claims about superintelligence being “in sight” are inflated for competitive reasons.\nMe: This is how a tech bubble is inflated, until it blows up. Wait for it.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-31 11:01:57 -0500", "date": "11:01 p.m. on Jul 31, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/31/om-maliks-analysis-on-recent.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F31%2Fom-maliks-analysis-on-recent.html" }, { "id": 608, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Referring to an earlier post today, I think I know why I\u0026rsquo;m publishing less often long articles. Building each newsletter edition takes quite some time and is rather disruptive-I\u0026rsquo;m constantly on the lookout to find new and interesting stuff to put into each ephemeral scrapbook. Learning to use Elements proved to be more demanding that I thought (but it was worth it!). And more recently, maintaining my visual catalog of Liquid Glass failures also requires some dedication, thank you, Apple.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-30 21:21:15 -0500", "date": "9:21 p.m. on Jul 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/30/referring-to-an-earlier-post.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F30%2Freferring-to-an-earlier-post.html" }, { "id": 609, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Got this a few times already, is this legit?\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-30 14:31:45 -0500", "date": "2:31 p.m. on Jul 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/30/got-this-a-few-times.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F30%2Fgot-this-a-few-times.html" }, { "id": 610, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It has been a long time since I published a long article on numericcitizen.me. Aside from my newsletter, in-depth articles have become rare. It seems that I am only able to produce short texts. Should I be worried about that?\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-30 12:09:34 -0500", "date": "12:09 p.m. on Jul 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/30/it-has-been-a-long.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F30%2Fit-has-been-a-long.html" }, { "id": 611, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Liquid Glass disillusioned here: Dear Apple, if an app constantly needs to darken or lighten the background or adjust control transparency for the user interface to be barely usable, perhaps this indicates a flawed approach to user interface design? 😵‍💫\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-29 16:38:40 -0500", "date": "4:38 p.m. on Jul 29, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/29/liquid-glass-disillusioned-here-dear.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F29%2Fliquid-glass-disillusioned-here-dear.html" }, { "id": 612, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m a lucky guy.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-28 18:59:50 -0500", "date": "6:59 p.m. on Jul 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/28/im-a-lucky-guy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F28%2Fim-a-lucky-guy.html" }, { "id": 613, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Windows PC is a powerful platform for gaming, with high frame rate, gorgeous graphics and animation, and so on and on… so why is a modern pro laptop running the latest OS, Windows 11, still struggles when resizing windows? It’s 2025. But, hey, we have AI everywhere, right? 🤷🏻‍♂️😒\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-28 10:28:25 -0500", "date": "10:28 p.m. on Jul 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/28/windows-pc-is-a-powerful.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F28%2Fwindows-pc-is-a-powerful.html" }, { "id": 614, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As much as I have issues with Liquid Glass on iOS, iPadOS, macOS, I kind of like it a lot on watchOS. 🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-28 10:20:22 -0500", "date": "10:20 p.m. on Jul 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/28/as-much-as-i-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F28%2Fas-much-as-i-have.html" }, { "id": 615, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Something I just learned this morning about Micro.blog:\nDo cross the streams! Bluesky starter packs now available to follow within Micro.blog. Here’s one in Micro.blog on the web with people who post about books. No batch follow yet, but a fun way to discover new users. An experiment that we’ll refine. You can search for a Bluesky pack URL to open it.\nmanton https://www.manton.org/2024/11/18/do-cross-the.html Starter Packs are great to quickly browse and see who might be interesting to follow\u0026hellip; but following the whole starter pack is a no-go for me. The way I understand it is that you are following all the pack members in one hop. I prefer to pick and choose.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-27 10:02:50 -0500", "date": "10:02 p.m. on Jul 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/27/something-i-just-learned-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F27%2Fsomething-i-just-learned-this.html" }, { "id": 616, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As reported from MacRumors: A new button for camera-related functionality coming to the iPhone 17 Pro? Will they fix or improve the Camera Control? I hope they work on that, too, just like when the iterated on the haptic engine in the early days of the iPhone.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-27 09:51:28 -0500", "date": "9:51 p.m. on Jul 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/27/as-reported-from-macrumors-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F27%2Fas-reported-from-macrumors-a.html" }, { "id": 617, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Two apps. Tapestry on the left, a beta that supports Liquid Glass. Micro.blog on the right, still not supporting Liquid Glass. Look at the elements spacing and content areas. This is the future that awaits us.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-24 17:18:37 -0500", "date": "5:18 p.m. on Jul 24, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/24/two-apps-tapestry-on-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F24%2Ftwo-apps-tapestry-on-the.html" }, { "id": 618, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Public betas already?? Wow. Apple must be confident enough. I’m not.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-24 16:56:22 -0500", "date": "4:56 p.m. on Jul 24, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/24/public-betas-already-wow-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F24%2Fpublic-betas-already-wow-apple.html" }, { "id": 619, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "OneNote, an app made by Microsoft, running on Windows 11, an OS made by Microsoft, doesn’t support text selection by double clicking on a word and dragging across, word-by-word. It’s 2025, for god’s sake. But we have AI everywhere, there’s that. 🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-24 11:17:48 -0500", "date": "11:17 p.m. on Jul 24, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/24/onenote-an-app-made-by.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F24%2Fonenote-an-app-made-by.html" }, { "id": 620, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "At beta 4, my general sentiment toward Apple Liquid Glass is generally worse than it was with iOS 7, back in 2013. 😵‍💫\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-24 06:01:26 -0500", "date": "6:01 p.m. on Jul 24, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/24/at-beta-my-general-sentiment.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F24%2Fat-beta-my-general-sentiment.html" }, { "id": 621, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I wonder if Apple has a \u0026ldquo;disable Liquid Glass\u0026rdquo; kill switch at their disposal just in case things turn awful before September launch so they can get more time refining or scrapping Liquid Glass altogether until next year? What would be left in os26 then?\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-23 16:58:34 -0500", "date": "4:58 p.m. on Jul 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/23/i-wonder-if-apple-has.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F23%2Fi-wonder-if-apple-has.html" }, { "id": 622, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been trying Claude AI recently and beyond the answers I get to my prompts, I really like the output style, much more than OpenAI. By order of preference, it goes like this: Claude, Perplexity then OpenAI.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-23 06:10:49 -0500", "date": "6:10 p.m. on Jul 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/23/ive-been-trying-claude-ai.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F23%2Five-been-trying-claude-ai.html" }, { "id": 623, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So, according to Trump, we, Canadians, are nasty? Oh. Proud of it. And fuck him and his clowns.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-22 16:43:38 -0500", "date": "4:43 p.m. on Jul 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/22/so-according-to-trump-we.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F22%2Fso-according-to-trump-we.html" }, { "id": 624, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today is beta4 day, and if this catalog of Liquid Glass failures is any indication, it either a lost cause or beta4 might be the turning point.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-22 06:15:54 -0500", "date": "6:15 p.m. on Jul 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/22/today-is-beta-day-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F22%2Ftoday-is-beta-day-and.html" }, { "id": 625, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been using the Digg beta for a few weeks, and I have mixed feelings about it. I appreciate its design and the way users curate links and content. However, I worry that it might become as toxic as Reddit once it opens to everyone. Just this morning, I participated in a thread where some users were posting angry comments—albeit mildly—toward someone who disagreed with the majority. The argument is simple: Reddit is a toxic place and people want an alternative. Digg came up trying to be different but some people think that under the surface, it will become as toxic as Reddit. Boom. I wonder if the Internet can ever be a place for debating.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-22 05:29:28 -0500", "date": "5:29 p.m. on Jul 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/22/ive-been-using-the-digg.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F22%2Five-been-using-the-digg.html" }, { "id": 626, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Updated this living catalog of design flaws while using and experimenting with Apple Liquid Glass. I reworked the exhibit heading section with tags. Currently, sporting 26 exhibits and counting.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-21 20:13:11 -0500", "date": "8:13 p.m. on Jul 21, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/21/updated-this-living-catalog-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F21%2Fupdated-this-living-catalog-of.html" }, { "id": 627, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m testing the Comet browser with Perplexity integrated, though I\u0026rsquo;m not entirely sure what that means, yet. It took me less than 30 seconds to summarize a 23:40 minute video, as shown in this screenshot. If millions of people do the same, video creators will likely see a significant drop in view counts. And millions of people will probably save a lot of time watching a video that could have been a one-paragraph blog post. 🤦🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-21 19:52:55 -0500", "date": "7:52 p.m. on Jul 21, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/21/im-testing-the-comet-browser.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F21%2Fim-testing-the-comet-browser.html" }, { "id": 628, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I love doing these accelerated movies about weather like this one. Fascinating.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-21 17:39:51 -0500", "date": "5:39 p.m. on Jul 21, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/21/i-love-doing-these-accelerated.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F21%2Fi-love-doing-these-accelerated.html" }, { "id": 629, "type": "post", "title": "The Apple Intelligence Story Nobody Wants to Talk About", "text": "When I read the news about Apple Intelligence, it is most often related to the perception that Apple is way behind their competitors in the field of artificial intelligence1. It is rarely about what sets Apple Intelligence apart from its competitors: privacy protection. It’s as if this is not important to the majority of users or the tech press. However, it is an important differentiating factor that I believe will work in Apple’s favor in the long term. Fortunately, some articles highlight this fact, such as this article from 9to5Mac.\nOne could argue, including myself, that it\u0026rsquo;s not entirely true when you step back and see the whole pictures. People tend to compare to ChatGPT conversational interaction model. Apple do use a lot of AI technologies in their operating systems and has been doing so for many years. Apple is not good at addressing this perception problem.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-21 06:31:12 -0500", "date": "6:31 p.m. on Jul 21, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/21/the-apple-intelligence-story-nobody.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F21%2Fthe-apple-intelligence-story-nobody.html" }, { "id": 630, "type": "post", "title": "Who Knew This Was Still a Challenge These Days", "text": "I took a trip earlier this year, and my sister, a seasoned amateur photographer, asked when she could see my photos. Even if I\u0026rsquo;m on Glass and Pixelfed, I\u0026rsquo;m sure those two platforms aren\u0026rsquo;t what she would like to use to browse my photos. To makes things more complicated, I do use iCloud Photos where I could share an album but also depend on file-based organization for RAW photos. I need a place to combine my best photos and share as a website that could be put together quickly and easily while having a great design and look. One possible solution is to use Fastmail Files, which will allow me to upload files easily and build the static website automagically. More on that soon.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-20 18:05:13 -0500", "date": "6:05 p.m. on Jul 20, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/20/who-knew-this-was-still.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F20%2Fwho-knew-this-was-still.html" }, { "id": 631, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I just discovered that you can have more than one newsletter on Ghost. Maybe I could use it to restart my Photo Legend Series?\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-20 10:41:35 -0500", "date": "10:41 p.m. on Jul 20, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/20/i-just-discovered-that-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F20%2Fi-just-discovered-that-you.html" }, { "id": 632, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Jesper on the upcoming iPhone 17 Air:\nSo, while I don\u0026rsquo;t necessarily agree with the consequences of the inexorable march towards new frontiers in terms of super-slimness that no one asked for, the ergonomic benefits of a larger display in a \u0026ldquo;small\u0026rdquo;-ish footprint are interesting enough that pursuing it may be necessary to avoid a relative brick.\nI think Apple is doing the iPhone 17 Air because they wanted to make the iPhone Fold first.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-19 07:24:06 -0500", "date": "7:24 p.m. on Jul 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/19/jesper-on-the-upcoming-iphone.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F19%2Fjesper-on-the-upcoming-iphone.html" }, { "id": 633, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s been a while but recent news and trends about AI-based bots trying to ruin the life of psychologically vulnerable people triggered an update to my /nope page.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-17 06:24:15 -0500", "date": "6:24 p.m. on Jul 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/17/its-been-a-while-but.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F17%2Fits-been-a-while-but.html" }, { "id": 634, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wondering if Digg could be a place for blogging beyond doing link posts\u0026hellip; 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-16 06:55:58 -0500", "date": "6:55 p.m. on Jul 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/16/wondering-if-digg-could-be.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F16%2Fwondering-if-digg-could-be.html" }, { "id": 635, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m really liking my experience with Realmac Software\u0026rsquo;s Elements to build my new landing page. I\u0026rsquo;m not an expert at website design but with Elements, I feel empowered. The learning curve is not the easiest one but following all the videos they publish on their YouTube channel plus visiting their forum helps a lot.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-15 19:38:14 -0500", "date": "7:38 p.m. on Jul 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/15/im-really-liking-my-experience.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F15%2Fim-really-liking-my-experience.html" }, { "id": 636, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m betting that we will get whateverOS 26 beta 4 tomorrow, first public beta next week.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-15 16:36:39 -0500", "date": "4:36 p.m. on Jul 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/15/im-betting-that-we-will.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F15%2Fim-betting-that-we-will.html" }, { "id": 637, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How depressing this is. These are filtered Google News results with the keyword \u0026ldquo;ChatGPT\u0026rdquo;. Look at some headlines\u0026hellip; Now, consider this quote.\n“AI will not replace humans, but those who use AI will replace those who don’t.” – Ginni Rometty\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-15 05:50:59 -0500", "date": "5:50 p.m. on Jul 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/15/how-depressing-this-is-these.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F15%2Fhow-depressing-this-is-these.html" }, { "id": 638, "type": "post", "title": "Bye Bye Grammarly?", "text": "I received a reminder this morning about my upcoming Grammarly renewal. After reviewing past invoices, I decided to cancel my subscription on a whim. It\u0026rsquo;s an expensive service. As I\u0026rsquo;m planning some changes on other areas of my digital presence, I\u0026rsquo;ll reallocate the money to that instead.\nFor the next new weeks, my subscription ends on August 14th, I\u0026rsquo;ll be turning off Grammarly and see how things goes. I might use AI service from Raycast, ChatGPT or even Apple Intelligence Writing Tools to compensate. I do use the free version of LanguageTool, too. I\u0026rsquo;ll report my conclusions in due time.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-14 07:14:13 -0500", "date": "7:14 p.m. on Jul 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/14/bye-bye-grammarly.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F14%2Fbye-bye-grammarly.html" }, { "id": 639, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What happened to @maique@social.lol ? I no longer see him on my MB timeline as \u0026ldquo;@maique\u0026rdquo; \u0026hellip; 🙁👀\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-13 15:05:16 -0500", "date": "3:05 p.m. on Jul 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/13/what-happened-to-maiquesociallol-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F13%2Fwhat-happened-to-maiquesociallol-i.html" }, { "id": 640, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just pushed out an update to my ever-growing \u0026ldquo;Who Is Numeric Citizen?\u0026rdquo; website. More photos. More intricate details. Corrected many typos and tweaked the layout, too. Tell me what you think!\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-13 09:59:19 -0500", "date": "9:59 p.m. on Jul 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/13/just-pushed-out-an-update.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F13%2Fjust-pushed-out-an-update.html" }, { "id": 641, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The upcoming CMS feature in Realmac Software Elements is sooooo cool, flexible and powerful. Even RSS feeds are supported! You can see that in action in their latest Dev Diary video.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-11 06:43:50 -0500", "date": "6:43 p.m. on Jul 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/11/the-upcoming-cms-feature-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F11%2Fthe-upcoming-cms-feature-in.html" }, { "id": 642, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One simple thing that is missing from iPadOS 26: CMD-Q to quit an application. Other things that need work: the CMD-TAB switcher is not glassified and lacks contrats with the background view. Same comment goes for the Spotlight search field which can be really hard to see. Oh and here\u0026rsquo;s the thing: if you happen to work both on the Mac and an iPad: you kind expect that both platforms behave the same way. As an example, I want Spotlight on iPad to be the same as on the Mac by offering the four search modes.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-11 06:11:16 -0500", "date": "6:11 p.m. on Jul 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/11/one-simple-thing-that-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F11%2Fone-simple-thing-that-is.html" }, { "id": 643, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On iPadOS 26, you can resize the Settings windows as you like. I wish we could do the same on the Mac!\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-10 20:39:43 -0500", "date": "8:39 p.m. on Jul 10, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/10/on-ipados-you-can-resize.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F10%2Fon-ipados-you-can-resize.html" }, { "id": 644, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Well, using iPadOS 26 beta3, it seems that I can’t use my iPad in «clamshell» mode while hooked to an external display… really?\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-10 20:28:03 -0500", "date": "8:28 p.m. on Jul 10, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/10/well-using-ipados-beta-it.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F10%2Fwell-using-ipados-beta-it.html" }, { "id": 645, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently starting my week-end long experiment with an 2024 M4 iPad Pro running iPadOS 26 with an external display. This feels so different and yet familiar to the… Mac? The iPad? I’m not sure, just yet. Expect more posts in the coming days.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-10 20:16:43 -0500", "date": "8:16 p.m. on Jul 10, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/10/currently-starting-my-weekend-long.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F10%2Fcurrently-starting-my-weekend-long.html" }, { "id": 646, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I often repeat this thought in my head when I\u0026rsquo;m in challenging times: \u0026ldquo;everything around me has been done by people not smarter than me.\u0026rdquo;. It\u0026rsquo;s inspired by Steve Jobs\u0026rsquo; words from an interview he did in the early 1990s, where he was reflecting on how empowering it is to realize that the world is built by people just like us — and that we can reshape it too.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-09 19:36:13 -0500", "date": "7:36 p.m. on Jul 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/09/i-often-repeat-this-thought.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F09%2Fi-often-repeat-this-thought.html" }, { "id": 647, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here\u0026rsquo;s a thought: I would like to ask people of all ages, specifically those between 16 and 70, how they feel about Apple Liquid Glass. Do younger individuals prefer the original version, while older ones favor the toned-down version? I suspect this might be the case.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-08 21:30:11 -0500", "date": "9:30 p.m. on Jul 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/08/heres-a-thought-i-would.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F08%2Fheres-a-thought-i-would.html" }, { "id": 648, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Next weekend when going to the chalet, I’ll bring my iPad, Magic Keyboard and my LG UltraFine 4K monitor so that I can experiment with iPadOS 26 with an external monitor. The last time I tried this was with iPadOS 18 with Stage Manager. It didn’t work well. Can’t wait to see the difference.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-08 18:08:08 -0500", "date": "6:08 p.m. on Jul 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/08/next-weekend-when-going-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F08%2Fnext-weekend-when-going-to.html" }, { "id": 649, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I see encouraging signs with today\u0026rsquo;s releases of \u0026ldquo;whateverOS beta3\u0026rdquo;1. But there is still much work to be done as shown in exhibit #9.\niOS 26 beta3, iPadOS 26 beta3, macOS Tahoe beta 3.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-07 20:32:33 -0500", "date": "8:32 p.m. on Jul 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/07/i-see-encouraging-signs-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F07%2Fi-see-encouraging-signs-with.html" }, { "id": 650, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Maybe Apple could provide a Low, Medium and High settings for Liquid Glass and most people would probably be happy with it.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-07 15:59:38 -0500", "date": "3:59 p.m. on Jul 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/07/maybe-apple-could-provide-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F07%2Fmaybe-apple-could-provide-a.html" }, { "id": 651, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s one of those Monday that will take a hard time to get started. 😅 I had such a great weekend. Let’s get this done.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-07 07:09:13 -0500", "date": "7:09 p.m. on Jul 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/07/its-one-of-those-monday.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F07%2Fits-one-of-those-monday.html" }, { "id": 652, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "With the addition of the traffic lights buttons on iPadOS 26, it\u0026rsquo;s now easier to spot which window is active because inactive windows has their traffic light buttons grayed with three little dots as seen on this screenshot.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-07 06:08:19 -0500", "date": "6:08 p.m. on Jul 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/07/with-the-addition-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F07%2Fwith-the-addition-of-the.html" }, { "id": 653, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Cloudflare Is Blocking AI Crawlers by Default\nLast year, internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare launched tools enabling its customers to block AI scrapers. Today the company has taken its fight against permissionless scraping several steps further. It has switched to blocking AI crawlers by default for its customers and is moving forward with a Pay Per Crawl program that lets customers charge AI companies to scrape their websites.\nI paid a visit to my Cloudflare dashboard and I saw the option to turn on the blocking of AI bots. I\u0026rsquo;m just not sure that I want to silence myself from LLM training. What if everyone does the same?\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-06 20:46:07 -0500", "date": "8:46 p.m. on Jul 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/06/cloudflare-is-blocking-ai-crawlers.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F06%2Fcloudflare-is-blocking-ai-crawlers.html" }, { "id": 654, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Do you think that a few years from now, Liquid Glass will age well? Was this even a consideration by Apple’s designers when they put that up together?\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-06 11:33:27 -0500", "date": "11:33 p.m. on Jul 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/06/do-you-think-that-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F06%2Fdo-you-think-that-a.html" }, { "id": 655, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I want to like Apple’s vision of their newest OS incarnations, but I find it hard at this point. I’m hoping that beta3 will change and help improve some of my feelings.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-06 10:31:04 -0500", "date": "10:31 p.m. on Jul 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/06/i-want-to-like-apples.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F06%2Fi-want-to-like-apples.html" }, { "id": 656, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I wonder what’s going on with Daniel Eran Dilger. It’s been close to five years without posting on his blog: Roughly Drafted. His Twitter account is now private. Nothing to see on LinkedIn either. 🧐\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-06 07:39:48 -0500", "date": "7:39 p.m. on Jul 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/06/i-wonder-whats-going-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F06%2Fi-wonder-whats-going-on.html" }, { "id": 657, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My view tonight. 😍\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-05 19:44:49 -0500", "date": "7:44 p.m. on Jul 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/05/my-view-tonight.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F05%2Fmy-view-tonight.html" }, { "id": 658, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I realize that I should use Inoreader’s ability to generate a RSS feed from a folder and subscribe to this feed in Reeder instead of subscribing to individual feeds in Reeder. This would make Inoreader the source of truth. I’ll work on that this weekend.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-05 10:57:43 -0500", "date": "10:57 p.m. on Jul 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/05/i-realize-that-i-should.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F05%2Fi-realize-that-i-should.html" }, { "id": 659, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It appears that not only Liquid Glass breaks readability in many cases, but information density too is affected, something that I care even more. What comes after the iPhone 15 Pro Max to support this new UI paradigm? 🤦🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-05 09:42:13 -0500", "date": "9:42 p.m. on Jul 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/05/it-appears-that-not-only.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F05%2Fit-appears-that-not-only.html" }, { "id": 660, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is the new readability standards from Apple, a trillion dollars tech company. Here\u0026rsquo;s a screenshot of two Finder windows. Which one is active? Why is the tab of the inactive window darker than the active one? Why can I barely distinguish the tab of the active window? And those \u0026ldquo;floating over the content\u0026rdquo; controls in the top portion, are just, weird and out of this place.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-05 08:23:15 -0500", "date": "8:23 p.m. on Jul 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/05/this-is-the-new-readability.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F05%2Fthis-is-the-new-readability.html" }, { "id": 661, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For the first time in twenty years, I don’t have any business-related apps on my mobile phone, except one for 2FA. No email, no instant messaging, no documents, nothing! I feel some sort of hard-to-describe relief.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-04 11:26:09 -0500", "date": "11:26 p.m. on Jul 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/04/for-the-first-time-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F04%2Ffor-the-first-time-in.html" }, { "id": 662, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Journal on macOS Tahoe feels unfinished, barely a proof of concept to me. Who\u0026rsquo;s designing this at Apple? It feels it was put together the day before WWDC. Too many things to list here. Next betas can\u0026rsquo;t come soon enough, and I\u0026rsquo;m really curious to see how much improvements we\u0026rsquo;re going to see from beta2 to beta 3 and beyond.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-04 07:21:54 -0500", "date": "7:21 p.m. on Jul 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/04/journals-on-macos-tahoe-feels.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F04%2Fjournals-on-macos-tahoe-feels.html" }, { "id": 663, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Matt Birchler in Liquid glass one month later\nIf I could sum it up briefly, I\u0026rsquo;d say that liquid glass is highly dependent on the content it\u0026rsquo;s covering to determine how delightful it is as a UI. That\u0026rsquo;s a real challenge to overcome and it\u0026rsquo;s a big reason why we tend to see these highly-transparent interface designs get more and more opaque in time. The highs are very high in my book, but there are still plenty of \u0026ldquo;yikes\u0026rdquo; moments that I wish weren\u0026rsquo;t there and I hope get improved by the fall.\nThis makes me think that iOS 26 is really the new iOS 7 moment in Apple history. I also agree with Matt\u0026rsquo;s critique and observations. I don\u0026rsquo;t think that a UI is good when you have to meet a certain context in order to make it look good. A great UI is good most if not all the time.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-04 05:57:52 -0500", "date": "5:57 p.m. on Jul 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/04/matt-birchler-in-liquid-glass.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F04%2Fmatt-birchler-in-liquid-glass.html" }, { "id": 664, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m not sure why and what Americans will celebrate tomorrow.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-03 20:02:48 -0500", "date": "8:02 p.m. on Jul 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/03/im-not-sure-why-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F03%2Fim-not-sure-why-and.html" }, { "id": 665, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve Got Better Things To Do Than This, and Yet\nAt the point when you have to blur the content area to make the UI stand out from it, how can you possibly argue that it gets out of the way? It makes no sense.\nHe puts words on something I couldn\u0026rsquo;t name myself.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-03 06:27:22 -0500", "date": "6:27 p.m. on Jul 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/03/ive-got-better-things-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F03%2Five-got-better-things-to.html" }, { "id": 666, "type": "post", "title": "What, You Have a Blog? Really?", "text": "I overheard people at the office talking about their weekend activities. I wasn’t in the conversation, but I’m always prepared for those. I never talk about my writing hobby or the many websites I maintain. Most people would find this strange. They’d say things like, “What, you have a blog? Really?” Yes, that’s right. I prefer to skip all that and talk about a walk in the park, in the forest, and maybe about photography. Blogging is like people collecting stamps back in the day. Sad.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-02 20:39:55 -0500", "date": "8:39 p.m. on Jul 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/02/what-you-have-a-blog.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F02%2Fwhat-you-have-a-blog.html" }, { "id": 667, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "According to MacRumors: New MacBook With A18 Pro Chip Spotted in Apple Code\nThat is interesting. I want Apple to be funky on this one with a unique design proposition. Obviously they are going after the Chromebook market here, if rumors are true.\n", "dateiso": "2025-07-01 06:32:01 -0500", "date": "6:32 p.m. on Jul 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/01/according-to-macrumors-new-macbook.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F07%2F01%2Faccording-to-macrumors-new-macbook.html" }, { "id": 668, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Having to immerse myself in a different digital ecosystem, specifically Microsoft\u0026rsquo;s, helps me appreciate the strengths of both Apple and Microsoft. Does this mean I should consider switching to Android? I\u0026rsquo;ll leave that for you to guess. 🤭\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-30 18:48:01 -0500", "date": "6:48 p.m. on Jun 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/30/having-to-immerse-myself-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F30%2Fhaving-to-immerse-myself-in.html" }, { "id": 669, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One of the fun things when starting a new job with a new set of digital tools is to rethink old habits and change what was broken. Information classifications and tasks management are seeing a big rethink which is, of course, highly tied to Microsoft 365 tools (To Do, OneNote, Outlook and their tied integration).\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-30 18:45:09 -0500", "date": "6:45 p.m. on Jun 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/30/one-of-the-fun-things.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F30%2Fone-of-the-fun-things.html" }, { "id": 670, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Under macOS Tahoe, I decided to remove any menu items that have a Control Center equivalent. Is this the start of a trend? I hope developers will add support for Control Center when it ships.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-29 09:03:38 -0500", "date": "9:03 p.m. on Jun 29, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/29/under-macos-tahoe-i-decided.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F29%2Funder-macos-tahoe-i-decided.html" }, { "id": 671, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This article points to an interesting prospect about the future of the Mac menu bar usage: we could see a possible migration of Mac utilities from menu bar items to the Control Center, thanks to the introduction of third-party Control Center applets. Provided developers add support for these, we will probably see a reduction on menu bar items, freeing much space in the menu bar. This might explain why Apple added the menu bar transparent mode.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-29 07:44:52 -0500", "date": "7:44 p.m. on Jun 29, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/29/this-article-points-to-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F29%2Fthis-article-points-to-an.html" }, { "id": 672, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m starting to like Windows 11 and Office 365 more than I expected. Who knew? OneNote is a solid note-taking app, and Outlook Tasks is also solid.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-27 16:58:09 -0500", "date": "4:58 p.m. on Jun 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/27/im-starting-to-like-windows.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F27%2Fim-starting-to-like-windows.html" }, { "id": 673, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My new Windows PC laptop at the office makes me realize that the best Office 365 experience (Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, OneNote) is on a PC, not on a Mac, which will always be a second citizen for Microsoft.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-26 06:48:54 -0500", "date": "6:48 p.m. on Jun 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/26/my-new-windows-pc-laptop.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F26%2Fmy-new-windows-pc-laptop.html" }, { "id": 674, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "With this year\u0026rsquo;s Apple OS releases, all Apple apps appear to have a similar look. Is this expected? Where\u0026rsquo;s the fun? Does everything need to be identical to be more approachable?\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-24 15:55:15 -0500", "date": "3:55 p.m. on Jun 24, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/24/with-this-years-apple-os.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F24%2Fwith-this-years-apple-os.html" }, { "id": 675, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m happy that, in Canada, we don\u0026rsquo;t have Apple Pay (yet?) because otherwise we would be flooded by ads in the Wallet app. 🤦🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-24 15:02:50 -0500", "date": "3:02 p.m. on Jun 24, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/24/im-happy-that-in-canada.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F24%2Fim-happy-that-in-canada.html" }, { "id": 676, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "☝🏻 Glass \u0026gt; Liquid Glass.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-24 14:58:02 -0500", "date": "2:58 p.m. on Jun 24, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/24/glass-liquid-glass.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F24%2Fglass-liquid-glass.html" }, { "id": 677, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My current tolerable settings in iOS 26 beta 2.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-24 14:23:58 -0500", "date": "2:23 p.m. on Jun 24, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/24/my-current-tolerable-settings-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F24%2Fmy-current-tolerable-settings-in.html" }, { "id": 678, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Never take your Mac for granted. Did my first day at my new job and got my new Windows laptop. Quite a beefy one for that mather: 32 GB of RAM, 500 GB of NVMe SSD and an i5 Intel CPU, large display. Yet, running Windows 11, this thing can be so slow and battery life never gets past 1.5 hours. Less than two hours!!! What is this HPE Probook? About 25% of CPU is spend on security-related processes\u0026hellip; AT ALL THE FUCKIN time!\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-24 09:23:56 -0500", "date": "9:23 p.m. on Jun 24, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/24/never-take-your-mac-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F24%2Fnever-take-your-mac-for.html" }, { "id": 679, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How many options and switches do we have today in Settings.app, on all platforms, because Apple had to step back\u0026hellip; as a recent example, on macOS, we now have \u0026ldquo;Menu Bar \\ Show Menu Bar Background\u0026rdquo; so that we can get our dear and readable menu bar\u0026hellip; Settings is getting bloated with options that are the consequences of Apple\u0026rsquo;s indecision in UI design.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-23 20:37:51 -0500", "date": "8:37 p.m. on Jun 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/23/how-many-options-and-switches.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F23%2Fhow-many-options-and-switches.html" }, { "id": 680, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On iOS 26, why is this panel not Glass, just like the notifications center?\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-23 20:16:07 -0500", "date": "8:16 p.m. on Jun 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/23/on-ios-why-is-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F23%2Fon-ios-why-is-this.html" }, { "id": 681, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I can confirm that beta2 doesn’t bring much fixes, on the iPad, at least. In fact, it might be worse than beta1. Investigating… 😐😑\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-23 17:37:13 -0500", "date": "5:37 p.m. on Jun 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/23/i-can-confirm-that-beta.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F23%2Fi-can-confirm-that-beta.html" }, { "id": 682, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Too stupid to wait, upgrading my iPhone 15 Pro Max to beta 2. 🫣\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-23 17:14:42 -0500", "date": "5:14 p.m. on Jun 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/23/too-stupid-to-wait-upgrading.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F23%2Ftoo-stupid-to-wait-upgrading.html" }, { "id": 683, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today, I tested my LG UltraFine 4K monitor on my wife\u0026rsquo;s Windows 11 laptop, but the monitor wouldn\u0026rsquo;t power up, and the Windows Device Manager also failed to recognize it. This means I\u0026rsquo;ll probably need a USB hub to go with my future work laptop if I want to use that monitor. I\u0026rsquo;ll probably buy a new monitor specially for my work laptop, since the company will be paying for it.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-22 19:43:52 -0500", "date": "7:43 p.m. on Jun 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/22/today-i-tested-my-lg.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F22%2Ftoday-i-tested-my-lg.html" }, { "id": 684, "type": "post", "title": "Micro.blog Question Challenge", "text": "Jim Mitchell, on his blog:\nAs is customary after posting my own, I’m extending the challenge to Numeric Citizen (@numericcitizen) and David Johnson (@crossingthethreshold) to answer the same questions:\nHere are my answers!\nWhy did you start a blog in the first place? It was when Apple had iWeb, part of MobileMe. It was a family thing only. iWeb died, so did my blog. Eventually, I returned to blogging on Blogger, now part of Google, while developing iPhone apps in 2009. It lasted until 2013. Then it all died. I returned to blogging in 2015, using WordPress, then migrated to Ghost and Micro.blog; both serve different purposes. The rest is history. Have you blogged on other platforms before? Yes, all in all, I experimented with iWeb, Blogger, WordPress, Micro.blog, Write.as, Substack, Medium. Am I missing one? Oh yeah, Scribble.pages! Sorry, Vincent! Why did you choose Micro.blog? Back in 2018, when it launched. Initially, I wasn\u0026rsquo;t sure about it and viewed it as an experiment (I shared some thoughts about this). I went all in during COVID. Couldn\u0026rsquo;t be happier. Do you write your posts directly in the editor or in another application? It depends. Most of the time, I wrote on the web editor, but with recent updates to the Mac app, I do it more and more on the Mac app. Oh, MarsEdit is also one app that I use, from time to time. When do you feel most inspired to write? All the time, mainly in the mornings when my head is still pristine (can’t tell if this is something we can write!) Do you publish immediately after writing or do you let it simmer a bit as a draft? Most of the time, I write and then publish, especially on Micro.blog. For longer posts, I let it simmer for a while. What’s your favorite post on your blog? So hard to tell because what I write is so short. The whole thing is what I’m most proud of: having the time and the gut to think and write about anything away from big platforms, it\u0026rsquo;s something to be proud of IMO. Any future plans for your blog? Since last year, I decided to focus more on what I already have. I don\u0026rsquo;t see that changing anytime soon. So, Micro.blog forever! For now. I recently launched \u0026ldquo;Who Is Numeric Citizen?” website with the idea to replace another website built using Craft. 🤭 Thanks for calling me out on that, @jimmitchell ! How about @abc ? Will he catch the call?\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-22 13:48:39 -0500", "date": "1:48 p.m. on Jun 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/22/microblog-question-challenge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F22%2Fmicroblog-question-challenge.html" }, { "id": 685, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m eagerly anticipating the release of beta 2 of iPadOS 26 and macOS 26 from Apple this week. I’m particularly interested in seeing how much the Liquid Glass feature will be toned down, if at all. I won’t lose faith until the public beta is available.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-22 08:28:31 -0500", "date": "8:28 p.m. on Jun 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/22/im-eagerly-anticipating-the-release.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F22%2Fim-eagerly-anticipating-the-release.html" }, { "id": 686, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I prefer Apple to build a partnership with Perplexity instead of buying them outright. By partnering with them, Perplexity would join ChaptGPT as a third-party source of AI, helping Apple remain AI agnostic. If they buy Perplexity, they would close the loop, which is bad in the long term for them. I want Apple to remain open and bring as many AI partners as possible.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-22 07:33:43 -0500", "date": "7:33 p.m. on Jun 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/22/i-prefer-apple-to-build.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F22%2Fi-prefer-apple-to-build.html" }, { "id": 687, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Unpopular opinion: The Browser Company should have made Dia a part of the Arc Browser. I don\u0026rsquo;t see the need for a new paradigm to achieve what Dia is trying to do as a stand-alone app. Plus, how come a browser company rely on someone else\u0026rsquo;s browser engine to do its thing? My understanding is that Dia is built on Chromium, just like the Arc Browser.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-22 06:50:58 -0500", "date": "6:50 p.m. on Jun 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/22/unpopular-opinion-the-browser-company.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F22%2Funpopular-opinion-the-browser-company.html" }, { "id": 688, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s funny how I treat my online assets like my websites. I think of these like software or apps. That is why I maintain change logs for them, just like app release notes. You can find one here, and one there. It\u0026rsquo;s fun.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-21 08:11:58 -0500", "date": "8:11 p.m. on Jun 21, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/21/its-funny-how-i-treat.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F21%2Fits-funny-how-i-treat.html" }, { "id": 689, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Is this a plain website? Is this a digital garden? Is this a landing page? No, it\u0026rsquo;s \u0026quot;Who Is Numeric Citizen?\u0026quot; A newly launched personal landing page where you can learn about him and his creative journey. Learn all the details (what, why, how) by visiting the website! I\u0026rsquo;ll meet you there.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-20 07:59:46 -0500", "date": "7:59 p.m. on Jun 20, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/20/is-this-a-plain-website.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F20%2Fis-this-a-plain-website.html" }, { "id": 690, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today, I placed my order to have my face processed through Iconfactory\u0026rsquo;s pixelated portrait service. I\u0026rsquo;m eager to see what they come up with. Maybe I\u0026rsquo;ll update my avatar that I\u0026rsquo;ve been using for so many years?\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-19 18:37:31 -0500", "date": "6:37 p.m. on Jun 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/19/today-i-placed-my-order.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F19%2Ftoday-i-placed-my-order.html" }, { "id": 691, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I mentioned earlier this week that I began exploring alternatives to Mailbrew. Digest seems to be a similar service. It appears to be a clone of Mailbrew. The thing is, it looks like abandonware, too.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-19 05:59:36 -0500", "date": "5:59 p.m. on Jun 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/19/i-mentioned-earlier-this-week.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F19%2Fi-mentioned-earlier-this-week.html" }, { "id": 692, "type": "post", "title": "Directly from... Raycast!", "text": "Heeeeeeere\u0026rsquo;s Johnny!! Just kidding, I\u0026rsquo;m testing a blog post from Raycast. Sounds cool, right? Yes, it is!\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-18 12:59:46 -0500", "date": "12:59 p.m. on Jun 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/18/directly-from-raycast.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F18%2Fdirectly-from-raycast.html" }, { "id": 693, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Because of iPadOS 26, I can see a future where I could get rid of my Macs and focus on the iPad as the main computer beside my iPhone. Of course, I would probably switch to a larger size if that was the case. Using an iPad with an external monitor now makes much more sense and no longer a gimmicky thing.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-18 06:25:58 -0500", "date": "6:25 p.m. on Jun 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/18/because-of-ipados-i-can.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F18%2Fbecause-of-ipados-i-can.html" }, { "id": 694, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It seems I overlooked that Inoreader can\u0026rsquo;t send email summaries of RSS feeds on the Pro plan; an Enterprise plan is necessary. That\u0026rsquo;s disappointing. I\u0026rsquo;ll search for alternatives to replace Mailbrew, then. 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-17 19:41:47 -0500", "date": "7:41 p.m. on Jun 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/17/it-seems-i-overlooked-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F17%2Fit-seems-i-overlooked-that.html" }, { "id": 695, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I wonder if Inoreader is working on a Pocket importer.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-17 16:40:13 -0500", "date": "4:40 p.m. on Jun 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/17/i-wonder-if-inoreader-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F17%2Fi-wonder-if-inoreader-is.html" }, { "id": 696, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Well, I\u0026rsquo;m going to drop Mailbrew because of the lack of updates to the service in recent years. I\u0026rsquo;ll try to replace that with Inoreader, a service I already depend on. Otherwise, I might give a look at Digest.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-17 14:34:08 -0500", "date": "2:34 p.m. on Jun 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/17/well-im-going-to-drop.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F17%2Fwell-im-going-to-drop.html" }, { "id": 697, "type": "post", "title": "I'm Already Feeling The Upcoming Loss", "text": "The last time I used a Windows PC was with Windows 10 sometimes around 2020. Since then, Windows 11 came out with a few major releases along with it. I\u0026rsquo;ll have to relearn so many small things to flex my muscles memory. Also, and it\u0026rsquo;s probably the biggest lost: so many small utilities like Raycast, CleanShot X, Paste, PopClip and so many more that were making me much more productive are gone with Windows 11. Am I going to survive?\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-17 13:24:17 -0500", "date": "1:24 p.m. on Jun 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/17/im-already-feeling-the-upcoming.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F17%2Fim-already-feeling-the-upcoming.html" }, { "id": 698, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So, now that we have Liquid Glass on all Apple operating systems, who lost the most of its personality? The Mac or the iPad?\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-17 10:36:42 -0500", "date": "10:36 p.m. on Jun 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/17/so-now-that-we-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F17%2Fso-now-that-we-have.html" }, { "id": 699, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Invoking the notifications center with iPadOS 26 while using an external display will blank out the external display and bring the notifications on the iPad screen only. I’m not sure this is the final behaviour. I don’t like it at all.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-17 09:35:32 -0500", "date": "9:35 p.m. on Jun 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/17/invoking-the-notifications-center-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F17%2Finvoking-the-notifications-center-with.html" }, { "id": 700, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Testing iPadOS 26 with external display right now and boy this release makes the iPad THE computer we were all waiting for. Well, maybe not everybody… works really great so far.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-17 09:18:14 -0500", "date": "9:18 p.m. on Jun 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/17/testing-ipados-with-external-display.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F17%2Ftesting-ipados-with-external-display.html" }, { "id": 701, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Starting with my new job next week, I won\u0026rsquo;t be able to use LucidChart anymore and that makes me sad. LucidChart is such a pleasure to use and has been supporting my creativity for a few years until this week. The next best thing is Apple Freeform, but I won\u0026rsquo;t have access to this either. Hello Microsoft Visio. 🙄\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-17 09:00:29 -0500", "date": "9:00 p.m. on Jun 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/17/starting-with-my-new-job.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F17%2Fstarting-with-my-new-job.html" }, { "id": 702, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started to think about my knowledge organisation scheme with Microsoft OneNote for my next job. OneNote works with Notebooks, Sections and pages. I might start with one notebook then later subdivide the data as my knowledge accumulates. I don\u0026rsquo;t hate OneNote. It\u0026rsquo;s a rather well designed app IMO.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-16 09:49:05 -0500", "date": "9:49 p.m. on Jun 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/16/started-to-think-about-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F16%2Fstarted-to-think-about-my.html" }, { "id": 703, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Who’s reading or paying attention to the Ephemeral Scrapbook newsletter?\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-15 18:29:57 -0500", "date": "6:29 p.m. on Jun 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/15/whos-reading-or-paying-attention.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F15%2Fwhos-reading-or-paying-attention.html" }, { "id": 704, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "From 2009 to 2013, I was learning building iPhone apps as a hobbyist developer and created a few apps sold on the App Store1. This is how I learned Objective-C. It was before Swift, the iPad and Catalyst. Fast-forward to today, I wonder how my learning experience would have been if generative AI was around.\nI made about $5000 doing so. Not bad.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-15 10:20:02 -0500", "date": "10:20 p.m. on Jun 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/15/from-to-i-was-learning.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F15%2Ffrom-to-i-was-learning.html" }, { "id": 705, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One of Liquid Glass\u0026rsquo;s foundational principles is to prioritize user content, at least to my knowledge. However, my experience so far has been the opposite: Liquid Glass is often \u0026ldquo;in your face\u0026rdquo; and takes center stage.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-15 08:03:41 -0500", "date": "8:03 p.m. on Jun 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/15/one-of-liquid-glasss-foundational.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F15%2Fone-of-liquid-glasss-foundational.html" }, { "id": 706, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "There are many positive and some less favorable aspects in Apple\u0026rsquo;s first betas and Liquid Glass. I\u0026rsquo;m eager to see how much Apple will improve them before the official release. Will they remain stubborn, or will they show openness and make meaningful adjustments? How much can they change without appearing to compromise their design principles?\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-15 07:46:08 -0500", "date": "7:46 p.m. on Jun 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/15/there-are-many-positive-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F15%2Fthere-are-many-positive-and.html" }, { "id": 707, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Where can I find the videos of an interviewer pressing Apple executives about their strained relationship with the developer community? There is no one to be found, actually. Even Joanna Stern from The Wall Street Journal avoids this topic. It was a conference for developers! Instead, everyone focused on questions about Apple Intelligence, Siri, and Liquid Glass. Is this a lack of courage, laziness or simply being afraid not to be able to talk to Apple execs in the future? 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-15 06:58:56 -0500", "date": "6:58 p.m. on Jun 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/15/where-can-i-find-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F15%2Fwhere-can-i-find-the.html" }, { "id": 708, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It appears that Apple’s Freeform didn’t get any attention in this year updates… am I missing something? Still a stunning app, though.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-14 11:55:24 -0500", "date": "11:55 p.m. on Jun 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/14/it-appears-that-apples-freeform.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F14%2Fit-appears-that-apples-freeform.html" }, { "id": 709, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m happy to see real windows coming to iPadOS 26 but with it comes manual windows management. Opening an app does open it full screen, but resizing is required and sometimes the resizing is guided by constant centering of the window until it is moved elsewhere. Hard to describe but it adds interaction complexity.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-14 11:50:02 -0500", "date": "11:50 p.m. on Jun 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/14/im-happy-to-see-real.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F14%2Fim-happy-to-see-real.html" }, { "id": 710, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Look at the Finder\u0026rsquo;s window top. 😵‍💫 Not exactly the best overall visual effects. As in the real world, seeing through glass can lead to weird things, just like here. BTW, CleanShot X edit window top bar isn\u0026rsquo;t working on macOS Tahoe beta1. Beware.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-14 06:43:43 -0500", "date": "6:43 p.m. on Jun 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/14/look-at-the-finders-window.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F14%2Flook-at-the-finders-window.html" }, { "id": 711, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In macOS Tahoe beta1 Finder, some app icons exhibit gray inset (Things icon for example in this screenshot). Weird. Speaking of the Finder, things feels janky in beta1.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-14 06:30:50 -0500", "date": "6:30 p.m. on Jun 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/14/in-macos-tahoe-beta-finder.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F14%2Fin-macos-tahoe-beta-finder.html" }, { "id": 712, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m curious about people\u0026rsquo;s appreciation level of Apple Liquid Glass by age group. Younger people probably don\u0026rsquo;t care or like it because it\u0026rsquo;s flashy but as they will get older they might change their mind because of the lack of readability. And by then Apple will probably be back with a more opaque design. 🤭\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-14 06:21:49 -0500", "date": "6:21 p.m. on Jun 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/14/im-curious-about-peoples-appreciation.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F14%2Fim-curious-about-peoples-appreciation.html" }, { "id": 713, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The size of the OS install on iPadOS 26 was 2x bigger than on M2 MacBook Air. Surprising. Update: it\u0026rsquo;s about 2 GB less.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-13 16:03:16 -0500", "date": "4:03 p.m. on Jun 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/13/the-size-of-the-os.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F13%2Fthe-size-of-the-os.html" }, { "id": 714, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Since I have two Macs (M4 Mac mini + M2 MacBook Air), I think I\u0026rsquo;m going to install macOS Tahoe on my MBA just to kick the tires and see how good or bad things are\u0026hellip; I hope it\u0026rsquo;s better than on my iPad.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-13 15:53:10 -0500", "date": "3:53 p.m. on Jun 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/13/since-i-have-two-macs.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F13%2Fsince-i-have-two-macs.html" }, { "id": 715, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My days of using Notion for work are counted. I started using Notion in 2023, but I realize that I should have started well before that. Sadly, I won\u0026rsquo;t be allowed to use such \u0026ldquo;non-standard\u0026rdquo; tool at my next job. The standard is: Microsoft 365 + Confluence. 🥴\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-13 14:43:03 -0500", "date": "2:43 p.m. on Jun 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/13/my-days-of-using-notion.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F13%2Fmy-days-of-using-notion.html" }, { "id": 716, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m officially starting a new job in less than two weeks. As I clean up my belongings at my current employer, I\u0026rsquo;m amazed by how much content I\u0026rsquo;ve gathered and created over the past seven years. Most of it, about 80%, is now worthless.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-13 08:28:47 -0500", "date": "8:28 p.m. on Jun 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/13/im-officially-starting-a-new.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F13%2Fim-officially-starting-a-new.html" }, { "id": 717, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "While the iPadOS 26 beta 1 is very buggy, after watching this video, I\u0026rsquo;m very tempted to install macOS Tahoe beta1 on my M2 MacBook Air. Would love to get feedback about stability compared to iPadOS.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-13 06:11:49 -0500", "date": "6:11 p.m. on Jun 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/13/while-the-ipados-beta-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F13%2Fwhile-the-ipados-beta-is.html" }, { "id": 718, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Liquid Glass current state in beta1 is challenging the definition of content readability. I’m seriously hoping that this will improve before final release later this fall.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-11 20:19:03 -0500", "date": "8:19 p.m. on Jun 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/11/liquid-glass-current-state-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F11%2Fliquid-glass-current-state-in.html" }, { "id": 719, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Well, iPadOS 26 beta 1 is rather buggy and feels more unfinished than expected.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-11 06:25:12 -0500", "date": "6:25 p.m. on Jun 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/11/well-ipados-beta-is-rather.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F11%2Fwell-ipados-beta-is-rather.html" }, { "id": 720, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple is so careful about accessibility in general, I find it surprising that they come out with something like Liquid Glass which seems to break many usability rules like legibility. 👀😵‍💫\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-10 15:31:17 -0500", "date": "3:31 p.m. on Jun 10, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/10/apple-is-so-careful-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F10%2Fapple-is-so-careful-about.html" }, { "id": 721, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A lot of developers might be pissed off by Apple and not willing to invest the required resources to adopt the new UI\u0026hellip; but I want to make it clear to all developers: I\u0026rsquo;ll reconsider my app usage based on those who don\u0026rsquo;t adopt the new UI. Nothing is permanent in this world. #wwdc25\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-09 05:29:37 -0500", "date": "5:29 p.m. on Jun 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/09/a-lot-of-developers-might.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F09%2Fa-lot-of-developers-might.html" }, { "id": 722, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One quick and important question about the upcoming UI redesign: will Apple reinvent the … beachball on the Mac? Or is it already « glassy » enough? #wwdc25\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-08 12:54:24 -0500", "date": "12:54 p.m. on Jun 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/08/one-quick-and-important-question.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F08%2Fone-quick-and-important-question.html" }, { "id": 723, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sadly, I\u0026rsquo;ll be on the road tomorrow during the WWDC Keynote. I\u0026rsquo;ll probably put the event stream on my phone and listen to the audio only while driving. My colleague will learn how passionate someone can be about Apple. 🤭\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-08 06:44:24 -0500", "date": "6:44 p.m. on Jun 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/08/sadly-ill-be-on-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F08%2Fsadly-ill-be-on-the.html" }, { "id": 724, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "HyperCard was such a novelty when it launched. It was something so “out of this place”. I spent so many hours with HyperCard, trying to find use cases for it, just so I could experience the stack metaphor. Thanks Bill. RIP.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-07 19:13:16 -0500", "date": "7:13 p.m. on Jun 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/07/hypercard-was-such-a-novelty.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F07%2Fhypercard-was-such-a-novelty.html" }, { "id": 725, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Listening to the Vergecast right now and oh boy, Apple is losing the mind share of so many people right now\u0026hellip; developers (been lioke this for a few years now), tech pundits (for what it\u0026rsquo;s worth) and\u0026hellip; ordinary users (partially, thanks to AI stuff).\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-06 12:43:45 -0500", "date": "12:43 p.m. on Jun 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/06/listening-to-the-vergcast-right.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F06%2Flistening-to-the-vergcast-right.html" }, { "id": 726, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wow, MacRumors is posting a new article for each individual leak, coming from today\u0026rsquo;s rather lengthy Gurman report about next week\u0026rsquo;s announcements. I mean, come on, guys! Do a single write up and we\u0026rsquo;re ok with it!\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-06 10:06:36 -0500", "date": "10:06 p.m. on Jun 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/06/wow-macrumors-is-posting-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F06%2Fwow-macrumors-is-posting-a.html" }, { "id": 727, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Due to some important professional changes, I canceled my Fantastical subscription. It\u0026rsquo;s a great app that I would recommend anytime, but my current situation no longer justifies the expense. I\u0026rsquo;ll share more info about all this soon.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-05 19:33:50 -0500", "date": "7:33 p.m. on Jun 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/05/due-to-some-important-professional.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F05%2Fdue-to-some-important-professional.html" }, { "id": 728, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m not a gamer. I\u0026rsquo;m not the typical guy who freaks about Nintendo. I don\u0026rsquo;t see that changing anytime soon. Kind of tired of those posts about the DS2. 🙄\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-05 09:35:13 -0500", "date": "9:35 p.m. on Jun 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/05/im-not-a-gamer-im.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F05%2Fim-not-a-gamer-im.html" }, { "id": 729, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Physicality: the new age of UI\nOverall, one can imagine a rounding and softening of the interface through translucent materials looking pretty great.\nThere are many thoughtful ideas in this post and I hope Apple will come up with something similar.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-04 06:04:39 -0500", "date": "6:04 p.m. on Jun 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/04/physicality-the-new-age-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F04%2Fphysicality-the-new-age-of.html" }, { "id": 730, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "According to Gruber, with some extrapolation, The Mac could be the one to lose the most with this upcoming Apple UI design unification:\nThe last thing MacOS needs is more transparency/translucency than it already has.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-03 20:26:20 -0500", "date": "8:26 p.m. on Jun 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/03/according-to-gruber-with-some.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F03%2Faccording-to-gruber-with-some.html" }, { "id": 731, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The timing is right, and it\u0026rsquo;s a clever blog post that explains why Inoreader is a great read-later solution, without mentioning or referring to Pocket. Following the announcement of Pocket demise, people are looking at alternatives and rarely Inoreader get mentioned. With this blog post, they make their case. I do use Inoreader as a read-later service, too. It\u0026rsquo;s quite capable.\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-03 06:34:48 -0500", "date": "6:34 p.m. on Jun 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/03/the-timing-is-right-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F03%2Fthe-timing-is-right-and.html" }, { "id": 732, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Acquired. 🤩 cc @BasicAppleGuy@mastodon.social\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-02 16:13:52 -0500", "date": "4:13 p.m. on Jun 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/02/acquired-cc-basicappleguymastodonsocial.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F02%2Facquired-cc-basicappleguymastodonsocial.html" }, { "id": 733, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " « Apple Readies WWDC Stream on YouTube Ahead of Keynote Next Week » — MacRumors\nRemember when people were reporting banners being put on display at the Moscone Center and the Internet went wild simply at the look of the banner content?\n", "dateiso": "2025-06-02 11:57:07 -0500", "date": "11:57 p.m. on Jun 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/06/02/apple-readies-wwdc-stream-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F06%2F02%2Fapple-readies-wwdc-stream-on.html" }, { "id": 734, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Are people just discovering that Apple is a corporation, a big one, part of a capitalist system? Really? It\u0026rsquo;s sad. It is what it is. Empires come and go. That\u0026rsquo;s not always fun to watch, but it is what it is.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-31 21:12:31 -0500", "date": "9:12 p.m. on May 31, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/31/are-people-just-discovering-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F31%2Fare-people-just-discovering-that.html" }, { "id": 735, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Close to a personal turning point\u0026hellip; I find this to be both exciting and unsettling. I\u0026rsquo;ll probably share more very soon. 🤞🏻\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-30 15:41:03 -0500", "date": "3:41 p.m. on May 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/30/close-to-a-personal-turning.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F30%2Fclose-to-a-personal-turning.html" }, { "id": 736, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Since coming back from vacation, my morning routine is simple and is always the same: wake up, make coffee, open up the Mac, read Micro.blog timeline, update the current issue of The Ephemeral Scrapbook, do some photo-processing work, tweak my secret work-in-progress-soon-to-be-revealed website with Elements, and read some news before having breakfast.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-30 06:38:31 -0500", "date": "6:38 p.m. on May 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/30/since-coming-back-from-vacation.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F30%2Fsince-coming-back-from-vacation.html" }, { "id": 737, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "iPhone 26, iPhone 26 Air, iPhone 26 Pro, iPhone 26 Pro Max, then. I called it first.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-28 16:40:45 -0500", "date": "4:40 p.m. on May 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/28/iphone-iphone-air-iphone-pro.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F28%2Fiphone-iphone-air-iphone-pro.html" }, { "id": 738, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I just realized that September is in Apple's fiscal 2026 Q1.\nThe version naming isn't for users or developers, it's for investors.\nJeff Johnson https://mastodon.social/@lapcatsoftware/114587101013109396 He has a good point.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-28 14:37:42 -0500", "date": "2:37 p.m. on May 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/28/i-just-realized-that-september.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F28%2Fi-just-realized-that-september.html" }, { "id": 739, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Follow-up to my previous post: I\u0026rsquo;ll be returning the Ubiquiti G6 Instant camera. It\u0026rsquo;s a really nice designed device, very Apple-like. But I can\u0026rsquo;t justify replacing my Dream Router with the Dream Router 7 only to add Wifi 7 and support for Ubiquiti Project. Too bad.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-26 19:23:26 -0500", "date": "7:23 p.m. on May 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/26/followup-to-my-previous-post.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F26%2Ffollowup-to-my-previous-post.html" }, { "id": 740, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Ordered and received an Ubiquiti G6 Instant surveillance camera only to discover that UniFi Protect which is required to manage and use that camera isn’t supported on my UniFi Dream Router from 2020. 🙁 I would need to replace my router with a Dream Router 7 if I want to keep the camera. But replacing my router would probably require replacing my two network extenders, too. 😔\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-26 18:09:22 -0500", "date": "6:09 p.m. on May 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/26/ordered-and-received-an-ubiquiti.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F26%2Fordered-and-received-an-ubiquiti.html" }, { "id": 741, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Asking for a summarized review of reviews of a product like the NIKKOR Z 70-180mm f/2.8 with Perplexity pro prompt is super cool to get the gist of a product quality and capabilities (here are the results1). We live in exciting times, even if challenging.\nI\u0026rsquo;m not sure if you can open that link, though.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-26 07:02:34 -0500", "date": "7:02 p.m. on May 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/26/asking-for-a-summarized-review.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F26%2Fasking-for-a-summarized-review.html" }, { "id": 742, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After reading John Siracusa\u0026rsquo;s articles about Apple current issues and possible remediations this morning (1, 2), I wish I had enough time at my disposal to create timetogotim.org1, a website promoting the need for a change of leadership at Apple.\nThe domain name is available!\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-26 06:36:48 -0500", "date": "6:36 p.m. on May 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/26/after-reading-hypercriticals-article-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F26%2Fafter-reading-hypercriticals-article-this.html" }, { "id": 743, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "AI Age Brings The Biggest Acquhire\nApple’s idea machine seems to be stuck in neutral.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-26 05:22:46 -0500", "date": "5:22 p.m. on May 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/26/ai-age-brings-the-biggest.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F26%2Fai-age-brings-the-biggest.html" }, { "id": 744, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If Apple\u0026rsquo;s \u0026lsquo;Solarium UI\u0026rsquo; is the UI unification of all Apple platforms, which platform will give up the most of its personality the most? 👀🤔\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-25 11:36:15 -0500", "date": "11:36 p.m. on May 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/25/if-apples-solarium-ui-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F25%2Fif-apples-solarium-ui-is.html" }, { "id": 745, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Will Apple\u0026rsquo;s Solarium UI refresh make us forget about Apple Intelligence and Siri\u0026rsquo;s lackluster performance or App Store litigation or developers mounting disdain for Apple or Tim Cook questionable leadership in the age of AI?\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-25 09:10:06 -0500", "date": "9:10 p.m. on May 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/25/will-apples-solarium-ui-refresh.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F25%2Fwill-apples-solarium-ui-refresh.html" }, { "id": 746, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Catching up recent Micro.blog updates and I really like the new AI-generated categories feature. Coupled with filters, it\u0026rsquo;s a great way to organize posts not only for me but for the readers. It\u0026rsquo;s tempting to add many categories, but it could make my blog homepage a little bit crowded. 😅\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-25 06:43:27 -0500", "date": "6:43 p.m. on May 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/25/catching-up-recent-microblog-updates.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F25%2Fcatching-up-recent-microblog-updates.html" }, { "id": 747, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I think we over estimate Jony Ive design capabilities in general if you consider that design is also how it works. We have plenty of examples with bad design choices after Jobs death. Ports removal in a pro laptop, butterfly keyboard are just of them.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-24 02:01:38 -0500", "date": "2:01 p.m. on May 24, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/24/i-think-we-over-estimate.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F24%2Fi-think-we-over-estimate.html" }, { "id": 748, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m getting ready to pack my things and offload 559 photos from my Nikon Zf to my MacBook Air for in-flight processing with Photomator (8 hours, mind you). It should be fun to relive my just-completed trip.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-23 12:34:39 -0500", "date": "12:34 p.m. on May 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/23/im-getting-ready-to-pack.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F23%2Fim-getting-ready-to-pack.html" }, { "id": 749, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Last day. Current stop. 🥲\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-23 07:43:38 -0500", "date": "7:43 p.m. on May 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/23/last-day-current-stop.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F23%2Flast-day-current-stop.html" }, { "id": 750, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Reading a lunch menu in Spanish with Apple Translate. First experience with live translation. Pretty cool and useful. I know this has been available on the other platform for a long time but using in a real situation is handy. No need for an English menu.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-21 06:29:09 -0500", "date": "6:29 p.m. on May 21, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/21/reading-a-lunch-menu-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F21%2Freading-a-lunch-menu-in.html" }, { "id": 751, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently in Ibiza for three days which will conclude my two-week vacations. Found this Marshall speaker upon entering the room of our hotel. Great looking design. It goes along the design lines of the hotel. Very good sound. Planning to get one of these after coming back home: a Marshall Acton III Bluetooth speaker, a more recent and improved design for controls.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-21 02:58:52 -0500", "date": "2:58 p.m. on May 21, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/21/currently-in-ibiza-for-three.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F21%2Fcurrently-in-ibiza-for-three.html" }, { "id": 752, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Who’s rooting for adding or integrating Apple Intelligence models into their apps? Apple Intelligence is not well regarded, not many is going to rush to add this to their apps after WWDC2025.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-20 15:09:40 -0500", "date": "3:09 p.m. on May 20, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/20/whos-rooting-for-adding-or.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F20%2Fwhos-rooting-for-adding-or.html" }, { "id": 753, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Location check in 🗺 — The VIP lounge of the Barcelona Airport is the best that I’ve ever seen. So much space, quiet, lots of food with variety. Impressive.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-20 04:27:33 -0500", "date": "4:27 p.m. on May 20, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/20/location-check-in-the-vip.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F20%2Flocation-check-in-the-vip.html" }, { "id": 754, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Couldn’t make the city walk I had hoped for but managed to get that one done. Not bad. I always liked symmetry that can be found in cathedrals.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-19 08:24:56 -0500", "date": "8:24 p.m. on May 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/19/couldnt-make-the-city-walk.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F19%2Fcouldnt-make-the-city-walk.html" }, { "id": 755, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Travel update: I’m currently in Valencia, Spain, still figuring out if we will go off the ship today for a walk in a city that we already visited back in 2017. One idea would be to revisit some places but with this idea of trying different photo takes with more modern photo gear (was using an iPhone 7, Nikon D80 back then if I remember correctly).\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-19 05:23:57 -0500", "date": "5:23 p.m. on May 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/19/travel-update-im-currently-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F19%2Ftravel-update-im-currently-in.html" }, { "id": 756, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently in Catalina, Sicile. Rainy day. Brought my camera with me but got no inspiration to take photos, except that one which is in line with the current weather.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-15 06:48:30 -0500", "date": "6:48 p.m. on May 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/15/currently-in-catalina-sicile-rainy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F15%2Fcurrently-in-catalina-sicile-rainy.html" }, { "id": 757, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s 2025 and I’m still fascinated by the lack of efficiency of barcode or QRcode reading equipments at airports or train stations which greatly reduce the flow of people trying to catch their flight or train.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-13 04:42:28 -0500", "date": "4:42 p.m. on May 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/13/its-and-im-still-fascinated.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F13%2Fits-and-im-still-fascinated.html" }, { "id": 758, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I love those courtyards which are everywhere in Europe, especially in bigger and denser cities like Rome. Always something interesting or intriguing to see and catch.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-13 02:19:01 -0500", "date": "2:19 p.m. on May 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/13/i-love-those-courtyards-which.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F13%2Fi-love-those-courtyards-which.html" }, { "id": 759, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Back on the train after a day in Pompeii, Italy 🇮🇹 . We can see the Vesuvius volcano in the backdrop. What a beautiful and fascinating place. If you go there, spend the whole day. Don’t miss a pizza at the Pizzeria de la gare. 😋\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-11 11:53:16 -0500", "date": "11:53 p.m. on May 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/11/back-on-the-train-after.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F11%2Fback-on-the-train-after.html" }, { "id": 760, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finally made it to Rome Italy 🇮🇹 . The first day is always the hardest one, thanks to the jet lag 😵😵‍💫🥱. But I always try to keep my photography eye on alert.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-10 09:26:51 -0500", "date": "9:26 p.m. on May 10, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/10/finally-made-it-to-rome.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F10%2Ffinally-made-it-to-rome.html" }, { "id": 761, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I simply don\u0026rsquo;t understand the value proposition of the rumoured Apple homeOS. I mean, most people got a smartphone in their hands which is always connected. If you happen to have HomeKit devices in your home, everything is close at hand with the Home app. We don\u0026rsquo;t need a specialized tablet to change lights and look at the doorbell camera, right? Are we?\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-09 07:43:42 -0500", "date": "7:43 p.m. on May 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/09/i-simply-dont-understand-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F09%2Fi-simply-dont-understand-the.html" }, { "id": 762, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Last day of work before a two-weeks vacation where I\u0026rsquo;ll spend some time visiting Rome, Pompeii, Ibiza, Valencia, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Taormina, Valletta and Palma; places that I\u0026rsquo;m eagerly waiting to visit! 😀\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-09 06:32:57 -0500", "date": "6:32 p.m. on May 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/09/last-day-of-work-before.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F09%2Flast-day-of-work-before.html" }, { "id": 763, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apparently, Microsoft released updated Surface devices. Not much buzz about them, even with this questionable CoPilot+ moniker and branding. I don\u0026rsquo;t see them a lot in my professional life either.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-08 05:42:28 -0500", "date": "5:42 p.m. on May 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/08/apparently-microsoft-released-updated-surface.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F08%2Fapparently-microsoft-released-updated-surface.html" }, { "id": 764, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here\u0026rsquo;s an interesting idea from Parker Ortolani: portable memory format so that we can move our ChatGPT memory across generative AI service providers. THAT would be innovative. I think generative AI is so profound that preventing lock in would be seen as a positive sign of good will from the tech world, something we are missing these days.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-07 21:00:39 -0500", "date": "9:00 p.m. on May 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/07/heres-an-interesting-idea-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F07%2Fheres-an-interesting-idea-from.html" }, { "id": 765, "type": "post", "title": "Ten Years of... Bad Watch Faces?", "text": "David Sparks from MacSparky expresses his disappointment with the usability of Apple Watch faces since the original model was released in 2015. This resonates with me a lot. Using the Series 10 and I use essentially the same watch face, all the time: utility, because it\u0026rsquo;s the most readable. A possible solution to this conundrum? David Sparks\u0026rsquo; suggestion:\nEven better would be an Apple Watch Face Store, where classic watch makers and indie designers can sell digital versions of their iconic dials. Apple could take a cut, we’d get endless variety, and everyone would win.\nI think this could help move the needle with sales of the Apple Watch while taking a cut, something Apple is well-known for\u0026hellip; 😒\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-07 20:52:57 -0500", "date": "8:52 p.m. on May 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/07/ten-years-of-bad-watch.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F07%2Ften-years-of-bad-watch.html" }, { "id": 766, "type": "post", "title": "On Managing Digital Good Purchases", "text": "I just spent some time trying to find the payment provider for a specific app that charged me the wrong amount (paddle.net, which I won\u0026rsquo;t name). I realized I used different emails for different apps, so my purchases are scattered across those addresses. It\u0026rsquo;s a mess and hard to manage. The Apple App Store has many questionable rules, but having one place to manage purchases and subscriptions is invaluable.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-07 20:21:38 -0500", "date": "8:21 p.m. on May 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/07/on-managing-digital-good-purchases.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F07%2Fon-managing-digital-good-purchases.html" }, { "id": 767, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple App Store rules are challenged in the US and so many other places around the world, except in Canada. Will we keep the original version of the App Store with all the constraints forever?\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-07 20:15:57 -0500", "date": "8:15 p.m. on May 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/07/apple-app-store-rules-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F07%2Fapple-app-store-rules-are.html" }, { "id": 768, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple, Safari and AI: Eddy Cue is the guy who convinced Steve Jobs to do an iPad mini. AI replacing Search seems a nobrainer to me in the near term. It’s already happening for me.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-07 12:40:11 -0500", "date": "12:40 p.m. on May 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/07/apple-safari-and-ai-eddy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F07%2Fapple-safari-and-ai-eddy.html" }, { "id": 769, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Astute comment by @mattbirchler on iPad multitasking. Having to keep an app open like Final Cut Pro to export a long video doesn\u0026rsquo;t make sense in today\u0026rsquo;s world. We need to be able to switch to other apps while this export is happening and doing its magic. An addition to the Entitlements.plist to allow long-running tasks won\u0026rsquo;t cut the deal.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-06 20:26:46 -0500", "date": "8:26 p.m. on May 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/06/astute-comment-by-mattbirchler-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F06%2Fastute-comment-by-mattbirchler-on.html" }, { "id": 770, "type": "post", "title": "Five Years Ago - Confinement", "text": "Five years ago. COVID was hitting hard after two months of confinement. Distant memories already. Hard to believe. I still wear emotional injuries from that time. It wasn\u0026rsquo;t easy, and nothing really returned to normal since then. With current geopolitical events, things seems different and somewhat worse to some degree. Difficult times, indeed.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-06 15:49:29 -0500", "date": "3:49 p.m. on May 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/06/five-years-ago-confinement.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F06%2Ffive-years-ago-confinement.html" }, { "id": 771, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Since Apple bought Pixelmator, here\u0026rsquo;s what happened so far: No new features. No new subscription. No more release notes. Enjoy the silence. Couldn\u0026rsquo;t be more excited about the future of Photomator and Pixelmator. 😒\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-06 06:51:12 -0500", "date": "6:51 p.m. on May 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/06/since-apple-bought-pixelmator-heres.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F06%2Fsince-apple-bought-pixelmator-heres.html" }, { "id": 772, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "You know your country is in deep turmoil and trouble when the president isn’t sure if it has to respect the constitution. Lawers are working on it, he says. Think about it. WTF is this clown?\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-04 10:45:51 -0500", "date": "10:45 p.m. on May 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/04/you-know-your-country-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F04%2Fyou-know-your-country-is.html" }, { "id": 773, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m playing around with Realmac software Elements these days, and I\u0026rsquo;m working on a new website (to replace an existing one). One of the most difficult tasks is to select the right fonts for headers and body. So hard to choose from all those fonts. Google Fonts website is a great tool to help me achieve that.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-04 07:48:02 -0500", "date": "7:48 p.m. on May 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/04/im-playing-around-with-realmac.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F04%2Fim-playing-around-with-realmac.html" }, { "id": 774, "type": "post", "title": "Bring What Device on My Next Trip?", "text": "I’m going for a trip in southern Europe at the end of next week for two weeks. I’ll visit Italy and Spain from a cruise ship and the many stops that are planned. I’m still undecided as to what device should I bring: my iPad or my MacBook Air? The former is highly portable and much lighter, but the latter would allow me to spend more time learning Elements during flight time. I may be overestimating how much free time I’ll have to use these things… 🥴🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-02 11:41:13 -0500", "date": "11:41 p.m. on May 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/02/bring-what-device-on-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F02%2Fbring-what-device-on-my.html" }, { "id": 775, "type": "post", "title": "Thinking Outside", "text": "Thinking right now: people love to consume content the closest to their platform of choice. People on Substack wants to consume content over there, people on Medium, the same, on Medium. That’s why the idea of manually cross-posting my newsletter to Substack often comes back haunting me. This newsletter is currently only available from Ghost (and RSS + email, of course).\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-02 11:35:09 -0500", "date": "11:35 p.m. on May 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/02/thinking-outside.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F02%2Fthinking-outside.html" }, { "id": 776, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m surprised that no YouTuber or tech pundits talking about the iPhone 17 Air didn\u0026rsquo;t look at what it is like if you put two iPhone 17 Air dummies on top of each other to see how thick this would feel in the hands because, I really think that is going to be close to the foldable iPhone.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-01 16:30:37 -0500", "date": "4:30 p.m. on May 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/01/im-surprised-that-no-youtuber.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F01%2Fim-surprised-that-no-youtuber.html" }, { "id": 777, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Travelling by train often offers point of views unavailable otherwise.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-01 10:42:09 -0500", "date": "10:42 p.m. on May 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/01/travelling-by-train-often-offers.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F01%2Ftravelling-by-train-often-offers.html" }, { "id": 778, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Phrases of the week on my news timeline: “Apple loses to…”, “Apple must pay…”, “Apple will challenge…”, “Apple disagree with…”.\nDear Apple: maybe you’re doing something wrong? 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-01 10:28:40 -0500", "date": "10:28 p.m. on May 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/01/phrases-of-the-week-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F01%2Fphrases-of-the-week-on.html" }, { "id": 779, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s cool to use iPhone Mirroring on the train because of the space constraint\u0026hellip; but I find the experience a bit a hit or miss. Sometimes the Mac refuses to connect to the iPhone, or I need to unlock the iPhone or the iPhone is already in use\u0026hellip; highly unpredictable\u0026hellip; but when it works, it\u0026rsquo;s really great and handy.\n", "dateiso": "2025-05-01 08:13:01 -0500", "date": "8:13 p.m. on May 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/05/01/its-cool-to-use-iphone.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F05%2F01%2Fits-cool-to-use-iphone.html" }, { "id": 780, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Cancelling my Ivory subscription to make room for the Bluesky version later this year. 🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-30 11:13:58 -0500", "date": "11:13 p.m. on Apr 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/04/30/cancelling-my-ivory-subscription-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F04%2F30%2Fcancelling-my-ivory-subscription-to.html" }, { "id": 781, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This was the best connector on the market. Only two devices still need this: my second gen AirPods Pro and my first-gen AirPods Max. I don’t see when I’m going to upgrade those.\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-30 10:04:52 -0500", "date": "10:04 p.m. on Apr 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/04/30/this-was-the-best-connector.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F04%2F30%2Fthis-was-the-best-connector.html" }, { "id": 782, "type": "post", "title": "Incoming: AI subscription fatigue... ", "text": "ChatGPT. ChatGPT APIs. Notion AI. Inoreader Intelligence Reports. Raycast AI. Perplexity AI. I may have forgotten a few others1.\nIn bold: those I\u0026rsquo;m currently subscribing.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-30 09:50:13 -0500", "date": "9:50 p.m. on Apr 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/04/30/incoming-ai-subscription-fatigue.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F04%2F30%2Fincoming-ai-subscription-fatigue.html" }, { "id": 783, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The iPhone 17 Air looks wonderful – but that\u0026rsquo;s not why Apple is making it\nThat is my theory too: Apple will make the iPhone 17 Air because it is a mandatory step to the foldable iPhone.\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-30 07:30:57 -0500", "date": "7:30 p.m. on Apr 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/04/30/the-iphone-air-looks-wonderful.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F04%2F30%2Fthe-iphone-air-looks-wonderful.html" }, { "id": 784, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "We live in a hyper connected world. Gare Centrale, downtown Montréal.\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-30 07:27:10 -0500", "date": "7:27 p.m. on Apr 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/04/30/we-live-in-a-hyper.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F04%2F30%2Fwe-live-in-a-hyper.html" }, { "id": 785, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m excited about the next two days as I will be traveling by train from Montreal to Quebec City. I enjoy train travel between those two cities because it\u0026rsquo;s relaxing, the scenery is usually beautiful, and the weather should be nice. I appreciate the opportunity to embrace modern technology; I’ll be able to work remotely from my laptop, with my iPhone\u0026rsquo;s 5G connection to stay productive while on the move.\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-29 20:10:24 -0500", "date": "8:10 p.m. on Apr 29, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/04/29/im-excited-about-the-next.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F04%2F29%2Fim-excited-about-the-next.html" }, { "id": 786, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How is it possible that the « new » Meta AI app already got reviews many of not most of them dating back to three years ago? What am I missing here? Not that I want to try it, mind you. 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-29 18:14:32 -0500", "date": "6:14 p.m. on Apr 29, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/04/29/how-is-it-possible-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F04%2F29%2Fhow-is-it-possible-that.html" }, { "id": 787, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Yesterday during Canada\u0026rsquo;s election night, Radio-Canada (French channel) had the best interactive board I\u0026rsquo;ve ever seen, albeit a bit laggy at times. I don\u0026rsquo;t know if it was purpose built or if it was based on a commercial solution, but it was impressive. It\u0026rsquo;s the first time the TV host didn\u0026rsquo;t struggle with the UI and interaction features. Tap-to-dismiss and a breadcrumb at the bottom made navigation a breeze, apparently. I wish I could have a short video showing it in action.\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-29 05:45:41 -0500", "date": "5:45 p.m. on Apr 29, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/04/29/yesterday-during-canadas-election-night.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F04%2F29%2Fyesterday-during-canadas-election-night.html" }, { "id": 788, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I don\u0026rsquo;t know when the trend started, but companies like IBM are starting to use gen AI to automatically offer translated technical documentation from English to\u0026hellip; whatever language. I encountered quite a few funny errors today. Thankfully, we can ask for the original at the click of a button. Still work to be gone for this to be on-par with human-made texts.\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-28 16:32:06 -0500", "date": "4:32 p.m. on Apr 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/04/28/i-dont-know-when-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F04%2F28%2Fi-dont-know-when-the.html" }, { "id": 789, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I have to get myself ready to leave the ARC Browser behind and come back to Safari. It’s obvious that it is becoming abandoned. I will miss the left sidebar.\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-27 19:36:33 -0500", "date": "7:36 p.m. on Apr 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/04/27/i-have-to-get-myself.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F04%2F27%2Fi-have-to-get-myself.html" }, { "id": 790, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here\u0026rsquo;s a video for Micro.blog users who want to learn more about ways to interact with the social web from Micro.blog. I hope you enjoy and learn something new today. cc @manton\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-26 14:44:06 -0500", "date": "2:44 p.m. on Apr 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/04/26/heres-a-video-for-microblog.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F04%2F26%2Fheres-a-video-for-microblog.html" }, { "id": 791, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m currently recording a YouTube video for Micro.blog users to demonstrate how you can interact with the social web from Micro.blog. Expect the video to be published soon. Feel free to say \u0026ldquo;hi\u0026rdquo;, you\u0026rsquo;re on camera!\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-26 10:20:37 -0500", "date": "10:20 p.m. on Apr 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/04/20/im-currently-recording-a-youtube.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F04%2F20%2Fim-currently-recording-a-youtube.html" }, { "id": 792, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "David Spark on Nano texture displays:\nI can’t help but wonder if Apple will eventually bring Nano-texture to the iPhone. Given how often people use their phones in direct sunlight, it could help. Regardless, for those who need a high-end, anti-reflective display, Apple’s Nano-texture glass is the best I’ve seen, and far superior to any screen treatment or film I’ve tried.\nIf nano texture display ever come to the iPhone, I would buy it in a heartbeat even if I didn\u0026rsquo;t for my M4 iPad Pro (too expansive).\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-26 08:31:32 -0500", "date": "8:31 p.m. on Apr 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/04/26/david-spark-on-nano-texture.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F04%2F26%2Fdavid-spark-on-nano-texture.html" }, { "id": 793, "type": "post", "title": "Simply THE Best", "text": "Just spent 10 minutes on Glass, just browsing and glancing at other people\u0026rsquo;s work, and I was blown away by the quality of photos that you can find there. I discovered many great photographers this morning that will brighten my view of the world. I would argue that Glass is probably THE best and most successful photo-sharing service of all that I experienced in my life.\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-26 08:13:47 -0500", "date": "8:13 p.m. on Apr 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/04/26/simply-the-best.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F04%2F26%2Fsimply-the-best.html" }, { "id": 794, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Realmac Software Elements is going to be a powerful blogging tool. This video shows a few upcoming features for bloggers. Currently in beta, Elements should ship in coming months. Can\u0026rsquo;t wait. ", "dateiso": "2025-04-26 06:46:56 -0500", "date": "6:46 p.m. on Apr 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/04/26/realmac-software-elements-is-going.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F04%2F26%2Frealmac-software-elements-is-going.html" }, { "id": 795, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I don\u0026rsquo;t care who is managing Apple\u0026rsquo;s robotic team, but I do have one question: why does Apple need a robotic team in the first place?\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-25 06:03:24 -0500", "date": "6:03 p.m. on Apr 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/04/25/i-dont-care-who-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F04%2F25%2Fi-dont-care-who-is.html" }, { "id": 796, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s now possible to change the default username provided by Ghost\u0026rsquo;s Fediverse support. Currently, it is @index@numericcitizen.me, but I\u0026rsquo;m unsure what to replace @index with. 👀\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-22 05:58:19 -0500", "date": "5:58 p.m. on Apr 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/04/22/its-now-possible-to-change.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F04%2F22%2Fits-now-possible-to-change.html" }, { "id": 797, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I had plenty of time this weekend, but I must admit that I didn\u0026rsquo;t accomplish much of what I intended to work on. Sigh. 😒\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-20 14:31:49 -0500", "date": "2:31 p.m. on Apr 20, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/04/20/i-had-plenty-of-time.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F04%2F20%2Fi-had-plenty-of-time.html" }, { "id": 798, "type": "post", "title": "My Next YouTube Video About Micro.blog", "text": "I finally found the subject and inspiration for my next YouTube video: how people can interact with Micro.blog users. In it, I\u0026rsquo;ll explain how posts can be cross-posted to other platforms and how people can reply to them, keeping the discussion ongoing even from seemingly different platforms.\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-19 09:09:40 -0500", "date": "9:09 p.m. on Apr 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/04/19/my-next-youtube-video-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F04%2F19%2Fmy-next-youtube-video-about.html" }, { "id": 799, "type": "post", "title": "My Current Incomplete and Troubled Bucket List", "text": "While revisiting my writing projects pipeline, I found this unfinished blog post. It’s a bucket list. It was inspired by Manton Reece’s Revisiting 43 Things blog post. Recent comments in italic.\nRent a country house for the whole summer, outside Canada — I would have been in the US, but this plan is on hold, because of Trump’s America. Get my house renovated — Completed! Do another trip with my two sons — TBD. Return to California to see the new Apple headquarters — This plan is on hold, because of Trump’s America. Visit Chicago — This plan is on hold, because of Trump’s America. See the launch of a rocket from Space X — Fuck Elon Musk. Return to Iceland — Most probable. Given the current political environment, I must carefully reconsider each item on this list and remove the ones that will not happen.\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-19 07:12:23 -0500", "date": "7:12 p.m. on Apr 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/04/19/my-current-incomplete-and-troubled.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F04%2F19%2Fmy-current-incomplete-and-troubled.html" }, { "id": 800, "type": "post", "title": "Dear ChatGPT, Describe Me Based on All Our Chats", "text": " \u0026ldquo;👋 I’m a tech veteran by trade, creative by heart. With 30+ years in IT — from data centers to cloud, storage, and security — I help businesses build smarter, more resilient infrastructures. But when the day job ends, my creative side kicks in.\nI’m a lifelong Apple fan, blogger, photographer, and content creator who loves blending tech with design. Whether I’m exploring the latest in cybersecurity, testing new apps, or writing about digital privacy, I bring a thoughtful eye and a creative edge.\nI believe staying curious — and staying creative — is the best way to thrive in a tech-driven world.\u0026rdquo;\nNot bad.\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-17 06:01:02 -0500", "date": "6:01 p.m. on Apr 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/04/17/dear-chatgpt-describe-me-based.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F04%2F17%2Fdear-chatgpt-describe-me-based.html" }, { "id": 801, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One thing that I really appreciate about ChatGPT is their native macOS app. It would be too easy for them to do like so many developers these days and offer the \u0026ldquo;good enough\u0026rdquo; solution.\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-14 07:47:03 -0500", "date": "7:47 p.m. on Apr 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/04/14/one-thing-that-i-really.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F04%2F14%2Fone-thing-that-i-really.html" }, { "id": 802, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Shared something really personal today on my Ko-fi page. Available to my dear supporters (yes, I have a few!)\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-14 06:53:36 -0500", "date": "6:53 p.m. on Apr 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/04/14/shared-something-really-personal-today.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F04%2F14%2Fshared-something-really-personal-today.html" }, { "id": 803, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Yesterday, while waiting for the bus on Sherbrooke Street, downtown Montreal. It\u0026rsquo;s the first time I notice this street art piece. It is so contemporary.\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-11 05:47:30 -0500", "date": "5:47 p.m. on Apr 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/04/11/yesterday-while-waiting-for-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F04%2F11%2Fyesterday-while-waiting-for-the.html" }, { "id": 804, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple was blindsided by GenAI and way too busy on Apple Vision Pro. It will take a major shift to regain momentum on AI-related initiatives.\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-10 12:09:24 -0500", "date": "12:09 p.m. on Apr 10, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/04/10/apple-was-blindsided-by-genai.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F04%2F10%2Fapple-was-blindsided-by-genai.html" }, { "id": 805, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today I\u0026rsquo;m getting a brand new 15\u0026quot; M4 MacBook Air at work to replace my aging 2017 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar. I won\u0026rsquo;t miss the Intel world, but I\u0026rsquo;ll somewhat miss the Touch Bar. 🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-10 05:32:54 -0500", "date": "5:32 p.m. on Apr 10, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/04/10/today-im-getting-a-brand.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F04%2F10%2Ftoday-im-getting-a-brand.html" }, { "id": 806, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Connection isn’t just personal. It’s political.\nA healthy democracy requires relationships, trust, physical presence, and shared stakes. If we don’t have anyone in our lives who voted differently than we did, if the only time we talk to our neighbors is when we have something to complain about (if we even bother), if we haven’t been in a room with strangers in months trying to solve a real problem without a mute button or a string of emojis—then we are actively making it easier to divide. Easier to manipulate. Easier to radicalize. Easier to rule.\nWe collectively dropped the ball. I honestly don\u0026rsquo;t know what to do and where to start to undo things. I feel alone on my island crying and shouting how wrong and off everything is right now.\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-09 06:04:29 -0500", "date": "6:04 p.m. on Apr 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/04/09/connection-isnt-just-personal-its.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F04%2F09%2Fconnection-isnt-just-personal-its.html" }, { "id": 807, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I wish Ghost would expand their support for what are called \u0026ldquo;social accounts.\u0026rdquo; Given our current situation, I find this approach short-sighted. I wish Mastodon and Bluesky received more attention for this type of configuration.\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-08 06:51:44 -0500", "date": "6:51 p.m. on Apr 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/04/08/i-wish-ghost-would-expand.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F04%2F08%2Fi-wish-ghost-would-expand.html" }, { "id": 808, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Still about the iOS 19 mockup, the redesigned Tabbar is so much better. 😍\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-07 19:52:51 -0500", "date": "7:52 p.m. on Apr 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/04/07/still-about-the-ios-mockup.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F04%2F07%2Fstill-about-the-ios-mockup.html" }, { "id": 809, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "There is a lot to like about some of the iOS 19 redesign mockups, but the \u0026ldquo;rounder\u0026rdquo; app icons is certainly not one of them. 🤢\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-07 19:38:32 -0500", "date": "7:38 p.m. on Apr 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/04/07/there-is-a-lot-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F04%2F07%2Fthere-is-a-lot-to.html" }, { "id": 810, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Gumroad is going open source!? Are they ok is it a last-resort move? They have a detailed roadmap, though.\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-07 12:56:24 -0500", "date": "12:56 p.m. on Apr 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/04/07/gumroad-is-going-open-source.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F04%2F07%2Fgumroad-is-going-open-source.html" }, { "id": 811, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "That’s a useful website for Markdown lovers: Online Markdown.\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-06 12:46:10 -0500", "date": "12:46 p.m. on Apr 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/04/06/thats-a-useful-website-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F04%2F06%2Fthats-a-useful-website-for.html" }, { "id": 812, "type": "post", "title": "Must Have Features in a Read Later Service", "text": "Read later service for me should have these features and attributes.\nBe cloud-based to enable access and syncing across different devices and platforms. Support metadata (tags, folders \u0026amp; description). Offer a well-designed share sheet implementation on iOS and iPadOS. Offer a great browser extension. Offer a native mobile application. It should work well with my go-to RSS reader, Inoreader. Be good at data mobility. In other words, it offers a data export option. Support article summarization with generative AI. Should be free if possible. It must support all Apple platforms. Inoreader check them all.\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-05 06:30:47 -0500", "date": "6:30 p.m. on Apr 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/04/05/must-have-features-in-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F04%2F05%2Fmust-have-features-in-a.html" }, { "id": 813, "type": "post", "title": "Can you say Chaps?", "text": "Intriguing new product coming from the makers of Craft: Chaps. It seems to be a conversational service where users can build their own AI-based agents. Not integrated with Craft in any way, at least for now. The demonstrated UI seems polished as we can expect from them, but sadly we don\u0026rsquo;t get to see how those agents are built. I think \u0026ldquo;Ch_apps_\u0026rdquo; would have been a better name than \u0026ldquo;Chaps\u0026rdquo;, though. I hope they don\u0026rsquo;t get too much distracted from Craft because it still needs a lot of work and long-lasting issues are yet to be addressed.\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-04 05:36:10 -0500", "date": "5:36 p.m. on Apr 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/04/04/can-you-say-chaps.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F04%2F04%2Fcan-you-say-chaps.html" }, { "id": 814, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Each time I select a few emails in Outlook at the office and then move them into a folder I think of Severance\u0026rsquo;s employees working on their computer to gather numbers and drop them in a bucket. Every. Single. Time. And now you\u0026rsquo;ll probably do, too. You\u0026rsquo;re welcome.\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-03 10:13:44 -0500", "date": "10:13 p.m. on Apr 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/04/03/each-time-i-select-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F04%2F03%2Feach-time-i-select-a.html" }, { "id": 815, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Looking at iOS 18.5 and I find that Apple is slow at iterating on AI. Nothing really new in AI. No mention of model improvements. Only a few things like turning off Mail automatic classification. I would have expected a much faster pace.\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-03 07:26:12 -0500", "date": "7:26 p.m. on Apr 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/04/03/looking-at-ios-and-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F04%2F03%2Flooking-at-ios-and-i.html" }, { "id": 816, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What do Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WordPress, Tumblr, Flickr, 500px, and Smugmug share in common? They represent my former digital homes. Can you see the trend from this mind map?\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-03 05:49:53 -0500", "date": "5:49 p.m. on Apr 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/04/03/what-do-facebook-twitter-instagram.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F04%2F03%2Fwhat-do-facebook-twitter-instagram.html" }, { "id": 817, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When are we going to stop referring to Musk as the richest man in the world. First, we don\u0026rsquo;t care as much as it sounds. Second, he\u0026rsquo;s probably the poorest man in the world if anything.\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-02 06:54:57 -0500", "date": "6:54 p.m. on Apr 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/04/02/when-are-we-going-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F04%2F02%2Fwhen-are-we-going-to.html" }, { "id": 818, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m again tempted by an Oura ring. One big showstopper: the mandatory annual subscription. 😒\n", "dateiso": "2025-04-01 20:08:55 -0500", "date": "8:08 p.m. on Apr 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/04/01/im-again-tempted-by-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F04%2F01%2Fim-again-tempted-by-an.html" }, { "id": 819, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s the time of the year when iOS feels the most stable. I’m liking iOS 18.4.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-31 16:34:13 -0500", "date": "4:34 p.m. on Mar 31, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/31/its-the-time-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F31%2Fits-the-time-of-the.html" }, { "id": 820, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple users looking to improve their security posture? Here\u0026rsquo;s a guide that I wrote and shared recently.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-29 09:56:16 -0500", "date": "9:56 p.m. on Mar 29, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/29/apple-users-looking-to-improve.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F29%2Fapple-users-looking-to-improve.html" }, { "id": 821, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I just realized there is no way for me to see the list of Micro.blog accounts that I\u0026rsquo;m following\u0026hellip; am I missing something here? 🤨\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-29 09:41:13 -0500", "date": "9:41 p.m. on Mar 29, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/29/i-just-realized-there-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F29%2Fi-just-realized-there-is.html" }, { "id": 822, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A newcomer in the sources of trafic in my analytics: ChatGPT.com. 🤨\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-28 17:56:43 -0500", "date": "5:56 p.m. on Mar 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/28/a-newcomer-in-the-sources.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F28%2Fa-newcomer-in-the-sources.html" }, { "id": 823, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Gurman: Jon Prosser\u0026rsquo;s iOS 19 Mockups \u0026lsquo;Aren\u0026rsquo;t Representative\u0026rsquo; of Redesign - MacRumors\nTo be honest, Prosser’s video gives a very limited peak at iOS 19 redesign. More than 3 min 30 sec of introduction followed by a sponsor segment then followed by a short discussion about four limited mockups. Not his best work.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-25 20:22:59 -0500", "date": "8:22 p.m. on Mar 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/25/gurman-jon-prossers-ios-mockups.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F25%2Fgurman-jon-prossers-ios-mockups.html" }, { "id": 824, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "From my point of view, with recent security breach from the government members, more signs point to being much closer to a dictatorship than we are willing to admit. Many cabinet members are using Signal on purpose because they don\u0026rsquo;t want scrutiny, they don\u0026rsquo;t think they owe anything to the American people.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-25 15:50:19 -0500", "date": "3:50 p.m. on Mar 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/25/from-my-point-of-view.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F25%2Ffrom-my-point-of-view.html" }, { "id": 825, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "WWDC25: Still entirely online? No in-person labs or sessions? Only the keynote to be live? Is that it? Oh, and this glassy font, I\u0026rsquo;m not too fond of that.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-25 15:41:13 -0500", "date": "3:41 p.m. on Mar 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/25/wwdc-still-entirely-online-no.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F25%2Fwwdc-still-entirely-online-no.html" }, { "id": 826, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So AirPods Max will get new audio features. The fact that only the USB-C model will support this is utterly frustrating, and I wish someone will sue Apple for that. Reason? When Apple launched the USB-C model last year, I don\u0026rsquo;t recall them saying there were upcoming features that wouldn\u0026rsquo;t apply to the Lightning port model. It looked like the only difference was the charging port. It appears that\u0026rsquo;s not the case, or Apple is trying to limit the features artificially to the new model.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-24 10:33:19 -0500", "date": "10:33 p.m. on Mar 24, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/24/so-airpods-max-will-get.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F24%2Fso-airpods-max-will-get.html" }, { "id": 827, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Notion Mail is Gmail with a different coat of paint. Prove me wrong.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-23 17:59:34 -0500", "date": "5:59 p.m. on Mar 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/23/notion-mail-is-gmail-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F23%2Fnotion-mail-is-gmail-with.html" }, { "id": 828, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today, I’ve been to an Apple Store in Ottawa, Canada. My daughter in law bought a M4 MacBook Air. I even forgot to check the new blue Air! I wasn’t expecting this: I’m no longer excited to go visit an Apple Store. Times are changing.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-23 17:38:08 -0500", "date": "5:38 p.m. on Mar 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/23/today-ive-been-to-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F23%2Ftoday-ive-been-to-an.html" }, { "id": 829, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My content creator ecosystem got updated today. Enjoy and I hope you find some inspiration in my digital tools selection.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-22 08:21:27 -0500", "date": "8:21 p.m. on Mar 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/22/my-content-creator-ecosystem-got.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F22%2Fmy-content-creator-ecosystem-got.html" }, { "id": 830, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been using Apple Invites app for a family-related event in early May. It\u0026rsquo;s a rather nice app for a family entrenched into Apple\u0026rsquo;s wallen garden. But a majority of people don\u0026rsquo;t understand that they need to visit the invite link then accept or refuse, instead a majority of invitees will reply to the message by saying \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m going\u0026rdquo;\u0026hellip; which is not enough\u0026hellip; something is broken.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-21 16:27:00 -0500", "date": "4:27 p.m. on Mar 21, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/21/ive-been-using-apple-invites.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F21%2Five-been-using-apple-invites.html" }, { "id": 831, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If you screenshot a post on Reddit on your iPhone, you get a warning telling you that sharing the post gives better results…. Yeah, of course, but for who are they advocating here? 🤔 spoiler: not the users.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-20 11:31:46 -0500", "date": "11:31 p.m. on Mar 20, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/20/if-you-screenshot-a-post.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F20%2Fif-you-screenshot-a-post.html" }, { "id": 832, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I believe that for the first time in five or six years, not changing my digital presence is a positive thing. This feeling is especially strong since I resolved my email issues with Fastmail. Now, everything fits perfectly and meets most of my digital needs. It feels like time has stopped.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-19 20:19:35 -0500", "date": "8:19 p.m. on Mar 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/19/i-believe-that-for-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F19%2Fi-believe-that-for-the.html" }, { "id": 833, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My transition from HEY Mail to Fastmail is likely the best digital move I\u0026rsquo;ve ever made, and I wish I had done it sooner. It\u0026rsquo;s truly a blessing. ICYMI: the migration process is available here.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-18 09:47:05 -0500", "date": "9:47 p.m. on Mar 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/18/my-transition-from-hey-mail.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F18%2Fmy-transition-from-hey-mail.html" }, { "id": 834, "type": "post", "title": "That Question That Keeps Coming Back", "text": "For some time now, I’ve had a question that keeps coming back to my mind because I often use Bluesky to express my distress or frustration against Trump, Musk, and the entire little clique of authoritarians at the head of the United States. If, in the near future, the situation in the U.S. deteriorates to the point where government groups start hunting down activists like me, who openly denounce Trump’s authoritarian policies and his inner circle, should I censor myself to avoid any form of persecution when I decide to return to the United States?\nI fear the day when bloggers will be hunted down to silence them—or worse, to have them arrested in the name of disrespecting the American presidency. Is it precisely the presidency’s game to instill fear so they can continue their authoritarian actions by manipulating people like me?\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-17 07:06:44 -0500", "date": "7:06 p.m. on Mar 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/17/that-question-that-keeps-coming.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F17%2Fthat-question-that-keeps-coming.html" }, { "id": 835, "type": "post", "title": "A Canadian Discovered the iPad Fold Prototype!", "text": "BREAKING NEWS: a foldable iPad prototype was found on a table\u0026hellip; at an IKEA store in Canada. The prototype was turned on and was running a special version of macOS Touch™. Tim Cook wants it back, but the guy who found set two conditions: you must resign because of Apple Intelligence fiasco, but before you must ask Trump to remove tariffs against Canada. Canadians can be nasty, too. ", "dateiso": "2025-03-16 20:02:32 -0500", "date": "8:02 p.m. on Mar 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/16/a-canadian-discovered-the-ipad.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F16%2Fa-canadian-discovered-the-ipad.html" }, { "id": 836, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m starting to get excited about the rumored redesign of iOS 19 because I love visionOS UI. Will current apps adopt the new iOS 19 visual language automatically, or will they need to be recompiled for iOS 19 in order to do so? How long Apple will support the pre-iOS 19 UI changes?\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-16 17:08:11 -0500", "date": "5:08 p.m. on Mar 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/16/im-starting-to-get-excited.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F16%2Fim-starting-to-get-excited.html" }, { "id": 837, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I spotted a great game on Steam a few months ago, Tiny Glade, and I was ready to buy it because of a promotion taking off 20% off the price until I found out that it doesn\u0026rsquo;t run on Macs! Too bad because that\u0026rsquo;s exactly the type of games that I like!\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-16 06:43:09 -0500", "date": "6:43 p.m. on Mar 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/16/i-spotted-a-great-game.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F16%2Fi-spotted-a-great-game.html" }, { "id": 838, "type": "post", "title": "Questioning Apple Intelligence Improvements", "text": "Here is an observation about Apple Intelligence (yet another one you might say?): Image Playground was announced at WWDC2024. It finally made its debut with iOS 18.2, in December 2024. Since then, we got iOS 18.3, now iOS 18.4 is in beta. Did Image Playground improved? A new image style was introduced, in 18.3, I think. Does it provide better results? Not really. Is it easier to use? Nope. On this subject, I must confess that I personally find Image Playground not to be the best UX Apple ever created. I find it clunky and not always intuitive to use. After two releases, Image Playground is basically the same. Isn\u0026rsquo;t it surprising, coming from a company who\u0026rsquo;s playing catch up in AI space? The same questions could apply to Writing Tools. I didn\u0026rsquo;t test text proofing with each release of Apple Intelligence, but I would bet that it didn\u0026rsquo;t really improve. Strange.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-15 16:20:23 -0500", "date": "4:20 p.m. on Mar 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/15/questioning-apple-intelligence-improvements.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F15%2Fquestioning-apple-intelligence-improvements.html" }, { "id": 839, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I need to find the time to update and finish this photo-sharing services comparison table. Anyone interested in the completed table? ", "dateiso": "2025-03-15 15:23:30 -0500", "date": "3:23 p.m. on Mar 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/15/i-need-to-find-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F15%2Fi-need-to-find-the.html" }, { "id": 840, "type": "post", "title": "What Are They Gonna Do Now? What a Waste!", "text": "One quick question tonight: those people who worked for a government agency in the US and got laid-off by DOGE or anyone close to them or because of them, what are they doing now? Where will they find their purpose? I\u0026rsquo;m thinking about the scientists, social workers, phycologists, Are they going to work for the private sector or simply increase the unemployment rate? I mean, there are so many human dramas unfolding right now.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-13 19:28:05 -0500", "date": "7:28 p.m. on Mar 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/13/what-are-they-gonna-do.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F13%2Fwhat-are-they-gonna-do.html" }, { "id": 841, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Om Malik on Apple in today\u0026rsquo;s world:\nApple has become a complex entity that can’t seem to ever have enough resources to provide the real Apple experience. What you get is “good enough.” And most of the time, I think it is enough – because what others have on the market is worse.\nMuch worse.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-13 10:59:49 -0500", "date": "10:59 p.m. on Mar 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/13/om-malik-on-apple-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F13%2Fom-malik-on-apple-in.html" }, { "id": 842, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Gruber:\n\u0026ldquo;Tim Cook should have already held a meeting like that to address and rectify this Siri and Apple Intelligence debacle.\u0026rdquo;\nWe may not know for sure whether such a meeting will occur or has already occurred. I believe it won\u0026rsquo;t happen for one simple reason: Tim Cook is not focused on products.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-13 05:48:06 -0500", "date": "5:48 p.m. on Mar 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/13/gruber-tim-cook-should-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F13%2Fgruber-tim-cook-should-have.html" }, { "id": 843, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Remember when many tech pundits (and ordinary users, too) were saying that Apple wasn\u0026rsquo;t really good at services? How about this updated version: Apple isn\u0026rsquo;t really good at AI.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-12 20:23:38 -0500", "date": "8:23 p.m. on Mar 12, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/12/remember-when-many-tech-pundits.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F12%2Fremember-when-many-tech-pundits.html" }, { "id": 844, "type": "post", "title": "Tim Has to Go - Part Deux", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been an Apple fan since 1983, and everyone I know—my friends, colleagues, and family—understands my enthusiasm for the brand. Recently, they\u0026rsquo;ve been calling me more than ever to ask about my thoughts on Tim Cook\u0026rsquo;s support for Trump. \u0026ldquo;Apple is becoming like the others; what do you think?\u0026rdquo; they all inquire. I struggle to express my sadness about this situation. Tim\u0026rsquo;s poor judgment in supporting the Trump presidency is disappointing. I hope he regrets his decision. Until then, I want him to step down. It\u0026rsquo;s as simple as that.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-12 19:59:41 -0500", "date": "7:59 p.m. on Mar 12, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/12/tim-has-to-go-part.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F12%2Ftim-has-to-go-part.html" }, { "id": 845, "type": "post", "title": "It's Time for Tim to Go", "text": "The latest post from @gruber@mastodon.social about the delay of Apple Intelligence and the ongoing fiasco serves as a reminder that Apple needs to change soon. It\u0026rsquo;s another big red flag something is rotten at Apple. Should I mention that Tim Cook\u0026rsquo;s financial support for the Trump presidential inauguration, whether personal or not, was another mistake? Apple could have and should have acted differently than Meta, Amazon, and others. They did not. We had all the warning signs regarding Trump, and now Tim is associated with this nonsense. There is no possible excuse. It was a poor decision on Tim\u0026rsquo;s part.\nI believe it\u0026rsquo;s time for Tim Cook to take responsibility and step down.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-12 19:43:02 -0500", "date": "7:43 p.m. on Mar 12, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/12/its-time-for-tim-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F12%2Fits-time-for-tim-to.html" }, { "id": 846, "type": "post", "title": "Another Frustrating Thing with 2024 iPad Pro", "text": "I love my 2024 iPad Pro, but there is a clear regression in hardware+software for palm rest detection. Each time I put my hand on the screen when taking notes using the Apple Pencil in Apple Notes, the content scrolls up, sometimes not by much, but sometimes quite a lot\u0026hellip; I always need to lift my hand, reposition the content and try again. This is utterly frustrating; this is something that I never experienced with my 2018 iPad Pro\u0026hellip; this is something that Apple used to be good at.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-12 14:33:54 -0500", "date": "2:33 p.m. on Mar 12, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/12/another-frustrating-thing-with-ipad.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F12%2Fanother-frustrating-thing-with-ipad.html" }, { "id": 847, "type": "post", "title": "My Updated Defaults as of 2025-03-12", "text": "So many things changed since my previous update.\n✉️ Mail Client: Fastmail 📨 Mail Server: Fastmail 📝 Notes: Craft + Apple Notes ✅ To-Do: Things 3 📷 iPhone Photo Shooting: Camera.app 📚 Photo Management: Photos.app + Photomator 🗓️ Calendar: Calendar.app (Personal Life) + Fantastical.app (Work Life) 🗄️ Cloud file storage: iCloud 📰 RSS: Reeder connected to Inoreader 📇 Contacts: Contacts 🕸️ Browser: Mobile Safari + ARC Browser on Mac 🧠 AI: ChatGPT + Perplexity 🔎 Search: Kagi Search 💬 Chat: iMessage (WhatsApp when abroad) 🔖 Bookmarks: AnyBox 👓 Read It Later: Inoreader 📜 Word Processing: Ulysses, Craft 📊 Spreadsheets: Numbers 🛝 Presentations: Keynote 🛒 Shopping Lists: Reminders 🧑‍🍳 Meal Planning: None 💰 Budgeting \u0026amp; Personal Finance: Numbers 🗞️ News: La Presse (Apple News for English news) 🎶 Music: Apple Music 🎧 Podcasts: Apple Podcasts 🔐 Password Management: iCloud Keychain \u0026amp; Apple Passwords ", "dateiso": "2025-03-12 06:20:55 -0500", "date": "6:20 p.m. on Mar 12, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/12/my-updated-defaults-as-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F12%2Fmy-updated-defaults-as-of.html" }, { "id": 848, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I don\u0026rsquo;t know how to feel about the rumored visual redesign of Apple\u0026rsquo;s upcoming OSes summer releases\u0026hellip; I\u0026rsquo;m still traumatized by the iOS 7 redesign. Not sure what I\u0026rsquo;m talking about? Here\u0026rsquo;s a reminder. What I do know is that I like visionOS visuals quite a lot and having that trickled down to the iPhone would be cool. Unifying macOS look and feel with mobile OSes? Not so sure. I also don\u0026rsquo;t want gamification of these OSes. I know that a younger generation is slowly taking over, and that is fine, but\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-11 06:29:56 -0500", "date": "6:29 p.m. on Mar 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/11/i-dont-know-how-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F11%2Fi-dont-know-how-to.html" }, { "id": 849, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For me, Siri evolution, or the lack of evolution, is so tied to Tim Cook\u0026rsquo;s tenure. A lack of decisiveness from him and his close team led to resources spoiling on the Titan project and to some degree to the maligned Apple Vision Pro. Not all is lost and I agree with this post from Basic Apple Guy, but time is running out and this is another red flag for Tim Cook.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-09 09:04:39 -0500", "date": "9:04 p.m. on Mar 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/09/for-me-siri-evolution-or.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F09%2Ffor-me-siri-evolution-or.html" }, { "id": 850, "type": "post", "title": "The Unexpected Challenge of Moving a Custom Domain From iCloud+ to Fastmail", "text": "Did you know that you can use iCloud+ with a custom email domain? Yep, that\u0026rsquo;s right. This is what I was doing for hello @ numericcitizen.me until this week when I started my migration to Fastmail. But there is one challenge that I didn\u0026rsquo;t expect: I wanted to bring this custom email to Fastmail, too. Custom email domains with iCloud+ is managed only on the iCloud website.\nHaving Apple Advanced Data Protection (ADP) is cool and nice but can make managing iCloud+ Custom domains a pain. As a reminder, to use ADP, you must turn off iCloud web access. I\u0026rsquo;m not really sure why. As soon as this is turned off, you can no longer manage your custom email domains that you might have configured for use with iCloud+. To complete my migration to Fastmail, so that I could write and respond from that custom email address from Fastmail, I first had to remove that domain from iCloud+, but it\u0026rsquo;s only possible on the iCloud website. To do that, ADP must be turned off. Once done, you can re-enable iCloud website access, then remove the custom email domain. After some cleaning up of Apple-related DNS records, you can re-enable ADP and disable iCloud website. Only then I can go on Fastmail Settings and configure my custom email domain.\nNow you know.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-08 07:54:09 -0500", "date": "7:54 p.m. on Mar 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/08/the-unexpected-challenge-of-moving.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F08%2Fthe-unexpected-challenge-of-moving.html" }, { "id": 851, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Breaking news: Intelligent Siri delayed. Is it time to sue Apple for all those who bought the \u0026ldquo;Built for Apple Intelligence\u0026rdquo; cool aid?\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-07 13:56:13 -0500", "date": "1:56 p.m. on Mar 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/07/breaking-news-intelligent-siri-delayed.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F07%2Fbreaking-news-intelligent-siri-delayed.html" }, { "id": 852, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Now that my migration from HEY Mail to Fastmail is essentially completed, I started writing an article about the whys, the hows and the gotchas. That\u0026rsquo;s the type of article that I love to put together. It will take time, but it will be well worth my time. My goals are to help others quit HEY Mail because it\u0026rsquo;s a great way to send a message to their owners. I\u0026rsquo;ll use the Fastmail referral program to get some form of potential compensation to pay for the service (I hope). While you wait for that article, I\u0026rsquo;ll share my referral link here and tell you this: if you are on the fence, trust me, Fastmail is really good.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-07 07:34:57 -0500", "date": "7:34 p.m. on Mar 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/07/now-that-my-migration-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F07%2Fnow-that-my-migration-from.html" }, { "id": 853, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "And just like that, AI summaries arrives in Inoreader and they are called Inoreader Intelligence! While you can\u0026rsquo;t ask to generate summaries automatically for a specific RSS feed (yet?), the addition of manually triggered customizable summaries is super handy. ", "dateiso": "2025-03-06 06:33:34 -0500", "date": "6:33 p.m. on Mar 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/06/and-just-like-that-ai.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F06%2Fand-just-like-that-ai.html" }, { "id": 854, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "From time to time, while scrolling through my Micro.blog timeline, I’ll pause, read a particular post, peak at someone’s profile and previous posts, remember that this guy exists and wonder why in the first place I was following him or her. Then I sometimes hit the unfollow. Why do I think this is some sort of failure ?\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-05 20:41:54 -0500", "date": "8:41 p.m. on Mar 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/05/from-time-to-time-while.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F05%2Ffrom-time-to-time-while.html" }, { "id": 855, "type": "post", "title": "Migration to Fastmail Going FAST", "text": "Spent a few hours in Fastmail to get it ready to fully replace my HEY Mail subscription. Got my new email domain name set up in Cloudflare. The Screener functionality that I liked in HEY is now fully operational and is based on a Contacts Group. The Paper Trail is also set up and based on another Contacts group. Basically, if an email uses a contact not in the Screener, it will be moved in The Screener label. The same happens for the Paper trail. If I want a specific email to go to the Paper Trail, the contact is created and added to the right contacts group. One email account (Gmail) has been configured for Fastmail to pull content from it (no need to use email forwarding, so everything is configured from Fastmail. My Gmail account is a low-volume account so that I can tweak things before connecting my primary email accounts (both are Apple-provided).\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-05 07:34:14 -0500", "date": "7:34 p.m. on Mar 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/05/migration-to-fastmail-going-fast.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F05%2Fmigration-to-fastmail-going-fast.html" }, { "id": 856, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m not sure if I\u0026rsquo;ll actually need to set up a paid subscription to Fastmail, maybe paying for one month will be needed to fully evaluate the capabilities, though, but from my current experiment with this service so far, I must say that I really like what I\u0026rsquo;m seeing. It\u0026rsquo;s certainly fast.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-04 12:39:03 -0500", "date": "12:39 p.m. on Mar 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/04/im-not-sure-if-ill.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F04%2Fim-not-sure-if-ill.html" }, { "id": 857, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Doing some clean up in my RSS feeds where many feeds stopped working in the last 2–3 years. Of all of those who stopped blogging, I wonder why and what are they doing now.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-04 12:35:58 -0500", "date": "12:35 p.m. on Mar 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/04/doing-some-clean-up-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F04%2Fdoing-some-clean-up-in.html" }, { "id": 858, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "While browsing Substack yesterday and this morning, I stumbled upon a writer from Ukraine that I’m eager to follow. Isn’t it surprising that I can’t subscribe to his content via an RSS feed? I’m quite impressed by how this platform is so tightly controlled. It\u0026rsquo;s too bad.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-04 07:09:25 -0500", "date": "7:09 p.m. on Mar 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/04/while-browsing-substack-yesterday-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F04%2Fwhile-browsing-substack-yesterday-and.html" }, { "id": 859, "type": "post", "title": "Emails Shuffle", "text": "I’m making progress in cleaning up my email mess. I closed my Yahoo Mail account, which I only used for Flickr when the authentication backend moved from Flickr to Yahoo1. I closed two Gmail accounts: one of the two was used when I was developing iPhone apps between 2009 and 2013. This means I have three fewer email redirections for HEY Mail. Most of my newsletter subscriptions are now redirected to Inoreader, which is another dependency removed from HEY Mail.\nSo, what’s left in HEY Mail? Two email redirections: one .me email account1 and my primary iCloud mail account. These are my biggest email accounts. Of course, I also have my HEY Mail account that I use in a few dozen places. That’s the last part to move out. The question is: which email account should I use instead of my HEY Mail? Is this where Fastmail comes into play? Or should I merge them into one of my Apple-hosted mail accounts? If I choose the latter, I don’t see the point of using Fastmail unless I want to replicate the Paper Trail functionality of HEY Mail. Even then, Apple’s latest updates to Mail offer something similar. I should probably try the latest betas on my Mac and see how well it performs. Stay tuned for the next update on my emails shuffle.\nI also officially closed my Flickr account.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-04 06:52:31 -0500", "date": "6:52 p.m. on Mar 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/04/emails-shuffle.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F04%2Femails-shuffle.html" }, { "id": 860, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "There is something so satisfying in closing online accounts and deleting data. It\u0026rsquo;s really hard to explain. This process only happens when moving things around (like moving from one email provider to another).\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-03 09:30:33 -0500", "date": "9:30 p.m. on Mar 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/03/there-is-something-so-satisfying.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F03%2Fthere-is-something-so-satisfying.html" }, { "id": 861, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I think I found a viable way to replace Readwise with Craft1. The fun thing is that I found this while recording my next video. It\u0026rsquo;s possible because of a recently launched browser extension that saves an article into Craft. More details in my upcoming video. Here\u0026rsquo;s a sneak peek. I cancelled my Readwise subscription today.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-02 15:23:53 -0500", "date": "3:23 p.m. on Mar 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/02/i-think-i-found-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F02%2Fi-think-i-found-a.html" }, { "id": 862, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I logged into my Substack account today because I’m working on something and I couldn’t believe how different it is from a few years ago. I don’t even recognize it anymore. Are they trying to become another LinkedIn or Facebook? Or maybe they’re chasing TikTok or YouTube? What is going on?\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-02 10:33:23 -0500", "date": "10:33 p.m. on Mar 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/02/i-logged-into-my-substack.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F02%2Fi-logged-into-my-substack.html" }, { "id": 863, "type": "post", "title": "If Only I Had Gen AI Back in the Day", "text": "I acquired the skill of programming in Objective-C and developed iPhone applications between 2009 and 2013. Since I had learned programming concepts during my Computer Science degree, I didn’t have to begin from scratch. However, with the advent of generative AI, I can’t help but wonder how my learning experience would have unfolded differently. I think that it would have been significantly expedited while exploring creating different apps beyond the one I was developing.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-02 10:17:10 -0500", "date": "10:17 p.m. on Mar 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/02/if-only-i-had-gen.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F02%2Fif-only-i-had-gen.html" }, { "id": 864, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Another pricey subscription cancelled: Timing.app. After the initial excitement to learn about how I spend my time on my computer, I think it\u0026rsquo;s time to conclude: I spend a lot of time on a computer for doing a lot of different things. There is a cheaper alternative called Currentkey, that I plan to test in the near future, though.\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-02 08:01:30 -0500", "date": "8:01 p.m. on Mar 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/02/another-pricey-subscription-cancelled-timingapp.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F02%2Fanother-pricey-subscription-cancelled-timingapp.html" }, { "id": 865, "type": "post", "title": "Bye Bye Readwise? ", "text": "Just got a reminder to close my Readwise account, probably because the subscription renewal is coming soon. That’s not a cheap one. Beyond serving as a repo for text highlights from Micro.blog and Inoreader, I don’t really have a meaningful use for it. I don’t use the Readwise Reader either. I export highlights into Bear from time to time as markdown files. I almost never search them. Sometimes I’ll read a few highlights with amusement or nostalgia, but nothing more. Why am I doing all this, then? 🧐🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2025-03-01 11:48:49 -0500", "date": "11:48 p.m. on Mar 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/03/01/bye-bye-readwise.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F03%2F01%2Fbye-bye-readwise.html" }, { "id": 866, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "More than ever, the USA is isolated. More than ever, I’m convinced that the US government is siding with Putin.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-28 18:14:34 -0500", "date": "6:14 p.m. on Feb 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/28/more-than-ever-the-usa.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F28%2Fmore-than-ever-the-usa.html" }, { "id": 867, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Even if US gave 100 billions dollars to support Ukraine, that\u0026rsquo;s nothing to the price Ukraine is paying\u0026hellip; it doesn\u0026rsquo;t give the right to Trump and his clowns to act like they did. They are the ones who are lying to the public. They are the ones who act on bad faith by conducting sneaky negotiations behind closed doors without Ukraine. Not only that, but they are the ones who you shouldn\u0026rsquo;t trust. Wonder who is bringing us closer to WWIII, that is the US, not Ukraine.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-28 15:09:23 -0500", "date": "3:09 p.m. on Feb 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/28/even-if-us-gave-billions.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F28%2Feven-if-us-gave-billions.html" }, { "id": 868, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Fuck Trump, Fuck Vance and fuck their clique. Ukraine, we support you, you are not alone! The US is the one who\u0026rsquo;s acting like a bully, period. What a disgrace.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-28 14:23:28 -0500", "date": "2:23 p.m. on Feb 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/28/fuck-trump-fuck-vance-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F28%2Ffuck-trump-fuck-vance-and.html" }, { "id": 869, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Is Apple about to get another \u0026ldquo;Apple Silicon moment\u0026rdquo; with the C1 modem in the iPhone 16e? I think so. A 24% power consumption reduction for the same performance level is significant in my book.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-28 07:03:45 -0500", "date": "7:03 p.m. on Feb 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/28/is-apple-about-to-get.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F28%2Fis-apple-about-to-get.html" }, { "id": 870, "type": "post", "title": "Beyond ChatGPT And OpenAI", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m a frequent user of generative AI, primarily for my work, but also to assist with my activities as a blogger and content creator. I subscribe to OpenAI\u0026rsquo;s ChatGPT and mainly limit my generative AI use to this service. I realize that OpenAI is becoming my new Apple, as I prefer to concentrate on one service to maximize the benefits of my subscription. I appreciate what they offer, including their services and apps.\nHowever, OpenAI is not the only option, and I should explore other services as well. I don\u0026rsquo;t want to use Meta\u0026rsquo;s or Google\u0026rsquo;s offerings. What else is available? Perplexity? I started using it this morning and I like their offerings, but I\u0026rsquo;m still on a free plan. Do you have any suggestions besides Perplexity? What about Claude? I\u0026rsquo;m curious about their respective market shares.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-27 06:46:46 -0500", "date": "6:46 p.m. on Feb 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/27/beyond-chatgpt-and-openai.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F27%2Fbeyond-chatgpt-and-openai.html" }, { "id": 871, "type": "post", "title": "Testing OpenAI Deep Research", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m currently testing OpenAI Deep Research on two very specific subjects. So far, I\u0026rsquo;m quite impressed, not only about the end-results but also with the progress status report during the researching phase. It\u0026rsquo;s a great way to start looking into specific domains, and it gives many hints as to what to look for. Coupled with OpenAI Canvas, this is a powerful tool for a writer like me.\nWhat a great time to be alive to test those things and see how I can take advantage of all this to be a better human.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-26 07:18:26 -0500", "date": "7:18 p.m. on Feb 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/26/testing-openai-deep-research.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F26%2Ftesting-openai-deep-research.html" }, { "id": 872, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Using the new Reeder.app∗ to read content from some Bluesky users I follow is a rather surprisingly good experience. Quote posts, replies are all beautifully rendered, like you could expect from Reeder\u0026rsquo;s developer. ", "dateiso": "2025-02-25 21:05:51 -0500", "date": "9:05 p.m. on Feb 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/25/using-the-new-reederapp-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F25%2Fusing-the-new-reederapp-to.html" }, { "id": 873, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thought of the moment: eliminating the cease in the foldable iPhone is certainly a differentiating factor, but reducing the thickness of any upcoming foldable iPhone is another one, and the solution might reside in the upcoming iPhone 17 Air. All addressed challenge to make the iPhone 17 Air as thin as possible, it\u0026rsquo;s a step forward to a thinner foldable iPhone.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-25 06:52:05 -0500", "date": "6:52 p.m. on Feb 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/25/thought-of-the-moment-eliminating.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F25%2Fthought-of-the-moment-eliminating.html" }, { "id": 874, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "More than ever I think that social networks are the worst place to have a sound conversation about politics especially in today\u0026rsquo;s heated world. I felt in the trap yesterday, had to unfollow someone so that I can stay sane. Will I ever learn?\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-24 07:22:50 -0500", "date": "7:22 p.m. on Feb 24, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/24/more-than-ever-i-think.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F24%2Fmore-than-ever-i-think.html" }, { "id": 875, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Best call from Apple. They had no choice but to leave, otherwise their credibility would have been questioned.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-21 12:41:23 -0500", "date": "12:41 p.m. on Feb 21, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/21/best-call-from-apple-they.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F21%2Fbest-call-from-apple-they.html" }, { "id": 876, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I headed to the office this morning and brought both my iPad Pro and my MacBook Pro. I had to install the latest updates on my MBP, so I started working on my iPad with an external monitor. I’m pretty sure I’ll be using that setup for the rest of the day. I’m being pretty patient with iPadOS paper cuts.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-20 10:19:53 -0500", "date": "10:19 p.m. on Feb 20, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/20/i-headed-to-the-office.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F20%2Fi-headed-to-the-office.html" }, { "id": 877, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Will Apple release iOS 18.4 beta 1 the same day as the just announced iPhone16e? 🧐\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-19 12:17:34 -0500", "date": "12:17 p.m. on Feb 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/19/will-apple-release-ios-beta.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F19%2Fwill-apple-release-ios-beta.html" }, { "id": 878, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I find it amusing that Apple releases a new iPhone member with Tim Cook and keep pitching Apple Intelligence as a breakthrough. Are VPs at Apple aware that Apple Intelligence is far behind everybody else and that it still in early beta? Do the engineering teams ever get poked by VPs as to where they are in their journey to bring real generative AI to Apple users? 🤭\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-19 11:40:01 -0500", "date": "11:40 p.m. on Feb 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/19/i-find-it-amusing-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F19%2Fi-find-it-amusing-that.html" }, { "id": 879, "type": "post", "title": "Paying Attention", "text": "I’m likely spending an excessive amount of time reading the news through various channels and sources. However, given the numerous events unfolding right now that will significantly shape our lives over the next few decades, I believe it’s crucial to pay close attention to them. Regardless of the method, one day, these events will undoubtedly have a clear and immediate impact on me and my loved ones.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-19 07:40:48 -0500", "date": "7:40 p.m. on Feb 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/19/paying-attention.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F19%2Fpaying-attention.html" }, { "id": 880, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What? HP is buying Humane remains? HP? The leader in generative AI looking for a modern, lightweight and nifty dedicated AI device to hum along their AI backend services? Silicon Valley is hard to decipher at times.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-18 18:53:25 -0500", "date": "6:53 p.m. on Feb 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/18/what-hp-is-buying-humane.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F18%2Fwhat-hp-is-buying-humane.html" }, { "id": 881, "type": "post", "title": "Mostly Unexcited", "text": "Tomorrow, Apple is introducing a new family member. It\u0026rsquo;s not expected to be a new HomePod with a screen, nor a lower-priced version of the Apple Vision Pro. It\u0026rsquo;s rather a low-but-wisely-priced iPhone. It\u0026rsquo;s the next iPhone trick to keep the money printing machine humming. The only thing that I\u0026rsquo;m curious about is the future cellular modem benchmarks. Supposedly made by Apple to eventually kick out Qualcomm, this modem will be under the microscope of many to see how it performs.\nThe other thing maybe that we could see at the same time: the next round of betas for iOS 18.4 and Apple Intelligence. But I\u0026rsquo;m not holding my breath for that one. I prefer to set my expectations very low, near zero actually, just to be sure.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-18 16:49:21 -0500", "date": "4:49 p.m. on Feb 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/18/mostly-unexcited.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F18%2Fmostly-unexcited.html" }, { "id": 882, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Posting to Pixelfed from Micro.blog is cool on paper but can be very frustrating to see that the cross-post action didn\u0026rsquo;t pan out\u0026hellip; no clue as to why, unless doing some digging in the account logs\u0026hellip; no easy way to \u0026ldquo;try again\u0026rdquo; either. Reconsidering my approach. Again.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-18 08:52:21 -0500", "date": "8:52 p.m. on Feb 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/18/posting-to-pixelfed-from-microblog.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F18%2Fposting-to-pixelfed-from-microblog.html" }, { "id": 883, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Witnessing, albeit from a distance, the daily dismantling of the United States is quite a spectacle. I never imagined I would witness this.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-18 07:43:10 -0500", "date": "7:43 p.m. on Feb 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/18/witnessing-albeit-from-a-distance.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F18%2Fwitnessing-albeit-from-a-distance.html" }, { "id": 884, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In the past seven days, two snow storms, back to back, dropped a total of 74 cm of snow in Montreal, Canada. That\u0026rsquo;s a lot. The second storm hit harder than the first. During a snow storm, temperatures often inches close to zero Celsius with weak winds. This time, it was -10 degree Celsius and windy, creating blizzard conditions. I love these, but the aftermath is not fun to cope with: I won\u0026rsquo;t be able to take the car for the next few days, sidewalks are mostly not usable. I\u0026rsquo;ll remember that one for a long time.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-18 06:58:47 -0500", "date": "6:58 p.m. on Feb 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/18/in-the-past-seven-days.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F18%2Fin-the-past-seven-days.html" }, { "id": 885, "type": "post", "title": "Musing About Journaling Goals", "text": "I maintain a daily journal at work where I jot down the day’s highlights. I write about what went well, the current challenges I’m facing, and any opportunities to do something different. I also note the clients I spoke to and the reasons behind it. I’ve been doing this for a while now, but I never refer to the journal once it’s written. It’s just a dump of my thoughts.\nI wonder why I’m doing this. I think the act of writing it down is the ultimate goal, not the end results. It’s the same with my personal journal. I rarely write in it, but I do occasionally. I rarely, if ever, refer to it. Why is that?\nNow, let’s talk about blogging. Why is all that? Is there a pattern here?\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-17 16:08:03 -0500", "date": "4:08 p.m. on Feb 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/17/musing-about-journaling-goals.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F17%2Fmusing-about-journaling-goals.html" }, { "id": 886, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I don\u0026rsquo;t care if Reddit offers a paywall option for Subreddits. Unless I\u0026rsquo;m missing something: I could create and built a community over there and at some point ask for a paid subscription, right? What is the difference then compared with Substack or Ghost?\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-17 13:57:49 -0500", "date": "1:57 p.m. on Feb 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/17/i-dont-care-if-reddit.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F17%2Fi-dont-care-if-reddit.html" }, { "id": 887, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Yesterday we had our second snow storm in less than five days. It was a big one, probably the biggest one in a decade. It was the best time to go out for a walk and snap as many pictures as possible. Here\u0026rsquo;s one.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-17 07:38:53 -0500", "date": "7:38 p.m. on Feb 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/17/yesterday-we-had-our-second.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F17%2Fyesterday-we-had-our-second.html" }, { "id": 888, "type": "post", "title": "How Do You Feel About That?", "text": "I don\u0026rsquo;t know how many Americans will read this post, but I feel the need to get the message out by amplifying this post from a Ukrainian soldier. How do you feel about Trump wanting to talk to the enemy, because this is exactly what he is? I find the link with 9/11 especially right on. The only difference, there as been hundreds if not thousands of 9/11 in Ukraine since February 2022. And it goes on, and on, and on. Wake the fuck up.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-17 07:18:29 -0500", "date": "7:18 p.m. on Feb 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/17/how-do-you-feel-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F17%2Fhow-do-you-feel-about.html" }, { "id": 889, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I wrote this about Apple\u0026rsquo;s Aperture more than five years ago. Now we have something to talk about.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-16 15:14:29 -0500", "date": "3:14 p.m. on Feb 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/16/i-wrote-this-about-apples.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F16%2Fi-wrote-this-about-apples.html" }, { "id": 890, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After skipping a week, here is the latest edition of the Ephemeral Scrapbook newsletter. This edition is the one shared from Craft as a published document. The Ghost web-hosted version is coming later today.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-16 08:06:49 -0500", "date": "8:06 p.m. on Feb 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/16/after-skipping-a-week-here.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F16%2Fafter-skipping-a-week-here.html" }, { "id": 891, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Putin and Trump negotiating the end of the war (or something that looks like it) without Ukraine is like a couple who is about to divorce, but the husband is negotiating with a not-so-random guy, leaving his wife aside, how to split the couple\u0026rsquo;s assets. This is beyond ridiculous and utterly outrageous.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-15 17:41:35 -0500", "date": "5:41 p.m. on Feb 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/15/putin-and-trump-negotiating-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F15%2Fputin-and-trump-negotiating-the.html" }, { "id": 892, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I updated the blog theme plugin to add support for Micro.blog summaries. In order to work, I had to disable showing the full post on the main page, which triggers the display of the summary with a \u0026ldquo;Continue reading\u0026rdquo; link. Is it a better reading experience for my readers? You tell me, please. I\u0026rsquo;m not sure.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-15 15:36:56 -0500", "date": "3:36 p.m. on Feb 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/15/i-updated-the-blog-theme.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F15%2Fi-updated-the-blog-theme.html" }, { "id": 893, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I can’t count the number of times I wish I had maintained an archive of all my screenshots over the years, even going back to the earliest days when we could take screenshots of screens. 🤦🏻‍♂️😔\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-15 14:24:59 -0500", "date": "2:24 p.m. on Feb 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/15/i-cant-count-the-number.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F15%2Fi-cant-count-the-number.html" }, { "id": 894, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m not too fond of text quotes shared as beautiful pictures (coming from Readwise, for example), especially if they don\u0026rsquo;t come with ALT text description. They look pretty, though. Here\u0026rsquo;s an example. I don\u0026rsquo;t like them because they hinder content indexing in some ways.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-15 14:13:14 -0500", "date": "2:13 p.m. on Feb 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/15/im-not-too-fond-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F15%2Fim-not-too-fond-of.html" }, { "id": 895, "type": "post", "title": "Netflix vs Apple: Who's the Dumbest?", "text": "While Netflix is sorry for making their product too convenient by showing up on Apple TV app for a few hours to a few users, Apple is making Apple TV app available anywhere, including Android more recently. Netflix seems run by stupid guys. Apple? I prefer not to answer that one. It\u0026rsquo;s tricky and complicated when looking at the big picture (pun intended).\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-15 13:37:47 -0500", "date": "1:37 p.m. on Feb 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/15/netflix-vs-apple-whos-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F15%2Fnetflix-vs-apple-whos-the.html" }, { "id": 896, "type": "post", "title": "Testing Summaries - Part Deux", "text": "I understand this is only the beginning, but I find it strange that summaries aren\u0026rsquo;t available at post time, only at edit time, after the initial post publication. It\u0026rsquo;s like a backward rollout. For my first test, I used the AI-generated version. For this one, I\u0026rsquo;ll write it manually. The first part of my experiment is available here.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-14 21:48:55 -0500", "date": "9:48 p.m. on Feb 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/14/testing-summaries-part-deux.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F14%2Ftesting-summaries-part-deux.html" }, { "id": 897, "type": "post", "title": "Testing Summaries", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m testing the new blog post summary feature of Micro.blog. For now, according to my assessment, the summary field is only available while editing an existing post, which seems a bit strange. It\u0026rsquo;s a work-in progress and a few updates should help complete the full vision of blog post summaries. If AI support was disabled, the feature isn\u0026rsquo;t available. More info here.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-14 21:32:44 -0500", "date": "9:32 p.m. on Feb 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/14/testing-summaries.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F14%2Ftesting-summaries.html" }, { "id": 898, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As reported by Engadget and many others:\nAccording to researchers, anyone who knows where to look can spray digital graffiti on the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) website. Two web development experts said the site doesn’t seem to be hosted on government servers and that the database it pulls from can be modified by those who locate it. At the time of writing, a message reading “these ‘experts’ left their database open - roro” is still visible on the DOGE site.\nThanks, I feel much more confident now.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-14 11:20:29 -0500", "date": "11:20 p.m. on Feb 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/14/as-reported-by-engadget-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F14%2Fas-reported-by-engadget-and.html" }, { "id": 899, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Another big snowstorm is coming right at us this Sunday. It should be a bit smaller is intensity compared to yesterday’s storm. So far, snow accumulation estimated range is 20-30 cm. ❄️\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-14 07:57:36 -0500", "date": "7:57 p.m. on Feb 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/14/another-big-snowstorm-is-coming.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F14%2Fanother-big-snowstorm-is-coming.html" }, { "id": 900, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In these troubled times, the worst is to depend on social networks for anything.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-13 09:49:20 -0500", "date": "9:49 p.m. on Feb 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/13/in-these-troubled-times-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F13%2Fin-these-troubled-times-the.html" }, { "id": 901, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The Rotten Side of Tim Cook’s Apple: Should I write a take 2 to this piece published in 2020? I think so.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-12 17:50:27 -0500", "date": "5:50 p.m. on Feb 12, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/12/the-rotten-side-of-tim.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F12%2Fthe-rotten-side-of-tim.html" }, { "id": 902, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "First, Tim gives his money to this orange clown and dictator and assist the presidential circus inauguration and now Apple resumes advertising on X? This is not the Apple that I want. 😡\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-12 17:34:32 -0500", "date": "5:34 p.m. on Feb 12, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/12/first-tim-gives-his-money.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F12%2Ffirst-tim-gives-his-money.html" }, { "id": 903, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Testing Micro Social! Great start! @gregmorris !\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-12 07:45:27 -0500", "date": "7:45 p.m. on Feb 12, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/12/testing-micro-social-great-start.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F12%2Ftesting-micro-social-great-start.html" }, { "id": 904, "type": "post", "title": "It's Time to Vote With My Money", "text": "DHH at 37 Signals praising Musk for his business (and now) government spending management is yet another red flag and a no-go for me. I won\u0026rsquo;t link to this post. I\u0026rsquo;m going to vote with my money and cancel my HEY Mail subscription this fall when my subscription is expiring. If Musk buys ChatGPT, I\u0026rsquo;ll again vote with my money and cancel my ChatGPT subscription in due time. As Trump is imposing 25% tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum, I\u0026rsquo;ll vote with my money and cancel my yearly business trip to the US this fall. Some of these changes are a pain to implement but resisting is never an easy thing.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-11 06:40:20 -0500", "date": "6:40 p.m. on Feb 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/11/its-time-to-vote-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F11%2Fits-time-to-vote-with.html" }, { "id": 905, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A rather big one is coming at us this Thursday, the first big snow storm of the season. Mostly heavy snow, rather weak winds. North shore of Montreal to get the most snow. Working from home that day for sure.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-10 19:03:59 -0500", "date": "7:03 p.m. on Feb 10, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/10/a-rather-big-one-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F10%2Fa-rather-big-one-is.html" }, { "id": 906, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "There is something that I wish was different with blogs hosted on WordPress: commenting and liking. I never comment on those blogs because I don\u0026rsquo;t like Gravatar or I don\u0026rsquo;t want to create a WordPress.com account just to write a comment. Again this morning, I clicked on \u0026ldquo;Like\u0026rdquo; on a blog post and for some reason, my email prefix was displayed, and I don\u0026rsquo;t remember having a Gravatar account still active. In fact, it didn\u0026rsquo;t have one, after some checks. I prefer to log in using something like my Mastodon-friendly identity or Sign in with Apple. I want the blog to give me more choices than their own authentication service (and I don\u0026rsquo;t want to use my Google account, nor Facebook login). In fact, I want an identity provider that doesn\u0026rsquo;t build a social graph or bases his business model on where I\u0026rsquo;m headed on the web.\nAm I alone with this thinking?\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-10 07:47:06 -0500", "date": "7:47 p.m. on Feb 10, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/10/there-is-something-that-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F10%2Fthere-is-something-that-i.html" }, { "id": 907, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s the type of day where I would have liked to work in a coffee shop, but I can\u0026rsquo;t because I\u0026rsquo;m working for my job doing some extra time. We\u0026rsquo;re not allowed to work client\u0026rsquo;s documents in public spaces.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-09 13:43:23 -0500", "date": "1:43 p.m. on Feb 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/09/its-the-type-of-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F09%2Fits-the-type-of-day.html" }, { "id": 908, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I love the complexities and sometimes anarchic flavours of cities.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-09 10:13:20 -0500", "date": "10:13 p.m. on Feb 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/09/i-love-the-complexities-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F09%2Fi-love-the-complexities-and.html" }, { "id": 909, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just finished some subscriptions cleaning on YouTube. I was following way too many channels, many of which are dead. I came to do this this morning because I was looking for low-volume channels to add to Reeder. Low volume streams are the best to add to an app like Reeder. The sum of low volume content channels eventually lead to high-volume content to look at.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-09 08:09:54 -0500", "date": "8:09 p.m. on Feb 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/09/just-finished-some-subscriptions-cleaning.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F09%2Fjust-finished-some-subscriptions-cleaning.html" }, { "id": 910, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thinking about next summer season while waiting a few snowstorms in the next ten days. ", "dateiso": "2025-02-08 12:35:41 -0500", "date": "12:35 p.m. on Feb 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/08/thinking-about-next-summer-season.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F08%2Fthinking-about-next-summer-season.html" }, { "id": 911, "type": "post", "title": "And the Winner Is...", "text": "Three apps, three different designs. On the left, Tapestry, in the middle Reeder (new), on the right Reeder (old). For me, the winner is the new Reeder which offers a much cleaner design. I\u0026rsquo;ll keep an eye on Tapestry, but I don\u0026rsquo;t see how its design could change much. ", "dateiso": "2025-02-08 09:24:04 -0500", "date": "9:24 p.m. on Feb 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/08/and-the-winner-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F08%2Fand-the-winner-is.html" }, { "id": 912, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I detest the feeling of discovering that I’ve shared a photo more than once. I yearn for a foolproof method to distinguish between the photos that have been posted and those that haven’t. I’m not always using the same method or same device for posting photos online.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-07 20:32:58 -0500", "date": "8:32 p.m. on Feb 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/07/i-detest-the-feeling-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F07%2Fi-detest-the-feeling-of.html" }, { "id": 913, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "With a secret request by the UK government for a backdoor in iCloud, can you imagine if it was to be granted and then later down the line something like what\u0026rsquo;s happening in the US is taking over the government and institutions happen? It is hard to comprehend what is happening every day these days.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-07 08:04:46 -0500", "date": "8:04 p.m. on Feb 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/07/with-a-secret-request-by.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F07%2Fwith-a-secret-request-by.html" }, { "id": 914, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve been experiencing crashes in the Mac App Store and iOS App Store in recent times like never before. Right after an app update finishes, the store quit unexpectedly or just by looking at the list of available updates. Surprising.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-06 12:13:48 -0500", "date": "12:13 p.m. on Feb 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/06/ive-been-experiencing-crashes-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F06%2Five-been-experiencing-crashes-in.html" }, { "id": 915, "type": "post", "title": "Non-Optimized for the iPad", "text": "Apple told the developers that building an iPad was a matter of clicking a checkbox (more or less). Now, why is Apple Sports, Apple Journal and more recently, Apple Invites are not optimized for the iPad? 🤨🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-04 19:50:03 -0500", "date": "7:50 p.m. on Feb 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/04/nonoptimized-for-the-ipad.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F04%2Fnonoptimized-for-the-ipad.html" }, { "id": 916, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Quite positive experience with Apple Invites so far. I feel they move the needle and bring a much more enjoyable experience compared to other similar offerings. Nice user interface visual language. It feels new and very Apple. I like it. Is it something that preclude what is coming up with iOS 19?\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-04 13:42:36 -0500", "date": "1:42 p.m. on Feb 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/04/quite-positive-experience-with-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F04%2Fquite-positive-experience-with-apple.html" }, { "id": 917, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Using ChatGPT to analyze anonymized resumes1 and match them with a set of requirements is quite an impressive experience. I\u0026rsquo;m mind blown.\nIt\u0026rsquo;s mandatory for privacy protection.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-04 11:06:31 -0500", "date": "11:06 p.m. on Feb 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/04/using-chatgpt-to-analyze-anonymized.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F04%2Fusing-chatgpt-to-analyze-anonymized.html" }, { "id": 918, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apparently, the EU get porn apps, but we get Apple Intelligence. 🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-03 19:55:03 -0500", "date": "7:55 p.m. on Feb 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/03/apparently-the-eu-get-porn.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F03%2Fapparently-the-eu-get-porn.html" }, { "id": 919, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Now the orange clown put tariffs on hold for 30 days… what an erratic guy… I know he is doing that on purpose because this is the only way he runs his businesses…\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-03 19:01:56 -0500", "date": "7:01 p.m. on Feb 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/03/now-the-orange-clown-put.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F03%2Fnow-the-orange-clown-put.html" }, { "id": 920, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For once, I\u0026rsquo;m really proud of him, of us. This is Canada\u0026rsquo;s Prime Minister of Canada, Mr. Justin Trudeau, announcing retaliatory actions against the White House absurd and unjustified tariffs. The first four minutes entirely reflect who we are. So well said and quite moving, actually. 🇨🇦 💪🏻\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-02 10:11:58 -0500", "date": "10:11 p.m. on Feb 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/02/for-once-im-really-proud.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F02%2Ffor-once-im-really-proud.html" }, { "id": 921, "type": "post", "title": "Finally!", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m finally enjoying this moment where I can show the title field while writing a blog post on Micro.blog.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-02 09:46:22 -0500", "date": "9:46 p.m. on Feb 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/02/finally.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F02%2Ffinally.html" }, { "id": 922, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In my latest edition of The Ephemeral Scrapbook: \u0026ldquo;Got a keyboard. I took a break because of work. I’m skipping DeepSeek. The iPhone 16 Pro Max vs Samsung Galaxy 25 Ultra. Who wins? Marking the start of a dark era.\u0026rdquo;\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-02 08:32:31 -0500", "date": "8:32 p.m. on Feb 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/02/in-my-latest-edition-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F02%2Fin-my-latest-edition-of.html" }, { "id": 923, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As a Canadian who will face unjust tariffs thanks to the small clique of rich and famous people in the White House, I will reconsider each of my subscriptions that originate from the United States, including Apple One. It starts now.\n", "dateiso": "2025-02-02 07:58:10 -0500", "date": "7:58 p.m. on Feb 2, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/02/02/as-a-canadian-who-will.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F02%2F02%2Fas-a-canadian-who-will.html" }, { "id": 924, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I understand that people, particularly my colleagues, are using ChatGPT much more than they are willing to admit, as evidenced by my conversations with a few of them this morning.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-31 10:57:30 -0500", "date": "10:57 p.m. on Jan 31, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/31/i-understand-that-people-particularly.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F31%2Fi-understand-that-people-particularly.html" }, { "id": 925, "type": "post", "title": "Where Tapestry and Reeder Fail", "text": "Thought on the morning: I think that apps like Tapestry and Reeder1 are failing at one thing: a single timeline where content converge is enough. It isn\u0026rsquo;t. I came to realize that the world is complex and requires many angles of content consumption. Another problem is the diversity in feed velocity. If one feed takes over the timeline, it\u0026rsquo;s crash the whole thing. Until they add multi-timelines and find a way to moderate high-volume feeds, I\u0026rsquo;ll refrain from adding these apps into my daily routine.\nUpdate #1: I stand corrected by one of the founders of the Iconfactory: you can have multiple timelines within the app and switch across them at will. As a backup of Tapestry on Kickstarter, I should have known better. Sorry about that one.\nThe new generation, not the old one.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-31 08:39:43 -0500", "date": "8:39 p.m. on Jan 31, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/31/where-tapestry-and-reeder-fail.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F31%2Fwhere-tapestry-and-reeder-fail.html" }, { "id": 926, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Great article from Adam Engst comparing Grammarly to Apple Intelligence Writing tools. It\u0026rsquo;s ironic that a third-party software brings better integration, less friction to the writing experience than Apple\u0026rsquo;s first-party offering.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-31 07:16:15 -0500", "date": "7:16 p.m. on Jan 31, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/31/great-article-from-adam-engst.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F31%2Fgreat-article-from-adam-engst.html" }, { "id": 927, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I think that every single day that I\u0026rsquo;m working on a Mac I tell myself: \u0026ldquo;What a joy is this working with this\u0026rdquo;.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-30 09:26:09 -0500", "date": "9:26 p.m. on Jan 30, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/30/i-think-that-every-single.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F30%2Fi-think-that-every-single.html" }, { "id": 928, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "An upcoming version of Craft will incorporate an embedded DeepSeek R1 model to enable fully disconnected prompts answering. I\u0026rsquo;m not aware of other apps which include LLM. Beta is expected this week to a few early birds willing to test. I\u0026rsquo;m wondering how well will we be able to query our Craft content. It\u0026rsquo;s a potentially exciting twist.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-29 20:23:24 -0500", "date": "8:23 p.m. on Jan 29, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/29/an-upcoming-version-of-craft.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F29%2Fan-upcoming-version-of-craft.html" }, { "id": 929, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;d love to be there right now instead of enduring winter. ", "dateiso": "2025-01-29 06:37:00 -0500", "date": "6:37 p.m. on Jan 29, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/29/id-love-to-be-there.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F29%2Fid-love-to-be-there.html" }, { "id": 930, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today, I decided to let go a few writing ideas from my “idea pipeline.” I realized that sometimes, the words we choose not to write are just as significant as the ones we do.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-28 20:07:16 -0500", "date": "8:07 p.m. on Jan 28, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/28/today-i-decided-to-let.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F28%2Ftoday-i-decided-to-let.html" }, { "id": 931, "type": "post", "title": "In Support of Greg Morris' Micro Social App", "text": "I just realized that my face was on a few screenshots of Micro Social, an app currently being developed by Greg Morris. He shared an article today on his blog where he talks about the timeline feature. That\u0026rsquo;s cool. What is even cooler is that I decided to support him with a $1 a month subscription via his \u0026ldquo;Buy me a coffee\u0026rdquo; page. Can\u0026rsquo;t wait to test this myself.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-27 22:09:56 -0500", "date": "10:09 p.m. on Jan 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/27/in-support-of-greg-morris.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F27%2Fin-support-of-greg-morris.html" }, { "id": 932, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "We are solely responsible for the concentration of power in the hands of a few large tech companies. As individuals, we granted all that power to these megacorporations, which, at one point, were not yet large corporations. Thinking otherwise is ludicrous. Laws are a band-aid, we, the individual by our own choices must take back that power. We need to undo the last 15 years to some degree of equilibrium.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-27 13:07:28 -0500", "date": "1:07 p.m. on Jan 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/27/we-are-solely-responsible-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F27%2Fwe-are-solely-responsible-for.html" }, { "id": 933, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "DeekSeek being open source, some people might wish that open source wasn\u0026rsquo;t a thing. But it is! 😂 #deepseek\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-27 11:30:42 -0500", "date": "11:30 p.m. on Jan 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/27/deekseek-being-open-source-some.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F27%2Fdeekseek-being-open-source-some.html" }, { "id": 934, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "DeekSeek or DeepSink? It might be ugly today on the markets. #deepseek\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-27 07:58:15 -0500", "date": "7:58 p.m. on Jan 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/27/deekseek-or-deepsink-it-might.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F27%2Fdeekseek-or-deepsink-it-might.html" }, { "id": 935, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I had a conversation with a friend yesterday about our respective hobbies as content creators. He’s quite into YouTube, while I’m more into writing. At one point, we discussed the importance of being transparent with our employers about our hobbies. Since we share our content publicly, we should consider informing our HR department, at least according to him. I’m not entirely convinced about this, though. Nobody really knows about what I\u0026rsquo;m doing online with my blogs and YouTube channel. According to my friend, it might be a positive thing that my HR department is aware of what I\u0026rsquo;m doing because this puts me in a different class of employee, even my boss should know.\nI’m still contemplating whether this is a requirement or not. After all, my hobbies don’t negatively affect my job, so why should I discuss my personal pursuits when I’m not working?\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-27 07:05:23 -0500", "date": "7:05 p.m. on Jan 27, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/27/i-had-a-conversation-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F27%2Fi-had-a-conversation-with.html" }, { "id": 936, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I love the Severance Apple TV+ series and I thought I understood most of it, but this episode of ScreenCrush tells me that I didn\u0026rsquo;t at all. I\u0026rsquo;m probably too old for this, but I love the vibe of Severance. I\u0026rsquo;ll probably have to rewatch season one. Oh well\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-26 18:05:05 -0500", "date": "6:05 p.m. on Jan 26, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/26/i-love-the-severance-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F26%2Fi-love-the-severance-apple.html" }, { "id": 937, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So I launched my personal website in French yesterday by writing a very short post on my Facebook account. Many people visited the blog for sure, and got one message via Messenger from a guy that I barely know. A few of my closest friends wrote to me, those I selected to a get a peek before the \u0026ldquo;official\u0026rdquo; launch. It\u0026rsquo;s fun to connect without all the usual noise.\nOn a different note, I spend 2 minutes looking at my Facebook timeline and boy this is junk. I don\u0026rsquo;t understand why people are still paying attention to Facebook. What a cancer.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-25 07:53:57 -0500", "date": "7:53 p.m. on Jan 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/25/so-i-launched-my-personal.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F25%2Fso-i-launched-my-personal.html" }, { "id": 938, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Artists, stop marketing on social media. Just be yourself. Show your work. Share your ideas. Meet new people. Think in public. Have fun. The rest will follow.Andy Adams 📸 (@flakphoto.bsky.social) https://bsky.app/profile/flakphoto.news/post/3lgk243ners2m\rI hate the idea of depending on social media for everything.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-25 07:27:58 -0500", "date": "7:27 p.m. on Jan 25, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/25/artists-stop-marketing-on-social.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F25%2Fartists-stop-marketing-on-social.html" }, { "id": 939, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I understand those out there who didn\u0026rsquo;t vote for Trump decided not to pay attention to what is coming in the next four years, because it will be a pain to watch, but I think this is a mistake, a real big one. People not only should care, but they should continue voicing their outrage and concerns to send a clear message of \u0026ldquo;resistance\u0026rdquo;. All people\u0026rsquo;s voices are important. All the time.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-24 13:52:41 -0500", "date": "1:52 p.m. on Jan 24, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/24/i-understand-those-out-there.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F24%2Fi-understand-those-out-there.html" }, { "id": 940, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Tim Cook might be the biggest public figure of Apple, but for this publicity stunt for Severance where he is visiting \u0026ldquo;Lumon Industries\u0026rdquo; headquarters, I wish it was Craig Federighi, instead. He would have done a better job.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-24 13:47:20 -0500", "date": "1:47 p.m. on Jan 24, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/24/tim-cook-might-be-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F24%2Ftim-cook-might-be-the.html" }, { "id": 941, "type": "post", "title": "Voting With My Money", "text": "Three reasons why I might not upgrade my iPhone 15 Pro Max this year, as expected.\nIf Donald Trump imposes tariffs on Canadian goods. I'm questioning my support of an American company like Apple.\rBecause of Tim Cook's contribution to Donald Trump inauguration which is in contradiction to many Apple values and Tim Cook's personal stance on some social issues.\rIf Apple makes a single change to their support for DEI program, following Trump's executive orders.\r", "dateiso": "2025-01-24 07:23:42 -0500", "date": "7:23 p.m. on Jan 24, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/24/voting-with-my-money.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F24%2Fvoting-with-my-money.html" }, { "id": 942, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog replies disabled, for now. It\u0026rsquo;s becoming too heavy.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-24 06:40:07 -0500", "date": "6:40 p.m. on Jan 24, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/24/microblog-replies-disabled-for-now.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F24%2Fmicroblog-replies-disabled-for-now.html" }, { "id": 943, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One of my past colleague is now a system administrator of a few IBM Z Series mainframes1. He is 58 and is the youngest of the team managing this stuff, the other team members are 62 and 72(!). It\u0026rsquo;s very hard to find people who knows about CICS, IDMS, Ctrl-M, all running on mainframes these days. I started my IT career on an IBM TN3270 connected to a mainframe running MVS. Good memories.\nYep, the world still runs mainframes.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-23 20:27:27 -0500", "date": "8:27 p.m. on Jan 23, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/23/one-of-my-past-colleague.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F23%2Fone-of-my-past-colleague.html" }, { "id": 944, "type": "post", "title": "Use Disable Delete - Bye", "text": "I tend to disable my accounts instead of deleting them permanently. It’s the case with Facebook and Twitter. This weekend, I’m going to say goodbye to Twitter for real by deleting it. I imported my tweets archive a long time ago, thanks to Micro.blog’s import capabilities. I’m not sure why I kept it for so long… because when I see someone who’s sharing something on X, I simply ignore that. Oh well. Time to move on for real this time.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-22 07:27:42 -0500", "date": "7:27 p.m. on Jan 22, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/22/use-disable-delete-bye.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F22%2Fuse-disable-delete-bye.html" }, { "id": 945, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m not sure if I like the rumored camera bump of the iPhone 17 Air\u0026hellip; 😒\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-21 16:03:25 -0500", "date": "4:03 p.m. on Jan 21, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/21/im-not-sure-if-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F21%2Fim-not-sure-if-i.html" }, { "id": 946, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The popular RSS feeds consolidator and reader, Inoreader, released version 6 of their browser extension, available on Chrome, Edge, Firefox\u0026hellip; but not on Safari. Grrr. Another reason to use the ARC Browser.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-21 12:27:50 -0500", "date": "12:27 p.m. on Jan 21, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/21/the-popular-rss-feeds-consolidator.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F21%2Fthe-popular-rss-feeds-consolidator.html" }, { "id": 947, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s -18C this morning, and I\u0026rsquo;m dreaming of this. ‎⁨São Paulo⁩, ⁨Greater São Paulo⁩, ⁨Brazil⁩ ", "dateiso": "2025-01-21 06:29:40 -0500", "date": "6:29 p.m. on Jan 21, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/21/its-c-this-morning-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F21%2Fits-c-this-morning-and.html" }, { "id": 948, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Got my new Keychron K2 HE mechanical keyboard today. It\u0026rsquo;s so nice, cool, different, unique. I\u0026rsquo;m loving it, so far. My wife told be: wow, it looks like a Commodore 64 keyboard! She couldn\u0026rsquo;t be more right! ", "dateiso": "2025-01-20 21:08:00 -0500", "date": "9:08 p.m. on Jan 20, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/20/got-my-new-keychron-k.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F20%2Fgot-my-new-keychron-k.html" }, { "id": 949, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "OMFG! Not going to the US until after this clown is out! Fuck him!\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-20 12:30:11 -0500", "date": "12:30 p.m. on Jan 20, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/20/omfg-not-going-to-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F20%2Fomfg-not-going-to-the.html" }, { "id": 950, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Or, Instead of All This—\nNo one will ever control our own identities on third-party platforms. You relinquish control over your identity when you choose to present yourself on one of these platforms. You can be rate-limited for posting too much. You can be suspended by a bot that determines your behavior is bot-like. The platform can pivot at any time from one thing to another. The entire platform could shut down. You have no control, and jumping from one to another will only mean that you have to do it all again later.\nOr, instead of all this, you could learn how to make a damn website.\nBut, asking for my wife here1, once you\u0026rsquo;ve got your little HTML island right in the middle of the digital ocean, how do you get noticed? How do you build a business, even the smallest one, from this island?\nFor real, i had a serious debate about all this today with her.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-19 20:31:06 -0500", "date": "8:31 p.m. on Jan 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/19/or-instead-of-all-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F19%2For-instead-of-all-this.html" }, { "id": 951, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Eighteen months ago, in July 2023, I wrote an article about migrating from Instagram to Pixelfed. It was well received, but something is happening right now for sure, if this graph from Plausible Analytics is any indication. People are massively looking at Pixelfed as an alternative, and I think it\u0026rsquo;s a good sign. ", "dateiso": "2025-01-19 17:46:58 -0500", "date": "5:46 p.m. on Jan 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/19/eighteen-months-ago-in-july.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F19%2Feighteen-months-ago-in-july.html" }, { "id": 952, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I initially thought Micro.one would be a suitable platform for my new French blog, but after spending the entire weekend experimenting with it, I’ve already realized that I miss two essential features from the full Micro.blog experience: personal notes and support for newsletters. 🤦🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-19 15:39:48 -0500", "date": "3:39 p.m. on Jan 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/19/i-initially-thought-microone-would.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F19%2Fi-initially-thought-microone-would.html" }, { "id": 953, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So, Trump restored TikTok? What an achievement, and he is still not in the Office. I can\u0026rsquo;t wait for the next four years. #not\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-19 14:49:51 -0500", "date": "2:49 p.m. on Jan 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/19/so-trump-restored-tiktok-what.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F19%2Fso-trump-restored-tiktok-what.html" }, { "id": 954, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here is a funny one: the Get Info box for an exported image from Apple Photos. The image was indeed touched up with Apple Intelligence\u0026rsquo;s Cleanup tool. 🤫 ", "dateiso": "2025-01-19 14:46:07 -0500", "date": "2:46 p.m. on Jan 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/19/here-is-a-funny-one.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F19%2Fhere-is-a-funny-one.html" }, { "id": 955, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s winter here and getting really cold outside, so let\u0026rsquo;s go back in time, and travel to Morocco. Circa June 2023. ", "dateiso": "2025-01-19 14:43:39 -0500", "date": "2:43 p.m. on Jan 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/19/its-winter-here-and-getting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F19%2Fits-winter-here-and-getting.html" }, { "id": 956, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The first thing to do when visiting a new coffee shop after ordering and sitting at your place? Connecting to Wi-Fi and testing its speed. Only after you can taste the coffee. That is my way of living. ☕👨🏻‍💻\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-19 13:23:36 -0500", "date": "1:23 p.m. on Jan 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/19/the-first-thing-to-do.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F19%2Fthe-first-thing-to-do.html" }, { "id": 957, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Ghost 6 to include ActivityPub, later this year. I can\u0026rsquo;t wait for that, and I\u0026rsquo;m even happier of having left WordPress last year for Ghost. There is still a lot of work to be done, for sure, but I\u0026rsquo;m patient for that one.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-19 11:58:19 -0500", "date": "11:58 p.m. on Jan 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/19/ghost-to-include-activitypub-later.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F19%2Fghost-to-include-activitypub-later.html" }, { "id": 958, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Idea of the day for @manton : what if people could submit a blog post for inclusion in the Discovery section? Users could be allowed to submit one per week or per month. The \u0026ldquo;moderator\u0026rdquo; could then decide to release it or not. If not, it could provide a reason to the original poster. Just an idea.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-19 11:52:43 -0500", "date": "11:52 p.m. on Jan 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/19/idea-of-the-day-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F19%2Fidea-of-the-day-for.html" }, { "id": 959, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“Blogging or not? A game caught my attention. A personal letter to Zuck. I like poems. Pixelfed, Pixelfed, Pixelfed! Apple is clever about Severance. I bought a keyboard. And so much more.” - The Ephemeral Scrapbook — Edition 2025-02 is out! The email version coming later today.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-19 11:44:13 -0500", "date": "11:44 p.m. on Jan 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/19/blogging-or-not-a-game.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F19%2Fblogging-or-not-a-game.html" }, { "id": 960, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I was standing on an upper level deck on a cruise boat in Rio de Janeiro, on December 31, 2022. This is what I could see on port side. Again, I love contrasts. #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #architecture #graffiti ", "dateiso": "2025-01-19 09:16:33 -0500", "date": "9:16 p.m. on Jan 19, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/19/i-was-standing-on-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F19%2Fi-was-standing-on-an.html" }, { "id": 961, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "TikTok is a modern digital plague. Good riddance. To those who were depending solely on it, it’s a lesson: diversity is the key.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-18 22:47:24 -0500", "date": "10:47 p.m. on Jan 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/18/tiktok-is-a-modern-digital.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F18%2Ftiktok-is-a-modern-digital.html" }, { "id": 962, "type": "post", "title": "Dear, Will You Read My Blog?", "text": "Me: \u0026ldquo;My new French blog is nearly ready to go live. Will you read it?\u0026quot; Her: \u0026ldquo;Well, yeah, sure, but how will I know there is something new to read?\u0026quot; Me: \u0026ldquo;Well, you just have to go to the website, just like you read the news.\u0026quot; Her: \u0026ldquo;Mmm, but it\u0026rsquo;s not the same. I have to remember the website\u0026rsquo;s address. Can you send notifications instead?\u0026quot; Me: \u0026ldquo;Well, I\u0026rsquo;m not sure this would fit the idea of a blog, but you just need to save it as a bookmark. Also, I can show you a great RSS reader?\u0026quot; Her: \u0026ldquo;🤔\u0026rdquo; Me: \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s an app where you can read blog posts. There are many great ones for your iPhone or iPad.\u0026quot; Her: \u0026ldquo;Well, yeah, but I must remember to open it just to see if something is new?\u0026quot; Me: \u0026ldquo;Yes, exactly, just like when you open up your favourite news website or when you just tap on the Facebook icon on your iPad\u0026hellip;\u0026quot; Her: \u0026ldquo;🤨\u0026rdquo; Me: \u0026ldquo;If there was a weekly newsletter, would it be ok for you to read it?\u0026quot; Her: \u0026ldquo;That would be better, for sure, but\u0026hellip; you know\u0026hellip; I already get so many emails!\u0026quot; Me: \u0026ldquo;M\u0026rsquo;ok, but my hosting service doesn\u0026rsquo;t provide a newsletter feature. Maybe I could just tell you: there is something new on my blog that you might find interesting because I wrote a story about you.\u0026quot; Her: \u0026ldquo;👩🏻‍💻\u0026rdquo;\nThe challenges a blogger may face can be unpredictable.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-18 15:10:46 -0500", "date": "3:10 p.m. on Jan 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/18/dear-will-you-read-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F18%2Fdear-will-you-read-my.html" }, { "id": 963, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In a taxi to the airport, on a rainy day, somewhere in São Paulo. I love the mood of that one. #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #graffiti ", "dateiso": "2025-01-18 08:21:18 -0500", "date": "8:21 p.m. on Jan 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/18/in-a-taxi-to-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F18%2Fin-a-taxi-to-the.html" }, { "id": 964, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Raycast Focus is nice until you realize that it doesn\u0026rsquo;t integrate with macOS Focus modes and can\u0026rsquo;t start an automation like a shortcut to turn off other things so that we can really be focusing. 🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-18 07:27:29 -0500", "date": "7:27 p.m. on Jan 18, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/18/raycast-focus-is-nice-until.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F18%2Fraycast-focus-is-nice-until.html" }, { "id": 965, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I couldn\u0026rsquo;t resist. ", "dateiso": "2025-01-17 07:34:36 -0500", "date": "7:34 p.m. on Jan 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/17/i-couldnt-resist.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F17%2Fi-couldnt-resist.html" }, { "id": 966, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Posting photos on Pixelfed from Micro.blog is cool in principle, but in practice, it\u0026rsquo;s still an unpredictable experience. My photo posted here earlier this morning wasn\u0026rsquo;t cross-posted to Pixelfed and I don\u0026rsquo;t know why. It\u0026rsquo;s a bit frustrating if you ask me. And there is no provided way of retrying a cross-post to Pixelfed, for some reason. @manton as you seem to be focusing on photos for Micro.blog, consider adding / fixing this issue, if this is something under your control, of course.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-17 07:33:23 -0500", "date": "7:33 p.m. on Jan 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/17/posting-photos-on-pixelfed-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F17%2Fposting-photos-on-pixelfed-from.html" }, { "id": 967, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I don\u0026rsquo;t support any peace plan projects for Ukraine until Russia is defeated or on their knees. Here is why (Bluesky post).\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-17 07:28:33 -0500", "date": "7:28 p.m. on Jan 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/17/i-dont-support-any-peace.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F17%2Fi-dont-support-any-peace.html" }, { "id": 968, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A famous building in São Paulo, circa December 2022. Taking a photo of someone else’s artwork makes me pause and question my own contribution as a photographer. By adding a specific angle or using a unique perspective, I believe I add a layer of meaning and interpretation to the artwork. This helps me rationalize my internal debate and justify my actions. ", "dateiso": "2025-01-17 07:12:05 -0500", "date": "7:12 p.m. on Jan 17, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/17/a-famous-building-in-so.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F17%2Fa-famous-building-in-so.html" }, { "id": 969, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m at the office today, first time in 2025. I\u0026rsquo;m one of those who is fortunate enough to work for a company that doesn\u0026rsquo;t care too much about who\u0026rsquo;s in and out of the downtown office, they care about the results and how efficient we are to get those. I find it rather sad that the discussions around people returning to the office or not never or seldomly revolve around the idea that working from home might be one of the ways to combat climate change by limiting those in and out and commute time to go to the office. We don\u0026rsquo;t learn or we\u0026rsquo;re afraid of accepting that we need to change, for real this time.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-16 10:56:12 -0500", "date": "10:56 p.m. on Jan 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/16/im-at-the-office-today.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F16%2Fim-at-the-office-today.html" }, { "id": 970, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Pixelfed finally gets the attention from the public. The release of their mobile app and the general negative sentiment toward Meta\u0026rsquo;s offerings are two key factors here. I hope they can keep up with the load.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-16 07:27:55 -0500", "date": "7:27 p.m. on Jan 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/16/pixelfed-finally-gets-the-attention.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F16%2Fpixelfed-finally-gets-the-attention.html" }, { "id": 971, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Somewhere in New York, circa November 2024. Ephemeral whispers of the sky meet mankind’s steadfast monuments. #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #architecture ", "dateiso": "2025-01-16 07:07:15 -0500", "date": "7:07 p.m. on Jan 16, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/16/somewhere-in-new-york-circa.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F16%2Fsomewhere-in-new-york-circa.html" }, { "id": 972, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Using ChatGPT latest feature: scheduled tasks, you can schedule a daily summarization of an RSS feed content each morning. That’s cool and actually useful.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-15 12:41:03 -0500", "date": "12:41 p.m. on Jan 15, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/15/using-chatgpt-latest-feature-scheduled.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F15%2Fusing-chatgpt-latest-feature-scheduled.html" }, { "id": 973, "type": "post", "title": "Micro.one is the seed for something bigger", "text": "Today, I think I finally found a real use case for Micro.one. I bought my domain and set up my account. It was rather quick and easy. If I had let Micro.one set up my domain name for me, it would have been even easier.\nI think the ingredients of Micro.one are all there for an accessible solution for those who want to get out of Meta or other silos and start owning their little space on the web, free of tracking, free of ads, and built on open software technologies. Of course, Micro.one isn’t the only service of its kind. But it does offer the right feature set to be an open and federated web citizen.\nI feel an overwhelming desire to explore and savor this type of web content even further. I believe that sharing my passion for this subject matter could potentially ignite a similar level of enthusiasm in those around me. Even if it doesn’t, if people are genuinely curious enough to inquire about the reasons behind my enthusiasm, it’s a positive development, potentially marking the beginning of something more substantial. After all, who knows what the future holds?\nI’ll share more in the near future.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-14 20:40:25 -0500", "date": "8:40 p.m. on Jan 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/14/microone-is-the-seed-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F14%2Fmicroone-is-the-seed-for.html" }, { "id": 974, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started something new with Micro.one\u0026hellip; but in French this time\u0026hellip; seems the Micro.blog branding is never too far\u0026hellip; which is confusing. One question for @manton: can you check why uploading an image doesn\u0026rsquo;t work (clicking the button starts the upload, but it never completes), and the \u0026ldquo;Post\u0026rdquo; button for posting something doesn\u0026rsquo;t work either.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-14 14:20:21 -0500", "date": "2:20 p.m. on Jan 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/14/started-something-new-with-microone.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F14%2Fstarted-something-new-with-microone.html" }, { "id": 975, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I like opposing things in photography. This is such an example that I took during a short walk. #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-14 11:18:03 -0500", "date": "11:18 p.m. on Jan 14, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/14/i-like-opposing-things-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F14%2Fi-like-opposing-things-in.html" }, { "id": 976, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "That is why not only ads are infecting everything online, the data brokers behind them is an even worst idea. Data Broker Hack Exposes Location Info From Millions of iPhone Users - MacRumors\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-13 19:24:58 -0500", "date": "7:24 p.m. on Jan 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/13/that-is-why-not-only.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F13%2Fthat-is-why-not-only.html" }, { "id": 977, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor Pixelfed\nhttps://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/01/13/meta-pixelfed-links\nDaring Fireball https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/113822379708720515\rMeta is acting more and more like Russia.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-13 13:18:51 -0500", "date": "1:18 p.m. on Jan 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/13/meta-is-blocking-links-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F13%2Fmeta-is-blocking-links-to.html" }, { "id": 978, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m seeing more and more online stores using Shop.app for shipment tracking. It\u0026rsquo;s great to have a consolidated view of all the shipments (better than Parcel? Or what used to be Delivery?). I wish Apple would go further in that space, even including buying receipts to be standardized and electronics-only.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-13 07:59:48 -0500", "date": "7:59 p.m. on Jan 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/13/im-seeing-more-and-more.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F13%2Fim-seeing-more-and-more.html" }, { "id": 979, "type": "post", "title": "The Medium Mirage", "text": "Medium seems to suffer from another problem: AI-generated content and fake account for fake engagement to generate revenues. According to their recent article (Paywall might be enforced to read this), many accounts under the Partner Program were suspended recently to stop this fraud.\nI\u0026rsquo;ve returned to Medium last fall (read my comments about the reading and writing experience over there) and found that content quality has gone down compared to what we used to read there. The revenue program is much less generous than it used to be. I published 18 stories since my return and earned less than a dollar! We don\u0026rsquo;t know how these revenues are calculated, but it is a bit insulting or at least discouraging. At this rate, I won\u0026rsquo;t recover the Partner Program subscription cost in the first year which makes my presence there questionable. This should have been a no-cost journey which it\u0026rsquo;s not. Still seven months to go\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-13 07:05:05 -0500", "date": "7:05 p.m. on Jan 13, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/13/the-medium-mirage.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F13%2Fthe-medium-mirage.html" }, { "id": 980, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After nearly abandoning the idea, because it was too complicated to choose from the many different keyboards, today I ordered this mechanical keyboard1 for two reasons: semi-retro look with the wooden sides and the sound of the typing experience. Keychron K2 HE.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-12 20:39:46 -0500", "date": "8:39 p.m. on Jan 12, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/12/after-nearly-abandoning-the-idea.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F12%2Fafter-nearly-abandoning-the-idea.html" }, { "id": 981, "type": "post", "title": "Putting Something Out There", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m about to start a recording session for my next video about Craft and the PARA method. I wonder: why am I doing this? Is it because it might help Craft users to better take advantage of the app features? Is it because I just like being in a creative process? Is it because I love working on the Mac using different apps together to put something out there? Is it all the reasons above? Or is it simply because it provides a subtle reminder of being human is being creative and putting something out there? Maybe I\u0026rsquo;m asking myself too many questions.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-12 13:23:27 -0500", "date": "1:23 p.m. on Jan 12, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/12/putting-something-out-there.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F12%2Fputting-something-out-there.html" }, { "id": 982, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The first edition of 2025 of the Ephemeral Scrapbook newsletter is out. I\u0026rsquo;m curious if some of you look into these. Let me know.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-12 11:46:12 -0500", "date": "11:46 p.m. on Jan 12, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/12/the-first-edition-of-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F12%2Fthe-first-edition-of-of.html" }, { "id": 983, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m always positively surprised to read my Bluesky replies here on Micro.blog. I mean, this is the modern and open where that we should continue to promote and defend. For me, and I wish it was the case for more people, it is priceless, but the value is not as tangible as I would like.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-11 14:36:11 -0500", "date": "2:36 p.m. on Jan 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/11/im-always-positively-surprised-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F11%2Fim-always-positively-surprised-to.html" }, { "id": 984, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Since moving into our temporary apartment, we\u0026rsquo;ve been relying entirely on the Apple TV for our \u0026ldquo;TV content\u0026rdquo; consumption. One takeaway is the realization that more than ever the TV experience is utterly fragmented, hence de proliferation of \u0026ldquo;TV\u0026rdquo; apps. ", "dateiso": "2025-01-11 11:32:23 -0500", "date": "11:32 p.m. on Jan 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/11/since-moving-into-our-temporary.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F11%2Fsince-moving-into-our-temporary.html" }, { "id": 985, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Can you figure out what’s this? It’s a macro photo of an old maple syrup bottle where we could see those crystals forming at the bottom. Shot on the iPhone 15 Pro Max. Fascinating.\nUpdate: for some reason, the original post didn’t include the actual image. ", "dateiso": "2025-01-11 08:04:55 -0500", "date": "8:04 p.m. on Jan 11, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/11/can-you-figure-out-whats.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F11%2Fcan-you-figure-out-whats.html" }, { "id": 986, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I NEVER take and share pictures of cats\u0026hellip; but this one living in the building where I\u0026rsquo;m currently staying for a few months 🤩\u0026hellip; worth enough to push to Pixelfed, too! ", "dateiso": "2025-01-10 09:37:56 -0500", "date": "9:37 p.m. on Jan 10, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/10/i-never-take-and-share.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F10%2Fi-never-take-and-share.html" }, { "id": 987, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Starting Up\u0026hellip; RealMac software Elements beta. I paid for it, to show support for the team. I have three websites that I want to build with this thing eventually. Stay tuned. It\u0026rsquo;s a 2025 and beyond adventure1.\nI always need something new to try and experiment with.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-09 21:57:25 -0500", "date": "9:57 p.m. on Jan 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/09/starting-up-realmac-software-elements.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F09%2Fstarting-up-realmac-software-elements.html" }, { "id": 988, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Why do I have the impression that we talk too much about facts checking and not enough (far not enough) about algorithm-based timelines, reality and people manipulation through these algorithms? Who\u0026rsquo;s checking Facebook or Meta in general?\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-09 14:30:12 -0500", "date": "2:30 p.m. on Jan 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/09/why-do-i-have-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F09%2Fwhy-do-i-have-the.html" }, { "id": 989, "type": "post", "title": "Hell On Earth - Los Angeles \u0026 Ukraine", "text": "I don\u0026rsquo;t want to offend anyone here, but what is happening right now in Los Angeles is certainly devastating. It\u0026rsquo;s really looking like hell on earth. At the same time, we can easily find the exact same hell in Ukraine and many more people are displaced or killed by a totalitarian and evil regime. It\u0026rsquo;s hard to fight climate change, but we can and must fight what Russia1 in its current form and to for what it brings to this world. Two images, two tragedies. the US does a lot already, but sadly that is not enough bot in money and speed.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-09 11:27:37 -0500", "date": "11:27 p.m. on Jan 9, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/09/hell-on-earth-los-angeles.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F09%2Fhell-on-earth-los-angeles.html" }, { "id": 990, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After finding an old document in Notion where my text highlights from Matter were saved, I was curious about Matter, the reader-later service that I once used a while back before trying Omnivore. Their website still refers to \u0026ldquo;Twitter\u0026rdquo;, not \u0026ldquo;X\u0026rdquo;, their last post on their X account dates back to 2023. I cannot find a Mastodon account. KI can\u0026rsquo;t find a changelog either. Is this thing still alive?\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-08 14:18:16 -0500", "date": "2:18 p.m. on Jan 8, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/08/after-finding-an-old-document.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F08%2Fafter-finding-an-old-document.html" }, { "id": 991, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dear David (aka DHH), I fully disagree with you, and your blog post, again.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-07 15:22:58 -0500", "date": "3:22 p.m. on Jan 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/07/dear-david-aka-dhh-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F07%2Fdear-david-aka-dhh-i.html" }, { "id": 992, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How long before we see something like this on LinkedIn \u0026ldquo;Prompt Engineer with 15 years of experience\u0026rdquo;?\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-07 13:39:32 -0500", "date": "1:39 p.m. on Jan 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/07/how-long-before-we-see.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F07%2Fhow-long-before-we-see.html" }, { "id": 993, "type": "post", "title": "Who's Right? Apple Intelligence or Grammarly", "text": "While working on the next edition of the Ephemeral Scrapbook newsletter, I wanted to proofread and rewrite some text portions. I first started with Apple Intelligence Writing Tools then pasted the results into Craft. Grammarly instantly took the ball and verified the pasted text, highlighting everything wrong that needed some attention. Is Apple Writing Tools sloppy or Grammarly too picky? Writing in English is not an easy thing for me to do. And it\u0026rsquo;s not easy for generative AI either, apparently. From what I understand, Grammarly tries to be less wordy and is very iterative in its text proofing execution.\nHere is the final tweaked version:\n1️⃣ First and foremost, I want to extend my warmest wishes for a prosperous and fulfilling new year. I genuinely hope you find success and happiness in your professional and personal endeavors. 2️⃣ Secondly, this marks the inaugural edition of this newsletter for 2025, and I’ve decided to introduce a few changes. Firstly, I’ve decided to eliminate the summary at the beginning of each newsletter. This section provided an overview of the number of blog posts, photos, and other content I’ve shared since the previous edition. While I appreciate the interest in these statistics, I believe it’s unnecessary to brag about them, and it takes a significant amount of time to maintain and update this information. I’ve also officially decided to retire the podcasts section from my newsletter. While I enjoy podcasts, I don’t find them particularly relevant to my current content creation schedule, and I believe it’s not worth dedicating time and resources to them.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-07 07:19:50 -0500", "date": "7:19 p.m. on Jan 7, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/07/whos-right-apple-intelligence-or.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F07%2Fwhos-right-apple-intelligence-or.html" }, { "id": 994, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The LG UltraFine 6K: this is such a nice-looking monitor. Perfect for a M4 Mac mini. Look at me, no bezels! 🤩\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-06 15:16:40 -0500", "date": "3:16 p.m. on Jan 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/06/the-lg-ultrafine-k-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F06%2Fthe-lg-ultrafine-k-this.html" }, { "id": 995, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Returning to work this morning is really hard and cumbersome after two weeks of intense personal life. I really disconnected from work. So, I mostly forgot about my passwords, my pending items when I left back in late December. Is this what we call \u0026ldquo;work \u0026amp; life balance\u0026rdquo;?\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-06 09:06:59 -0500", "date": "9:06 p.m. on Jan 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/06/returning-to-work-this-morning.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F06%2Freturning-to-work-this-morning.html" }, { "id": 996, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microsoft is putting the \u0026ldquo;Copilot\u0026rdquo; tag everywhere\u0026hellip; even on Microsoft 365 which will become Microsoft 365 Copilot. It\u0026rsquo;s fascinating to see a company like to playing with the branding of its services. ", "dateiso": "2025-01-06 08:57:16 -0500", "date": "8:57 p.m. on Jan 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/06/microsoft-is-putting-the-copilot.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F06%2Fmicrosoft-is-putting-the-copilot.html" }, { "id": 997, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Tips on Using LLMs (AI) Effectively for Text\nthe longer and more detailed you prompt, the higher quality the output will be (that was from Claude 3.5 Sonnet). But you start to run into diminishing returns, because if you are spending so much time writing a detailed prompt, couldn’t you write the email yourself? I think so.\nWe should give a name to this inflection point.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-06 07:40:44 -0500", "date": "7:40 p.m. on Jan 6, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/06/tips-on-using-llms-ai.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F06%2Ftips-on-using-llms-ai.html" }, { "id": 998, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dear Mr. Siegler, I don\u0026rsquo;t buy it either. This is beyond ridiculous. One question: who is stupid here, people looking to build relationships with AI bots or advertisers willing to pay for ads placement in this crappy digital world? 🤦🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-05 21:37:38 -0500", "date": "9:37 p.m. on Jan 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/05/dear-mr-siegler-i-dont.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F05%2Fdear-mr-siegler-i-dont.html" }, { "id": 999, "type": "post", "title": "On Posting Images to Pixelfed from Micro.blog", "text": "My brief testing of posting images to Pixelfed from Micro.blog is positive (image1, image2). My blog visual theme (Tiny Cards) supports image posts without being too fancy. The only thing is the lack of image collection selection when posting from Micro.blog. This has to be done after posting. Might come later, if we call @manton attention! Posting from Micro.blog app is similar to Pixelfed app. The nice thing is that Micro.blog automatically generate an image description, something that is done manually with Pixelfed.\nFor 2025, I\u0026rsquo;ll use this workflow and see how it goes. I created a new image collection for the occasion: Travel.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-05 09:39:10 -0500", "date": "9:39 p.m. on Jan 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/05/my-brief-testing-of-posting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F05%2Fmy-brief-testing-of-posting.html" }, { "id": 1000, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Two years ago in Buenos Aires. #travel #Argentina\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-05 08:22:08 -0500", "date": "8:22 p.m. on Jan 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/05/two-years-ago-in-buenos.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F05%2Ftwo-years-ago-in-buenos.html" }, { "id": 1001, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A somewhat old photo of me in front of a coffee shop somewhere in Brazil. I’m also testing cross-posting to Pixelfed.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-05 07:56:30 -0500", "date": "7:56 p.m. on Jan 5, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/05/a-somewhat-old-photo-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F05%2Fa-somewhat-old-photo-of.html" }, { "id": 1002, "type": "post", "title": "I’m Getting Old Apparently ", "text": "I old enough to be one of those who witnessed the birth of MTV and music videos… but I rarely watch those these days… but today, I decided to spend some time watching what’s « hot ». A few observations are in order: video duration is short (less than 3 min), hyper-short scenes abuse (less than two seconds in duration), 4:3 screen ratio is strange (is this a thing now?)… I barely can stand this shit now. I’m getting old, I guess.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-04 17:12:49 -0500", "date": "5:12 p.m. on Jan 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/04/im-getting-old-apparently.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F04%2Fim-getting-old-apparently.html" }, { "id": 1003, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The cool thing about our new (and temporary) apartment is that, both my wife and me, have the feeling of being traveling somewhere in the world1. We stay right beside a beautiful park with a lot of mature trees. I already see myself going out to do some photography. Too bad it\u0026rsquo;s winter time, though. 🤷🏻‍♂️\nWe often travel to places, rent an Airbnb for a week, so that we can feel being part of a small community. It\u0026rsquo;s really a nice feeling making the whole thing more bearable.\nWe are 1km from our house!\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-04 14:22:50 -0500", "date": "2:22 p.m. on Jan 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/04/the-cool-thing-about-our.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F04%2Fthe-cool-thing-about-our.html" }, { "id": 1004, "type": "post", "title": "Where The Social Web Fails", "text": "Dislike buttons on YouTube, or elsewhere for that matter, should come with a mandatory \u0026ldquo;here\u0026rsquo;s why I don\u0026rsquo;t like this\u0026rdquo; explanation text field. In this specific case, 2 people out of 18 didn\u0026rsquo;t like my video. Why? How can I improve myself if you don\u0026rsquo;t tell me what\u0026rsquo;s wrong? This is the part of social web that I feel doesn\u0026rsquo;t work. ", "dateiso": "2025-01-04 13:12:34 -0500", "date": "1:12 p.m. on Jan 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/04/where-the-social-web-fails.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F04%2Fwhere-the-social-web-fails.html" }, { "id": 1005, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My new home office for the next three months. Not bad at all. ", "dateiso": "2025-01-04 12:58:08 -0500", "date": "12:58 p.m. on Jan 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/04/my-new-home-office-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F04%2Fmy-new-home-office-for.html" }, { "id": 1006, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "And we\u0026rsquo;re finally settled in our temporary apartment. Now, it’s time to explore the surroundings, including marking coffee shops and restaurants that I plan to try over the course of the next three months. I started using Apple Maps Guides for this. Not super intuitive but it does the job. I shared the guide with my wife.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-04 12:02:55 -0500", "date": "12:02 p.m. on Jan 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/04/and-were-finally-settled-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F04%2Fand-were-finally-settled-in.html" }, { "id": 1007, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This article from 9to5Mac is a reminder that Apple Intelligence is not free.\nas more Apple Intelligence features continue arriving, on-device storage is going to become more in-demand than ever before.\nThat\u0026rsquo;s why I went with the 512GB storage tier for my iPhone 15 Pro Max and 11-inch iPad Pro last year. Consider doing the same for your next upgrade.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-04 08:08:48 -0500", "date": "8:08 p.m. on Jan 4, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/04/this-article-from-tomac-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F04%2Fthis-article-from-tomac-is.html" }, { "id": 1008, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My cellular service provider offers me, via their iPhone app, to convert from a physical SIM to an eSIM. Traveling abroad a few times a year and as a big fan of Airalo, I wonder if I should go all in with eSIM… thoughts?\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-03 12:14:35 -0500", "date": "12:14 p.m. on Jan 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/03/my-cellular-service-provider-offers.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F03%2Fmy-cellular-service-provider-offers.html" }, { "id": 1009, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thought and sentiment of the moment: my sheer physical exhaustion makes my mental exhaustion more bearable.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-03 08:17:50 -0500", "date": "8:17 p.m. on Jan 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/03/thought-and-sentiment-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F03%2Fthought-and-sentiment-of-the.html" }, { "id": 1010, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How many people signed up for micro.one are coming from micro.blog? And why? Me by curiosity but I don’t want to take the place of someone else who is entirely new to micro.blog. Dilemma.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-03 05:44:10 -0500", "date": "5:44 p.m. on Jan 3, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/03/how-many-people-signed-up.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F03%2Fhow-many-people-signed-up.html" }, { "id": 1011, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m moving to a new (temporary) apartment in two days. It\u0026rsquo;s the first time in 17 years that I\u0026rsquo;m changing places. It\u0026rsquo;s crazy how much we gather over the years. We\u0026rsquo;re giving out a lot of stuff (also selling on FB Marketplace). It\u0026rsquo;s like spring-cleaning, right in the middle of winter!\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-01 13:33:11 -0500", "date": "1:33 p.m. on Jan 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/01/im-moving-to-a-new.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F01%2Fim-moving-to-a-new.html" }, { "id": 1012, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For Craft users: it\u0026rsquo;s still the right time to buy this 2025 Calendar template!\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-01 13:10:48 -0500", "date": "1:10 p.m. on Jan 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/01/for-craft-users-its-still.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F01%2Ffor-craft-users-its-still.html" }, { "id": 1013, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I started looking at possibly getting a mechanical keyboard, just for fun. I do love Apple Magic keyboards, but I also have fond memories of very old mechanical keyboards like the clicky IBM AT keyboard. There are so many design variables that make each keyboard unique that I just don\u0026rsquo;t know how I\u0026rsquo;m going to select one without actually visiting a physical store to try them all!\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-01 08:46:55 -0500", "date": "8:46 p.m. on Jan 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/01/i-started-looking-at-possibly.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F01%2Fi-started-looking-at-possibly.html" }, { "id": 1014, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hello 2025! 🎉 Happy new year folks! So this is it, that was my very first post of 2025.\n", "dateiso": "2025-01-01 08:05:30 -0500", "date": "8:05 p.m. on Jan 1, 2025", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/01/hello-happy-new-year-folks.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2025%2F01%2F01%2Fhello-happy-new-year-folks.html" }, { "id": 1015, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I have twice as many followers on Bluesky than on Mastodon. Don’t know how many followers on Micro.blog… because… Micro.blog. 🙃\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-31 14:46:57 -0500", "date": "2:46 p.m. on Dec 31, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/31/i-have-twice-as-many.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F31%2Fi-have-twice-as-many.html" }, { "id": 1016, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Any Final Cut Pro users here? What advice would you give to someone who knows about Screenflow for recording his YouTube videos but is looking for something more powerful… mostly doing screen recording with my face as a médaillon…\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-30 13:48:54 -0500", "date": "1:48 p.m. on Dec 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/30/any-final-cut-pro-users.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F30%2Fany-final-cut-pro-users.html" }, { "id": 1017, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I love this panel that Ghost presents after hitting \u0026ldquo;Publish and share\u0026rdquo;. That was the last edition for 2024. ", "dateiso": "2024-12-30 08:48:23 -0500", "date": "8:48 p.m. on Dec 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/30/i-love-this-panel-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F30%2Fi-love-this-panel-that.html" }, { "id": 1018, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished watching this video about a Macintosh IIfx computer full restore to working condition. This brings so many memories and contains some really cool tech stuff like this SCSI card emulator. Wow! I would love to see this in action in person.\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-28 22:03:42 -0500", "date": "10:03 p.m. on Dec 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/28/finished-watching-this-video-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F28%2Ffinished-watching-this-video-about.html" }, { "id": 1019, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Fun fact: I often play \u0026ldquo;Did You Know?\u0026rdquo; with my wife to let her know about special features on her Apple Watch, iPad or other tech devices. She doesn\u0026rsquo;t like to remember things and the fact that many things are hidden by default in the Apple ecosystem.\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-28 12:25:03 -0500", "date": "12:25 p.m. on Dec 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/28/fun-fact-i-often-play.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F28%2Ffun-fact-i-often-play.html" }, { "id": 1020, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Now I feel bad about this. 😔\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-26 17:00:36 -0500", "date": "5:00 p.m. on Dec 26, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/26/now-i-feel-bad-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F26%2Fnow-i-feel-bad-about.html" }, { "id": 1021, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I still have three more articles to publish before the end of the year: one about Medium, the final edition of the Ephemeral Scrapbook, and a review of my creative year.\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-26 13:47:03 -0500", "date": "1:47 p.m. on Dec 26, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/26/i-still-have-three-more.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F26%2Fi-still-have-three-more.html" }, { "id": 1022, "type": "post", "title": "On Header Images and Creative Liberty", "text": "Manuel Moreale link posting on the subject of header images on blog posts:\n\u0026ldquo;I’ll go one step further Nelson, I have a growing hatred towards pointless images in blog posts in general, I don’t even care if they’re AI-generated or not. If they’re there as part of the content then by all means use them but if you’re just adding a stock image from unsplash to make the page “feel” more interesting then you’re just part of the broader problem that’s plaguing the web.\u0026rdquo;\nHeader images do add to the page load times, yes I do use AI-generated images from time to time, like in this post where I wanted to make a point, and I use many of my personal photos\u0026hellip; like in this edition of the Ephemeral Scrapbook newsletter. Yes, I prefer header images on that specific blog because it is part of its visual theme. So then what? That\u0026rsquo;s MY corner of the web. I do what I find cool and creative and whatever.\nI\u0026rsquo;m guessing he\u0026rsquo;s reading none of my blogs because of this, among other reasons?\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-26 10:43:36 -0500", "date": "10:43 p.m. on Dec 26, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/26/on-header-images-and-creative.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F26%2Fon-header-images-and-creative.html" }, { "id": 1023, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Something acting up since early morning on my Ghost hosted blog. Every few hours, I get a new registered subscriber to the free tier of my newsletter using a randomized name but a real user email address. 😕🤨\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-24 14:17:37 -0500", "date": "2:17 p.m. on Dec 24, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/24/something-acting-up-since-early.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F24%2Fsomething-acting-up-since-early.html" }, { "id": 1024, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In my family, relatives are purchasing Macs in bulk: three Mac mini computers and one MacBook Pro. I’m quite perplexed about the reasons behind this sudden surge in Mac purchases. 🤯\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-24 10:29:32 -0500", "date": "10:29 p.m. on Dec 24, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/24/in-my-family-relatives-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F24%2Fin-my-family-relatives-are.html" }, { "id": 1025, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Meta blog post – Manu\nI am not the biggest fan of meta blog posts, also called blogging about blogging. I do think they’re sometimes useful but they’re also quite uninspiring for me to read. And that’s why I try to stay away from the topic for the most part.\nI find this statement surprising coming from the author behind the popular \u0026ldquo;People \u0026amp; Blog\u0026rdquo; series. Maybe I\u0026rsquo;m missing something here.\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-24 08:42:51 -0500", "date": "8:42 p.m. on Dec 24, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/24/meta-blog-post-manu-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F24%2Fmeta-blog-post-manu-i.html" }, { "id": 1026, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s the time of the year where I feel the best action is “mark all as read”… 🫤\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-23 19:58:38 -0500", "date": "7:58 p.m. on Dec 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/23/its-the-time-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F23%2Fits-the-time-of-the.html" }, { "id": 1027, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A strange image of Steve walking in an open space area (probably in One Infinite Loop). The visual mood of this image triggers other possibilities.. like Steve walking in heaven… I think I’m either exhausted or too sensitive.\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-23 18:45:52 -0500", "date": "6:45 p.m. on Dec 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/23/a-strange-image-of-steve.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F23%2Fa-strange-image-of-steve.html" }, { "id": 1028, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "New Bluesky subscribers rush seems to be easing because I\u0026rsquo;m stuck at 153 followers for the last week!\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-23 16:08:11 -0500", "date": "4:08 p.m. on Dec 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/23/new-bluesky-subscribers-rush-seems.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F23%2Fnew-bluesky-subscribers-rush-seems.html" }, { "id": 1029, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In recent days I’ve been thinking and imagining what could be a useful and powerful WebClipper for Craft. I’ve built a shared document for that purpose. Have a look.\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-23 12:53:37 -0500", "date": "12:53 p.m. on Dec 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/23/in-recent-days-ive-been.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F23%2Fin-recent-days-ive-been.html" }, { "id": 1030, "type": "post", "title": "On iPhone 16 Pro Camera Control", "text": "I’ve played a bit with my wife’s iPhone 16 Pro Camera Control. I think it is cool but not practical. It is the best case of feature or functions overloading on a single control. I think it’s hard to compete against discrete on-screen camera controls because these are much quicker to invoke and the error rate is low. I don’t see the Camera Control to live for a long time as I can’t see a single way of improving it and fixing this usability issue.\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-23 12:37:22 -0500", "date": "12:37 p.m. on Dec 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/23/on-iphone-pro-camera-control.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F23%2Fon-iphone-pro-camera-control.html" }, { "id": 1031, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Last work day of the year. It should be an easy one, mostly spent on writing a client proposal.\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-23 08:59:13 -0500", "date": "8:59 p.m. on Dec 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/23/last-work-day-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F23%2Flast-work-day-of-the.html" }, { "id": 1032, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "COVID is still a thing: my sister and brother-in-law (69 \u0026amp; 71) got it. They got vaccinated five days before. Too little, too late, I guess. Goodbye, Christmas and family reunion. 😔\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-22 18:02:16 -0500", "date": "6:02 p.m. on Dec 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/22/covid-is-still-a-thing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F22%2Fcovid-is-still-a-thing.html" }, { "id": 1033, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is the last edition of the year of What\u0026rsquo;s Up with Micro.blog. I hope that you find it useful. cc @manton\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-21 15:24:41 -0500", "date": "3:24 p.m. on Dec 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/21/this-is-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F21%2Fthis-is-the.html" }, { "id": 1034, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Always fun to learn something about Micro.blog while recording the \u0026ldquo;What\u0026rsquo;s Up With Micro.blog\u0026rdquo; video. 🤭 Stay tuned for those who might be interested.\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-21 13:58:00 -0500", "date": "1:58 p.m. on Dec 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/21/always-fun-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F21%2Falways-fun-to.html" }, { "id": 1035, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I wish there was a quick way to delete all the posts from the test blog on Micro.blog. @manton\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-21 10:45:56 -0500", "date": "10:45 p.m. on Dec 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/21/i-wish-there.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F21%2Fi-wish-there.html" }, { "id": 1036, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been playing with iA Presenter 1.4 again this morning. I like what I\u0026rsquo;m seeing with the share presentation online feature (example here). Now, I have to wonder: what is my use case for this? I always come down to this question when trying new features, new apps or new services.\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-21 07:53:43 -0500", "date": "7:53 p.m. on Dec 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/21/ive-been-playing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F21%2Five-been-playing.html" }, { "id": 1037, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Why doesn’t the Arc Browser provide Kagi search as a default search engine option? 🤔 ", "dateiso": "2024-12-21 07:46:03 -0500", "date": "7:46 p.m. on Dec 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/21/why-doesnt-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F21%2Fwhy-doesnt-the.html" }, { "id": 1038, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I think there is something really nice here that Micro.blog should copy to improve its blog post editor. cc @manton\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-20 13:59:29 -0500", "date": "1:59 p.m. on Dec 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/20/i-think-there.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F20%2Fi-think-there.html" }, { "id": 1039, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This weekend, I\u0026rsquo;m going to record and publish the next edition of the \u0026ldquo;What\u0026rsquo;s Up with Micro.blog\u0026rdquo; series. The last edition was shared last August. Don\u0026rsquo;t miss it!\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-20 08:05:40 -0500", "date": "8:05 p.m. on Dec 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/20/this-weekend-im.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F20%2Fthis-weekend-im.html" }, { "id": 1040, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microsoft Teams for iPad is probably the buggiest app of all when used with an external display. So many weird UI behaviors. It might Apple’s fault, too.\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-19 09:33:57 -0500", "date": "9:33 p.m. on Dec 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/19/microsoft-teams-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F19%2Fmicrosoft-teams-for.html" }, { "id": 1041, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just bought Soulver 3 for iPad as a big fan of this app for the Mac. I cannot live without it on my iPad today while at work. Not cheap but so well done. I wish I couldd export a sheet into Excel with all the values and formulas transposed for me.\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-19 09:22:41 -0500", "date": "9:22 p.m. on Dec 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/19/just-bought-soulver.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F19%2Fjust-bought-soulver.html" }, { "id": 1042, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "At the office today, the last time for 2024. It’s an iPad Pro-type-of-day. Currently using an external display with Stage Manager on and Apple Magic Keyboard. It feels a little bit cramped but it’s ok. After two minutes, I can already see display bugs when using an app on the external display. I’m looking at you, Micro.blog.\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-19 08:25:00 -0500", "date": "8:25 p.m. on Dec 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/19/at-the-office.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F19%2Fat-the-office.html" }, { "id": 1043, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "At one point, for Apple, it might become more economical and less damaging to leave the EU market behind. Is it indeed getting personal?\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-18 20:33:10 -0500", "date": "8:33 p.m. on Dec 18, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/18/at-one-point.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F18%2Fat-one-point.html" }, { "id": 1044, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This post is for testing purposes only. Please ignore as I\u0026rsquo;m testing Ghost ActivityPub feature. If everything goes as advertised, I should see this post from the Ghost Admin page, under the ActivityPub section.\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-18 12:49:09 -0500", "date": "12:49 p.m. on Dec 18, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/18/this-post-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F18%2Fthis-post-is.html" }, { "id": 1045, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Look what we\u0026rsquo;ve got here. Can you tell what is happening here? 👀\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-18 09:37:19 -0500", "date": "9:37 p.m. on Dec 18, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/18/look-what-weve.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F18%2Flook-what-weve.html" }, { "id": 1046, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m getting tired of hearing people invoke their ADHD syndrome for everything\u0026hellip; I mean, come on\u0026hellip; either it\u0026rsquo;s diagnosed and you take the pills or it\u0026rsquo;s an excuse\u0026hellip;\nUpdate #1: Sorry to look offensive to some of my readers. I should have been more precautious when sharing such a thought. I was referring to some people, a minority, who invoke symptoms of ADHD without the condition so they can be more easily excused of certain things. Those people exist and their attitude is causing prejudice to people who actually have some degree of ADHD.\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-17 15:56:50 -0500", "date": "3:56 p.m. on Dec 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/17/im-getting-tired.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F17%2Fim-getting-tired.html" }, { "id": 1047, "type": "post", "title": "Craft \u0026 Gumroad - A Match in Heaven?", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;be been trying to build a small business around Craft using Gumroad in the last 18 months. So far, it\u0026rsquo;s a hit or miss. I\u0026rsquo;m currently having paying 20 subscribers for The Craft Bible1. I sold quite a few Craft templates, too. I have many more ideas for 2025 to continue to grow this offering. Yet, it won\u0026rsquo;t replace my day job.\nI like Gumroad as a selling platform but also for writing articles and sharing them with my customers. This is not something that I planned on doing when I started, but I must admit that it\u0026rsquo;s fun to build a small community around an app like Craft, away from the public scrutiny of Reddit and Slack. Today, I shared a long op-ed article on my feelings about Craft. It\u0026rsquo;s a long piece that I took quite some time to write. I\u0026rsquo;m quite happy with the results. I can\u0026rsquo;t wait for user reactions and feedback.\nI\u0026rsquo;m currently running a promotion until the end of December where new subscribers to The Craft Bible get a one-week trial. To my surprise, It is not attracting more subscriptions. I must be doing something wrong.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-17 07:41:49 -0500", "date": "7:41 p.m. on Dec 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/17/craft-gumroad-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F17%2Fcraft-gumroad-a.html" }, { "id": 1048, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Tonight, I watched the iPhone 4 leak documentary. I don\u0026rsquo;t want to spoil anything but there was an unexpected and unknown twist to this story. It\u0026rsquo;s a great documentary. It made me think twice about this era which I kind of miss, actually.\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-15 21:39:54 -0500", "date": "9:39 p.m. on Dec 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/15/tonight-i-watched.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F15%2Ftonight-i-watched.html" }, { "id": 1049, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I don\u0026rsquo;t know why I\u0026rsquo;m paying for Ivory, I\u0026rsquo;m not often on Mastodon, much more often here and on Bluesky.\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-15 19:18:40 -0500", "date": "7:18 p.m. on Dec 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/15/i-dont-know.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F15%2Fi-dont-know.html" }, { "id": 1050, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m still exploring ways to monetize my experience with Craft. After creating The Craft Bible, now it’s Craft Support Call. I don’t expect much from this, but I’m curious to see how it goes if I ever get one request.\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-15 14:43:59 -0500", "date": "2:43 p.m. on Dec 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/15/im-still-exploring.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F15%2Fim-still-exploring.html" }, { "id": 1051, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So I finally got the iPad Magic Keyboard for my M4 iPad Pro. At first, I didn’t want to spend that amount of money on a freakin keyboard… but I’m a weak man and I did. While I love the added function keys row, the overall improvement, I’m not sure this keyboard is that magical.\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-15 13:58:38 -0500", "date": "1:58 p.m. on Dec 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/15/so-i-finally.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F15%2Fso-i-finally.html" }, { "id": 1052, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When writing, I start in Craft and then export to Ulysses for final review and online posting. It works great, but I’m not always satisfied with Ulysses, which sometimes feels overwhelming. Enter iA Writer, an app that I remember using in its early days and that I liked for its simplicity. This blog post from Greg Morris reminds me of the perpetual questioning of my decision to settle on Ulysses.\nThis morning, I decided to download a trial of iA Writer. The first thing I checked was which publishing platforms it supports. To my surprise, it supports all the ones I depend on: Ghost, Micro.blog, and, to a lesser extent, Medium.\nThis blog post was written on my 15-inch M2 MacBook Air using iA Writer trial edition. Sadly, iA Writer couldn’t post as draft, so I had to manually copy and paste the content into a blank post on Micro.blog.\nMy Ulysses subscription ends on March 25th, 2025, but this publishing bug is a deal-breaker for now. Back to Ulysses.\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-15 10:42:43 -0500", "date": "10:42 p.m. on Dec 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/15/when-writing-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F15%2Fwhen-writing-i.html" }, { "id": 1053, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A quick behind-the-scenes post: the same overall content, with two different apps. This is the \u0026ldquo;script\u0026rdquo; for this video. On the left, Mindnote Next, on the right, Zavala. This is sort of a cue card for use during video recording, the Mindnote version was much easier to read. Zavala\u0026rsquo;s version is more for documenting purposes. Even the outline view in Mindnote feels better.\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-15 09:05:20 -0500", "date": "9:05 p.m. on Dec 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/15/a-quick-behindthescenes.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F15%2Fa-quick-behindthescenes.html" }, { "id": 1054, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My brother-in-law got a M4 Mac mini recently. The last time he used a Mac was with the Macintosh LC III, more than thirty years ago. One thing he still struggles with, then and now: the menu bar that changes when switching apps. The other thing: he doesn\u0026rsquo;t get the Stage Manager. He turned that off.\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-14 18:05:27 -0500", "date": "6:05 p.m. on Dec 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/14/my-brotherinlaw-got.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F14%2Fmy-brotherinlaw-got.html" }, { "id": 1055, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I often share photos about Apple, apparently1.\nTesting the new photo collections on Micro.blog. I like it.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-14 13:19:57 -0500", "date": "1:19 p.m. on Dec 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/14/i-often-share.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F14%2Fi-often-share.html" }, { "id": 1056, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " Riccardo Mori @morrick@appdot.net Apple Intelligence died on October 5, 2011. https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/113647127504397409\n7:51 PM • December 13, 2024\u0026nbsp;(UTC) 🤦🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-13 16:21:13 -0500", "date": "4:21 p.m. on Dec 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/13/stoot-instanceappdotnet-id.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F13%2Fstoot-instanceappdotnet-id.html" }, { "id": 1057, "type": "post", "title": "My Apple Intelligence Writing Tools Mixed Experience", "text": "My experience with Apple Intelligence’s Writing Tools is mixed. One significant issue is the absence of a feature to compare the original text with the revised version. In contrast, Grammarly excels in this regard, as its suggestions are contextual. Additionally, the constant need to select text to “feed” the Writing Tools becomes tedious. Another challenge arises when using Writing Tools with markdown content or links. These get mangled in the revised version. Finally, speed is also an issue. Even for simple text to process, it can take quite some time to get a response.\nFor now, Grammarly remains my preferred writing assistant, and I have no intention of switching to Apple Intelligence’s Writing Tools anytime soon.\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-13 07:51:18 -0500", "date": "7:51 p.m. on Dec 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/13/my-apple-intelligence.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F13%2Fmy-apple-intelligence.html" }, { "id": 1058, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Will we ever see some generative AI or AI-based features added to HEY Mail? 🧐\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-12 18:02:31 -0500", "date": "6:02 p.m. on Dec 12, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/12/will-we-ever.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F12%2Fwill-we-ever.html" }, { "id": 1059, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Adobe Lightroom for Mac is the best Mac app of the year? In light of Apple buying Pixelmator, I find this a bit surprising.\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-12 10:13:23 -0500", "date": "10:13 p.m. on Dec 12, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/12/adobe-lightroom-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F12%2Fadobe-lightroom-for.html" }, { "id": 1060, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m surprised that, so far, nobody tried to shoot down one of these drones flying over New Jersey! I mean, come on, USA!\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-11 22:11:19 -0500", "date": "10:11 p.m. on Dec 11, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/11/im-surprised-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F11%2Fim-surprised-that.html" }, { "id": 1061, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Image Playground is so underwhelming and pretty much useless for me. It’s barely a tech demo. All this for what?\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-11 19:22:23 -0500", "date": "7:22 p.m. on Dec 11, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/11/image-playground-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F11%2Fimage-playground-is.html" }, { "id": 1062, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I got an email from Ghost to participate in the ActivityPub beta for my blog. I\u0026rsquo;m not sure how my blog will be named in the fediverse, but I can imagine being able to get comments from people here on Micro.blog and having those comments appear at the bottom of my blog posts. Will see soon enough.\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-11 07:34:39 -0500", "date": "7:34 p.m. on Dec 11, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/11/i-got-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F11%2Fi-got-an.html" }, { "id": 1063, "type": "post", "title": "Photo Sharing, The Web and Museums", "text": "Here is a thought about recent tweaks to RSS importer on Micro.blog. For example, now it\u0026rsquo;s possible to import photos in the RSS feed published by Glass. With this, when I publish a photo on Glass, it gets posted on my blog too. The same photo on two platforms. As much as I like the POSSE principle for writing, it doesn\u0026rsquo;t fit well with my desire to share photos on special places, like a photo-dedicated service. Glass is such a special place, just like Pixelfed. What would be the point of having a single photo spread out on other platforms? I see places like Glass like museums. Pieces of art hanged on the wall of a museum are unique to this place. It makes the place unique. I\u0026rsquo;m still thinking about all this.\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-10 21:07:07 -0500", "date": "9:07 p.m. on Dec 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/10/photo-sharing-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F10%2Fphoto-sharing-the.html" }, { "id": 1064, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Those drone sightings stories in New Jersey are\u0026hellip; troubling? How come authorities can\u0026rsquo;t figure out what they are? They are big drones yet too small objects for serious analysis? Where are they coming from? Who is operating them? What are the purposes of those low altitude sighting? 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-09 07:25:26 -0500", "date": "7:25 p.m. on Dec 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/09/those-drone-sightings.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F09%2Fthose-drone-sightings.html" }, { "id": 1065, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For all Craft users out there looking or already using Craft Collections, I made a video about that this past weekend. It\u0026rsquo;s a longer-than-usual one, but the subject is dense.\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-09 07:13:59 -0500", "date": "7:13 p.m. on Dec 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/09/for-all-craft.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F09%2Ffor-all-craft.html" }, { "id": 1066, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "According to Tim Cook, the old Steve Jobs office at One Infinite Loop is still intact and reserved for Tim Cook so he can enter it and \u0026ldquo;connect with him\u0026rdquo;? I would die myself to have a chance to see this place.\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-08 17:51:55 -0500", "date": "5:51 p.m. on Dec 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/08/according-to-tim.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F08%2Faccording-to-tim.html" }, { "id": 1067, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I declare my year-long goal of resisting to join Threads to be accomplished.\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-07 17:47:48 -0500", "date": "5:47 p.m. on Dec 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/07/i-declare-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F07%2Fi-declare-my.html" }, { "id": 1068, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Updating plugins on Micro.blog is as satisfying as updating apps on the Mac. I wish there were more updates.\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-07 08:39:33 -0500", "date": "8:39 p.m. on Dec 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/07/updating-plugins-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F07%2Fupdating-plugins-on.html" }, { "id": 1069, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s easier for me to discover (and like) a new photographer than discovering a new writer. Information absorption is faster in photography.\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-07 08:38:26 -0500", "date": "8:38 p.m. on Dec 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/07/its-easier-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F07%2Fits-easier-for.html" }, { "id": 1070, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Special announcement: for Craft Docs users wishing for a 2025 calendar template, here you go.\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-06 07:43:13 -0500", "date": "7:43 p.m. on Dec 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/06/special-announcement-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F06%2Fspecial-announcement-for.html" }, { "id": 1071, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Got one of my photos selected in the monthly theme, Decay, on Glass. I\u0026rsquo;m happy. 😊\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-05 10:01:01 -0500", "date": "10:01 p.m. on Dec 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/05/got-one-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F05%2Fgot-one-of.html" }, { "id": 1072, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Caseless day™ 🙃🫣\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-05 08:51:56 -0500", "date": "8:51 p.m. on Dec 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/05/caseless-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F05%2Fcaseless-day.html" }, { "id": 1073, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m reading good comments about the new subscription from The Verge. I\u0026rsquo;m not a fan of their website design, but I do read their articles from time to time. I\u0026rsquo;m tempted to give it a try. Yet, \u0026ldquo;serving better ads\u0026rdquo; to subscribers is not exactly a turn on. 🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-04 10:46:21 -0500", "date": "10:46 p.m. on Dec 4, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/04/im-reading-good.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F04%2Fim-reading-good.html" }, { "id": 1074, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here\u0026rsquo;s the latest edition of the Ephemeral Scrapbook newsletter! I hope you enjoy! Email version coming out soon! For those asking: it is entirely built using Craft Docs.\n", "dateiso": "2024-12-01 15:48:02 -0500", "date": "3:48 p.m. on Dec 1, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/12/01/heres-the-latest.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F12%2F01%2Fheres-the-latest.html" }, { "id": 1075, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve seen a drastic increase in new followers on my Bluesky account (+50%) in the last 3 weeks while no new followers on Mastodon in the last six months. 🧐🤨\nI’m 90% of the time posting on both (from Micro.blog), like this post.\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-27 15:32:37 -0500", "date": "3:32 p.m. on Nov 27, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/11/27/ive-seen-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F11%2F27%2Five-seen-a.html" }, { "id": 1076, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today, I submitted my resume for a new job out of curiosity. The submission form included a section for adding websites, but I didn’t include any of my many sites. I often feel shy about sharing them in my professional life. I may be missing an opportunity to show some of my abilities, who knows.\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-26 16:52:12 -0500", "date": "4:52 p.m. on Nov 26, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/11/26/today-i-submitted.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F11%2F26%2Ftoday-i-submitted.html" }, { "id": 1077, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Up until now, I was able to keep Micro.blog at the center of my blogging activities and my social networks presence but with Bluesky taking off, I can\u0026rsquo;t keep up with new follows\u0026hellip; I follow people on Bluesky from Bluesky, not always from Micro.blog. Low friction probably explains this behaviour.\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-26 12:55:10 -0500", "date": "12:55 p.m. on Nov 26, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/11/26/up-until-now.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F11%2F26%2Fup-until-now.html" }, { "id": 1078, "type": "post", "title": "Selling to the Devil?", "text": "So I put my M1 Mac mini for sale this weekend on Facebook Marketplace. 🤢 Got an offer for 50% of my asking price. I said, no, nice try . Got a second offer from someone else with a slightly reduced priced. I said ok. I went poking his Facebook profile page just to see if I’m being scammed👀🤨🧐. From the buyer’s profile and posts I can infer the following: he believes in conspiracies, he is an anti-vaccine, he is a proud pro-Trump, and the icing on the cake: he is pro-Russian. 🤮\nI came close to cancel the deal… but I didn’t. Just give the money and GTFO.\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-25 12:12:30 -0500", "date": "12:12 p.m. on Nov 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/11/25/selling-to-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F11%2F25%2Fselling-to-the.html" }, { "id": 1079, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s been a while since the last edition of The Ephemeral Scrapbook edition. Here\u0026rsquo;s the latest one where I talk about Glass, Realmac Software Elements, Apple Intelligence, the iPad, Apple a many more digital tidbits. Coming up by email to subscribers later today. Hope you enjoy!\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-24 10:21:54 -0500", "date": "10:21 p.m. on Nov 24, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/11/24/its-been-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F11%2F24%2Fits-been-a.html" }, { "id": 1080, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My newest photo series on Glass: Humans.\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-20 07:35:11 -0500", "date": "7:35 p.m. on Nov 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/11/20/my-newest-photo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F11%2F20%2Fmy-newest-photo.html" }, { "id": 1081, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Even idle (10%-15% CPU usage), the new M4 Mac mini (with M4 Pro chip) runs much hotter than the old M1. I don\u0026rsquo;t hear the fan but according to iStats Menu, the temp inside is 56F.\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-19 17:50:50 -0500", "date": "5:50 p.m. on Nov 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/11/19/even-idle-cpu.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F11%2F19%2Feven-idle-cpu.html" }, { "id": 1082, "type": "post", "title": "Migrating From M1 Mac mini to M4 Mac mini - A Flawless Migration", "text": "Got my M4 Mac mini yesterday and completed the migration off the old M1 Mac mini. The process took me about 2.5 hours, where about 1.25 hours for data migration only using the Apple Migration Assistant1. Upon first login, I got only a handful of security-related popups, much less than I was expecting. Many apps like Microsoft OneDrive, Synology Drive client, worked perfectly with minimum reconfiguration, which was a pleasant surprise. A few app licenses to reconfigure and hop I\u0026rsquo;m ready to go!\nThis is the first time that I\u0026rsquo;m using a two-monitor setup at home (Apple Studio Display + LG UltraFine 4K). It\u0026rsquo;s quite a setup upgrade. Today will be my first full work day with this setup, I\u0026rsquo;ll report back later for more impressions.\nI used a Thunderbolt 4 cable between the two machines. Actually transfer speed were between 100 MB/s \u0026amp; 600 MB/S, while being rated at more than 900 MB/s.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-19 06:30:49 -0500", "date": "6:30 p.m. on Nov 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/11/19/migrating-from-m.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F11%2F19%2Fmigrating-from-m.html" }, { "id": 1083, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Migration in progress … 😎\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-18 18:19:32 -0500", "date": "6:19 p.m. on Nov 18, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/11/18/migration-in-progress.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F11%2F18%2Fmigration-in-progress.html" }, { "id": 1084, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If only Bluesky had an iPad version of their mobile app. Is this in the works? (Posted from Micro.blog but asking the Bluesky community).\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-18 12:45:42 -0500", "date": "12:45 p.m. on Nov 18, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/11/18/if-only-bluesky.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F11%2F18%2Fif-only-bluesky.html" }, { "id": 1085, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How does an app get updated on a weekly basis without any new features or apparent bug fixes? Exhibit A: Medium. Is someone trying to game the App Store?\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-18 12:43:15 -0500", "date": "12:43 p.m. on Nov 18, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/11/18/how-does-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F11%2F18%2Fhow-does-an.html" }, { "id": 1086, "type": "post", "title": "Paying to Be a Beta Tester? Really?", "text": "Paying to be a beta tester: is this a new trend? Glass Series was available to patron subscribers only while being in beta testing. RealMac Software offers Elements in beta as a subscription but at a reduced price. Active beta testers are actually paying of their time to use a software still being debugged and refined. Isn\u0026rsquo;t that enough? I understand that building software is hard and requires resources\u0026hellip; but paying to be a beta tester seems to cross a line here.\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-18 08:45:06 -0500", "date": "8:45 p.m. on Nov 18, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/11/18/paying-to-be.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F11%2F18%2Fpaying-to-be.html" }, { "id": 1087, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In preparation to receive the new M4 Mac mini which supports at least two screens1, I decided to rework my desk setup and bring back the LG UltraFine 4K display on my desk. Once the migration from the old Mac mini is complete, I\u0026rsquo;ll be using a two-display setup. My Synology NAS was moved to a separate table to make some room for the LG display. My Elgao StreamDeck+ was relocated too, this time on the desk shelf.\nThree displays, actually.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-17 22:08:14 -0500", "date": "10:08 p.m. on Nov 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/11/17/in-preparation-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F11%2F17%2Fin-preparation-to.html" }, { "id": 1088, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been playing with Glass Series and I must say that I really like my experience with it so far. Series are like albums, like this example.\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-17 21:46:52 -0500", "date": "9:46 p.m. on Nov 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/11/17/ive-been-playing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F11%2F17%2Five-been-playing.html" }, { "id": 1089, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As I\u0026rsquo;m getting ready to receive my new M4 Mac mini1, I\u0026rsquo;m starting to think that my decision to go with a 1TB model was not really future-proof and probably downright a mistake.\nRemove unused apps, delete useless data (using Daisy Disk).\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-17 20:37:53 -0500", "date": "8:37 p.m. on Nov 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/11/17/as-im-getting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F11%2F17%2Fas-im-getting.html" }, { "id": 1090, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If I’m less active here it might be because I’m more active on Bluesky. 😬 @numericciten.me\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-17 11:06:08 -0500", "date": "11:06 p.m. on Nov 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/11/17/if-im-less.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F11%2F17%2Fif-im-less.html" }, { "id": 1091, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "At Fort Lauderdale Airport: I was really impressed by the scanner they use at the security gates. The operator uses a big screen similar to a big iPad and uses touch gestures to tilt and rotate luggage in 3D, uses a slider to see slices of the bag’s internal content. Really cool.\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-17 09:56:24 -0500", "date": "9:56 p.m. on Nov 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/11/17/at-fort-lauderdale.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F11%2F17%2Fat-fort-lauderdale.html" }, { "id": 1092, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Leaving Haiti. 😍\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-13 16:22:45 -0500", "date": "4:22 p.m. on Nov 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/11/13/leaving-haiti.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F11%2F13%2Fleaving-haiti.html" }, { "id": 1093, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Great use of Apple offline Maps in Miami. Works wonderfully well.\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-10 11:36:39 -0500", "date": "11:36 p.m. on Nov 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/11/10/great-use-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F11%2F10%2Fgreat-use-of.html" }, { "id": 1094, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is how he does it. Incredible the amount of BS being said in such a little crowd and so little time. All white and rich guys. 🤮\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-10 09:05:49 -0500", "date": "9:05 p.m. on Nov 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/11/10/this-is-how.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F11%2F10%2Fthis-is-how.html" }, { "id": 1095, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dealing with Airline companies is not my favorite thing in the world. Flight got cancelled. Booked another one. Barely made it to the gate. 😅\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-09 15:54:07 -0500", "date": "3:54 p.m. on Nov 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/11/09/dealing-with-airline.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F11%2F09%2Fdealing-with-airline.html" }, { "id": 1096, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In a few hours, I\u0026rsquo;m flying from Montreal to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. Interesting fact: Florida is one of the states who most massively voted for Trump. Thankfully, I\u0026rsquo;m staying there less than 24 hours.\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-09 11:17:24 -0500", "date": "11:17 p.m. on Nov 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/11/09/in-a-few.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F11%2F09%2Fin-a-few.html" }, { "id": 1097, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Many tech reviewers are discussing the unusual placement of the power button on the M4 Mac mini. However, none of them, to my knowledge, mention the size of the power light. It is much larger than before. Could this be annoying? Are Apple designers failing again? Is Apple doomed once more? These are serious questions. Why am I the only one asking them?\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-08 12:56:18 -0500", "date": "12:56 p.m. on Nov 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/11/08/many-tech-reviewers.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F11%2F08%2Fmany-tech-reviewers.html" }, { "id": 1098, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Bye bye Tot; I\u0026rsquo;m so in love with Raycast Notes!\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-07 09:05:08 -0500", "date": "9:05 p.m. on Nov 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/11/07/bye-bye-tot.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F11%2F07%2Fbye-bye-tot.html" }, { "id": 1099, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m nearly done with an article about the Pixelmator buy-out by Apple, but I will wait a bit before publishing it\u0026hellip;. everyone being focused elsewhere.\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-05 18:40:52 -0500", "date": "6:40 p.m. on Nov 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/11/05/im-nearly-done.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F11%2F05%2Fim-nearly-done.html" }, { "id": 1100, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It seems that watchOS 11.1 is drastically killing battery life on my Series 10 watch. Am I alone?\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-04 10:49:07 -0500", "date": "10:49 p.m. on Nov 4, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/11/04/it-seems-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F11%2F04%2Fit-seems-that.html" }, { "id": 1101, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just finished the latest edition of The Ephemeral Scrapbook, edition 2024-43. Enjoy. Email version coming out soon to my dear subscribers!\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-03 16:16:30 -0500", "date": "4:16 p.m. on Nov 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/11/03/just-finished-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F11%2F03%2Fjust-finished-the.html" }, { "id": 1102, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Why can\u0026rsquo;t I get macOS 15.2 beta on my M2 MacBook Air running 15.1?\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-03 08:38:35 -0500", "date": "8:38 p.m. on Nov 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/11/03/why-cant-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F11%2F03%2Fwhy-cant-i.html" }, { "id": 1103, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I find this fascinating that according to what I\u0026rsquo;m reading here and there, I never cross paths with Trump supporters. I didn\u0026rsquo;t make it on purpose, but it might be because my interests, my online vibes, only attract non-Trump supporters?\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-02 17:23:01 -0500", "date": "5:23 p.m. on Nov 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/11/02/i-find-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F11%2F02%2Fi-find-this.html" }, { "id": 1104, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This year, as I explained in this article, I completed a migration from Adobe to Photomator. I rarely use Pixelmator Pro, but I\u0026rsquo;m a fan of Photomator. I hope this week\u0026rsquo;s news won\u0026rsquo;t make me regret my decision.\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-02 06:58:46 -0500", "date": "6:58 p.m. on Nov 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/11/02/this-year-as.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F11%2F02%2Fthis-year-as.html" }, { "id": 1105, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So, Apple is buying Pixelmator, the maker of my now beloved photo-editing app: Photomator. My fingers are crossed for Apple to not to fuck this up. But, business-wise, if they have FinalCul Pro, it makes sense they do it for photo-edition too. Next up: podcast-editing software?\n", "dateiso": "2024-11-01 11:19:09 -0500", "date": "11:19 p.m. on Nov 1, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/11/01/so-apple-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F11%2F01%2Fso-apple-is.html" }, { "id": 1106, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "ChatGPT Search is probably the final nail in the coffin for my usage of Google Search (and maybe Kagi Search too). Still testing and exploring the feature.\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-31 12:41:40 -0500", "date": "12:41 p.m. on Oct 31, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/10/31/chatgpt-search-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F10%2F31%2Fchatgpt-search-is.html" }, { "id": 1107, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I genuinely believe that the Mac has never been in a better position to expand its success than it is this week. Well done, Apple.\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-30 21:02:17 -0500", "date": "9:02 p.m. on Oct 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/10/30/i-genuinely-believe.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F10%2F30%2Fi-genuinely-believe.html" }, { "id": 1108, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Did anyone catch the pirate flag during the Mac mini announcement or on the mini website? 👀😉 I like this reference to Apple\u0026rsquo;s history.\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-30 19:59:22 -0500", "date": "7:59 p.m. on Oct 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/10/30/did-anyone-catch.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F10%2F30%2Fdid-anyone-catch.html" }, { "id": 1109, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One of the best Apple Ad in a long time. So cool.\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-29 16:13:59 -0500", "date": "4:13 p.m. on Oct 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/10/29/one-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F10%2F29%2Fone-of-the.html" }, { "id": 1110, "type": "post", "title": "Bye Bye Omnivore, It Was a Short Nice Run", "text": "Omnivore\u0026rsquo;s future is not looking good, following the announcement received by email yesterday night, by one of the founder himself. Omnivore was the best read-later service after Matter and Pocket, two services I didn\u0026rsquo;t really like or were too expansive. But now, with Omnivore\u0026rsquo;s future and slow demise, I\u0026rsquo;m getting fed up with those one-man-shop open-source projects. Pixelfed is another one that I\u0026rsquo;m getting tired of1. So, I\u0026rsquo;m going to refocus on Inoreader for read-later functionality and text highlights. Following their recent redesign, which is actually much better than the previous iteration, I\u0026rsquo;m more than ever committing to Inoreader.\nMore of that Pixelfed fatigue in a later post.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-29 07:28:29 -0500", "date": "7:28 p.m. on Oct 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/10/29/bye-bye-omnivore.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F10%2F29%2Fbye-bye-omnivore.html" }, { "id": 1111, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Omnivore\u0026rsquo;s future is not looking good. Signs were starting to show up on the walls\u0026hellip; but now, with this announcement (coming tomorrow)\u0026hellip; I\u0026rsquo;m looking at alternatives.\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-28 21:15:41 -0500", "date": "9:15 p.m. on Oct 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/10/28/omnivores-future-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F10%2F28%2Fomnivores-future-is.html" }, { "id": 1112, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It the same fuckin mouse, but with USB-C port. Seriously?\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-28 11:28:06 -0500", "date": "11:28 p.m. on Oct 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/10/28/it-the-same.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F10%2F28%2Fit-the-same.html" }, { "id": 1113, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For those using macOS 15.1 and have enabled Apple Intelligence, have you noticed a spike in your Mac CPU usage when requesting Apple Intelligence to proofread text? The longer the text, the more pronounced the spike. The CPU will reach 100% for a moment before slightly decreasing before receiving a response. Interestingly, I couldn’t identify an AI-related process associated with this spike. Instead, the kernel_task process is the one who consumes the CPU cycles. Apparently, Apple Intelligence runs in the kernel space.\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-28 06:23:07 -0500", "date": "6:23 p.m. on Oct 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/10/28/for-those-using.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F10%2F28%2Ffor-those-using.html" }, { "id": 1114, "type": "post", "title": "Bye Bye 1Password, Hello Apple Passwords.", "text": "I’ve finally completed the arduous migration from 1Password and canceled my subscription. I didn’t encounter any issues with 1Password transitioning to an Electron-based application. While it was an excellent and overkill solution for managing my passwords and secrets, I generally prefer integrated solutions for fundamental products or features like password management. Is Apple Passwords the perfect solution? No, but it’s more than adequate for my needs. One positive outcome of this migration is an enhanced security posture, as I had to revisit many credentials and enable two-factor authentication for numerous services.\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-28 06:10:07 -0500", "date": "6:10 p.m. on Oct 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/10/28/bye-bye-password.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F10%2F28%2Fbye-bye-password.html" }, { "id": 1115, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "You know how everyone’s all excited about the next iPhone announcement? Well, for me, it’s the Mac, especially this year. This week is going to be super exciting for me. To celebrate, I’ve decided to put my thoughts on paper, just like someone keeps a journal, as the week unfolds. I can’t wait to share them with you all at the end of the week!\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-27 20:27:22 -0500", "date": "8:27 p.m. on Oct 27, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/10/27/you-know-how.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F10%2F27%2Fyou-know-how.html" }, { "id": 1116, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Bought a 10th generation iPad to my stepmother for her 80th birthday. She was using a second gen iPad Air. Great upgrade. Data transfer was seamless. Finding past Apple Account info and password wasn’t an easy task, though. Elderly people aren’t well equipped in managing those modern intricacies.\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-27 11:37:54 -0500", "date": "11:37 p.m. on Oct 27, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/10/27/bought-a-th.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F10%2F27%2Fbought-a-th.html" }, { "id": 1117, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m in a writing lull. Not too many things worth writing about, I guess. So, I focus on photography.\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-26 09:35:24 -0500", "date": "9:35 p.m. on Oct 26, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/10/26/im-in-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F10%2F26%2Fim-in-a.html" }, { "id": 1118, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The new M4 Mac mini: more mini than ever™\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-25 12:23:59 -0500", "date": "12:23 p.m. on Oct 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/10/25/the-new-m.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F10%2F25%2Fthe-new-m.html" }, { "id": 1119, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m still on the waiting list for Image Playground… more than a day after installing and requesting access. Seems longer than what people are saying… being from Canada might explain?\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-25 11:29:10 -0500", "date": "11:29 p.m. on Oct 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/10/25/im-still-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F10%2F25%2Fim-still-on.html" }, { "id": 1120, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This morning, I’ve been experimenting with Apple Intelligence writing tools using a beta version of Ulysses. Initially, I’m torn between my feelings. The requirement to select specific text to activate the writing tools disrupts my writing flow. On the other hand, I find Grammarly’s continuous monitoring of my writing more preferable. I suspect Apple prefers the intentional nature of this feature over feeling constantly tracked.\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-23 06:32:51 -0500", "date": "6:32 p.m. on Oct 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/10/23/this-morning-ive.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F10%2F23%2Fthis-morning-ive.html" }, { "id": 1121, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thought of the day for me: Apple Intelligence will take off with ChatGPT integration at the operating system level, in iOS 18.2 or later. Why? Become most people won\u0026rsquo;t see the difference and associate ChatGPT answers to Apple Intelligence / Siri1. Of course, it will depend on the way this integration is presented to the user.\nSomething along the lines that many \u0026ldquo;ordinary people\u0026rdquo;, thinks that Apple is the one who makes all the apps in the App Store.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-22 09:10:06 -0500", "date": "9:10 p.m. on Oct 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/10/22/thought-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F10%2F22%2Fthought-of-the.html" }, { "id": 1122, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Ubiquiti is out with a new\u0026hellip; NAS? 👀 Too bad it\u0026rsquo;s a biggy, but bring a smaller form factor and I might be in.\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-21 16:18:15 -0500", "date": "4:18 p.m. on Oct 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/10/21/ubiquiti-is-out.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F10%2F21%2Fubiquiti-is-out.html" }, { "id": 1123, "type": "post", "title": "On Using Notion AI", "text": "Today I decided to give a serious try to Notion AI to support my study of some Microsoft Azure materials. So far, I\u0026rsquo;m liking it a lot. Basic workflow goes like this: I visit the webpage, save it to Notion using a browser extension, then upon archival of the content, I ask Notion AI for a summary that is inserted at the beginning of the page. I read it then I read the actual original content. I\u0026rsquo;ll highlight some words or phrases and I might add some inline comments while reading. It\u0026rsquo;s a great study experience.\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-21 14:47:43 -0500", "date": "2:47 p.m. on Oct 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/10/21/on-using-notion.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F10%2F21%2Fon-using-notion.html" }, { "id": 1124, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I love what Inoreader just released. Massive.\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-17 08:39:29 -0500", "date": "8:39 p.m. on Oct 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/10/17/i-love-what.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F10%2F17%2Fi-love-what.html" }, { "id": 1125, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thanks to the Elgato USB Hub for Stream Deck +, all my USB-A ports on my M1 Mac mini are now free, making it a USB-C-only connected device. I can now upgrade to the M4 Mac mini when it shows up this week!\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-15 13:16:46 -0500", "date": "1:16 p.m. on Oct 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/10/15/thanks-to-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F10%2F15%2Fthanks-to-the.html" }, { "id": 1126, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Maybe Apple will announce a new product each day through a press release with a shipping date of Oct 23th, with a culmination point with the redesigned M4 Mac mini? I think it wouldn\u0026rsquo;t be the first time they did it this way.\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-15 09:07:40 -0500", "date": "9:07 p.m. on Oct 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/10/15/maybe-apple-will.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F10%2F15%2Fmaybe-apple-will.html" }, { "id": 1127, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "New iPad mini: Apple Intelligence support, Apple Pencil Pro. New storage tiers. Oh, almost forgot: new colors. Meh.\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-15 08:38:19 -0500", "date": "8:38 p.m. on Oct 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/10/15/new-ipad-mini.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F10%2F15%2Fnew-ipad-mini.html" }, { "id": 1128, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I visited the Apple West 14th Street Apple Store this past weekend in New York City. As usual, the store was packed with people. However, one thing caught my attention: there was no one at the Apple Vision Pro tables. Despite being at the peak of their support, those devices felt quite lonely and unappealing. How long will Apple keep those devices for sale?\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-14 20:39:50 -0500", "date": "8:39 p.m. on Oct 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/10/14/i-visited-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F10%2F14%2Fi-visited-the.html" }, { "id": 1129, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Walked 20KM, 28000 steps. Feeling exhausted. 😓 But I still love NY, 9 years since my previous trip in June, 2015.\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-13 20:39:32 -0500", "date": "8:39 p.m. on Oct 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/10/13/walked-km-steps.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F10%2F13%2Fwalked-km-steps.html" }, { "id": 1130, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Seeing people use their iPhone camera to take pictures and videos of a show and I think there is no tweak or improvement that Apple can do to the camera control to beat on-screen controls. Apple brought a gimmicky feature to the iPhone.\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-12 19:49:08 -0500", "date": "7:49 p.m. on Oct 12, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/10/12/seeing-people-use.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F10%2F12%2Fseeing-people-use.html" }, { "id": 1131, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Perfect day for a long road trip. I’m going to a music show close to New York City: Sting.\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-12 12:20:50 -0500", "date": "12:20 p.m. on Oct 12, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/10/12/perfect-day-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F10%2F12%2Fperfect-day-for.html" }, { "id": 1132, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Playing with Spectre on the road while heading to New York. That was a 5 sec exposure.\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-12 08:40:33 -0500", "date": "8:40 p.m. on Oct 12, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/10/12/playing-with-spectre.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F10%2F12%2Fplaying-with-spectre.html" }, { "id": 1133, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m starting to warm up to Tapestry\u0026hellip; I\u0026rsquo;ll expand my testing of it this week-end!\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-11 15:55:12 -0500", "date": "3:55 p.m. on Oct 11, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/10/11/im-starting-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F10%2F11%2Fim-starting-to.html" }, { "id": 1134, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I can\u0026rsquo;t stand watching and listening to Musk for more than five minutes. He is such a bad speaker, really. I think he should let someone else talk for him, like one of his robots, it might be much better and bearable.\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-11 05:40:15 -0500", "date": "5:40 p.m. on Oct 11, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/10/11/i-cant-stand.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F10%2F11%2Fi-cant-stand.html" }, { "id": 1135, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve been using my M4 iPad Pro hooked to an external display all day at the office (forgot to bring my MacBook Pro!) and boy… I don’t know who’s fault but using apps like Teams and Outlook on the external display is rough. It might be Apple’s fault for not evangelizing enough the iPad in this business environment or Microsoft’s for not taking the iPad seriously enough to spend the resources on testing their shit on this configuration.\nAnyway, the iPad has come a long way since 2010…\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-09 13:29:23 -0500", "date": "1:29 p.m. on Oct 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/10/09/ive-been-using.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F10%2F09%2Five-been-using.html" }, { "id": 1136, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When I created my Ko-fi page, I said that I would be sharing more personal stories about me on it. Today, I just did. Plus, my supporters are getting a free perk. Want to become a supporter too? Thanks.\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-06 10:32:54 -0500", "date": "10:32 p.m. on Oct 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/10/06/when-i-created.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F10%2F06%2Fwhen-i-created.html" }, { "id": 1137, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "iPhone mirroring on macOS Sequoia is so handy. For example, getting a notification on my iPhone to approve a request in the MFA application is so handy.\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-04 08:02:55 -0500", "date": "8:02 p.m. on Oct 4, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/10/04/iphone-mirroring-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F10%2F04%2Fiphone-mirroring-on.html" }, { "id": 1138, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I found a font that I like a lot: Dosis. This will be the official font for my future consulting company. I find it to be a mix of modernism and retro style. Easy to read. Singular.\n", "dateiso": "2024-10-02 20:16:01 -0500", "date": "8:16 p.m. on Oct 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/10/02/i-found-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F10%2F02%2Fi-found-a.html" }, { "id": 1139, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m happy to share the newest edition of my Ephemeral Scrapbook newsletter. Email version coming out much later today.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-29 08:09:23 -0500", "date": "8:09 p.m. on Sep 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/29/im-happy-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F29%2Fim-happy-to.html" }, { "id": 1140, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Back home. Feeling good. Returning to normal programming soon. 🤗\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-26 18:38:13 -0500", "date": "6:38 p.m. on Sep 26, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/26/back-home-feeling.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F26%2Fback-home-feeling.html" }, { "id": 1141, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What is the fuss with Automattic lately? Missed something apparently. 🤨\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-24 13:53:42 -0500", "date": "1:53 p.m. on Sep 24, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/24/what-is-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F24%2Fwhat-is-the.html" }, { "id": 1142, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "WTF? 😳 A “social” network with AI-based-only followers? Really? Are we that desperate?\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-24 11:59:46 -0500", "date": "11:59 p.m. on Sep 24, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/24/wtf-a-social.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F24%2Fwtf-a-social.html" }, { "id": 1143, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I have a love \u0026amp; hate relationship with the US as a country. Going to Las Vegas today for a four-day business trip falls in the \u0026ldquo;hate\u0026rdquo; part because I think we cannot have those Las Vegas cities any longer. This city is everything but real. I hate to see our resources spoiled like that.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-22 10:38:24 -0500", "date": "10:38 p.m. on Sep 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/22/i-have-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F22%2Fi-have-a.html" }, { "id": 1144, "type": "post", "title": "My Five Minutes Experience With the Camera Control Button", "text": "I like the physical design, but it is too flush with the iPhone flat edge for my taste. It is easier to use with my thumb while the iPhone is in portrait mode. The required pressure to take a photo makes me shake1 which is not always good when taking a photo in low light conditions. I kind of \u0026ldquo;Digg\u0026rdquo; the UI which feels organic just like for the Dynamic Island but using multi-purposes buttons requires some time to get used to and learn the numerous modes. Apple is still working off the half-pressure mode for taking pictures and I wonder how it will affect the general use\u0026hellip; will it make it even harder to use?\nMight be age-related issue, I know.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-21 18:47:03 -0500", "date": "6:47 p.m. on Sep 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/21/my-five-minutes.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F21%2Fmy-five-minutes.html" }, { "id": 1145, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here is a tip for those upgrading to an Apple Watch Series 10 while still having their previous generation device1. If you want to start fresh but would like to recreate some of your watch face configurations from your older device: after having installed your watch apps, simply share each watch face with yourself over iMessage from your older device. You\u0026rsquo;ll then be able to install these on your new device very easily right from iMessage on the watch.\nI\u0026rsquo;m upgrading from the Series 8, but gave back my old Series 6 for a credit.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-21 15:51:33 -0500", "date": "3:51 p.m. on Sep 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/21/here-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F21%2Fhere-is-a.html" }, { "id": 1146, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The iPhone 16’s back seems prone to scratching. I saw it today at the Apple Store. But I like this year\u0026rsquo;s colors.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-21 15:36:57 -0500", "date": "3:36 p.m. on Sep 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/21/the-iphone-s.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F21%2Fthe-iphone-s.html" }, { "id": 1147, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "More crowded than usual of course. 🤗\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-21 09:01:40 -0500", "date": "9:01 p.m. on Sep 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/21/more-crowded-than.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F21%2Fmore-crowded-than.html" }, { "id": 1148, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\r**Apple Watch backups** are not working, they never did. This is what I see on my iPhone now, two old backups, once probably worthless because of it ridiculous small size. Another proof: after unpairing my Series 6 this morning before going to the Apple Store to get a credit for it[^1], no sign of new backups in the Watch.app. Big fail Apple. We are at Series 10 / iOS 18 for fuck sake!\r[^1]: I'm upgrading to Series 10.\r", "dateiso": "2024-09-21 07:41:04 -0500", "date": "7:41 p.m. on Sep 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/21/apple-watch-backups.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F21%2Fapple-watch-backups.html" }, { "id": 1149, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I plan to go to the Apple Store tomorrow and see the new stuff since I can\u0026rsquo;t make it today. Maybe I\u0026rsquo;ll get the Series 10 if the one I want is available. I\u0026rsquo;ll unpair and reset my Series 6 as I\u0026rsquo;ll get $75 credit for it.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-20 10:23:45 -0500", "date": "10:23 p.m. on Sep 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/20/i-plan-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F20%2Fi-plan-to.html" }, { "id": 1150, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m rather happy to skip the iPhone 16 this year. Next year, Apple Intelligence will be more broadly available and more mature, the iPhone 17 will gain more hardware to support Apple Intelligence the newest features, too. As a blogger, Apple Intelligence writing tools are very handy and a year from now, most if not all my go-to apps will gain support for these. On the photography side, I expect more meaningful upgrades to the cameras.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-19 18:43:21 -0500", "date": "6:43 p.m. on Sep 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/19/im-rather-happy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F19%2Fim-rather-happy.html" }, { "id": 1151, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The iPhone 16 this year is so iterative in nature that many YouTube reviewers separated the review into two rather short parts: the unboxing (generally less than 10 min1) and the general review (rarely more than 15 min).\nOh come on, ten minutes to unbox that thing and find out that there is no sticker in the box? Really?\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-19 12:13:55 -0500", "date": "12:13 p.m. on Sep 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/19/the-iphone-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F19%2Fthe-iphone-this.html" }, { "id": 1152, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\rThis is the default option for user profiles on... **LinkedIn**. Did you know that? Thoughts? ", "dateiso": "2024-09-18 21:14:51 -0500", "date": "9:14 p.m. on Sep 18, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/18/this-is-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F18%2Fthis-is-the.html" }, { "id": 1153, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apparently, a bunch of compromised old-school pagers exploded remotely in the middle east\u0026hellip; what an horrific event (seriously)\u0026hellip; THAT is real programmed obsolescence (less seriously).\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-17 15:48:28 -0500", "date": "3:48 p.m. on Sep 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/17/apparently-a-bunch.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F17%2Fapparently-a-bunch.html" }, { "id": 1154, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently curating my Bluesky home feed to my liking. If someone on Bluesky didn\u0026rsquo;t post since last year, when Bluesky was red-hot, I unfollow. I\u0026rsquo;m using Bluesky lists to curate my best accounts and build a custom timeline with them. I did something similar back in the day for Twitter as documented here.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-17 06:25:41 -0500", "date": "6:25 p.m. on Sep 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/17/currently-curating-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F17%2Fcurrently-curating-my.html" }, { "id": 1155, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As a long-time Apple fan12, I find it sad to see the downward trends surrounding Apple. It\u0026rsquo;s no longer anecdotal. Something is really going on. Apple is no longer the same under Tim Cook and since the Steve Jobs death. How could this be otherwise? Well, yeah. That\u0026rsquo;s life. Anger, ennui, boredom are just a few things that I\u0026rsquo;m noticing more and more. This super megacorp is printing money, investors are happy, but meanwhile, something is slowly rotting that will eventually trigger Apple to transform itself. Eventually.\nFanboy?\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nSince 1982.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-17 06:14:57 -0500", "date": "6:14 p.m. on Sep 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/17/as-a-longtime.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F17%2Fas-a-longtime.html" }, { "id": 1156, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "More or less random thought: Maybe Apple won\u0026rsquo;t return to live events until Tim Cook leaves the company. When COVID hit, it may have provided some relief for Apple, as it spared Cook from direct comparisons to Jobs\u0026rsquo; performances at live events. We all know that Cook isn\u0026rsquo;t the showman Steve Jobs was.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-16 20:54:59 -0500", "date": "8:54 p.m. on Sep 16, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/16/more-or-less.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F16%2Fmore-or-less.html" }, { "id": 1157, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The fact that apparently Microsoft is not using an Intel CPU for their Cloud PC instances says a lot about Intel\u0026rsquo;s future.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-16 14:00:10 -0500", "date": "2:00 p.m. on Sep 16, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/16/the-fact-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F16%2Fthe-fact-that.html" }, { "id": 1158, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If I were in charge of IT infrastructure at Apple, I would be more than happy to have a phased deployment of Apple Intelligence. This staged deployment mode allows for better control over resource allocation, performance tweaking based on demand. It is the right time to establish the baseline metrics that will help further larger-scale deployment later in the deployment schedule. People find that Apple is behind, but I say it is more of a realistic approach that makes a lot of sense from a user experience perspective.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-16 13:52:12 -0500", "date": "1:52 p.m. on Sep 16, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/16/if-i-were.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F16%2Fif-i-were.html" }, { "id": 1159, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My general sentiment towards iOS 18 is rather vastly positive but improvements come at the cost of complexity. More than ever, we need to « manage » our devices to get them work as we want them to work.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-16 11:20:16 -0500", "date": "11:20 p.m. on Sep 16, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/16/my-general-sentiment.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F16%2Fmy-general-sentiment.html" }, { "id": 1160, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "iOS 18, iPadOS 18 are coming out tomorrow. That\u0026rsquo;s cool. But you know what is even cooler? This GPT that can answer your questions about those releases. Try \u0026ldquo;What\u0026rsquo;s new in iMessage?\u0026rdquo;\nYou\u0026rsquo;re welcomed.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-15 14:52:20 -0500", "date": "2:52 p.m. on Sep 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/15/ios-ipados-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F15%2Fios-ipados-are.html" }, { "id": 1161, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is the second edition of the Ephemeral Scrapbook, edition 2024-36. Email version coming out later today.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-15 14:36:01 -0500", "date": "2:36 p.m. on Sep 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/15/this-is-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F15%2Fthis-is-the.html" }, { "id": 1162, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Working from home the coffee shop near my house… on Friday, something that I rarely do, but weather outside is so great 😀. This is my creative moment of the week.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-13 12:12:38 -0500", "date": "12:12 p.m. on Sep 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/13/working-from-home.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F13%2Fworking-from-home.html" }, { "id": 1163, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I knew it: Trump lacks courage. He wants us to believe he can talk and fix anything in 24 hours but refuses a simple second debate. What a fake guy.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-12 15:32:30 -0500", "date": "3:32 p.m. on Sep 12, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/12/i-knew-it.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F12%2Fi-knew-it.html" }, { "id": 1164, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been spending more time on Bluesky in recent days, since the Apple Event. I like the feel and of this service. It\u0026rsquo;s fast, there are no ads, features-wise it\u0026rsquo;s rich and useful.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-12 05:43:47 -0500", "date": "5:43 p.m. on Sep 12, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/12/ive-been-spending.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F12%2Five-been-spending.html" }, { "id": 1165, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hey, ABC News, you should be embarrassed by how you allowed that man to yell about anything he wanted. One person said he got 9 extra minutes by butting in, and they wouldn’t cut his mic.\nBrian Christiansen https://briandigital.com/2024/09/10/hey-abc-news.html\rNine minutes seems a lot, but yeah, I\u0026rsquo;m not that impressed by the moderators.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-11 05:39:51 -0500", "date": "5:39 p.m. on Sep 11, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/11/hey-abc-news.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F11%2Fhey-abc-news.html" }, { "id": 1166, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Fuckin unfair management of the debate, especially in the last halftime. Big fail in my book. 🤬\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-10 21:38:52 -0500", "date": "9:38 p.m. on Sep 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/10/fuckin-unfair-management.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F10%2Ffuckin-unfair-management.html" }, { "id": 1167, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m a little upset at the moderators. They don’t do their job fully or am I missing something? Why can’t they say directly “you don’t answer the question, please proceed or else“?\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-10 21:07:52 -0500", "date": "9:07 p.m. on Sep 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/10/im-a-little.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F10%2Fim-a-little.html" }, { "id": 1168, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m torn between the Apple Watch Series 10 in silver and Jet Black. The silver finish enhances the screen’s visibility, while the Jet Black option blends the screen seamlessly into the casing. Waiting for Sept 20 before making my final call, after visiting the Apple Store and hoping for in-store stock.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-10 18:01:28 -0500", "date": "6:01 p.m. on Sep 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/10/im-torn-between.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F10%2Fim-torn-between.html" }, { "id": 1169, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m going to watch the whole debate tonight. Even as a Canadian, I think it\u0026rsquo;s important to get direct reading values instead of going through social / news networks to help me forge my opinion. If I were an American, I would vote for Harris, without a doubt, but I want to see more of her tonight, to get a better idea of what she really stands for. Hoping for civility and clarity.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-10 17:56:05 -0500", "date": "5:56 p.m. on Sep 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/10/im-going-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F10%2Fim-going-to.html" }, { "id": 1170, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m feeling a bit odd about having an iPhone that’s no longer available (15 Pro Max). It was a great phone, but it only lasted about a year. Yeah, I know, still a great phone.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-09 17:04:16 -0500", "date": "5:04 p.m. on Sep 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/09/im-feeling-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F09%2Fim-feeling-a.html" }, { "id": 1171, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple might have something else to improve in the next AirPods Max beyond USB-C connectivity and noise cancellation. Just sayin.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-09 07:42:42 -0500", "date": "7:42 p.m. on Sep 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/09/apple-might-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F09%2Fapple-might-have.html" }, { "id": 1172, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It just occurred to me that Apple (and other “gatekeepers”) are getting a bit of their own medicine with the DMA. Developers in the App Store have always had to live with unclear and changing rules, as well as the risk that Apple will effectively shut down your business with an absolute rejection. Suddenly the bully is being bullied, with changing rules and unclear guidelines — and they don't like it.\nDrew McCormack https://mastodon.cloud/@drewmccormack/113106933929326824\rWell said.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-09 05:55:48 -0500", "date": "5:55 p.m. on Sep 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/09/it-just-occurred.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F09%2Fit-just-occurred.html" }, { "id": 1173, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "M4 Mac mini: Deep black, please.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-08 16:06:51 -0500", "date": "4:06 p.m. on Sep 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/08/m-mac-mini.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F08%2Fm-mac-mini.html" }, { "id": 1174, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Eight years, really? Time flies.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-08 16:04:57 -0500", "date": "4:04 p.m. on Sep 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/08/eight-years-really.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F08%2Feight-years-really.html" }, { "id": 1175, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My boss\u0026rsquo; 2015 MacBook Pro keyboard. I think he should move on to a new Mac.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-08 15:39:56 -0500", "date": "3:39 p.m. on Sep 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/08/my-boss-macbook.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F08%2Fmy-boss-macbook.html" }, { "id": 1176, "type": "post", "title": "Dear Apple, Think Differently, Again.", "text": "Tomorrow is Apple keynote. I want to be surprised. I want something different. I want to see Apple push harder, differently. I want this \u0026ldquo;one more thing\u0026rdquo;. I want to see Apple think outside the box. I want them to show the way, the right way. I want them to not be afraid, and do it differently. I want them to stop looking at their past successes. Think like the underdog. Think Differently, again.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-08 13:32:53 -0500", "date": "1:32 p.m. on Sep 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/08/dear-apple-think.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F08%2Fdear-apple-think.html" }, { "id": 1177, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Job title of the day1 \u0026ldquo;SaaS Content Writer\u0026rdquo;. 👀🤦🏻‍♂️\nFound on Medium.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-08 09:00:54 -0500", "date": "9:00 p.m. on Sep 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/08/job-title-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F08%2Fjob-title-of.html" }, { "id": 1178, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The first edition of my third-generation newsletter \u0026ldquo;The Ephemeral Scrapbook\u0026rdquo;, edition 2024-35, is out! Email version coming out later today! Consider becoming a supporter on my Ko-fi page. 🙏🏻\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-08 07:21:06 -0500", "date": "7:21 p.m. on Sep 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/08/the-first-edition.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F08%2Fthe-first-edition.html" }, { "id": 1179, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I returned to Medium with enthusiasm but was disappointed by the clickbaity titles that we can find. For example, I read an article titled \u0026ldquo;iPhone 16 Pro Max Unveils New Features That Left Me Stunned!\u0026rdquo; only to discover that the author was excited about a potential new photo mode with the telephoto lens (macrophotography) without citing sources for the rumors. The author speculated on the revolutionary nature of the device without testing it. It raises questions about the possible involvement of generative AI in crafting this story. Oh, and the other article: \u0026ldquo;Why I Stopped Upgrading to the New iPhone Every Year (And You Should Too)\u0026rdquo;\u0026hellip; I can\u0026rsquo;t wait to let someone tell me what to do. 👀🤷🏻\nCompare this to my latest post about the M4 Mac mini: \u0026ldquo;The M4 Mac mini Will Be My Best Mac Ever\u0026rdquo;. I speak for myself only in the title.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-08 06:23:20 -0500", "date": "6:23 p.m. on Sep 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/08/i-returned-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F08%2Fi-returned-to.html" }, { "id": 1180, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I did a test login to my Twitter / X account. It still works, but didn\u0026rsquo;t post anything. Scrolled my timeline for a few minutes. 👀🫣 What. The. Actual. Fuck. Is. This. Place. Now? Super random and controversial content appearing. This place has become the Internet dumpster.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-07 14:45:13 -0500", "date": "2:45 p.m. on Sep 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/07/i-did-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F07%2Fi-did-a.html" }, { "id": 1181, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today, I\u0026rsquo;m again giving a serious try to iA Presenter. I want to love this app. It is so different from any other presentation app. I\u0026rsquo;m working on a YouTube video explaining concepts around Craft Objects.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-07 13:00:14 -0500", "date": "1:00 p.m. on Sep 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/07/today-im-again.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F07%2Ftoday-im-again.html" }, { "id": 1182, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My newest Craft video, this time for beginners: what should you do when you are just starting using Craft? I chose to organize these actions into five categories.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-07 07:55:00 -0500", "date": "7:55 p.m. on Sep 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/07/my-newest-craft.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F07%2Fmy-newest-craft.html" }, { "id": 1183, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Who\u0026rsquo;s excited for next week Apple keynote? If yes, what are you looking for?\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-06 07:39:23 -0500", "date": "7:39 p.m. on Sep 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/06/whos-excited-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F06%2Fwhos-excited-for.html" }, { "id": 1184, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I have one thought regarding apps like Reeder (the new one) and Tapestry. I fail to see any comments regarding the inherent limit of those apps. How do they fare when you are adding a few dozens of sources, some with high volume of posts? Merging those feeds into a single timeline make the latter rather overwhelming to consume.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-05 18:30:09 -0500", "date": "6:30 p.m. on Sep 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/05/i-have-one.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F05%2Fi-have-one.html" }, { "id": 1185, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today, I had no choice but to request the use of a Cloud PC by Microsoft for using a crappy app: Visio. I like this idea of renting a PC instance in the cloud, though.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-05 10:23:59 -0500", "date": "10:23 p.m. on Sep 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/05/today-i-had.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F05%2Ftoday-i-had.html" }, { "id": 1186, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How writing can help you solve problems - Eric Gregorich\nWriting is thinking.\nSo true.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-04 20:37:04 -0500", "date": "8:37 p.m. on Sep 4, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/04/how-writing-can.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F04%2Fhow-writing-can.html" }, { "id": 1187, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " “On your birthday, only do what you like the most and fuck the rest.” — Numeric Citizen\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-04 07:03:42 -0500", "date": "7:03 p.m. on Sep 4, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/04/on-your-birthday.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F04%2Fon-your-birthday.html" }, { "id": 1188, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Craft developers aren\u0026rsquo;t shy of sharing teasers and opening a private beta for Craft Objects and Style. While we all wait for any official release, I made this video today.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-02 16:14:39 -0500", "date": "4:14 p.m. on Sep 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/02/craft-developers-arent.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F02%2Fcraft-developers-arent.html" }, { "id": 1189, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I find myself preferring to listen to podcasts via Apple Podcasts web interface instead of the native app on Mac. It feels lighter.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-01 18:29:10 -0500", "date": "6:29 p.m. on Sep 1, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/01/i-find-myself.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F01%2Fi-find-myself.html" }, { "id": 1190, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is the final edition of the Creative Summary newsletter, which will be renamed \u0026ldquo;The Ephemeral Scrapbook Newsletter.\u0026rdquo; Over the past two weeks, the author has shared 20 posts, 12 photos, and one podcast episode, but no YouTube videos. The author feels conflicted about using Facebook and have rediscovered Medium, where they plan to publish more articles.\nThe newsletter also includes discoveries from MG Siegler, highlights from the iPhone Photography Awards, and insights on Apple\u0026rsquo;s upcoming event. The author is considering freelancing and will document the journey on Medium. He discusses app recommendations and express concerns over AI in photography and deepfakes.\nFootnote: this summary was generated using ChatGPT as an experiment.\n", "dateiso": "2024-09-01 09:34:08 -0500", "date": "9:34 p.m. on Sep 1, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/09/01/this-is-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F09%2F01%2Fthis-is-the.html" }, { "id": 1191, "type": "transcript", "title": "", "text": "Hello again, Facebook.\nToday I posted something on Facebook, and honestly, it felt weird.\nI can\u0026rsquo;t remember exactly when I last wrote on Facebook.\nI also had this symptom of missing out on things from my old colleagues and friends just by glancing at my timeline for a few minutes.\nIt felt heavy.\nMy post was about telling my Facebook friends about two sites where I share my photos online, Glass and Pixelfed.\nI don\u0026rsquo;t know if people will take time out of their busy lives to visit or even bookmark the sites.\nI shouldn\u0026rsquo;t care about that.\nThose who pay attention might even notice a link to my digital hub where I share all my other sites.\nBecause I\u0026rsquo;m curious, I\u0026rsquo;ll return back to Facebook in a few days to see if I got some comments.\nI\u0026rsquo;ll report back here in any case.\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-31 14:38:54 -0400", "date": "2:38 p.m. on Aug 31, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/transcripts/2024/08/31/1445.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2Ftranscripts%2F2024%2F08%2F31%2F1445.html" }, { "id": 1192, "type": "post", "title": "Hello Again, Facebook!", "text": "Today, I posted something on Facebook; and honestly, it felt weird. I can\u0026rsquo;t remember exactly when I last wrote on Facebook. I also had this symptom of missing out on things from my old colleagues and friends just by glancing at my timeline for a few minutes. It felt heavy. My post was about telling my \u0026ldquo;Facebook friends\u0026rdquo; about the two sites where I share my photos online: Glass and Pixelfed. I don\u0026rsquo;t know if people will take time off their busy lives to visit or even bookmark the sites. I shouldn\u0026rsquo;t care about that. Those who pay attention might even notice a link to my digital hub, where I share all my other sites. Because I\u0026rsquo;m curious, I\u0026rsquo;ll return back to Facebook in a few days to see if I got some comments. I\u0026rsquo;ll report back here in any case.\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-31 13:36:50 -0500", "date": "1:36 p.m. on Aug 31, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/08/31/hello-again-facebook.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F08%2F31%2Fhello-again-facebook.html" }, { "id": 1193, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Yesterday I went to see the 2024 World Press photography exposition. On our way out, there was a guestbook where I wrote: \u0026ldquo;I am speechless\u0026hellip; but full of images\u0026hellip; thank you to the photographers for their courage, without you, we would be in unbearable darkness.\u0026rdquo; I was troubled by the powerful images I saw.\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-30 20:00:14 -0500", "date": "8:00 p.m. on Aug 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/08/30/yesterday-i-went.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F08%2F30%2Fyesterday-i-went.html" }, { "id": 1194, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I always found this picture of Steve Jobs in his home office very fascinating. It\u0026rsquo;s too bad that we cannot read all the book titles. But there are two pieces of equipment that I wonder what they are. On is something that looks like a Mac Pro but the size of the computer is too small, even though Steve is using a big Apple display (30\u0026quot;?). Next to this is a bigger vertical device which would be a UPS, but also looks like an external GPU (but that wasn\u0026rsquo;t a thing at that time). Oh and in the left segment of the bookshelf, there are many small bottles of liquid drops. What were they for?\nUpdate #1: This post made it to the Hacker News site.\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-30 10:20:58 -0500", "date": "10:20 p.m. on Aug 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/08/30/i-always-found.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F08%2F30%2Fi-always-found.html" }, { "id": 1195, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "To me, this animated Apple logo is a clear visual reference to Apple Intelligence1. Expect to hear a lot about it when Apple shows off their new iPhones.\nEven if the service will slowly be rolled out over the course of the next 12 to 18 months.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-26 13:55:10 -0500", "date": "1:55 p.m. on Aug 26, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/08/26/to-me-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F08%2F26%2Fto-me-this.html" }, { "id": 1196, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A great morning read from Medium: the State of Medium. Here is something that I came across:\n“I think the fragmentation creates interesting options for people.\u0026quot; - Medium CEO\nI like where they are going.\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-24 08:09:20 -0500", "date": "8:09 p.m. on Aug 24, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/08/24/a-great-morning.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F08%2F24%2Fa-great-morning.html" }, { "id": 1197, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today is a day at the office which means an iPad-only day to take notes. I love those days. The iPad is such a great device for this use case.\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-22 07:42:07 -0500", "date": "7:42 p.m. on Aug 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/08/22/today-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F08%2F22%2Ftoday-is-a.html" }, { "id": 1198, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been playing with Substack in recent days and boy this platform is different now compared to its initial launch. I\u0026rsquo;m not coming to write there but I do want to read more content there, a few times a week.\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-20 16:59:54 -0500", "date": "4:59 p.m. on Aug 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/08/20/ive-been-playing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F08%2F20%2Five-been-playing.html" }, { "id": 1199, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today I experimented Slack Lists to track messages for which I want to make sure to get a response. It\u0026rsquo;s pretty useful. But I still don\u0026rsquo;t really like Slack in general🤦🏻‍♂️. The included screenshot is not from my own list but a template provided by Slack, just to give you an example.\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-20 12:35:21 -0500", "date": "12:35 p.m. on Aug 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/08/20/today-i-experimented.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F08%2F20%2Ftoday-i-experimented.html" }, { "id": 1200, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This morning, I submitted an article to a Medium publication. The subject is about considering going freelance. It\u0026rsquo;s been a long time since I have done this. Back in 2020 when I was much more active on Medium, submitting articles to Medium publications was the only way to get noticed and hope to make a few dollars along the way.\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-20 06:00:04 -0500", "date": "6:00 p.m. on Aug 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/08/20/this-morning-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F08%2F20%2Fthis-morning-i.html" }, { "id": 1201, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Back in May, 2023, Gruber on Bluesky. ​ John Gruber @gruber@mastodon.social Bluesky is going to skyrocket to mainstream popularity and actually replace Twitter, and Mastodon cannot, because Bluesky is being designed to be simple, fun, and — most importantly — easy to understand.\n5:18 AM • May 5, 2023\u0026nbsp;(UTC) Are we there, yet?​\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-19 19:28:24 -0500", "date": "7:28 p.m. on Aug 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/08/19/back-in-may.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F08%2F19%2Fback-in-may.html" }, { "id": 1202, "type": "post", "title": "I'll Never Buy a GM Car in My Life", "text": "GM didn\u0026rsquo;t want to carry CarPlay (and Android Auto!) in their cars because they were dimmed as unsafe. Was GM in fact hoping to open up these, instead, but why? Apple didn\u0026rsquo;t want to open their platform. Now we have a better idea as to why. In other news, GM is laying off hundreds of software engineers. I guess GM learned that doing software is hard. Well, fuck them.\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-19 19:05:30 -0500", "date": "7:05 p.m. on Aug 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/08/19/ill-never-buy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F08%2F19%2Fill-never-buy.html" }, { "id": 1203, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After Maps, now Podcasts. Apple is opening up more and more to the web. Why?\nSide node: ​I cancelled my Pocket Cast subscription (due for renewal in about 11 months 🙄).\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-19 16:10:44 -0500", "date": "4:10 p.m. on Aug 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/08/19/after-maps-now.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F08%2F19%2Fafter-maps-now.html" }, { "id": 1204, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Bye bye Apple frames shortcut1, hello Shareshot!\nCurrently not working under iOS 18 beta. ​\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-19 11:50:14 -0500", "date": "11:50 p.m. on Aug 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/08/19/bye-bye-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F08%2F19%2Fbye-bye-apple.html" }, { "id": 1205, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m currently testing a new blog post editor on Micro.blog. On the surface, everything looks familiar. The preview button behaviour is the one that surprised me the most as it replaces the blog post content with the preview, unlike before where the preview was underneath. Not having \u0026ldquo;auto-save\u0026rdquo; functionality is still a bit troubling to me, in 2024, though.\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-19 11:36:08 -0500", "date": "11:36 p.m. on Aug 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/08/19/im-currently-testing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F08%2F19%2Fim-currently-testing.html" }, { "id": 1206, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I think Apple should bring back the iPod to the iPhone in the form of a virtual device within the Music app. Imagine if each year, Apple would release a new design of its virtual iPod1. This would add some coolness factor for those who have known and used the iPod.\nThe first model could be a re-release of the iPod Classic, complete with a virtual click wheel!\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-15 13:09:20 -0500", "date": "1:09 p.m. on Aug 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/08/15/i-think-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F08%2F15%2Fi-think-apple.html" }, { "id": 1207, "type": "post", "title": "Hard Times Are Sometimes Needed ", "text": "When things go wrong at work, when numbers don’t add up to meet high sales expectations, only then people starts to question things. It’s only in these harder days that we can really start to find new ways, reimagine how we do business. Those hard times are sometimes necessary for a company to evolve.\nLooking at you Apple1.\nI’m also referring to the company I work for presently.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-14 11:36:55 -0500", "date": "11:36 p.m. on Aug 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/08/14/hard-times-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F08%2F14%2Fhard-times-are.html" }, { "id": 1208, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Forbidden Fruit\nIndependent developers work for the entire sale, but Apple doesn’t even work for their cut. In many ways, just being on the App Store is incredibly frustrating. We’re paying for pain while Apple gets paid for just relaxing.\nPeople are frustrated with Apple\u0026rsquo;s behavior regarding the App Store, leading them to make exaggerated claims. While one may disagree with Apple\u0026rsquo;s policies, stating that the company is simply relaxing is an overreaction.\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-14 08:33:34 -0500", "date": "8:33 p.m. on Aug 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/08/14/forbidden-fruit-independent.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F08%2F14%2Fforbidden-fruit-independent.html" }, { "id": 1209, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Forbidden Fruit\nApple used to fight for their lives, but now they barely have to work to make insane amounts of money.\nOversimplifying statement.\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-14 05:33:05 -0500", "date": "5:33 p.m. on Aug 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/08/14/forbidden-fruit-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F08%2F14%2Fforbidden-fruit-apple.html" }, { "id": 1210, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Forbidden Fruit\nAt some point Apple should ask who is in better need of that money. I know they won’t, but I’d like to think we live in a world where they could. They don’t need more money. They don’t even need the money they have\nCapitalism 101: Ask the shareholders.\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-13 20:45:09 -0500", "date": "8:45 p.m. on Aug 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/08/13/forbidden-fruit-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F08%2F13%2Fforbidden-fruit-at.html" }, { "id": 1211, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Forbidden Fruit\nApple was a better company when they were an underdog.\nMe too, but are we being a bit nostalic here?\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-13 19:11:33 -0500", "date": "7:11 p.m. on Aug 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/08/13/forbidden-fruit-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F08%2F13%2Fforbidden-fruit-apple.html" }, { "id": 1212, "type": "post", "title": "If Apple Were Consistently Listening ", "text": "Recently some people complained about Apple’s latest ad in the « The Underdogs » series to be offensive, and Apple « promptly » said sorry and removed the ad.\nIf only Apple showed a similar attitude towards developers who are more than fed up with their App Store practices and voiced their complaints so many times in so many ways… many people are noticing and find this shit show exhausting and damaging.\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-13 11:11:53 -0500", "date": "11:11 p.m. on Aug 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/08/13/if-apple-were.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F08%2F13%2Fif-apple-were.html" }, { "id": 1213, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "@mcelhearn @davemark Related: \"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.” - Ursula K. LeGuin\ndennyhenke@social.coop https://social.coop/users/dennyhenke/statuses/112955011591344016\rI still believe in this. We can (and should) make Apple change course.\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-13 08:54:50 -0500", "date": "8:54 p.m. on Aug 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/08/13/mcelhearn-davemark-related.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F08%2F13%2Fmcelhearn-davemark-related.html" }, { "id": 1214, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The United States announces a new tranche of military aid to Ukraine, at the same time as the latter carries out a significant incursion into Russian territory, an unprecedented gesture that could give a new dynamic to this protracted conflict. The signal from the United States is clear: we continue to believe that Ukraine is only defending itself.\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-09 15:59:51 -0500", "date": "3:59 p.m. on Aug 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/08/09/the-united-states.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F08%2F09%2Fthe-united-states.html" }, { "id": 1215, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The Ukrainian forces have been advancing deep into Russia, in the Kursk oblast, for the past few days, destroying the Russian army on the roads while advancing, without much resistance. They have now progressed approximately 30 kilometers past the Ukrainian border.\nThis is a major development in this insane war.\nSurprisingly, it is not widely covered in the news here in Canada. The Ukrainian army is establishing currency exchange facilities in the near future. I don\u0026rsquo;t see how Russia is going to \u0026ldquo;fix\u0026rdquo; this without a bloodshed, again. Putin must be a little bit upset, I guess. Or maybe not.\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-09 06:02:49 -0500", "date": "6:02 p.m. on Aug 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/08/09/the-ukrainian-forces.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F08%2F09%2Fthe-ukrainian-forces.html" }, { "id": 1216, "type": "post", "title": "The Mac Mini Needs a Redesign", "text": "Rumors suggest a \u0026ldquo;finally\u0026rdquo; moment, with Apple on the verge of completing the redesign of the newest generation of the Mac mini, this time featuring an M4 chip. This could result in the smallest Mac ever.\nThe current Mac mini design dates back to 2010, when Apple was still using more power-hungry and larger Intel chips. The only change over the years has been the back portion to accommodate a variety of port offerings. When Apple transitioned to Apple Silicon chips, right after the Apple Silicon Dev Kit was made available, I expected a redesign and saw the Dev Kit as a transitional step, simply because the chip is smaller, more power-efficient, and requires much less cooling. To me, this was the right time to do so. However, they did not.\nIf you look inside an M1 Mac mini, thanks to this teardown guide from iFixit you can see that there is some empty space. Coupled with what Apple can do with the M4 iPad Pro, and the environmental pressure to be more efficient in resource consumption (power, materials, etc.), it is clear that the Mac mini must be rethought from the ground up. Will Apple go with an external PSU for this? I don\u0026rsquo;t expect this to be the case.\nOne more thing: I\u0026rsquo;ve been a satisfied user of the M1 Mac mini since 2020, but I\u0026rsquo;m increasingly considering an upgrade, either to the Mac Studio or a more powerful Mac mini. I\u0026rsquo;ll be sure to pay close attention to my options.\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-08 12:08:54 -0500", "date": "12:08 p.m. on Aug 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/08/08/the-mac-mini.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F08%2F08%2Fthe-mac-mini.html" }, { "id": 1217, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thought of the day: Watch out democrats, Trump and Vance aren’t just weirdos. They are disfigured fascists.\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-08 07:46:47 -0500", "date": "7:46 p.m. on Aug 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/08/08/thought-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F08%2F08%2Fthought-of-the.html" }, { "id": 1218, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When I read the Threads app data privacy fact sheet on the App Store yesterday night and read a few « reviews », I quickly came back to earth and decided (again) to not join Threads. Time to focus on what I already have.\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-06 17:34:42 -0500", "date": "5:34 p.m. on Aug 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/08/06/when-i-read.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F08%2F06%2Fwhen-i-read.html" }, { "id": 1219, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What the \u0026ldquo;can\u0026rsquo;t do real work on an iPad\u0026rdquo; narrative is really about\npeople like me do want a Mac for getting all of our stuff done, but Apple doesn\u0026rsquo;t make exactly the Mac we want, so we lust after the iPad and lament how it doesn\u0026rsquo;t get the job done for us. If the Mac we wanted existed, we\u0026rsquo;d buy that and not have nearly as much to say about iPadOS.\nI think Matt is nailing it. Apple doesn\u0026rsquo;t want to make an iPad run macOS, fine, but are they as much vocal against making a Mac touch-friendly? I don\u0026rsquo;t think so. Mike Gurman wrote this past week-end that one Mac will see a major redesign in the next 12 months. Could this be to introduce touch support?\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-06 08:14:24 -0500", "date": "8:14 p.m. on Aug 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/08/06/what-the-cant.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F08%2F06%2Fwhat-the-cant.html" }, { "id": 1220, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Cookie banners show everything that\u0026rsquo;s wrong with the EU\nIt makes it hard to cheer for even much-needed antitrust action, like the Digital Markets Act. Because if the EU can screw up something as basic as cookie banners this bad, and prove so incapable and uninterested in re-calibrating its approach, what hope is there for the thornier issues?\nA shit show in the making.\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-06 06:43:15 -0500", "date": "6:43 p.m. on Aug 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/08/06/cookie-banners-show.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F08%2F06%2Fcookie-banners-show.html" }, { "id": 1221, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Next Apple Watch SE Could Be Made From Plastic\nApple used to sell a plastic ‌iPhone‌ 5c, for example, and it came in vibrant blue, yellow, pink, and green colors. Plastic would also better differentiate the ‌Apple Watch SE‌ from the standard Apple Watch models as the current ‌Apple Watch SE‌ is basically a modified version of the aluminum Apple Watch without the latest features.\nI wonder if Apple could use 3D printing for the SE plastic case. There are rumors that Apple might use 3D printing in building devices. That could be it.\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-06 06:39:38 -0500", "date": "6:39 p.m. on Aug 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/08/06/next-apple-watch.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F08%2F06%2Fnext-apple-watch.html" }, { "id": 1222, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "At the very least, I could reserve my username on Instagram and Threads, just in case. While maintaining strong principles is important, being open-minded and reasonable can also be valuable. May the night be beneficial. 😒\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-05 21:01:12 -0500", "date": "9:01 p.m. on Aug 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/08/05/at-the-very.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F08%2F05%2Fat-the-very.html" }, { "id": 1223, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Something really BIG is coming to Craft: Objects. Thoughts?\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-05 10:11:13 -0500", "date": "10:11 p.m. on Aug 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/08/05/something-really-big.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F08%2F05%2Fsomething-really-big.html" }, { "id": 1224, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The latest edition of my weekly creative summary is out! This is a jam pack one. Email version coming out soon to subscribers! Pass editions available here.\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-04 07:01:43 -0500", "date": "7:01 p.m. on Aug 4, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/08/04/the-latest-edition.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F08%2F04%2Fthe-latest-edition.html" }, { "id": 1225, "type": "post", "title": "On ARM Laptops, Windows And... The Usual Stuff Needed With Windows...", "text": "I always enjoy MKBHD\u0026rsquo;s videos, and this one about the Microsoft Surface ARM laptop is no exception. His views are well-balanced and feel honest. Now, about this specific lap, supposedly being fast with long battery life, great built quality and\u0026hellip; a touch screen, certainly feels like a leap beyond Apple\u0026rsquo;s offerings, but\u0026hellip; it\u0026rsquo;s running Windows. And that, is the problem. I wouldn\u0026rsquo;t buy one of these for the simple reason that running Windows required running a bunch of security-related software to keep it secure. How much processing power these apps takes out of the base configuration? Certainly a few percentage points, but for me, it\u0026rsquo;s ruining the whole thing. And that, MKBHD don\u0026rsquo;t mention anything about it.\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-03 08:43:27 -0500", "date": "8:43 p.m. on Aug 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/08/03/on-arm-laptops.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F08%2F03%2Fon-arm-laptops.html" }, { "id": 1226, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When one of my colleagues presents me with a text produced by ChatGPT (or any other comparable tools), I am sometimes astonished by what I read, but what interests me much more is the initial prompt that allowed the content to be produced. It helps put the results into context.\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-02 07:35:16 -0500", "date": "7:35 p.m. on Aug 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/08/02/when-one-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F08%2F02%2Fwhen-one-of.html" }, { "id": 1227, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple results: big increase in services, big increase in iPad sales, increase in Mac sales, wearables sales in decline (AVP doesn’t move the needle, Watch in need of a reboot), China in decline. That’s pretty much it.\n", "dateiso": "2024-08-01 15:38:03 -0500", "date": "3:38 p.m. on Aug 1, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/08/01/apple-results-big.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F08%2F01%2Fapple-results-big.html" }, { "id": 1228, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;d like to try non-Apple mechanical keyboards because they look cool and they got stylish design but the problem with those third-party keyboards like Lofree is the lack of non-English language support.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-31 13:01:40 -0500", "date": "1:01 p.m. on Jul 31, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/31/id-like-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F31%2Fid-like-to.html" }, { "id": 1229, "type": "post", "title": "Memories", "text": "Today is my mother\u0026rsquo;s 91st birthday. She passed away 18 months ago, but the memories of her remain vivid. This morning, my iPhone suggested a video memory highlighting cherished moments with her, which nearly brought me to tears. Time may have flown by, but my affection for her endures, even though I wasn\u0026rsquo;t that close to her, not has much as I would have liked. One of my last photos of her. 😔\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-30 12:29:44 -0500", "date": "12:29 p.m. on Jul 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/30/memories.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F30%2Fmemories.html" }, { "id": 1230, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If I get it well, each iOS 18.1 beta release will be a few days later than each iOS 18.0 betas, provided that iOS 18.1 gets all the fixed and features in iOS 18.0, right? But public betas will be a week later for each iOS 18 branch release? Or iOS 18.1 branch will be devs only? Still with me? 🤪\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-29 18:46:18 -0500", "date": "6:46 p.m. on Jul 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/29/if-i-get.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F29%2Fif-i-get.html" }, { "id": 1231, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If I set my iPad to use US English so that Apple Intelligence can do its magic, my iPhone is also set to use the same settings automatically. What?? What is going on here?\nI want to use my iPad in full US English for Apple Intelligence testing but leave my iPhone alone so that I can use it in French Canadian is the old Siri stuff. 😳😔😡\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-29 17:55:30 -0500", "date": "5:55 p.m. on Jul 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/29/if-i-set.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F29%2Fif-i-set.html" }, { "id": 1232, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I believe it could take anywhere from 12 to 18 months for Apple Intelligence to make its way to Canada and support the French Canadian language. (This text was originally written by me than processed by Apple Intelligence to make it more friendly). #appleintelligence\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-29 17:13:15 -0500", "date": "5:13 p.m. on Jul 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/29/i-believe-it.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F29%2Fi-believe-it.html" }, { "id": 1233, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "That’s interesting. #ipados181 #appleintelligence 🧐🤨😏\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-29 16:57:27 -0500", "date": "4:57 p.m. on Jul 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/29/thats-interesting-ipados.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F29%2Fthats-interesting-ipados.html" }, { "id": 1234, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I am installing iPadOS 18.1 beta 1 on my iPad Pro right now because\u0026hellip; just for text proofreading1 and summarizing, it\u0026rsquo;s worth it. Most of my creative hobby happens to be done in English. Also, changing the device region (not the Apple ID region) to US is not a big deal. Finally, I don\u0026rsquo;t talk too often to Siri on my iPad (which I do in French on my iPhone, though).\nSoon: bye bye Grammarly Premium.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-29 16:14:05 -0500", "date": "4:14 p.m. on Jul 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/29/i-am-installing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F29%2Fi-am-installing.html" }, { "id": 1235, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So iOS 18.1 is a thing, after all. Well, as I live in Canada, I\u0026rsquo;m not going to set the region to English US on my phone1. I rather wait and see other devs and YouTubers delve into this beta of Apple Intelligence and see how it goes. That should be fun and interesting.\nUpdate: changing the region of the device doesn\u0026rsquo;t do much except for date formatting, temperature metric and dollars amount formatting. Oh, and if you set one device (iPad) to use one region, the other device (iPhone) will also use the same region. Why?\nI\u0026rsquo;m not sure what would be the consequences of doing so, besides the Date, Time and Currency settings being changed.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-29 12:28:35 -0500", "date": "12:28 p.m. on Jul 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/29/so-ios-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F29%2Fso-ios-is.html" }, { "id": 1236, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Is today’s world (AI models training, security, etc.), I wonder if site owners are well equipped with robots.txt as the only way to control who’s in and who’s out when it comes to deciding free and massive content consumption on their site.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-29 11:26:59 -0500", "date": "11:26 p.m. on Jul 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/29/is-todays-world.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F29%2Fis-todays-world.html" }, { "id": 1237, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "There will not be an issue of my weekly creative summary newsletter this week, as I have been focused on another project. You can, of course, visit pass issues by visiting this index page! I hope you don\u0026rsquo;t mind!\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-28 11:30:00 -0500", "date": "11:30 p.m. on Jul 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/28/there-will-not.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F28%2Fthere-will-not.html" }, { "id": 1238, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I had a bug in one of my IFTTT applets that usually gets each post I share and stores it on Day One. The applet hasn\u0026rsquo;t run since July 7th, but I only found out today. Sadly, the IFTTT RSS feed service doesn\u0026rsquo;t keep a pointer of the last successful import. I\u0026rsquo;m not sure what to do to recover the posts that weren\u0026rsquo;t saved. 🤔😒\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-28 07:01:39 -0500", "date": "7:01 p.m. on Jul 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/28/i-had-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F28%2Fi-had-a.html" }, { "id": 1239, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Who is the Micro.blog community manager, again? Thanks.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-28 06:26:34 -0500", "date": "6:26 p.m. on Jul 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/28/who-is-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F28%2Fwho-is-the.html" }, { "id": 1240, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "FYI: Synology Drive Client with macOS Sequoia aren\u0026rsquo;t going well at all together. Beware.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-27 15:57:13 -0500", "date": "3:57 p.m. on Jul 27, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/27/fyi-synology-drive.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F27%2Ffyi-synology-drive.html" }, { "id": 1241, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m so proud of Celine Dion’s performance. WOW. ❤️ #openingceremony\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-26 17:27:30 -0500", "date": "5:27 p.m. on Jul 26, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/26/im-so-proud.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F26%2Fim-so-proud.html" }, { "id": 1242, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Jeff Perry on Reddit deal with Google for content access exclusivity in indexing their content: The Enshittification of Search Continues\nThis could set a precedent for other sites like Hacker News and Pinterest to start searching for the highest bidder to make their content exclusive on another search engine. Eventually other sites might do the same in hopes to thwart the serial scraping of their content for AI models to learn from and make a few bucks in the process. It is just another byproduct of the Enshittification of the web.\nTroubling, indeed. Emphasis is mine.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-26 05:58:07 -0500", "date": "5:58 p.m. on Jul 26, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/26/jeff-perry-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F26%2Fjeff-perry-on.html" }, { "id": 1243, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Seriously considering closing my Reddit account. It’s not worth it. And their corporate attitude don’t align with my values.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-25 09:54:52 -0500", "date": "9:54 p.m. on Jul 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/25/seriously-considering-closing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F25%2Fseriously-considering-closing.html" }, { "id": 1244, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Anyone using macOS Sequoia beta 4 in here? Is it stable enough to install on a secondary Mac? Asking for a friend.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-24 06:16:45 -0500", "date": "6:16 p.m. on Jul 24, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/24/anyone-using-macos.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F24%2Fanyone-using-macos.html" }, { "id": 1245, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In iOS 18 beta 4, look at user ratings in the App Dtore and the choice Apple made for the star’s gray shades… it’s very hard to spot how many actual stars were given out of the five. Is this on purpose? 👀🧐\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-23 17:32:44 -0500", "date": "5:32 p.m. on Jul 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/23/in-ios-beta.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F23%2Fin-ios-beta.html" }, { "id": 1246, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s 8:45 AM. The joy of running beta software. 😱👀\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-22 07:52:18 -0500", "date": "7:52 p.m. on Jul 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/22/its-am-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F22%2Fits-am-the.html" }, { "id": 1247, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "👋🏻 I\u0026rsquo;m a little bit late, but hey, here is the newest edition of my weekly creative summary newsletter. The email edition is coming up later today. 😅\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-21 17:23:58 -0500", "date": "5:23 p.m. on Jul 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/21/im-a-little.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F21%2Fim-a-little.html" }, { "id": 1248, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " ⚡️West must \u0026rsquo;let go\u0026rsquo; of \u0026lsquo;irrational fears\u0026rsquo; of escalation with Russia, FM Kuleba says. \u0026ldquo;Putin does not require any reasons to escalate. Instead, we must take the initiative and make Putin fear our next move, not the other way around,\u0026rdquo; Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said in a Reddit \u0026ldquo;Ask Me Anything\u0026rdquo; session.\nAnd I can’t wait for the west to wake up.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-21 13:35:03 -0500", "date": "1:35 p.m. on Jul 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/21/west-must-let.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F21%2Fwest-must-let.html" }, { "id": 1249, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today I made a template. Who knows, it might be useful to some big company.\n“We will release {insert product or service name here} over the coming months, but not in the EU due to the unpredictable nature of the European regulatory environment,” {insert company name here} said in a statement to {Insert news agency name here}.\nYou are welcome.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-19 15:24:56 -0500", "date": "3:24 p.m. on Jul 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/19/today-i-made.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F19%2Ftoday-i-made.html" }, { "id": 1250, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today’s CrowdStrike update is probably the most expensive update of all time in IT history. Will we really learn from it? Some big players probably will but in general, I doubt it. #crowdstrike\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-19 11:16:48 -0500", "date": "11:16 p.m. on Jul 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/19/todays-crowdstrike-update.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F19%2Ftodays-crowdstrike-update.html" }, { "id": 1251, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In a meeting this morning at the office, I was quick to point out that those running Macs were just fine (we’re a Microsoft shop with a few weird guys like me promoting the Mac). I got booed. I guess people in IT are masochist. #crowdstrike 🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-19 08:17:09 -0500", "date": "8:17 p.m. on Jul 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/19/in-a-meeting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F19%2Fin-a-meeting.html" }, { "id": 1252, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apparently, a social network like X does not promote posts containing links to external websites. While this policy may be frustrating1, there are possible responses to this practice to consider. If someone shares a post with a link to X, you could choose not to open the link2. Encouraging others to adopt a similar stance can be an effective way to voice your opinion and influence the platform\u0026rsquo;s practices through your engagement, or lack thereof.3\nIt is!\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nthis is what I systematically do.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nIt\u0026rsquo;s a way of saying: fuck them all!\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-19 05:45:05 -0500", "date": "5:45 p.m. on Jul 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/19/apparently-a-social.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F19%2Fapparently-a-social.html" }, { "id": 1253, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "You can’t make that shit up, right? WTF is wrong with them? 🫣🤮 sorry about this negative post right after a positive one. 🙃\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-18 15:51:25 -0500", "date": "3:51 p.m. on Jul 18, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/18/you-cant-make.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F18%2Fyou-cant-make.html" }, { "id": 1254, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today’s positive post: it’s caseless day! I love to feel my iPhone this way in my hands! 🤗\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-18 15:46:12 -0500", "date": "3:46 p.m. on Jul 18, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/18/todays-positive-post.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F18%2Ftodays-positive-post.html" }, { "id": 1255, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The AT\u0026amp;T Data Breach Shows Why RCS Can’t Be Trusted and the Downside of Apple Adding Support for It in iOS 18\nEddy Cue doesn’t lose many arguments but he lost that one. All of the effort spent pushing Apple to support RCS would have been better spent pushing Apple to ship iMessage for Android. And without a supported iMessage client for Android, that role ought to go to WhatsApp, not RCS. WhatsApp is free, secure, and works equally well on all phones.\nI think Apple made a big mistake by not shipping iMessage for Android.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-18 05:30:20 -0500", "date": "5:30 p.m. on Jul 18, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/18/the-att-data.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F18%2Fthe-att-data.html" }, { "id": 1256, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today’s positive post: I’m happy to have installed iOS 18 beta 3 on my phone. A few bugs here and there and glitches but nothing earth chattering. 🤗\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-17 17:36:12 -0500", "date": "5:36 p.m. on Jul 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/17/todays-positive-post.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F17%2Ftodays-positive-post.html" }, { "id": 1257, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Tomorrow I\u0026rsquo;m going to the Apple Store for an Apple Vision Pro demonstration. For some reasons, I\u0026rsquo;m not that excited for this. And I\u0026rsquo;m a big Apple fan. I was excited for the AVP when it came out, but like everyone else, the hype is no longer there. Apple is still working to find THE killer app or use case for this. And, something is broken with Apple these days\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-17 10:17:55 -0500", "date": "10:17 p.m. on Jul 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/17/tomorrow-im-going.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F17%2Ftomorrow-im-going.html" }, { "id": 1258, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In today\u0026rsquo;s positive post, it\u0026rsquo;s about Inoreader filtering capabilities. Without them, cutting out the noise from feeds from AppleInsider or MacRumors just to name a few obvious abusers would be impossible. These feeds are usually filled with ads disguised as posts. Filtering keywords include: Amazon, Deal, Rebate, Gift, Discount, Prime, Amazon. You get the idea.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-17 07:09:10 -0500", "date": "7:09 p.m. on Jul 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/17/in-todays-positive.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F17%2Fin-todays-positive.html" }, { "id": 1259, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Taboola + Apple News? No thanks\nApple’s decision to strike a deal with Taboola is shocking and off-brand — so much so that I have started to question the company’s long-term commitment to good customer experience, including its commitment to privacy. As it chases more and more revenue to appease Wall Street, it’s clear Apple will become one of those companies that prioritize shareholders over paying customers and their experience.\nI hate ads. I hate ads. This is a sad day. That is not cool at all. How can Apple brags about protecting user privacy (see that ad on YouTube?) and al while serving ads through an external ads network? More than ever, Apple is becoming like everyone else and IS profiling its users, for money. I\u0026rsquo;m starting to hate Tim Cook\u0026rsquo;s Apple. As soon as I see a change in News, I\u0026rsquo;ll cancel my subscription to Apple One.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-16 16:19:22 -0500", "date": "4:19 p.m. on Jul 16, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/16/taboola-apple-news.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F16%2Ftaboola-apple-news.html" }, { "id": 1260, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If Apple were to design a new router, the resulting device would likely resemble this one from Ubiquiti. The box has a similar aesthetic to Apple\u0026rsquo;s iconic networking hardware.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-16 12:42:39 -0500", "date": "12:42 p.m. on Jul 16, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/16/if-apple-was.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F16%2Fif-apple-was.html" }, { "id": 1261, "type": "post", "title": "Apple Is Telling Half the Story", "text": "There is something incomplete in how Apple is portraying Safari as a way to stay private when surfing the web. The ad is certainly visually striking, with surveillance cameras flying over people as they browse the web on their non-iPhone devices. It\u0026rsquo;s a compelling analogy. It reminds me of another Apple ad where a person is in a similar situation, being watched and followed by a group of people who want to know their online whereabouts.\nBut you know, Apple is mum about its deal with Google as being the default search engine in Safari. The last time I checked, Google isn\u0026rsquo;t the type of privacy-protection company you might think they are.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-16 12:35:59 -0500", "date": "12:35 p.m. on Jul 16, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/16/apple-is-telling.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F16%2Fapple-is-telling.html" }, { "id": 1262, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Best new feature of iOS 18 / iPadOS 18? We can hide app names on the home screen! This post is part of a series where I try to share things that I like, things that are positive… you are welcomed. 🤓\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-16 11:10:03 -0500", "date": "11:10 p.m. on Jul 16, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/16/best-new-feature.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F16%2Fbest-new-feature.html" }, { "id": 1263, "type": "post", "title": "Trying to Find Comforting Thoughts", "text": "Manuel Moreale reflecting on one hundred people who took the time to sign his guestbook (I did):\nIt’s the number of people who have taken a few minutes out of their busy lives to write something on my guestbook. One hundred doesn’t seem a lot in the grand scheme of things, especially on the web. If you have one hundred followers you might as well have zero. One hundred views on a YouTube video? That’s nothing. You need at least one hundred thousand to be part of the conversation. And yet, I find one hundred signatures in a guestbook to be a lot. Can you imagine having one hundred people in front of you, all saying something to you, one after the other? It would feel overwhelming.\nI often think about this. Just like Manuel, I have a blog, a YouTube channel, a podcast (sort of). Globally, my follower counts are very low (even lower than Manuel\u0026rsquo;s) when looked through the Internet scale lens, but if those people were in front of me, in the same room, that would be quite something else. I find this thought to be comforting.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-16 06:02:39 -0500", "date": "6:02 p.m. on Jul 16, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/16/trying-to-find.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F16%2Ftrying-to-find.html" }, { "id": 1264, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I 🥰 the new design of Photos in iPadOS 18. Probably the most controversial opinion about iPadOS this year.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-15 19:57:11 -0500", "date": "7:57 p.m. on Jul 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/15/i-the-new.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F15%2Fi-the-new.html" }, { "id": 1265, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So, iPadOS 18 beta3: nothing obvious, really. Feels snappy. Less buggy than expected. Some rough edges, of course. Autocorrect seems way better. Finally. Tempted by iOS 18 now. 🤦🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-15 19:40:37 -0500", "date": "7:40 p.m. on Jul 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/15/so-ipados-beta.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F15%2Fso-ipados-beta.html" }, { "id": 1266, "type": "post", "title": "But Techies Will Be Happy", "text": "Google Chrome, Along With Other Popular Chromium Browsers, Grants System Monitoring Privileges to *.google.com Domains\nBut speaking of the DMA, Chromium is, far and away, the most popular browser engine that the DMA compels Apple to allow on iOS. There are legitimate reasons to wish that Apple allowed third-party browser engines on iOS. But there are also legitimate reasons why Apple doesn’t allow them. Chrome really is bad. Better to let the market decide than let clueless regulators decide.\nI\u0026rsquo;m on the side of Gruber here. Governments are usually not very good at tech. We should always be on the doubters side when they want to regulate. Opening up the iPhone will make it weaker than today, not better. I would even argue that the vast majority of users will lose more than they gain. But some techies will be happy.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-15 06:04:30 -0500", "date": "6:04 p.m. on Jul 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/15/but-techies-will.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F15%2Fbut-techies-will.html" }, { "id": 1267, "type": "post", "title": "Yep, Fucking Guns", "text": "Great take by Gruber on this week sad but highly predictable events. The US is a sick country. Sidenote: on my last few trips, all Americans that I met told me after presenting themselves as Americans: “I know, we’re one of those stupid Americans…”. I reserve this thought mostly to Trump supporters which I never met personally, thanks god.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-14 20:15:16 -0500", "date": "8:15 p.m. on Jul 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/14/yep-fucking-guns.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F14%2Fyep-fucking-guns.html" }, { "id": 1268, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Tempted to installiPadOS 18b3 for my 2024 iPad Pro. It’s not my main driver. I’m cautious about cross-device sync issues though (Photos app is an example). Anything I should’ve be watching for?\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-14 16:22:52 -0500", "date": "4:22 p.m. on Jul 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/14/tempted-to-installipados.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F14%2Ftempted-to-installipados.html" }, { "id": 1269, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "People are so quick to say “I don’t want him to win but I also don’t want him to die” as if there’s some prize for not wishing death on someone who does more than wish us dead. If someone in power actively attempts to do unthinkable damage to the world and people around you, just a reminder: you get absolutely nothing in exchange for kindness toward them.\nLouie Mantia, Jr. https://pdx.social/@louie/112784769642210687\rSome food for thoughts.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-14 08:24:39 -0500", "date": "8:24 p.m. on Jul 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/14/people-are-so.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F14%2Fpeople-are-so.html" }, { "id": 1270, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So American. 👀\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-13 18:44:21 -0500", "date": "6:44 p.m. on Jul 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/14/so-american.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F14%2Fso-american.html" }, { "id": 1271, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I support LGBTQ+ cause. I read MacStories story about Threads murky management of controversial posts. My personal take is simplicistic: stop using Meta platforms. I do understand that for some people to be heard, they want to be on Meta’s platforms, though.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-13 10:02:16 -0500", "date": "10:02 p.m. on Jul 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/13/i-support-lgbtq.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F13%2Fi-support-lgbtq.html" }, { "id": 1272, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My current view: in-flight infotainment screen where we can see the flight timeline. Easily spot when meals are served. First time that I’m seeing this. I find this really cool and probably helps answer many questions from people. Side note: I’d love to see Apple build a FlightPlay user experience (CarPlay equivalent).\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-13 09:36:01 -0500", "date": "9:36 p.m. on Jul 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/13/my-current-view.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F13%2Fmy-current-view.html" }, { "id": 1273, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " I’ve seen a few people arguing that Samsung’s Galaxy Watch Ultra, though clearly inspired by Apple Watch Ultra, isn’t a rip-off, per se, because it’s not an exact clone. Ben Thompson even tried to argue such with me on Dithering this week.\nIndeed. We have to admit it: this Samsung watch if far from being a clone of the Apple Watch Ultra.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-13 05:13:03 -0500", "date": "5:13 p.m. on Jul 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/13/ive-seen-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F13%2Five-seen-a.html" }, { "id": 1274, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Brought a book with me for vacation. Didn’t read it as I always find better things to do. Typical me. 🤷🏻‍♂️🙄\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-13 05:07:50 -0500", "date": "5:07 p.m. on Jul 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/13/brought-a-book.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F13%2Fbrought-a-book.html" }, { "id": 1275, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finally booked my Apple Vision Pro demo session for this coming week. I’m not buying this thing but I can’t wait to try it out. Side note: during my vacation in Croatia, we went to see a museum in Split where we were handed Meta Quest headset. The experience was interesting but the visual quality left to be desired.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-13 04:05:49 -0500", "date": "4:05 p.m. on Jul 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/13/finally-booked-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F13%2Ffinally-booked-my.html" }, { "id": 1276, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I wish there was a “Edited with” mention in Apple Photos app because sometimes I’ll use built in editing and other times I’ll use Photomator.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-13 01:48:12 -0500", "date": "1:48 p.m. on Jul 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/13/i-wish-there.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F13%2Fi-wish-there.html" }, { "id": 1277, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s time for me to return home, sadly. This vacation has been one of the best at many levels. I feel rejuvenated mentally and physically. I’ll use flight time (ten hours) to reflect on my time here in Croatia and to look forward to resume my blogging and creative activities.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-13 00:52:25 -0500", "date": "12:52 p.m. on Jul 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/13/its-time-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F13%2Fits-time-for.html" }, { "id": 1278, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Location check in 🗺 — Our last notorious stop in Dubrovnik, Croatia.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-12 04:35:33 -0500", "date": "4:35 p.m. on Jul 12, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/12/location-check-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F12%2Flocation-check-in.html" }, { "id": 1279, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "An ATM in Montenegro shows a warning asking the admin user to login to activate Windows. 😱🤪\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-11 08:25:03 -0500", "date": "8:25 p.m. on Jul 11, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/11/an-atm-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F11%2Fan-atm-in.html" }, { "id": 1280, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Location check in 🗺 — Kotar, Montenegro. Nice place, lots of tourists. Hot 🥵\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-11 03:39:26 -0500", "date": "3:39 p.m. on Jul 11, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/11/location-check-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F11%2Flocation-check-in.html" }, { "id": 1281, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s been a few days since my last travel update, but a more pressing matter has been monopolizing my spare time: writing a heartfelt message for my son, who is turning 20 this September. This task holds greater significance because my message, along with others, will be compiled into a printed book as a special gift for him.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-10 11:24:37 -0500", "date": "11:24 p.m. on Jul 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/10/its-been-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F10%2Fits-been-a.html" }, { "id": 1282, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Another heavy and sweaty day in Dubrovnik! We walked the city walls earlier in the morning and yet it was already too hot. 🥵\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-10 04:58:58 -0500", "date": "4:58 p.m. on Jul 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/10/another-heavy-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F10%2Fanother-heavy-and.html" }, { "id": 1283, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Location check in 🗺 — It is sooooo hot in here! Many tourists too! Dubrovnik, Croatia!\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-09 05:55:15 -0500", "date": "5:55 p.m. on Jul 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/09/location-check-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F09%2Flocation-check-in.html" }, { "id": 1284, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Our current view in Dubrovnik port, Croatia. That’s the moon that I love! 😍\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-08 14:18:37 -0500", "date": "2:18 p.m. on Jul 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/08/our-current-view.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F08%2Four-current-view.html" }, { "id": 1285, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Slowly but surely heading to Dubrovnik, Croatia, by the sea. 🤗 what a wonderful morning, isn’t?\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-08 00:19:11 -0500", "date": "12:19 p.m. on Jul 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/08/slowly-but-surely.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F08%2Fslowly-but-surely.html" }, { "id": 1286, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A summer taste of Croatia. 🤗\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-07 11:51:59 -0500", "date": "11:51 p.m. on Jul 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/07/a-summer-taste.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F07%2Fa-summer-taste.html" }, { "id": 1287, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Location check in 🗺 — Lovely village. Korcula, Croatia.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-07 10:16:56 -0500", "date": "10:16 p.m. on Jul 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/07/location-check-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F07%2Flocation-check-in.html" }, { "id": 1288, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "We met a couple in their thirties, from Dallas Texas, this evening at the cruise opening diner. Eventually, near the end of the diner, politics came up in the discussions. Nowadays, it’s a tricky subject and we don’t force it outselves. We quickly discovered that they were anti-Trump and very caution about the Democrats too. It’s refreshing to meet people coming from those areas of the US that shares some of our views about the US, politics and general values. I’m French Canadian, mind you.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-06 14:55:50 -0500", "date": "2:55 p.m. on Jul 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/06/we-met-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F06%2Fwe-met-a.html" }, { "id": 1289, "type": "post", "title": "Travel update #13: Bye Bye Split, Let’s Do Another Cruise to Dubrovnik!", "text": "Today was our last day in Split, Croatia. We strolled through the streets of Split once again and had breakfast at the \u0026ldquo;Bepa\u0026rdquo; restaurant, which is accessible from one of the public squares. Once again, we ate very well. However, the prices for food are even higher than we expected. We\u0026rsquo;re coming to the conclusion that traveling in Croatia is almost as expensive as traveling in countries like Italy!\nToday also marks the beginning of a short cruise that will allow us to visit the islands of Korčula and Mljet before arriving in Dubrovnik, our last stop before returning to Canada. We still have many beautiful things to discover, fortunately. I don\u0026rsquo;t know if it\u0026rsquo;s a good sign or not, but the early experiences from the beginning of our trip already feel distant.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-06 14:50:24 -0500", "date": "2:50 p.m. on Jul 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/06/travel-update-bye.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F06%2Ftravel-update-bye.html" }, { "id": 1290, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here is something really cool but deeply flawed: a public bench where you can sit (theoretically) and drop your iPhone on a charging pad next to the solar panel. Great idea, right🤔? Well, first the temperature on the bench surface is probably over 200F! Second, as you sit, you block the sun and so the energy inflow. 🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-06 09:53:04 -0500", "date": "9:53 p.m. on Jul 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/06/here-is-something.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F06%2Fhere-is-something.html" }, { "id": 1291, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Location check in 🗺 — Leaving tomorrow morning for the Korcula island, Croatia. Now shilling on the boat! 🤗\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-06 09:43:18 -0500", "date": "9:43 p.m. on Jul 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/06/location-check-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F06%2Flocation-check-in.html" }, { "id": 1292, "type": "post", "title": "Travel update #12: Visiting Hvar, Bisevo, Vis Islands, Croatia", "text": "Once again, with a bit of delay, I’m sharing a new update on my trip to Croatia. Yesterday, the day was primarily spent on the waters in front of the city of Split. We took a small speedboat cruise to visit three beautiful large islands. The tour lasted more than ten hours. We also passed through the popular Blue Lagoon and visited a cave located on the island of Bisevo, where the turquoise water offers a surreal setting. It was absolutely magnificent. We had a mini lunch in Hvar and spent two lovely hours there, strolling and enjoying this beautiful place. A fishing village welcomed us. Fishing is still practiced there, but tourism is by far the largest economic activity. The architecture of the buildings is similar to what is found throughout the Croatian coast, with light stone buildings and terracotta-tiled roofs in shades of orange. This is also similar to what you find in Italy, by the way. We had a quite bumpy return to the coast as the sea was much more agitated than in early morning. It was quite an experience. Thankfully, the boat operator was experimented.\nRegarding food, restaurant offerings mostly consist of grilled dishes, mainly fish and meat. Tuna salads, Niçoise, and Greek salads are also on the menu. Some restaurants feature typical Croatian dishes like goulashes. The sale of ice cream and gelato is very common in southern villages, where it\u0026rsquo;s warmer. I succumbed a few times, actually. The brightness on clear days here is absolutely perfect, just like everywhere on the Côte d\u0026rsquo;Azur.\nWe are halfway through our stay in this beautiful country. Tomorrow, we will embark on a small cruise for a few days to visit other islands, ultimately leading us to our final destination: Dubrovnik, where we will spend a few days. I’m really looking forward to it.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-05 10:56:30 -0500", "date": "10:56 p.m. on Jul 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/05/travel-update-visiting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F05%2Ftravel-update-visiting.html" }, { "id": 1293, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Smoking is still a big thing in Croatia apparently. 😖😖☹️\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-05 04:08:40 -0500", "date": "4:08 p.m. on Jul 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/05/smoking-is-still.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F05%2Fsmoking-is-still.html" }, { "id": 1294, "type": "post", "title": "Travel update #11: From Sibenik to Split, Croatia", "text": "Yesterday, I didn\u0026rsquo;t have time to write the daily update because it was a transition day by car to our next destination: Split in Croatia. Of course, we took advantage of our route to stop in Trogir to visit and have lunch there. It was our last stop by car as we had to leave it at the airport in the suburbs of Trogir. From now on, we will take a boat. More details to come on that.\nOur journey continued to Split, taking a taxi via Uber. The trip took a little over half an hour. Once there, we went to drop off our luggage at our apartment and took some time to explore the surroundings. What a strange but beautiful urban environment. Our apartment is located inside the old palace of Split. Accessing it is not easy as there are winding corridors and numerous stairs to climb. We felt like we were living within the walls of a medina like those found in Morocco. It’s lovely.\nI took advantage of the late afternoon light to take some photos. What a beautiful city. I already know that I won\u0026rsquo;t have enough time to see everything and try to capture photos that are off the beaten path. I\u0026rsquo;ll do my best, and it will serve as an excuse to wish to return someday.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-04 11:45:07 -0500", "date": "11:45 p.m. on Jul 4, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/04/travel-update-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F04%2Ftravel-update-from.html" }, { "id": 1295, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Biden is losing much more by staying than by leaving. His career legacy will be: he lost because he didn’t want to let it go. For whom? For what? A real leader would just step back.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-03 08:51:14 -0500", "date": "8:51 p.m. on Jul 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/03/biden-is-losing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F03%2Fbiden-is-losing.html" }, { "id": 1296, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Location check in 🗺 — Quick stop to visit Trogir, Croatia.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-03 05:29:13 -0500", "date": "5:29 p.m. on Jul 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/03/location-check-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F03%2Flocation-check-in.html" }, { "id": 1297, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This one is for @maique ! With love ! 😗🤣\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-02 13:38:54 -0500", "date": "1:38 p.m. on Jul 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/02/this-one-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F02%2Fthis-one-is.html" }, { "id": 1298, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Observation of the day: because of the trees, we can hear the wind. Travelling has great influence on my spirit.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-02 12:21:37 -0500", "date": "12:21 p.m. on Jul 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/02/observation-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F02%2Fobservation-of-the.html" }, { "id": 1299, "type": "post", "title": "Travel update #10: Sibenik Take #2, Croatia", "text": "Once again, what a beautiful day we had in Sibenik. The main objective today was to visit the three forts of the city, which offer a splendid view of the town and the islands off the coast. The weather was magnificent even though storm cells were threatening the region. Fortunately, we were spared from rain and lightning!\nWe visited the three forts, which were overall interesting but are mainly worth visiting for the views they offer. We took advantage of the occasion to have a picnic at lunchtime while the wind was blowing moderately across the area. It was pleasant to hear the wind rustling through the trees, mostly mature pines.\nAfter visiting the forts, we descended back into the city, this time making sure to choose a parking spot on the west side of town so we could walk along the long promenade by the docks. We ended up in the old part of the city to revisit and complete our tour from yesterday, which was merely a preview. This time, I had the good camera in hand, and I took the opportunity to capture new perspectives different from those taken yesterday.\nWe were back at the apartment around 6:30 PM to freshen up before heading out to a small neighboring village of Vodice, i.e., Tribunj. I can\u0026rsquo;t wait to see this little village.\nI can’t wait to share some of my best pictures.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-02 12:12:13 -0500", "date": "12:12 p.m. on Jul 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/02/travel-update-sibenik.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F02%2Ftravel-update-sibenik.html" }, { "id": 1300, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My next trip to the US is to see a Sting show in New York in October. After that, I\u0026rsquo;m not planning to visit the US for at least five years. I refuse to visit totalitarian states. Fuck #Trump. Fuck those who supports this buffoon and clown.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-02 07:21:18 -0500", "date": "7:21 p.m. on Jul 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/02/my-next-trip.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F02%2Fmy-next-trip.html" }, { "id": 1301, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The “joy” of trying to be iPad-only while traveling. Hitting “try again” fixes the issue but it’s a recurring one. I’m just browsing a folder containing images stored on the iPad itself for god’s sake! 🤬\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-02 02:06:36 -0500", "date": "2:06 p.m. on Jul 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/02/the-joy-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F02%2Fthe-joy-of.html" }, { "id": 1302, "type": "post", "title": "On My Writing Style As a Traveler", "text": "As you probably know, I’ve been writing and sharing my travel notes since the beginning of my trip to Croatia. I’m proud of maintaining the regularity to post each day, but not as proud of my writing itself. I can’t quite describe the quality of my writing, but when I read it back, it feels rather superficial. Why do I feel this way?\nWell, my writing tends to list the places I visited and whether I liked them. But I almost always fail to explain why I loved visiting them. Take yesterday’s travel update, for example: I wrote that I fell in love with Sibenik and shared a photo of banners adorned with children’s drawings. What exactly resonated with me in this place? What were my emotions when I entered the narrow streets of the village and first saw the banners everywhere? It was surprising—the children’s drawings added a contrast to the old buildings\u0026rsquo; walls, giving the city a sense of humanity. And you know what? It was the children’s festival! It’s a great way to celebrate humanity.\nPart of my problem is that I’m not a native English speaker, but a French speaker. I don’t have the same level of vocabulary to describe feelings or physical places. I’m wondering if I could first write a version of my travel update in French and then ask ChatGPT to translate it into English. For today’s travel update, that’s what I’m going to do. We’ll see how it comes out this time. Let me know if you notice a difference.\nDisclaimer: this text was first written in English (yes, in English!) and I asked ChatGPT to improve to the writing. It made a big difference, trust me, but I still have this feeling of owning the ideas and the final results.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-02 01:46:15 -0500", "date": "1:46 p.m. on Jul 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/02/on-my-writing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F02%2Fon-my-writing.html" }, { "id": 1303, "type": "post", "title": "Travel update #9: Krka National Park \u0026 Sibenik, Croatia", "text": "It’s been a day with ups and downs. We left the apartment at around 10:30 AM in direction of the Krka National Park, 45-minute drive to see some other waterfalls and translucide lakes. The first part of the visit was really nice because it was like a repeat of the other visit to the national park that we visited earlier in the week with great waterfalls and gorgeous lakes with transparent blue water. Unlike the first national park, this time, it was much more crowded to a point of being unpleasant at some point because we had to wait for people to finish their selfies. 🤨\nWe left to see another part of the park where a bigger waterfall was expected and was located further in the park, but we couldn’t locate it and wasted our time waiting for the bus to get us back to the parking lot. The last stop was to visit a secluded church rather hard to locate on the maps. We eventually ended up at the entrance and couldn’t buy any tickets to visit the area but a priest did let us anyway visit the monastery and the areas with a little smile on his face. It was a welcomed gesture.\nNext up, we had to return to the apartment to exchange my pair of glasses otherwise I would have been enable to drive at night when coming back to the apartment. For dinner, we decided to go to Sibenik, a great little village near Vodice. Oh boy I instantly fell in love with it. I didn’t have my main camera so I was left with my iPhone to take as many pictures as I could. We decided to come back tomorrow and this time, I’ll bring my other big camera. I can’t wait for this.\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-01 15:05:51 -0500", "date": "3:05 p.m. on Jul 1, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/01/travel-update-krka.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F01%2Ftravel-update-krka.html" }, { "id": 1304, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m in love with this city: Šibenik, Croatia! 🇭🇷\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-01 12:43:09 -0500", "date": "12:43 p.m. on Jul 1, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/01/im-in-love.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F01%2Fim-in-love.html" }, { "id": 1305, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Croatian national park entrance fees are kind of steep but I appreciate the quality of the installations and general maintenance of the parks something that cannot be said of every national parks. 👌🏻\n", "dateiso": "2024-07-01 04:34:59 -0500", "date": "4:34 p.m. on Jul 1, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/07/01/croatian-national-park.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F07%2F01%2Fcroatian-national-park.html" }, { "id": 1306, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "There is something that I find irritating on the my M4 iPad Pro (and probably on all devices which includes support for HDR content): when browsing photos in Photos.app and tapping on one photo in HDR format, the iPad screen turns itself very bright so that it can display the photo in full HDR… returning to the photos thumbnail view will turn off the HDR mode and photos turns in SDR mode… this flashing is not smooth. That’s the best Apple could do?\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-30 12:45:33 -0500", "date": "12:45 p.m. on Jun 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/30/there-is-something.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F30%2Fthere-is-something.html" }, { "id": 1307, "type": "post", "title": "Travel update #8: Kornati Islands, Croatia", "text": "Here’s today’s travel update. What a wonderful day we had, thanks to this day-cruise around the Kornati Islands, starting from Vodice’s port at 9 AM. We had lunch at around 11:30 AM, right before a 3-hour stop at one of the island (can’t remember the name!) where we could spend some time swimming at the beach or in a very salty small interior lake. I decided to go for the trail around the lake instead, a 2.2KM quick trekking. While the temperature at the village was expected to reach 33C during the day, weather on the sea was cooler and very nice, with very little wind, except in the trail where the temperature probably reached more than 30C with partially shaded trail sections, thanks to tall pine trees. A bit scary discovery: while walking the trail in the forest, I encountered many big spider nets at about fifteen feet high each with a gigantic spider standing right in the middle, waiting for the next prey. It was a bit scary and disgusting, not my favourite thing to see. Overall, it was a great day.\nI took my telephoto lens with me this time around and it was a judicious decision. I started editing my travel photos and I must say that without Adobe Lightroom’s built in catalog, it’s a bit cumbersome. I often get this error in Photomator as seen below. It’s a bit frustrating. I think it’s more of an iPadOS instabilities than a problem with Photomator.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-30 12:33:17 -0500", "date": "12:33 p.m. on Jun 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/30/travel-update-kornati.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F30%2Ftravel-update-kornati.html" }, { "id": 1308, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "M. G. Siegler musing about possible next iteration of the Apple Vision:\nThe most compelling idea would be allowing/forcing the \u0026lsquo;Vision\u0026rsquo; to tether to an iPhone or Mac to run the computing of the device. Frankly, I think they should do this. I know they view it as a stand-alone computing device, one that could potentially do it all one day, but that day is far, far away. You already have to use the ridiculous (and ridiculously inconvenient) external battery to power the device. They should either put a Mac SoC in that brick or use their software screen-casting smarts to offload much of the work to an iPhone, iPad, or Mac.\nNow that people know they have to live with an external battery pack in order to use the Vision Pro, putting a small Mac-in-that-box to offload some of the weight off the Vision Pro could be a game changer too. Apple is clever at iterating on things to make them better. The Apple Vision is not done yet, just be patient.\nIn other notes: the Vision Pro is coming to Canada this July and I can’t wait to book myself a 30-minute demonstration appointment.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-30 00:25:57 -0500", "date": "12:25 p.m. on Jun 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/30/m-g-siegler.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F30%2Fm-g-siegler.html" }, { "id": 1309, "type": "post", "title": "Travel update #7: Vodice’s Beaches, Croatia", "text": "We didn’t do much today: taking our time early in the morning when preparing and having breakfast and then spending time on the beach and relaxing. I did some writing too, from my iPhone while sitting on my sunbathing chair. It’s far from being ideal for writing longer posts but it is what it is. I had some thoughts to share about AI, generative AI more specifically (like this thought, this one and that one).\nWe came back to the apartment after having a drink at a beach club nearby. Then, again, we were quietly spending time online before getting ready to prepare the meal for dinner. Our plans for the rest of the day is to return in the village’s center to feel the village’s night life. It’s only a ten-minute walk from where we stay. It’s very convenient.\nThanks for reading.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-29 12:08:30 -0500", "date": "12:08 p.m. on Jun 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/29/travel-update-vodices.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F29%2Ftravel-update-vodices.html" }, { "id": 1310, "type": "post", "title": "Pressure Might Be Mounting on Apple with Apple Intelligence in Unexpected Ways ", "text": "Warning: Unsettled thoughts: I think many tech pundits are overestimating Apple Intelligence capabilities and influence potential. If Apple fails to deliver, even slightly, it might trigger a crash like the dot com crash. Some tech pundits are fast at expecting Apple to be the gateway to generative AI legitimacy. In this logic, if Apple fails, AI will fail too. I might be over simplifying things here.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-29 09:48:41 -0500", "date": "9:48 p.m. on Jun 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/29/pressure-might-be.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F29%2Fpressure-might-be.html" }, { "id": 1311, "type": "post", "title": "Could Generative AI Content Usage Be THE Biggest Problem?", "text": "I’m wondering if the way someone elects to use generated content from generative AI models is way more potentially problematic and subject to debate than anything related to models training using content from the open web.\nAlso: generative AI content used to train generative AI models is also source of concerns to me. I call that process “knowledge desinfection” or “knowledge toxification” or even better “knowledge asphyxiation”. Or should I replace “knowledge” with “intelligence”?\nOne more thing: the more I think about generative AI training, the less I think it should be considered plagiarism. More on that one soon.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-29 09:26:07 -0500", "date": "9:26 p.m. on Jun 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/29/could-generative-ai.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F29%2Fcould-generative-ai.html" }, { "id": 1312, "type": "post", "title": "Maybe We Should Stop Crying Fool: We’ve Been Trained Ourselves! ", "text": "Thinking out loud about generative models training.\nIn a way, we’ve all been trained ourselves in our life by the books we read, the movies we saw, the music we listened. Some people have been trained on very specific knowledge bodies, in very specific fields. People use this accumulated “training” also forming “culture” to create new things and produce new content. Some people might be trained on a specific music style or dancing style. We’ve been trained by teachers. As “trained” creators, do we ask a permission when writing something new or writing music using our training data? Now because it happens at a large scale by large (and “nasty”?) corporations to create products, we cry foul?! Where is the line to be drawn here? I don’t know.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-29 07:58:40 -0500", "date": "7:58 p.m. on Jun 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/29/maybe-we-should.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F29%2Fmaybe-we-should.html" }, { "id": 1313, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Location check in 🗺 — Enjoying the beach. 🤗\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-29 05:38:04 -0500", "date": "5:38 p.m. on Jun 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/29/location-check-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F29%2Flocation-check-in.html" }, { "id": 1314, "type": "post", "title": "Travel update #6: Zadar + Vodice, Croatia", "text": "Today we left for Zadar and Vodice where we will stay for five days in a small apartment. We arrived at noon in Zadar and had a nice picnic in a small park, under the shade of big trees. It was a quiet place and we wondered about how few tourists seem to be present since we arrived in Croatia. It might not be peak season just yet. We spent nearly three hours in Zadar, a great coastal city of Croatia, to walk in the city’s small streets behind the fortified perimeter. It felt a bit hot even for a coastal city, yet the weather was splendid. We saw (and heard) the sea organ and we were pleased by the sound of it.\nWe left Zadar for Vodice at 3PM, a one-hour drive on a coastal road. As we drove away from Zadar we saw the surroundings slowly change in appearance. Vodice is a small village where we can find great places to have dinner and visit the marina surrounded by typical summer houses and beach clubs. Tomorrow I should have more to say about this small village.\nThanks for reading my short travel updates!\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-28 11:17:43 -0500", "date": "11:17 p.m. on Jun 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/28/travel-update-zadar.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F28%2Ftravel-update-zadar.html" }, { "id": 1315, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Location check in 🗺 — Five-day stop right here. Can wait to walk around and discover.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-28 10:07:47 -0500", "date": "10:07 p.m. on Jun 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/28/110747.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F28%2F110747.html" }, { "id": 1316, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Location check in 🗺 — What a great city! Zadar, Croatia!\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-28 06:18:27 -0500", "date": "6:18 p.m. on Jun 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/28/location-check-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F28%2Flocation-check-in.html" }, { "id": 1317, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If democrats are really eager to govern the next five years, they will replace Biden. If Biden is a leader, he will step down. A lot of big ifs.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-28 01:50:49 -0500", "date": "1:50 p.m. on Jun 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/28/if-democrats-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F28%2Fif-democrats-are.html" }, { "id": 1318, "type": "post", "title": "Travel update #5: Rastoke, Croatia", "text": "Earlier this morning, the weather was better than yesterday, so we decided to revisit Plitvicka Jezera National Park. The improved lighting allowed us to better appreciate the lake’s renowned blue and green hues, and there were fewer tourists. However, we didn’t stay as long as our previous visit because we wanted to explore a small village called Rastoke. This village, known for its charming houses and numerous waterfalls, was highly recommended by our host. We enjoyed a picnic there before exploring, and we were not disappointed; the place was delightful.\nOn our way back, we stopped to see the river’s source near the road. To our surprise, we found several old, barely standing buildings, which made for great photography. However, a thunderstorm was forming nearby, forcing us to cut our visit short. After checking the local radar, we realized we had just enough time to escape and return to our car.\nAnd we were back at our B\u0026amp;B at four fifty. It’s another great day in Croatia. Now loading up a new batch of photos into my iPad.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-27 10:54:00 -0500", "date": "10:54 p.m. on Jun 27, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/27/travel-update-rastoke.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F27%2Ftravel-update-rastoke.html" }, { "id": 1319, "type": "post", "title": "Travel update #4: Plitvicka Jezera Nation Park, Croatia", "text": "We left Zagreb today to go visit the Plitvicka Jezera national park. it was a two hour drive from Zagreb. After a nice and smooth ride we arrived at around 11:15 AM in the park ready to tackle the 4-6 hour circuit. Boy this place is wonderful! It took us about four hours. We had a rain shower or two but each time we were lucky to be at the right place either on the boat or in the forest so we didn’t get wet! Lucky me because I wasn’t ready for rain with my unprotected photo equipment. Speaking of photography, I don’t know how many shots I did but I’m pretty sure there are a few quite impressive with such natural surroundings. I can’t wait to process those images.\nTonight, we’re going to have dinner at a house near our B\u0026amp;B in Grabovac, a very small village be close to the national park. They served grilled fish and meat. It supposed to be really good. We’ll see, but I trust the Croatians so far!\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-26 11:02:49 -0500", "date": "11:02 p.m. on Jun 26, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/26/travel-update-plitvicka.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F26%2Ftravel-update-plitvicka.html" }, { "id": 1320, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Location check in 🗺 — First National Park in Croatia: Plitvicka Jezera!\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-26 04:37:52 -0500", "date": "4:37 p.m. on Jun 26, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/26/location-check-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F26%2Flocation-check-in.html" }, { "id": 1321, "type": "post", "title": "Travel update #3: Zagreb, Croatia", "text": "We went for another walking session in Zagreb after the rain finally went on pause in the second half of the afternoon. We visited another portion of the city before ending up near the restaurant where we planned to have dinner, a Sri Lanka restaurant called “Curry Bowl” which again was rated five stars. It was absolutely delicious. But just before going for the dinner we stopped at a little bar because the rain started again. It was “apéro time”. All in all we enjoyed Zagreb: a nice, relativelyely quiet European city where we always felt in safe.\nTomorrow heading off to Plitvice Lakes National Park for two days. It will be quite a different environment.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-25 14:49:23 -0500", "date": "2:49 p.m. on Jun 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/25/154923.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F25%2F154923.html" }, { "id": 1322, "type": "post", "title": "Travel update #2: Zagreb, Croatia", "text": "I’m currently writing this from our room as there are some heavy showers outside. We had a chance to walk a lot since morning in Zagreb and had a great lunch at the restaurant called “Heritage” which is close to our B\u0026amp;B. It’s a very small place where only maybe ten people can have lunch at the same timee (counting those 3 tables outside!). They make absolutely great sandwiches with Croatian ingredients (ham, truffle spread, local cheese, etc.). We also all a great walnuts salad and a drink. Eating is our great pleasure when visiting a place like Zagreb. This place has five stars and is not that expansive.\nBack to our room, I’m writing this post after I imported my first batch of images (62 in all) and started to tag which one I would process. All this is done on my iPad, Files and Photomator. Works great so far. The only thing is that I forgot to change the time zone so my pictures got the wrong time stamp. Not that big of a deal. If the internet speed was better, I would have included an image to this post, but that’s not the case. Too bad.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-25 09:08:44 -0500", "date": "9:08 p.m. on Jun 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/25/100844.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F25%2F100844.html" }, { "id": 1323, "type": "post", "title": "Travel update #1: Zagreb, Croatia", "text": "First full day in Croatia. It is the morning here in Zagreb. Yesterday, we arrived and spent the first few hours wandering in the city center where all the night life is happening. It was the time to spot the places that we were to revisit later (today). We were tired following our two flights by night.\nThere was a soccer match at 9PM and people were quite excited and were looking forward to it. It ended end up in a tie 1-1 Croatia against Italia. I don’t care too much about soccer but Croatian do quite a lot!\nI didn’t take my camera with me as I felt my iPhone would be enough. It was a good call anyway because it was rather late in the evening. We had dinner at a restaurant and had goulash and beer. It was a typical plate for Croatian apparently. We came back to the B\u0026amp;B exhausted by our air travelling. I do feel the jet lag this morning but I expect thing to improve in the next two to three days.\nThis blog post was a writing exercise to practice my daily journaling while traveling abroad.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-25 02:31:28 -0500", "date": "2:31 p.m. on Jun 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/25/travel-update-zagreb.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F25%2Ftravel-update-zagreb.html" }, { "id": 1324, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Location check in 🗺 — And touch down. Zagreb, Croatia.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-24 09:30:33 -0500", "date": "9:30 p.m. on Jun 24, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/24/location-check-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F24%2Flocation-check-in.html" }, { "id": 1325, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Is it me, or Automattic is missing a big opportunity by not enabling users to publish their journal entries to a custom blog or website directly from Day One? I think they do.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-23 16:54:54 -0500", "date": "4:54 p.m. on Jun 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/23/is-it-me.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F23%2Fis-it-me.html" }, { "id": 1326, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A new iOS 18 beta should drop tomorrow, where SharePlay improvements and iPhone Mirroring will be included for the first time. Except that they won\u0026rsquo;t be available for people in EU. Apple made the announcement last Friday. Poor EU users. 🙃 Here in Canada, we don\u0026rsquo;t have Apple Card nor Apple Cash. But that\u0026rsquo;s for quite different reasons. When iOS 18 ships, we won\u0026rsquo;t get Apple Intelligence either, unless we set our phone to English US, which I won\u0026rsquo;t do, except for testing the thing for a few moments. EU isn\u0026rsquo;t alone in their \u0026ldquo;misery\u0026rdquo;, I guess.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-23 16:39:34 -0500", "date": "4:39 p.m. on Jun 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/23/a-new-ios.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F23%2Fa-new-ios.html" }, { "id": 1327, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I decided to use Day One for my travel journaling instead of Apple\u0026rsquo;s Journal. Reason being very simple: Day One is available on all my devices. Most of my text probably won\u0026rsquo;t be shared, but if I decide to publish someone, I\u0026rsquo;ll use the Day One export feature.\nUpdate: sadly, images aren\u0026rsquo;t exported while exporting in Markdown format. Not surprising, but it\u0026rsquo;s a nearly a dealbreaker.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-23 16:15:12 -0500", "date": "4:15 p.m. on Jun 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/23/i-decided-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F23%2Fi-decided-to.html" }, { "id": 1328, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My /nope page is up.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-23 14:34:00 -0500", "date": "2:34 p.m. on Jun 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/23/my-nope-page.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F23%2Fmy-nope-page.html" }, { "id": 1329, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Flights outlook for the day. I love Flighty.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-23 10:33:02 -0500", "date": "10:33 p.m. on Jun 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/23/flights-outlook-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F23%2Fflights-outlook-for.html" }, { "id": 1330, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Last minutes adjustments before traveling: revisited the \u0026ldquo;on vacation\u0026rdquo; focus mode on my iPhone to make sure to receive notifications from certains apps1, updated the home screen and lock screen wallpapers to be more in line with traveling mode. I also bought and installed my eSIM from Airalo2. Decided not to renew Halide subscription but will I\u0026rsquo;ll try to use it anyway over Apple\u0026rsquo;s camera app3.\nI\u0026rsquo;m excluding all work-related apps, of couse.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nThey offer a great buying experience and usually flawless when I travel abroad.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nPhotomator can easily open and edit images from Halide camera.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-23 10:28:30 -0500", "date": "10:28 p.m. on Jun 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/23/last-minutes-adjustments.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F23%2Flast-minutes-adjustments.html" }, { "id": 1331, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I finally completed the Digital Legacy Management Guide (available here on Gumroad). It comes as a Craft document that can be duplicated as a template, as well as PDF and Markdown files downloads. The goal here is to help people plan for their digital legacy handling.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-23 09:01:07 -0500", "date": "9:01 p.m. on Jun 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/23/i-finally-completed.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F23%2Fi-finally-completed.html" }, { "id": 1332, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Should my /nope page go to my blog here or to this hub site? Help me decide.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-23 08:22:23 -0500", "date": "8:22 p.m. on Jun 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/23/should-my-nope.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F23%2Fshould-my-nope.html" }, { "id": 1333, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What Ghost.org is doing to introduce Fediverse support looks really cool and promising. The day this officially comes out, it means users will be able to subscribe to my website from their favorite Fediverse instance and client. This also means people will be able to comment on my blog from their Mastodon client too! cc @manton\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-23 07:51:12 -0500", "date": "7:51 p.m. on Jun 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/23/what-ghostorg-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F23%2Fwhat-ghostorg-is.html" }, { "id": 1334, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What\u0026rsquo;s wrong with this? 🤔🙄\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-23 07:33:37 -0500", "date": "7:33 p.m. on Jun 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/23/whats-wrong-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F23%2Fwhats-wrong-with.html" }, { "id": 1335, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Fun fact about me: I rarely visit websites and search for photos of my travel destinations before leaving my country. I prefer the full surprise. Zagreb, wait for me!\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-22 16:24:49 -0500", "date": "4:24 p.m. on Jun 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/22/fun-fact-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F22%2Ffun-fact-about.html" }, { "id": 1336, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I wish I had an embedded \u0026ldquo;recent photos\u0026rdquo; feed on this blog, something along the line of Greg Morris\u0026rsquo; blog, but I\u0026rsquo;m clueless to add such a thing to a Micro.blog hosted website. 😞\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-22 15:54:41 -0500", "date": "3:54 p.m. on Jun 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/22/i-wish-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F22%2Fi-wish-i.html" }, { "id": 1337, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Anyone using a VPN client when they travel abroad? Why? Which one? I considering using this when I\u0026rsquo;ll be in Croatia and it must be compatible with iOS and iPadOS. Thanks.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-22 10:33:33 -0500", "date": "10:33 p.m. on Jun 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/22/anyone-using-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F22%2Fanyone-using-a.html" }, { "id": 1338, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Comparing generative AI model capacities to a school study level is plain stupid (OpenAI pretends GPT-5 to be PhD level). AI is not about intelligence just like having a PhD. The latter is a mere indicator or proxy, at best.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-22 09:28:47 -0500", "date": "9:28 p.m. on Jun 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/22/comparing-generative-ai.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F22%2Fcomparing-generative-ai.html" }, { "id": 1339, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "★ The EU Is Reaping What It Sows With the DMA: Uncertainty\nhttps://daringfireball.net/2024/06/eu_reaping_what_it_sows\nDaring Fireball https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/112656439199929952 For once, I\u0026rsquo;m on Gruber\u0026rsquo;s side here. But who am I? A clueless north American who doesn\u0026rsquo;t get the EU\u0026rsquo;s laws and law\u0026rsquo;s spirit? Maybe.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-21 15:21:43 -0500", "date": "3:21 p.m. on Jun 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/21/the-eu-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F21%2Fthe-eu-is.html" }, { "id": 1340, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For all of its purported goals to 'foster a better digital market', having foreign tech companies delay features into the EU market will have huge effects not just for consumers but for developers. I can't see that becoming an economic advantage to an already-lagging EU tech economy.\nhttps://mastodon.social/@sdw/112655853762435882\rWell said.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-21 13:00:59 -0500", "date": "1:00 p.m. on Jun 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/21/for-all-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F21%2Ffor-all-of.html" }, { "id": 1341, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Of all the PowerPoint presentations that I need to attend for my job1, it is baffling how many times the presenter don\u0026rsquo;t bother putting the presentation mode ON. Can Microsoft do something do about it? 🙄\nAnd often suffer watching the content\u0026hellip;\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-21 12:15:17 -0500", "date": "12:15 p.m. on Jun 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/21/of-all-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F21%2Fof-all-the.html" }, { "id": 1342, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "We are starting to see some cracks in the AI bubble castle… AI stock market will probably go through the same scenario as the tech bubble in the early 2000. You probably read it first here.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-21 11:53:09 -0500", "date": "11:53 p.m. on Jun 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/21/we-are-starting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F21%2Fwe-are-starting.html" }, { "id": 1343, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For my M4 iPad Pro, I decided to skip the Magic Keyboard for iPad purchase. Instead, I’ll be using a Magic Keyboard and a mouse. I think it’s a great compromise and a very light one, by the way.\nYet, iPadOS and many apps aren’t really keyboard aware. As an example, using Micro.blog native app, if I select a few words and hit CMD-B, the command is ignored and I have to reach the screen to select the bold option. This adds friction to my writing experience. Cc @manton\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-19 17:40:05 -0500", "date": "5:40 p.m. on Jun 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/19/for-my-m.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F19%2Ffor-my-m.html" }, { "id": 1344, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On iPadOS, you can hit CMD-Q on your keyboard to « quit » an app… in fact, only the icon is removed from the app switcher view while pressing CMD-TAB. If you re-launch the app from the home screen, the app is stilll in memory. Who said iPadOS is a strange beast?\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-19 11:14:51 -0500", "date": "11:14 p.m. on Jun 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/19/on-ipados-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F19%2Fon-ipados-you.html" }, { "id": 1345, "type": "post", "title": "When Will IT Support Guys Learn?", "text": "The CEO of the company I work for (450 employees) called me today over Microsoft Teams because he was seeking for help and explanations for a problem with repeated authentification requests when using Microsoft 365 services on his devices (an iPhone, an iPad). He wasn\u0026rsquo;t sure why he was getting that many requests. After calling the IT department for support, he was baffled by the responses he got for his problem: reboot your phone, uninstall Apple Mail and re-install, that type of shitty responses. After a few tries, he finally got the \u0026ldquo;real\u0026rdquo; reasons: iPhone aren\u0026rsquo;t supported officially and weakening the security posture of the whole company, he should get an Android. What a shitload of bullshit, which is often typical from IT guys who don\u0026rsquo;t understand or know Apple devices. I\u0026rsquo;m so tired of this, after all those decades.\nBack to my call with my CEO, after trying to understand the situation and find a sound explanation, I told him that the type of answers he got was unacceptable. We are an IT company for god\u0026rsquo;s sake! He was shy of admitting the same and surprised by this nonsense. He is the CEO, a smart guy. We should do better.\nThe iPhone is not weakening the security posture of the company, some IT support guys are1.\nI don\u0026rsquo;t want to generalize but this type of support from unknowledgeable IT guys is still way too much prevalent these days.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-17 15:14:01 -0500", "date": "3:14 p.m. on Jun 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/17/when-will-it.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F17%2Fwhen-will-it.html" }, { "id": 1346, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Claim of the moment: Perplexity AI ignores robot.txt files and crawls websites even when the site owner says no. https://rknight.me/blog/perplexity-ai-is-lying-about-its-user-agent/\nMike Elgan https://mastodon.social/@MikeElgan/112632009097841556\rWoah, that is not cool, at all. Even if I don\u0026rsquo;t care too much for AI bots to crawl and ingest my content, I would expect them to respect those author and site owners who decides otherwise. It\u0026rsquo;s not the best way to build trust.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-17 07:54:35 -0500", "date": "7:54 p.m. on Jun 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/17/claim-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F17%2Fclaim-of-the.html" }, { "id": 1347, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "📝 Just like my old iPods, the iPod name is just collecting dust, despite being the best name they ever came up with.\nhttps://lmnt.me/blog/ipod.html\nLouie Mantia, Jr. https://pdx.social/@louie/112631455473717129\rI agree. The iPod name more accurately describes the current iPhone. However, it\u0026rsquo;s unlikely that Apple will revert to this name, despite its strong brand recognition.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-17 05:26:03 -0500", "date": "5:26 p.m. on Jun 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/17/just-like-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F17%2Fjust-like-my.html" }, { "id": 1348, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It Sunday time and so my weekly creative summary is out! This is the Craft hosted version. The email version is coming out later today. Enjoy. By the way, the Craft version, this week, contains a sub-page that won\u0026rsquo;t make it in the newsletter edition, thanks to Craft.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-16 10:09:58 -0500", "date": "10:09 p.m. on Jun 16, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/16/it-sunday-time.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F16%2Fit-sunday-time.html" }, { "id": 1349, "type": "post", "title": "Pondering", "text": "In a week, I\u0026rsquo;ll be preparing to fly to Croatia for a three-week vacation with my wife. I\u0026rsquo;m still considering several aspects of the trip. How much blogging should I do during this time? Should I stay quiet and focus entirely on my vacation and photography? What camera equipment should I bring? Should I bring my MacBook Air in addition to my iPad Pro?\nI need to decide the right balance between being present in the moment and documenting the journey through my blog. While I enjoy sharing my experiences, I also want to fully immerse myself in the trip without the constant pressure of content creation. As for the camera gear, I\u0026rsquo;ll need to carefully assess what I\u0026rsquo;ll actually use versus what I might pack just in case. The MacBook Air could be helpful for editing photos on the go, but the iPad Pro is a more compact and convenient option. Ultimately, I want to travel light and focus on making the most of this vacation with my wife.\nI still have a week to figure this out.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-15 16:18:04 -0500", "date": "4:18 p.m. on Jun 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/15/ponedring.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F15%2Fponedring.html" }, { "id": 1350, "type": "transcript", "title": "", "text": "Pondering.\nIn a week, I\u0026rsquo;ll be preparing to fly to Croatia for a three-week vacation with my wife.\nI\u0026rsquo;m still considering several aspects of the trip.\nHow much blogging should I do during this time?\nShould I stay quiet and focus entirely on my vacation and photography?\nWhat camera equipment should I bring?\nShould I bring my MacBook Air in addition to my iPad Pro?\nI need to decide the right balance between being present in the moment and documenting the journey through my blog.\nWhile I enjoy sharing my experiences, I also want to fully immerse myself in the trip without the constant pressure of content creation.\nAs for the camera gear, I\u0026rsquo;ll need to carefully assess what I\u0026rsquo;ll actually use versus what I might pack just in case.\nThe MacBook Air could be helpful for editing photos on the go, but the iPad Pro is the more compact and convenient option.\nUltimately, I want to travel light and focus on making the most of this vacation with my wife.\nI still have a week to figure this out.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-15 17:17:46 -0400", "date": "5:17 p.m. on Jun 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/transcripts/2024/06/15/1240.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2Ftranscripts%2F2024%2F06%2F15%2F1240.html" }, { "id": 1351, "type": "post", "title": "Apple Private Cloud Compute Curiosities", "text": "Apple announced a significant development at this year\u0026rsquo;s WWDC: the creation of its own cloud infrastructure named \u0026ldquo;Private Cloud Compute\u0026rdquo; for securely handling certain Apple Intelligence requests. As an IT professional working in data center technologies, I have a few questions that remain unanswered even after watching John Gruber\u0026rsquo;s The Talk Show Live:\nWhat CPU is used in each server? I wonder if Apple is utilizing high-end versions of its Apple Silicon chips. It\u0026rsquo;s worth noting that there was no update to the Mac Studio this year. Is Apple diverting M3 Max or M3 Ultra production to build its Private Cloud Compute data centers (which currently feature 32 Neural Engine cores in the M2 Ultra)?\nWhat type of case design is Apple using for the servers? Are they modified versions of the Mac mini, or are they using a rack-mount variant of the Mac Studio?\nIs Apple deploying data centers only in the United States or across multiple continents? I suspect the latter, for the sake of redundancy and capacity.\nI expect that sometime in the future, perhaps at WWDC 2025, Apple may reveal details about the first year of Apple Intelligence in a short video. We\u0026rsquo;ll have to wait and see.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-15 06:26:08 -0500", "date": "6:26 p.m. on Jun 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/15/apple-private-cloud.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F15%2Fapple-private-cloud.html" }, { "id": 1352, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Refreshing take also a good reminder:\n@stroughtonsmith After seeing WWDC, I’m actually buying a iPad Air M2 next to my mini 6. But I have never seen and expected iPad as anything more than what Jobs used in his introduction. Never replacing my Mac, never replacing my iPhone.\nYurgo@mastodon.social https://mastodon.social/users/Yurgo/statuses/112616416613503041 ", "dateiso": "2024-06-14 13:44:44 -0500", "date": "1:44 p.m. on Jun 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/14/refreshing-take-also.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F14%2Frefreshing-take-also.html" }, { "id": 1353, "type": "post", "title": "Two Highly Different Approaches", "text": "Microsoft is recalling \u0026ldquo;Recall\u0026rdquo; after all, and this makes them look rather bad. This happens on the same week of Apple revealing Apple Intelligence which received a more positive set of reactions.\nWe are witnessing two different approaches to the challenge of intelligently integrating generative AI prowess to the base operating system. These two events couldn\u0026rsquo;t be more evocative of how different Apple and Microsoft strategy and culture are. Guess which approach I prefer? I\u0026rsquo;m excited for Apple Intelligence, but I appreciate the time it will take to make it right.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-14 06:12:54 -0500", "date": "6:12 p.m. on Jun 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/14/two-highly-different.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F14%2Ftwo-highly-different.html" }, { "id": 1354, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Reddit can be a toxic environment, with bullies and users who aggressively enforce their views on what is appropriate content for a specific subreddit. Today is a bad day for me. 😞 How should I react to this?\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-13 15:56:35 -0500", "date": "3:56 p.m. on Jun 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/13/reddit-can-be.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F13%2Freddit-can-be.html" }, { "id": 1355, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Referring to this post from MacStories\u0026rsquo; Viticci, I might be living or coming from a different planet, but I do not want to block any of my sites from AI bot crawlers, none of them, even if it is from Google, OpenAI, Apple or even Meta. I want to embrace this new era while being critical to what is happening. More to come soon.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-13 09:27:58 -0500", "date": "9:27 p.m. on Jun 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/13/i-might-be.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F13%2Fi-might-be.html" }, { "id": 1356, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Two of my preferred visual things in iOS 181 is the colorful visual effect of Siri and the default wallpaper, which is also very nice. Siri animation is so relaxing and less intrusive than the big colorful ball. These are small changes but welcomed changes nonetheless.\nI\u0026rsquo;m not using iOS 18 yet. Should be later in the summer, late in August, I guess.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-12 06:22:36 -0500", "date": "6:22 p.m. on Jun 12, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/12/two-of-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F12%2Ftwo-of-my.html" }, { "id": 1357, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ll save money with Apple Intelligence in the next 12 months as indicated in my subscriptions page. #apple #appleevent #wwdc24 #wwdc\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-10 15:35:42 -0500", "date": "3:35 p.m. on Jun 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/10/ill-save-money.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F10%2Fill-save-money.html" }, { "id": 1358, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Mind blown. That\u0026rsquo;s all for now. More thoughts to come soon. 🤯 #wwdc #apple #appleevent #wwdc24\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-10 13:46:59 -0500", "date": "1:46 p.m. on Jun 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/10/mind-blown-thats.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F10%2Fmind-blown-thats.html" }, { "id": 1359, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Fun fact: The only time I use the TV.app on my Mac is to watch Apple event. #apple #appleevent #wwdc #wwdc24\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-10 10:21:04 -0500", "date": "10:21 p.m. on Jun 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/10/fun-fact-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F10%2Ffun-fact-the.html" }, { "id": 1360, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Well, happy WWDC / dubdub day from Numeric Citizen, following Apple since 1982! #apple #appleevent #wwdc #wwdc24\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-10 08:25:56 -0500", "date": "8:25 p.m. on Jun 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/10/well-happy-wwdc.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F10%2Fwell-happy-wwdc.html" }, { "id": 1361, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dear Apple, please, fix this. Thanks you.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-09 18:38:27 -0500", "date": "6:38 p.m. on Jun 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/09/dear-apple-please.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F09%2Fdear-apple-please.html" }, { "id": 1362, "type": "post", "title": "Apple Intelligence \u0026 Current Apple Silicon", "text": "If Apple Intelligence1 requires a new generation of hardware to be fully appreciated, I would be surprised and be a little sad. My expectation would be that last year\u0026rsquo;s generation of hardware should be, at the minimum, enough. Otherwise, it might send a wrong message that even current Apple Silicon isn\u0026rsquo;t enough to power generative AI-based experience. How could this be, after all, Apple always brag about its silicon superiority. Tim Cook said that their silicon was their current competitive edge\u0026hellip; but was he referring to future chips only? I hope not.\nProvided it\u0026rsquo;s the real name.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-09 13:35:32 -0500", "date": "1:35 p.m. on Jun 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/09/apple-intelligence-current.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F09%2Fapple-intelligence-current.html" }, { "id": 1363, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s Sunday, and it\u0026rsquo;s time for the new edition of My Creative Summary newsletter! I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I love putting it together!\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-09 07:30:43 -0500", "date": "7:30 p.m. on Jun 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/09/its-sunday-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F09%2Fits-sunday-and.html" }, { "id": 1364, "type": "post", "title": "Apple's AI Push at WWDC 2024", "text": " \u0026ldquo;Apple will put a major emphasis on AI at its upcoming WWDC, as the company aims to catch up to competitors in this rapidly evolving space. While Apple\u0026rsquo;s approach has been more measured, the pressure is on to provide a clear growth narrative, which its AI initiatives may struggle to directly deliver. Unlike Microsoft and NVIDIA, Apple does not have an obvious path to monetize AI, instead focusing on using the technology to enhance its existing products and services.\u0026rdquo; — ChatGPT summarizing this article from M.G. Siegler.\nI\u0026rsquo;m more than ok that Apple doesn\u0026rsquo;t try to monetize their AI journey.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-07 13:50:59 -0500", "date": "1:50 p.m. on Jun 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/07/apples-ai-push.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F07%2Fapples-ai-push.html" }, { "id": 1365, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In case you didn\u0026rsquo;t know me, I\u0026rsquo;m on this week\u0026rsquo;s People \u0026amp; Blog edition. It was fun to answer Manuel Moreale\u0026rsquo;s questions.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-07 07:24:30 -0500", "date": "7:24 p.m. on Jun 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/07/in-case-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F07%2Fin-case-you.html" }, { "id": 1366, "type": "post", "title": "Here's Why I Hate Template In Office Work", "text": "Using templates in office work can sometimes be counterproductive, leading to less original thinking, reduced engagement, and fewer creative problem-solving opportunities. Templates can make it easy to fall into a routine of just filling in blanks, resulting in more generic outputs and a checkbox mentality. This reliance on templates can also make it challenging to adapt and innovate when a task doesn\u0026rsquo;t fit the template. To keep creativity and innovation alive, it\u0026rsquo;s helpful to use templates as a starting point while encouraging team members to think critically and adapt as needed.\nSome of my colleagues are highly dependant on them, I\u0026rsquo;m not. I\u0026rsquo;m staying away from them. It\u0026rsquo;s a creative thinking killer.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-06 10:32:38 -0500", "date": "10:32 p.m. on Jun 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/06/heres-why-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F06%2Fheres-why-i.html" }, { "id": 1367, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The narrated blog posts are now working correctly on my blog. You can listen to the first post and second one. Disclaimer: I\u0026rsquo;m using Adobe Podcast Enhance Speech for the post recording audio improvements.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-05 12:10:47 -0500", "date": "12:10 p.m. on Jun 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/05/the-narrated-blog.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F05%2Fthe-narrated-blog.html" }, { "id": 1368, "type": "post", "title": "The M4 iPad Pro Regression Nobody is Talking About", "text": "The new M4 iPad Pro, with its repositioned FaceID camera, feels like a step backward compared to the 2018 iPad Pro. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong, but I frequently receive prompts to enter my PIN due to failed FaceID attempts. Swiping up to unlock the device momentarily covers the camera and sensors, disrupting the process. While Apple may have enhanced the FaceTime experience, the unlocking experience has become more frustrating. In my opinion, this is a significant regression.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-05 11:13:03 -0500", "date": "11:13 p.m. on Jun 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/05/the-m-ipad.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F05%2Fthe-m-ipad.html" }, { "id": 1369, "type": "post", "title": "This is an Audiocast — A Narrated Blog Post", "text": "This is my second narrated blog post on Micro.blog. It seems to me that writing for sharing as a text-only post triggers different strings for me than writing for a narrated text post. It feels strange because this isn’t a podcast episode. There is no introduction, no conclusion. No background music either. Yet, I find this cool because this is going to be available also to my podcast subscribers. Because of that, I call this an audiocast since the textual transcription (the writing) is done before the audio recording. Audiocast: this word doesn’t exist, isn’t it? Remember that you read it, and heard it here first.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-05 07:22:49 -0500", "date": "7:22 p.m. on Jun 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/04/this-is-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F04%2Fthis-is-my.html" }, { "id": 1370, "type": "transcript", "title": "", "text": "This is my second narrated blog post on microblog.\nIt seems to me that writing for sharing a text-only post triggers different strings for me than writing for narrated text posts.\nIt feels strange because this isn\u0026rsquo;t a podcast episode.\nThere is no introduction, no conclusion, no background music either.\nYet I find this cool because this is going to be available also to my podcast subscribers.\nBecause of that, I call this an audiocast since the textual transcription, the writing, is done before the audio recording.\nAudiocast.\nThis word doesn\u0026rsquo;t exist, isn\u0026rsquo;t it?\nRemember that you read it and heard it here first.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-05 08:21:56 -0400", "date": "8:21 p.m. on Jun 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/transcripts/2024/06/05/1198.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2Ftranscripts%2F2024%2F06%2F05%2F1198.html" }, { "id": 1371, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For the first time since joining Mastodon, I wanted to get an idea of what was happening with ChatGPT1. I conducted a search using the #chaptgpt tag to see the live updates. This was something I used to do frequently when I was on Twitter while big events were happening.\nChatGPT suffered major downtime in recent hours if not days.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-04 13:35:52 -0500", "date": "1:35 p.m. on Jun 4, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/04/for-the-first.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F04%2Ffor-the-first.html" }, { "id": 1372, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I just created a quick poll on my Ko-fi page! I want to know, \u0026ldquo;how did you discover me?\u0026rdquo; Please, fill it in, the post is public! Thanks.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-04 06:37:57 -0500", "date": "6:37 p.m. on Jun 4, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/04/i-just-created.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F04%2Fi-just-created.html" }, { "id": 1373, "type": "post", "title": "Dear Apple, No New Hardware Please", "text": "Mac computers are fast and have impressive battery life. Mac Studio with the M4 Ultra ship can wait. The iPad is fast too, potentially surpassing the performance of many Mac computers. It is thin also. Really thin. We get it. The iPhone is fast, light, thin and features excellent camera capabilities. Enough of incremental updates. That is why I do not want new Apple hardware at the upcoming WWDC conference, even if it was a home router, a la AirPort.\nInstead, I think Apple\u0026rsquo;s software in general requires attention and improvement.\nFor instance, the iPadOS user interface could benefit from refinements to enhance the overall user experience. Similarly, the macOS notifications center and the iPhone Control Center may need rethinking to improve their functionality and usability. Additionally, the macOS Settings app could undergo further enhancements to provide users with a more streamlined and intuitive interface. These are examples of user-facing interfaces that could benefit from further enhancements to better meet the needs and expectations of Apple\u0026rsquo;s customers. Oh, and Siri needs even more works to become the real intelligent assistant we are all waiting for. That\u0026rsquo;s the story I wish for WWDC this year.\nNo new hardware, please. Thanks you.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-03 20:36:00 -0500", "date": "8:36 p.m. on Jun 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/03/dear-apple-no.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F03%2Fdear-apple-no.html" }, { "id": 1374, "type": "post", "title": "Windows 11 AI Recall Recalled?", "text": "The upcoming Windows 11 AI \u0026lsquo;Recall\u0026rsquo; feature, which is designed to take regular screenshots of a user\u0026rsquo;s PC content to help them find past information, has been called a security disaster by a security researcher. According to the expert, Kevin Beaumont, the Recall feature is essentially an \u0026ldquo;infostealer\u0026rdquo; that can be exploited by hackers to access sensitive data, such as user interactions, text messages, passwords, and websites visited. Despite Microsoft\u0026rsquo;s attempts to improve the security of Recall, the researcher claims the feature will \u0026ldquo;set cybersecurity back a decade by empowering cybercriminals\u0026rdquo; as the underlying database can be accessed through malware-infected PCs.\nI wonder how differently Apple would fare if it implemented something similar. Would it be better?\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-03 20:24:51 -0500", "date": "8:24 p.m. on Jun 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/03/windows-ai-recall.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F03%2Fwindows-ai-recall.html" }, { "id": 1375, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The new narrated posts feature of Micro.blog has an unexpected twist. Since my blog also hosts a podcast, any narrated blog posts will end up on Apple\u0026rsquo;s Podcast directory. I\u0026rsquo;m unsure if this is what I want, but I appreciate the possibility for those who prefer to consume my content as an audio file.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-03 12:59:51 -0500", "date": "12:59 p.m. on Jun 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/03/the-new-narrated.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F03%2Fthe-new-narrated.html" }, { "id": 1376, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been relying on Raycast AI more and more in recent days to help me summarize the articles I read through my RSS feeds in Inoreader. I\u0026rsquo;ve also found it useful for improving the quality of my own writing. I\u0026rsquo;m quite tempted to upgrade my Raycast AI subscription so that I can fully leverage its capabilities, despite the fact that I\u0026rsquo;m already subscribing to ChatGPT. However, the cost of the upgrade is something I need to weigh carefully before making a decision.\nSide note: why do I keep thinking that Apple will introduce Siri+ this summer?\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-03 05:56:26 -0500", "date": "5:56 p.m. on Jun 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/03/ive-been-relying.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F03%2Five-been-relying.html" }, { "id": 1377, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple may be overhauling Spotlight in macOS 15, and potentially on other operating systems as well. This suggests the company is focusing on enhancing the user experience when interacting with AI-generated responses to user requests. I\u0026rsquo;m really curious as to how it will come out.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-02 20:23:54 -0500", "date": "8:23 p.m. on Jun 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/02/apple-may-be.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F02%2Fapple-may-be.html" }, { "id": 1378, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When I launched my weekly creative summary newsletter, I wanted its structure and format to remain consistent for a long time. However, after 17 editions, I\u0026rsquo;ve decided to refine the newsletter\u0026rsquo;s structure. I\u0026rsquo;m never fully satisfied with my tools, workflows, and past decisions about how to do things.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-02 19:27:06 -0500", "date": "7:27 p.m. on Jun 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/02/when-i-launched.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F02%2Fwhen-i-launched.html" }, { "id": 1379, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "HEY World is probably \u0026ldquo;mostly\u0026rdquo; dead. Each week, I hit the dice to visit a random HEY World site and 9 out of 10 sites were last updated in 2021, around the time HEY World was launched.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-02 18:14:40 -0500", "date": "6:14 p.m. on Jun 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/02/hey-world-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F02%2Fhey-world-is.html" }, { "id": 1380, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I really have to finish my weekly newsletter edition\u0026hellip; but I just came back from a 60KM bike ride! 😅 Now, back at it! Coming out soon.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-02 15:52:10 -0500", "date": "3:52 p.m. on Jun 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/02/i-really-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F02%2Fi-really-have.html" }, { "id": 1381, "type": "transcript", "title": "", "text": "Hi everyone, I might be late to the party, but I finally sat down for a few minutes to test Microblog\u0026rsquo;s new feature, Narrated Blog Post.\nIt is strange because this is my first use and I cannot write a full review because as I\u0026rsquo;m writing this, my audio recording is still not done and I don\u0026rsquo;t know how is the audio attachment and processing will actually work.\nIt might be similar to when I post a new episode of podcast.\nIn any case, I think this is a clever addition to an already useful and enjoyable blogging service.\nThanks to Manton for this.\nNow should I say, quote, have a great day and see you for another blog post, end quote, probably not.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-02 14:51:33 -0400", "date": "2:51 p.m. on Jun 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/transcripts/2024/06/02/1192.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2Ftranscripts%2F2024%2F06%2F02%2F1192.html" }, { "id": 1382, "type": "post", "title": "First Narrated Blog Post Experiment", "text": "Hi everyone. I might be late to the party, but I finally sat down for a few minutes to test Micro.blog\u0026rsquo;s new feature: narrated blog posts. It is strange because this is my first use and I cannot write a full review because as I\u0026rsquo;m writing this, my audio recording is still not done, and I don\u0026rsquo;t know how is the audio attachment and processing will actually work. It might be similar to when I post a new podcast episode. In any case, I think this is a clever addition to an already useful and enjoyable blogging service. Thanks to @Manton for this. Now, should I say, \u0026ldquo;have a great day and see you for another blog post?\u0026rdquo; Probably not.\n[Update #1]: It seems the play button doesn\u0026rsquo;t show up. Probably a bug with the Cards theme. Investigation started. [Update #2]: I found out that narrated blog posts come out as podcast episodes on Podcasts. I\u0026rsquo;m not sure this is what I want.\n", "dateiso": "2024-06-02 13:50:13 -0500", "date": "1:50 p.m. on Jun 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/06/02/first-narrated-blog.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F06%2F02%2Ffirst-narrated-blog.html" }, { "id": 1383, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m getting really tired of the West being afraid of conflict escalation and of Russia. The more we wait to really get our act together, the worse it will get.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-31 06:45:46 -0500", "date": "6:45 p.m. on May 31, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/31/im-getting-really.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F31%2Fim-getting-really.html" }, { "id": 1384, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Lock him up NOW. Lock him up NOW. Lock him up NOW. Lock him up NOW. 🤡 #trump\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-30 16:22:45 -0500", "date": "4:22 p.m. on May 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/30/lock-him-up.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F30%2Flock-him-up.html" }, { "id": 1385, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I still have my Medium account and content. I’m not sure what to do with it. I still get trafic to my posts. I updated my profile page this morning to remove a reference to my Linktr.ee page that I’m phasing out later this year.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-30 06:48:37 -0500", "date": "6:48 p.m. on May 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/30/i-still-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F30%2Fi-still-have.html" }, { "id": 1386, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The last day of May 2024 is here. It\u0026rsquo;s hard to believe that June is just around the corner and that in 10 days, we\u0026rsquo;ll get a new iteration of Apple\u0026rsquo;s operating system at WWDC. I don\u0026rsquo;t have high expectations for Apple this year, so let the surprises unfold.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-30 04:41:36 -0500", "date": "4:41 p.m. on May 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/30/the-last-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F30%2Fthe-last-day.html" }, { "id": 1387, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "iPadOS on the M4 iPad Pro is full of weird visual glitches. 🤷🏻‍♂️👀\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-29 16:53:20 -0500", "date": "4:53 p.m. on May 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/29/ipados-on-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F29%2Fipados-on-the.html" }, { "id": 1388, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today I decided to cancel my subscription to Toggl time tracking service and to Timery, a wonderful Toggl client. I used to track my time as a creator but I think it\u0026rsquo;s time to move on and leave those behind. You can see my reports in each weekly creative summary. It\u0026rsquo;s quite a chore to always think to start and stop timers. I feel relieved now.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-29 09:25:12 -0500", "date": "9:25 p.m. on May 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/29/today-i-decided.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F29%2Ftoday-i-decided.html" }, { "id": 1389, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "With the new M4 iPad Pro, when using the Apple Folio at the lowest position, if the iPad is in my hands in portrait mode, when putting the iPad on the table, the screen won’t rotate in landscape mode unless I play with the iPad to force a rotation. That’s not exactly a tuned up experience.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-28 15:57:50 -0500", "date": "3:57 p.m. on May 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/28/with-the-new.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F28%2Fwith-the-new.html" }, { "id": 1390, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This Microsoft Word bug is really starting to get on my nerves. It\u0026rsquo;s been going on for weeks now.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-28 10:19:46 -0500", "date": "10:19 p.m. on May 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/28/this-microsoft-word.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F28%2Fthis-microsoft-word.html" }, { "id": 1391, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finally sold my Nikon D750 with the kit lens on the second try on eBay and shipped today! The buyer got a really good deal. 😊\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-26 14:53:58 -0500", "date": "2:53 p.m. on May 26, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/26/finally-sold-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F26%2Ffinally-sold-my.html" }, { "id": 1392, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "⚠️ It\u0026rsquo;s time for the 2024-20 edition of my weekly creative summary! Not my best week, but good enough to share! 👨🏻‍💻😅 Index to past editions can be reached here. Newsletter going out by email later today. 📬\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-26 07:05:55 -0500", "date": "7:05 p.m. on May 26, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/26/its-time-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F26%2Fits-time-for.html" }, { "id": 1393, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "With Omnivore, these are the tags that cover 99% of my tagging needs.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-25 15:17:42 -0500", "date": "3:17 p.m. on May 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/25/with-omnivore-these.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F25%2Fwith-omnivore-these.html" }, { "id": 1394, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today was the day when I got rid of this little baby. It was a great looking computer. I gave it to a local tech refurbishing store1. RIP 2007-2017.\nYes, the hard drive was reformatted before there.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-25 15:07:57 -0500", "date": "3:07 p.m. on May 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/25/today-was-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F25%2Ftoday-was-the.html" }, { "id": 1395, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Each week, I try to discover a new photographer on Glass. It\u0026rsquo;s fun and stimulating. I share the discovery on my weekly creative summary newsletter, just for you to know.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-23 06:03:31 -0500", "date": "6:03 p.m. on May 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/23/each-week-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F23%2Feach-week-i.html" }, { "id": 1396, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It seems that we communicate less and less by words\u0026hellip; more and more by images and videos. I find it fascinating that GenAI and ChatGPT forces us (for now) to return to written words in order to communicate and interact with GenAI tools1. Just a thought.\nIt will probably transition to mostly voice one day, who knows?\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-22 14:48:10 -0500", "date": "2:48 p.m. on May 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/22/it-seems-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F22%2Fit-seems-that.html" }, { "id": 1397, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m happy to see some countries recognize Palestine as a state. Bravo to Spain, Norway and Ireland. Who\u0026rsquo;s next, Canada? Israel is furious. Who knew.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-22 14:30:03 -0500", "date": "2:30 p.m. on May 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/22/im-happy-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F22%2Fim-happy-to.html" }, { "id": 1398, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Slowly but surely, I\u0026rsquo;m refining my use case for my Ko-fi page: more personal stories and content, something that I don\u0026rsquo;t share elsewhere. The very small paywall makes me feel comfortable to share this kind of content. When I get millions of supporters, I might revisit this, but until then, I\u0026rsquo;m glad of doing what I\u0026rsquo;m doing there1.\nOf course, if you want to support me and my creative work, you\u0026rsquo;ll make me even happier!\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-20 13:24:21 -0500", "date": "1:24 p.m. on May 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/20/slowly-but-surely.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F20%2Fslowly-but-surely.html" }, { "id": 1399, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just downloaded three YouTube videos on my Mac, ran MacWhisper1 to generate the transcripts, then uploaded the resulting files into ChatGPT for a summarization and to get a few answers to my numerous questions. I saved about an hour of work. What a wonderful time to be alive!2\nA great Mac utility to do video transcription using GenAI.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nFrom a tech standpoint.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-20 13:04:33 -0500", "date": "1:04 p.m. on May 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/20/just-downloaded-three.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F20%2Fjust-downloaded-three.html" }, { "id": 1400, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I wonder if a good way to learn about Final Cut Pro is to start with the iPad version. I’ve started testing it with the sample project. Surprisingly, the iPad had trouble handling my UI interactions. This is a M4 iPd Pro, mind you. 😣😳 Also, FCP for iPad reminds me a lot about iMovie. And I’m not sure this is a good thing.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-19 16:48:27 -0500", "date": "4:48 p.m. on May 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/19/i-wonder-if.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F19%2Fi-wonder-if.html" }, { "id": 1401, "type": "post", "title": "Experiencing A Serious Bug With M4 iPad Pro", "text": "I’m experiencing an rather frustrating issue with my M4 iPad Pro: I’m experimenting with an external displayy (LG 4K UltraFine) with a thunderbolt cable. Everything works fine until the iPad starts acting up and disable the external display. It’s like if the cable was being disconnected and reconnected every few seconds. A restart of the iPad fixes the issue for a little while. Very frustrating to say the least. Probably a bug with iPadOS 17.5. I was hoping to test the external display but I’ll have to wait a little bit more.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-19 11:56:06 -0500", "date": "11:56 p.m. on May 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/19/experiencing-a-serious.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F19%2Fexperiencing-a-serious.html" }, { "id": 1402, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I generally prefer high-contrast images when doing black \u0026amp; white photography. What do you think?\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-19 08:03:26 -0500", "date": "8:03 p.m. on May 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/19/i-generally-prefer.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F19%2Fi-generally-prefer.html" }, { "id": 1403, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🚨Hey, it\u0026rsquo;s Sunday! And you know what happens on each Sunday? It\u0026rsquo;s time for the new edition of the weekly creative summary newsletter! Here you go, ladies and gentlemen! Enjoy. Made with care and love. 😌\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-19 06:36:46 -0500", "date": "6:36 p.m. on May 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/19/hey-its-sunday.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F19%2Fhey-its-sunday.html" }, { "id": 1404, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On iPadOS, I wish I could tap outside a window (Stage Manager being active) to dismiss the front app and return to the Home Screen. I’m a Mac user too, so this is something expected. Why not on iPad?\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-18 09:59:36 -0500", "date": "9:59 p.m. on May 18, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/18/on-ipados-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F18%2Fon-ipados-i.html" }, { "id": 1405, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve been baited into writing about touch screen Macs once more\nI don’t think these Macs would look like today’s clamshell MacBooks, they would have a new form factor more similar to iPads.\nWhat if a touchscreen Mac only allowed for scrolling content with fingers? If the touchscreen Mac is not convertible, what other use of touch than scrolling would people do with a touchscreen Mac? What are people doing on Windows with a touch screen, really?\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-18 09:07:53 -0500", "date": "9:07 p.m. on May 18, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/18/ive-been-baited.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F18%2Five-been-baited.html" }, { "id": 1406, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thought of the hour: I don\u0026rsquo;t think I\u0026rsquo;ll ever buy the Magic Keyboard for the iPad, thanks to having a MacBook Air. Yet, I do see that it is really improved compared to previous gen.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-17 13:40:57 -0500", "date": "1:40 p.m. on May 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/17/thought-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F17%2Fthought-of-the.html" }, { "id": 1407, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When you think about it, not being able to mount an iPad as a USB drive on the Mac to do some files management, in 2024, it\u0026rsquo;s a bit \u0026hellip; frustrating? In that respect, I do join my voice to those who think iPadOS is lacking in many areas, small and bigger.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-17 13:11:18 -0500", "date": "1:11 p.m. on May 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/17/when-you-think.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F17%2Fwhen-you-think.html" }, { "id": 1408, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Since getting my new iPad, I decided that this would be the only device that I use when eating launch because it is smaller and I reduce the risk of food falling on my MacBook Air keyboard. 😩\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-17 13:06:30 -0500", "date": "1:06 p.m. on May 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/17/since-getting-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F17%2Fsince-getting-my.html" }, { "id": 1409, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s Micro.camp day and I’m looking forward to it! This will be my first! @manton @vincent @jean\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-17 06:30:13 -0500", "date": "6:30 p.m. on May 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/17/its-microcamp-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F17%2Fits-microcamp-day.html" }, { "id": 1410, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This process of having to restore purchases to re-activate in-app purchase for each subscription even after a iPad migration or restore from the Mac is painful. 😣\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-17 05:45:34 -0500", "date": "5:45 p.m. on May 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/17/this-process-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F17%2Fthis-process-of.html" }, { "id": 1411, "type": "post", "title": "Skipping Nano-Texture Display on iPad — Why?", "text": "After spending half an hour in the Apple Store comparing iPads with and without the nano-texture display, I came to the conclusion to skip the nano-texture display and here are the reasons why:\nThe display doesn’t provide a paper-like sensation when using the Apple Pencil.\nThere is a subtle difference in image sharpness.\nThe blacks are less complete blacks, which cancels the OLED screen advantage.\nThe contrast seems to be a little bit lower on the nano-texture display.\nThe corollary of this decision is:\na) I’m saving some money.\nb) Since I’m settling on the 512GB of storage, I’ll get only 8GB of system memory.\nc) This iPad is a little bit less future-proof.\nSo, that’s it for the decision about this display finish!\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-16 20:34:47 -0500", "date": "8:34 p.m. on May 16, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/16/skipping-nanotexture-display.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F16%2Fskipping-nanotexture-display.html" }, { "id": 1412, "type": "post", "title": "Finally", "text": "Finally got the new iPad Pro: 11-inch, 512GB of storage, which means \u0026ldquo;only\u0026rdquo; 8GB of system RAM and no nano-texture display. I made the decision after spending 45 minutes testing the new iPad. The nano-texture display is super nice to the touch, but it does reduce image crispiness. With the Apple Pencil, that texture doesn\u0026rsquo;t really reproduce a paper-like feeling. That, I could add that later with Paperlike for iPad when it becomes available. Plus, I saved a lot of money. There is a limit to what I can and wish to spend on Apple hardware. 🤷🏻‍♂️ More details, like a mini-review, soon.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-16 20:12:09 -0500", "date": "8:12 p.m. on May 16, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/16/finally.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F16%2Ffinally.html" }, { "id": 1413, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m curious to know if any of you are using Finder\u0026rsquo;s Tags. Why do you use them? Do you find them reliable? Thanks!\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-14 06:02:10 -0500", "date": "6:02 p.m. on May 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/14/im-curious-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F14%2Fim-curious-to.html" }, { "id": 1414, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "There is one thing that I really want to try and master with the new iPad that I couldn\u0026rsquo;t do before: explore and learn Final Cut Pro for iPad. It seems a more approachable version than on the desktop. Am I wrong?\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-13 20:44:24 -0500", "date": "8:44 p.m. on May 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/13/there-is-one.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F13%2Fthere-is-one.html" }, { "id": 1415, "type": "post", "title": "Mind Blown Again", "text": "I really liked the OpenAI short keynote, especially the few jabs at Google. What OpenAI is doing is simply mind-blowing. I\u0026rsquo;m still trying to wrap my head around all this. What isn\u0026rsquo;t clear, though, is as a paying member of ChatGPT, why would I continue to subscribe if I don\u0026rsquo;t use the live translation? One last thing: Siri looks like a prehistoric bot. Apple has to do something about this, and fast.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-13 19:35:03 -0500", "date": "7:35 p.m. on May 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/13/mind-blown-again.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F13%2Fmind-blown-again.html" }, { "id": 1416, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "To those who reviewed the new iPads and concluded that the hardware is great but iPadOS is the limiting factor: it is becoming tiring. The iPad is not and probably will never be a Mac. If you wanted utter flexibility, it\u0026rsquo;s the Mac. Why is it so hard? Can you just move on to something else? Thanks.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-13 19:25:15 -0500", "date": "7:25 p.m. on May 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/13/to-those-who.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F13%2Fto-those-who.html" }, { "id": 1417, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Having to authenticate with Wordpress just to like a blog post is so “tired”.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-13 11:23:02 -0500", "date": "11:23 p.m. on May 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/13/having-to-authenticate.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F13%2Fhaving-to-authenticate.html" }, { "id": 1418, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Posted a photo on my Ko-fi page this morning. It\u0026rsquo;s for supporters only. I shared some thoughts about street photography. I decided to use that page to share more personal stories that I don\u0026rsquo;t share elsewhere. It\u0026rsquo;s only the beginning. It will take time to open up more. It\u0026rsquo;s a journey.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-13 06:37:17 -0500", "date": "6:37 p.m. on May 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/13/posted-a-photo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F13%2Fposted-a-photo.html" }, { "id": 1419, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My old camera is up for sale on eBay (link). Just saying. If interested, let\u0026rsquo;s talk hello@numericcitizen.me. Tell me you saw this on Micro.blog (or Mastodon / Bluesky).\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-12 13:43:48 -0500", "date": "1:43 p.m. on May 12, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/12/my-old-camera.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F12%2Fmy-old-camera.html" }, { "id": 1420, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Missed the opportunity to order an iPad Pro with nano texture glass and get it before my summer vacations on Jun 24th. Not great.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-11 18:38:23 -0500", "date": "6:38 p.m. on May 11, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/12/missed-the-opportunity.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F12%2Fmissed-the-opportunity.html" }, { "id": 1421, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If OpenAI upcoming announcement is about launching a search engine, I\u0026rsquo;ll take it in a heart beat. Anything that is challenging Google\u0026rsquo;s dominance is a win for all, even for Google.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-11 05:16:06 -0500", "date": "5:16 p.m. on May 11, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/11/if-openai-upcoming.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F11%2Fif-openai-upcoming.html" }, { "id": 1422, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Location check in 🗺 — Last stop: Rome, Italy. Going back home soon.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-11 00:26:17 -0500", "date": "12:26 p.m. on May 11, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/11/location-check-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F11%2Flocation-check-in.html" }, { "id": 1423, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple should remove that ad and say “We’re sorry”. It’s a wrong message. It as nothing to do in promoting the iPad Pro. 9to5mac.com/2024/05/0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-09 08:33:25 -0500", "date": "8:33 p.m. on May 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/09/apple-should-remove.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F09%2Fapple-should-remove.html" }, { "id": 1424, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Location check in 🗺 — Next stop: Livorno, Italy.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-09 03:13:30 -0500", "date": "3:13 p.m. on May 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/09/location-check-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F09%2Flocation-check-in.html" }, { "id": 1425, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I hate the way Apple is showing the new iPad Pro with a dark wallpaper we ain’t see the actual device! Is it on purpose so that we can’t compare bezels between old and new Pros?\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-08 08:58:08 -0500", "date": "8:58 p.m. on May 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/08/i-hate-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F08%2Fi-hate-the.html" }, { "id": 1426, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After some reading about the new iPads, general sentiment seems to be: great but underutilized hardware. And getting more expensive.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-08 06:24:26 -0500", "date": "6:24 p.m. on May 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/08/after-some-reading.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F08%2Fafter-some-reading.html" }, { "id": 1427, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Location check in 🗺 — Next stop: Portofino, Italy.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-08 02:32:39 -0500", "date": "2:32 p.m. on May 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/08/location-check-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F08%2Flocation-check-in.html" }, { "id": 1428, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Were these iPad announcements worth a press release or a keynote? For me, a press release would have been more than enough. I’m happy to see these powerful new iPad but since I’m coming from a 2018 iPad Pro, it’s not indicative of the current general mood.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-07 11:45:51 -0500", "date": "11:45 p.m. on May 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/07/were-these-ipad.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F07%2Fwere-these-ipad.html" }, { "id": 1429, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The M4 on the new iPad Pro triggers a need-to-upgrade narrative more than any iPadOS-only feature could. Sad but true. A macOS virtual machine could have been this “software-only” story that Apple chose not to be told.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-07 11:12:18 -0500", "date": "11:12 p.m. on May 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/07/the-m-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F07%2Fthe-m-on.html" }, { "id": 1430, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Coming from a 2018 11-inch iPad Pro it will prove to be a massive update for me.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-07 10:55:55 -0500", "date": "10:55 p.m. on May 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/07/coming-from-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F07%2Fcoming-from-a.html" }, { "id": 1431, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I guess, I’ll have to go with the 11-inch 1TB configuration to get the nano display option and 16 GB of RAM. Oh well. One life to live.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-07 10:19:49 -0500", "date": "10:19 p.m. on May 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/07/i-guess-ill.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F07%2Fi-guess-ill.html" }, { "id": 1432, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So, there are no “erasure” mode for the Apple apensil Pro?\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-07 10:16:19 -0500", "date": "10:16 p.m. on May 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/07/so-there-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F07%2Fso-there-are.html" }, { "id": 1433, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Nano glass option only available on 1TB \u0026amp; 2 TB configs. This is so Apple. 🤔☹️#appleevent\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-07 09:49:47 -0500", "date": "9:49 p.m. on May 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/07/nano-glass-option.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F07%2Fnano-glass-option.html" }, { "id": 1434, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ll be watching the event after all, right from the Deck 10! Have a good one to you all! #appleevent\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-07 08:58:19 -0500", "date": "8:58 p.m. on May 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/07/ill-be-watching.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F07%2Fill-be-watching.html" }, { "id": 1435, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I rarely do and share selfies! But here’s one. Walking on the “Promenade des anglais” in Nice, France.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-07 05:06:32 -0500", "date": "5:06 p.m. on May 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/07/i-rarely-do.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F07%2Fi-rarely-do.html" }, { "id": 1436, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Worth reading on today’s expected new iPad Pro. My Wishes for the Next iPad Pro\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-07 03:37:15 -0500", "date": "3:37 p.m. on May 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/07/worth-reading-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F07%2Fworth-reading-on.html" }, { "id": 1437, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I find it hard to save time for blogging while traveling. There is always so much to do that I kind of forget about writing. This post is an exception, though. 😂 we’re visiting Nice today. Been there once but it’s always fun to revisit great cities.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-07 03:30:37 -0500", "date": "3:30 p.m. on May 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/07/i-find-it.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F07%2Fi-find-it.html" }, { "id": 1438, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It will be a challenge for me to watch the #AppleEvent today. I guess I’ll hit Apple.com later to read about all the new stuff.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-07 02:33:36 -0500", "date": "2:33 p.m. on May 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/07/it-will-be.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F07%2Fit-will-be.html" }, { "id": 1439, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Location check in 🗺 — Third stop: Nice, France.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-07 02:24:38 -0500", "date": "2:24 p.m. on May 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/07/location-check-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F07%2Flocation-check-in.html" }, { "id": 1440, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Location check in 🗺 — Next stop: Toulon, France.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-06 02:56:31 -0500", "date": "2:56 p.m. on May 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/06/location-check-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F06%2Flocation-check-in.html" }, { "id": 1441, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Location check in 🗺 — First stop. Marseille, France.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-05 03:54:45 -0500", "date": "3:54 p.m. on May 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/05/location-check-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F05%2Flocation-check-in.html" }, { "id": 1442, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Location check in 🗺 — Finally arrived at destination ✈️\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-03 08:06:05 -0500", "date": "8:06 p.m. on May 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/03/090605.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F03%2F090605.html" }, { "id": 1443, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Location check in 🗺 — Tired. 😴\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-03 04:49:36 -0500", "date": "4:49 p.m. on May 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/03/location-check-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F03%2Flocation-check-in.html" }, { "id": 1444, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The iPad revenue share is about 6% of total. Seeing Apple continue to invest in this platform is something that I wonder if other companies would do with such a “loss leader”. I can’t wait to see what’s in store for the iPad next week.\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-02 16:18:01 -0500", "date": "4:18 p.m. on May 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/02/the-ipad-revenue.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F02%2Fthe-ipad-revenue.html" }, { "id": 1445, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Information Architect1 is working on something that could prove to be super useful for me: shareable presentations using iA Presenter. It\u0026rsquo;s currently in testing. Judging by their blog post, it looks slick. I could build online presentations that go with The Craft Bible or The Craft Starter Kit that I\u0026rsquo;m working on. Can\u0026rsquo;t wait to try it out.\nThe maker of iA Writer, iA Presenter.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-05-02 06:13:58 -0500", "date": "6:13 p.m. on May 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/05/02/information-architect-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F05%2F02%2Finformation-architect-is.html" }, { "id": 1446, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Three years later and it\u0026rsquo;s funny to remember where I came from and why I\u0026rsquo;ve migrated to Ghost for everything1, not only my newsletter.\nNot exactly, everything, but for my main website where I share my newsletter and some other long-form posts.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-30 20:43:11 -0500", "date": "8:43 p.m. on Apr 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/30/three-years-later.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F30%2Fthree-years-later.html" }, { "id": 1447, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For some reason, tonight, I miss Medium. I used to love writing for it and reading from it. I still have close to 800 followers, albeit the number really never change, which I find strange.\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-30 20:35:44 -0500", "date": "8:35 p.m. on Apr 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/30/for-some-reason.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F30%2Ffor-some-reason.html" }, { "id": 1448, "type": "post", "title": "About the Super Greedy Broadcom Company", "text": "VMware is no longer synonym of IT innovations. Now, it has because the new Microsoft of the nineties: it is about licensing costs and tricks. Let me elaborate a little bit more.\nThe EU is going after Apple and Google and Meta these days with fierce energy and determination. It\u0026rsquo;s all good1. But what is currently happening right now in IT world with the Broadcom merger with VMware is absolutely criminal2. Broadcom is doing some massive cleanup in the VMware house and the the list of SKU who was completely replaced with new bundles and licensing mode. For many big organisations (governmental for example), subscriptions price are simply going sky high. Many government agencies are now facing something like 3 to 10 times what they used to pay for about the same features set. It is criminal and if anything, this is something that should be looked into with more scrutiny. It is one thing that a bank is paying much more for something, but when it comes to government services, it is tax payers money. That\u0026rsquo;s quite different. We have to call it out publicly.\nI wish we would talk about this more in the general press, not only in the tech field.\nIt depends to whom you talk to.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nBroadcom is well-known for their past merger with Symantec and Computer Associates. It was ugly. Apparently, it was a nothing to what we are seeing with VMware acquisition.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-30 16:28:49 -0500", "date": "4:28 p.m. on Apr 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/30/about-the-super.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F30%2Fabout-the-super.html" }, { "id": 1449, "type": "post", "title": "On AI Pin, Rabbit R1 and Apple Vision Pro.", "text": "From what I\u0026rsquo;m reading and seeing, the AI Pin and Rabbit R1 are terrible devices for potentially great AI use cases, while the Apple Vision Pro is a technology marvel device with weak use cases. The former are probably DOA because they risk lacking funding to keep the show going, while Apple\u0026rsquo;s massive resources might save the Apple Vision Pro from a complete failure.\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-30 06:36:45 -0500", "date": "6:36 p.m. on Apr 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/30/on-ai-pin.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F30%2Fon-ai-pin.html" }, { "id": 1450, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\rIn this image, according to AI bot, the 2013 Mac Pro is brown\u0026hellip; a brown speaker! 😂\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-29 16:33:25 -0500", "date": "4:33 p.m. on Apr 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/29/in-this-image.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F29%2Fin-this-image.html" }, { "id": 1451, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s funny how my subscribers count can vary after I share a new video on my YouTube channel. In recent days, I got many new subscribers, thanks to a video about building a dashboard with Craft. Then, I share this video about Micro.blog, and many people suddenly quit and unsubscribe1. 🤷🏻‍♂️\nWe can\u0026rsquo;t please everyone, I guess.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-28 18:33:04 -0500", "date": "6:33 p.m. on Apr 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/28/its-funny-how.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F28%2Fits-funny-how.html" }, { "id": 1452, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Calling for suggestions: I\u0026rsquo;d like to back up my iCloud Photos Library content locally on my Synology NAS, but I don\u0026rsquo;t want to use the built-in \u0026ldquo;Download Originals to this Mac\u0026rdquo; of Apple Photos. Any utility that does that? Thanks!\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-28 14:07:05 -0500", "date": "2:07 p.m. on Apr 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/28/calling-for-suggestions.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F28%2Fcalling-for-suggestions.html" }, { "id": 1453, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔥 It\u0026rsquo;s still Sunday where I live, and it\u0026rsquo;s time to share the newest edition of the weekly creative summary! Coming up soon to a mailbox near you1. 😅\nYou aren\u0026rsquo;t subscribing?? What are you waiting for!\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-28 12:56:09 -0500", "date": "12:56 p.m. on Apr 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/28/its-still-sunday.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F28%2Fits-still-sunday.html" }, { "id": 1454, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "You want to know more about all the new features and tweaks introduced on Micro.blog in the last two months? Here\u0026rsquo;s a video that I made today for you guys. Enjoy. cc @jean @manton\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-28 11:49:17 -0500", "date": "11:49 p.m. on Apr 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/28/you-want-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F28%2Fyou-want-to.html" }, { "id": 1455, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today I might have hit the max my M1 Mac mini could give me: while exporting my video in ScreenFlow, I was editing a photo in Photomator. The latter couldn\u0026rsquo;t keep up with me trying different settings on my image.\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-28 10:48:34 -0500", "date": "10:48 p.m. on Apr 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/28/today-i-might.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F28%2Ftoday-i-might.html" }, { "id": 1456, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m currently recording the next edition of the \u0026ldquo;What\u0026rsquo;s Up with Micro.blog\u0026rdquo; episode and I\u0026rsquo;m Testing cross-posting to Bluesky. This post includes #hashtag. Let\u0026rsquo;s see if it works!\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-28 08:42:31 -0500", "date": "8:42 p.m. on Apr 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/28/im-currently-recording.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F28%2Fim-currently-recording.html" }, { "id": 1457, "type": "post", "title": "Security Is Hard for Everyone", "text": "This morning, my wife picked up her iPhone and tried to unlock it1. She couldn\u0026rsquo;t after a few try2. She tried a few times with a slight variation, but the iPhone refused to unlock itself, now showing a 15-minute delay on the lock screen. Her passcode is a complex one as per corporate security rules. She knows it by heart, she told me. She doesn\u0026rsquo;t know what to do, and she is in deep doubt now. Eventually, she asked me for help, but I told her I cannot do much about it3.\nAt first, I thought it was the infamous Apple ID being locked out, but it\u0026rsquo;s not the case. As a reminder: the passcode used to unlock your iPhone has little to do with your Apple ID. But, when using 2FA, the iPhone is required to get access to the Apple ID and must be unlocked for this to work. Maybe this is why people think they are both linked together. It\u0026rsquo;s not the case.\nAs I finish writing this up, my wife tried again to unlock her iPhone and it worked. All is good now. But it\u0026rsquo;s a reminder that, for most people, security is hard. It\u0026rsquo;s hard to experience. It\u0026rsquo;s hard to explain. It\u0026rsquo;s hard to get over it.\nFace ID requires using the passcode to unlock the device after a period of time.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nShe couldn\u0026rsquo;t tell me how many times she tried.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nEventually, without the passcode, an iPhone needs to be fully erased to be able to use it again. It\u0026rsquo;s a security measure. It\u0026rsquo;s by design, in case you didn\u0026rsquo;t know.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-28 07:27:03 -0500", "date": "7:27 p.m. on Apr 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/28/security-is-hard.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F28%2Fsecurity-is-hard.html" }, { "id": 1458, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "More than half of my planned errands for the weekend is already completed! It\u0026rsquo;s a rather productive day. One thing that I did that wasn\u0026rsquo;t planned at all: doing photography! That\u0026rsquo;s my bike that I bought last year[^1]!\n[^1] Unprocessed image taken with my Nikon Zf.\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-27 13:06:27 -0500", "date": "1:06 p.m. on Apr 27, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/27/more-than-half.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F27%2Fmore-than-half.html" }, { "id": 1459, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I forgot about my \u0026ldquo;numericcitizen.photos\u0026rdquo; domain. It was due for renewal. I cancelled it. I feel better.\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-27 10:31:30 -0500", "date": "10:31 p.m. on Apr 27, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/27/i-forgot-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F27%2Fi-forgot-about.html" }, { "id": 1460, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Tempted to start watching “The Last of Us”. But I need to subscribe to Crave apparently. Is it really good? I’m a mild science fiction type of huy. 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-26 17:54:33 -0500", "date": "5:54 p.m. on Apr 26, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/26/tempted-to-start.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F26%2Ftempted-to-start.html" }, { "id": 1461, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s been such a long time since Apple redesigned their Magic Mouse. Is this the only solution to an old problem? And this charging port underneath, could they try to fix this nonsense too? Hard to believe Apple can be so slow at fixing the obvious.\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-26 16:13:42 -0500", "date": "4:13 p.m. on Apr 26, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/26/its-been-such.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F26%2Fits-been-such.html" }, { "id": 1462, "type": "post", "title": "Overrated x 1000", "text": "Microsoft 365 or Office 365, if you prefer, is so overrated. Microsoft is the master of selling licenses but when it comes down to doing real serious collaborative work with Teams and the rest of the software suite it falls apart really quickly. For example: trying to collaborated on a Word document, creating comments and assigning a task toi someone\u0026hellip; nobody knows really where the task is actually saved! And no one seems to get a notification\u0026hellip; or nobody cares to look at the activity tab in Teams because it is so overwhelming! Oh and don\u0026rsquo;t get me started with Microsoft Loop, a pale copycat of Notion. And should we talk about Visio? I prefer not.\nI\u0026rsquo;m so fed up of working in an IT field where everyone is short sighted with Microsoft. I mean, there are so much more powerful collaborative apps out there.\n/rantoff\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-26 09:17:36 -0500", "date": "9:17 p.m. on Apr 26, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/26/overrated-x.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F26%2Foverrated-x.html" }, { "id": 1463, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hey guys, I\u0026rsquo;m looking for an app that can browser folders containing photos. This app would display photo\u0026rsquo;s metadata too and allow for adjusting the thumbnails size. Any recommendations for me? I\u0026rsquo;m looking for an alternative to Adobe Bridge. Thanks.\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-25 06:02:23 -0500", "date": "6:02 p.m. on Apr 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/25/hey-guys-im.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F25%2Fhey-guys-im.html" }, { "id": 1464, "type": "post", "title": "Ghost and ActivityPub Support - We All Win", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m a bit late to the game but I just read the announcement by Ghost about their ActivityPub support that is coming to their platform. I find this development super exciting; one of my site is on Ghost. Having people subscribe to my content via their favorite Mastodon client is super cool. But what is cooler is that people will be able to reply to my articles right from here on Micro.blog and get their reply published right under my articles, just like on Micro.blog. I think this is a good way to offer a reduced friction experience compared to having to log in to post a reply, which is the standard way to interact with a Ghost blog post. Can\u0026rsquo;t wait to see this coming this year.\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-24 20:17:26 -0500", "date": "8:17 p.m. on Apr 24, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/24/ghost-and-activitypub.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F24%2Fghost-and-activitypub.html" }, { "id": 1465, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s a bit sad that I won\u0026rsquo;t be able to watch the new iPad announcement in two weeks as I\u0026rsquo;ll be abroad on a cruise ship. I won\u0026rsquo;t pre-order the new iPad Pro either because I won\u0026rsquo;t be able to read all the news beforehand. This could mean that I\u0026rsquo;ll face delays in getting the new device. 😩\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-24 16:48:27 -0500", "date": "4:48 p.m. on Apr 24, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/24/its-a-bit.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F24%2Fits-a-bit.html" }, { "id": 1466, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " “🇬🇷🇪🇸 The EU and NATO are putting \u0026ldquo;strong pressure\u0026rdquo; on Greece and Spain to provide Ukraine with more air defense systems, the Financial Times reports, citing its sources. This pressure is justified by the \u0026ldquo;safe geographical location of the countries\u0026rdquo; and the presence of more than a dozen Patriot and S-300 systems.\u0026quot;\nThis is insane that those countries keep their systems while Ukraine is in such needs. 🤬\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-22 09:36:42 -0500", "date": "9:36 p.m. on Apr 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/22/the-eu-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F22%2Fthe-eu-and.html" }, { "id": 1467, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If Ukraine has been outgunned 5 to 1 or 10 to 1 is some parts of the front for weeks, why is Russia not making more advances?\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-22 06:54:53 -0500", "date": "6:54 p.m. on Apr 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/22/if-ukraine-has.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F22%2Fif-ukraine-has.html" }, { "id": 1468, "type": "post", "title": "On Comfort Zones", "text": "Today, I\u0026rsquo;ll bring my camera to the office1, as I\u0026rsquo;m declaring myself as the official photographer for the two-day yearly sales kickoff event. I\u0026rsquo;ll take photos of humans, which is not my cup of tea, but I need to try it more and get out of my comfort zone. Usually my problem while photographing humans is anticipation and timing. Some people are very good at it, but I\u0026rsquo;m not. So, I need to practice. Comfort zones are killing creativity and learning.\nMy iPhone will stay in my pocket, I\u0026rsquo;ll use my Nikon Zf with the 40mm F2 lens.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-22 06:06:34 -0500", "date": "6:06 p.m. on Apr 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/22/on-comfort-zones.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F22%2Fon-comfort-zones.html" }, { "id": 1469, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dashboards are among the most popular use cases for Notion. As a Craft user, it is tempting to try creating a dashboard that suits my needs, but that gets its inspiration from what others are doing in Notion. I tried it and the following video tells it all. Enjoy.\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-21 19:08:35 -0500", "date": "7:08 p.m. on Apr 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/21/dashboards-are-among.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F21%2Fdashboards-are-among.html" }, { "id": 1470, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I love ❤️ Scribbles but the lack of support for Plausible is a bit sad for me. 😔 cc @vincent\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-21 12:27:27 -0500", "date": "12:27 p.m. on Apr 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/21/i-love-scribbles.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F21%2Fi-love-scribbles.html" }, { "id": 1471, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Taking photos of decorative materials with the iPhone is really tricky. The automatic white balance makes everything look wrong and we cannot trust the photo to reproduce what we actually saw and perceived. How are designers doing with their phones?\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-21 10:21:50 -0500", "date": "10:21 p.m. on Apr 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/21/taking-photos-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F21%2Ftaking-photos-of.html" }, { "id": 1472, "type": "post", "title": "Design Is Hard", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been discussing a lot about design in general with my wife recently regarding our home improvement project. Design is hard. The process of redesigning a 3D space (a room, a bathroom) is not trivial but I think we should always try to start from a minimalistic concept from which we can build on step by step later. Also, not everyone has the same ability to visualize something in 3D without first seeing it for real, even with 3D computer assisted design. It will be a long journey.\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-21 09:31:41 -0500", "date": "9:31 p.m. on Apr 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/21/design-is-hard.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F21%2Fdesign-is-hard.html" }, { "id": 1473, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🚨Okay, ladies and gentlemen, it\u0026rsquo;s time for the newest edition of my weekly creative summary! Thanks for taking the time to have a peek at it. 😊 If you prefer the email version, it\u0026rsquo;s coming up later today, but be sure to subscribe here!\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-21 06:26:33 -0500", "date": "6:26 p.m. on Apr 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/21/okay-ladies-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F21%2Fokay-ladies-and.html" }, { "id": 1474, "type": "post", "title": "Now ☀️9 °C - 🌡️2 °C - 🌧️29%", "text": " Today, I wanted to try something different and write this post on Micro.blog instead of Scribbles. Since the Micro.blog editor is so far behind Scribbles’, I’m using Ulysses for this experiment. Sadly, people won’t be able to reply using a contact form because my blog on Micro.blog doesn’t offer one. In any case, say hello@numericcitizen.me! Today is a special day—video recording day! I’m excited to share more about my creator dashboard, a project I’ve been passionately building in Craft. I’ve been editing photos with Photomator recently and discovered that for some photos, Photomator would create a sidecar file which is more than 100 MB in size, while for other photos, the sidecar file is only around a hundred kilobytes, under similar editing workflows. I find Grammarly to be overly iterative when suggesting corrections. After applying a suggestion, it will iterate and suggest something else that it could have figured out in the first place. They are transitioning to AI, and I think it will help. Oh, and Grammarly considers markdown formatting marks to be corrected. Yesterday, after watching this video, I wondered if I should switch to FinalCut Pro for my video production. There are things that I find super cool and useful in FCP that I don’t have in Screenflow like Gling.ai. It took me 22 minutes to write this post. Maybe I could alternate between Scribbles and Micro.blog for this /Now post. What do you think? Don’t miss previous /Now posts on Scribbles. This is a photo that I processed yesterday night. A better version will soon be available on my Glass page, though. ", "dateiso": "2024-04-21 06:02:35 -0500", "date": "6:02 p.m. on Apr 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/21/now-c-c.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F21%2Fnow-c-c.html" }, { "id": 1475, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I want to discover a new blog, any suggestions for me?\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-20 17:43:57 -0500", "date": "5:43 p.m. on Apr 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/20/i-want-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F20%2Fi-want-to.html" }, { "id": 1476, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m cautiously happy to see the American settle and go ahead with the military aid for Ukraine (and Taiwan). Time is seriously running out, and I\u0026rsquo;m afraid that the West falls in the \u0026ldquo;too little too late\u0026rdquo; trap. Now finish this and ship the good stuff out ASAP FTW!\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-20 15:43:49 -0500", "date": "3:43 p.m. on Apr 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/20/im-cautiously-happy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F20%2Fim-cautiously-happy.html" }, { "id": 1477, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m currently working on building a creator dashboard in Craft and it\u0026rsquo;s fun but Craft is rather limited compared to Notion. I\u0026rsquo;m working on an upcoming video about that! Stay tuned.\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-20 07:52:30 -0500", "date": "7:52 p.m. on Apr 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/20/im-currently-working.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F20%2Fim-currently-working.html" }, { "id": 1478, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The House of Representatives are going to vote on separate bills for Ukraine and Israel aid this weekend. My fear is that aid for Israel gets a go but not Ukraine which would be devastating. This could be a turning point.\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-17 17:47:22 -0500", "date": "5:47 p.m. on Apr 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/17/the-house-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F17%2Fthe-house-of.html" }, { "id": 1479, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Went outside today for lunch and took my camera1 with me. What a good idea it was. I like this a lot because it is an opportunity to take a mental break from work. When I\u0026rsquo;m coming back to work, I\u0026rsquo;m more enthusiastic.\nNikon Zf with a 44mm F2 lens. Great combo.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-17 12:31:18 -0500", "date": "12:31 p.m. on Apr 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/17/went-outside-today.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F17%2Fwent-outside-today.html" }, { "id": 1480, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Why on earth in 2024 a company like Checkpoint still ships 32-bit software like a MDR client for Windows Server 2019? I mean, come on!! It\u0026rsquo;s like shipping a parallel port on a MacBook Pro!\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-17 08:13:05 -0500", "date": "8:13 p.m. on Apr 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/17/why-on-earth.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F17%2Fwhy-on-earth.html" }, { "id": 1481, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Why would you need Echofeed when using Micro.blog to syndicate to Mastodon et al.?\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-17 06:56:06 -0500", "date": "6:56 p.m. on Apr 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/17/why-would-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F17%2Fwhy-would-you.html" }, { "id": 1482, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The Magic Is Gone - Initial Charge\nThe magic of Apple’s retail stores is gone.\nExcept when the new iPad Pro launches, which should be the case pretty soon.\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-16 20:52:41 -0500", "date": "8:52 p.m. on Apr 16, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/16/the-magic-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F16%2Fthe-magic-is.html" }, { "id": 1483, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On Micro.blog, Scribbles, And Multi-homing\nIt’s easier for me to do this using Scribbles editor. I don’t know why. Might be a combination of how the compose screen is styled and laid out, plus the use of a WYSIWYG editor. But whatever it is, it all combines into an experience where the words flow a little easier for me. That’s probably the only way I can describe it. There’s nothing really empirical about it all, but maybe that’s the point. It’s involves the emotional side of writing: the “look and feel”.\nI prefer Scribbles editor to Micro.blog\u0026rsquo;s, too. There is something about Scribbles that makes the experience more enjoyable. But I\u0026rsquo;m still using Micro.blog for longer posts and Scribbles for short ones, except maybe the /Now posts. Well, it\u0026rsquo;s complicated. Anyhow, I think Micro.blog\u0026rsquo;s post editor needs some more love.\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-16 05:46:14 -0500", "date": "5:46 p.m. on Apr 16, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/16/on-microblog-scribbles.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F16%2Fon-microblog-scribbles.html" }, { "id": 1484, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Funny that, reading a random post this morning, stumbled on that one. A year later and I found a use case for Bear.\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-14 06:39:54 -0500", "date": "6:39 p.m. on Apr 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/14/funny-that-reading.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F14%2Ffunny-that-reading.html" }, { "id": 1485, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My two main problems with omg.lol: the branding is no-go and no free tier to try it out. I\u0026rsquo;m still pondering my options. For now, Scribbles FTW!\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-14 05:46:37 -0500", "date": "5:46 p.m. on Apr 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/14/my-two-main.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F14%2Fmy-two-main.html" }, { "id": 1486, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A long time ago, around iOS 7, I played with my iPad to do some mockups, like this one: a redesigned Settings.app.\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-13 16:21:15 -0500", "date": "4:21 p.m. on Apr 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/13/a-long-time.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F13%2Fa-long-time.html" }, { "id": 1487, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For the first time since its release1, I\u0026rsquo;m using iCloud Shared Photo Library with my wife for the home improvement project. It\u0026rsquo;s really well done and fits perfectly my needs.\nReleased with iOS 16 in 2022.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-13 15:03:06 -0500", "date": "3:03 p.m. on Apr 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/13/for-the-first.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F13%2Ffor-the-first.html" }, { "id": 1488, "type": "post", "title": "In Search of a New and Optimized Photo Processing Workflow", "text": "Now that I\u0026rsquo;m no longer in Adobe\u0026rsquo;s ecosystem for my photo processing needs, I depend on Photomator and Synology Photos. I need to create an optimized workflow: upload photos to Synology1, browse and tag the pictures I want to process using Synology Photos tags, then edit them in Photomator. This is the last is a challenge: RAW images need to be converted to a DNG format2, and then edited in Photomator before exporting the end results in JPEG. I need to download RAW images manually out of Synology Photos then import them in Photomator for processing. Processed images should then be imported into Apple Photos for easy access.\nDone automatically over wifi from the camera to the Synology NAS.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nAs of 2024-04, Nikon Zf RAW image format is not supported natively by macOS or iPadOS on which Photomator depends. This conversion process is cumbersome.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-13 14:08:04 -0500", "date": "2:08 p.m. on Apr 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/13/in-search-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F13%2Fin-search-of.html" }, { "id": 1489, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🚨 After a three-week pause, here comes the latest weekly creative summary, a day earlier. I hope you enjoy this edition. Coming later by email to my dear subscribers. ✌🏻\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-13 07:47:54 -0500", "date": "7:47 p.m. on Apr 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/13/after-a-threeweek.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F13%2Fafter-a-threeweek.html" }, { "id": 1490, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Can you imagine having spent $12,000 up-front for Tesla’s “full self driving” only to see it descoped to “supervised driving” and then price slashed to $99/mo? Congrats on being given the privilege of training Elon’s model for a huge fee!\nJonathan LaCour https://cleverdevil.io/2024/can-you-imagine-having-spent-12000-up-front\rCan you spell \u0026ldquo;class action lawsuit\u0026rdquo;?\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-13 07:08:18 -0500", "date": "7:08 p.m. on Apr 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/13/can-you-imagine.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F13%2Fcan-you-imagine.html" }, { "id": 1491, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "We\u0026rsquo;re closing in on the weekend. Sadly, I have a lot to do, and it isn\u0026rsquo;t really creative work, but so many boring errands and stuff. I don\u0026rsquo;t see when this trend will reverse itself. We are preparing an home improvement project and I can see a lot that needs to be done if we want to meet our deadlines. Oh well. At least, there is a drink coming up soon.\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-12 16:41:55 -0500", "date": "4:41 p.m. on Apr 12, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/12/were-closing-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F12%2Fwere-closing-in.html" }, { "id": 1492, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Ten years (oops, fourteen) years of iPad. This article, first published more than four years ago, takes another dimension on the eve of new iPad releases.\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-11 19:34:35 -0500", "date": "7:34 p.m. on Apr 11, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/11/ten-years-oops.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F11%2Ften-years-oops.html" }, { "id": 1493, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After my iPad Pro, my \u0026ldquo;old\u0026rdquo; 2020 Mac mini is next1.\nTo be upgraded so that i can use two screens at once.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-11 11:56:10 -0500", "date": "11:56 p.m. on Apr 11, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/11/after-my-ipad.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F11%2Fafter-my-ipad.html" }, { "id": 1494, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Jony Ive searching for funding to help develop a dedicated AI device. I hope he will succeed with his iPad.🤣\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-10 19:36:58 -0500", "date": "7:36 p.m. on Apr 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/10/jony-ive-searching.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F10%2Fjony-ive-searching.html" }, { "id": 1495, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So, the US defence secretary doesn\u0026rsquo;t like this idea of Ukraine hitting oil refineries in Russia, because they are civilian targets and because it could affect the global oil market. How about Russia, who\u0026rsquo;s 99% of the time hitting civilian targets in Ukraine for more than two years? This position is not defendable. Imagine if Russia hit 1% of the US civilian targets. Imagine that.\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-10 11:49:05 -0500", "date": "11:49 p.m. on Apr 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/10/so-the-us.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F10%2Fso-the-us.html" }, { "id": 1496, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sold my little Mac Pro trash can for $600 CAN1. Not bad for a 1TB SDD, 128GB of RAM and the 12-core Xeon 2.7 GHz configuration. And the Thunderbolt 2 cable and TB 3 to TB2 adaptor. Not the keyboard or mouse, as they are still useful for me. Sometimes. 🙂\nI barely knew it. It\u0026rsquo;s sad because I loved this little machine.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-09 19:55:59 -0500", "date": "7:55 p.m. on Apr 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/09/sold-my-little.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F09%2Fsold-my-little.html" }, { "id": 1497, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m seriously considering selling my 2018 11-inch iPad Pro, Apple Magic Keyboard and Apple Pencil as a bundle, very cheap, before the new iPad Pro comes out, while dollars value is still reasonable. The thing is that I don\u0026rsquo;t want to setup my new iPad from an iCloud backup, these are slow and are missing quite a few pieces of data. The Migration Assistant method is so much more effective. I should decide this weekend. 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-09 16:17:48 -0500", "date": "4:17 p.m. on Apr 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/09/im-seriously-considering.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F09%2Fim-seriously-considering.html" }, { "id": 1498, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I hate to put things like Apple gear for sale on Facebook Marketplace. Most people are rude, lacking any civility, and not trustworthy. Still looking for a serious buyer for my 2013 Trashcan Mac Pro. 🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-08 21:09:46 -0500", "date": "9:09 p.m. on Apr 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/08/i-hate-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F08%2Fi-hate-to.html" }, { "id": 1499, "type": "post", "title": "Feeling Undecided — Thinking Out Loud", "text": "Believe it or not, I\u0026rsquo;m still undecided about what to use for my summer travel journal. My options are 1) A new dedicated blog with Micro.blog, 2) Scribbles, 3) Pixelfed, 4) None of the above. I\u0026rsquo;m also undecided about how much effort I want to put into this. Micro.blog\u0026rsquo;s image handling concerns me1. Scribbles is in a similar position2. This leaves me with Pixelfed. Yet, this question is fundamental to my decision: it is more about images or words. It\u0026rsquo;s the former. I might end up with Pixelfed. Or with a bit of everything3. Decision. Decision. Decision.\nThis is highly dependent on my visual theme selection.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nPosting on Scribbles is limited to a browser. Preparing posts offline is a must here.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nIsn\u0026rsquo;t the case right now, anyway?\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-07 20:20:00 -0500", "date": "8:20 p.m. on Apr 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/07/feeling-undecided-thinking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F07%2Ffeeling-undecided-thinking.html" }, { "id": 1500, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If rumors are true that Trump\u0026rsquo;s plan to end the war in Ukraine when he returns to the Office is for both sides to save face. How do you achieve that if the rumoured plan is for Ukraine to cease Crimea and Donbas regions to Russia? How is Ukraine saving face here? What a motherfucker this guy is. This \u0026ldquo;plan\u0026rdquo; really reflects the way he conducted himself during is \u0026ldquo;business career\u0026rdquo; and as an acting president. I hope he goes to hell. 😡\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-07 18:30:38 -0500", "date": "6:30 p.m. on Apr 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/07/if-rumors-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F07%2Fif-rumors-are.html" }, { "id": 1501, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Testing Micro.blog macOS app version 3.2. I should use it more often when I\u0026rsquo;m on a Mac, which is 95% of the time! Fun fact: If I understand Micro.blog premium subscription capabilities correctly, I have one more blog available in my five-blog allotment1.🕺🏻👀🤔\nI might use it for travel journaling.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-07 07:56:39 -0500", "date": "7:56 p.m. on Apr 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/07/testing-microblog-macos.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F07%2Ftesting-microblog-macos.html" }, { "id": 1502, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I like HEY mail but I rarely use the client to read The Feed, which is a bit sad. There was no improvement to the reading experience since HEY release. Anyone with the same experience?\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-06 10:05:37 -0500", "date": "10:05 p.m. on Apr 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/06/i-like-hey.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F06%2Fi-like-hey.html" }, { "id": 1503, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Brought my iPad with me but failed to use it once after arriving at the hotel as I prefer my iPhone1. I wonder what it means, if it means anything regarding my love of the iPad and my future plans of upgrading.\nOn the plane, I use the iPad more.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-04 12:13:26 -0500", "date": "12:13 p.m. on Apr 4, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/04/brought-my-ipad.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F04%2Fbrought-my-ipad.html" }, { "id": 1504, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hello to my Bluesky followers! Reply and say hello Numeric Citizen! (Posted from Micro.blog)\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-03 09:23:17 -0500", "date": "9:23 p.m. on Apr 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/03/hello-to-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F03%2Fhello-to-my.html" }, { "id": 1505, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Happy April Fools day guys!!! 😀😂 I’m not going anywhere!!! You are stuck with me! Returning to normal programming! 🤗😂\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-01 11:34:00 -0500", "date": "11:34 p.m. on Apr 1, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/01/happy-april-fools.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F01%2Fhappy-april-fools.html" }, { "id": 1506, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After much thinking I decided to do some cleaning in my life. And this begins with the closure of my website here. Too much noise. Too much to maintain. Life should be about life, not digital life.\n", "dateiso": "2024-04-01 09:17:58 -0500", "date": "9:17 p.m. on Apr 1, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/04/01/after-much-thinking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F04%2F01%2Fafter-much-thinking.html" }, { "id": 1507, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Using Arc Search on iPhone to get a summary of an issue affecting a specific tech setup (hardware + software) is brilliant and a time saver. Searching for “Nikon zf raw image format macOS” gave everything I needed using the summary view. 😀🤓\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-31 05:09:42 -0500", "date": "5:09 p.m. on Mar 31, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/31/using-arc-search.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F31%2Fusing-arc-search.html" }, { "id": 1508, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For your information: Nikon Zf RAW files aren\u0026rsquo;t yet supported with macOS and Photomator1. You need to first convert them to DNG using Adobe DNG converter. With this conversion, you will lose some information along the way, like lens correction. Strangely enough, Synology Photos does display these RAW images correctly, unless it is showing the embedded JPEG part? 🤔\nNo preview available in Finder and Apple Preview can\u0026rsquo;t open the RAW file.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-30 20:30:01 -0500", "date": "8:30 p.m. on Mar 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/30/for-your-information.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F30%2Ffor-your-information.html" }, { "id": 1509, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Every designer knows this thought:\n_\"Everything made around me has a form and a function. So everything had to be shaped by a designer. But who are they? Where are they? And why—if they really were designers—why were they so careless?\"_\nSeeing the rise and fall of the interaction design industry I am beginning to doubt if everything really is designed in the proper sense of design, as a discipline that gives shape in the tension between thinking and acting. Things are simply carelessly produced.\nOliver Reichenstein https://mastodon.social/@reichenstein/112185086570997226\rI would say: every designer who really cares knows this thought.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-30 09:32:01 -0500", "date": "9:32 p.m. on Mar 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/30/every-designer-knows.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F30%2Fevery-designer-knows.html" }, { "id": 1510, "type": "post", "title": "Logging My Intentional Actions", "text": "I log quite a lot of things I do online using Things 3 Logbook feature to use this in my weekly creative summaries. I log what I do intentionally, of course, otherwise this would be way too noisy. One example is watching this video about Siegfried Hansen, a respected street photographer1. Reading an article in Omnivore is another intentional action that I want to log.\nThe process is simple: I have many pending tasks in Things 3, in a project called \u0026ldquo;To Read, Watch, Listen \u0026amp; Process.\u0026rdquo; I do select a task, do it, then mark it as completed. It then goes into Things 3 Logbook. It\u0026rsquo;s cool.23\nIf you are interested in street photographer, it\u0026rsquo;s a great interview with lots of great photos.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nI wonder if there is a name for people who log the things they do on a daily basis.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nI\u0026rsquo;m not sure why I do log these actions.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-30 07:47:31 -0500", "date": "7:47 p.m. on Mar 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/30/logging-my-intentional.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F30%2Flogging-my-intentional.html" }, { "id": 1511, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I just finished a quick Facebook session to see what\u0026rsquo;s new for my Mac Pro that I put for sale on the marketplace. I switched to my late father\u0026rsquo;s Facebook account to see if something needed attention. Nothing. Depressing. What the fuck is Facebook now?\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-28 18:01:52 -0500", "date": "6:01 p.m. on Mar 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/28/i-just-finished.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F28%2Fi-just-finished.html" }, { "id": 1512, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dear @Vincent, why is this page not showing on my Scribbles blog? BTW, I love Scribbles a lot and finally found my real use cases for it. I think people do like it too. Conitnue your good work!\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-28 07:15:25 -0500", "date": "7:15 p.m. on Mar 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/28/dear-vincent-why.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F28%2Fdear-vincent-why.html" }, { "id": 1513, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I really wish there was a way to save a thread from my Micro.blog timeline because right now, there is a great discussion happening that I wish I could save for later. @manton\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-28 05:49:41 -0500", "date": "5:49 p.m. on Mar 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/28/i-really-wish.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F28%2Fi-really-wish.html" }, { "id": 1514, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "@Denny wrote:\nI don\u0026rsquo;t view myself as a \u0026ldquo;content creator\u0026rdquo; and recoil at that phrase. I keep a blog as a way to stay involved in the world. Simply put, my motivation is to write, share, read, engage, learn. My contribution is a drop in the ocean and irrelevant to me beyond it being my tiny contribution to the collective whole.\nThis thought really resonated with me. So much that I\u0026rsquo;m considering to replace \u0026ldquo;compulsive creator\u0026rdquo; to \u0026ldquo;compulsive contributor\u0026rdquo; in my bio. It is so much more meaningful and positive.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-27 19:21:08 -0500", "date": "7:21 p.m. on Mar 27, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/27/i-dont-view.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F27%2Fi-dont-view.html" }, { "id": 1515, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Since March 13, 20201, I mostly work from home, coming to the office only once a week2. One negative side effect of this important change of habit is that I don\u0026rsquo;t go out often, so photo opportunities are close to none. I don\u0026rsquo;t know how to compensate for this. 😔\nRemember COVID-19?\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nI do skip one in a while.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-25 05:54:43 -0500", "date": "5:54 p.m. on Mar 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/25/since-march-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F25%2Fsince-march-i.html" }, { "id": 1516, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Reading product reviews through Kagi\u0026rsquo;s summarize page feature is rather cool and a great time saver. ", "dateiso": "2024-03-24 18:19:31 -0500", "date": "6:19 p.m. on Mar 24, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/24/reading-product-reviews.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F24%2Freading-product-reviews.html" }, { "id": 1517, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been setting up a group of to-do lists in Apple Reminders for managing our home improvement project. Each list is shared with my wife which means that each task can be assigned to one of us. I really like my experience so far.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-24 14:40:31 -0500", "date": "2:40 p.m. on Mar 24, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/24/ive-been-setting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F24%2Five-been-setting.html" }, { "id": 1518, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today, 2024-03-24, it\u0026rsquo;s Sunday, and it\u0026rsquo;s time for the latest edition of my weekly creative summary, edition 2024-11, available right here. Available later today by email to my dear subscribers! Enjoy.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-24 13:29:49 -0500", "date": "1:29 p.m. on Mar 24, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/24/today-its-sunday.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F24%2Ftoday-its-sunday.html" }, { "id": 1519, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here\u0026rsquo;s an idea: get a generative AI bot to browse all my photo posts on my Pixelfed profile page and generate a lengthy description of my photography style.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-24 09:08:32 -0500", "date": "9:08 p.m. on Mar 24, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/24/heres-an-idea.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F24%2Fheres-an-idea.html" }, { "id": 1520, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just spent1 30 minutes trying to configure a contact form for use in one of my Micro.blog site using https://web3forms.com/. Micro.blog is having difficulty rendering the HTML. Directed my question on the MB help forum. I\u0026rsquo;ll see where it goes from there. If you have used this service yourself on your Micro.blog website, chime in!\n\u0026ldquo;Wasted\u0026rdquo; might be a better term.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-24 08:22:29 -0500", "date": "8:22 p.m. on Mar 24, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/24/just-spent-minutes.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F24%2Fjust-spent-minutes.html" }, { "id": 1521, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Now that my Pixelfed presence is well established with more than 650 photos posted, I officially closed my Smugmug account. My photo-sharing journey can now be summarized like this: Flickr ➡️ 500px ➡️ Smugmug ➡️ Glass + Pixelfed. And, of course, I still do use Unsplash. My profile pages are documented on my digital hub.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-24 07:39:09 -0500", "date": "7:39 p.m. on Mar 24, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/24/now-that-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F24%2Fnow-that-my.html" }, { "id": 1522, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Raycast is becoming a powerhouse; it\u0026rsquo;s almost unbelievable. I just finished testing the latest release, which includes a Chrome companion extension. This extension allows invoking Raycast to perform tasks within the context of the currently open website in the browser. It\u0026rsquo;s super handy for summarizing an article or a YouTube video. I\u0026rsquo;m considering upgrading my Raycast subscription to support more advanced ChatGPT integration and models. 🤑\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-23 11:18:33 -0500", "date": "11:18 p.m. on Mar 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/23/raycast-is-becoming.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F23%2Fraycast-is-becoming.html" }, { "id": 1523, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;One way or another, real competition may be coming to the iPhone\u0026rdquo; - The Platformer about the DOJ vs Apple lawsuit.\nOh, come on.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-22 17:30:03 -0500", "date": "5:30 p.m. on Mar 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/22/one-way-or.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F22%2Fone-way-or.html" }, { "id": 1524, "type": "post", "title": "DOS vs Apple - Am I Getting Too Old?", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m unsure if I\u0026rsquo;m getting too old, but topics like DOJ vs Apple and everything preceding it are too complex for me to dive into. It may be a vital part of Apple\u0026rsquo;s current history, but I struggle to grasp it. I appreciate the efforts of non-professional tech pundits and Apple enthusiasts who delve deep into this and share their perspectives tirelessly. I\u0026rsquo;m not reading all the comments and takes on this, again because there as way too many. I do understand too that the course of the iPhone experience might see an inflection point in the coming years, if what is currently happening in the EU is any indication. I think it\u0026rsquo;s sad because the bases for this aren\u0026rsquo;t forming a consensus; something probably unachievable.\nThis all explain my indecision about who\u0026rsquo;s right, who\u0026rsquo;s wrong. I don\u0026rsquo;t trust governments\u0026rsquo; capabilities in understanding our tech world, that\u0026rsquo;s for sure, which means I\u0026rsquo;m not optimistic about the future of this particular case. Apple is big. So is Google. Facebook. And the like. They are the fruit of the \u0026ldquo;American way\u0026rdquo;. I guess that at some point, we prefer mediocrity in the name of \u0026ldquo;open markets\u0026rdquo; and to give an \u0026ldquo;equal\u0026rdquo; chance to all who wold like to compete.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-22 12:47:41 -0500", "date": "12:47 p.m. on Mar 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/22/dos-vs-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F22%2Fdos-vs-apple.html" }, { "id": 1525, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I find it insulting and inhumane to ask Ukraine to stop hitting the oil refineries in Russia for fear of causing a rise in gas prices. The Americans didn\u0026rsquo;t hesitate to go take down Saddam Hussein and trigger the Gulf War, nothing less. What a bunch of hypocrites. I\u0026rsquo;m fuming.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-22 07:28:56 -0500", "date": "7:28 p.m. on Mar 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/22/i-find-it.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F22%2Fi-find-it.html" }, { "id": 1526, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wow, I’ve been out for a few hours and what do I get when I come back? DOJ vs Apple. 🫣😳🥴\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-21 17:54:35 -0500", "date": "5:54 p.m. on Mar 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/21/wow-ive-been.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F21%2Fwow-ive-been.html" }, { "id": 1527, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s an “Apple Store visit” day. I like those. Even if I don’t plan to buy anything. 😬\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-21 10:05:52 -0500", "date": "10:05 p.m. on Mar 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/21/its-an-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F21%2Fits-an-apple.html" }, { "id": 1528, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I decided to use my Ko-fi page to share more personal tidbits about me and my creative journey. These are behind the One-a-month subscription. I feel at ease sharing these things because they are behind a tiny shield: the paywall. If you want to know more about me and get virtually closer, now it\u0026rsquo;s possible. Please, come in and enjoy the ride.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-21 06:40:12 -0500", "date": "6:40 p.m. on Mar 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/21/i-decided-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F21%2Fi-decided-to.html" }, { "id": 1529, "type": "post", "title": "On Writing Inline Links", "text": "Each time I write a sentence with an inline link to something else, I\u0026rsquo;m hesitating. Here are two examples.\nV1: When I read this article I simply couldn\u0026rsquo;t believe it.\nV2: When I read Gurman: No iPad Announcement Planned for March 26, I simply couldn\u0026rsquo;t believe it.\nWhich version makes better sense? Which version will trigger a click to visit the link? Linking from within sentences (inline) gives great explanations on how to do the latter1. Right now, I\u0026rsquo;m 99% of the time using the version 1 but I consider changing my writing style to go with version 2 as often as possible.\nIt\u0026rsquo;s a great use of inline link right there! And I think it works great.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-21 05:50:09 -0500", "date": "5:50 p.m. on Mar 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/21/on-writing-inline.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F21%2Fon-writing-inline.html" }, { "id": 1530, "type": "post", "title": "On Stage Manager - Again", "text": "So, I don\u0026rsquo;t miss Stage Manager on macOS and my M2 15-inch MacBook Air, apparently. I realized today that I disabled Stage Manager a while ago and forgot to reenable it. Speaking of Stage Manager, it is permanently turned off on my 2018 iPad Pro because it isn\u0026rsquo;t usable, but this is something that I\u0026rsquo;m looking forward to reenabling on the new iPad Pro and plugging my iPad into my LG UltraFine 4K display, and see, maybe, a new iPad experience since a long time1. I can\u0026rsquo;t wait to try that.\nThat was a long one, I know. Some thoughts are better shared in one long stretch!\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-20 18:46:12 -0500", "date": "6:46 p.m. on Mar 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/20/on-stage-manager.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F20%2Fon-stage-manager.html" }, { "id": 1531, "type": "post", "title": "Not Everything Should Be \"Timeless\"", "text": "Today, I came across a blog via someone\u0026rsquo;s else blogroll, and to my surprise, while browsing the blog\u0026rsquo;s content, I couldn\u0026rsquo;t find a single post with a publication date. So, let me be clear: I\u0026rsquo;m not feeling at ease when visiting a blog that don\u0026rsquo;t display publication date for each post. I can of understand the idea of \u0026ldquo;timeless\u0026rdquo; content, but I feel at lost with the author\u0026rsquo;s decision. I need time references in my digital life so I can better understand the content and the context. Call me old school if you want. I\u0026rsquo;m ok with this.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-20 10:27:47 -0500", "date": "10:27 p.m. on Mar 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/20/not-everything-should.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F20%2Fnot-everything-should.html" }, { "id": 1532, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Added a new entry to my blogroll: Enthusiasms. A great blog about many things: sciences, weather, sometimes about Apple, gardening, etc. This guy do have many passions and is enthusiastic about many things. Warning: some rabbit holes in there1.\nHis weather observations page is something I must try to replicate for myself!\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-20 05:48:05 -0500", "date": "5:48 p.m. on Mar 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/20/added-a-new.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F20%2Fadded-a-new.html" }, { "id": 1533, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Colourful or black and white? Your call. I just don’t know if I should all in black and white with this one.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-19 19:42:14 -0500", "date": "7:42 p.m. on Mar 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/19/colourful-or-black.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F19%2Fcolourful-or-black.html" }, { "id": 1534, "type": "post", "title": "On Presenting", "text": "Just completed a one hour customer presentation this morning. It was the culmination of a six-week project that shoud lead to bigger opportunities. I love doing presentations and I’m really comfortable doing so in front of people, especially when it is directly related to my field of expertise.\nEach time I prepare such presentations, I always think about Steve Jobs keynotes. Always. He was a model for me. And still is. There is a little bit of his way into my presentation delivery: setting the stage, telling a story, and a « one more thing » whenever possible.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-19 11:38:10 -0500", "date": "11:38 p.m. on Mar 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/19/on-presenting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F19%2Fon-presenting.html" }, { "id": 1535, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After much thinking, I think I\u0026rsquo;m going to put my 2013 Mac Pro for sale. I don\u0026rsquo;t see much use cases for it. My plans for running a VMware Workstation-based homelab are gone with ESXi no longer being made available for free (thanks to Broadcom). 😩\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-19 09:18:28 -0500", "date": "9:18 p.m. on Mar 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/19/after-much-thinking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F19%2Fafter-much-thinking.html" }, { "id": 1536, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple seems to be on a streak of really questionable decisions regarding the App Store and the developer\u0026rsquo;s community in general that will take years for them before they can say: oh gosh, we fucked up. But it might be too late when they do because developers will be doing their things elsewhere. I\u0026rsquo;m looking for the day Apple more openly admits it is doing wrong.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-18 21:08:30 -0500", "date": "9:08 p.m. on Mar 18, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/18/apple-seems-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F18%2Fapple-seems-to.html" }, { "id": 1537, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I just discovered that I can no longer use my Apple ID on my 2013 Mac Pro running macOS 12.4, thanks to Advanced Data Protection enabled on my other devices. So, I cannot update or install apps from the Mac App Store. Not cool at all. One less use case for this aging Mac. 😔\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-18 20:12:11 -0500", "date": "8:12 p.m. on Mar 18, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/18/i-just-discovered.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F18%2Fi-just-discovered.html" }, { "id": 1538, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I should visit Techmeme website much more often than I do. I usually end up on this site by coming from a linkpost1. I should be more intentional and go directly on the site myself. I like this newspaper style.\nIt\u0026rsquo;s probably the case for the vast majority of visitors.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-18 19:08:47 -0500", "date": "7:08 p.m. on Mar 18, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/18/i-should-visit.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F18%2Fi-should-visit.html" }, { "id": 1539, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s Sunday, It\u0026rsquo;s time for the weekly creative summary, edition 2024-10! Enjoy! Please, consider supporting my creative work and visit my Ko-fi page! 🙏🏻 Thanks. The email version is coming out later today for my subscribers! Hold on!\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-17 07:33:45 -0500", "date": "7:33 p.m. on Mar 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/17/its-sunday-its.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F17%2Fits-sunday-its.html" }, { "id": 1540, "type": "post", "title": "On Craft for iPhone", "text": "Craft on iPhone is so much different than on the iPad. It feels like a totally different app. If I were an iPhone-only user I wouldn’t buy a Craft subscription because the iPhone version is so bad. Thankfully the iPad version is much more workable and the Mac version is probably the best Catalyst-based app out there. It wasn’t always like that btw. Was much better before version 2.7. I don’t know when that situation will change.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-16 10:51:51 -0500", "date": "10:51 p.m. on Mar 16, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/16/on-craft-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F16%2Fon-craft-for.html" }, { "id": 1541, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If I were in my thirties, I would run my own instance of Pixelfed. If I were in my twenties, I would build a Pixelfed alternative.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-16 10:19:30 -0500", "date": "10:19 p.m. on Mar 16, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/16/if-i-were.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F16%2Fif-i-were.html" }, { "id": 1542, "type": "post", "title": "Must Have Public Mental Health Disclaimer", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been reflecting on blogrolls deeply in recent days and started writing an article on that subject. While doing so, an idea came up and I decided to write something that I think anyone who builds and shares a blogroll should add on it as an introduction. I\u0026rsquo;m reproducing it here.\nThis is my blogroll. This is a list of blogs that I visit often for different reasons. If you are a blogger and you don\u0026rsquo;t see your blog in this list, don\u0026rsquo;t be sad or offended. But I want to say that I\u0026rsquo;m sorry if you feel that way. Now, why not get in touch with me and share about your blog. I love to discover new things. hello@numericcitizen.me\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-15 17:13:51 -0500", "date": "5:13 p.m. on Mar 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/15/im-deeply-reflecting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F15%2Fim-deeply-reflecting.html" }, { "id": 1543, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Gearing up for our next trip to the United States of America[^1] on October, 2024: going to New York for a long weekend. Right before the elections. And you know what? It will take a long time before I back in the US if this dangerous clown ever gets elected[^2].\n[^1] I prefer the long version. [^2] That will happen my friends. Mark my words.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-15 12:57:50 -0500", "date": "12:57 p.m. on Mar 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/15/gearing-up-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F15%2Fgearing-up-for.html" }, { "id": 1544, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Is a corporate \u0026ldquo;blog\u0026rdquo;, still a blog? Take for example: Information Architects news site. Some posts like this one are really about musing on specific subjects, not directly related to the company\u0026rsquo;s products. I understand the marketing value proposition is maintaining a blog for a company, and yet\u0026hellip;\nAsking for a friend. 🫣🕵🏻\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-15 10:44:29 -0500", "date": "10:44 p.m. on Mar 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/15/is-a-corporate.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F15%2Fis-a-corporate.html" }, { "id": 1545, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In my day-to-day work, I\u0026rsquo;m benefiting so much from many mentors that I had a chance to meet during my career. They don\u0026rsquo;t know it, but they helped me so much to become what I am today and how I work with my other colleagues. Someone said: we are the sum of people we met in our life. I like this a lot.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-14 10:40:36 -0500", "date": "10:40 p.m. on Mar 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/14/in-my-daytoday.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F14%2Fin-my-daytoday.html" }, { "id": 1546, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Like a few others, I\u0026rsquo;m proud to join the One a Month Club put together by @jarrod [^1]! You can show your support here on Ko-fi! I might post exclusive content on Ko-fi like a photo or a small personal text on a monthly basis. I\u0026rsquo;ll see where it goes!\n[^1] I\u0026rsquo;m not sure how to get my page registered on Jarrod\u0026rsquo;s page, though. 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-14 06:31:29 -0500", "date": "6:31 p.m. on Mar 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/14/like-a-few.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F14%2Flike-a-few.html" }, { "id": 1547, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dear @Manton, the lack of editing a blogroll entry or moving an entry between blogrolls are really killing me. Putting everything on hold for now until we have a better way of updating this stuff! 😩\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-13 11:05:58 -0500", "date": "11:05 p.m. on Mar 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/13/dear-manton-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F13%2Fdear-manton-the.html" }, { "id": 1548, "type": "post", "title": "Never Tamper Someone's Desire for Creative Tools", "text": "My wife gave me a surprisingly mildly negative reaction this morning when I shared with her my intention of getting a Nikon Zf mirrorless camera before going to Croatia this summer. Not because it\u0026rsquo;s not the best camera for this situation, no, because I already own an iPhone 15 Pro Max and a Nikon D750. 😩 But, I could get rid of my D750 or keep it but bring the Zf with me instead. I find it a bit sad that someone can put a break on someone else\u0026rsquo;s desire for creative tools. I\u0026rsquo;ll talk to her tonight after work.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-13 09:12:17 -0500", "date": "9:12 p.m. on Mar 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/13/never-tamper-someones.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F13%2Fnever-tamper-someones.html" }, { "id": 1549, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I find this fascinating that yesterday, I was in such bad mood about a lot of things (work life, personal life) and now, today, after a good night, I\u0026rsquo;m feeling much more upbeat! I can\u0026rsquo;t tell why because I don\u0026rsquo;t know. Human mind is a complete mystery. 😌\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-13 09:04:19 -0500", "date": "9:04 p.m. on Mar 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/13/i-find-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F13%2Fi-find-this.html" }, { "id": 1550, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The future doesn't belong to optimists or pessimists. It does what it wants. Here's what's plausible to me: Apple has a lot of brains, brand loading and market power... So AVP will find its place. To me, this didn't change everything. The iPhone had that effect. On top of that, the device doesn't have the usual Apple fetish character. It doesn't say \"You want this, don't you?\" **It doesn't make you look good and part of a cool tribe. From outside makes you look confused, foolish and sad.**\nOliver Reichenstein https://mastodon.social/users/reichenstein/statuses/112085953023448694\rOliver Reichenstein writing about his experience with the Apple Vision Pro. Emphasis is mine.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-13 05:41:36 -0500", "date": "5:41 p.m. on Mar 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/13/the-future-doesnt.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F13%2Fthe-future-doesnt.html" }, { "id": 1551, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What is the best way to fix the FOMO syndrome when it comes to RSS feeds? Simply hit \u0026ldquo;mark all as read\u0026rdquo;. You are welcome.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-12 20:18:07 -0500", "date": "8:18 p.m. on Mar 12, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/12/what-is-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F12%2Fwhat-is-the.html" }, { "id": 1552, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When I don\u0026rsquo;t know what to write, I edit and share photos. 👨🏻‍💻👀\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-12 19:32:24 -0500", "date": "7:32 p.m. on Mar 12, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/12/when-i-dont.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F12%2Fwhen-i-dont.html" }, { "id": 1553, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Why is Dave Winer still caring about Twitter and Facebook? Mr. Winer is such a proponent of the open web\u0026hellip; and interoperability\u0026hellip; Twitter and Facebook are the antithesis of those principles.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-12 19:19:34 -0500", "date": "7:19 p.m. on Mar 12, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/12/why-is-dave.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F12%2Fwhy-is-dave.html" }, { "id": 1554, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m not sure I\u0026rsquo;ll be able to publish this week\u0026rsquo;s edition of my creative summary newsletter simply because I don\u0026rsquo;t feel creative at all this week. 😔\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-12 17:08:11 -0500", "date": "5:08 p.m. on Mar 12, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/12/im-not-sure.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F12%2Fim-not-sure.html" }, { "id": 1555, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Been testing FeedLand this morning. I\u0026rsquo;m still trying to figure out what it is really about. As a subscriber to Inoreader, I wonder if I really need FeedLand in my digital life. Anyone using FeedLand here? 👀\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-12 06:40:56 -0500", "date": "6:40 p.m. on Mar 12, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/12/been-testing-feedland.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F12%2Fbeen-testing-feedland.html" }, { "id": 1556, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I updated my blogroll page to take advantage of Micro.blog\u0026rsquo;s new blogroll feature.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-11 20:40:51 -0500", "date": "8:40 p.m. on Mar 11, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/11/i-updated-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F11%2Fi-updated-my.html" }, { "id": 1557, "type": "post", "title": "The Fascinating Game of Moving Between Hosting Platforms", "text": "I find those stories always fascinating when I read about a blogger moving from one platform to another. It is as if every hosting solution cannot have it all. There is always too much friction, or something is simply lacking, which prompts us, content creators, to drop one service and search for something else. One service can have a great visual design1yet lacking from the analytics side. One platform can be well-designed but very hard to keep up and running2. Another solution that can be dead simple to publish lacks visual design flexibility3. Can we have it all? I sense a business opportunity here.\nI\u0026rsquo;m permanently questioning my current options. Right now, I’m fine with my hosting solutions, but one never knows when something no longer fits my needs.\nNote: this article is a modified version of the original text published elsewhere on 2021-03-05 under my other metablog website using Craft.\nI\u0026rsquo;m looking at you, Squarespace.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nI\u0026rsquo;m looking at you, Ghost.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nI\u0026rsquo;m looking at you, Micro.blog.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-10 16:02:53 -0500", "date": "4:02 p.m. on Mar 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/10/the-fascinating-game.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F10%2Fthe-fascinating-game.html" }, { "id": 1558, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I wish Apple made special editions of their current and past products. A special edition of the iPod would be a killer and I would buy one. Something running a stripped down iOS version, with a fix set of apps (music, podcast, video) a in unique device that takes cue from the past but also try different new things. It could be a way for Apple to experiment in public and get feedback. Apple could try MacBook with different casing materials, colors and finish. Those special edition products would be available for a while.\nI wish Apple would try to reinvent itself more often.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-10 10:37:12 -0500", "date": "10:37 p.m. on Mar 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/10/i-wish-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F10%2Fi-wish-apple.html" }, { "id": 1559, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just finish experimenting with Obsidian1. I\u0026rsquo;m always fascinated by Obsidian but also unpleased by its user interface\u0026rsquo;s uninspired and unfinished feel. Passing for now.\nI do this occasionally, as if I was trying to convince myself that it is something should use.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-10 10:19:20 -0500", "date": "10:19 p.m. on Mar 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/10/just-finish-experimenting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F10%2Fjust-finish-experimenting.html" }, { "id": 1560, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m done with this week\u0026rsquo;s creative summary, edition 2024-09. I hope you enjoy as much as I do putting them together, each week. 👨🏻‍💻\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-10 09:55:01 -0500", "date": "9:55 p.m. on Mar 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/10/im-done-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F10%2Fim-done-with.html" }, { "id": 1561, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Still not clear if it will only rain or if we will get heavy and abundant snow. Weather forecast is predicting only rain. I\u0026rsquo;m ok with this. This winter has been so warm so far, that\u0026rsquo;s incredible. We will probably be in a drought this summer because of the lack of snow this winter. And you know what it means? Forest fires.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-09 16:01:36 -0500", "date": "4:01 p.m. on Mar 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/09/still-not-clear.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F09%2Fstill-not-clear.html" }, { "id": 1562, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-09 14:51:00 -0500", "date": "2:51 p.m. on Mar 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/09/i-prefer-bear.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F09%2Fi-prefer-bear.html" }, { "id": 1563, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔗 Apple hires NBCUniversal ad chief\nApple has hired away an advertising executive from NBCUniversal, as it continues to build out its rumored video ad business for Apple TV+.\nThat is not a good sign. Is this another example of enshitification? Man, I wish Apple won’t go in that direction.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-09 12:37:04 -0500", "date": "12:37 p.m. on Mar 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/09/apple-hires-nbcuniversal.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F09%2Fapple-hires-nbcuniversal.html" }, { "id": 1564, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When my sons got old enough, I offered them their first email address on Gmail. That made them happy. They didn\u0026rsquo;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.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-09 12:28:13 -0500", "date": "12:28 p.m. on Mar 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/09/when-my-sons.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F09%2Fwhen-my-sons.html" }, { "id": 1565, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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 \u0026ldquo;X\u0026rdquo; generation is? I felt insulted.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-09 08:01:46 -0500", "date": "8:01 p.m. on Mar 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/09/yesterday-at-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F09%2Fyesterday-at-the.html" }, { "id": 1566, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Next Monday will be Christmas Monday with new iPad Pro. Fingers crossed 🤞🏻\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-08 18:14:05 -0500", "date": "6:14 p.m. on Mar 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/08/next-monday-will.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F08%2Fnext-monday-will.html" }, { "id": 1567, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m considering buying the Elgato Prompter for use during my YouTube video recording. But I\u0026rsquo;m not sure that reading a script while recording is something that I\u0026rsquo;ll feel at ease with. Plus, writing those scripts takes some time. I\u0026rsquo;m more of an intuitive got with the flow guy when I record. Quality might suffer from this, though. Decisions, decisions, decisions. 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-08 08:24:48 -0500", "date": "8:24 p.m. on Mar 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/08/im-considering-buying.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F08%2Fim-considering-buying.html" }, { "id": 1568, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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? 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-06 12:03:01 -0500", "date": "12:03 p.m. on Mar 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/06/isnt-it-strange.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F06%2Fisnt-it-strange.html" }, { "id": 1569, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I wanted to push my iPad Pro article today, to beat Apple, in case they decided to release new iPad Pro today. 😅\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-06 07:08:54 -0500", "date": "7:08 p.m. on Mar 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/06/i-wanted-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F06%2Fi-wanted-to.html" }, { "id": 1570, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What if EU tells Apple: “you’re changes in iOS 17.4 aren’t enough or wrong”, what then?\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-05 17:41:44 -0500", "date": "5:41 p.m. on Mar 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/05/what-if-eu.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F05%2Fwhat-if-eu.html" }, { "id": 1571, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I don\u0026rsquo;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.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-05 08:37:08 -0500", "date": "8:37 p.m. on Mar 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/05/i-dont-want.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F05%2Fi-dont-want.html" }, { "id": 1572, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-04 20:51:10 -0500", "date": "8:51 p.m. on Mar 4, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/04/photoediting-on-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F04%2Fphotoediting-on-the.html" }, { "id": 1573, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Before. After. 📷\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-04 20:06:57 -0500", "date": "8:06 p.m. on Mar 4, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/04/before-after.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F04%2Fbefore-after.html" }, { "id": 1574, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-04 13:02:03 -0500", "date": "1:02 p.m. on Mar 4, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/04/what-would-be.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F04%2Fwhat-would-be.html" }, { "id": 1575, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The M2 13-inch MacBook Air stays in the lineup for 999 US$. The multiplication of price points continues. 🤪\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-04 08:31:31 -0500", "date": "8:31 p.m. on Mar 4, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/04/the-m-inch.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F04%2Fthe-m-inch.html" }, { "id": 1576, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The new M3 MacBook Air now supports two displays, when the laptop lid is closed.1 🤔\nAs an M2 15-inch MBA owner, I\u0026rsquo;ll pass.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-04 08:29:34 -0500", "date": "8:29 p.m. on Mar 4, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/04/the-new-m.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F04%2Fthe-new-m.html" }, { "id": 1577, "type": "post", "title": "AI Training: Ethics or Coverage?", "text": "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.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-04 07:00:27 -0500", "date": "7:00 p.m. on Mar 4, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/04/ai-training-ethics.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F04%2Fai-training-ethics.html" }, { "id": 1578, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔗 Amit Gawande\nMicro posts don’t sit well on the platform, either. For all that, there’s no better platform than Micro.blog.\nI’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.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-03 22:04:19 -0500", "date": "10:04 p.m. on Mar 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/03/amit-gawande-micro.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F03%2Famit-gawande-micro.html" }, { "id": 1579, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔗 Source: Apple to Announce New Products This Week - MacRumors\nApple plans to announce new products with press releases on its website this week, a proven source familiar with the matter told MacRumors.\nAfter 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.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-03 20:49:20 -0500", "date": "8:49 p.m. on Mar 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/03/source-apple-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F03%2Fsource-apple-to.html" }, { "id": 1580, "type": "post", "title": "One Big Regret of My Digital Life", "text": "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\u0026rsquo;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.\nIt\u0026rsquo;s not exactly true. I used to have and maintain a website about a subject that I still find fascinating: meteorology, circa 1994.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-03 20:03:07 -0500", "date": "8:03 p.m. on Mar 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/03/one-big-regret.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F03%2Fone-big-regret.html" }, { "id": 1581, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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\u0026rsquo;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\u0026rsquo;s original URL into the GPT.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-03 10:36:51 -0500", "date": "10:36 p.m. on Mar 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/03/i-spent-part.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F03%2Fi-spent-part.html" }, { "id": 1582, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For Micro.blog lovers and enthusiasts, I made a video summarizing February improvements and additions. Enjoy. ", "dateiso": "2024-03-03 10:30:48 -0500", "date": "10:30 p.m. on Mar 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/03/for-microblog-lovers.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F03%2Ffor-microblog-lovers.html" }, { "id": 1583, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Week number eight is complete. You can read my weekly creative summary right HERE! Coming up later for newsletter subscribers. Thanks for reading about my work. 🙏🏻\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-03 08:56:29 -0500", "date": "8:56 p.m. on Mar 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/03/week-number-eight.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F03%2Fweek-number-eight.html" }, { "id": 1584, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Experiment with Photomator on iPad. Thoughts?\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-02 17:42:31 -0500", "date": "5:42 p.m. on Mar 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/02/experiment-with-photomator.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F02%2Fexperiment-with-photomator.html" }, { "id": 1585, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I made a big cleanup in my Shortcuts this morning. Boy, do I feel this app needs so much more work to be enjoyable to use. Can Apple fix this mess? Editing a long shortcut is not optimal. There should be a compressed or text-only mode with inline hyperlinks for variables and actions. Syncing is broken—no debugging option. There should be a way to turn off a shortcut so it doesn\u0026rsquo;t appear in places like share sheets. I wish Apple spent more time on Shortcuts than they do on Swift Playground. Oh, is Apple going to enable creating Shortcuts using GenAI? That would be really cool. 👀🤔\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-02 13:27:57 -0500", "date": "1:27 p.m. on Mar 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/02/i-made-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F02%2Fi-made-a.html" }, { "id": 1586, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m playing with my content by asking ChatGPT to summarize my blog\u0026rsquo;s monthly digest newsletter. It would be nice if we had an option to include this summary automatically using Micro.blog newsletter feature. cc @manton\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-02 09:46:55 -0500", "date": "9:46 p.m. on Mar 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/02/im-playing-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F02%2Fim-playing-with.html" }, { "id": 1587, "type": "post", "title": "On Single-Purpose Device Attractiveness", "text": "This week during a work meeting with my office colleagues, one of them was using a \u0026ldquo;remarkable\u0026rdquo; tablet to take notes. I was sitting right next to him and could see the tablet in action. I must say I was impressed. It\u0026rsquo;s certain that a \u0026ldquo;remarkable\u0026rdquo; tablet offers very limited functionality compared to an iPad, but it raises the following question: Should Apple consider going back to creating single-purpose devices? For example, the iPhone killed the iPod, but I think if Apple re-entered the market with a new line of iPods, it would be very popular. And I think the same would be true for a note-taking tablet.\n", "dateiso": "2024-03-02 09:33:56 -0500", "date": "9:33 p.m. on Mar 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/03/02/on-singlepurpose-device.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F03%2F02%2Fon-singlepurpose-device.html" }, { "id": 1588, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Lots of meetings today at the office. Used my iPad Pro all the time for note-taking. It\u0026rsquo;s such a wonderful and mighty device for that purpose. Even with iPadOS limitations. I\u0026rsquo;m excited for the next iteration. I can\u0026rsquo;t wait to see what\u0026rsquo;s coming next to this platform.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-29 21:32:07 -0500", "date": "9:32 p.m. on Feb 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/29/lots-of-meetings.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F29%2Flots-of-meetings.html" }, { "id": 1589, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔗 Tim Cook Says Apple Will \u0026lsquo;Break New Ground\u0026rsquo; in Generative AI - MacRumors\nand during the event, Apple CEO Tim Cook once again commented on Apple\u0026rsquo;s AI plans. Cook said that the company will \u0026ldquo;break new ground\u0026rdquo; in generative AI in 2024. \u0026ldquo;We believe it will unlock transformative opportunities for our users,\u0026rdquo; said Cook.\nWill Apple GenAI break new ground for Apple users or to everyone compared to what is currently possible? It’s a big difference because Apple is quite behind.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-28 19:36:44 -0500", "date": "7:36 p.m. on Feb 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/28/tim-cook-says.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F28%2Ftim-cook-says.html" }, { "id": 1590, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wow, there is a thunderstorm ⛈️ right now in Montreal! Just like what would get during summer! +11C, winds. Thanks to this cold front moving in. Thanks to climate change. Tomorrow -13C. 😳🫣⛈️\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-28 18:26:39 -0500", "date": "6:26 p.m. on Feb 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/28/wow-there-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F28%2Fwow-there-is.html" }, { "id": 1591, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Yesterday, while writing and editing a report for one of our clients, I used ChatGPT for two different use cases. One use case was to ask for a summarization of what \u0026ldquo;firmware\u0026rdquo; is and how critical it is. The second use case is to define the pillars of a data management and governance policy in the enterprise. On that one, I asked for more details about managing unstructured data. The ChatGPT results were mind-blowing. I know a lot about this specific IT field, and I could validate the correctness of the answers. I saved a lot of time because of ChatGPT.\nBut what about my ethics?\nShould I write a disclaimer in this report that says GenAI was used to put together some portions of this report? Is the client ready and mature enough to read this disclaimer? Will he understand that ChatGPT is in fact like an assistant to whom I asked to summarize what a data governance policy is? How do I cite my sources?\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-28 07:46:45 -0500", "date": "7:46 p.m. on Feb 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/28/yesterday-while-writing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F28%2Fyesterday-while-writing.html" }, { "id": 1592, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today is the kind of day where I feel that I\u0026rsquo;m in a constantly moving mode: from Craft to Micro.blog or Bear 2. Closing this subscription, starting a new one. And all this for what? Content preservation? Data silos fighting? It\u0026rsquo;s exhausting.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-27 20:52:28 -0500", "date": "8:52 p.m. on Feb 27, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/27/today-is-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F27%2Ftoday-is-the.html" }, { "id": 1593, "type": "post", "title": "On Apple Car Project Cancellation - It Did Make Any Sense Anyway", "text": "This whole Apple Car didn\u0026rsquo;t make any sense to me. It\u0026rsquo;s not Apple. A car is not a personal device. A personal device is a phone. A computer. Or a bike. One positive byproduct of this car journey is probably the birth of CarPlay 2.0, which was probably worked within the Apple Car project. But then, what else? AI? Maybe. I\u0026rsquo;m reading that the AI portion of the project will be folded into the other AI team(s) within Apple. It\u0026rsquo;s good because Apple needs all it can get in AI to stay relevant in that field and imagine the future beyond Siri.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-27 17:13:06 -0500", "date": "5:13 p.m. on Feb 27, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/27/on-apple-car.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F27%2Fon-apple-car.html" }, { "id": 1594, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The Craft team is introducing collaborative whiteboards to Craft. I tested the feature and made a video about it.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-27 07:23:51 -0500", "date": "7:23 p.m. on Feb 27, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/27/the-craft-team.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F27%2Fthe-craft-team.html" }, { "id": 1595, "type": "post", "title": "A Metablog That You Can Follow via RSS", "text": "💡 Today, I want to share the newest addition to my digital publishing space: my metablog, hosted on Micro.blog. This isn\u0026rsquo;t entirely new; another version is already in place, but it is hosted as a series of Craft-shared documents. What I\u0026rsquo;m sharing today is hosted on Micro.blog using the recently introduced increase in the number of blogs you can have with a single premium account1. From this migration, my metablog will gain RSS feed support, enable POSSE, and be closer to my online community here on Micro.blog, but also on Mastodon and Bluesky.\nOne last thing: this is a work-in-progress, a build-in-public thing. I\u0026rsquo;m slowly transposing most of my content to this new home, one post at a time. You\u0026rsquo;ll know it because of cross-posting and the RSS feed provided that you subscribe. 👈🏻 Some posts date back to 2020, but you might be surprised by discovering a few gems.\nI\u0026rsquo;m using two, and I\u0026rsquo;ll probably stop there. I promise.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-25 19:24:42 -0500", "date": "7:24 p.m. on Feb 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/25/a-metablog-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F25%2Fa-metablog-that.html" }, { "id": 1596, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thought of the day: Micro.blog is probably the most fun and flexible thing on the open web these days that I can play with. It is approachable which in itself is a great quality. It is a creativity “unleasher”. When something is fun, I want more of it. I want to spread the word and share my excitement. 👊🏻\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-25 14:33:49 -0500", "date": "2:33 p.m. on Feb 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/25/thought-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F25%2Fthought-of-the.html" }, { "id": 1597, "type": "post", "title": "Finalizing This Week's Creative Summary — Plus: An Idea", "text": "It’s Sunday, and you know the drill: it’s time to share my latest edition of the weekly creative summary. It’s mostly complete, so this week’s edition partially follows the “build in public” movement. I wonder if I should start sharing the document at the beginning of the process so that you can see the whole creation process as I’m working on the current edition. What do you think?\nI’ve been doing these summaries since last September and enjoy putting them together. It’s issue number 22. Enjoy. The email version is coming out later today.\nBuilt with care and love on 100% recycled electrons.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-25 07:38:01 -0500", "date": "7:38 p.m. on Feb 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/25/finalizing-this-weeks.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F25%2Ffinalizing-this-weeks.html" }, { "id": 1598, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Well, after much testing, and with a bit of sadness, the best way for me to migrate from a Craft-hosted website to a Micro.blog-hosted website will be to export each document to Ulysses then publish to Micro.blog while back-dating each post. The good side is that I\u0026rsquo;m going to update and rework most of the content. Not all posts might make the cut, though. I\u0026rsquo;ll continue using Craft-hosting solution for the best and richest content visualization.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-24 15:29:56 -0500", "date": "3:29 p.m. on Feb 24, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/24/well-after-much.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F24%2Fwell-after-much.html" }, { "id": 1599, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After much thinking, I decided not to create exclusive content for paying subscribers of numericcitizen.me. Reason #1: I don\u0026rsquo;t publish often enough to warrant such a decision. Reason #2: I don\u0026rsquo;t have the time to create such content and don\u0026rsquo;t want to feel the pressure. Reason #3: I prefer asking for support for my whole creative journey. In a sense, someone subscribing encourages the pursuit of my journey by saying: can\u0026rsquo;t wait to read what\u0026rsquo;s coming! Are you one of those? 🙂\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-24 15:06:21 -0500", "date": "3:06 p.m. on Feb 24, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/24/after-much-thinking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F24%2Fafter-much-thinking.html" }, { "id": 1600, "type": "post", "title": "Two Years Already", "text": "We let Putin\u0026rsquo;s regime invade Ukraine in 2014, and we did nothing. In 2022, Ukraine and the world, to a certain degree, paid the price of our inaction by letting Putin\u0026rsquo;s criminals do it again, but on a much larger scale. Today marks a sad anniversary and reminds us how costly our hesitation in providing what Ukraine really needs to make a dent in this conflict. I feel sorry for the Ukrainians, and I feel frustrated by our slow and timid reactions. I know that we, the West, did spend quite a lot to help, but we need to do much more than that to kick out those criminals and to make the Russian regime think again the next time they envision invading a free country.\nFinally, the prospect of the Trump return as a president makes the future look even darker. The United States influence in the political and diplomatic space around the world looks to be diminishing like the snow under the sun. Trump won\u0026rsquo;t reverse this trend. Who\u0026rsquo;s taking over?\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-24 08:44:54 -0500", "date": "8:44 p.m. on Feb 24, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/24/two-years-already.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F24%2Ftwo-years-already.html" }, { "id": 1601, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m still looking into new use cases for using Micro.blog\u0026rsquo;s new blog limits1. Porting a portion of my meta blog is one such use case, but porting this portion would be really difficult. I might go ahead with a dual publication: I keep the Craft version because it is richer and faster to publish but also publish on Micro.blog because of RSS support and better integration with my Micro.blog digital community.\nI\u0026rsquo;m currently using one blog, this one, and one one-page site.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-24 07:41:14 -0500", "date": "7:41 p.m. on Feb 24, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/24/im-still-looking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F24%2Fim-still-looking.html" }, { "id": 1602, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Yesterday I did a 20-min presentation on how to take advantage of ChatGPT and GenAI tools at work, for my colleagues. Many of them didn\u0026rsquo;t learn anything because they already experimented with these tools. For others, they learned quite a bit and I saw their enchantment in their eyes. This reminds of 1993 when I gave a similar presentation about tools like Netscape, Newsgroups, Gopher, and Mail and how to use http requests. Today, we need to learn how to create effective \u0026ldquo;prompts\u0026rdquo;.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-23 10:16:15 -0500", "date": "10:16 p.m. on Feb 23, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/23/yesterday-i-did.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F23%2Fyesterday-i-did.html" }, { "id": 1603, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔗 Elon Musk nominated for Nobel Peace Prize\nBillionaire Elon Musk — whose businesses range from satellites to social media — was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by a Norwegian lawmaker who praised the X owner as a “stout proponent for free speech.”\nYou must be kidding me! While at it, why not nominate Putin for his fight against nazis in Ukraine. Beyond ridiculous.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-21 20:23:19 -0500", "date": "8:23 p.m. on Feb 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/21/elon-musk-nominated.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F21%2Felon-musk-nominated.html" }, { "id": 1604, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple Journals is iPhone only. Apple Sports is iPhone only1. Apple Classical is iPhone only. Did Apple forget about the iPad? What should we conclude from this? Will it take years to come to the iPad, just like the Health app? Isn\u0026rsquo;t that easy to make an iPad version of an app?\nIt\u0026rsquo;s a new app that is launching today. A surprise.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-21 09:50:25 -0500", "date": "9:50 p.m. on Feb 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/21/apple-journals-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F21%2Fapple-journals-is.html" }, { "id": 1605, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🥺 Oh crap!\n#Raindrop\ntekphloyd :prami_neutral: https://social.lol/@tekphloyd/111969675489583131\rI don't support Raindrop.io, because of [this](https://numericcitizen.me/when-war-in-ukraine-influences-my-application-choices/). ", "dateiso": "2024-02-21 09:01:56 -0500", "date": "9:01 p.m. on Feb 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/21/oh-crap-raindrop.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F21%2Foh-crap-raindrop.html" }, { "id": 1606, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple Vision Pro Returns https://initialcharge.net/2024/02/gurman-vision-pro-returns/\nInitial Charge https://libertynode.net/@initialcharge/111964363323398274\rI wonder, sometimes, about the Apple Vision Pro ending up in the drawer, just like pre-iPod era MP3 players. Time will tell.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-20 09:54:03 -0500", "date": "9:54 p.m. on Feb 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/20/apple-vision-pro.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F20%2Fapple-vision-pro.html" }, { "id": 1607, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This looks like a wonderfully designed desk shelf, but I\u0026rsquo;m not sure I want to jack up my Apple Studio Display. And what if I upgrade my Mac mini to a Mac Studio? It won\u0026rsquo;t fit.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-20 09:31:06 -0500", "date": "9:31 p.m. on Feb 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/20/this-looks-like.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F20%2Fthis-looks-like.html" }, { "id": 1608, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I wasn\u0026rsquo;t invited to share my thoughts on this year\u0026rsquo;s SixColors Apple performance performance report, So I\u0026rsquo;m writing my own performance report. 😛\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-20 07:44:01 -0500", "date": "7:44 p.m. on Feb 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/20/i-wasnt-invited.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F20%2Fi-wasnt-invited.html" }, { "id": 1609, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔗 On digital relationships – Manu\nDigital relationships are powerful but don’t take my word for it. Try for yourself. Next time you stumble on a personal site you find interesting, try to connect with the person behind that site. Write an email, say hi, send them some love. You won’t regret it.\nSomehow, I found this blog post very touching. I’m still searching for the exact reason, but until I do, I will contact this guy. I don’t know yet what I’m going to say.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-18 21:50:41 -0500", "date": "9:50 p.m. on Feb 18, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/18/on-digital-relationships.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F18%2Fon-digital-relationships.html" }, { "id": 1610, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s time for the 2024-06 issue of my weekly creative summary! Not my best week, but good enough to share! 👨🏻‍💻😅 I created an index for the past editions. Newsletter going out by email soon. 📬\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-18 16:00:18 -0500", "date": "4:00 p.m. on Feb 18, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/18/its-time-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F18%2Fits-time-for.html" }, { "id": 1611, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If Ukraine loses the war against Putin\u0026rsquo;s regime in Moscow, it\u0026rsquo;s not Ukraine who loses, but the West. Fighting back after an eventual lost war will cost everyone\u0026rsquo;s ten if not hundred times more. When are we going to get this? Pressure your governments to do more, not less.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-17 18:13:43 -0500", "date": "6:13 p.m. on Feb 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/17/if-ukraine-loses.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F17%2Fif-ukraine-loses.html" }, { "id": 1612, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I wrote a little article1 explaining how I\u0026rsquo;m using Ghost\u0026rsquo;s API to \u0026ldquo;browse\u0026rdquo; published articles so that I can select an article that I want to update.\nOn Numeric Citizen I/O blog (link).\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-17 15:18:03 -0500", "date": "3:18 p.m. on Feb 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/17/i-wrote-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F17%2Fi-wrote-a.html" }, { "id": 1613, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s the perfect coffee shop kit for me. At first, I didn\u0026rsquo;t think of going out today, but I realized that I spend all weekdays at home for work. I guess it was time to see the world and enjoy a creative session at the coffee shop while listening to music. Slow vibes1.\nthe photo wasn\u0026rsquo;t post-processed beyond what the iPhone usually does.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-17 14:34:32 -0500", "date": "2:34 p.m. on Feb 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/17/its-the-perfect.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F17%2Fits-the-perfect.html" }, { "id": 1614, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔗 Blogging Struggles | Darren\u0026rsquo;s Notes\nI love the design process but never reach a point where I\u0026rsquo;m happy. I continually change themes, plug-ins, and services.\nHappy to learn that we have something in common. 🙂\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-17 14:12:31 -0500", "date": "2:12 p.m. on Feb 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/17/blogging-struggles-darrens.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F17%2Fblogging-struggles-darrens.html" }, { "id": 1615, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔗 iOS 18 Rumored to Include \u0026lsquo;Slew of New AI Features\u0026rsquo; - MacRumors\nThe report claims that Apple is training both Siri and the iPhone\u0026rsquo;s built-in Spotlight search tool on large language models, with a goal of improving each feature\u0026rsquo;s ability to answer more complex questions accurately. The revamped version of Spotlight could also offer deeper integration with \u0026ldquo;specific\u0026rdquo; functions and features in apps.\nWhy am I thinking about the coming of Siri+ when I read this report?\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-16 12:16:30 -0500", "date": "12:16 p.m. on Feb 16, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/16/ios-rumored-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F16%2Fios-rumored-to.html" }, { "id": 1616, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A new post category in micro.blog, filtered to include existing posts writingslowly.comWriting Slowly https://writingslowly.com/2024/02/15/a-new-post.html\rGreat explanation for using categories with Micro.blog.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-15 07:00:23 -0500", "date": "7:00 p.m. on Feb 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/15/a-new-post.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F15%2Fa-new-post.html" }, { "id": 1617, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔗 My co-worker\u0026rsquo;s first impressions of the Vision Pro\nUltimately, he said he\u0026rsquo;s not going to get one (price), but that it really was a revelatory experience and was unlike anything he\u0026rsquo;d seen before.\nSomeone who finished a demo of the Apple Vision Pro. Is this exactly what many people said when they first tried the Macintosh back in 1984? The rest is history.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-14 22:03:05 -0500", "date": "10:03 p.m. on Feb 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/14/my-coworkers-first.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F14%2Fmy-coworkers-first.html" }, { "id": 1618, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day and night, my blog will be in dark mode. I think it better fit my avatar style.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-14 20:45:46 -0500", "date": "8:45 p.m. on Feb 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/14/day-and-night.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F14%2Fday-and-night.html" }, { "id": 1619, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔗 iPhone 16 Rumored to Feature \u0026lsquo;Significantly\u0026rsquo; Upgraded Neural Engine for iOS 18\u0026rsquo;s Generative AI Features - MacRumors\nA18 series chips are expected to debut in iPhone 16 models in September. It was previously rumored that some generative AI features could be exclusive to iPhone 16 models, and the upgraded Neural Engine could be a reason why.\nMy wish is that the pre-iPhone 16 devices can get a reasonably useful generative AI experience under the updated Siri. 🙏🏻\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-14 19:39:21 -0500", "date": "7:39 p.m. on Feb 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/14/iphone-rumored-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F14%2Fiphone-rumored-to.html" }, { "id": 1620, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔗 Here\u0026rsquo;s what percentage of US iPhone buyers are switching from Android - 9to5Mac\nCIRP has released its latest study today taking a look at how many new iPhone buyers in the US are coming from Android smartphones. After hitting a 5-year peak last spring, Android switchers to iPhone have declined a bit, here are the latest details.\nTo get the full story, I want to know how many iPhone users are switching to Android.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-14 19:34:28 -0500", "date": "7:34 p.m. on Feb 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/14/heres-what-percentage.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F14%2Fheres-what-percentage.html" }, { "id": 1621, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My uneducated expectations tell me that Apple will announce Apple Vision Pro expanded availability to Canada during their highly expected and anticipated event announcing the iPad Pro refresh.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-14 12:09:52 -0500", "date": "12:09 p.m. on Feb 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/14/my-uneducated-expectations.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F14%2Fmy-uneducated-expectations.html" }, { "id": 1622, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One paid subscription cancellation1 and two new free subscriptions2. That is the life of a hobbyist blogger, I guess. 😔\nIn case you ask, the Craft Bible subscription on Gumroad.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nIn case you ask, a free subscription to my Ghost-hosted website.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-14 11:30:42 -0500", "date": "11:30 p.m. on Feb 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/14/one-paid-subscription.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F14%2Fone-paid-subscription.html" }, { "id": 1623, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When people are nervous and under pressure, their worst tendencies often surface easily. 😌\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-14 11:19:56 -0500", "date": "11:19 p.m. on Feb 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/14/when-people-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F14%2Fwhen-people-are.html" }, { "id": 1624, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I officially enabled Shoutouts on this blog! It is quite easy and fun to setup1. Happy to show support for @vincent.\nEasy to spot at the end of each individual post.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-14 08:27:19 -0500", "date": "8:27 p.m. on Feb 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/14/i-officially-enabled.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F14%2Fi-officially-enabled.html" }, { "id": 1625, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I have been tasked to create a short presentation to my colleagues on how to take advantage of ChatGPT in day to day work. That will be a fun one to create. I love those little special projects. 😊👨🏻‍💻\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-14 06:44:53 -0500", "date": "6:44 p.m. on Feb 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/14/i-have-been.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F14%2Fi-have-been.html" }, { "id": 1626, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔗 Another Longtime Industrial Designer Leaves Apple - MacRumors\nAfter Evans Hankey left, Apple eliminated the Product Design Chief role and restructured the product design team under operations chief Jeff Williams. According to Bloomberg, some of the people on the design team are unhappy with being led by an operations person instead of a designer, and cost cutting efforts have also changed the way the design team operates.\nThere is an apparent imbalance between the ops and design groups at Apple. I’m wary of this trend.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-13 18:35:51 -0500", "date": "6:35 p.m. on Feb 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/13/another-longtime-industrial.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F13%2Fanother-longtime-industrial.html" }, { "id": 1627, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been granted a Microsoft Copilot license at work for testing purposes. I have a love and hate relationship with Microsoft software in general. This will probably extend to cover Copilot as well. I shall not be deceived by this video. I will see.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-13 06:46:26 -0500", "date": "6:46 p.m. on Feb 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/13/ive-been-granted.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F13%2Five-been-granted.html" }, { "id": 1628, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apparently, in Ghost, you cannot filter past published posts other than by \u0026ldquo;Newest First\u0026rdquo;, \u0026ldquo;Oldest First\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;Recently Updated\u0026rdquo;. What if I want to list of articles from 2019? 🤔\nUpdate #1: Apparently, you need to go through Ghost Content APIs for this.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-12 07:21:29 -0500", "date": "7:21 p.m. on Feb 12, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/12/apparently-in-ghost.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F12%2Fapparently-in-ghost.html" }, { "id": 1629, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔥 It\u0026rsquo;s still Sunday where I live, and it\u0026rsquo;s time to share the newest edition of the weekly creative summary! Coming up soon to a mailbox near you. 😅\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-11 16:00:00 -0500", "date": "4:00 p.m. on Feb 11, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/11/its-still-sunday.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F11%2Fits-still-sunday.html" }, { "id": 1630, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔗 Rumor: iOS 18 could borrow some visionOS design elements\nApple’s head of software engineering, Craig Federighi, told employees last year that the iOS 18—codenamed Crystal—will have ambitious changes all around\nWhen device’s design is mature and only sees incremental changes, bigger changes can come in software.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-10 09:33:21 -0500", "date": "9:33 p.m. on Feb 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/10/rumor-ios-could.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F10%2Frumor-ios-could.html" }, { "id": 1631, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Since we cannot use an iCloud+ email alias for sending mail in HEY Mail, I depend on free Spark mail client for that, the last version that came out before switching to a subscription. Not a bad solution but annoying nonetheless.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-09 07:10:33 -0500", "date": "7:10 p.m. on Feb 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/09/since-we-cannot.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F09%2Fsince-we-cannot.html" }, { "id": 1632, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I hate it when I get this feeling of losing control of my agenda at work. I\u0026rsquo;m not used to this. 😩\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-08 13:16:55 -0500", "date": "1:16 p.m. on Feb 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/08/i-hate-it.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F08%2Fi-hate-it.html" }, { "id": 1633, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Funny how help.micro.blog looks like a community in itself. I think it\u0026rsquo;s cool.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-08 07:13:29 -0500", "date": "7:13 p.m. on Feb 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/08/funny-how-helpmicroblog.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F08%2Ffunny-how-helpmicroblog.html" }, { "id": 1634, "type": "post", "title": "From an Idea to Blips", "text": "As I wrote earlier today, I\u0026rsquo;ve been wondering about a possible use case for Scribbles1. It took me about 5 minutes to get my idea, and it is called Blips, Numeric Citizen Blips, to be more precise2. Blips will enable me to share\u0026hellip; short blips of my digital life. I should be fun, noisy at times. But not too much. Enjoy. Or not. 🙃\nStraightforward blogging service that is absolutely a joy to use. Nothing fancy, but mighty.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nBlips sound digital; it\u0026rsquo;s a concept perfectly fitting the \u0026ldquo;Numeric Citizen\u0026rdquo; branding.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-07 20:47:12 -0500", "date": "8:47 p.m. on Feb 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/07/from-an-idea.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F07%2Ffrom-an-idea.html" }, { "id": 1635, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "👀🕵🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-07 18:27:46 -0500", "date": "6:27 p.m. on Feb 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/07/182746.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F07%2F182746.html" }, { "id": 1636, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ll be blipping soon. 👀\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-07 18:17:07 -0500", "date": "6:17 p.m. on Feb 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/07/ill-be-blipping.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F07%2Fill-be-blipping.html" }, { "id": 1637, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "While I\u0026rsquo;m still waiting my invite for Scribbles (tick tock tick tock @vincent 😬), I\u0026rsquo;m thinking of a possible use case. And I think I might be on the verge of finding one. My digital presence goes like this: Space ➡️ Blog ➡️ (\u0026hellip;something small, tiny blips\u0026hellip;) Blips. More to come soon.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-07 16:01:42 -0500", "date": "4:01 p.m. on Feb 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/07/while-im-still.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F07%2Fwhile-im-still.html" }, { "id": 1638, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "☝🏻 Thought of the day: collaborative software or services enabling better collaboration within a team is overrated or overestimated. If you are a loner at work, you\u0026rsquo;ll stay a loner, with or without a collab suite. 🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-07 14:35:48 -0500", "date": "2:35 p.m. on Feb 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/07/thought-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F07%2Fthought-of-the.html" }, { "id": 1639, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I have too many ways to create link posts on Micro.blog: a bookmarklet, Apple\u0026rsquo;s Shortcuts, using Ulysses, etc. I wish I could standardize on one approach working on all my Apple devices1. 🫤\nMaybe it should be part of the recently introduced Save Bookmark browser plugin?\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-07 12:54:31 -0500", "date": "12:54 p.m. on Feb 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/07/i-have-too.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F07%2Fi-have-too.html" }, { "id": 1640, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔗 Is Vision Pro a glimpse into the future of computing?\nThe question is whether future iterations of a head-worn device will at some point replace Macs and PCs as our primary computing devices.\nI don’t see that happening in the next five to ten years.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-07 12:19:10 -0500", "date": "12:19 p.m. on Feb 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/07/is-vision-pro.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F07%2Fis-vision-pro.html" }, { "id": 1641, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sometimes, I have an idea for what would be a short blog post, and start writing it, thinking I’ll share it here on Micro.blog. As I’m writing my article, it grows and grows and grows to a point where I need to reconsider where I’m going to share the article. When I cross the 500 words mark1, this is where it makes more sense to post on my main website which is dedicated to long and less in-the-moment thoughts. I’m working on a long one about micro.blog. Stay tuned.\nIt’s not a definitive threshold.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-06 19:23:18 -0500", "date": "7:23 p.m. on Feb 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/06/sometimes-i-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F06%2Fsometimes-i-have.html" }, { "id": 1642, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I discovered the \u0026ldquo;Copy URL as Quote\u0026rdquo; in Arc Browser, this morning. I love this feature. I get a nice preview in iMessage when sending the link, but what about here in Micro.blog or on Mastodon? Here is an example.\nUpdate #1: it does partially render on Mastodon using the Ivory client. But the content seems missing. Update #2: The cross-posted post from Micro.blog lacks the preview, but the native post as Micro.blog exposes it, does contain the full previous.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-06 07:27:27 -0500", "date": "7:27 p.m. on Feb 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/06/i-discovered-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F06%2Fi-discovered-the.html" }, { "id": 1643, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Since getting a MacBook a few years ago, my iPad usage drastically dropped, to a point where sometimes I wonder if I\u0026rsquo;ll ever upgrade my aging 2018 11-inch iPad Pro. Yesterday, I spent the whole evening on it for reading and watching YouTube. It was a reminder that I still the love the iPad form factor and I couldn\u0026rsquo;t live without one.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-06 07:07:23 -0500", "date": "7:07 p.m. on Feb 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/06/since-getting-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F06%2Fsince-getting-a.html" }, { "id": 1644, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A satisfying exercise for me is to open Glass on my iPad and start to glance at photos and members. Each time, my goal is to subscribe to three members with photos that I like. Today, unexpectedly, I stumbled on the announcement of the upcoming Series feature. I can’t waitt for that one. Pixelfed isn’t really good at this, posting a bunch of related photos in one post.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-05 21:21:28 -0500", "date": "9:21 p.m. on Feb 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/05/a-satisfying-exercise.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F05%2Fa-satisfying-exercise.html" }, { "id": 1645, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Still no stock shortage of the Apple Vision Pro? 🤔🧐 Apple must be doomed, again.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-05 18:42:55 -0500", "date": "6:42 p.m. on Feb 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/05/still-no-stock.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F05%2Fstill-no-stock.html" }, { "id": 1646, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s now official: Trump and his clown followers are complicit of Putin. Disgusting. Disclaimer: this blog hosts my thoughts and mild-venting about the war in Ukraine 🇺🇦.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-05 18:23:53 -0500", "date": "6:23 p.m. on Feb 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/05/its-now-official.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F05%2Fits-now-official.html" }, { "id": 1647, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "To be honest, I\u0026rsquo;m doing only half of what I\u0026rsquo;d like to accomplish. And I\u0026rsquo;m being optimistic. So much to do, to learn and explore, so little time.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-05 17:24:04 -0500", "date": "5:24 p.m. on Feb 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/05/to-be-honest.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F05%2Fto-be-honest.html" }, { "id": 1648, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "With today\u0026rsquo;s addition regarding Bookmarks and AI-based summaries, Micro.blog is getting very close to be a read-later service, too. Which I like a lot. Synching highlights to Readwise would be cool too. Hint hint @manton 🙏🏻\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-05 12:52:29 -0500", "date": "12:52 p.m. on Feb 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/05/with-todays-addition.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F05%2Fwith-todays-addition.html" }, { "id": 1649, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Our @nileane reviews feeeed, a very nicely designed alternative to classic RSS readers. Instead of just following RSS feeds, this app supports RSS *and* a variety of sources like Mastodon, YouTube, Reddit, newsletters, and more.\nWe're going to see a lot of apps along these lines thanks to decentralized social media. This one looks very intriguing to me: https://www.macstories.net/reviews/feeeed-embracing-feed-diversity-and-personal-news-curation/\nFederico Viticci :ticciseal: https://mastodon.macstories.net/@viticci/111879635685799969\rSimilar to the Tapestry project? Seems really well done.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-05 10:58:29 -0500", "date": "10:58 p.m. on Feb 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/05/our-nileane-reviews.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F05%2Four-nileane-reviews.html" }, { "id": 1650, "type": "post", "title": "About This Permanent State of Being Undecided With Apps", "text": "I have been a happy user of Apple Safari for the last decade. If possible, I prefer using Apple’s browser, thanks to its privacy protection and features. If something doesn’t work in Safari, I will try Firefox. I’ll do everything possible to skip Google Chrome. I use Microsoft Edge because of its integration with Microsoft 365 at work. But Safari is never too far, just in case. It’s now my fall-back plan. Why this change? Because of the Arc Browser, which is now my main browser.\nI’m the type of user who always tries to find a use case for an app that I really like, even if it is superseded with a better one. I love Craft. I always use it in my creative hobbies, but I found a great use case for Notion at work. I like Apple Reminder for family-related tasks but use Things 3 for my creative hobbies. I like Apple Calendar for my personal life but prefer Fantastical for the office. I keep both. I like HEY mail but must use Outlook at the office.\nThis constant duality in my choices about which app to use sometimes looks like psychological trouble. 😬🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-05 08:25:41 -0500", "date": "8:25 p.m. on Feb 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/05/about-this-permanent.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F05%2Fabout-this-permanent.html" }, { "id": 1651, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Craft release v2.7.0 is a big one. There are lots of improvements that should please a majority of users. I played with it while in beta and created a video to give users a visual look at what\u0026rsquo;s new. The Craft Bible also was updated to include the release analysis, now part of the subscription.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-05 07:15:40 -0500", "date": "7:15 p.m. on Feb 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/05/craft-release-v.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F05%2Fcraft-release-v.html" }, { "id": 1652, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I learned a lot of things over my long career in IT. But, there is one thing that I fail to learn and master is everything related to CSS1. I don\u0026rsquo;t get this, at all. If I could master this thing, plus some of Hugo2 concepts, I would create my own Micro.blog visual theme. 😔\nI learn so many languages and dialects: Pascal, Cobol, C, Assembler, Fortran, Lisp, Objective-C, etc. What is wrong with me and CSS?\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nI do get Hugo more than CSS, strangely.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-04 21:24:22 -0500", "date": "9:24 p.m. on Feb 4, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/04/i-learned-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F04%2Fi-learned-a.html" }, { "id": 1653, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Let me guess again the upcoming \u0026ldquo;big\u0026rdquo; new feature for Micro.blog: a fully-featured Read Later feature. It could complement Bookmarks wonderfully1. 👀 That\u0026rsquo;s the only feature that I can think of that would require a separate app and a browser extension.\nIf not replace it altogether.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-04 14:45:40 -0500", "date": "2:45 p.m. on Feb 4, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/04/let-me-guess.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F04%2Flet-me-guess.html" }, { "id": 1654, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I get the feeling that Apple is working on a native version of Maps for the Vision Pro that could come in visionOS 1.1 or 2.0 and that should prove the point of the headset utility. Not a killer app but something that only Apple can do1. The look around feature could feel like magic. Landmarks in 3D on the Vision Pro could prove to be spectacular, too. Imagine a drive-thru experidnce with this2! Man, I can\u0026rsquo;t wait to see what\u0026rsquo;s next for visionOS3.\nI\u0026rsquo;m not counting on Google to do that.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nWithout actually driving a car, of course.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nJohn Gruber keeps writing \u0026ldquo;Vision OS\u0026rdquo; and I hate that.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-04 12:38:39 -0500", "date": "12:38 p.m. on Feb 4, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/04/i-get-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F04%2Fi-get-the.html" }, { "id": 1655, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Is the Apple Vision Pro good for photo editing? I would love to see Photomator for the Vision Pro1. I wonder about colors fidelity and usability.\nIs it ever coming to the headset?\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-04 10:21:06 -0500", "date": "10:21 p.m. on Feb 4, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/04/is-the-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F04%2Fis-the-apple.html" }, { "id": 1656, "type": "post", "title": "A Powerful Ecosystem of Tech", "text": "When I look at the Apple Vision Pro, I see a device with many software and hardware technologies that Apple took years to create, develop and refine. They did it in plain sight with the iPhone, the iPad and the Mac. Each of these devices played a significant role as a test bed for what would come next, a portion of what we can find in the Vision Pro. I can see many examples: windows management introduced on the iPad via the Stage Manager paved the way for window management on the Vision Pro, Three-dimensional and object placement in an augmented reality view in the Apple Store app when placing a virtual Mac on a physical desk, LiDAR Scanner with FaceID paved the way to Personas, continuity on all Apple OSes, and so much more set the playground for a robust ecosystem that takes all its meaning in the Vision Pro. And there are probably hundreds of more technologies that I cannot see. I guess the Apple Vision Pro was in development for a decade at Apple, and with each new feature Apple put into their devices, the headset benefitted from it.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-04 09:57:56 -0500", "date": "9:57 p.m. on Feb 4, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/04/a-powerful-ecosystem.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F04%2Fa-powerful-ecosystem.html" }, { "id": 1657, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🚨Okay, ladies and gentlemen, it\u0026rsquo;s time for the newest edition of my weekly creative summary! Thanks for taking the time to have a peek at it. 😊 If you prefer the email version, it\u0026rsquo;s coming up later today, but be sure to subscribe here!\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-04 09:06:38 -0500", "date": "9:06 p.m. on Feb 4, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/04/okay-ladies-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F04%2Fokay-ladies-and.html" }, { "id": 1658, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Folks, I think I’ve finally rationalized it. Don’t think of it as a PURCHASE. Think of it as an advanced prototype that you’ve paid Apple for the PRIVILEGE of testing.\nDaniel Jalkut https://danielpunkass.micro.blog/2024/02/03/folks-i-think.html\rThinking about the Apple Vision Pro, the right way.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-04 07:19:33 -0500", "date": "7:19 p.m. on Feb 4, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/04/folks-i-think.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F04%2Ffolks-i-think.html" }, { "id": 1659, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The lack of proper footnotes support in the Ghost editor is\u0026hellip; how dare I could say that\u0026hellip; perplexing? This solution is a bit\u0026hellip; overwhelming for me. Oh well.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-03 16:02:07 -0500", "date": "4:02 p.m. on Feb 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/03/the-lack-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F03%2Fthe-lack-of.html" }, { "id": 1660, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If you\u0026rsquo;re a Craft user and are looking for ways that Gen AI could add value to the Craft Assistant, I wrote this document. I think there is an untapped potential in Craft because of minimalistic support for the ChatGPT entry-level model. Feedback is welcome.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-03 15:53:39 -0500", "date": "3:53 p.m. on Feb 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/03/if-youre-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F03%2Fif-youre-a.html" }, { "id": 1661, "type": "post", "title": "The Next One Is My Best", "text": "I just completed recording my next YouTube video (my YouTube channel), which will come out early next week. It\u0026rsquo;s probably the one I\u0026rsquo;m the most proud of at many levels. The release will match the release of a new version of an app that I like a lot 🤫. Technically, the sound is good. I\u0026rsquo;me using Bezels to demo the app on the iPad and the iPhone, a first for me. The video structure seems logical and should help the viewers in learning new things. Can\u0026rsquo;t wait to share that one. I hope it will get the attention I\u0026rsquo;m hoping for. 🤞🏻\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-03 12:02:16 -0500", "date": "12:02 p.m. on Feb 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/03/the-next-one.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F03%2Fthe-next-one.html" }, { "id": 1662, "type": "post", "title": "I'm Sorry but Apple Vision Pro Is Another VR Headset, or Is It?", "text": "Of all people who reviewed or are now active users of the Apple Vision Pro, some are mentioning, rightfully, that this is not about AR1 but 95% about VR2. Apple doesn\u0026rsquo;t want to admit it, but this is a VR headset. Why is that? Is is because it is \u0026ldquo;easier\u0026rdquo;3 to recreate something from the ground up (the virtual world enabled by visionOS) than taking the reality and adding meaningful and useful stuff to it? I see much more limited use case for augmented reality than for virtual reality. It might change in the future, now that people are now exposed to it through other people using the headset sharing their experience.\nAugmented Reality.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nVirtual Reality.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nIt\u0026rsquo;s not an easy feat to do what visionOS is doing.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-03 11:58:47 -0500", "date": "11:58 p.m. on Feb 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/03/im-sorry-but.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F03%2Fim-sorry-but.html" }, { "id": 1663, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ll probably buy an Apple Vision Pro when it arrives in Canada. My wife doesn\u0026rsquo;t know it. She will undoubtedly question my decision. She can be challenging at times. But I\u0026rsquo;ll go ahead anyway. We don\u0026rsquo;t have a home theatre by today\u0026rsquo;s standards. We never invested money into these technologies. But this time, it\u0026rsquo;s different. It\u0026rsquo;s a too important moment in technology to pass.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-02 13:43:13 -0500", "date": "1:43 p.m. on Feb 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/02/ill-probably-buy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F02%2Fill-probably-buy.html" }, { "id": 1664, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The Arc Browser is the perfect browser to consume my Micro.blog timeline. In fact, it\u0026rsquo;s the best browser to consume, period. I\u0026rsquo;m (mostly) in love. I know, I may be late to the party.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-02 06:46:46 -0500", "date": "6:46 p.m. on Feb 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/02/the-arc-browser.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F02%2Fthe-arc-browser.html" }, { "id": 1665, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently exploring and testing the Arc browser. This thing looks seriously cool. I wish Apple invented it. My only serious concern is iCloud Keychain support. 👀🤔\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-01 21:45:57 -0500", "date": "9:45 p.m. on Feb 1, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/01/currently-exploring-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F01%2Fcurrently-exploring-and.html" }, { "id": 1666, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Basic Apple Guy writing about the Apple Vision Pro:\nFor now, Vision Pro remains a very exclusive playground for developers and enthusiasts, clay waiting to be moulded into something quite incredible for the future.\nCraig Hockenberry writing about the Mac turning 40:\nApple Vision Pro is a technical marvel, but ultimately falls short in ways that satisfy the natural curiosity of developers.\nTime will tell if a new generation of developers will find their way to be creative and think outside the box1. Otherwise, Apple will eventually have to try harder to think outside the box.\nThird level pun intended.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-01 20:32:00 -0500", "date": "8:32 p.m. on Feb 1, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/01/basic-apple-guy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F01%2Fbasic-apple-guy.html" }, { "id": 1667, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Message to me📌: don\u0026rsquo;t subscribe to Scribbles. don\u0026rsquo;t subscribe to Scribbles. don\u0026rsquo;t subscribe to Scribbles. don\u0026rsquo;t subscribe to Scribbles. don\u0026rsquo;t subscribe to Scribbles. don\u0026rsquo;t subscribe to Scribbles. don\u0026rsquo;t subscribe to Scribbles. I left Write.as to focus on Micro.blog, why try Scribbles? It makes no sense.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-01 09:21:24 -0500", "date": "9:21 p.m. on Feb 1, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/01/message-to-me.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F01%2Fmessage-to-me.html" }, { "id": 1668, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just spent 15 minutes trying to figure out Safari Profiles, tab groups, etc. Am I alone in thinking that this is far from being user-friendly? I just can\u0026rsquo;t understand how these things work together.\n", "dateiso": "2024-02-01 06:51:42 -0500", "date": "6:51 p.m. on Feb 1, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/02/01/just-spent-minutes.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F02%2F01%2Fjust-spent-minutes.html" }, { "id": 1669, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microsoft supports the Apple Vision Pro headset with Office 365 Suite, Teams and Copilot. At least five apps, on day one, for a use case (productivity) still to be demonstrated as viable. For the most probable day-one use case of the Apple Vision Pro, Netflix refuses to create a single app, a \u0026ldquo;simple\u0026rdquo; video library browser and player. WTF? Politics. 😑\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-31 22:15:36 -0500", "date": "10:15 p.m. on Jan 31, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/31/microsoft-supports-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F31%2Fmicrosoft-supports-the.html" }, { "id": 1670, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today, I was watching many YouTube videos and was thinking about how impressive it is that some people1 build their online careers as YouTubers for talking about one application or ecosystem2.\nLike Thomas Frank.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nNotion is a great app offering many possibilities to talk about for a long time.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-31 20:51:47 -0500", "date": "8:51 p.m. on Jan 31, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/31/today-i-was.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F31%2Ftoday-i-was.html" }, { "id": 1671, "type": "post", "title": "Imagining Micro.blog’s Next Big Offering — I Think I Cracked It!", "text": "\nI\u0026rsquo;m wondering about this upcoming Micro.blog \u0026ldquo;big new feature\u0026rdquo; quite often. What new feature could require its own section on the left sidebar? What could mandate the release of companion apps on iOS and Android? Let\u0026rsquo;s try to think about it for a minute.\nSo, MB already covers text (as blog posts), more generic content (as pages), photos, books, newsletters, and podcasts. What’s missing here? Videos? Movies? Something else? Could Podcast be more explicitly exposed where the Transcript section becomes Podcast? Is MB building its own podcasting player app? Or a podcast recorder? Can AI play a role in this new feature?\nBut what else is missing from Micro.blog? Instant messaging? I own a Wavelength group of Micro.blog users. The group is currently hosting 50 users. Here’s the invite link. Near real-time interactions are something I wish Micro.blog had for supporting discussions about specific events1. Frankly, instant messaging is probably the closest thing I can think of that would require a dedicated section and a dedicated set of apps on mobile devices.\nYour thoughts? Please join in! 🙏🏻\nLike Apple Events, sports events, etc.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-31 11:58:11 -0500", "date": "11:58 p.m. on Jan 31, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/31/imagining-microblogs-next.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F31%2Fimagining-microblogs-next.html" }, { "id": 1672, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I use Notion quite a lot at work to help me manage my workloads and projects. It\u0026rsquo;s quite a powerful and flexible tool, rarely seen these days. I appreciate every minute I spend in it, to the same level I experience when using Apple Keynote.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-31 09:33:21 -0500", "date": "9:33 p.m. on Jan 31, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/31/i-use-notion.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F31%2Fi-use-notion.html" }, { "id": 1673, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m excited for Tapestry, so I\u0026rsquo;m supporting it. Mastodon, RSS feeds, and Bluesky can be quite busy sources\u0026hellip; how Tapestry is going to tackle high-velocity information feeds is interesting.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-30 20:56:43 -0500", "date": "8:56 p.m. on Jan 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/30/im-excited-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F30%2Fim-excited-for.html" }, { "id": 1674, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Remember that, at some point, it was strange to see someone working at a computer and holding a mouse on a table beside the keyboard. #AppleVisionPro\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-30 13:49:59 -0500", "date": "1:49 p.m. on Jan 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/30/remember-that-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F30%2Fremember-that-at.html" }, { "id": 1675, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Either AirPods Max is overpriced, or Apple Vision Pro is not expensive enough1.\nIt could be that both products are too expensive too. 🤷🏻‍♂️\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-30 13:05:09 -0500", "date": "1:05 p.m. on Jan 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/30/either-airpods-max.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F30%2Feither-airpods-max.html" }, { "id": 1676, "type": "post", "title": "Technologies At Play in a \"Compact\" Device", "text": "I have this thought right now as I\u0026rsquo;m watching the first reviews of the Apple Vision Pro: it is utterly fascinating to see all the basic technological elements (both hardware and software1) that are at play here and put together in this headset. Besides a product still looking for its use cases, I find this product to be the most ambitious one to be launched by Apple to date. Bravo for trying. And I\u0026rsquo;m pretty sure it\u0026rsquo;s only the beginning. You bet Apple is going to iterate on this for quite some time. I feel excited for this thing.\nHandoff, Continuity, Digital Crown, 3D modelling, etc.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-30 12:51:03 -0500", "date": "12:51 p.m. on Jan 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/30/technologies-at-play.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F30%2Ftechnologies-at-play.html" }, { "id": 1677, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is such a busy week, both professionally and personally. So much to do. With Apple Vision Pro arriving in the user\u0026rsquo;s hands, this creates a lot of buzz, and I don\u0026rsquo;t want to miss anything (reviews, videos, etc.). These reviews are more interesting than Apple\u0026rsquo;s controller media briefings, which are held in highly controlled environments. And, I have many YouTube videos in preparation, as well as my usual stuff. 😅👨🏻‍💻\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-30 09:27:52 -0500", "date": "9:27 p.m. on Jan 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/30/this-is-such.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F30%2Fthis-is-such.html" }, { "id": 1678, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I just lost 20 minutes of my life trying to figure out how to log back into a Slack community with the original email that I used initially. It\u0026rsquo;s probably the most frustrating experience I ever experienced. Slack is unique in that respect, and I just don\u0026rsquo;t get why it didn\u0026rsquo;t evolve over time. I ended up creating a new account, which made me lose all my past conversations. 🙄\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-30 06:46:31 -0500", "date": "6:46 p.m. on Jan 30, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/30/i-just-lost.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F30%2Fi-just-lost.html" }, { "id": 1679, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This weekend, I released the first video of the \u0026ldquo;What\u0026rsquo;s Up With Microblog\u0026rdquo; series, and today @manton is already at it with a new addition to Micro.blog: manual cross-posting. Time to prepare for the next video. But the best part: the next video will, I hope, cover the next \u0026ldquo;big\u0026rdquo; addition to Micro.blog. I have no clue what it could be, but I have a feeling that it will be exciting.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-29 21:44:05 -0500", "date": "9:44 p.m. on Jan 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/29/this-weekend-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F29%2Fthis-weekend-i.html" }, { "id": 1680, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m still surprised and baffled when I see coworkers with so limited knowledge of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel. I mean, beyond typing words and writing simple calculations. 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-29 09:47:42 -0500", "date": "9:47 p.m. on Jan 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/29/im-still-surprised.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F29%2Fim-still-surprised.html" }, { "id": 1681, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m feeling a bit all mixed up this morning after reading an email from \u0026ldquo;a fan\u0026rdquo; (his words), being so appreciative of my work but also telling me he won\u0026rsquo;t be around much longer to appreciate my creative journey because of his health issues. I find this heartbreaking and a reminder that nothing is eternal 😔. I\u0026rsquo;m unsure how to frame my reply beyond saying, \u0026ldquo;Thank you.\u0026rdquo;\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-29 07:33:02 -0500", "date": "7:33 p.m. on Jan 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/29/im-feeling-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F29%2Fim-feeling-a.html" }, { "id": 1682, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Weekend done. I spent a significant part of it on my Mac doing things, mostly creative things. And guess what? I have no regrets. I did what I loved the most. Have a great week to you all! And do what you like!\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-29 06:49:39 -0500", "date": "6:49 p.m. on Jan 29, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/29/weekend-done-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F29%2Fweekend-done-i.html" }, { "id": 1683, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The blog theme switch has been completed. Still, a few issues to fix, but 95% of the job is done. Tell me what you think.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-28 21:34:32 -0500", "date": "9:34 p.m. on Jan 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/28/the-blog-theme.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F28%2Fthe-blog-theme.html" }, { "id": 1684, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The work to switch my blog\u0026rsquo;s visual theme is going really well. It\u0026rsquo;s a bit easier than I thought to set the desired colour theme, thanks to the plugin\u0026rsquo;s settings and user-friendliness. I may try the switch tonight, so buckle up during the transition. Reminder: I\u0026rsquo;ll switch from TinyTheme to Cards Theme. Why? Here\u0026rsquo;s why: 1) the overall design gives some bit of depth to the content. 2) Post categories are exposed and provide an easy way to browse the blog content. 3) The theme plugin settings give some flexibility. 4) Long posts with a title look better. 🛠️\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-28 19:51:25 -0500", "date": "7:51 p.m. on Jan 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/28/the-work-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F28%2Fthe-work-to.html" }, { "id": 1685, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🚨Hey, it\u0026rsquo;s Sunday! And you know what happens on each Sunday? The new edition of the weekly creative summary newsletter has been released! Here you go, ladies and gentlemen! Enjoy. Made with care and love. 😌\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-28 13:34:22 -0500", "date": "1:34 p.m. on Jan 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/28/hey-its-sunday.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F28%2Fhey-its-sunday.html" }, { "id": 1686, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thought of the Sunday morning: The biggest problem in my life is that I have too much to explore and do and not enough time. Unsolvable. 😅\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-28 10:33:25 -0500", "date": "10:33 p.m. on Jan 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/28/thought-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F28%2Fthought-of-the.html" }, { "id": 1687, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I decided to update the look of this blog by switching to the Cards theme by @ericgregorich. I think this theme looks cleaner and offers more possibilities than the current one by @Mtt. Here are a few highlights: better control of colours via the plugin settings web interface instead of editing CSS, support for reading time for longer posts with a title, display of post categories at the top, and more flexibility for displaying the post\u0026rsquo;s date \u0026amp; time, just to name a few. But I\u0026rsquo;m not ready to make the switch just yet because it requires a lot of fine-tuning to get the colours right. I also need to check for compatibility with all my current plugins and ask for a few fixes on the theme\u0026rsquo;s GitHub page. It\u0026rsquo;s another tweaking project on my plate. 😅\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-28 07:24:05 -0500", "date": "7:24 p.m. on Jan 28, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/28/i-decided-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F28%2Fi-decided-to.html" }, { "id": 1688, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Decided to send some appreciation to @ericgregorich for his Card theme for Micro.blog.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-27 17:49:37 -0500", "date": "5:49 p.m. on Jan 27, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/27/decided-to-send.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F27%2Fdecided-to-send.html" }, { "id": 1689, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I bought Sleeve, for the Mac1. Great design. A useful addition to the Mac. If you are listening to music on your Mac.\nIt\u0026rsquo;s a remote for Apple Music, on your Mac.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-27 16:17:00 -0500", "date": "4:17 p.m. on Jan 27, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/27/i-bought-sleeve.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F27%2Fi-bought-sleeve.html" }, { "id": 1690, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🚨So, what\u0026rsquo;s up with Micro.blog this January? Well, quite a lot, if you ask me. Here\u0026rsquo;s everything new in this short video. Tell me if this is useful. 🙏🏻 cc @manton @jean\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-27 13:35:40 -0500", "date": "1:35 p.m. on Jan 27, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/27/so-whats-up.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F27%2Fso-whats-up.html" }, { "id": 1691, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " Apple’s insistence on retaining control of the iPhone and the way it’s used is not about protecting the poor stupid users that need Daddy Cook to stop us downloading dodgy stuff off the internet it’s about protecting their bottom line. Source: Apple ruins its big week | The Dent\nWell said.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-27 07:41:37 -0500", "date": "7:41 p.m. on Jan 27, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/27/apples-insistence-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F27%2Fapples-insistence-on.html" }, { "id": 1692, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This will be a weekend of reading about Apple and its stance with EU. Lots of good stuff so I can, maybe, make my own opinion.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-26 18:35:54 -0500", "date": "6:35 p.m. on Jan 26, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/26/this-will-be.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F26%2Fthis-will-be.html" }, { "id": 1693, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Should I write Micro.blog or Microblog in everything I write about this platform. That is the question. I\u0026rsquo;m always pondering which form to use. Help me @manton 😩\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-26 17:14:47 -0500", "date": "5:14 p.m. on Jan 26, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/26/should-i-write.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F26%2Fshould-i-write.html" }, { "id": 1694, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Following my request to close my Adobe Stock account, I finally got my money for selling some of my pictures through Adobe Stock. I made a big 20 US$ directly dropped to my PayPal account. 🙂\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-26 16:19:22 -0500", "date": "4:19 p.m. on Jan 26, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/26/following-my-request.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F26%2Ffollowing-my-request.html" }, { "id": 1695, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thanks to the recently introduced \u0026ldquo;one-page\u0026rdquo; site feature with Micro.blog coupled with a redirect for the root of the site (\u0026quot;/\u0026quot;)1, now someone hitting \u0026ldquo;photos.numericcitizen.me\u0026rdquo; will end up on my Pixelfed profile page! I find this clever! 😌 More details in this week-end video! 🙂\nAlso a feature of Micro.blog, just in case you asked.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-26 16:00:21 -0500", "date": "4:00 p.m. on Jan 26, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/26/thanks-to-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F26%2Fthanks-to-the.html" }, { "id": 1696, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How often did Apple kill an app from launching on the Mac because it was deemed a bad actor? I think not that many times. Could this be the same on the iPad in the post-iOS 17.4 world? 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-26 13:01:23 -0500", "date": "1:01 p.m. on Jan 26, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/26/how-often-did.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F26%2Fhow-often-did.html" }, { "id": 1697, "type": "post", "title": "A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a One-Page Site on Micro.blog", "text": " Choose your subdomain name1. 2) Create a CNAME pointing to it2. 3) Switch to your full custom domain. 4) Write content3. 5) Install a few plugins4. 6) Create pages in the navigation structure to organize content5. 7) Create page footer6. Voilà. 🔥 abc.micro.blog (must be unique to Micro.blog).\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nDone on your Domain name provider, not on Micro.blog. Must point to abc.micro.blog.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nMarkdown supported. Insert images using Uploads and “Copy HTML” option, then paste into page.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nVisual theme plugin (optional, if you don’t like the default theme), Analytics (Plausible, Tinylytics, etc.).\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nOptional but is a great addition.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nOptional. Use footer editor to insert your content.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-26 07:33:45 -0500", "date": "7:33 p.m. on Jan 26, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/26/a-stepbystep-guide.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F26%2Fa-stepbystep-guide.html" }, { "id": 1698, "type": "post", "title": "Apple, Generative AI and the iPhone Revenues", "text": "Numerous applications and services now incorporate AI features. For instance, consider Notion Q\u0026amp;A or Raycast AI. Companies view this as an opportunity to boost revenue by offering these additional features for a fee. However, I recently pondered the possibility that if Apple integrates generative AI into Siri, as rumored for iOS 18, they may not charge for it. This could give Apple a significant advantage, as the revenue from iPhone sales could cover the associated costs. This could become an enormous advantage for Apple.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-25 21:04:12 -0500", "date": "9:04 p.m. on Jan 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/25/apple-generative-ai.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F25%2Fapple-generative-ai.html" }, { "id": 1699, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Introducing the Numeric Citizen Hub, a brand new landing page1. Thanks to the recently introduced “One-page website” feature on Micro.blog, you can now learn about the places I share my creativity right from a single place2. Enjoy.\nIt will replace my Linktr.ee page once my subscription ends, in December of 2024. 🙂\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nI know that some of you might think: well, another website from Numeric Citizen! 😃\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-25 20:24:05 -0500", "date": "8:24 p.m. on Jan 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/25/introducing-the-numeric.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F25%2Fintroducing-the-numeric.html" }, { "id": 1700, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is how my current avatar came to be. 👀\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-25 07:10:48 -0500", "date": "7:10 p.m. on Jan 25, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/25/this-is-how.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F25%2Fthis-is-how.html" }, { "id": 1701, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m unsure if I ever posted this image of me circa 1986 with my fat Mac1. The image was created with a MacVision Koala digitizer connected to the Mac serial port and a close-circuit black \u0026amp; white video camera. It was impressive at that time.\nA Mac with 512K of RAM. That one was an original Macintosh 128K that was upgraded with an updated logic board kit from Apple.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-24 21:11:57 -0500", "date": "9:11 p.m. on Jan 24, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/24/im-unsure-if.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F24%2Fim-unsure-if.html" }, { "id": 1702, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "An original Mac. #MyFirstMac. numericcitizen.me/rememberi\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-24 12:39:41 -0500", "date": "12:39 p.m. on Jan 24, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/24/an-original-mac.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F24%2Fan-original-mac.html" }, { "id": 1703, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "5x traffic spike on Gumroad for The Craft Bible. Saturday, I bought a dedicated domain name for this subscription on Gumroad. Coincidence? 🤔 I\u0026rsquo;ll have to see the coming days to make a final judgment.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-22 18:04:52 -0500", "date": "6:04 p.m. on Jan 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/22/x-traffic-spike.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F22%2Fx-traffic-spike.html" }, { "id": 1704, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sometimes, writing is like swimming against the current. Today, ideas were fuzzy, and I could not clarify them and put them in the right order. Those days are never easy, especially when it\u0026rsquo;s a day where writing intelligent texts is absolutely essential. People are depending on me. That was a bad day. Sign-off. 😑\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-22 17:07:54 -0500", "date": "5:07 p.m. on Jan 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/22/sometimes-writing-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F22%2Fsometimes-writing-is.html" }, { "id": 1705, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Reuters report:\nU.S. tech giant Apple (AAPL.O), opens new tab has paid a Russian fine of 1.2 billion roubles ($13.65 million), imposed over the company\u0026rsquo;s alleged abuse of its dominant market position concerning in-app payments, Russia\u0026rsquo;s FAS antitrust agency said on Monday. Source: Apple pays $13.7 mln Russian fine, antitrust agency says | Reuters\nIt\u0026rsquo;s like paying a fine to an organized crime group. Utterly shocking that the West still helps this criminal government in its war efforts in Ukraine. I can\u0026rsquo;t wait to see Trump licking their butt when he\u0026rsquo;s back.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-22 15:37:49 -0500", "date": "3:37 p.m. on Jan 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/22/reuters-report-us.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F22%2Freuters-report-us.html" }, { "id": 1706, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Inoreader is on a roll so far this year: Team folders, monitored feeds, and now the ability to follow Bluesky users! These are all welcomed additions.\nNow, if only they could give some love to their mobile apps1.\nMy preferred client is Reeder, yet I wish the Inoreader app would receive a refreshed look from Inoreader developers.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-22 13:20:16 -0500", "date": "1:20 p.m. on Jan 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/22/inoreader-is-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F22%2Finoreader-is-on.html" }, { "id": 1707, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Om Malik link-posting on his blog:\nDavid Mills, the creator of Network Time Protocol (NTP), which is fundamental to the functioning of networks. Mills, nicknamed the Internet’s Time Lord by his peers, passed away on January 17 at the age of 85. His contributions to the development and evolution of the Internet are numerous and far-reaching. We are quietly losing a generation that has helped build the network we often take for granted. Source: RIP, Internet’s Time Lord – On my Om\nI do deal with NTP protocol from time to time at my job as a solution architect. The fathers (and mothers) of the modern computing era are dying.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-22 13:15:20 -0500", "date": "1:15 p.m. on Jan 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/22/om-malik-linkposting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F22%2Fom-malik-linkposting.html" }, { "id": 1708, "type": "post", "title": "Avoiding Vendors Lock-in", "text": "The notion of \u0026ldquo;avoiding vendors lock-in\u0026rdquo; in information technology is interesting. I would argue that it\u0026rsquo;s impossible to completely be without some sort of vendor lock-in1. At some point, there is always a required commitment level. You commit to open-source software. You commit to a cloud vendor. You commit to a platform. I often give the example of a company building an application internally with a team of developers. In that scenario, the company is committing to something: the application, the data tied to it and its operational model. Applications are hard to replace in many environments. When you decide to invest in software development, you commit to the end product for many years, if not decades, until the organization decides it\u0026rsquo;s time to transform the application into something else2. There is this concept of \u0026ldquo;security by design\u0026rdquo; and of \u0026ldquo;portable by design,\u0026rdquo; which should apply to any technical or application architecture. The rest is marketing nonsense.\nI do understand data portability concepts and loose coupling principles, though.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nWhen it\u0026rsquo;s time to adopt new architecture paradigms like the cloud is imposing.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-22 11:14:05 -0500", "date": "11:14 p.m. on Jan 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/22/avoiding-vendors-lockin.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F22%2Favoiding-vendors-lockin.html" }, { "id": 1709, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Confession of the day: I hate being confined to the world of Microsoft 365 for my work, knowing that there are much cooler tools out there. Notion is one example, Basecamp is another one, Monday, etc, even though it might be a controversial opinion. And don\u0026rsquo;t get me started about the Microsoft Visio; there are dozens of much better alternatives1.\nDraw.io, LucidChart, etc.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-22 09:12:54 -0500", "date": "9:12 p.m. on Jan 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/22/confession-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F22%2Fconfession-of-the.html" }, { "id": 1710, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I just realized that I could (and should) use Raycast AI to summarize articles saved into Omnivore and save the summary into the article notes. Then, I could finish up the metadata with appropriate tags. I used to do that within Craft before, but the Craft AI assistant uses GPT 3.5, limits the length of the input into the summarize request and doesn\u0026rsquo;t support \u0026ldquo;real tags\u0026rdquo; like in Omnivore.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-22 07:43:52 -0500", "date": "7:43 p.m. on Jan 22, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/22/i-just-realized.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F22%2Fi-just-realized.html" }, { "id": 1711, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Each week, on Sundays, I select a bunch of my photos that I plan to share on my Pixelfed profile during the week. Next Sunday, early in the morning, I look for the one that received the most likes, shares and comments and use it as the header image of my weekly creative summary newsletter. This process is like a disguised poll. 🙂 It is a way to share only the best of my work with my dear readers.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-21 18:57:38 -0500", "date": "6:57 p.m. on Jan 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/21/each-week-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F21%2Feach-week-on.html" }, { "id": 1712, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So, I made the decision: **Bye-bye Write.as**👋🏻. It\u0026rsquo;s fun to move things around on the internet, but I pay the price for being too impulsive and not intentional in some of my decisions. It was an impulsive decision to subscribe to Write.as. There was something seductive in the post editor, and being open source is the way to go. But I have to admit that it was a diversion. Now, focusing on Micro.blog. 😊\nSidenote: I find great satisfaction in simplification. This reminds me of when I was an indie iOS developer: I remember the instants of removing lines of code and making things leaner. It procured a lot of satisfaction.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-21 15:42:06 -0500", "date": "3:42 p.m. on Jan 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/21/so-i-made.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F21%2Fso-i-made.html" }, { "id": 1713, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Quick non-scientific poll: @Manton releases quite a few updates (mostly small1) to Micro.blog during the year and posts the info on @news. Would it be cool if someone created a \u0026ldquo;What\u0026rsquo;s New on Micro.blog\u0026rdquo; series demonstrating these changes and tweaks in action? I know some people prefer to see things in action, not just read a small description. Is there an interest in this?2\nI know Manton is working on bigger updates, but they are less frequent and could require a separate video for this.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nEven without significant interest, I\u0026rsquo;ll do these videos anyway because I like to create videos for YouTube! 😂\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-21 14:34:27 -0500", "date": "2:34 p.m. on Jan 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/21/quick-nonscientific-poll.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F21%2Fquick-nonscientific-poll.html" }, { "id": 1714, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m thinking of leaving Write.as. Last year, I purchased a 5-year subscription during a promotion, intending to use it extensively. However, I haven\u0026rsquo;t used it as much as I anticipated. My main focus was writing about the Ukraine war. I could migrate this to Micro.blog. Yet, I\u0026rsquo;m concerned that my views on the conflict might offend some people here, as not everyone is interested in politics. 🤔🧐\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-21 11:47:39 -0500", "date": "11:47 p.m. on Jan 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/21/im-thinking-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F21%2Fim-thinking-of.html" }, { "id": 1715, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🌞It\u0026rsquo;s Sunday, and it\u0026rsquo;s time for the second edition of the weekly creative summary newsletter! I was late working on this edition and wasn\u0026rsquo;t sure how it would come out. I\u0026rsquo;m pretty satisfied with this week\u0026rsquo;s edition.😀 I\u0026rsquo;m seeing more and more people heading to the Craft edition of this newsletter, and I\u0026rsquo;m highly grateful for the interest that this newsletter generates.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-21 10:00:43 -0500", "date": "10:00 p.m. on Jan 21, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/21/its-sunday-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F21%2Fits-sunday-and.html" }, { "id": 1716, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hello Madonna! I don’t go often to see shows like this one. Can’t wait! #montreal\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-20 21:28:37 -0500", "date": "9:28 p.m. on Jan 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/20/hello-madonna-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F20%2Fhello-madonna-i.html" }, { "id": 1717, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microsoft Office apps for the Apple Vision Pro? Really? Color me surprised. I\u0026rsquo;m not convinced by the typical productivity use case for the Apple Vision Pro. Judging from what I see, working with things (windows, palettes, etc.) suspended in space doesn\u0026rsquo;t feel natural. What does it bring that the desktop doesn\u0026rsquo;t provide? Visualization use cases, sure, though. Being able to manipulate 3D models is a big yes. Is working with a flat spreadsheet in 3D space great? What does it fix that the desktop couldn\u0026rsquo;t? Maybe the convenience of having the flat spreadsheet besides the 3D model is the right use case. I\u0026rsquo;m still trying to wrap my head around this.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-20 17:46:31 -0500", "date": "5:46 p.m. on Jan 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/20/microsoft-office-apps.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F20%2Fmicrosoft-office-apps.html" }, { "id": 1718, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I want a dedicated domain name for The Craft Bible. I did some research this morning to find out that I can buy craft.com for a mere 4960US$! WTF! 😳 Meanwhile, thecraftbible.com is available for a mere 9.77 US$. 😅\nUpdate: finally bought and configured thecraftbible.com with Cloud Flare.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-20 10:19:01 -0500", "date": "10:19 p.m. on Jan 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/20/i-want-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F20%2Fi-want-a.html" }, { "id": 1719, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Another bill to pay, I guess. I love Keyboard Maestro.❤️\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-20 09:37:15 -0500", "date": "9:37 p.m. on Jan 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/20/another-bill-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F20%2Fanother-bill-to.html" }, { "id": 1720, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Does anyone know if Cultured Code is actively working on Things 4? Any rumors about what could be the gist of this release? Asking for a friend who\u0026rsquo;s considering switching to Apple Reminders1.\nThat\u0026rsquo;s me. 🤫\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-20 09:09:46 -0500", "date": "9:09 p.m. on Jan 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/20/does-anyone-know.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F20%2Fdoes-anyone-know.html" }, { "id": 1721, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After watching this video, I came to the conclusion that 95% of what I\u0026rsquo;m doing with Things 3 can be done now with Apple Reminders. Tags, templates, folders, section headers, it\u0026rsquo;s all there. Some of the things are better presented in Reminders (link previews), and there is a column view that can act as a Kanban board. Something to reconsider. 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-20 08:08:17 -0500", "date": "8:08 p.m. on Jan 20, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/20/after-watching-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F20%2Fafter-watching-this.html" }, { "id": 1722, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here\u0026rsquo;s a possible Apple Vision Pro use case: virtually walking in the street using Apple Maps in look-around mode. It seems it would be a great way to \u0026ldquo;visit\u0026rdquo; a city.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-19 21:06:55 -0500", "date": "9:06 p.m. on Jan 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/19/heres-a-possible.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F19%2Fheres-a-possible.html" }, { "id": 1723, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Installed the brand new Micro.blog plugin to enable the /newsletters page on my website. This enables an index page of past newsletters that were sent to my subscribers! Thanks to @manton!\nSubscribe\rSignup to receive monthly digest email on the first day of the month in your inbox. Optionally, you can also subscribe via RSS.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-19 19:46:27 -0500", "date": "7:46 p.m. on Jan 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/19/installed-the-brand.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F19%2Finstalled-the-brand.html" }, { "id": 1724, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My ChatGPT usage at work made me think about using GenAI in general. I came to the conclusion that you must be experienced in the field you are asking questions to be able to distinguish good answers from bullshit. My thought.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-19 19:36:53 -0500", "date": "7:36 p.m. on Jan 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/19/my-chatgpt-usage.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F19%2Fmy-chatgpt-usage.html" }, { "id": 1725, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m spending my Friday afternoon writing documents for a big project at work. Even at work, I write a lot, which is a creative process, but in a different context. My personal hobbies nourish my creativity at work. Or the other way around. I don\u0026rsquo;t know. I like my job. My hobbies. My creative life. 😌\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-19 14:10:02 -0500", "date": "2:10 p.m. on Jan 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/19/im-spending-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F19%2Fim-spending-my.html" }, { "id": 1726, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Steve Jobs was incredible in bringing partners on board when launching a new platform. I wonder how different the launch of the Apple Vision Pro would be if he was still among us. Would we have more content available on day one? Or more apps? Even better: a real killer app? 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-19 12:35:53 -0500", "date": "12:35 p.m. on Jan 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/19/steve-jobs-was.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F19%2Fsteve-jobs-was.html" }, { "id": 1727, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "👉🏻Cast your votes guys! This is your chance to influence what\u0026rsquo;s next for Micro.blog! I did.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-19 08:25:17 -0500", "date": "8:25 p.m. on Jan 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/19/cast-your-votes.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F19%2Fcast-your-votes.html" }, { "id": 1728, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "While many are ordering the pricey Apple Vision Pro, I bought tickets for the Madonna show in Montreal, Canada. It is much cheaper and is a lifetime experience.1\nFirst time I see her show. Not a super big fan, but it\u0026rsquo;s a once-in-a-lifetime experience.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-19 08:23:06 -0500", "date": "8:23 p.m. on Jan 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/19/while-many-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F19%2Fwhile-many-are.html" }, { "id": 1729, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Each year brings the iPhone closer and closer to be a \u0026ldquo;real\u0026rdquo; camera in term of user experience and interaction with it. We have to wonder why it took so long for Apple to add the slight press to focus and zoom in and out using the same button.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-19 06:21:22 -0500", "date": "6:21 p.m. on Jan 19, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/19/each-year-brings.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F19%2Feach-year-brings.html" }, { "id": 1730, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Brent Simmons on Apple:\nApple has just provided us all with a reminder. Just like the sixth finger in an AI-rendered hand, Apple’s policies for Distributing apps in the U.S. that provide an external purchase link are startlingly graceless and a jarring, but not surprising, reminder that Apple is not a real person and not worthy of your love. Source: inessential: Corporations Are Not To Be Loved\nI do get the point, but if my dedication to Apple in the last 40 years isn\u0026rsquo;t love, is it \u0026ldquo;passion\u0026rdquo; without love?\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-17 21:34:39 -0500", "date": "9:34 p.m. on Jan 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/17/brent-simmons-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F17%2Fbrent-simmons-on.html" }, { "id": 1731, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My Micro.blog timeline being a bit too busy to my liking, I decided to disable replies from people I don\u0026rsquo;t follow. It\u0026rsquo;s much better now. I might turn it back on eventually. This option shouldn\u0026rsquo;t be in the account section but should be more easily accessible. Would like to get a static toolbar at the bottom.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-17 20:20:00 -0500", "date": "8:20 p.m. on Jan 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/17/my-microblog-timeline.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F17%2Fmy-microblog-timeline.html" }, { "id": 1732, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So, is Notion Calendar essentially a Google Calendar frontend? This is what Cron was? Is that right? What am I missing from my experiment? The first thing the app asks is to authenticate to my Google account. 😳\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-17 19:25:51 -0500", "date": "7:25 p.m. on Jan 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/17/so-is-notion.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F17%2Fso-is-notion.html" }, { "id": 1733, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One more yearly subscription to my website1 and one more subscriber to The Craft Bible2. It\u0026rsquo;s a good day for me. I don\u0026rsquo;t have thousands of subscribers (yet), and they all count as if they were my first one. 😻\nHosted on Ghost.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nHosted on Gumroad.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-17 17:47:18 -0500", "date": "5:47 p.m. on Jan 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/17/one-more-yearly.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F17%2Fone-more-yearly.html" }, { "id": 1734, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "9to5Mac reporting about WhatsApp usage in the US:\nThe fact that more people in the US have been using WhatsApp recently is definitely intriguing. Source: WhatsApp has been getting more attention in the US\niMessage usage in Canada is probably similar to that in the US. I started using WhatsApp when I went to Morocco last summer. I also have a friend who moved from Canada to Mexico, and he switched to WhatsApp, so now I have to use WhatsApp to reach him. I must say that I like it. I also follow some news channels, just for fun. I like the messaging app format to get news; that\u0026rsquo;s why I also use Telegram for the same purpose: to follow news from Ukraine.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-17 06:55:01 -0500", "date": "6:55 p.m. on Jan 17, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/17/tomac-reporting-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F17%2Ftomac-reporting-about.html" }, { "id": 1735, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here\u0026rsquo;s another reason to be sad this morning. 😔 Over the past two years, I\u0026rsquo;ve invested much of my time and effort in building my digital space and presence in Craft. I spend numerous hours posting things and answering questions in the user community. I\u0026rsquo;ve become a Craft enthusiast or ambassador. One day, someone even asked me if I was working for Craft. I\u0026rsquo;m not. I don\u0026rsquo;t want to be paid. But what I want is a better collaboration with the team over there. I\u0026rsquo;d like to create videos about new releases that would be shared simultaneously as they come out. I\u0026rsquo;ve asked them, and they didn\u0026rsquo;t accept my offer. I\u0026rsquo;ve built The Craft Bible. I\u0026rsquo;ve created The Craft Feature Request Board. I\u0026rsquo;ve created content that best exemplifies Craft use cases. I get no real support from the Craft team. They fail to take advantage of me being this sort of Craft ambassador, and they could \u0026ldquo;use me\u0026rdquo; to help spread the Craft message out there1. I don\u0026rsquo;t understand why they pass over this opportunity. Capacities, a direct competitor to Craft, is doing the opposite. They have this woman who creates tutorials and other types of content and gets referenced in the Capacities release notes! That\u0026rsquo;s cool and useful for the community. But not Craft. Is this a corporate culture issue? Maybe. I just don\u0026rsquo;t get it. It\u0026rsquo;s frustrating. Maybe I should let it go and move on.\nSorry for the rant this morning.\nThey used to have a community manager but he barely shows up in the community.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-16 07:29:14 -0500", "date": "7:29 p.m. on Jan 16, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/16/heres-another-reason.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F16%2Fheres-another-reason.html" }, { "id": 1736, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m a bit sad 😔 that this post, \u0026ldquo;Dear Micro.blog - How Can I Help\u0026rdquo; didn\u0026rsquo;t get the expected traction. I don\u0026rsquo;t know why. Maybe it fell between the cracks of a busy Micro.blog timeline. But this morning, I\u0026rsquo;m trying something different by explicitly tagging my virtual friends cc @jean @manton\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-16 07:08:01 -0500", "date": "7:08 p.m. on Jan 16, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/16/im-a-bit.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F16%2Fim-a-bit.html" }, { "id": 1737, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Made a tweak to this blog: using the Footer field of the Design section (on a Micro.blog feature), I added a footer to each individual post that adds links to my other websites and my Mastodon handle. It\u0026rsquo;s a mixture of HTML and CSS. I took advantage of MacGPT to learn what was needed. I know a bit about HTML but not enough about CSS. My \u0026ldquo;assistant\u0026rdquo; helped me, again.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-15 21:49:56 -0500", "date": "9:49 p.m. on Jan 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/15/made-a-tweak.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F15%2Fmade-a-tweak.html" }, { "id": 1738, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished my work day in Microsoft Loop because one of my colleagues insisted on using it for a special project. Boy, this thing sucks. After many months of availability, Loop feels more like a proof of concept than a productivity tool. I guess Microsoft will iterate on it, but so far, as a Notion user, meh.👎🏻 Sorry for the rant.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-15 17:55:44 -0500", "date": "5:55 p.m. on Jan 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/15/finished-my-work.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F15%2Ffinished-my-work.html" }, { "id": 1739, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This morning, at work, I had the idea of creating a GPT that would act as a virtual resume for me. Colleagues would prompt this GPT about my professional journey with usual questions about my past experience, projects, certifications, abilities, etc. I uploaded a few files, including my resume and some other professional stuff, to try it out. It took me 15 minutes to create this virtual representation of myself. Tested many prompts against it. I\u0026rsquo;m blown away. The future is here, ladies and gentlemen.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-15 13:05:15 -0500", "date": "1:05 p.m. on Jan 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/15/this-morning-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F15%2Fthis-morning-at.html" }, { "id": 1740, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Google announcement regarding egress fees:\nStarting today, Google Cloud customers who wish to stop using Google Cloud and migrate their data to another cloud provider and/or on premises, can take advantage of free network data transfer to migrate their data out of Google Cloud. This applies to all customers globally. Source: Eliminating data transfer fees when migrating off Google Cloud | Google Cloud Blog\nThis is major. I often see clients forget to consider the exit costs of any hyper-scaler in the TCO calculation. Getting into the cloud isn\u0026rsquo;t cheap. And up until today, getting out of the cloud wasn\u0026rsquo;t either. Now, for those on GCP, it is. I expect the others (looking at you, AWS, and Azure) to follow, maybe not this year, but they will, either by their choice or they will be forced. This is an anti-competitive measure to charge for egress fees.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-15 11:27:53 -0500", "date": "11:27 p.m. on Jan 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/15/google-announcement-regarding.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F15%2Fgoogle-announcement-regarding.html" }, { "id": 1741, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Someone at work sent me a text to get feedback. After reading it, I had this vague impression that ChatGPT was involved in the process. Out of curiosity, I openly asked the author if it was the case. And sure enough, the answer was yes. 8 out of 10 times, the outcome is the same when I ask that question. Gen AI usage is becoming pervasive in my world at work. Is it the same for you?\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-15 10:25:59 -0500", "date": "10:25 p.m. on Jan 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/15/someone-at-work.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F15%2Fsomeone-at-work.html" }, { "id": 1742, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Scrolling through my LinkedIn timeline today. It always gives me weird feelings when I see people I work with announcing their retirement. These posts are reminders that, eventually, everyone will cross that gate. Me included. 😔\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-15 09:41:50 -0500", "date": "9:41 p.m. on Jan 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/15/scrolling-through-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F15%2Fscrolling-through-my.html" }, { "id": 1743, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Monday. A new work week begins. To celebrate, I created a new category for my work-related posts (RSS feed). I plan to share more about my work life in 2024 and beyond. 👨🏻‍💻\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-15 09:30:21 -0500", "date": "9:30 p.m. on Jan 15, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/15/monday-a-new.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F15%2Fmonday-a-new.html" }, { "id": 1744, "type": "post", "title": "Micro.Blog — How Can I Help?", "text": "\nFollowing the publication of “What If” by Maique, an avid blogger on Micro.blog, his post prompted me to write my own. But before, here\u0026rsquo;s a summary of his post (thanks ChatGPT):\nMicro.blog has been hosting maique.eu for years, but there have been some technical issues. Despite some annoyances, the community and features make it worth the cost. However, there are also cons such as lack of proper notifications and support. Moving away would be a hassle.\nI do share most of his views on the current state of Micro.blog because I did experience some issues with the service myself. I won’t repeat it here. That being said, I love Micro.blog, and I certainly want it to thrive. I’m a believer. I’m a supporter of the ideas behind the service. I subscribe to the premium tier. I love it so much that I created a series of videos about Micro.blog so that others can take full advantage of its features set. But I want to do more. In fact, I can do more. How can I help? Where do I enlist?\nAs an IT guy for more than 30 years, I know how hard it can be to run such a service. I don’t know the technologies behind it, but Micro.blog seems to need constant nurturing. Sadly, I cannot help here. I\u0026rsquo;m not a full-stack developer in any way.\nBut there this help.micro.blog support site. I did tech support in the past. I do pay a visit from time to time to gather the mood and the subjects that people care enough to submit posts. Maybe I could help there? I don\u0026rsquo;t know. Could I do a first screening of the posts and direct level-2 requests to Manton for further investigation? He would be freed somewhat from glancing at all the incoming requests and focus on the hardest ones. I don\u0026rsquo;t know. Oh, and this feature requests topic contains more than a hundred of them. I could create a real Micro.blog feature requests board, like this one I built from scratch for Craft?\nThen, there is this Discover section: I do pay a visit from time to time. I\u0026rsquo;m not sure how it is being maintained or how often. Can I help there? I don\u0026rsquo;t know.\nWhat else? I could do podcasting, too! Maybe I could help Jean to revive the highly respected Micro Monday podcast! I have my own podcast; I’m not too bad because I have eight listeners, according to Podcasts Connect!\nAs you can probably see, I have many ideas. I’m creative. I do have some time to spare for my passions. Micro.blog is one of them. But, as much as I want to help, it means nothing if the doors are closed. I’m not saying that I received a “no thank you” from Manton or Jean. I didn’t ask, actually. Now, I’m officially asking: how can I help?\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-14 14:10:02 -0500", "date": "2:10 p.m. on Jan 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/14/microblog-how-can.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F14%2Fmicroblog-how-can.html" }, { "id": 1745, "type": "post", "title": "GuruShots Is Still a Thing, Apparently", "text": "I just visited the photography challenge site GuruShots, where I used to play quite a lot a few years ago. I even wrote a few articles about this game (\u0026quot;GuruShots Tips, Tricks and Cheat Sheet\u0026quot;,\u0026quot;Tips \u0026amp; Tricks 2021 Edition, Part 1\u0026quot;, \u0026ldquo;Tips \u0026amp; Tricks 2021 Edition, Part 2\u0026rdquo; and \u0026ldquo;How to Become a Guru at GuruShots\u0026rdquo;). I had a friend who was playing with me. He still does. Apparently, he is so advanced that there is only one explanation: he has a serious addiction. Personally, I stopped playing because it was too time-consuming. I wish I could update my articles because the game evolved quite a bit with new features. But, no, I don\u0026rsquo;t have that time at my disposal.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-14 13:03:23 -0500", "date": "1:03 p.m. on Jan 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/14/gurushots-is-still.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F14%2Fgurushots-is-still.html" }, { "id": 1746, "type": "post", "title": "Is Buying a Car Easier Than Buying an Apple Vision Pro?", "text": "If Mark Gurman is correct, the rumored sale process for the Apple Vision Pro is rather complex and lengthy. Watching a 20-minute video to learn about a product indicates many things: Apple is nervous, and the product has a novel approach requiring potential customers\u0026rsquo; education or training so that they fully \u0026ldquo;get the experience\u0026rdquo; before deciding to put the money on the table. Also, I guess someone willing to pay the high price merits some special attention, too.\nI\u0026rsquo;ll have to update my calculations on how many demos can be run in the first 10 days.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-14 09:43:02 -0500", "date": "9:43 p.m. on Jan 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/14/is-buying-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F14%2Fis-buying-a.html" }, { "id": 1747, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s time for the first edition of 2024 of the weekly creative summary newsletter! Lots of stuff related to projects, writing, articles, etc. Fun fact: putting this summary together takes about two hours per week. This version was created in Craft, which offers the best experience, the email version is coming later to my dear subscribers! Past editions are available on my main website by following this link. Enjoy.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-14 09:08:47 -0500", "date": "9:08 p.m. on Jan 14, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/14/its-time-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F14%2Fits-time-for.html" }, { "id": 1748, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One of the things that is cool with Photomator: the before \u0026amp; after view. If find it helpful from a creative and teaching perspective.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-13 15:21:31 -0500", "date": "3:21 p.m. on Jan 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/13/one-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F13%2Fone-of-the.html" }, { "id": 1749, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m supporting Manu Moreale. Bloggers need to support bloggers!\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-13 14:23:20 -0500", "date": "2:23 p.m. on Jan 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/13/im-supporting-manu.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F13%2Fim-supporting-manu.html" }, { "id": 1750, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For those who are new to Micro.blog, in this video, I talk about creating and managing pages and redirects on your Micro. blog-hosted website. I hope you learn something. Now, time for a wish: @jean and @manton could create a page on the help.micro.blog site referring to these videos that I\u0026rsquo;m creating for the platform1! 🙏🏻\nI\u0026rsquo;m not paid for this, BTW, in case you ask. 😌\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-13 13:58:12 -0500", "date": "1:58 p.m. on Jan 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/13/for-those-who.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F13%2Ffor-those-who.html" }, { "id": 1751, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Gearing up for video recording\u0026hellip; smile, please. 😁\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-13 10:32:04 -0500", "date": "10:32 p.m. on Jan 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/13/gearing-up-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F13%2Fgearing-up-for.html" }, { "id": 1752, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I can\u0026rsquo;t wait to share my first weekly creative summary of the year tomorrow. So much stuff in there! Meanwhile, if you don\u0026rsquo;t know what I\u0026rsquo;m talking about, flash the QR code! Or click this link if you are too lazy! 🤣\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-13 09:14:17 -0500", "date": "9:14 p.m. on Jan 13, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/13/i-cant-wait.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F13%2Fi-cant-wait.html" }, { "id": 1753, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Another big snowstorm is coming over to the Montreal area. This one could produce more snow than the previous one, which gave us more rain than snow. Expect 15 - 20 cm of snow and some gusty winds. the worst will be Saturday morning, right when I\u0026rsquo;ll record my next YouTube video. For as far as I can recall, I always loved snowstorms. Image source.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-12 07:32:27 -0500", "date": "7:32 p.m. on Jan 12, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/12/another-big-snowstorm.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F12%2Fanother-big-snowstorm.html" }, { "id": 1754, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been testing Up Ahead the past day, and one thing is clear: software doesn\u0026rsquo;t have to be boring. Up Ahead is anything but boring1.\nThe screenshot was uploaded to Micro.blog using a shortcut from Jarrod Blundy. Works great. He should make it available soon on his website.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-12 07:13:01 -0500", "date": "7:13 p.m. on Jan 12, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/12/ive-been-testing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F12%2Five-been-testing.html" }, { "id": 1755, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently studying the PARA method for a future video. The funny thing is that without knowing it, I organize my data inside Craft, using similar principles.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-11 21:52:49 -0500", "date": "9:52 p.m. on Jan 11, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/11/currently-studying-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F11%2Fcurrently-studying-the.html" }, { "id": 1756, "type": "post", "title": "How Many Apple Vision Pro Scheduled Demos Can Apple Provide in the First 10 Days?", "text": "As reported by MacRumors, Apple will have 80K Apple Vision Pro available on day one. Now, how many scheduled demos can Apple provide to customers in the first ten days of the availability of the Apple Vision Pro? Let\u0026rsquo;s try to find out. 243 Apple Store will have the headset. Let\u0026rsquo;s say there are 6 six guys in the store dedicated to supervising scheduled demonstrations. Could be more, could be less and might vary from store to store. Let\u0026rsquo;s say each demo takes 15 minutes, which allows for 4 demos per hour per supervisor. Let\u0026rsquo;s set at 8 hours per day of demonstration availability per store. Could be more. Could be less. This translates to 192 Apple Vision Pro demo slots available per store. If we think about the first 10 days of availability, Apple could potentially deliver more than 466K demos.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-11 17:15:46 -0500", "date": "5:15 p.m. on Jan 11, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/11/how-many-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F11%2Fhow-many-apple.html" }, { "id": 1757, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s the type of work day where I get to meet hyper-brilliant and knowledgeable people, which makes me feel like I have so much more to learn. 😌\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-11 09:52:18 -0500", "date": "9:52 p.m. on Jan 11, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/11/its-the-type.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F11%2Fits-the-type.html" }, { "id": 1758, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Introspection time: I chose to be in IT because I thought it was much easier to deal with computers than humans. I’m not an introvert, though, far from it. But, it happened without explicit thought back in the day. After 30 years in IT, I still think the same, and I often say that the challenge in the information technology field is not about technology per se, but it’s mostly about human issues with technology. Ironically, most of my job today is to build teams of people to make things happen. I’m still focused on technology, but in reality, I try to ensure that all members of a team work towards the same objectives. I’m pretty good about it and people are appreciative of my work. How ironic.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-11 07:15:19 -0500", "date": "7:15 p.m. on Jan 11, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/11/introspection-time-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F11%2Fintrospection-time-i.html" }, { "id": 1759, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My complete toolset page was updated to start the new year. Make sure to pay a visit if you want to make a few discoveries.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-11 06:59:38 -0500", "date": "6:59 p.m. on Jan 11, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/11/my-complete-toolset.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F11%2Fmy-complete-toolset.html" }, { "id": 1760, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Since the Apple Vision Pro will be available starting in early February, I think any new iPad will come in March at the earliest.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-10 20:16:52 -0500", "date": "8:16 p.m. on Jan 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/10/since-the-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F10%2Fsince-the-apple.html" }, { "id": 1761, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Is TextMate abandonware? The last post was in early 2020. I like this app (free). I wonder if BBEdit is the obvious replacement (which is not free!). 🤔🧐\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-10 13:56:10 -0500", "date": "1:56 p.m. on Jan 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/10/is-textmate-abandonware.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F10%2Fis-textmate-abandonware.html" }, { "id": 1762, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dan Moyen, writing for MacWorld\nThe Vision Pro is a brand new platform with a brand new interaction method\u0026ndash;so its release needs a new approach. Source: Vision Pro is already changing everything we know about Apple | Macworld\nI\u0026rsquo;m glad to see that he agrees with my personal take on this already controversial product launch.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-10 13:17:48 -0500", "date": "1:17 p.m. on Jan 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/10/dan-moyen-writing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F10%2Fdan-moyen-writing.html" }, { "id": 1763, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If the 2024 iPad Pro pricing is what the rumors are referring to, ridiculously expensive, not counting the new Magic Keyboard that would be needed to replace mine, this might be the deal breaker for me. I might not upgrade1 at all and focus on my M2 MacBook Air. This would be sad because I like using the iPad a lot but can\u0026rsquo;t convince myself to settle for anything not pro. 😑🤷🏻‍♂️\nI\u0026rsquo;m currently using an \u0026ldquo;old\u0026rdquo; 11-inch iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard and Apple Pencil 2.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-10 11:34:48 -0500", "date": "11:34 p.m. on Jan 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/10/if-the-ipad.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F10%2Fif-the-ipad.html" }, { "id": 1764, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I feel relieved this morning because I finally moved out of Adobe and wrote an article about it. Spoiler alert: moving out of Adobe is not as hard as you might think, especially if your Lightroom setup is simple like mine. Open to questions. 😃\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-10 07:08:16 -0500", "date": "7:08 p.m. on Jan 10, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/10/i-feel-relieved.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F10%2Fi-feel-relieved.html" }, { "id": 1765, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A big one is coming toward us. In Montreal, it will be a mixture of snow and rain, limiting the total accumulation thanks to a strong influx of hot air from the southeast. Up north of St-Lawrence River, this could be totally different with more than 40 CM of snow! And winds! Can\u0026rsquo;t wait for our first \u0026ldquo;northeaster\u0026rdquo; of the season! Stay tuned for more comments about this meteorological event!\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-09 12:39:22 -0500", "date": "12:39 p.m. on Jan 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/09/a-big-one.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F09%2Fa-big-one.html" }, { "id": 1766, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My return to work went well, but I\u0026rsquo;m busy and having difficulty balancing my time between project delivery and staying up-to-date in my IT field. It\u0026rsquo;s one of my biggest challenges. 😑\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-09 08:53:59 -0500", "date": "8:53 p.m. on Jan 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/09/my-return-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F09%2Fmy-return-to.html" }, { "id": 1767, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Appreciation of the day: putting freshly recharged AirPods Pro in the ear, while they are still warm, is in itself worth the price!\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-09 08:29:54 -0500", "date": "8:29 p.m. on Jan 9, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/09/appreciation-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F09%2Fappreciation-of-the.html" }, { "id": 1768, "type": "post", "title": "Is Apple TV Really Improving With tvOS 17?", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve extensively used Apple TV (the physical device), Apple TV+ and the Apple TV app during the holidays to play music, videos, movies and series. One thing is clear: tvOS 17 is a regression in terms of usability, for me anyway. I especially don\u0026rsquo;t like the new left sidebar in the TV app. Navigating back to the home screen is cumbersome, requiring too many \u0026ldquo;\u0026lt;\u0026rdquo; back clicks. I often wonder if I\u0026rsquo;m in the Apple TV app or the Apple TV+ service. Up Next queue is intertwined with the rest of the content, it feels less obvious, to me. Content promotion (while starting a new episode, ending a series, etc.) is annoying. Apple feels like Amazon. Apple isn\u0026rsquo;t quite there after so many years of iterative updates.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-08 07:18:15 -0500", "date": "7:18 p.m. on Jan 8, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/08/is-apple-tv.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F08%2Fis-apple-tv.html" }, { "id": 1769, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Going back to work tomorrow after a two-week break that was much needed. Now, I know what\u0026rsquo;s awaiting me tomorrow. It\u0026rsquo;s a fuckin busy agenda. 😳 I refrained all weekend from connecting to my office email. Sure, I could have done a pre-cleanup and say: ok, it\u0026rsquo;s not that bad. But I didn\u0026rsquo;t do it. Why? Because my mailbox would have been cleaner, yeah, but not my mental charge, would have been 🤯. It was a good decision to stay partly innocent. ☝🏻\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-07 20:21:10 -0500", "date": "8:21 p.m. on Jan 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/07/going-back-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F07%2Fgoing-back-to.html" }, { "id": 1770, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m happy to announce my next trip: Croatia in June-July. First time over there! I plan to bring my big camera (Nikon D750); I\u0026rsquo;m not just ready to leave it behind yet. I would be frustrated if I missed photo opportunities because I had \u0026ldquo;only\u0026rdquo; the iPhone.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-07 17:04:04 -0500", "date": "5:04 p.m. on Jan 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/07/im-happy-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F07%2Fim-happy-to.html" }, { "id": 1771, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today, I spent some time with a friend to talk about Craft, among other things. Video available here (In French). Tagging @abc because he likes French content!\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-07 15:22:39 -0500", "date": "3:22 p.m. on Jan 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/07/today-i-spent.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F07%2Ftoday-i-spent.html" }, { "id": 1772, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It appears that my goal of cancelling CleanShot Cloud was not a good idea. The savings wouldn\u0026rsquo;t be that substantial. I\u0026rsquo;m paying for two Macs, which is 49$ for a one-year updates license. If new releases come out after that time, the renewal cost will be 19$ to keep receiving them. I know that I\u0026rsquo;ll be upgrading each year to stay current. Updates are relatively frequent and add value. The CleanShot Cloud brings many features and I think are worth the price difference. CleanShot is central to my workflows. I use it all the time. Pricing information is available here.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-07 08:49:22 -0500", "date": "8:49 p.m. on Jan 7, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/07/it-appears-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F07%2Fit-appears-that.html" }, { "id": 1773, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Zavala, an outliner for the Mac, iPad and iPhone, recently got a series of updates after a year of silence. I\u0026rsquo;m happy to see this app is still alive and well.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-06 16:25:25 -0500", "date": "4:25 p.m. on Jan 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/06/zavala-an-outliner.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F06%2Fzavala-an-outliner.html" }, { "id": 1774, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Frankly, I had to read these instructions many times but couldn\u0026rsquo;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\u0026rsquo;s guidelines and privacy protection might be the root cause for this less-than-user-friendly setup.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-06 16:11:19 -0500", "date": "4:11 p.m. on Jan 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/06/frankly-i-had.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F06%2Ffrankly-i-had.html" }, { "id": 1775, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-06 11:48:32 -0500", "date": "11:48 p.m. on Jan 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/06/ill-be-doing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F06%2Fill-be-doing.html" }, { "id": 1776, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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 \u0026ldquo;cloud.numericcitizen.me/*\u0026rdquo;. Am I missing something?\nCleanShot Cloud is expensive and I cannot justify its cost. I\u0026rsquo;m using a free setup based on a combination of DropShare and Backblaze instead.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-06 09:31:14 -0500", "date": "9:31 p.m. on Jan 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/06/while-preparing-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F06%2Fwhile-preparing-my.html" }, { "id": 1777, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finally cancelled my Adobe photography subscription plan. Next to cancel: CleanShot Cloud. Just updated my subscriptions page.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-06 09:19:35 -0500", "date": "9:19 p.m. on Jan 6, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/06/finally-cancelled-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F06%2Ffinally-cancelled-my.html" }, { "id": 1778, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A great documentary about Tim Cook. Must watch.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-05 21:38:44 -0500", "date": "9:38 p.m. on Jan 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/05/a-great-documentary.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F05%2Fa-great-documentary.html" }, { "id": 1779, "type": "post", "title": "Hey Calendar First Impressions", "text": "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\u0026rsquo;s not as controversial a take as the email counterpart. Day view and week view only, by design1. I\u0026rsquo;m not sure if this is a deal-breaker for many.\nTime tracking seems limited and cannot replace Toggl / Timery in my workflow. Data can be exported as a CSV file. I wonder if it can be really useful in its current form. The jury is still out on that one.\nInteresting habit tracking support: simple enough to be useful. Limited icon selection, though. No iOS app just yet, only web and desktop. No Microsoft Office 365 support yet. iCloud calendars can be integrated, but they must be made public to get an iCal URL that HEY Calender subscribes to. Same for Google calendars. Some tasks are managed as things to do eventually in the week, appear at the bottom, and move to the next week if not completed.\nMy initial impressions of HEY Calendar are neutral. That\u0026rsquo;s it for now.\nThis could be controversial.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-05 08:41:27 -0500", "date": "8:41 p.m. on Jan 5, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/05/hey-calendar-first.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F05%2Fhey-calendar-first.html" }, { "id": 1780, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-04 11:30:26 -0500", "date": "11:30 p.m. on Jan 4, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/04/this-year-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F04%2Fthis-year-my.html" }, { "id": 1781, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-04 08:23:32 -0500", "date": "8:23 p.m. on Jan 4, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/04/im-getting-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F04%2Fim-getting-a.html" }, { "id": 1782, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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?\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-04 08:15:05 -0500", "date": "8:15 p.m. on Jan 4, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/04/now-that-hey.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F04%2Fnow-that-hey.html" }, { "id": 1783, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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?\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-03 13:40:51 -0500", "date": "1:40 p.m. on Jan 3, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/03/why-do-we.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F03%2Fwhy-do-we.html" }, { "id": 1784, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-02 11:36:24 -0500", "date": "11:36 p.m. on Jan 2, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/02/create-more-consume.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F02%2Fcreate-more-consume.html" }, { "id": 1785, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "1000 subscribers goal achieved! Six month later than I would have hoped. Better late than never!\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-01 14:38:30 -0500", "date": "2:38 p.m. on Jan 1, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/01/subscribers-goal-achieved.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F01%2Fsubscribers-goal-achieved.html" }, { "id": 1786, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-01 12:58:09 -0500", "date": "12:58 p.m. on Jan 1, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/01/i-still-struggle.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F01%2Fi-still-struggle.html" }, { "id": 1787, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-01 09:09:19 -0500", "date": "9:09 p.m. on Jan 1, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/01/just-finished-going.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F01%2Fjust-finished-going.html" }, { "id": 1788, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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.\n", "dateiso": "2024-01-01 08:54:02 -0500", "date": "8:54 p.m. on Jan 1, 2024", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2024/01/01/its-the-time.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2024%2F01%2F01%2Fits-the-time.html" }, { "id": 1789, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I wish you all a happy new year! May 2024 be a better one than what 2023 was. It shouldn\u0026rsquo;t be that hard. Peace.\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-31 17:00:00 -0500", "date": "5:00 p.m. on Dec 31, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/31/i-wish-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F31%2Fi-wish-you.html" }, { "id": 1790, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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\u0026rsquo;m busy in life, preferring to keep the rest (writing, blogging). I hope this will change a bit in 2024.\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-27 15:39:38 -0500", "date": "3:39 p.m. on Dec 27, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/27/each-year-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F27%2Feach-year-at.html" }, { "id": 1791, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Writing about leaving Adobe ecosystem and embracing once and for all the Photomator / Pixelmator combo: 1500 words and counting. 👨🏻‍💻😅\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-27 14:21:27 -0500", "date": "2:21 p.m. on Dec 27, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/27/writing-about-leaving.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F27%2Fwriting-about-leaving.html" }, { "id": 1792, "type": "post", "title": "Is GenAI a Product or a Feature?", "text": "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\u0026rsquo;s actually a feature. Don\u0026rsquo;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.\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-26 20:58:44 -0500", "date": "8:58 p.m. on Dec 26, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/26/is-genai-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F26%2Fis-genai-a.html" }, { "id": 1793, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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\nNo sexually explicit content, but it could contain references to some partial nudity.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-26 07:21:24 -0500", "date": "7:21 p.m. on Dec 26, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/26/if-i-post.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F26%2Fif-i-post.html" }, { "id": 1794, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m so much closer than I thought to being able to close my Adobe creative cloud subscription. I love the holidays for the time it provides to do special projects like this.\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-25 19:45:03 -0500", "date": "7:45 p.m. on Dec 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/25/im-so-much.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F25%2Fim-so-much.html" }, { "id": 1795, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Synology Photos as a webapp on macOS Sonoma is 👌🏻\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-25 13:01:11 -0500", "date": "1:01 p.m. on Dec 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/25/synology-photos-as.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F25%2Fsynology-photos-as.html" }, { "id": 1796, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Merry Christmas to all my followers! 🎅🏻 In other news, I fell into a rabbit hole when I started looking at my Adobe Creative Cloud migration1. The process is far easier than I thought but it takes a little while to move files around. I could complete it before my next scheduled payment on January 8th. That is one of my 2024 goals!\nI\u0026rsquo;ll be moving out of it so that I can focus on the Photomator / Pixelmator duo instead.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-25 09:49:47 -0500", "date": "9:49 p.m. on Dec 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/25/merry-christmas-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F25%2Fmerry-christmas-to.html" }, { "id": 1797, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Playing Christmas music everywhere in the house using HomePods and AirPlay is quite cool. You cannot escape Christmas! 🎅🏻🎶🦌\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-24 11:42:45 -0500", "date": "11:42 p.m. on Dec 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/24/playing-christmas-music.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F24%2Fplaying-christmas-music.html" }, { "id": 1798, "type": "post", "title": "About blog.numericcitizen.me visitors for 2023", "text": "Visitors to blog.numericcitizen.me increased significantly compared to the previous year. Leaving Twitter at the end of 2022 probably explains why. Embracing the POSSE model and my adoption of Mastodon and Bluesky also explains why more people visited my blog. It\u0026rsquo;s been a great year on Micro.blog, and I\u0026rsquo;m really looking forward to 2024!\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-23 09:24:36 -0500", "date": "9:24 p.m. on Dec 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/23/about-blognumericcitizenme-visitors.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F23%2Fabout-blognumericcitizenme-visitors.html" }, { "id": 1799, "type": "post", "title": "About numericcitizen.me visitors for 2023", "text": "My main blog stats show a slight increase in visitors, especially in the last three months of 20231. The switch from WordPress.com to Ghost.org positively influenced the trend. The next post will be about the \u0026ldquo;blog.numericcitizen.me\u0026rdquo; site where the story is quite different.\nIt\u0026rsquo;s related to the launch of my weekly creative summary.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-23 09:17:05 -0500", "date": "9:17 p.m. on Dec 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/23/about-numericcitizenme-visitors.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F23%2Fabout-numericcitizenme-visitors.html" }, { "id": 1800, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here are my five goals for 2024, as posted on my personal landing page.\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-23 08:37:57 -0500", "date": "8:37 p.m. on Dec 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/23/here-are-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F23%2Fhere-are-my.html" }, { "id": 1801, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Going to my sister’s house tomorrow for holidays celebration. She got a new MacBook that she wants me to configure 🤓\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-22 19:04:10 -0500", "date": "7:04 p.m. on Dec 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/22/going-to-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F22%2Fgoing-to-my.html" }, { "id": 1802, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In Montreal city, two days before Christmas, there is no snow. No precipitation is expected either until maybe Dec 27th at the earliest. This is so different from what I experienced as a kid.\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-22 15:23:09 -0500", "date": "3:23 p.m. on Dec 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/22/in-montreal-city.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F22%2Fin-montreal-city.html" }, { "id": 1803, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Some possible Micro.blog marketing taglines. Add you own.\nMicro.blog means Macro Power. Micro.blog means Macro Flexibility. Micro.blog means Macro Openness. Micro.blog means Macro Privacy. Micro.blog means Macro Connectivity. Micro.blog means Macro your take here Micro.blog means nothing but Macro. cc @manton\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-22 07:32:05 -0500", "date": "7:32 p.m. on Dec 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/22/some-possible-microblog.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F22%2Fsome-possible-microblog.html" }, { "id": 1804, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I wonder if this QR code could be my next avatar.🤔\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-21 21:57:40 -0500", "date": "9:57 p.m. on Dec 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/21/i-wonder-if.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F21%2Fi-wonder-if.html" }, { "id": 1805, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "LLM on my iPhone? That sounds like a super interesting development. Suddenly, an iPhone with 1TB of storage might seem like a good buying decision, albeit expansive.\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-21 06:48:05 -0500", "date": "6:48 p.m. on Dec 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/21/llm-on-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F21%2Fllm-on-my.html" }, { "id": 1806, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m happy to see Zavala is still being updated. 😊\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-20 08:10:57 -0500", "date": "8:10 p.m. on Dec 20, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/20/im-happy-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F20%2Fim-happy-to.html" }, { "id": 1807, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I sometimes miss this type of user interface.\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-19 17:06:38 -0500", "date": "5:06 p.m. on Dec 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/19/i-sometimes-miss.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F19%2Fi-sometimes-miss.html" }, { "id": 1808, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple Working on Software Fix to Avoid U.S. Apple Watch Import Ban https://www.macrumors.com/2023/12/18/apple-watch-import-ban-software-fix/?utm_source=dlvr.it\u0026amp;utm_medium=mastodon\nMacRumors.com https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/111604236893222090\rHonestly, the blood oxygen sensor on the Apple Watch isn\u0026rsquo;t very useful because of a lack of precision. I wouldn\u0026rsquo;t mind having it removed entirely.\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-18 20:00:32 -0500", "date": "8:00 p.m. on Dec 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/18/apple-working-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F18%2Fapple-working-on.html" }, { "id": 1809, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " There is also a chance that the ‌MagSafe‌ charging for the ‌iPad‌ that we\u0026rsquo;re hearing about refers to a Mac-like magnetic charger rather than an iPhone-style magnetic charger. Apple is working on a more Mac-like aluminum Magic Keyboard for the 2024 ‌iPad Pro‌ launch, and the new iPads will also use the same M3 chips that are in the MacBook Pro. Source: Next iPad Pro Might Support MagSafe Charging - MacRumors\nThe next-gen iPad Pro looks more and more enticing by the day. A Mac-like MagSafe connector makes more sense to me. But I have a feeling this thing will be pricey!\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-18 15:14:26 -0500", "date": "3:14 p.m. on Dec 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/18/there-is-also.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F18%2Fthere-is-also.html" }, { "id": 1810, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " 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.\nIt\u0026rsquo;s often better to change something in a position of strength, not weakness. That is a good preemptive move by Apple, IMO.\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-18 14:57:31 -0500", "date": "2:57 p.m. on Dec 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/18/contingent-pricing-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F18%2Fcontingent-pricing-for.html" }, { "id": 1811, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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\u0026amp;utm_medium=mastodon\nMacRumors.com https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/111601838273362581\rMassive blow. We don\u0026rsquo;t get to see Apple stopping selling a product often.\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-18 09:37:16 -0500", "date": "9:37 p.m. on Dec 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/18/apple-pausing-sales.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F18%2Fapple-pausing-sales.html" }, { "id": 1812, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "That could be a clever tool for developers to attract new customers and subscribers with the following change to the App Store. I\u0026rsquo;m all for it.\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-18 07:26:36 -0500", "date": "7:26 p.m. on Dec 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/18/that-could-be.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F18%2Fthat-could-be.html" }, { "id": 1813, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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\u0026rsquo;ll try to \u0026ldquo;decode\u0026rdquo; the thing.\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-17 16:20:13 -0500", "date": "4:20 p.m. on Dec 17, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/17/thought-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F17%2Fthought-of-the.html" }, { "id": 1814, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s Sunday; it\u0026rsquo;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!\nWere you afraid that it would be my last edition like forever? 😌\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-17 12:14:51 -0500", "date": "12:14 p.m. on Dec 17, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/17/its-sunday-its.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F17%2Fits-sunday-its.html" }, { "id": 1815, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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.\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-17 10:04:31 -0500", "date": "10:04 p.m. on Dec 17, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/17/time-for-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F17%2Ftime-for-a.html" }, { "id": 1816, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m considering replacing/upgrading from an M1 Mac mini to the Mac Studio🤑. Upon looking at Apple\u0026rsquo;s Mac Studio website, I was surprised that the Mac Studio wasn\u0026rsquo;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\u0026rsquo;ll wait for the next update.\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-16 15:46:45 -0500", "date": "3:46 p.m. on Dec 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/16/im-considering-replacingupgrading.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F16%2Fim-considering-replacingupgrading.html" }, { "id": 1817, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just finished creating my 25-minute mix! I\u0026rsquo;m slowly getting there! I\u0026rsquo;m super excited for this. For those who might ask, I\u0026rsquo;m using Djay with a Pioneer DDJ-400. #techno #technomelodic 🎧🎶🕺🏻\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-16 14:11:03 -0500", "date": "2:11 p.m. on Dec 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/16/just-finished-creating.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F16%2Fjust-finished-creating.html" }, { "id": 1818, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m curious: who in this room is using Apple Advanced Data Protection? If yes, are there any issues? If not, why? 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-16 12:24:52 -0500", "date": "12:24 p.m. on Dec 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/16/im-curious-who.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F16%2Fim-curious-who.html" }, { "id": 1819, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Coffee shop time! 😃 For some reason, I always test their Wifi service each place I visit. Always1. 🤷🏻‍♂️\nThe same goes for hotels while I travel.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-16 11:38:59 -0500", "date": "11:38 p.m. on Dec 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/16/coffee-shop-time.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F16%2Fcoffee-shop-time.html" }, { "id": 1820, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I went to the Micro.blog\u0026rsquo;s Discovery section and set the category to Podcasts. I didn\u0026rsquo;t know there were that many podcasts hosted here on Micro.blog. 😳\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-16 11:18:59 -0500", "date": "11:18 p.m. on Dec 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/16/i-went-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F16%2Fi-went-to.html" }, { "id": 1821, "type": "post", "title": "Episode 06 — Wrapping Up 2023", "text": "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.🙏🏻\nLinks to some of the things I\u0026rsquo;m referring to:\nBye 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\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-16 10:43:35 -0500", "date": "10:43 p.m. on Dec 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/16/episode-wrapping-up.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F16%2Fepisode-wrapping-up.html" }, { "id": 1822, "type": "transcript", "title": "Episode 06 — Wrapping Up 2023", "text": "Hi, this is New York Citizen, and you are listening to Thoughts and Tribulations of a Compulsive Creator podcast.\nThis is episode number six, wrapping up 2023.\nFirst, hi everyone, and thank you for listening.\nI wanted first to thank you everyone for reading, watching, or listening to my work.\nI don\u0026rsquo;t know how many of you guys are, but I do feel that there are many people who are actually listening or watching or reading my work, and for that I\u0026rsquo;m very grateful, and I wanted to really thank you for being there.\nI don\u0026rsquo;t know how many people actually are reading my content, but I do think that looking at the plausible analytics, you are quite a few, and also on my YouTube channel, I think you are close to a thousand people who are watching from time to time the videos that I\u0026rsquo;m putting out there.\nSo again, thank you for being there.\nThe year 2023 was kind of a busy one.\nI think it\u0026rsquo;s a transition year for me because of the changes I made to the tools and services I depend on as a creator.\nThe first big change was to move out of WordPress.com for hosting my main website, and also moving out or dropping altogether Substack, because I was using Substack for the newsletter that I was doing at the time.\nAnd since then I moved to Ghost, and this move was, I think it was a good one, and it\u0026rsquo;s not because it\u0026rsquo;s cheaper, it\u0026rsquo;s about the same price, but the functionalities that I\u0026rsquo;m getting out of Ghost are way better than what I used to have under WordPress.\nAnd also, in parallel of that, I did embrace the open web by opening and using Mastodon and the BlueSky account, and more recently, like in the last few months, I was very active and I\u0026rsquo;m still active on PixelFed, which will replace SmogMog as a paying subscription for sharing my photos.\nAnd I\u0026rsquo;m really happy to have embraced the open web because more than ever, I\u0026rsquo;m getting interaction with people who like what I\u0026rsquo;m doing, and I do enter more into interaction with other tweeters just because I\u0026rsquo;m using, and I made those changes regarding the open web.\nAnd I\u0026rsquo;m really happy about that.\nI do, I think I will do, I will try to be more active on Mastodon and BlueSky in the upcoming months, but for now, I\u0026rsquo;m more using those platforms to cross-post my work, which is published on Microblog or on Ghost.\nI also have the feeling that I accomplished most of what I was hoping for, for the year.\nI had many things that I wanted to write and publish starting in 2023, and now I feel that the backlog has decreased quite a lot.\nAnd the last thing I wanted to share with you is a look back at my 30 years in information technology landscape, and yeah, I did publish this piece today, actually, on my website.\nI encourage you to get a look at it if you want to know more about my professional background.\nAlso, I\u0026rsquo;ve been contemplating the idea of selling templates, like a lot of people are doing with Notion, and selling templates with Notion is very popular, and I wanted to try the same thing at selling templates, but built using Craft.\nThere are many templates available on the Craft website for free, but I wanted to build a few ones that I think are of better value.\nSo I selected Gumroad as a platform to sell these templates, and I must say that the results are way beyond what I was expecting, but I do see a downward trend, because I think there\u0026rsquo;s a discoverability problem with Gumroad, and I\u0026rsquo;ll have to find a way to kind of publish or share my templates on different platforms so people get to know that they exist.\nSo I\u0026rsquo;m looking for that in the upcoming months.\nThis year, I started this podcast, which I love to produce, and I started also, kind of at the end of September, a weekly newsletter about highlighting my creative work during each week, and I really love to produce them.\nAnd the last weekly newsletter will be sent tomorrow, actually, and this will be the last one for the year.\nThere are two articles left to be published before the end of the year.\nOne is a review of the Craft year, highlighting the major milestones and releases of Craft, and the other one is kind of the same thing for my creative journey for the year, which should be out in the next week or so.\nAnd those two pieces will mark the end of my creative work for the year.\nAnd also, I do have the feeling that my creative workflows and the toolset that I\u0026rsquo;m depending on to create my content is getting to a point where I don\u0026rsquo;t see major changes to be done in these.\nI feel that I\u0026rsquo;m using the right tool for the many use cases, and I\u0026rsquo;m getting more efficient and productive in creating or producing things like YouTube videos or this podcast, actually.\nAnd so I don\u0026rsquo;t expect much change to happen in the near future, but yeah, I do feel that I\u0026rsquo;m getting better at creating my content.\nOne of the major additions in the recent weeks was the use of Generative AI to help me out with my English.\nYou have to know or remember that I\u0026rsquo;m not an English guy.\nMy mother language is French, so sometimes I need some help from ChatGPT to support my work, and it made a lot of difference in my work.\nAnd I also wrote and published my AI usage guidelines to state how and when I\u0026rsquo;m using Generative AI.\nI thought it was important to have some guidelines, so I shared them with my readers.\nAnd yeah, so that\u0026rsquo;s pretty much it for this year.\nI\u0026rsquo;m quite happy, and I think it\u0026rsquo;s time now to take a pause and have a step back and do something else, because I don\u0026rsquo;t want to be burnt out with my hobby.\nAnd so in the next two weeks, I\u0026rsquo;ll be more quiet and spend time with my family.\nAnd so yeah, I think it\u0026rsquo;s important to take a pause, and that\u0026rsquo;s it for this last podcast episode for the year.\nThank you for being there.\nI wish you happy holidays, and see you guys for the next year, early 2024.\nThank you for being there.\nThanks for listening.\nBye.\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-16 11:43:35 -0400", "date": "11:43 p.m. on Dec 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/transcripts/2023/12/16/734.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2Ftranscripts%2F2023%2F12%2F16%2F734.html" }, { "id": 1823, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m not really fond of this rumoured design.\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-16 08:25:33 -0500", "date": "8:25 p.m. on Dec 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/16/im-not-really.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F16%2Fim-not-really.html" }, { "id": 1824, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One week left to work before \u0026ldquo;vacations\u0026rdquo;. 🥴\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-15 17:03:27 -0500", "date": "5:03 p.m. on Dec 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/15/one-week-left.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F15%2Fone-week-left.html" }, { "id": 1825, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Added Kagi search to my subs. F*** Google and their business model!\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-15 08:01:37 -0500", "date": "8:01 p.m. on Dec 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/15/added-kagi-search.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F15%2Fadded-kagi-search.html" }, { "id": 1826, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Believe it or not, I’m looking at use cases for Capacities. 🙄\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-14 12:14:09 -0500", "date": "12:14 p.m. on Dec 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/14/believe-it-or.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F14%2Fbelieve-it-or.html" }, { "id": 1827, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After the My Defaults trend, here comes the My Subscriptions trend.\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-14 07:06:08 -0500", "date": "7:06 p.m. on Dec 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/14/after-the-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F14%2Fafter-the-my.html" }, { "id": 1828, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been a long-time blogger with WordPress.com before switching to Ghost. Today, I wanted to leave a comment on someone\u0026rsquo;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\nReally, Facebook?\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nEven on my blog, you need to be a subscriber to drop a comment on an article. I know this becomes a natural \u0026ldquo;filter\u0026rdquo; and prevents some form of spamming. But it also prevents some spontaneity.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-13 21:24:41 -0500", "date": "9:24 p.m. on Dec 13, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/13/ive-been-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F13%2Five-been-a.html" }, { "id": 1829, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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\u0026rsquo;ll get rid of my RSS reader to be all in with Omnivore\u0026rsquo;s RSS reader. I can see that happening.\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-12 13:14:56 -0500", "date": "1:14 p.m. on Dec 12, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/12/omnivore-is-out.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F12%2Fomnivore-is-out.html" }, { "id": 1830, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today is the day I realize that my M1 Mac mini doesn\u0026rsquo;t support two external displays. 😒 I wish I had that capability for today\u0026rsquo;s work I need to do1.\nIs this the beginning of an excuse to buy a Mac Studio?\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-12 09:32:15 -0500", "date": "9:32 p.m. on Dec 12, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/12/today-is-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F12%2Ftoday-is-the.html" }, { "id": 1831, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Why does logging in Slack have to be so unfriendly? I\u0026rsquo;m not exactly sure which email I used for which space. I\u0026rsquo;m lousy at keeping track of this information, I know… but…\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-11 17:20:57 -0500", "date": "5:20 p.m. on Dec 11, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/11/why-does-logging.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F11%2Fwhy-does-logging.html" }, { "id": 1832, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple Releases watchOS 10.2 With Health Data Support for Siri, Swipe to Change Watch Face Option and More https://www.macrumors.com/2023/12/11/apple-releases-watchos-10-2/?utm_source=dlvr.it\u0026amp;utm_medium=mastodon\nMacRumors.com https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/111563102881382545\rSwipe to Change Watch Face option is BACK baby!\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-11 13:41:32 -0500", "date": "1:41 p.m. on Dec 11, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/11/apple-releases-watchos.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F11%2Fapple-releases-watchos.html" }, { "id": 1833, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "iOS 17.2 is now out for everyone! macOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and tvOS too!\nStephen Robles https://mastodon.social/@stephenrobles/111563142345839538\rThe scale at which Apple releases new software is still mind-blowing for me.\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-11 13:37:25 -0500", "date": "1:37 p.m. on Dec 11, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/11/ios-is-now.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F11%2Fios-is-now.html" }, { "id": 1834, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just two hours in the work day and I have already used ChatGPT three times to better understand two different concepts in IT1. Last year, these prompts would have required many Google searches and much more reading. I\u0026rsquo;m curious to see how ChatGPT and Gen AI are influencing Google\u0026rsquo;s market share.\nCCaaS, TLC, QLC.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-11 09:41:14 -0500", "date": "9:41 p.m. on Dec 11, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/11/just-two-hours.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F11%2Fjust-two-hours.html" }, { "id": 1835, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I wish Ghost.org provided an easy way to directly respond to users\u0026rsquo; comments from the dashboard. I need to log in to my own site to respond, but I can\u0026rsquo;t because of this two-step process where I don\u0026rsquo;t receive the email for logging in. Grr. 🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-11 09:16:21 -0500", "date": "9:16 p.m. on Dec 11, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/11/i-wish-ghostorg.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F11%2Fi-wish-ghostorg.html" }, { "id": 1836, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Being a compulsive creator is not always easy. There are good days and bad days. Yesterday was a bad one. Early today started on a sour note too, but thanks to the supporting comments I got, it turning into a better day now. 💙\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-11 08:43:44 -0500", "date": "8:43 p.m. on Dec 11, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/11/being-a-compulsive.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F11%2Fbeing-a-compulsive.html" }, { "id": 1837, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "And here we go for the week: the weekly creative summary for 2023/49 is out! The newsletter version coming up soon for my dear subscribers! I hope you enjoy this week\u0026rsquo;s edition!\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-10 13:01:31 -0500", "date": "1:01 p.m. on Dec 10, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/10/and-here-we.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F10%2Fand-here-we.html" }, { "id": 1838, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It seems that at the current rate, 2023 will be my second-most active year on Micro.blog, after 2020. Ref. Blog stats.\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-10 09:48:06 -0500", "date": "9:48 p.m. on Dec 10, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/10/it-seems-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F10%2Fit-seems-that.html" }, { "id": 1839, "type": "post", "title": "Strike One", "text": "After publishing more than 70 YouTube videos on my channel, today I got my first content violation warning for sharing a review about Play 2.0, a video manager for YouTube that facilitates downloading YouTube content for free. Oopsy.🫥 I did the highly recommended training by Google.\nIf you are a serious YouTube video consumer, consider using Play 2.0. That is all.🤫1\nI wonder if I could make my video available elsewhere\u0026hellip;🤔\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-10 08:26:05 -0500", "date": "8:26 p.m. on Dec 10, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/10/strike-one.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F10%2Fstrike-one.html" }, { "id": 1840, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I created the Craft Feature Request Board on Canny.io, because the Craft team doesn\u0026rsquo;t want to do it themselves, apparently. If you are a Craft user with feature requests, file yours!\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-09 09:03:20 -0500", "date": "9:03 p.m. on Dec 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/09/i-created-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F09%2Fi-created-the.html" }, { "id": 1841, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If Apple\u0026rsquo;s iPhone 16 brings Siri / Gen AI exclusivity, I don\u0026rsquo;t see that enough for me to consider upgrading. Some tech pundits will probably say that Siri needs much more than an upgraded microphone for a better experience. Photography enhancements are what make me upgrade for the most part.\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-07 06:45:22 -0500", "date": "6:45 p.m. on Dec 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/07/if-apples-iphone.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F07%2Fif-apples-iphone.html" }, { "id": 1842, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If Apple were to release an M3 MacBook Air early in 2024, I would be pissed off1.\nI bought an M2 15-inch MacBook Air last August.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-06 21:05:48 -0500", "date": "9:05 p.m. on Dec 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/06/if-apple-were.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F06%2Fif-apple-were.html" }, { "id": 1843, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wish of the day: I\u0026rsquo;d like to connect an Apple TV to an Apple Studio Display.\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-06 09:02:17 -0500", "date": "9:02 p.m. on Dec 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/06/wish-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F06%2Fwish-of-the.html" }, { "id": 1844, "type": "post", "title": "HEY, what about Improving Newsletters Reading Experience?", "text": "As a paying subscriber to HEY mail, I find it strange that the newsletter consumption feature has never been updated since its initial release1. A product is rarely perfect on its first try. For example: newsletters are presented in a semi-expanded form, but I wish I could display them as \u0026ldquo;newsletter titles only\u0026rdquo;. Also, there is no integration whatsoever with third-party read-later service to easily send a newsletter to Omnivore, for example2. Once expanded, it\u0026rsquo;s not obvious our to return to the list of newsletters sitting in the bin to read the next one.\nThe Feed is the feature I\u0026rsquo;m referring to here.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nI know that we can forward the newsletter to a custom email @ omnivore, but It\u0026rsquo;s not exactly what I would refer to as \u0026ldquo;an integration with a third-party service\u0026rdquo;.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-05 11:18:51 -0500", "date": "11:18 p.m. on Dec 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/05/hey-what-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F05%2Fhey-what-about.html" }, { "id": 1845, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I had many personal goals for this week-end1, a week-end already coming to a conclusion. I\u0026rsquo;m happy to report that they were all met! I feel good about this. 😊\nGoals that don\u0026rsquo;t always align with my creative hobbies. But that is ok.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-03 17:55:24 -0500", "date": "5:55 p.m. on Dec 3, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/03/i-had-many.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F03%2Fi-had-many.html" }, { "id": 1846, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "💥 Hey, it\u0026rsquo;s Sunday! And, it\u0026rsquo;s time for the new edition of my Weekly Creative Summary! Enjoy. Coming up later for my lovely subscribers! 💌\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-03 09:50:57 -0500", "date": "9:50 p.m. on Dec 3, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/03/hey-its-sunday.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F03%2Fhey-its-sunday.html" }, { "id": 1847, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For those who are new to the Micro.blog hosting service, in this video, I share a few tips and tricks for reading efficiently your Micro.blog timeline. If you aren\u0026rsquo;t new to Micro.blog. Well, you might discover a few things anyway!\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-02 13:32:14 -0500", "date": "1:32 p.m. on Dec 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/02/for-those-who.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F02%2Ffor-those-who.html" }, { "id": 1848, "type": "post", "title": "My First Genuine Ah Ah Moment With Generative AI", "text": "Here is a quick recount of my “Ah ah moment” this morning, involving generative AI in a simple workflow. I’m still in awe about it.\nIf I stumble on a long and chatty YouTube video that might be interesting, I\u0026rsquo;ll use this workflow to quickly get the gist out of it. First, I use Downie (a Mac utility) to download it on my M2 MacBook Air. Then, I use the Whisper Transcription Mac app to transcribe the spoken discussion into text that I export in a PDF1. Next, I open ChatGPT, upload the PDF file and let ChatGPT ingest the content. Finally, I prompt ChatGPT with things like: what is the subject of this discussion? Are there any apps mentioned in the discussion? Who is talking? Is this a controversial subject? Generate a title for this discussion. Generate a summary in less than 300 words. Etc. It’s very effective. You can use the GPT I created for this2. Oh, and I guess you can use the same workflow for a podcast episode!\nThis workflow was also documented in “My Micro-Workflows Explained” mini website.\nBecause I like the formatting used instead of plain text.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nChatGPT paid subscription required.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-02 09:04:00 -0500", "date": "9:04 p.m. on Dec 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/02/my-first-genuine.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F02%2Fmy-first-genuine.html" }, { "id": 1849, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "There is so much buzz around the Internet about the newly released Ubiquiti Unify Express router. To me, it seems to be a capable router at a reasonable price. Man, I wish Apple was still in this market1.\nI know Apple\u0026rsquo;s version wouldn\u0026rsquo;t be as features rich as Ubiquiti\u0026rsquo;s, but\u0026hellip;\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-12-01 15:10:21 -0500", "date": "3:10 p.m. on Dec 1, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/12/01/there-is-so.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F12%2F01%2Fthere-is-so.html" }, { "id": 1850, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Happy with Ulysses. 😊 #iawriter7\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-30 19:06:35 -0500", "date": "7:06 p.m. on Nov 30, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/30/happy-with-ulysses.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F30%2Fhappy-with-ulysses.html" }, { "id": 1851, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I finished watching this video today while waiting for my car at the garage. Andrej Karpathy gives a great talk explaining Gen AI and how the whole process works, and then some more explanations about the possible future around AI. It\u0026rsquo;s a must-see.\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-27 21:30:34 -0500", "date": "9:30 p.m. on Nov 27, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/27/i-finished-watching.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F27%2Fi-finished-watching.html" }, { "id": 1852, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "While on my desk, I want to use my iPad Pro over Ethernet @ 1 GbE (much faster than wifi) while keeping it charging. Also, it seems that it\u0026rsquo;s not possible to prioritize Ethernet over Wireless (like we can on the Mac)1. Am I missing something? Am I the only one on earth who prefers Ethernet? Any suggestion?\nIt seems that Wifi needs to be disabled.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-27 10:04:49 -0500", "date": "10:04 p.m. on Nov 27, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/27/while-on-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F27%2Fwhile-on-my.html" }, { "id": 1853, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m generally unfazed by black Friday sales\u0026hellip; I buy things when I need them, not because of any deals. But, this morning, I bought a Kodak slides scanner because I have hundreds of old family slides sitting in boxes. I feel sad not to spend the time to put a new life in those memories. So there you go, a new slide scanner. I\u0026rsquo;ll probably write an extensive review of it.\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-27 07:14:24 -0500", "date": "7:14 p.m. on Nov 27, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/27/im-generally-unfazed.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F27%2Fim-generally-unfazed.html" }, { "id": 1854, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If you don\u0026rsquo;t know me, but especially the places where I\u0026rsquo;m sharing and for what purpose, that is the video to watch.\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-27 06:54:07 -0500", "date": "6:54 p.m. on Nov 27, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/27/if-you-dont.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F27%2Fif-you-dont.html" }, { "id": 1855, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "With a bit of a delay, here is my weekly creative summary for week 2023/47. Coming a bit later for my subscribers! 😅\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-26 20:28:06 -0500", "date": "8:28 p.m. on Nov 26, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/26/with-a-bit.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F26%2Fwith-a-bit.html" }, { "id": 1856, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A new goal: about security: migrating my two-factor authentication from Authy to Apple\u0026rsquo;s Keychain / iCloud Passwords. Signing into any service when using Apple\u0026rsquo;s solution is too cool and efficient to pass.\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-24 11:20:34 -0500", "date": "11:20 p.m. on Nov 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/24/a-new-goal.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F24%2Fa-new-goal.html" }, { "id": 1857, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today it\u0026rsquo;s time for an update to my creative and blogger workflow1. You can get an overview in this diagram, and the changelog here on my metablog. Any questions? 😅\nThe previous version was published on 2023-04.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-24 07:11:19 -0500", "date": "7:11 p.m. on Nov 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/24/today-its-time.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F24%2Ftoday-its-time.html" }, { "id": 1858, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s my most \u0026ldquo;successful\u0026rdquo; image ever on Pixelfed, by far. 😊 Testing MarsEdit Micropost feature (again).\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-23 07:36:32 -0500", "date": "7:36 p.m. on Nov 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/23/its-my-most.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F23%2Fits-my-most.html" }, { "id": 1859, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I created my Backblaze account earlier this week to replace Dropshare Cloud. Today, I discovered that Cloudflare offers S3-compatible storage too, with a similar free tier (10 GB). Since CF is my domain name registrar, maybe I should have created my S3 bucket with them instead?1 🤔\nBut the Dropshare client probably doesn\u0026rsquo;t yet offer a connector to CF storage. 🤷🏻‍♂️\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-23 06:58:48 -0500", "date": "6:58 p.m. on Nov 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/23/i-created-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F23%2Fi-created-my.html" }, { "id": 1860, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This week, I discovered and experienced the joy of having my two-factor authentication PIN configured within Apple\u0026rsquo;s password management, and it is a joy to set up and use most of the time1. I\u0026rsquo;m seriously thinking of leaving Authy behind2. If only Apple had a stand-alone password.app.\nHaving to go through Safari (Mac) or Settings (iOS) is bad.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nMigrating from Authy to Apple\u0026rsquo;s solution required disabling two-factor authentication and then re-enabling it. Tedious.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-23 06:44:21 -0500", "date": "6:44 p.m. on Nov 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/23/this-week-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F23%2Fthis-week-i.html" }, { "id": 1861, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I should visit the Micro.blog Discover section more often… there are some gems over there from time to time.\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-22 12:32:50 -0500", "date": "12:32 p.m. on Nov 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/22/i-should-visit.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F22%2Fi-should-visit.html" }, { "id": 1862, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A follow-up to my previous post about Dropshare: Are any users of Backblaze over here? Thoughts? Which service do you use? S3-compatible storage or client (Mac) backup to the cloud?1 🤔\nUsers can get 10 GB of free storage, which should be enough for my needs.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-21 19:44:59 -0500", "date": "7:44 p.m. on Nov 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/21/a-followup-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F21%2Fa-followup-to.html" }, { "id": 1863, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dropshare Cloud is being… dropped1. Too bad. I\u0026rsquo;ll need to redo my custom-made file share space.\nDropshare Cloud is being phased out in Feb, 2024. Too bad. I\u0026rsquo;ll have to rework that for me.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-21 17:50:46 -0500", "date": "5:50 p.m. on Nov 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/21/dropshare-cloud-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F21%2Fdropshare-cloud-is.html" }, { "id": 1864, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I can\u0026rsquo;t stress enough how Apple\u0026rsquo;s Freeform is a joy to use. Is this a sleeper hit? If you don\u0026rsquo;t use it, do yourself a favour and try it. It\u0026rsquo;s the most intuitive, frictionless diagramming app out there on the Mac. And the iPad.\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-21 11:37:42 -0500", "date": "11:37 p.m. on Nov 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/21/i-cant-stress.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F21%2Fi-cant-stress.html" }, { "id": 1865, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Which story is worse or more shattering? Steve Jobs fired in 1985, or OpenAI fired one of its founders? I think the latter creates more uncertainty. The former is easier to dismiss because we know what happened to Apple after Jobs left the company. 🤔 1\nWhat a shitty series of events. And we aren\u0026rsquo;t done with it yet.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-20 20:43:47 -0500", "date": "8:43 p.m. on Nov 20, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/20/which-story-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F20%2Fwhich-story-is.html" }, { "id": 1866, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! 😀 Today is the day of the new edition of my weekly creative summary! Enjoy! While this early release provides the best visual experience (thanks to Craft\u0026rsquo;s shared documents), the newsletter edition will come out soon to my subscribers.\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-19 08:09:48 -0500", "date": "8:09 p.m. on Nov 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/19/good-morning-ladies.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F19%2Fgood-morning-ladies.html" }, { "id": 1867, "type": "post", "title": "The Danger of POSSE", "text": "\nA recently published article on The Verge discusses POSSE and the Fediverse: \u0026ldquo;Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere.\u0026rdquo; This content strategy emphasizes the importance of owning the content you create by publishing it on your own platform, like a personal blog or website, and then syndicating or sharing that content on other platforms, such as social media or content aggregators.\nThe main idea behind POSSE is to ensure that creators maintain control over their content. By publishing first on their own platform, creators can establish a primary source for their work that remains under their control. They can then share or syndicate this content to other platforms to reach a wider audience, drive traffic back to their own site, and engage with communities on those platforms.\nThis strategy is particularly relevant in the digital age, where content creators often face the dilemma of reaching large audiences on popular platforms (like social media networks) while also wanting to maintain ownership and control over their work. POSSE offers a balanced approach, allowing creators to leverage larger platforms’ reach without sacrificing their own site’s autonomy.\nI’m practicing POSSE myself; all my online setup is built around it. I depend on two publishing poles: Micro.blog and Ghost1. Some find this setup time-consuming and don’t want to be held responsible for replying or engaging on each branch (Mastodon, Bluesky, etc.). My take on this is yes, it might be time-consuming, but I like to engage on each platform because each brings a different type of community. I find it a bit frustrating to reply to someone who systematically shares content from his blog with Mastodon without any reply or acknowledgment. I understand that some posters are very popular and can’t reply to everyone. You can see if someone is replying from time to time. It’s a good idea to check before judging. The danger here is to act like bots if there is no engagement at all.\nMicro.blog is responsible for the cross-posting magic.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-18 07:23:04 -0500", "date": "7:23 p.m. on Nov 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/18/the-danger-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F18%2Fthe-danger-of.html" }, { "id": 1868, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Getting vaccinated today for flu and Covid. Hopefully not too many symptoms in the nextt 24 hours. 😑\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-17 12:40:44 -0500", "date": "12:40 p.m. on Nov 17, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/17/getting-vaccinated-today.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F17%2Fgetting-vaccinated-today.html" }, { "id": 1869, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The more testing and experimenting I do with ChatGPT, the more I feel we are at an inflection point like Netscape or the iPhone was. We live in exciting and challenging times.\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-16 08:28:13 -0500", "date": "8:28 p.m. on Nov 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/16/the-more-testing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F16%2Fthe-more-testing.html" }, { "id": 1870, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I made this. It is very handy to write an ALT description for an image posted on Pixelfed.\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-16 07:01:19 -0500", "date": "7:01 p.m. on Nov 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/16/i-made-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F16%2Fi-made-this.html" }, { "id": 1871, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "According to Grammarly, ChatGPT is really bad at English.1\nOr is it Grammarly that is really bad? 🤔\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-15 19:01:06 -0500", "date": "7:01 p.m. on Nov 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/15/according-to-grammarly.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F15%2Faccording-to-grammarly.html" }, { "id": 1872, "type": "post", "title": "Apple’s Siri, AI and Next’s Year’s OS Releases", "text": "\nI don’t know if Apple is working on LLM stuff; they probably do, they probably do work on improving Siri, too, if such a thing is possible in the current incarnation of its fundamentals. But, judging by the rapidity of other companies introducing AI features mainly based on LLM models, I don’t expect it would be so hard for Apple to do the same with Siri. But only if Apple accepts to work with CharGPT-back end for a short-term solution. This could be a transitory path in my mind. Because Apple being Apple, they probably would want to put their twist on this: better privacy protection, for example. They like to control the whole stack. That’s perhaps why they are, apparently, investing massively in their one training infrastructure, which would be they accept the fact that on-device training is too limited, even with powerful Apple silicon. It could prove to be a long journey. I don’t expect too much for next year’s OSes. It will be interesting to see where Apple is headed with this AI thing next year.\nMeanwhile, when I’m asking Siri queries today, I cannot help but feel the tech is antiquated compared to what we can do with Whisper and the like today.\nImage: Dall-E.\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-15 18:20:41 -0500", "date": "6:20 p.m. on Nov 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/15/apples-siri-ai.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F15%2Fapples-siri-ai.html" }, { "id": 1873, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Raycast is cool. I\u0026rsquo;m cool. And because we\u0026rsquo;re cool, here is a rebate. One month free of the Raycast Pro. 1\nBut the app icon is really ugly! 🤮\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-15 15:41:09 -0500", "date": "3:41 p.m. on Nov 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/15/raycast-is-cool.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F15%2Fraycast-is-cool.html" }, { "id": 1874, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So, how is** iOS 17.2 beta3** going? Stable? I\u0026rsquo;m asking for a friend.🤭\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-15 11:20:42 -0500", "date": "11:20 p.m. on Nov 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/15/so-how-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F15%2Fso-how-is.html" }, { "id": 1875, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This:\nForeseeably, the next step in AI integration will happen on an OS level. In the mean time, your app will always run an inferior version compared to whatever Microsoft's sells. If having ChatGPT is your sales point, you have no sales point. You only have a very volatile, very expensive ticking time bomb dependency. On top of that, you corner yourself into dishonesty if you sell ChatGPT as your own AI. It's bullshit and you know it.\nOliver Reichenstein https://mastodon.social/users/reichenstein/statuses/111409113783598045\rThe proliferation of ChatGPT entry points. The race to some sort of singularity?\r", "dateiso": "2023-11-14 08:29:11 -0500", "date": "8:29 p.m. on Nov 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/14/this-foreseeably-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F14%2Fthis-foreseeably-the.html" }, { "id": 1876, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I don\u0026rsquo;t know about you guys, but watchOS 10.1.1 is still killing battery life… 😔\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-13 15:45:37 -0500", "date": "3:45 p.m. on Nov 13, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/13/i-dont-know.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F13%2Fi-dont-know.html" }, { "id": 1877, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Musing of the day: Which is worse from an environmental point of view, burning the planet with NFTs / blockchains s*** or with AI with LLM models training and queries to ChatGPT?1 🤔\nIt\u0026rsquo;s a serious question.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-12 21:05:21 -0500", "date": "9:05 p.m. on Nov 12, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/12/musing-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F12%2Fmusing-of-the.html" }, { "id": 1878, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s Sunday😃, and it\u0026rsquo;s time for my new edition of my Weekly Creative Summary, the 2023/45 edition! Mail version coming out later today for my website subscribers!1\nIf you don\u0026rsquo;t subscribe already, what are you waiting for??\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-12 10:54:18 -0500", "date": "10:54 p.m. on Nov 12, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/12/its-sunday-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F12%2Fits-sunday-and.html" }, { "id": 1879, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I started subscribing to ChatGPT today so that I could experiment with Dall-E and GPT-4. I\u0026rsquo;ll probably cancel my MidJourney account if all goes well with ChatGPT. I like the idea of having one place to do many things.\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-12 08:42:58 -0500", "date": "8:42 p.m. on Nov 12, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/12/i-started-subscribing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F12%2Fi-started-subscribing.html" }, { "id": 1880, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One of my first-gen HomePods is slowly dying.1😔\nIt spits bad \u0026ldquo;spark\u0026rdquo;-like sounds after listening to music for some time.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-11 16:16:12 -0500", "date": "4:16 p.m. on Nov 11, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/11/one-of-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F11%2Fone-of-my.html" }, { "id": 1881, "type": "post", "title": "What Happened to the Shortcuts Editor?", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been working with Apple Shortcuts editor recently1, on my iPhone and on my iPad, and boy, what a shocking experience! This editor is nearly unworkable, thanks to scrolling sluggishness, object ordering bugs, object variables becoming empty, constant freezes, keyboard masking input fields, changes not being saved and plain and simple editor crashes. 😤 What is happening with this, Apple?2 I can\u0026rsquo;t believe Viticci is able to endure this for all his work around shortcuts.\nI\u0026rsquo;m working on something new, involving Plausible APIs, Charty for iPhone, and Apple Shortcuts. Stay tuned for that one.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nI don\u0026rsquo;t expect a response from Apple, of course.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-11 08:43:02 -0500", "date": "8:43 p.m. on Nov 11, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/11/what-happened-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F11%2Fwhat-happened-to.html" }, { "id": 1882, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My theory about what happened at Humane…\nFounders pitch investors on a hand laser thing when it’s a napkin sketch. They raise too much money, hire too many people.\nThey build a prototype, but too late. Turns out the laser UI sucks and eats too much battery.\n“Hmm. Investors are shopping for AI companies now… voice uses less power… pivot to AI!”\nSuddenly tech has a downturn. Can’t raise another round of funding. They launch an alpha.\nThey know it’s doomed. It’s an advertisement for acquirers.\nBen Sandofsky https://mastodon.social/@sandofsky/111383368562341707\rSounds like a plan.\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-09 21:17:06 -0500", "date": "9:17 p.m. on Nov 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/09/my-theory-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F09%2Fmy-theory-about.html" }, { "id": 1883, "type": "post", "title": "These Are My Entry Points to AI Usage", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m working on something related to using AI in my creative work. I came up with this. AI is used through these front-end clients within my creative workflows:\n- ChatGPT website - Raycast AI Chat - MidJourney - Whisper - Micro.blog podcast episode transcription - Audio Hijack Transcription block - Kagi Summarize Results, Summary Document, Ask Questions - Craft Assistant - Grammarly And I expect this list to grow in the coming months.\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-08 06:40:34 -0500", "date": "6:40 p.m. on Nov 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/08/these-are-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F08%2Fthese-are-my.html" }, { "id": 1884, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "👉🏻 One quick question for my followers or readers: for those using AI (often or not), did you think of any usage rules that could form your ethical view on AI in your work or personal life? Would you mind sharing those rules with me? I\u0026rsquo;ll start with one of mine: Use AI on non-controversial subjects.\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-06 07:07:43 -0500", "date": "7:07 p.m. on Nov 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/06/one-quick-question.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F06%2Fone-quick-question.html" }, { "id": 1885, "type": "post", "title": "NSUserDefaults defaults = [NSUserDefaults NumericCitizenDefaults];", "text": "Following the episode (#097) of Hemispheric Views, it’s my turn, I guess, with a little twist for the post title. 😜\n✉️ Mail Client: HEY mail 📨 Mail Server: HEY mail + iCloud Custom Email Domain 📝 Notes: Craft + Apple Notes ✅ To-Do: Things 3 📷 iPhone Photo Shooting: Camera.app + Halide.app (for travel) 📚 Photo Management: Photos.app + Adobe Cloud 🗓️ Calendar: Calendar.app (Personal Life) + Fantastical.app (Work Life) 🗄️ Cloud file storage: iCloud 📰 RSS: Reeder connected to Inoreader 📇 Contacts: Contacts 🕸️ Browser: Safari (more and more using Kagi for searching) 💬 Chat: iMessage (WhatsApp when abroad) 🔖 Bookmarks: AnyBox 👓 Read It Later: Omnivore 📜 Word Processing: Ulysses 📊 Spreadsheets: Numbers 🛝 Presentations: Keynote 🛒 Shopping Lists: Reminders 🧑‍🍳 Meal Planning: None 💰 Budgeting \u0026amp; Personal Finance: Numbers 🗞️ News: La Presse (Apple News for English news) 🎶 Music: Apple Music 🎧 Podcasts: PocketCast 🔐 Password Management: iCloud Keychain (also 1Password, I should merge with default) ", "dateiso": "2023-11-06 06:36:28 -0500", "date": "6:36 p.m. on Nov 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/06/nsuserdefaults-defaults-nsuserdefaults.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F06%2Fnsuserdefaults-defaults-nsuserdefaults.html" }, { "id": 1886, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Ok, I may be late to the Mac automation party, but Keyboard Maestro is really nice and powerful. And approachable. It\u0026rsquo;s an almost instant buy me! 1 It\u0026rsquo;s super handy to automate portions of my newsletter creation and many tasks in Craft, too!\nAnd it\u0026rsquo;s a one-time purchase! No subscription!\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-05 15:26:45 -0500", "date": "3:26 p.m. on Nov 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/05/ok-i-may.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F05%2Fok-i-may.html" }, { "id": 1887, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "And here is the next edition (2023/44) of my weekly creative summary. The newsletter edition is coming out later today by email! Enjoy. 😅\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-05 11:01:34 -0500", "date": "11:01 p.m. on Nov 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/05/and-here-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F05%2Fand-here-is.html" }, { "id": 1888, "type": "post", "title": "Another Case of Abandonware", "text": "I recently wrote about software is never really finished1. Here\u0026rsquo;s an example: Keysmith. I bought this utility in February 2021. I forgot to re-install it on my M2 MacBook Air. I just did. But under macOS Sonoma, it has some glitches which make it useless. The app hasn\u0026rsquo;t been updated for quite a while, same with the app website. Now what?2\nThe title should have been \u0026ldquo;Software Should Never Be Finished\u0026rdquo;.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nAlternatives are Keyboard Maestro \u0026amp; Alfred.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-05 07:43:27 -0500", "date": "7:43 p.m. on Nov 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/05/another-case-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F05%2Fanother-case-of.html" }, { "id": 1889, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For those who are curious, I just updated \u0026ldquo;my Micro-Workflows Explained\u0026rdquo; page to list all my ChatGPT and AI use cases. I\u0026rsquo;m not shy to expose when I\u0026rsquo;m using AI in my creative work1. The list of use cases is growing and reflects the relative invasion of AI in our digital landscape.\nWho\u0026rsquo;s shy of telling people about using Spell Checkers or Lightroom filters? 🤔\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-05 07:12:49 -0500", "date": "7:12 p.m. on Nov 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/05/for-those-who.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F05%2Ffor-those-who.html" }, { "id": 1890, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple’s scary event: a B-team production | Ken Segall\nOuch.\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-04 19:02:05 -0500", "date": "7:02 p.m. on Nov 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/04/apples-scary-event.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F04%2Fapples-scary-event.html" }, { "id": 1891, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "👉🏻 I\u0026rsquo;m thinking about parking my \u0026ldquo;numericcitizen\u0026rdquo; name on Threads. Just in case1. 😳 But, then, after doing a quick research, I was reminded pretty quickly that I need an Instagram account. It was at this exact moment that I thought that I should move on to something else2.\nYes, I know; I repeatedly said that I hate Meta.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nOr maybe just create a dummy account on Instagram with my name and then create that Thread account?\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-04 17:01:04 -0500", "date": "5:01 p.m. on Nov 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/04/im-thinking-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F04%2Fim-thinking-about.html" }, { "id": 1892, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "💡 Thought of the moment: owning my own Pixelfed instance would be cool1. But how much work does this imply? 🤔\nImagining: photos.numericcitizen.me! Can we use a sub-domain with Pixelfed? Would I be able to migrate from my current instance?\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-04 16:41:38 -0500", "date": "4:41 p.m. on Nov 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/04/thought-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F04%2Fthought-of-the.html" }, { "id": 1893, "type": "post", "title": "In Search of Augmented Capabilities Using AI", "text": "I want to augment my creative capabilities1. I\u0026rsquo;m considering the best way to pay for Augmented Intelligence (AI) services2. I\u0026rsquo;m currently subscribing to MidJourney for imagery. ChatGPT with GPT-4 is not cheap at 20 $US a month, but I get Dall.E 3. Raycast enables GPT-4 for 8 $US on top of my 8 $US, totalling 16 $US monthly, but I don\u0026rsquo;t get Dall.E 3. I prefer MidJourney over Dall.E 3 as it seems to allow more diversity in requests. And there is the ChatGPT client to consider. Raycast is one of them. MacGPT is another one. Even Grammarly and Craft are ChatGPT clients3. I need to continue my analysis. Ideas? Suggestions?\nGo faster, go further, explore better creative ways.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nYes, I\u0026rsquo;m okay with taking advantage of modern tools like AI, just like I was okay with using a spell checker in Microsoft Word 1.0.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nBut you cannot configure Grammarly to use the GPT-4 model.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-03 06:15:52 -0500", "date": "6:15 p.m. on Nov 3, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/03/in-search-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F03%2Fin-search-of.html" }, { "id": 1894, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I wish Inoreader offered some form of article summarization via AI for some of my feeds…\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-02 11:29:39 -0500", "date": "11:29 p.m. on Nov 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/02/i-wish-inoreader.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F02%2Fi-wish-inoreader.html" }, { "id": 1895, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Following the release of Ghost\u0026rsquo;s new \u0026ldquo;Recommendations\u0026rdquo; feature this week, I set up my recommendations list. Some here might recognize themselves! 👀\n", "dateiso": "2023-11-02 06:09:56 -0500", "date": "6:09 p.m. on Nov 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/11/02/following-the-release.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F11%2F02%2Ffollowing-the-release.html" }, { "id": 1896, "type": "post", "title": "Shot on iPhone. Edited on Mac.", "text": "\nThis short behind-the-scenes look at Apple’s “Scary Fast” event is the highlight of a marketing masterpiece.\nFirst, Apple, a highly-respected company for producing top-quality new product announcements, released new iPhones capable of high-quality filming in September. Next, in October, the company made another top-notch production and announced the first M3-based Macs. Not to be missed, and that is the key here, they slip the following at the very last moment of the presentation:\nThis event was shot on iPhone and edited on Mac.\nWhat better way to make a point? Brilliant. Well done, Apple.\nI love my iPhone 15 Pro Max. I feel that the creative world is at my fingertips. I feel empowered.\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-31 20:32:46 -0500", "date": "8:32 p.m. on Oct 31, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/31/shot-on-iphone.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F31%2Fshot-on-iphone.html" }, { "id": 1897, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s probably my best screenshot of yesterday\u0026rsquo;s Scary Fast event. Happy Halloween, everyone! 👻\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-31 06:04:54 -0500", "date": "6:04 p.m. on Oct 31, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/31/its-probably-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F31%2Fits-probably-my.html" }, { "id": 1898, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My timeline right now: cynicism^31.\nUsing 5x less power.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-30 20:08:11 -0500", "date": "8:08 p.m. on Oct 30, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/30/my-timeline-right.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F30%2Fmy-timeline-right.html" }, { "id": 1899, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple to Intel-based Mac users: \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s really the best time to upgrade!\u0026rdquo;1.\nLess subtle message: In case you didn\u0026rsquo;t notice, Apple revolutionized personal computers two years ago. Wake-up!\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-30 19:41:03 -0500", "date": "7:41 p.m. on Oct 30, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/30/apple-to-intelbased.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F30%2Fapple-to-intelbased.html" }, { "id": 1900, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If rumours are to be believed, announcing new M3 MacBook Pro machines tonight in a more \u0026ldquo;general-public-type-of-event\u0026rdquo; is strange. Is an M3 iMac general-public? Targeting a more focused pro-level audience would have been more understandable. There has to be something special to warrant such weird timing, no?1,2 🤔\nI\u0026rsquo;m always suspicious about Apple.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nIs an updated iPad mini enough?\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-30 16:09:04 -0500", "date": "4:09 p.m. on Oct 30, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/30/if-rumours-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F30%2Fif-rumours-are.html" }, { "id": 1901, "type": "post", "title": "Looking for a Useful and Secure Search Engine", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m fed up of Google\u0026rsquo;s search capabilities and business model. Search results quality has gone downhill in recent years. I don\u0026rsquo;t like the visual design of Google\u0026rsquo;s online products in general, especially Google Search results formatting. What search engine are you using? Are you willing to pay for using one, if yes, which one? 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-30 05:38:56 -0500", "date": "5:38 p.m. on Oct 30, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/30/looking-for-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F30%2Flooking-for-a.html" }, { "id": 1902, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So far, I have not felt excited about the upcoming \u0026ldquo;Scary Fast\u0026rdquo; event. Maybe tomorrow morning? I\u0026rsquo;m not thinking of upgrading my Macs. This could explain it.\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-29 19:08:52 -0500", "date": "7:08 p.m. on Oct 29, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/29/so-far-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F29%2Fso-far-i.html" }, { "id": 1903, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "👉🏻 I just finished updating my complete content creator toolset with recent changes in my workflows. Enjoy the ride!\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-29 17:00:26 -0500", "date": "5:00 p.m. on Oct 29, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/29/i-just-finished.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F29%2Fi-just-finished.html" }, { "id": 1904, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Since iOS 17.1 in Music.app, Favourite 🌟 replaced Love ❤️? What if I love a song but it is not one of my favourites? 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-29 15:45:09 -0500", "date": "3:45 p.m. on Oct 29, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/29/since-ios-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F29%2Fsince-ios-in.html" }, { "id": 1905, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I spent some time on Bluesky this morning\u0026hellip; found out that I have 6 invite codes. Is anyone looking for one of them? Let me know.\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-28 07:31:32 -0500", "date": "7:31 p.m. on Oct 28, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/28/i-spent-some.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F28%2Fi-spent-some.html" }, { "id": 1906, "type": "post", "title": "Hello, Again, Mac?", "text": "Surprised by this late-October Apple event (\u0026ldquo;Scary Fast\u0026rdquo;). Could this be about Mac gaming? Is this for the Apple Silicon M3? The timing is weird, in my opinion. What about the iMac with M2 and a new iMac Pro with M3? The latter wouldn\u0026rsquo;t make too much sense as Pros prefer more flexibility than an all-in-one Mac. But using the Mac happy face really points to a Mac-only event. And boy, do I like this animation that I\u0026rsquo;m including here for my own pleasure1.\nI always found that Apple is not using the Mac happy face enough in their marketing. They could have tied this face to Siri too.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-27 06:00:59 -0500", "date": "6:00 p.m. on Oct 27, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/27/hello-again-mac.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F27%2Fhello-again-mac.html" }, { "id": 1907, "type": "post", "title": "Glass Opens Up a Little Bit More", "text": " Glass feels right at home in Capture One. Long adored as one of the best platforms for editing and managing a photography workflow, we\u0026rsquo;re thrilled to include publishing to Glass in Capture One. The final step in the creative process is sharing the work you\u0026rsquo;ve made — making that as easy and frictionless as possible is what we\u0026rsquo;re both all about. Source: Capture One x Glass — Glass\nI like where Glass is going. The choice of Capture One as the first to take advantage of Glass\u0026rsquo;s APIs is telling and sending a message. How long before Publish to Glass support is added to Adobe Lightroom? Months? Years? Ever? How long before we get Fediverse support?\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-27 05:51:37 -0500", "date": "5:51 p.m. on Oct 27, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/27/glass-opens-up.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F27%2Fglass-opens-up.html" }, { "id": 1908, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A recent addition to Mailbrew made me discover Brief.news1. So far, I like what I\u0026rsquo;m seeing. News briefs are generated with AI (with LLM models, I\u0026rsquo;m guessing). It\u0026rsquo;s a great use case of AI, right here. The combination with Mailbrew makes perfect sense, too.\nIt\u0026rsquo;s a free service for now. I wonder what is their business model? 🤔\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-27 05:44:01 -0500", "date": "5:44 p.m. on Oct 27, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/27/a-recent-addition.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F27%2Fa-recent-addition.html" }, { "id": 1909, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Touch down. I’m back from Las Vegas! What a ride. What a city! I’m not loving everything about this place for sure. 😐\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-26 18:20:56 -0500", "date": "6:20 p.m. on Oct 26, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/26/touch-down-im.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F26%2Ftouch-down-im.html" }, { "id": 1910, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today is a reminder that the internet is probably the worst place to have a debate. You would think that Mastodon or Bluesky or Thread are better than X, Y and Z? Nope. Same. Arguing the contrary is shortsighted. Even arguing in a text message conversation is not a good idea.\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-22 13:15:29 -0500", "date": "1:15 p.m. on Oct 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/22/today-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F22%2Ftoday-is-a.html" }, { "id": 1911, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " My 2018 12.9 iPad Pro is old. In technology years, it’s super old. However, it’s my favourite iPad and despite many new versions that Apple has since released, I have not been tempted to replace it. My only issue with this particular iPad is unsurprisingly its battery life. Makes perfect sense. I have used this iPad every day literally for years. In recent months, I could tell it’s not lasting as long. It’s dying within 2 to 3 hours of moderate use. Source: Apple denied my iPad Pro battery replacement\nMy wife\u0026rsquo;s 2018 iPad Pro battery is around 84%. She booked a diagnostic session with an Apple Store technician a few months ago. Same thing: Apple didn\u0026rsquo;t accept to replace the battery unless it was under 80%. Some cynic people could say that Apple wants customers to be frustrated enough with battery life so they upgrade the whole iPad instead of replacing the battery. Personally, this could be an environmental stance, but the fact that it isn\u0026rsquo;t presented this way opens the door for all sorts of theories.\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-22 07:24:15 -0500", "date": "7:24 p.m. on Oct 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/22/my-ipad-pro.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F22%2Fmy-ipad-pro.html" }, { "id": 1912, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This week, because of this business trip to Las Vegas, I\u0026rsquo;m taking a \u0026ldquo;mild\u0026rdquo; break from my creative hobby. No more time tracking, no urge to look for the next opportunity to write and share. I am just putting myself in a different mood for this business trip to be successful and valuable. 😌\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-22 06:53:57 -0500", "date": "6:53 p.m. on Oct 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/22/this-week-because.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F22%2Fthis-week-because.html" }, { "id": 1913, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "And now is the time for another weekly creative summary. This is edition 2023-42, available as a shared document directly from Craft, later by email for the millions of subscribers!1\nWell, maybe not that many. 😜\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-22 06:30:26 -0500", "date": "6:30 p.m. on Oct 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/22/and-now-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F22%2Fand-now-is.html" }, { "id": 1914, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m tempted to only bring my 2018 iPad Pro for this business trip to Las Vegas1. I\u0026rsquo;ll need it to take notes during sessions and do meetings with Teams. That should be enough. I try to travel light2.\nAnd AirPods Pro 2!\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nI will bring the Magic Keyboard for sure.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-21 17:33:26 -0500", "date": "5:33 p.m. on Oct 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/21/im-tempted-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F21%2Fim-tempted-to.html" }, { "id": 1915, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m a subscriber of Inoreader, but I read the feeds using Reeder 90% of the time. I only wish that Reeder could update the engagement stats on Inoreader. Is that even possible from a RSS client perspective? I highly doubt it. You’ve got an opinion on this subject? Let me know.\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-21 16:10:28 -0500", "date": "4:10 p.m. on Oct 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/21/im-a-subscriber.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F21%2Fim-a-subscriber.html" }, { "id": 1916, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple’s use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 17 by Timac:\nObjective-C is still at the core of iOS and is used directly or indirectly by most apps The adoption of Swift and SwiftUI continues to grow rapidly The share of Objective-C, C and C++ continues to decrease\nIt\u0026rsquo;s a must-read for the curious around here.\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-21 15:50:26 -0500", "date": "3:50 p.m. on Oct 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/21/apples-use-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F21%2Fapples-use-of.html" }, { "id": 1917, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If you are like me, with macOS Sonoma, you like widgets on the Mac desktop. The Mac experience can become quite busy with many widgets. This is why, more than ever, I depend on HazeOver to reduce the distraction caused by widgets1,2.\nI set it to 50%. Yes, I set the widgets to be in monochrome when the focus isn\u0026rsquo;t the desktop.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nI know, this sounds like an ad. 😜\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-21 15:36:27 -0500", "date": "3:36 p.m. on Oct 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/21/if-you-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F21%2Fif-you-are.html" }, { "id": 1918, "type": "post", "title": "Some Must-Needed Changes to My (Too Many) About Pages", "text": "Today, I\u0026rsquo;m removing my digital garden content. The most valuable parts were moved to my About Page, and the rest has been dropped. Both of these pages are created and maintained in Craft. I like the idea of Digital Gardens, but it\u0026rsquo;s not practical for me to maintain on top of this blog and my other websites. Again, it\u0026rsquo;s time to focus.\nNext up, should I get rid of my Linktr.ee page?1,2 🤔 And, why does my Micro.blog about page is empty? 🤨\nI know what you think. I have probably way too many websites. And I would respond: yeah, you are right.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nLinktr.ee offers great design tools and useful analytics. I\u0026rsquo;m not ready to drop those.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-21 10:19:39 -0500", "date": "10:19 p.m. on Oct 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/21/some-mustneeded-changes.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F21%2Fsome-mustneeded-changes.html" }, { "id": 1919, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Why am I getting this on YouTube to watch one of my own videos? I’m using Safari and tried disabling ad blocker, NextDNS, StopTheMadness. Works fine on Firefox. 🤔 Help!\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-21 07:45:24 -0500", "date": "7:45 p.m. on Oct 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/21/why-am-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F21%2Fwhy-am-i.html" }, { "id": 1920, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Getting mentally ready for a business trip to Las Vegas next week. I\u0026rsquo;ll try to put my 15 Pro Max to the test with night photography🌃. It\u0026rsquo;s been three years since the last travel, thanks to COVID. Can\u0026rsquo;t wait to see this city where everything happening in Las Vegas stays there. It better be1.\nI don\u0026rsquo;t play slot machines. I hate that.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-20 15:49:44 -0500", "date": "3:49 p.m. on Oct 20, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/20/getting-mentally-ready.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F20%2Fgetting-mentally-ready.html" }, { "id": 1921, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My 2018 iPad Pro is starting to show its age. iPadOS 17 might be the last enjoyable version on this device. Stage Manager is disabled. No external monitors support. Great external monitor with my Mac mini, though. 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-19 17:50:57 -0500", "date": "5:50 p.m. on Oct 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/19/my-ipad-pro.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F19%2Fmy-ipad-pro.html" }, { "id": 1922, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For some reason, I feel the urge to try iA Writer. I must be bored\u0026hellip;1\nI\u0026rsquo;m a satisfied Ulysses user. But, Ulysses feels busier than iA Writer, from what I can see.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-19 11:40:42 -0500", "date": "11:40 p.m. on Oct 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/19/for-some-reason.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F19%2Ffor-some-reason.html" }, { "id": 1923, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "There is a Midjourney plugin for Raycast\u0026hellip; but man this is hard to configure and make it working. Moving on for now.\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-19 07:44:29 -0500", "date": "7:44 p.m. on Oct 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/19/there-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F19%2Fthere-is-a.html" }, { "id": 1924, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For those on Craft, this is my release analysis for v2.5.18 that just came out.\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-19 07:43:02 -0500", "date": "7:43 p.m. on Oct 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/19/for-those-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F19%2Ffor-those-on.html" }, { "id": 1925, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Remember when it was simple to buy an iPad? Now it is getting harder to buy an Apple Pencil, too.\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-18 14:40:59 -0500", "date": "2:40 p.m. on Oct 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/18/remember-when-it.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F18%2Fremember-when-it.html" }, { "id": 1926, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Does a foldable iPad = Apple’s Knowledge Navigator? 🤨🤔\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-18 12:58:18 -0500", "date": "12:58 p.m. on Oct 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/18/does-a-foldable.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F18%2Fdoes-a-foldable.html" }, { "id": 1927, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My favorite Apple Watch face of all time.\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-17 13:56:09 -0500", "date": "1:56 p.m. on Oct 17, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/17/my-favorite-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F17%2Fmy-favorite-apple.html" }, { "id": 1928, "type": "post", "title": "404 - Page Not Found", "text": "I have an issue with Short.io. I want to contact their support to find a solution to something that partially works, but no contact information is available in the /Support section. The /Blog section shows a small \u0026ldquo;Contact Us\u0026rdquo; button leading to a page not found error. There is no mail address either. They ask for $ 250 / year for a \u0026ldquo;Personal\u0026rdquo; subscription plan. How can I trust them if I cannot contact them for support?1🤔\nThe problem: not all links are leading to the destination page under the go.numericcitizen.me domain name. Why? This used to work for all links, but it\u0026rsquo;s no longer true. Why? Exhibit one: this link works. This one won\u0026rsquo;t.\nInstead of 404 - Page Not Found, this should be 404 - Support Not Available 😔\nUpdate: I got my answer after chatting with tech support through their chatbox on their website, which wasn\u0026rsquo;t initially showing because of content blocking in Safari. 🤦🏻‍♂️ All is fine now.\nTheir Twitter account is a ghost town; the last tweet was posted in 2021.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-16 06:37:27 -0500", "date": "6:37 p.m. on Oct 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/16/page-not-found.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F16%2Fpage-not-found.html" }, { "id": 1929, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If Apple is indeed close to releasing the third-generation Apple Pencil with a magnetic pencil tip, I can see that coming with some new trick, enabled with iPadOS 17.1, probably to be launched before October 21st1. What else could this new pencil do? Include an electronic erasure on the other end of the pencil? 👀\nThe date was apparently leaked by a French government agency about the reduction of radiation from the iPhone 12, which Apple would indeed fix no later than October 21st.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-15 16:39:46 -0500", "date": "4:39 p.m. on Oct 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/15/if-apple-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F15%2Fif-apple-is.html" }, { "id": 1930, "type": "post", "title": "A Definitive Solution to a Simple Problem", "text": "I finally found the right setup to definitively fix my audio record quality. The problem triggering this endless trial-and-error journey is that the Blue Yeti microphone can be too sensitive and pick up too much background noise1. On paper, the macOS Voice Isolation recording should fix this. However, ScreenFlow 10.0.9 has issues with audio recording from a USB microphone while Voice Isolation is active2.\nThe solution? Use Audio Highjack3 to record from the USB microphone with Voice Isolation active and output to the ScreenFlow audio capture driver. When recording, I start the Audio Hijack session, then switch to ScreenFlow and hit record. Voilà. I do use Adobe Podcast Audio Enhancer too. The results are quite good! You can hear it in my latest podcast episode. A screenshot of my Audio Hijack workflow is included so you can look at it4.\nPeople in the house don\u0026rsquo;t always pay attention when I\u0026rsquo;m recording my stuff. We could hear them quite easily.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nThe sound is highly distorted. It\u0026rsquo;s a known issue, apparently.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nAudio Hijack is a superb piece of software if you ask me.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nMore tiles are included so I can make sure there are no lingering background noises after Voice Isolation makes its magic.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-15 16:33:58 -0500", "date": "4:33 p.m. on Oct 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/15/a-definitive-solution.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F15%2Fa-definitive-solution.html" }, { "id": 1931, "type": "post", "title": "Episode 05 — Sometimes It’s Better to Say No", "text": "The timing was right, and the target was well-defined, but the potential traction was far from guaranteed. Would this project be worth all the effort? Someone said: for every yes, there are a thousand no. After many weeks of thought and pondering, I decided against doing a unique project.\nLink: The Apple Rumors Hub\nTranscript\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-15 15:55:55 -0500", "date": "3:55 p.m. on Oct 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/15/episode-sometimes-its.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F15%2Fepisode-sometimes-its.html" }, { "id": 1932, "type": "transcript", "title": "Episode 05 — Sometimes It’s Better to Say No", "text": "Hi, this is Numeric Citizen.\nYou are listening to Thoughts and Tribulations of a Composite Creator.\nThis is episode number five, Sometime It\u0026rsquo;s Better to Say No.\nThis year, it\u0026rsquo;s the year of focusing on the right activity, on the right creative project.\nWhen Apple announced the Apple Vision Pro in June, I was thinking about creating a new website which would collect all the information related to the headset.\nI thought it was a great timing for starting this collection and organizing the information and tidbits that I would gather from the web, from YouTube, from articles, reviews, and things like that.\nThe reason I wanted to do that is to be able to build a collection that, over time, people would come over and get all the information they can have on the Apple Vision Pro.\nI did a similar project, which I\u0026rsquo;m currently still updating, which is called the Apple Rumors Hub.\nIt takes not too much time to build, but I do have some activities that I need to constantly do in order to keep the information current on this website.\nThis is a website that is built using craft, and I would do the same thing for the Apple Vision Pro Hub, but I\u0026rsquo;ve been thinking about if this is worth my time, my effort, and if I would better be off to spend my time on more projects that are gaining more traction instead of working on that, because the Apple Rumors Hub is not getting a lot of visitors.\nIt\u0026rsquo;s very, very quiet, and I\u0026rsquo;m wondering if this would be the same with this Apple Vision Pro Hub website.\nI decided recently, after much thinking, that it wasn\u0026rsquo;t worth the trouble to do this project, so the Apple Rumors Hub is going to stay, but the Apple Vision Pro website won\u0026rsquo;t come to life.\nI\u0026rsquo;m pretty satisfied with this decision because I really want to manage how I\u0026rsquo;m spending time on my different projects.\nThis is a decision that has been long in the making, but now I\u0026rsquo;m here, and I wanted to share with you, if you are a creator, if you are a writer, or any type of creators, sometimes it\u0026rsquo;s better just to say no so you can focus on the right things for the right time.\nThanks for listening to this very short episode of this podcast.\nI hope you enjoyed these thoughts, and I hope to see you for the next episode.\nThank you for listening, and see you guys for another one.\nBye.\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-15 15:55:55 -0500", "date": "3:55 p.m. on Oct 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/transcripts/2023/10/15/573.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2Ftranscripts%2F2023%2F10%2F15%2F573.html" }, { "id": 1933, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Who’s reading my weekly creative summary? How could I improve it?\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-15 12:52:11 -0500", "date": "12:52 p.m. on Oct 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/15/whos-reading-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F15%2Fwhos-reading-my.html" }, { "id": 1934, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apparently, Apple is working on a way to upgrade iOS on iPhone still in their box at the Apple Store. This would prevent issues where there is a bug in the final release of iOS that could hinder the upgrade experience of new buyers. I\u0026rsquo;m still wondering how the GM of iOS is installed at the factory and how long it takes to be installed. Is the USB-C port helping make the operation faster? 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-15 10:54:48 -0500", "date": "10:54 p.m. on Oct 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/15/apparently-apple-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F15%2Fapparently-apple-is.html" }, { "id": 1935, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s Sunday, it\u0026rsquo;s the time of the week for another creative summary. Here\u0026rsquo;s another edition of my weekly creative summary directly from my Craft workspace. It\u0026rsquo;s the seventh edition already! 😅 The email version is coming up later today for my subscribers!\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-15 08:14:46 -0500", "date": "8:14 p.m. on Oct 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/15/its-sunday-its.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F15%2Fits-sunday-its.html" }, { "id": 1936, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m getting an issue with Short.io where domain name cloaking is no longer available. It used to be just fine. Something has changed recently. To get it back, I have to subscribe to the personal plan costing 250$. Looking for alternatives. Cc @Mtt who uses the same setup as mine.\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-14 13:53:40 -0500", "date": "1:53 p.m. on Oct 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/14/im-getting-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F14%2Fim-getting-an.html" }, { "id": 1937, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Discovery of the day: I can use Audio Hijack with ScreenFlow to record the Mac audio from the Finch Pixel USB-C1,2 mic and the Mac screen. Why use Audio Hijack? Well, so that it can use the macOS Voice Isolation feature and output the results to the Mac audio, which the special audio driver of ScreenFlow, in turn, picks up. Without this, ScreenFlow 10.0.9, with direct voice isolation, creates distorted sound.\nWith the Lightning version, I had no issues with the iPhone 13 Pro, macOS Voice Isolation and Screenflow. The problems come from using USB (A or C) microphone devices. It\u0026rsquo;s a known issue, apparently—no fix in sight.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nI spent way too much time and money trying to fix the sound quality for my recordings.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-13 13:51:50 -0500", "date": "1:51 p.m. on Oct 13, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/13/discovery-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F13%2Fdiscovery-of-the.html" }, { "id": 1938, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I went to the Apple Store yesterday. Surprisingly, in the front of the store only has letters printed on the front windows. Pretty lame. I spent some time looking at other shades for the 15 Pro line. The natural titanium definitively reminds me of the iPhone 4 contour design, which I love very much. I\u0026rsquo;m still happy with my black iPhone 15 Pro Max, but\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-13 07:58:17 -0500", "date": "7:58 p.m. on Oct 13, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/13/i-went-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F13%2Fi-went-to.html" }, { "id": 1939, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "hey, bloggers and writers on WordPress1, enable the Fediverse plugin and share your blog “handle” with the world so we can follow you right from here! Can’t wait!\nI left WordPress.com a while back, but I’m happy to see them adopt Fediverse!\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-12 14:40:24 -0500", "date": "2:40 p.m. on Oct 12, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/12/hey-bloggers-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F12%2Fhey-bloggers-and.html" }, { "id": 1940, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I just received my Nomad leather case for my iPhone 15 Pro Max. Best case I ever used on an iPhone. Better than Apple\u0026rsquo;s leather case. It complements the Peak Design one for use with my bike. Another great case, btw. Not cheap but well worth it. 👌🏻\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-11 17:48:47 -0500", "date": "5:48 p.m. on Oct 11, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/11/i-just-received.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F11%2Fi-just-received.html" }, { "id": 1941, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thought of the day: read-later services or applications are a consequence of facing or having too much content available and a lack of time for consuming that content in a timely matter. ☝🏻\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-10 20:38:51 -0500", "date": "8:38 p.m. on Oct 10, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/10/thought-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F10%2Fthought-of-the.html" }, { "id": 1942, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I love Omnivore more and more. There, I said it.☝🏻\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-10 20:31:07 -0500", "date": "8:31 p.m. on Oct 10, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/10/i-love-omnivore.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F10%2Fi-love-omnivore.html" }, { "id": 1943, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sometimes, a website doesn\u0026rsquo;t work well (or at all), and the problem is that my NextDNS client blocks some traffic. When that happens, I turn it off\u0026hellip; and forget about it, only to find out a few days later that I forgot to reenable it. This makes me angry—all the time.\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-10 18:53:40 -0500", "date": "6:53 p.m. on Oct 10, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/10/sometimes-a-website.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F10%2Fsometimes-a-website.html" }, { "id": 1944, "type": "post", "title": "Diverted Attention", "text": "With recent events in Israel, we no longer hear about the conflict in Ukraine. I understand this could pose a problem for this conflict because people’s attention is severely diverted. Support for Ukraine was already waning before the attacks in Israel. Military aid packages are harder to get. Any interruption in weapons could destroy any small advances by the Ukrainian army. There is no magic here, to fully reverse the dynamic in Ukraine, look no further than into Israel’s army reaction to the Hammas. The West needs to sharply increase their support, not the opposite, in order to kick the Russians out of Ukraine.\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-10 06:12:16 -0500", "date": "6:12 p.m. on Oct 10, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/10/diverted-attention.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F10%2Fdiverted-attention.html" }, { "id": 1945, "type": "post", "title": "Another 9-11", "text": "Can we say that Israel just got their 9-11? It all seems they didn’t see that one coming… it’s such a familiar situation, but in a quite different context… even Israel’s reaction to these events is similar to the American’s back then… and you know what? I’m afraid of what is coming ahead.\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-09 19:04:47 -0500", "date": "7:04 p.m. on Oct 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/09/another.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F09%2Fanother.html" }, { "id": 1946, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "👉🏻 What an entertaining story by @basicappleguy about Apple\u0026rsquo;s controversial cases, with beautiful imagery, as always. I do have a case for one of my AitTag. 😳\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-09 08:07:02 -0500", "date": "8:07 p.m. on Oct 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/09/what-an-entertaining.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F09%2Fwhat-an-entertaining.html" }, { "id": 1947, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Who remembers this? Countless moments were spent looking at this back in 1984 and 1985. It\u0026rsquo;s one of Apple\u0026rsquo;s best and most timeless designs, even if it\u0026rsquo;s beige1.\nTaken out of a copy of an Apple Dealer Guide circa 1985.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-08 09:25:23 -0500", "date": "9:25 p.m. on Oct 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/08/who-remembers-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F08%2Fwho-remembers-this.html" }, { "id": 1948, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Another creative week is mostly completed, it\u0026rsquo;s time for a new edition of the Weekly Creative Summary, now available as a Craft shared document, later by email for my subscribers! Buckle up! 😊\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-08 07:01:04 -0500", "date": "7:01 p.m. on Oct 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/08/another-creative-week.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F08%2Fanother-creative-week.html" }, { "id": 1949, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m still in my early phase with my iPhone 15 Pro Max 📸📱. Taking photos with this phone offers more possibilities, asking for more thoughts while shooting a scene. Am I the only one who wished Apple had created a profiling questionnaire during the iPhone setup, asking questions to determine our general experience level with photography? Depending on our answers, parameters would be set accordingly. ☝🏻\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-07 19:18:23 -0500", "date": "7:18 p.m. on Oct 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/07/im-still-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F07%2Fim-still-in.html" }, { "id": 1950, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I made discoveries today while doing some much-needed cleanup in my home office. Here, this is what could be the first Apple dongle1. More to come soon\u0026hellip; 👀\nThis box was an AppleTalk network junction box. The smaller beige piece was for connecting two AppleTalk cables.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-07 15:41:59 -0500", "date": "3:41 p.m. on Oct 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/07/i-made-discoveries.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F07%2Fi-made-discoveries.html" }, { "id": 1951, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Ghost offers a new default theme: Source. 👀 And I kind of digg it a lot! Will have to investigate further this weekend.\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-06 13:07:36 -0500", "date": "1:07 p.m. on Oct 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/06/ghost-offers-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F06%2Fghost-offers-a.html" }, { "id": 1952, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The \u0026ldquo;new\u0026rdquo; Microsoft Teams is now available on Mac. Gosh, that is not ready for prime time, at least on macOS Sonoma. Going back to the Classic version.\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-06 07:59:15 -0500", "date": "7:59 p.m. on Oct 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/06/the-new-microsoft.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F06%2Fthe-new-microsoft.html" }, { "id": 1953, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Yesterday at work, I was directed to listen to a podcast hosted on Podbean. I remembered that in 2019 I was sharing my podcast episodes over there, too, in addition to Apple\u0026rsquo;s Podcasts directory1. I spent some time this morning to refresh my setup. Boy, this service is \u0026ldquo;dull\u0026rdquo; to use. I wonder if it really makes a difference to post my content there.\nIn 2019, I experimented with podcasting but in French. It wasn\u0026rsquo;t very successful.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-06 06:36:43 -0500", "date": "6:36 p.m. on Oct 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/06/yesterday-at-work.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F06%2Fyesterday-at-work.html" }, { "id": 1954, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m going to the office by bike today. 🚴🏻‍♂️ With this splendid weather1, probably the last such beautiful and warm day of this fall, I\u0026rsquo;m really looking forward to this half-hour ride downtown Montreal.\nWe\u0026rsquo;ve been in a very long streak of warm and sunny weather, something like 10 days of sunshine.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-05 06:21:37 -0500", "date": "6:21 p.m. on Oct 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/05/im-going-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F05%2Fim-going-to.html" }, { "id": 1955, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "👉🏻 I\u0026rsquo;m ready to share my first digital product: a Craft template to support the process of research and writing on a specific subject. See the introduction post on Gumroad. Special introductory price: 5$ or about the price of a latte at Starbucks. Think about it! 🤣\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-04 19:16:27 -0500", "date": "7:16 p.m. on Oct 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/04/im-ready-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F04%2Fim-ready-to.html" }, { "id": 1956, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I spent the early morning on Gumroad to set up something\u0026hellip; 👀\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-04 06:37:32 -0500", "date": "6:37 p.m. on Oct 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/04/i-spent-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F04%2Fi-spent-the.html" }, { "id": 1957, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Got an email this morning from Mailbrew about an issue (resolved since then) of logging into the service. So, there is life, apparently! They said they have a \u0026ldquo;team\u0026rdquo; working on the next features\u0026hellip; 🤔 I would love to see this service thrive instead of being an abandonware. 🙏🏻\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-03 11:57:29 -0500", "date": "11:57 p.m. on Oct 3, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/03/got-an-email.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F03%2Fgot-an-email.html" }, { "id": 1958, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I just realized the upcoming weekend is a long one. I should have enough free time to produce another podcast! And a YouTube video about my Craft super-template for research and writing.\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-03 06:23:06 -0500", "date": "6:23 p.m. on Oct 3, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/03/i-just-realized.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F03%2Fi-just-realized.html" }, { "id": 1959, "type": "post", "title": "My (Really) Short Experience With a RODE NT-USB Microphone", "text": "Objective: find a replacement for my lightning-based Finch Lavalier microphone1. Did my research for a USB-C microphone. RODE microphones came up quite often. They received good reviews. I ordered the NT-USB model. It was hard to see which type of USB port it came with—I got the microphone2. It comes with USB-A. Shit. It was tested on my Mac mini. Background noises are too easily picked up. Screenflow cannot use voice isolation3. It was tested on my iPhone 15 Pro Max with a USB-A to USB-C adaptor and Ferrite. Voice isolation isn’t possible, either. Not good. I tried to use the RODE companion app for Mac so I could adjust the microphone operating parameters. I downloaded and installed it but didn’t recognize the microphone when plugged in. Not good. It’s an expansive microphone, barely better than my Blue Yeti. Not good. After testing Screenflow, my iPhone connected via USB-C to my Mac, and with voice isolation activated once again4, I decided to return the product. It’s way better, close to what I had with my Finch microphone. Problem solved.\nNo longer works with my iPhone 15 Pro Max USB-C port.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nI couldn’t confirm it from the spec sheet on Amazon nor could I on the RODE website.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nI opened a support case with Telestream. It’s a known issue, still being investigated.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nThis configuration works, but not with a USB-C microphone only. It seems the iPhone with voice isolation one is the only configuration that works with Screenflow. Really strange.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-02 18:46:36 -0500", "date": "6:46 p.m. on Oct 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/02/my-really-short.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F02%2Fmy-really-short.html" }, { "id": 1960, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s Sunday, and it\u0026rsquo;s time for the new edition of my weekly creative summary, available now directly from Craft, later by email, for those who subscribe. Enjoy the ride.\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-01 18:17:45 -0500", "date": "6:17 p.m. on Oct 1, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/01/its-sunday-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F01%2Fits-sunday-and.html" }, { "id": 1961, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wish of the day: I would love to have a canonical URL pointing to my published newsletters hosted on Micro.blog so I could refer to them in other blog posts. cc @manton 🙏🏻\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-01 09:00:06 -0500", "date": "9:00 p.m. on Oct 1, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/01/wish-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F01%2Fwish-of-the.html" }, { "id": 1962, "type": "post", "title": "Announcing \"My Reading Workflow Explained\"", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m finally publishing the details surrounding my reading workflow. It\u0026rsquo;s been long in the making. More than a year. The reason? Because this workflow was full of moving parts. One example: is the read-later service. First, it was Pocket, then came Matter, Readwise, to finally settle on Omnivore. All the details are here on the Numeric Citizen I/O metablog. Feel free to comment or ask questions! 😊\n", "dateiso": "2023-10-01 06:46:30 -0500", "date": "6:46 p.m. on Oct 1, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/10/01/announcing-my-reading.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F10%2F01%2Fannouncing-my-reading.html" }, { "id": 1963, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Why doesn\u0026rsquo;t the \u0026ldquo;Switch To Profile\u0026rdquo; menu item always appear in Safari 17.0? I can\u0026rsquo;t understand what triggers this option to show up. Is this a bug?\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-30 12:43:52 -0500", "date": "12:43 p.m. on Sep 30, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/30/why-doesnt-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F30%2Fwhy-doesnt-the.html" }, { "id": 1964, "type": "post", "title": "Peak Design Case Issue With iPhone 15 Pro Action Button", "text": "For those looking to buy a Peak Design case for the iPhone 15 Pro Max, just like I did. I love the case but\u0026hellip; here\u0026rsquo;s the kicker; the action button is really hard to press with this case, the cutout should have a button instead which would press the action button, just like for the other buttons integrated into the case. They plan to fix this. Check out this video to learn more.\nUpdate: The way the company is handling this issue is a prime example of how customer satisfaction should be handled. Bravo.\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-30 09:22:34 -0500", "date": "9:22 p.m. on Sep 30, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/30/peak-design-case.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F30%2Fpeak-design-case.html" }, { "id": 1965, "type": "post", "title": "What a Strange iCloud Drive Bug!", "text": "I have a folder named \u0026ldquo;Noto\u0026rdquo; in my iCloud Drive folder that keeps populating empty folders inside of it, on all my devices. Noto is a note-taking app that I tried in Feb. 2020. Today, I found out that I had more than 30K empty folders sitting there. I deleted the folders from my Mac mini, and it came back. Same with the MacBook Air. It came back. I visited all my devices to see if Noto was still installed. Nope. I reinstalled it on the iPad to see if it would populate something. Nope. I went on Files.app on the iPad to delete the root folder. Still re-appearing. On all my devices, I reinstalled Noto, to disable iCloud sync. I visited the iCloud storage section within Settings on the iPhone. The Noto folder isn\u0026rsquo;t there. But, on the iPad, it was there. I deleted the item from iCloud storage management. Yet, the folder keeps coming back. What a strange bug. Help.\nUpdate: the issue went away after rebooting my M2 MacBook Air to fix an issue with Screenflow screen recording permission request. I went back to the iCloud Drive folder and sure enough, the Noto folder didn\u0026rsquo;t come back. I guess the issue is resolved.\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-29 15:28:24 -0500", "date": "3:28 p.m. on Sep 29, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/29/what-a-strange.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F29%2Fwhat-a-strange.html" }, { "id": 1966, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently testing Safari profiles. I kind of like it so far. Still exploring. Currently devising work from personal life. I will probably create one for my YouTube video recording sessions too. Are you using Safari profiles? Are you using Safari at all, I might ask?\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-29 09:22:04 -0500", "date": "9:22 p.m. on Sep 29, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/29/currently-testing-safari.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F29%2Fcurrently-testing-safari.html" }, { "id": 1967, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been working on my reading workflow for many months. I\u0026rsquo;m very close to publishing an article about it. While waiting for it, along the way, I created a comparison of the following read-later services:\nMatter Pocket Raindrop.io Readwise Reader Omnivore You can download it here: https://go.numericcitizen.me/pFscoL0x. Any comments, suggestions?\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-29 06:06:11 -0500", "date": "6:06 p.m. on Sep 29, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/29/ive-been-working.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F29%2Five-been-working.html" }, { "id": 1968, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When adding widgets on macOS Sonoma, there should be a visual cue telling me which widgets are coming from the iPhone vs from installed apps on my Mac. This screenshot shows two Dayone instances, and Fitness Totals is on my iPhone.☝🏻\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-29 05:30:46 -0500", "date": "5:30 p.m. on Sep 29, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/29/when-adding-widgets.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F29%2Fwhen-adding-widgets.html" }, { "id": 1969, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Rewind is nice, but this is such a resource hog. Battery life is miserable since I run this thing on my MacBook Air. Is it worth it, just for a few possible queries a month?1\nI fail to see more than 2-3 use cases so far.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-28 20:57:55 -0500", "date": "8:57 p.m. on Sep 28, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/28/rewind-is-nice.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F28%2Frewind-is-nice.html" }, { "id": 1970, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What happens when you run Micro.blog.app and the web app side by side? Here is a peek at Activity Monitor on the memory consumption tab. There\u0026rsquo;s the native app. Fine. But, for each web app, Sonoma seems to spin three other processes (Graphics, Networking, and some root process using the web app URL name). Fascinating. Native apps don\u0026rsquo;t consume as much memory.\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-28 20:45:15 -0500", "date": "8:45 p.m. on Sep 28, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/28/what-happens-when.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F28%2Fwhat-happens-when.html" }, { "id": 1971, "type": "post", "title": "Already at Four Web Apps in My Dock, and You?", "text": "So far, I have created four web apps on my Dock in Sonoma: Micro.blog1, Pixelfed2, Tinylytics, and Omnivore. I like this a lot3. For Omnivore, the web app provides a better experience than the \u0026ldquo;native\u0026rdquo; app, which is probably not really native4. What other apps could I set in my Dock now?🤔\nFor Micro.blog, it doesn\u0026rsquo;t make too much sense as there is a native Mac app already.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nIt\u0026rsquo;s better than having a Safari tab for that. It\u0026rsquo;s fast and feels native.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nI know, it\u0026rsquo;s already possible on Windows.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nIt feels like an iPad app on the Mac.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-28 20:21:49 -0500", "date": "8:21 p.m. on Sep 28, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/28/already-at-four.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F28%2Falready-at-four.html" }, { "id": 1972, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Testing a post from Micro.blog as a web app 1 running on macOS Sonoma.\nIs this how we should call a web page saved in the macOS Dock?\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-28 20:00:45 -0500", "date": "8:00 p.m. on Sep 28, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/28/testing-a-post.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F28%2Ftesting-a-post.html" }, { "id": 1973, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m weak. 🤦🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-28 14:48:16 -0500", "date": "2:48 p.m. on Sep 28, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/28/im-weak.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F28%2Fim-weak.html" }, { "id": 1974, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "FineWoven case-gate. Titanium-scratch-gate. Overheating-gate. What\u0026rsquo;s next for the iPhone 15 Pro?1\nso far, no issue with the Max!\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-28 12:20:22 -0500", "date": "12:20 p.m. on Sep 28, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/28/finewoven-casegate-titaniumscratchgate.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F28%2Ffinewoven-casegate-titaniumscratchgate.html" }, { "id": 1975, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My iPhone 15 Pro Max is not overheating. But I find those reports, as reported here, a bit worrying. Could Apple fix or mitigate these occurrences with a software update or a new configuration toggle in the Settings.app? Did you experience overheating issues?\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-28 06:12:36 -0500", "date": "6:12 p.m. on Sep 28, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/28/my-iphone-pro.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F28%2Fmy-iphone-pro.html" }, { "id": 1976, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "💡Thought of the day: I don’t have a thing like a second brain 🧠 using a dedicated app. It’s a popular concept nowadays to build a second brain utilizing an app like Craft, Obsidian or anything else. I don’t believe in the idea of having a second brain. But let’s suppose I believed in this concept; I would argue that my second brain is inside my MacBook Air, spread in different apps, fulfilling a specific task in supporting this idea of the second brain. ☝🏻\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-27 05:51:56 -0500", "date": "5:51 p.m. on Sep 27, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/27/thought-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F27%2Fthought-of-the.html" }, { "id": 1977, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The Mac is the last platform to get my trust for an upgrade of macOS. I do iPhone and iPad in a heartbeat, but the Mac, no. I wait a few weeks so that my must-have apps receive updates. I don\u0026rsquo;t want to ruin anything by upgrading to Sonoma so soon. I\u0026rsquo;ll probably wait until November.\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-26 20:59:31 -0500", "date": "8:59 p.m. on Sep 26, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/26/the-mac-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F26%2Fthe-mac-is.html" }, { "id": 1978, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve recently been using Apple\u0026rsquo;s Freeform for different articles I\u0026rsquo;m working on. I\u0026rsquo;m really falling in love with this app. It\u0026rsquo;s a sleeper hit for me. Its apparent simplicity shouldn\u0026rsquo;t put you off. Freeform is capable of supporting the creation of rather sophisticated diagrams. I really feel Apple\u0026rsquo;s designers brought all their craftsmanship and attention to detail here. Everything feels in the right place.\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-26 06:13:27 -0500", "date": "6:13 p.m. on Sep 26, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/26/ive-recently-been.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F26%2Five-recently-been.html" }, { "id": 1979, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Why do I always feel nervous when changing my Apple ID password? 😨\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-25 12:21:26 -0500", "date": "12:21 p.m. on Sep 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/25/why-do-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F25%2Fwhy-do-i.html" }, { "id": 1980, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I read in recent days that the Craft team is supposedly very interested and invested in AI for Craft. I\u0026rsquo;m not sure if this is good news. Notes and document-writing apps should focus on the core experience and capabilities to support the writing process. Today, I don\u0026rsquo;t see AI at the core for most people (yet). AI should be a complementary feature. There are so many things to be improves and fixed in Craft; I\u0026rsquo;m afraid they spend too much time on the AI stuff while neglecting the bugs and highly requested basic features, again.😔\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-25 12:01:58 -0500", "date": "12:01 p.m. on Sep 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/25/i-read-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F25%2Fi-read-in.html" }, { "id": 1981, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One of the most confusing parts of iOS and iPadOS UI: configuring the share sheet options. The ⊕ sign and the toggle meaning are utterly confusing each time I visit this portion of the UI. The fact that some non-favourite items can be toggled on or off is probably part of the explanation for my confusion. I\u0026rsquo;m confused about my confusion. I must be getting old. 👴🏻\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-25 06:20:39 -0500", "date": "6:20 p.m. on Sep 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/25/one-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F25%2Fone-of-the.html" }, { "id": 1982, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The usefulness of ChatGPT for me is as a replacement for using Google when I have to learn something new (eg an API). Formerly, I would have Googled, and then visited a bunch of results, and learnt a little on each page until I had built up an answer for myself. I see ChatGPT as a Google mashup. It takes those Google results, and mixes them up to give me a more direct answer to my question. Previously, my own brain would have to do that mashup.\nDrew McCormack https://mastodon.cloud/@drewmccormack/111124631941983536\rI do exactly the same but for a subject that I don\u0026rsquo;t really know. I\u0026rsquo;m curious to know if Google\u0026rsquo;s traffic is affected by this change of behaviour.\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-25 06:15:54 -0500", "date": "6:15 p.m. on Sep 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/25/the-usefulness-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F25%2Fthe-usefulness-of.html" }, { "id": 1983, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Shot on iPhone 15 Pro Max with the telephoto lens, at 25x digital zoom. The best I could do with a lot of post-processing tweaks (tweaked the saturation, highlight, contrast, sharpening, noise reduction, etc.) 😅\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-24 18:31:47 -0500", "date": "6:31 p.m. on Sep 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/24/shot-on-iphone.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F24%2Fshot-on-iphone.html" }, { "id": 1984, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I finally found THE use case for the Action Button: running a shortcut1 to 1) take a screen capture and 2) run the Apple Frame shortcut. It\u0026rsquo;s super handy. The camera already has a button on the screen that is easier to grab when I want to take a picture.\nHaptly named \u0026ldquo;Action Button\u0026rdquo;.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-24 16:28:19 -0500", "date": "4:28 p.m. on Sep 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/24/i-finally-found.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F24%2Fi-finally-found.html" }, { "id": 1985, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I am trying to figure out a new sound recording setup using voice isolation with my iPhone 15 Pro Max connected to my Mac mini with USB-C1. Tell me what you think. Sample here.\nMy Finch Lavalier microphone with Lightning connector is now useless.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-24 14:13:47 -0500", "date": "2:13 p.m. on Sep 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/24/i-am-trying.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F24%2Fi-am-trying.html" }, { "id": 1986, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here is my weekly creative summary newsletter for 2023/38, in Craft format. Website and newsletter coming up soon. 😅👨🏻‍💻\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-24 13:07:21 -0500", "date": "1:07 p.m. on Sep 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/24/here-is-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F24%2Fhere-is-my.html" }, { "id": 1987, "type": "post", "title": "My Interview with Manton Reece of Micro.blog", "text": "I had the chance to spend some time with Manton Reece and ask him a few questions about Montreal’s poutine, Apple’s power and the App Store, Twitter1 and the future of Micro.blog. I hope you enjoy the interview as much as I did doing it.😊\nSubscribe Signup to receive monthly digest email on the first day of the month in your inbox. Optionally, you can alsosubscribe via RSS.\nI refuse to name this otherwise.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-24 06:00:05 -0500", "date": "6:00 p.m. on Sep 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/24/my-interview-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F24%2Fmy-interview-with.html" }, { "id": 1988, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The first few iPhone 15 Pro Max images are making their way onto Glass. Mine included. 👈🏻\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-23 19:35:45 -0500", "date": "7:35 p.m. on Sep 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/23/the-first-few.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F23%2Fthe-first-few.html" }, { "id": 1989, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Testing iPhone 15 Pro Max telephoto lens. No processing. Shot in HEIF.\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-23 13:46:01 -0500", "date": "1:46 p.m. on Sep 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/23/testing-iphone-pro.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F23%2Ftesting-iphone-pro.html" }, { "id": 1990, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "😏 I\u0026rsquo;m about to begin something special that I can\u0026rsquo;t wait to share with you before the end of the week-end. I hope everything works fine1. 👀\nWish me luck. Or, wish \u0026ldquo;us\u0026rdquo; look would be more appropriate!\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-23 08:36:10 -0500", "date": "8:36 p.m. on Sep 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/23/im-about-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F23%2Fim-about-to.html" }, { "id": 1991, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Now it\u0026rsquo;s confirmed: my Finch Lavalier microphone1 doesn\u0026rsquo;t work with Apple\u0026rsquo;s USB-C to Lightning adaptor with the iPhone 15 Pro USB-C post. I repeat: it doesn\u0026rsquo;t work. It\u0026rsquo;s the first official and confirmed victim of the transition to USB-C. I\u0026rsquo;ll have to figure out a new solution for my podcast and YouTube video recording2. 😡\na third-party review here\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nthe iPhone\u0026rsquo;s microphone with voice isolation could be enough.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-23 05:46:25 -0500", "date": "5:46 p.m. on Sep 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/23/now-its-confirmed.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F23%2Fnow-its-confirmed.html" }, { "id": 1992, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Well, now one of my Apple Watch1 won’t pair with my new iPhone since the migration was completed yesterday. It’s the one that I wasn’t wearing. Rebooting the watch doesn’t help. Rebooting the phone doesn’t help. Now what? 🤔\nI’ve got two: a Series 6 for the night, a Series 8 for the day.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-23 05:33:23 -0500", "date": "5:33 p.m. on Sep 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/23/well-now-one.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F23%2Fwell-now-one.html" }, { "id": 1993, "type": "post", "title": "iPhone 15 Pro Max - First Impressions", "text": "It feels great in hand, similar in fact to the weight of my iPhone 13 Pro (not the Max), which is great. The back is darker than my iPhone 11 Pro, and I love it. I\u0026rsquo;m quite happy with the darker black. It\u0026rsquo;s a bit darker than I thought. It\u0026rsquo;s definitively a finger magnet. It’s very soft to the touch. Rounded contours are really making a difference. The device feels more approachable. The screen is so nice. The setup process is superbly executed. An update to iOS was required before transferring the content from my iPhone 13 Pro. Yet, there were many apps which required reentering my credentials. Data transfer was estimated at one hour1. The data transfer took about 45 minutes. The Always On display is\u0026hellip; always on. 😳 I don\u0026rsquo;t know if I\u0026rsquo;ll keep that option\u0026hellip; on.\nAt that point, the WiFi logo disappeared and I started wondering if the data was going through 5G instead. That was curious. It\u0026rsquo;s not possible because my new phone didn\u0026rsquo;t have the SIM call installed yet. Or maybe it was going through Bluetooth or through a point-to-point WiFi connection?\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-22 21:07:36 -0500", "date": "9:07 p.m. on Sep 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/22/iphone-pro-max.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F22%2Fiphone-pro-max.html" }, { "id": 1994, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here is a weird one: I\u0026rsquo;m using iCloud+ Custom Domain with an email address (hello@numericcitizen.me). Mail on iOS 17 doesn\u0026rsquo;t allow me to set the \u0026ldquo;From:\u0026rdquo; as the email address for this custom domain. It\u0026rsquo;s only possible on iCloud.com. Am I missing something?\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-22 14:42:26 -0500", "date": "2:42 p.m. on Sep 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/22/here-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F22%2Fhere-is-a.html" }, { "id": 1995, "type": "post", "title": "When Journalists Aren't Any Better Than ChatGPT", "text": "In the \u0026ldquo;Craptacular Is More Like It\u0026rdquo; article, this is @gruber@mastodon.social at its best. I read the original article earlier this week and concluded that Apple had difficult times ahead with its modem development. This morning, in my usual reading routine, I read the article from Mr. Gruber, and I think it succeeds in demonstrating this: the original article wasn\u0026rsquo;t any better than any ChatGPT-generated content.\nNow I feel that I was deceived by the journalist who tried to fill me with unverified and barely possible facts tied together based on thin air. And you would think journalists can do better than AI-generated work? Not always. Thanks to Mr. Gruber for that one.\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-22 06:20:48 -0500", "date": "6:20 p.m. on Sep 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/22/when-journalists-arent.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F22%2Fwhen-journalists-arent.html" }, { "id": 1996, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A better title for episode 4 could have been \u0026ldquo;The Day I Met John Gruber\u0026rdquo;. Oh well. I\u0026rsquo;ll ask ChatGPT the next time.\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-21 19:40:00 -0500", "date": "7:40 p.m. on Sep 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/21/a-better-title.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F21%2Fa-better-title.html" }, { "id": 1997, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It took way too long to record, process and publish my latest podcast episode. I must tweak my workflow ASAP. It was supposed to be a \u0026ldquo;quick and easy thing\u0026rdquo;, but it isn\u0026rsquo;t. It is unsustainable. 😑 Why is everything so hard for me.. grrr. 😒\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-21 19:24:43 -0500", "date": "7:24 p.m. on Sep 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/21/it-took-way.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F21%2Fit-took-way.html" }, { "id": 1998, "type": "post", "title": "Episode 04 — Did You Know?", "text": "Inspired by a recent podcast episode where Martin Feld interviewed John Gruber, for this fourth podcast episode, I decided to talk about my early years as a blogger.\nLinks:\nReally Specific Stories podcast: https://pca.st/pcp6rwjs Interview with John Gruber episode: https://pca.st/i0xdkxfh, his announcement on his blog: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/09/20/really-specific-stories-yours-truly A reply to John Gruber about his interview: https://micro.blog/numericcitizen/23822941 Search for the “BuildingiPhoneApps” keyword on the internet archive for a glimpse of my very first blog, and locate 2010 and beyond on the timeline. Transcript\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-21 19:14:23 -0500", "date": "7:14 p.m. on Sep 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/21/201423.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F21%2F201423.html" }, { "id": 1999, "type": "transcript", "title": "Episode 04 — Did You Know?", "text": "Hi, this is Numeric Citizen, and you are listening to the thoughts and tribulations of a compulsive creator podcast.\nThis is episode number four.\nDid you know?\nIn this fourth episode, I want to share with you a few personal stories.\nAnd the desire for that comes from listening a podcast episode this week from the Really Focused Stories podcast from Martin Feld.\nAnd in this episode, it was an interview with John Gruber.\nProbably know who this guy is.\nHe is a blogger, a writer about Apple.\nHe\u0026rsquo;s been doing that for quite some time.\nIn the early 2000s, he started a blog about Apple and is a really well-known, well-respected guy.\nHe has a lot of access contacts in the Apple community and within Apple itself.\nAnd I remember meeting the guy actually in, I think it was in 2010.\nI met the guy in Montreal, Canada.\nI was going to a conference about iOS development and the conference was named Singleton.\nAnd he was there to give a speech, to give a talk.\nAnd I remember sitting at a table before the talk and he came to me.\nAnd he asked me if he could see my watch that I was wearing at the time.\nAnd I was kind of surprised because it was well before the Apple watch.\nSo I think John is really into watches in general.\nAnd so he came to me, asked me to see what watch I was wearing.\nAnd so I showed him the watch and he took a small piece of paper, the same piece of papers he used when he\u0026rsquo;s doing the interview at the WWDC conference when there\u0026rsquo;s the Apple executive.\nSo he notes a lot of things.\nAnd so he took a few notes about my watch and then he said, thank you.\nAnd then he left and returned to his table.\nSo that was my only time I met the guy.\nI like, I like the guy in general.\nI don\u0026rsquo;t always agree with what he\u0026rsquo;s writing or what he\u0026rsquo;s saying.\nI don\u0026rsquo;t like his website visual design.\nI think it\u0026rsquo;s way overdue for a remake, but I respect the guy.\nAnd I think the interview was really interesting.\nAnd the reason for that is because John was talking about himself.\nHe gave a peek about the guy behind his writing, behind his blog.\nAnd it was, I thought it was very interesting to know more about the guy.\nAnd I felt like more connected to the author.\nSo we talk about how he started blogging after, first he was a big reader and then he started the blog as a kind of hobby.\nAnd then it became very important in his life.\nAnd eventually he became a full-time blogger.\nHe talks about how he is perceiving his work, what he thinks about his influence in the Apple community.\nI think he underestimates his influence in general, but that\u0026rsquo;s okay.\nAnd so he goes about his work as a writer.\nHe gives his thought about podcasting and how it is different than writing.\nAnd so it\u0026rsquo;s very interesting.\nI thought Gruber was surprisingly generous about himself.\nAnd by listening to this podcast, I had this idea of sharing a few stories about me.\nDid you know that between 2009 and 2013, I was an indie iOS developer?\nI stopped doing the development of my two apps at the time in 2013, when Apple released iOS 7.\nAnd if you remember, iOS 7 was a major shift in the user interface and the visual language in general.\nAnd I had to remake all the visual element of my two apps.\nAnd I thought it was way too much effort for the return on the time investment.\nAnd so I stopped doing that in 2013.\nIt was before Swift and SwiftUI, and at the time you were building the user interface by using Interface Builder.\nI think I made about $5,000 by selling my two apps.\nIt was a time where the app store was much less crowded.\nSo I think it was a bit easier to make some money.\nAnd I learned quite a few things in doing those two apps.\nI learned to use Object CPC, the Interface Builder.\nHow you make up the app, how you publish the app on the app store.\nAnd so I learned a lot.\nAnd it was a kind of a creative journey by itself.\nAnd I had a blog.\nI had a blog while I was developing my two apps.\nIt was on the Google\u0026rsquo;s Blogger platform, which was pretty ugly.\nAnd I wrote a lot about my writing experience, my learning experience as an iOS developer.\nIt wasn\u0026rsquo;t very popular, but it was kind of satisfying that there was readers, regular readers coming to my website because I was sharing how to do specific things in iOS and Xcode and stuff like that.\nSo I like, and this is where I personally start to write and share my experience online with the world.\nAnd, but I stopped in 2013 and between 2013 and 2015, I didn\u0026rsquo;t have any blog.\nI remember closing my blogger account.\nI don\u0026rsquo;t even remember if I saved my content, but I don\u0026rsquo;t think so.\nBetween 2013 and 15, two years, I didn\u0026rsquo;t have anything to share online.\nI decided to reopen a blog in 2015 on WordPress.\nAnd this is from there, I\u0026rsquo;m still writing.\nAnd this is, I would say my second start or of my creative journey as an independent writer and author.\nThat\u0026rsquo;s the way it went for me in those days.\nAnd I wish I had a blog before that, before doing iOS development.\nI wish I had a blog in the early days, in the early 2000 years, or at the end of the nineties, it was such a big thing, but I didn\u0026rsquo;t know it was such a thing.\nI do remember surfing on the web and using browser and do stuff, but I don\u0026rsquo;t remember thinking, Oh, I could open my own website and do a few things and share a few things, but I kind of missed this opportunity.\nI do remember using iWeb, which was an app made by Apple.\nIt was part of the iWork software bundle that Apple made at the time.\nI did have a few things shared online, but I don\u0026rsquo;t consider that to be a blog itself.\nSo, and eventually Apple killed iWeb and then I really stopped doing anything like that.\nSo yeah, anyways, I wish I had some, did something back in the days and write for many, many, many years, but here am I today.\nAnd I\u0026rsquo;m doing this podcast and I\u0026rsquo;m sharing things on my blogs today.\nAnd I\u0026rsquo;m very happy to do that.\nI do spend a lot of energy into this creative journey and as an independent writer, and I like it a lot.\nSo yeah, that\u0026rsquo;s, I wanted to share this with you guys today.\nThis concludes the episode number four.\nIf you follow me on Microblog, Mastodon, or Blue Sky, don\u0026rsquo;t be shy and share your thoughts or comments.\nThanks for listening and please, in this challenging world, in constant crisis and state of emergency, take care until the next episode.\nBye.\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-21 19:14:23 -0500", "date": "7:14 p.m. on Sep 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/transcripts/2023/09/21/504.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2Ftranscripts%2F2023%2F09%2F21%2F504.html" }, { "id": 2000, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My expectations for the iPhone 15 Pro Max fit and finish and how it feels in my hands are very high. I\u0026rsquo;m looking for something similar to the iPhone 4s, iPhone 5 and iPhone 7 feelings\u0026hellip; those never were matched by subsequent iPhones.\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-21 13:50:25 -0500", "date": "1:50 p.m. on Sep 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/21/my-expectations-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F21%2Fmy-expectations-for.html" }, { "id": 2001, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My iPhone 15 Pro Max is still in “Preparing to ship” state. Delivery is scheduled for tomorrow. I’m guessing the device is waiting in a warehouse somewhere near Toronto or in Canada. 🙏🏻🤓\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-21 06:10:37 -0500", "date": "6:10 p.m. on Sep 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/21/my-iphone-pro.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F21%2Fmy-iphone-pro.html" }, { "id": 2002, "type": "post", "title": "I Rarely Visit the App Store", "text": "\nI opened the App Store this Monday to see how Apple would promote new app releases supporting iOS 17. Then I realized that I rarely open the App Store except to go and get app updates. When was the last time I went to browse the productivity category? When did I last browse the store for popular photography apps or new utilities? I can’t even remember when I last bought an app discovered in the App Store1. I wonder if this is only me or reflects a more general trend.🤔\nI usually make my discoveries by external reference.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-21 05:38:15 -0500", "date": "5:38 p.m. on Sep 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/21/i-rarely-visit.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F21%2Fi-rarely-visit.html" }, { "id": 2003, "type": "post", "title": "Where's The Magic in Adaptive Audio?", "text": "Adaptive Audio and Conversation Awareness don\u0026rsquo;t click for me\nI\u0026rsquo;ve been using Apple\u0026rsquo;s new AirPods features for the past week, and I\u0026rsquo;m sad to say that I don\u0026rsquo;t really understand either of them\nI\u0026rsquo;m with Matt here. I fail to find the magic here. I\u0026rsquo;ve read Gruber\u0026rsquo;s take on the AirPods Pro 2 with USB-C, and I\u0026rsquo;m afraid I don\u0026rsquo;t feel anything magical about Adaptive Audio. When activated, I hear too much from the surroundings; I prefer noise cancellation. Can we get adaptive noise cancellation instead? 🤔\nI feel that Apple\u0026rsquo;s engineers couldn\u0026rsquo;t figure out which new audio profiles to include and couldn\u0026rsquo;t decide, and they suggested including both. Then, the marketing guys came in and named these profiles Adaptive Audio and Conversation Awareness. Boom. I\u0026rsquo;m half-joking here.\nI\u0026rsquo;ll keep trying in the next few days to find the magic.\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-20 19:10:53 -0500", "date": "7:10 p.m. on Sep 20, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/20/wheres-the-magic.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F20%2Fwheres-the-magic.html" }, { "id": 2004, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How I Automatically Include a Blog Description in My RSS Feed\nI’ve been asked a couple of times how I get this short site description to be included in every entry of my RSS feed.\nI\u0026rsquo;m one of those curious who asked the question. Wondering if this could be addressed via a new plugin by @Mtt or by @manton Micro.blog base service.\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-20 06:51:05 -0500", "date": "6:51 p.m. on Sep 20, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/20/how-i-automatically.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F20%2Fhow-i-automatically.html" }, { "id": 2005, "type": "post", "title": "Review of Reviews: Great Updates to Already Great iPhone but...", "text": "Today, I read many iPhone 15 Pro reviews and watched many YouTube videos too. For some reason, I get the feeling of a slight deception mood across many reviewers. Those are great upgrades, but since they are compared to last year\u0026rsquo;s iPhone, the improvements are dimmed as mostly minor. A mentioned the superiority of the iPhone in the video recording field, but in the photography field, it\u0026rsquo;s less clear. Sharpening seems a tad less aggressive with more natural tones. The 24MP resolution by default is a welcomed addition, and yet\u0026hellip; it\u0026rsquo;s not a home run. Device physical tweaks are unanimously welcomed, though. Maybe tomorrow, my interpretation will be different. 🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-19 21:05:04 -0500", "date": "9:05 p.m. on Sep 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/19/review-of-reviews.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F19%2Freview-of-reviews.html" }, { "id": 2006, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s going to be a big phone. Got my Peak Design iPhone case yesterday😃. I like it. Great design1 and nice feeling to the touch.\nI worry a bit about the effectiveness of the case buttons when pressed against the iPhone\u0026rsquo;s buttons. Lack of \u0026ldquo;travel\u0026rdquo; will diminish the pressing effect.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-19 08:11:36 -0500", "date": "8:11 p.m. on Sep 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/19/its-going-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F19%2Fits-going-to.html" }, { "id": 2007, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Playing with recently updated apps and their respective interactive widgets. They all come out to their default view. Rebooting the iPhone is mandatory to fix this issue. Adding another widget and again defaults to the blank screen.🤦🏻‍♂️ iOS 17.0.1, I guess, will help fix this.\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-18 12:06:04 -0500", "date": "12:06 p.m. on Sep 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/18/playing-with-recently.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F18%2Fplaying-with-recently.html" }, { "id": 2008, "type": "post", "title": "Some Thoughts About Apps Support of StandBy Mode and Interactive Widgets", "text": "Many apps are getting updates today and this week. Yes! 😃 But, so far, I have found some bugs in iOS 17 to display interactive widget content once they are added. They often stay blank with a white background. Rebooting doesn\u0026rsquo;t help. I don\u0026rsquo;t know if it is an iOS 17 bug or an issue with the app. 🤔 One design issue: if an app supports the StandBy mode1, it should also support the landscape orientation, not only the portrait orientation. Tapping a widget to launch the app and the app comes up in portrait mode. It\u0026rsquo;s bad. WaterMinder is such an example, and\u0026hellip; Apple\u0026rsquo;s Stocks app! The latter is inexcusable. In general, StandBy mode seems a work-in-press, to be honest.2\nthis is how the StandBy mode is triggered on the iPhone.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nMake no mistake, I do like it a lot, though.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-18 09:21:24 -0500", "date": "9:21 p.m. on Sep 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/18/some-thoughts-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F18%2Fsome-thoughts-about.html" }, { "id": 2009, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After three years of availability, I experienced the first App Clips case today. I was close to a Dairy Queen-type so I was presented with an App Clips allowing ordering from my iPhone. There aren\u0026rsquo;t a lot of App Clips, apparently.\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-17 20:16:29 -0500", "date": "8:16 p.m. on Sep 17, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/17/after-three-years.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F17%2Fafter-three-years.html" }, { "id": 2010, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Who’s reading my weekly creative summary? Do you like? If not, why? I’m genuinely curious. 🧐\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-17 18:17:52 -0500", "date": "6:17 p.m. on Sep 17, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/17/whos-reading-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F17%2Fwhos-reading-my.html" }, { "id": 2011, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is how much forests burned so far this summer in Canada. ☹️ There are still close to a thousand fires still in action. This is freaking bad for so many reasons. First, we need forests to remove CO2. In a sense, removing trees diminishes the capacity of nature to limit climate change. We lose this capability. Second, all that burning created a lot of CO2. Third, it will take half a century to regain those lost forests.😔 It\u0026rsquo;s really hard to feel positive about our future.\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-16 07:30:36 -0500", "date": "7:30 p.m. on Sep 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/16/this-is-how.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F16%2Fthis-is-how.html" }, { "id": 2012, "type": "post", "title": "Testing Apple's USB-C to Lightning Adaptor with iPad Pro", "text": "I wanted to follow up a previous post of mine about using my Lightning-based Lavalier microphone with a USB-C device, like my 2018 iPad Pro1. I ordered the USB-C to Lightning adaptor on the day of the Apple keynote. I got it this morning. If you are wondering if it works with Ferrite and Apple\u0026rsquo;s Voice Memos on my iPad Pro? No, it doesn\u0026rsquo;t.😔\nA positive conclusion would have been a good sign on the prospect of making it work with the upcoming iPhone 15 Pro Max. Now, it\u0026rsquo;s not sure at all.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-15 12:17:49 -0500", "date": "12:17 p.m. on Sep 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/15/testing-apples-usbc.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F15%2Ftesting-apples-usbc.html" }, { "id": 2013, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Ordered. I’ll wait before buying a case from Apple because I’m not sure about the new FineWoven texture and durability. Some YouTubers said the feeling to the touch is similar to suede and I’m not a fan. #iphone15pro #iphone15promax\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-15 11:12:43 -0500", "date": "11:12 p.m. on Sep 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/15/ordered-ill-wait.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F15%2Fordered-ill-wait.html" }, { "id": 2014, "type": "post", "title": "An Update About My New Quest of Leaving Adobe Lightroom", "text": "Yesterday night, I spent nearly an hour reading articles and forum posts about the implications of closing my Adobe Photography subscription1. The implications and how to recover my photos differ for Lightroom Classic and Lightroom CC. It’s not that hard, but it will be a tedious process if I want to keep some organization that the Lightroom catalog currently provides. I’ll put this project on my list of things to do in 2024. This will give me some time to plan for the migration2.\nI subscribe to the photography plan which gives me 2TB of storage, which is currently used at 110GB.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nOr change my mind. 🤦🏻‍♂️\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-15 05:56:30 -0500", "date": "5:56 p.m. on Sep 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/15/an-update-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F15%2Fan-update-about.html" }, { "id": 2015, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How do you get out of Adobe Lightroom? What if I want to focus on Photomator and Pixelmator instead?\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-14 18:07:50 -0500", "date": "6:07 p.m. on Sep 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/14/how-do-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F14%2Fhow-do-you.html" }, { "id": 2016, "type": "post", "title": "Waiting for more interactive widgets…", "text": "✅ WaterMinder\n✅ Longplay\nTimery 👀\nFocused Work 👀\nWhat else?\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-14 12:08:42 -0500", "date": "12:08 p.m. on Sep 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/14/waiting-for-more.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F14%2Fwaiting-for-more.html" }, { "id": 2017, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today is a caseless day with my iPhone 13 Pro. Best way to experience the device design and flaws1.\nLike the too sharp edges. The too shiny flat edges.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-14 07:41:37 -0500", "date": "7:41 p.m. on Sep 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/14/today-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F14%2Ftoday-is-a.html" }, { "id": 2018, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;Get Ready for iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Pro\u0026rdquo; on Apple.com1, is this new, or was it available for the iPhone 14 launch last year? I find this to be a great way to limit frustration on the day the new iPhones will go on sale (tomorrow). 🤔\nThe new website feature enables anyone to build their iPhone order, including setting up the return of the older iPhone for a credit. In theory, on the day of availability, you\u0026rsquo;ll click \u0026ldquo;Buy\u0026rdquo;.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-14 06:50:01 -0500", "date": "6:50 p.m. on Sep 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/14/get-ready-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F14%2Fget-ready-for.html" }, { "id": 2019, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Did anyone notice this new \u0026ldquo;time-based\u0026rdquo; page indicator on Apple.com?1. It is very well-designed and clever.\nCan be seen in the iPhone 15 Pro sub-website.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-14 06:14:44 -0500", "date": "6:14 p.m. on Sep 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/14/did-anyone-notice.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F14%2Fdid-anyone-notice.html" }, { "id": 2020, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Experimenting with reading my Micro.blog timeline in RSS mode with Reeder. It\u0026rsquo;s surprisingly very effective for catching up on the last 12 hours of posts. It is, in fact, more effective than reading past posts on the website.\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-14 05:50:37 -0500", "date": "5:50 p.m. on Sep 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/14/experimenting-with-reading.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F14%2Fexperimenting-with-reading.html" }, { "id": 2021, "type": "post", "title": "Apple Wonderlust Event — My Initial Impressions", "text": "\nThese are my impressions of Apple’s latest product announcements.\nThe mother nature segment was funny, and I smiled quite often. It was a great way to communicate their progress toward better environmental protection and reduced carbon footprint. Video production quality was top-notch. Aren’t tech press people tired of going to Apple Park to watch a movie?\nMany comments during the presentation about the desire by Apple to see people go into their stores to buy and activate the new iPhones1.\nWe got a short update about the upcoming Apple Vision Pro, which is still on track for early 2024. That was expected but felt a bit short.\nOnto the Apple Watch.\nThe Apple Watch Series 9 is a mildly interesting update. The new finger gestures are cool but only for Series 9. Too bad. I’ll probably buy a few new bands later this fall. I’ll skip this year’s updates and wait for next year’s rumoured redesign.\nMoving to the star of the show. The iPhone.\nThe iPhone remains the crown jewel of Apple. Everything else is peripheral. The design of the Pro line is absolutely gorgeous (rounded edges, great pro finishes). The A17 Pro (bye-bye Bionic) is a powerhouse CPU! I’ll go with the 15 Pro Max with 512 GB of storage. I’ll order the “USB-C to Lightning adaptor” to keep using my excellent Cavalier microphone (see my previous blog post about the issue).\nThe black finish is my choice with a blue FineWoven case2. Best of both worlds. Thanks to this video, which helped me confirm my decision3. Those wallpapers are gorgeous, too! This is the first time in a while that I love them so much. I’m overall happy with this year’s Pro finishes and tones. Very classy.\nI’m a bit surprised by the battery life capacity to be the same as last year’s Pro models. I was expecting longer battery life with the A17, but I guess since we get more features… something has to give. I expect next year’s iPad Pro to use a derivative of the A17 Pro announced today.\nAbout cameras. A 5x range for telephoto, not 6x4. I’m surprised it’s not 6x. But 120mm is great for travelling. Shooting with the phone and having the preview immediately available on the Mac, just like pros are expecting. Wow. Do images on the 15 Pro line have less over-processing / sharpening? I certainly hope so. And about those immersive spacial videos to be shot on the 15 Pro but visioned on the Apple Vision Pro, coming later this year. Consider me intrigued5. The camera app has a few tweaks, judging by some video segments, for the 2x mode, where you can select the focal length. Cool.\nThere is no monstrous price increase, which is good. Some price adjustments on the entry-level iPhone 15 Pro Max. The speed limit of the USB-C on the non-Pro line is ridiculous6. iCloud+ storage tier at 6TB is a surprise, still 5GB7 at the entry-level, though. I like the action button flexibility.\nI’ll order my new phone this Friday. That is all for now.\nApparently, the vast majority of iPhone in the US aren’t bought in an Apple Store. Apple would like to improve that.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nI might change my mind, depending of videos from the hands-on area at Apple Park.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nMy second choice would probably be the blue finish next in third position, the natural titanium color.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n25x digital zoom apparently. Not bad.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nI’m still not planning to buy an Apple Vision Pro.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n480 mb/s. Ouch.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nYes, that is right, a mere 5 gigabytes!\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-12 20:22:42 -0500", "date": "8:22 p.m. on Sep 12, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/12/apple-wonderlust-event.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F12%2Fapple-wonderlust-event.html" }, { "id": 2022, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple Wonderlust T-15 min. ✅ Focus Mode: ON. ✅ Offline at the office. ✅ Apple.com open ✅ Tv.app open ✅ CleanShot Configured ✅ NAS ready 😎\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-12 11:47:13 -0500", "date": "11:47 p.m. on Sep 12, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/12/apple-wonderlust-t.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F12%2Fapple-wonderlust-t.html" }, { "id": 2023, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For those on Micro.blog who want to chat about Apple\u0026rsquo;s today announcements, remember to use this Wavelength invite chat link1. There are currently 48 members in the group. I wish you all a great event experience!\nI\u0026rsquo;m referring to the open-source Wavelength.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-12 07:39:18 -0500", "date": "7:39 p.m. on Sep 12, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/12/for-those-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F12%2Ffor-those-on.html" }, { "id": 2024, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "First world problem: got this mic for my recordings (YouTube / Podcasts / ScreenFlow). Works fine. Now: how do I plug this into an iPhone 15 Pro with USB-C? 🤦🏻‍♂️ Can’t find an adapter with microphone support (many are audio out only…) 😔\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-11 20:47:00 -0500", "date": "8:47 p.m. on Sep 11, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/11/first-world-problem.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F11%2Ffirst-world-problem.html" }, { "id": 2025, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "And It\u0026rsquo;s the right time to take a screenshot 📸 of apple.com before it gets revamped and refreshed tomorrow with some new stuff. 👀\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-11 16:40:18 -0500", "date": "4:40 p.m. on Sep 11, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/11/and-its-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F11%2Fand-its-the.html" }, { "id": 2026, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Since 9/11 in 2001, I look up every time I hear a plane in the sky. Every single time. And I\u0026rsquo;m Canadian. 😔 1\nAnd I have the profound feeling that we didn\u0026rsquo;t learn anything about these events.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-11 13:39:04 -0500", "date": "1:39 p.m. on Sep 11, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/11/since-in-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F11%2Fsince-in-i.html" }, { "id": 2027, "type": "post", "title": "My Excitement About the Upcoming iPhones Explained", "text": "Here are some more details about my excitement for the next iPhone1.\nBesides the camera upgrades, here is a short list of things I’m looking forward to with the next iPhones.\nI’m going to the Max. It’s the first Max model that I’m getting2. I expect better battery life than the iPhone 14 Pro Max3. I want a real all-day battery life for when I travel abroad. I never liked the current chrome finish of the Pro line (since the iPhone 12 Pro)4. I like the titanium finish of the Apple Watch. I can’t wait to see the tweaked version for the iPhone5. I’m ambivalent about the rumoured action button. I’ll want to configure it for the camera capture, but I want to keep the mute button. The always-on display… I’m not sure. My wife has an iPhone 14 Pro, she disabled the always-on display because of the battery drain. I’ll see with the Max. I’m curious about the grey version, but I will go either with a deep blue6 or the darkest one7. I love the Dynamic Island. My hope is to see wider adoption by developers. Finally, USB-C. Finally. 95% of the time, I charge my iPhone with MagSafe. It’s too convenient. On rare occasions, it will be handy to grab any normal USB-C cable and plug it in. As for transfer speed, I’m not in any use cases for this8. I’ll catch you on the other side of the Wonderlust event.\nJust in case someone actually care. 😜\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nScreen content displayed is barely more than the Pro, yet, I’ll take all the pixel the iPhone has to offer.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nAt the very least, much better battery life than my current aging iPhone 13 Pro.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nThe chrome look on anything always felt like cheap luxury to me. I prefer textures.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nI expect Apple to offer a different texture.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nI’m curious about anything that is blue. I could wait until iPhones make their way to the Apple Store, but I won’t be able to last that long. I’m looking for videos in the hands-on area at Apple Park for a cue about the colors.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nThe black matte iPhone 5 was the best of all.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nWill this enable iPhone-to-iPhone transfer between an iPhone 15 Pro and an iPhone 17 Pro? 🤔\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-10 19:07:46 -0500", "date": "7:07 p.m. on Sep 10, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/10/my-excitement-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F10%2Fmy-excitement-about.html" }, { "id": 2028, "type": "post", "title": "Pixelfed Is Working on “Solo”", "text": "\nI’m really curious about this. The idea of having my personal instance of Pixelfed is tempting. I like the idea of having full control and not being at the mercy of some other admin, updating the codebase as I wish while being part of the Pixelfed federation1. It’s expected to be released on October 20th. I should start planning my domain name and username.2\nOf course, other instance could decide to block mine, but that’s not going to happen, unless I’m being a bad actor in the federation.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nDoes that mean Micro.blog would need to do something in order to cross post to my personal instance?\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-10 12:53:15 -0500", "date": "12:53 p.m. on Sep 10, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/10/pixelfed-is-working.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F10%2Fpixelfed-is-working.html" }, { "id": 2029, "type": "post", "title": "Why I’m Excited for This Week’s Apple Announcements", "text": "I’m super excited about this year’s iPhone announcements. It’s probably because I’m getting one of them1. I try to skip one or two iterations. I went from the iPhone 7 to the iPhone 11 Pro, then to the iPhone 13 Pro, and now the iPhone 15 Pro Max. I’m looking forward to these improvements: the cameras2 and battery life3. Sure, the Dynamic Island will be cool. Oh, and USB-C, finally4!\nCan’t wait for Sept 12th.\nI’m getting the iPhone 15 Pro Max / 512 GB model. I’ll return my old 13 Pro to Apple for a credit.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nCould the telephoto lens make me forget about my Nikon?\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nThis is why I’m going to the Max this year.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n99% of the time I use MagSafe to charge my iPhone these days. 😜\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-10 07:38:54 -0500", "date": "7:38 p.m. on Sep 10, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/10/why-im-excited.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F10%2Fwhy-im-excited.html" }, { "id": 2030, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "⁉️This iCloud Upload of 78 items has been going on since I migrated from the 13-inch MBA to the 15-inch MBA with Apple Migration Assistant. Any ideas on how to fix this? 1🤔\nAnnoying as hell.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-09 12:40:51 -0500", "date": "12:40 p.m. on Sep 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/09/this-icloud-upload.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F09%2Fthis-icloud-upload.html" }, { "id": 2031, "type": "post", "title": "Episode 03 — I'm Excited and Stressed", "text": "This week, Apple will release its latest iPhone models. I\u0026rsquo;m excited. It will be an exercise of balance between news consumption, analysis and writing. It\u0026rsquo;s the perfect mix for a stressful week. 😟 Learn why in this podcast episode.\nLinks My iPhone 11 Pro review: “From iPhone 7 to iPhone 11 Pro: The Return of Delights” My iPhone 13 Pro review: “Upgrading From the iPhone 11 Pro to iPhone 13 Pro — the Love Story Continues” Transcript\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-09 10:27:47 -0500", "date": "10:27 p.m. on Sep 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/09/episode-im-excited.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F09%2Fepisode-im-excited.html" }, { "id": 2032, "type": "transcript", "title": "Episode 03 — I'm Excited and Stressed", "text": "This is Numeric Citizen and you are listening to the thoughts and tribulations of a compulsive treater.\nThis is episode number three.\nI\u0026rsquo;m excited but stressed.\nI\u0026rsquo;ve been an Apple fan since the early 80s.\nIt all started when I was at high school and I was using an Apple 2 Plus and since then I\u0026rsquo;ve been an Apple fan, I\u0026rsquo;ve been following everything Apple did since then.\nSo I care very much about Apple, it takes a lot of my time in my life.\nAnd this year I\u0026rsquo;m getting a new iPhone.\nI\u0026rsquo;ll be upgrading from the iPhone 13 Pro to the 15 Pro Max.\nThis will be the first time I\u0026rsquo;m going to get the bigger one and eventually I\u0026rsquo;ll be writing an article about my experience of using the device and then I\u0026rsquo;ll share that.\nIt\u0026rsquo;s more like for the end of September or early October depending on the time I\u0026rsquo;ll spend on putting my thoughts and experience together.\nBut meanwhile, this week Apple is announcing these new models, the new iPhone 15 line and updated Apple Watch too.\nAnd this is going to be a stressful week for someone like me because as you might know I\u0026rsquo;m a IT professional full-time so my hobby is not a full-time job.\nSo I need to find a way to strike a balance between professional life and my hobby and this is the core of the problem.\nBecause this week there\u0026rsquo;s a lot of news that will be shared online, there will be also many videos on YouTube where people will be sharing their impression of the Apple keynote about the latest iPhone and also they will be sharing their experience in the hands-on area at the Apple Park.\nAnd this will be all very interesting to watch and to read and I\u0026rsquo;ll try to then have my own take of this, even write my thoughts and I\u0026rsquo;ll be sharing my thoughts on my blog eventually before maybe the end of the week or this coming weekend.\nBut I find it hard as a creator, as a writer to find the right amount of time to write those thoughts and to be relevant because I want to share something that is interesting to read, that has some thoughtful content but it takes time so I have to kind of strike a balance in that.\nSo yeah, that\u0026rsquo;s the main issue.\nIt will be a stressful week for sure but I\u0026rsquo;m very excited because I\u0026rsquo;m really looking forward for this newest iPhone generation.\nI\u0026rsquo;m essentially upgrading to get a better battery life and also the updated camera subsystem and this is in this area where I want to share my thoughts about this new device and it will take time.\nI won\u0026rsquo;t make a detailed comparison between the 13 Pro and the 15 Pro but I\u0026rsquo;ll certainly share my thoughts about the updated experience of the new devices in the upcoming weeks and I\u0026rsquo;ll be getting ready for that.\nI\u0026rsquo;ll be creating my notes document in Craft so I can start to jot down my impression starting from this week and then I\u0026rsquo;ll eventually go on the Apple Store and see the device in person.\nI\u0026rsquo;ll probably order the device the same day they go on sale so it should be on September 22.\nSo yeah, that\u0026rsquo;s the stress that I\u0026rsquo;m getting through this week but I\u0026rsquo;ll make it.\nI\u0026rsquo;m sure that it will be worthwhile and yeah, so thank you.\nThis concludes the episode number three of this podcast.\nDon\u0026rsquo;t be shy and share your thoughts or comments on microblog, mastodon and bluesky where this is cross-posted.\nThanks to microblog\u0026rsquo;s cross-posting feature.\nThanks for listening and please, in this challenging world, in constant crisis and state of emergency, take care until the next episode.\nBye.\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-09 10:27:47 -0500", "date": "10:27 p.m. on Sep 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/transcripts/2023/09/09/464.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2Ftranscripts%2F2023%2F09%2F09%2F464.html" }, { "id": 2033, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Feeling sad this morning 😥 about the consequences of the earthquake in Morroco. I\u0026rsquo;m trying to get news from our guide to see if he is ok. 🙏🏻\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-09 07:40:13 -0500", "date": "7:40 p.m. on Sep 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/09/feeling-sad-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F09%2Ffeeling-sad-this.html" }, { "id": 2034, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I wish there was a way to subscribe to a RSS feed within Day One. This way, I could delete my IFTTT account. 1😐\nIFTTT read my Micro.blog RSS feed to save a copy of my posts to my personal journal on Day One.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-09 06:51:00 -0500", "date": "6:51 p.m. on Sep 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/09/i-wish-there.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F09%2Fi-wish-there.html" }, { "id": 2035, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Early mornings are my favourite creative moments\u0026hellip; everyone is asleep, and it is super quiet in the house. 😊👨🏻‍💻\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-09 06:46:35 -0500", "date": "6:46 p.m. on Sep 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/09/early-mornings-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F09%2Fearly-mornings-are.html" }, { "id": 2036, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I find it surprising and annoying that Apple\u0026rsquo;s PodcastsConnect doesn\u0026rsquo;t support\u0026hellip; Sign in with Apple.1🤦🏻‍♂️\nIt means a new podcast episode is coming up soon!\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-09 06:28:45 -0500", "date": "6:28 p.m. on Sep 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/09/i-find-it.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F09%2Fi-find-it.html" }, { "id": 2037, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I wanted to increase my podcasts listening time. I decided to put Overcast on the first home screen page. It worked. 👌🏻🤓\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-07 17:26:13 -0500", "date": "5:26 p.m. on Sep 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/07/i-wanted-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F07%2Fi-wanted-to.html" }, { "id": 2038, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wondering if @mtt Tiny Theme is compatible with Hugo 0.117\u0026hellip; 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-07 07:02:30 -0500", "date": "7:02 p.m. on Sep 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/07/wondering-if-mtt.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F07%2Fwondering-if-mtt.html" }, { "id": 2039, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "While Elon Musk wants the Twitter brand to disappear from the earth’s surface, you can see the Twitter icon and references everywhere on the web. X is not taking over at all. Services or apps that depend on Twitter for logging in, news sites asking people to join them via social networks, apps offering a sharing action or whatever the needs are, most continue to use Twitter’s original branding. In support of those who refuse to let go the little bird, here’s my contribution1.\nThanks to Midjourney 😜\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-07 05:33:57 -0500", "date": "5:33 p.m. on Sep 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/07/while-elon-musk.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F07%2Fwhile-elon-musk.html" }, { "id": 2040, "type": "post", "title": "On Apps by Apple", "text": "\nWhat a strange move by Apple. This website made by Apple promotes first-party apps for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, etc. Why? Why now? I would understand in the context of being forced to allow third-party App Stores. Apple reminding people about their apps while people are getting excited by side-loading and third-party App Stores would make sense. Is Apple up to something here? They usually plan for the long run. This could be the first baby step for a more open ecosystem.1 👀\nInterestingly, you can launch each app with an Open button if you are visiting the website from your beloved iPhone, iPad or the Mac.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-06 21:00:27 -0500", "date": "9:00 p.m. on Sep 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/06/on-apps-by.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F06%2Fon-apps-by.html" }, { "id": 2041, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " Apple is reportedly developing a low-cost MacBook series to compete with Chromebook models in the education sector that could be released as early as the second half of 2024, according to industry sources. Source: Apple mulls low-cost MacBook, say sources\nRemember when people and tech pundits pressed Apple to create a Netbook? Apple responded with an 11-inch MacBook (2008) Air and an iPad (2010). I hope they skip trying to make a low-cost MacBook and keep improving on the current iPad story instead. That being said, I understand Chromebooks are giving Apple a hard time in education. 🥵\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-06 20:52:15 -0500", "date": "8:52 p.m. on Sep 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/06/apple-is-reportedly.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F06%2Fapple-is-reportedly.html" }, { "id": 2042, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " Matte black MacBook again makes an appearance in an Apple patent Source: Matte black MacBook again referenced in an Apple patent\nI would pay a little extra for a fingerprint-free matte black MacBook Air. 🤗\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-06 20:47:04 -0500", "date": "8:47 p.m. on Sep 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/06/matte-black-macbook.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F06%2Fmatte-black-macbook.html" }, { "id": 2043, "type": "post", "title": "Remember Apple’s Freeform?", "text": "\nI’m curious, is anyone using Apple’s Freeform? For what use case? Personally, I was curious about Freeform and experimented with it for a while, but then I stopped using it. I prefer using it on the iPad than on the Mac.\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-06 05:53:25 -0500", "date": "5:53 p.m. on Sep 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/06/remember-apples-freeform.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F06%2Fremember-apples-freeform.html" }, { "id": 2044, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Pixelfed is rolling out Stories. 😒🤦🏻‍♂️ I’m not a fan at all. I’m not sure that I want PixelFed to take that direction. I decided to unfollow anyone who shares one of these.1\nI left Instagram because it wasn’t about photography anymore.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-06 05:32:38 -0500", "date": "5:32 p.m. on Sep 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/06/pixelfed-is-rolling.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F06%2Fpixelfed-is-rolling.html" }, { "id": 2045, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I got an Ember coffee mug1 for my birthday, yesterday. The first thing the Ember app detected after pairing the mug with my iPhone was that an update to the mug’s firmware. It took 5 minutes to complete. Software is everywhere now guys. 😳\nThe mug keeps the coffee at the right temperature. Great and well-design coffee mug.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-05 06:48:32 -0500", "date": "6:48 p.m. on Sep 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/05/i-got-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F05%2Fi-got-an.html" }, { "id": 2046, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Fifty-six. 56. Already. 🧁\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-04 18:02:10 -0500", "date": "6:02 p.m. on Sep 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/04/fiftysix-already.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F04%2Ffiftysix-already.html" }, { "id": 2047, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Eventually, in a few weeks, I’ll have to decide if I go with the 256GB storage tier or the next level up: 512GB1. If I to future my purchase of the 15 Ultra, I’ll probably have to go with the latter.\nI’ve been using 256GB for as long as I remember.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-01 13:56:47 -0500", "date": "1:56 p.m. on Sep 1, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/01/eventually-in-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F01%2Feventually-in-a.html" }, { "id": 2048, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Glass is sending out emails to let us know that we can share and spread the word to our friends and family so they can join Glass too but at a reduced price. But, wait, we get nothing if they subscribe, really? Am I missing something or simply being needy?\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-01 08:16:14 -0500", "date": "8:16 p.m. on Sep 1, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/01/glass-is-sending.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F01%2Fglass-is-sending.html" }, { "id": 2049, "type": "post", "title": "September", "text": "This is my favourite month of the year1. It’s my birthday month2. The weather is generally absolutely amazing3. Gone are muggy and hazy days; the air is crystal clear. It’s a transition month. It is a colourful month. It’s an Apple keynote month! I am looking forward to this long week-end with my family. Expect a few images, too. An happy guy! 😃\nIt dates back to my childhood where it September marked the return to school.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nBorn on the 4th.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nWeather forecasts for the upcoming days are just brilliant with sunshine and a bit hotter-than-usual temperatures.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-09-01 07:43:29 -0500", "date": "7:43 p.m. on Sep 1, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/09/01/september.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F09%2F01%2Fseptember.html" }, { "id": 2050, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Om Malik on Threads capabilities in regards to sharing and consuming photo content: Threads, Twitter, \u0026amp; Social Photos\nThe design is particularly conducive to viewing photos. The white space, the way the photos are rendered, and the styling of photo collections enhance the overall presentation. The vibe on Threads is the polar opposite. Even John Gruber, a long-time critic of Facebook, has been vocal in his appreciation of this new product from the same company. It’s surprising to see him overlooking the poor privacy-related track record of the Facebook family.\nand\nStill, Threads offers photos and photographers a second chance to find a home beyond a dying Instagram.\nI deeply respect Mr. Malik😒, but there is zero chance that fancy web design will erase Meta\u0026rsquo;s business practices and business model. I refuse to consider Threads as an alternative to Instagram. It\u0026rsquo;s a matter of time before Threads becomes another Instagram-type platform. Just wait for it. Now, excuse me, I have some photos to post on Glass and Pixelfed. Thank you. 😜\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-31 20:30:28 -0500", "date": "8:30 p.m. on Aug 31, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/31/om-malik-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F31%2Fom-malik-on.html" }, { "id": 2051, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Has putting Apple silicon in the iPad set unrealistic expectations?\nThe Mac feels too much like a computer that has felt too overwhelming and the iPad is like the smartphone they have already been using.\nAt some point in the more or less distant future, the iPad form factor will take over. Just like cars took over trucks a long time ago. Just like most people use a smartphone as their main computer or as their only computer, the iPad will eventually be regarded as \u0026ldquo;a real computer\u0026rdquo;, the only computer, if people are willing to add something on top of their iPhone. One day.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-31 20:16:05 -0500", "date": "8:16 p.m. on Aug 31, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/31/has-putting-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F31%2Fhas-putting-apple.html" }, { "id": 2052, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m spending way too much time designing the layout of my upcoming weekly creative summary😅. I decided to post it on my Ghost-based and share the document directly from Craft. It will be fun to see how it goes. 👀\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-31 19:56:54 -0500", "date": "7:56 p.m. on Aug 31, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/31/im-spending-way.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F31%2Fim-spending-way.html" }, { "id": 2053, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It would be so great and useful to be able to save great conversations directly from Micro.blog, like the one here about the iPad (https://beardystarstuff.net/2023/08/31/the-ipad-discussion.html) @manton\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-31 11:58:36 -0500", "date": "11:58 p.m. on Aug 31, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/31/it-would-be.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F31%2Fit-would-be.html" }, { "id": 2054, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This morning 🌅, inspired by @maique and @gr36, I decided to create a weekly summary of my creative work and everything that surrounds or supports it. It\u0026rsquo;s really fun to put together and helps have an introspection about the things I do and use. The first edition is going out this coming Sunday, Sept 3th, directly on Numeric Citizen Space1. Just one day before my birthday! 😃🎂🧁\nI will probably send it by email as a newsletter, too. So, if you prefer, subscribe now!\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-30 12:05:51 -0500", "date": "12:05 p.m. on Aug 30, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/30/this-morning-inspired.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F30%2Fthis-morning-inspired.html" }, { "id": 2055, "type": "post", "title": "Some of my Expectations for Apple’s Upcoming “Wonderlust” Event", "text": "\nThis is going to be about the iPhone, mostly. The iPhone 15, to be more precise. Of course. Apple will probably talk a lot about the A17 because of its new 3nm manufacturing process, ensuring some battery power savings while bringing faster processing. This will be welcomed for an always-on display device since the iPhone 14 Pro performance in that respect is not as good as it used to be. Will the A17 be Bionic? Something else? I trust Apple’s marketing cracks about this.\nThe titanium finish on the Pro line, a first for the iPhone, but something the Apple Watch is already sporting, will get some attention too. Maybe more than the A17. I’m looking forward to it because I wouldn’t say I like the current finish on the iPhone 14 Pro1. I hate it, actually. Thanks to my iPhone case, it’s a non-issue. If the Apple invite is any indication of the upcoming titanium colour finish, I’m in love already!\nBut the star of the iPhone 15 show will be the Ultra with the periscope lens, bringing telephoto photography beyond the 3x optic possibilities for the first time. This is what I’m waiting for. I expect an Apple twist to it.\nI expect some updates about the Apple Vision Pro2. Apple will probably talk3 about how excited developers are for the device and remind us about how it will change the world4. Something on the gaming front could be in the cards, too, thanks to the game porting toolkit introduced at the WWDC conference. Are Macs finally good at gaming? Is a software trick enough?\nAnd then what else? The Apple Watch will get updates, but not the redesign we are starting to hear about for 2024. The Ultra 2 is probably not for me. But we will learn about it, for sure.\nMacs? Crickets.\nThis is what I expect for the upcoming “Wonderlust” event.\nI hate the finish of my iPhone 13 Pro for that matter, too. Too glossy. To “chromy”.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nI still think the “spacial computing” moniker should have been “spacial experience” instead. More approachable if you ask me.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nBrag is probably a better term\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nFor better or for worst\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-29 19:12:14 -0500", "date": "7:12 p.m. on Aug 29, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/29/some-of-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F29%2Fsome-of-my.html" }, { "id": 2056, "type": "post", "title": "Episode 02 — I’m an Iterative Type of Guy", "text": "While writing my next edition of the Friday Notes newsletter (#107), I realized that writing has never been a one-stretch thing for me. It takes countless writing iterations before getting things done. In this episode, I share my anxieties 😰 about writing in general ✍🏻. Plus, a few words about my expectations for the upcoming Apple Event “Wonderlust”! 👀 Links Jean-Louis Gassée\u0026rsquo;s \u0026ldquo;Monday Note\u0026rdquo; newsletter https://mondaynote.com/. Be Inc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Inc.\nTranscript\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-29 17:05:44 -0500", "date": "5:05 p.m. on Aug 29, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/29/episode-im-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F29%2Fepisode-im-an.html" }, { "id": 2057, "type": "transcript", "title": "Episode 02 — I’m an Iterative Type of Guy", "text": "Hi, this is Numeric Citizen and you are listening to the thoughts and tribulations of a compulsive creator podcast.\nThis is episode number two.\nI am an iterative creator type of guy.\nThis week, I\u0026rsquo;m working on my next Friday Notes edition newsletter.\nThis is a newsletter that I started two years ago.\nAnd it used to be a weekly newsletter, as the name implies.\nAnd this is a newsletter that was inspired first by Monday Notes, which is a newsletter that used to be published by Jean-Louis Gasset, which is a former Apple employee and the founder of the Bee computer company back in the days.\nAnd so I was inspired by this idea of creating a newsletter on a weekly basis.\nAnd so instead of going the same way with the Monday Notes, I decided to go and set my schedule to be on the Friday Notes.\nSo I stopped, kind of reduced my publication pace because I couldn\u0026rsquo;t, I didn\u0026rsquo;t have enough inspiration and subjects to write about every week.\nBut I decided to keep it, to keep doing it.\nAnd I\u0026rsquo;m number 100 in edition 107, but I\u0026rsquo;m doing it on a sporadic basis instead.\nAnd the theme for this week\u0026rsquo;s edition was set a while ago, but the problem I have is I\u0026rsquo;m not the guy who is able to sit down at the computer and then write for an hour and get the thing done.\nI\u0026rsquo;m more, I\u0026rsquo;m more in a piece by piece, a paragraph, one paragraph at a time type of guy.\nAnd it\u0026rsquo;s, it\u0026rsquo;s really an iterative process.\nMost of my writing results come from a iterative and somewhat endless process.\nI wish I could write more easily, but it\u0026rsquo;s usually a set of disjoint ideas that eventually will form a coherent piece, but the time it takes for me to write a simple newsletter or an article on my blog, it\u0026rsquo;s way more than I think I should spend time on.\nI\u0026rsquo;m not, I\u0026rsquo;m not sure if I am the only one who has this challenge, but it\u0026rsquo;s not, it\u0026rsquo;s not easy for me to sit down and I\u0026rsquo;m following a lot of bloggers who seem to write, like constantly writing all day, all night.\nAnd, but I know they have a daytime job, but they can, they can put things out there so quickly that it\u0026rsquo;s, I\u0026rsquo;m kind of a feeling that, wow, what am I doing wrong for me to take so long to write a simple piece?\nIt usually starts in craft and ends up in Ulysses before being published.\nAnd I\u0026rsquo;m always, I\u0026rsquo;m getting some help from Grammarly and ChatGPD, and also the macOS built-in dictionary and teaser feature.\nBecause of them, I think I can move faster a bit.\nAnd I think my, my quality, my English quality is kind of a bit better.\nAs you know, maybe you don\u0026rsquo;t know, but I am a French Canadian.\nSo writing and thinking in English, for me, it\u0026rsquo;s not natural.\nSo I have to spend more time than maybe other bloggers or writers.\nSo yeah, that\u0026rsquo;s, that\u0026rsquo;s something that I\u0026rsquo;m stressing a lot about.\nAnd when I\u0026rsquo;m, when I think I\u0026rsquo;m not good for commenting on time-sensitive events, like there is sometimes there\u0026rsquo;s the, the Apple events that happens a few times a year, and it takes me so long to put things together that by the time it gets published, all the attention moved elsewhere.\nSo I\u0026rsquo;m kind of always, I\u0026rsquo;m too late for the party each time.\nSo yeah, it\u0026rsquo;s, I wanted to share this with you guys, if you are listening.\nAnd speaking of which, the Apple event for September of this year has been sent today, as I\u0026rsquo;m speaking earlier today.\nAnd the Wanderlust name they gave to this, this year\u0026rsquo;s fall event, the invite has been sent.\nI wasn\u0026rsquo;t invited.\nI wonder why.\nMaybe my English is not good enough.\nI don\u0026rsquo;t know.\nYeah.\nSo I\u0026rsquo;m, I\u0026rsquo;m really looking forward for this event because first this year, I\u0026rsquo;m going to upgrade my two years old iPhone.\nI have a iPhone 13 Pro and I will go with the Ultra this year.\nIf this is the name they decide to put on this iPhone, I\u0026rsquo;m going to the big phone.\nIt\u0026rsquo;s the first time I\u0026rsquo;ll be using the biggest phone.\nAnd one of the reasons for that is to get the, the better telephoto lens and also a better battery life.\nSo yeah, I\u0026rsquo;m going to, I\u0026rsquo;m in for an upgrade this year.\nI\u0026rsquo;m trying to skip a generation.\nSo yeah, that\u0026rsquo;s, that\u0026rsquo;s my year this year.\nAnd I can\u0026rsquo;t wait for that to, to, to, to watch the, the event.\nAnd also I\u0026rsquo;m expecting that we should get an updated version of the Apple Watch and the Ultra, the Series 9.\nBut I, I do expect to have an update on the Apple Vision Studio.\nI think they will try to, to put a message that the developers are excited about this new platform.\nSo yeah, we should be getting an update about the Apple Vision and I can\u0026rsquo;t wait to see what they are going to talk about.\nSo yeah, this concludes the episode number two, already two episodes.\nDon\u0026rsquo;t be shy and share your thoughts and comments on microblog, mastodon, or on blue sky, where this is cross-posted thanks to microblog\u0026rsquo;s cross-posting feature.\nThanks for listening and please, in this challenging world, in constant crisis and state of emergency, take care until the next episode.\nBye.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-29 17:05:44 -0500", "date": "5:05 p.m. on Aug 29, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/transcripts/2023/08/29/442.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2Ftranscripts%2F2023%2F08%2F29%2F442.html" }, { "id": 2058, "type": "post", "title": "Waiting for the iPhone 15 Ultra", "text": "I’m really looking forward to the iPhone 15 Ultra👀. Coming from the iPhone 13 Pro, I skipped the 14 Pro1; I expect the camera improvements to be tangible. The telephoto lens could see the most significant improvements driving sales of the Ultra to new territories2. Using a periscope architecture, telephoto could jump from 3x to 6x or more. This could be the last thing that makes me sell my Nikon D7503. The softer and rounder edges and titanium finish might make this iPhone the best design of all time4. And, finally, USB-C will certainly simplify charging the damn thing! I wonder if I’ll still be able to use my Lightning Lavalier microphone using a Lightning-to-USB-C adaptor.🤔\nIt will be my first “Max” iPhone. Apparently, I’m on a stretch of going for the bigger screens5.\nI skip a generation to limit my consumerism habits. It’s an environmental issue here.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nKuo’s rumors about periscope lens.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nI depend on a 70-200mm zoom on my Nikon which is very useful on a trip.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nI still thing the best design was the matte black iPhone 7.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nI recently upgraded from the 13-inch MacBook Air to a 15-inch version.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-29 06:51:08 -0500", "date": "6:51 p.m. on Aug 29, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/29/waiting-for-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F29%2Fwaiting-for-the.html" }, { "id": 2059, "type": "post", "title": "Finally Settled on Blog Post Visual Attributes", "text": "After so many years of blogging, I think I have finally settled on the styling of each blog post. 😅 I like to emphasize key words with bold, making it easier to detect what this post is all about. Next is the use of emojis to make things a bit less serious and more approachable.🙂 Next is the selective use of Micro.blog’s post title for longer and more significant posts.1 😜 More recently, I started using footnotes because they add another dimension to the reading experience and are displayed in a nice popup on the site.2\nThis blog post is such an example of using a title.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nFootnotes are far easier to create in Ulysses than in the web interface, tough.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-28 06:00:53 -0500", "date": "6:00 p.m. on Aug 28, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/28/finally-settled-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F28%2Ffinally-settled-on.html" }, { "id": 2060, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nI played with Apple’s Maps Places feature, as shown in the following video. It’s nice, but it’s not exactly intuitive. There are many missing features, like setting a path between places and adding photos to a place within the guide, from the Photos.app for example to name a few. Also, it’s not clear if a shared guide gets updated if new places are added, or places are removed.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-27 19:45:47 -0500", "date": "7:45 p.m. on Aug 27, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/27/i-played-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F27%2Fi-played-with.html" }, { "id": 2061, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " In a world where we all struggle with how much we use our devices (let’s be real, we mean our phones), I think it’s kinda nice to have some places that just give up and tell us, “my dude, you’ve read it all, go do something else.” Source: Let the internet run out\nI relate to this thought so much. Sometimes, enough is just\u0026hellip; enough.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-27 17:03:38 -0500", "date": "5:03 p.m. on Aug 27, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/27/in-a-world.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F27%2Fin-a-world.html" }, { "id": 2062, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nThis morning, I updated my online About page1, taking some ideas from Brian Lovin’s website. The page was built entirely with Craft’s shared document and custom domain name2. I wonder if this is something that Micro.blog should expand on and be added to the premium subscription. Cc @manton\nI probably have too many about page. Another one can be found on Linktr.ee. 🤦🏻‍♂️\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nI should probably do a new YouTube video explaining the process.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-27 09:27:49 -0500", "date": "9:27 p.m. on Aug 27, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/27/this-morning-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F27%2Fthis-morning-i.html" }, { "id": 2063, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I updated my toolset website today1 with three additions under consideration: Digest2, Lazy3 and Heptabase4. The statuses of my current projects were also updated. Thanks for paying a visit.\nUse the table of content at the top of the site to locate the right section. Convenient, heh?\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nTo replace Mailbrew.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nA super-charged “save-for-later” service. Could replace Omnivore or complement it. I put myself on their waiting list.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nA hard-to-define service / apps for supporting research. Could complement Craft. Or not. Another subscription. Gush.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-26 12:15:37 -0500", "date": "12:15 p.m. on Aug 26, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/26/i-updated-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F26%2Fi-updated-my.html" }, { "id": 2064, "type": "post", "title": "One Podcast, Three Looks", "text": "\nI always subscribe to my own content distribution channels for quality control purposes 1. I’m using Overcast, Pocket Cast and Apple Podcast to display my latest podcast episode. In these screenshots, I selected the info button to display the episode details. I’m a paid subscriber of Pocket Cast. I prefer the Pocket Cast display, but it has a caching issue as it doesn’t get the latest podcast artwork, but the other two do2. Bold text is missing on Apple Podcast for some reason. The overcast look is… mildly ugly.\nThis blog post looks like a mini-plug for my podcast. It is.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nThe artwork display issue is also present on the web version of the Pocket Cast player.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-26 11:34:04 -0500", "date": "11:34 p.m. on Aug 26, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/26/one-podcast-three.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F26%2Fone-podcast-three.html" }, { "id": 2065, "type": "post", "title": "Episode 01 — This Is Not a Drill!", "text": "Bad weather 🌧️ means time to the coffee shop for creative work ☕ 👨🏻‍💻 on my next YouTube video about Craft YouTube Integration. I paid a visit to the Apple Store to get my iPhone screen replaced 🛠️. I came out without a replacement; learn why in this episode available on Apple\u0026rsquo;s Podcast. 👀\nTranscript\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-26 08:47:07 -0500", "date": "8:47 p.m. on Aug 26, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/26/episode-this-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F26%2Fepisode-this-is.html" }, { "id": 2066, "type": "transcript", "title": "Episode 01 — This Is Not a Drill!", "text": "Hey, this is Numeric Citizen and you are listening to Thoughts and Tribulation of a Compulsive Creator Podcast.\nThis is not a drill, I repeat, this is not a drill.\nThis is episode number one.\nNow that this podcast is all set, is available on the Apple Podcasts platform, it\u0026rsquo;s time to get this thing started.\nToday, this is Saturday, and I\u0026rsquo;ll probably spend some time at a coffee shop as the weather outside is not going to be great.\nI think coffee shops are a best place for creative work.\nAnd I\u0026rsquo;ll probably be working on the latest update about Craft, which adds the YouTube integration.\nThis is a highly requested feature, and I\u0026rsquo;ll be working to create a new video for my YouTube channel about this integration.\nAnd I think it\u0026rsquo;s probably going to be a game changer for many reasons that I\u0026rsquo;ll explain in my video.\nThis week, I went to the Apple store to get my iPhone screen replaced.\nAnd the reason for that is that because there is three scratches on the surface of the screen.\nAnd since I\u0026rsquo;m going to use the trade-in program to get the new iPhone 15 Pro Ultra, or whatever the name they give to this upcoming iPhone 15 Pro, the credit we get when we return a phone that is in good shape without any problems is about $780 Canadian.\nAnd the reason for replacing the screen is that if you say that there is a scratch on your phone when you insert the small survey when we configured the trade-in, the value of the trade-in goes down to $290 Canadian.\nSo you lose a lot of value because of this.\nSo I took an appointment with the Apple store support guys, and the outcome of this visit was that the screen was not required to be replaced.\nAnd the reason for that is that they consider the scratches to be only cosmetic damage.\nAnd so there is nothing to worry about.\nAnd then I should, when I come back, I\u0026rsquo;m sorry, and then I should set the value of the iPhone condition to be just okay, since it\u0026rsquo;s not a crack in the iPhone screen.\nSo I should be good to go with the full value of the credit.\nSo I\u0026rsquo;ll have to take his words for it, because this is what I\u0026rsquo;m planning to do.\nSo I came out of the Apple store without a new iPhone screen.\nAnd the other problem is, because since I\u0026rsquo;m using the iOS 17 beta, the process of replacing the iPhone requires to run a post replacement diagnostic on the phone.\nAnd it\u0026rsquo;s currently not supported to do that on a phone running a public beta.\nSo I didn\u0026rsquo;t want to revert my phone to iOS 16.\nSo that\u0026rsquo;s why in the end, I decided to keep the iPhone screen like this.\nSo if you are planning to use the credit or the iPhone trading program, when you buy a new iPhone, don\u0026rsquo;t be shy.\nAnd if there is just a few scratches on the screen, just mark it as being okay, and Apple should take it as is without questions.\nSo this means that I\u0026rsquo;m going to, I\u0026rsquo;m getting ready to get this iPhone 15 Pro, the bigger one, this year.\nIt\u0026rsquo;s the first time I\u0026rsquo;m going to use the Max edition.\nI\u0026rsquo;m currently using the iPhone 13, and that\u0026rsquo;s why I wanted to get my screen replaced.\nSo that\u0026rsquo;s it.\nThis concludes the episode one of this short podcast.\nDon\u0026rsquo;t be shy and share your thoughts and comments on microblog, mastodon, and bluesky, where this is cross-posted, thanks to microblog\u0026rsquo;s cross-posting feature.\nAnd thanks for listening.\nIn this challenging world, in constant crisis and state of emergency, please do me a favor and take care until the next episode.\nBye.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-26 08:47:07 -0500", "date": "8:47 p.m. on Aug 26, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/transcripts/2023/08/26/432.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2Ftranscripts%2F2023%2F08%2F26%2F432.html" }, { "id": 2067, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Poll: 1️⃣ iPhone 15 Ultra or 2️⃣ iPhone 15 Pro Ultra? 1 My gut feeling is that if Apple really is going to use the Ultra, it would be tied to the Pro moniker, otherwise this would create confusion.\nI Wish there was a poll feature on Micro.blog 🥺\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-26 07:07:42 -0500", "date": "7:07 p.m. on Aug 26, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/26/poll-iphone-ultra.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F26%2Fpoll-iphone-ultra.html" }, { "id": 2068, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Snell, Gruber, Birchler, and I all agree about the iPad\u0026rsquo;s limits. When we hit one of its limits, it becomes a reason to reconsider. When I started using the MacBook Air, it was when I accepted the simple fact that I would be more productive on the Mac than on the iPad. I love the iPad. This is the device I bring with me on travel, but I do know perfectly that some tasks will need to wait until I return home.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-25 19:15:56 -0500", "date": "7:15 p.m. on Aug 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/25/snell-gruber-birchler.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F25%2Fsnell-gruber-birchler.html" }, { "id": 2069, "type": "post", "title": "On Dark Sky and Apple's Weather", "text": "A Eulogy for Dark Sky, a Data Visualization Masterpiece\nThe design of Dark Sky was so wonderful that I could understand the shape of the weather at a glance, even from a zoomed out view of the app.\nGreat analysis of the now-defunct Dark Sky weather app. I\u0026rsquo;m a bit late on that one. I don\u0026rsquo;t remember using Dark Sky because I think it wasn\u0026rsquo;t working in Canada. I\u0026rsquo;m not sure about this. Once Apple took over and brought the redesigned weather app with iOS 16, we could visually feel the Dark Sky\u0026rsquo;s influence on it. But Apple being Apple, they dropped a few things here and there and made a few things their own. I tend to use Carrot Weather more, but recently, I deep-dived into Apple\u0026rsquo;s Weather, and frankly, they did a good job. Yet, there was something unique in Dark Sky that I don\u0026rsquo;t feel in Apple\u0026rsquo;s offerings. Is it too close to the Yahoo Weather look \u0026amp; feel? Maybe.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-25 18:23:28 -0500", "date": "6:23 p.m. on Aug 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/25/on-dark-sky.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F25%2Fon-dark-sky.html" }, { "id": 2070, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " We’re truly honoured to be able to announce that we have taken over development of Toolbox Pro, Logger for Shortcuts, and Nautomate. Source: Toolbox Pro, Logger for Shortcuts, and Nautomate | Snailed It Development Ltd\nIt is good to know that there is a future for this nifty utility. I plan to use it for a project involving Plausible analytics API consumption to display graphs using Chartyon my iPhone.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-25 18:02:51 -0500", "date": "6:02 p.m. on Aug 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/25/were-truly-honoured.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F25%2Fwere-truly-honoured.html" }, { "id": 2071, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m a big fan of AnyBox (YouTube video) and in the latest update (v1.27), information density increased a bit. I love it. 😍\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-25 18:00:00 -0500", "date": "6:00 p.m. on Aug 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/25/im-a-big.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F25%2Fim-a-big.html" }, { "id": 2072, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Getting ready for the next podcast edition, episode number uno! Fun or not-fun fact: Apple\u0026rsquo;s Podcast Connect doesn\u0026rsquo;t support \u0026ldquo;Sign in with Apple\u0026rdquo;. Weird.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-25 06:45:33 -0500", "date": "6:45 p.m. on Aug 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/25/getting-ready-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F25%2Fgetting-ready-for.html" }, { "id": 2073, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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\u0026rsquo;t know how to make this thing revert to the normal size keyboard. Easy to make it disappear, but when it comes back, it\u0026rsquo;s still the small version. Very annoying to type on this.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-24 20:39:09 -0500", "date": "8:39 p.m. on Aug 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/24/am-i-alone.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F24%2Fam-i-alone.html" }, { "id": 2074, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m probably the only one, but I liked the Touch Bar on my 2017 MacBook Pro at work. 🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-24 20:29:41 -0500", "date": "8:29 p.m. on Aug 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/24/im-probably-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F24%2Fim-probably-the.html" }, { "id": 2075, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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…\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-24 11:20:46 -0500", "date": "11:20 p.m. on Aug 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/24/at-the-food.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F24%2Fat-the-food.html" }, { "id": 2076, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-24 10:54:29 -0500", "date": "10:54 p.m. on Aug 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/24/working-at-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F24%2Fworking-at-the.html" }, { "id": 2077, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve been working on this for my podcast. You can tell that I’m no graphic designer. 😆\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-24 07:40:18 -0500", "date": "7:40 p.m. on Aug 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/24/ive-been-working.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F24%2Five-been-working.html" }, { "id": 2078, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I glanced at photographers and photos on Glass this morning and realized that most photographers are men. Is it reflective of the photographers\u0026rsquo; community in general? Photography is a men\u0026rsquo;s world?? I\u0026rsquo;d love to see more women because of their different sensibilities.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-24 05:45:45 -0500", "date": "5:45 p.m. on Aug 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/24/i-glanced-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F24%2Fi-glanced-at.html" }, { "id": 2079, "type": "post", "title": "Learned Something New Today", "text": "Today, while reading this blog post, I found out that we could have a \u0026ldquo;popup\u0026rdquo; 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! 🫶🏻\nYou can find it here, on Gitbub.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\nThanks to @dandycat for your help.\u0026#160;\u0026#x21a9;\u0026#xfe0e;\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-23 19:56:27 -0500", "date": "7:56 p.m. on Aug 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/23/learned-something-new.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F23%2Flearned-something-new.html" }, { "id": 2080, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don\u0026rsquo;t care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven\u0026rsquo;t been thinking of us at all.” — Ann Landers\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-23 14:59:57 -0500", "date": "2:59 p.m. on Aug 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/23/at-age-we.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F23%2Fat-age-we.html" }, { "id": 2081, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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. 📷\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-23 14:36:21 -0500", "date": "2:36 p.m. on Aug 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/23/i-decided-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F23%2Fi-decided-to.html" }, { "id": 2082, "type": "post", "title": "Sorry But No Sympathy for Russian", "text": "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.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-23 13:34:55 -0500", "date": "1:34 p.m. on Aug 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/23/sorry-but-no.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F23%2Fsorry-but-no.html" }, { "id": 2083, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "These transcript links give 404. Is this normal? Editing works fine, though. cc @help @manton\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-23 06:54:50 -0500", "date": "6:54 p.m. on Aug 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/23/these-transcript-links.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F23%2Fthese-transcript-links.html" }, { "id": 2084, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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 \u0026ldquo;what we should work on next\u0026rdquo;. I\u0026rsquo;m a subscriber of CleanShot Cloud, and yes, I want a few improvements. If only Craft would change their mind\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-22 21:01:54 -0500", "date": "9:01 p.m. on Aug 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/22/craft-docs-vs.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F22%2Fcraft-docs-vs.html" }, { "id": 2085, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Mmmm, 🤔 for some reason, my Microblog RSS feeds are not updated to reflect my latest posts\u0026hellip; Trying to rebuild the whole site. Any ideas @manton @help ?\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-22 20:27:08 -0500", "date": "8:27 p.m. on Aug 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/22/mmmm-for-some.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F22%2Fmmmm-for-some.html" }, { "id": 2086, "type": "post", "title": "Pilot Episode #2 — Testing, Testing, Testing, 1-2-3", "text": "This is the second pilot episode of my brand-new podcast (“Thoughts \u0026amp; 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! 🤯\nTranscript\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-22 20:04:49 -0500", "date": "8:04 p.m. on Aug 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/22/pilot-episode-testing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F22%2Fpilot-episode-testing.html" }, { "id": 2087, "type": "transcript", "title": "Pilot Episode #2 — Testing, Testing, Testing, 1-2-3", "text": "Hi, this is Numeric Citizen, and you are listening to the Thoughts and Tribulation from a Compulsive Creator podcast.\nThis is episode number zero.\nYep, this is episode zero.\nFirst pilot episode was terrible, but I\u0026rsquo;m working hard to improve things.\nIt sounded terrible because of the room configuration, my microphone setup on the iPhone, and also I think it was obvious that I was reading something.\nSo I think it wasn\u0026rsquo;t very good, and it wasn\u0026rsquo;t where I thought it should be.\nSo now I made some change to the configuration.\nNow I\u0026rsquo;m recording on the Mac with ScreenFlow.\nI\u0026rsquo;m using the same microphone, but this time I enabled the voice isolation feature of macOS, so it should be better.\nAnd since I\u0026rsquo;m recording in ScreenFlow, the post-processing should be faster, but I\u0026rsquo;ll have to use a utility called Permute, which will allow me to convert the audio file from MP4 to an MP3 file, and then I\u0026rsquo;ll have to use a website called TagMP3, where I can set the ID3 meta tags required for a podcast file.\nI think my experience with my first post on microblog is a success.\nIt\u0026rsquo;s easy to create a new blog post and attach the audio file and then set the title, which is important here to have a title to a specific episode.\nAnd I think microblog is very simple, straightforward, and the RSS feed is taken care of.\nThe thing that I find a bit strange, though, is that the podcast RSS feed contains everything that you post on microblog.\nI know that because I subscribe to my own feed in Reader, and I was surprised to find that the content of the feed is way more than I thought it would be.\nI thought it would be only the post with an audio file.\nThe other thing that I am currently having a problem with is Podcast Connect, which seems to be stuck at processing the podcast details.\nI\u0026rsquo;m not sure why.\nI\u0026rsquo;ll let it go for a few days and see where it goes.\nI hope this second try will be much better, with much better sound.\nThis concludes this episode number zero, and don\u0026rsquo;t be shy and share your thoughts or comments on microblog, Mastodon, and BlueSky, where this is cross-posted automatically thanks to microblog\u0026rsquo;s cross-posting feature.\nAgain, thanks for listening, and please, in this challenging and constantly in crisis world where a state of emergency is omnipresent, take care.\nUntil the next episode, bye.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-22 20:04:49 -0500", "date": "8:04 p.m. on Aug 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/transcripts/2023/08/22/422.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2Ftranscripts%2F2023%2F08%2F22%2F422.html" }, { "id": 2088, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Tempted to install macOS Sonoma Beta 6 on my shiny new 15-inch MacBook Air\u0026hellip; I like to be at the cutting edge of software releases\u0026hellip; 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 \u0026ldquo;you\u0026rsquo;re mileage may vary\u0026rdquo;, \u0026ldquo;go ahead at your own risk\u0026rdquo;, etc.?\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-22 13:56:26 -0500", "date": "1:56 p.m. on Aug 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/22/tempted-to-install.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F22%2Ftempted-to-install.html" }, { "id": 2089, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-22 05:27:43 -0500", "date": "5:27 p.m. on Aug 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/22/it-was-fun.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F22%2Fit-was-fun.html" }, { "id": 2090, "type": "transcript", "title": "Introducing the “Thoughts \u0026 Tribulations from a Compulsive Creator” Podcast", "text": "Hi, this is Numeric Citizen, and you are listening to a pilot episode of the upcoming podcast Thoughts and Tribulation from a Compulsive Creator.\nThis episode, this is episode number minus one, where I\u0026rsquo;m testing the podcast hosting feature of the excellent blog hosting service, Microblog.\nThis podcast is one of my many creative projects.\nYou might know that I\u0026rsquo;m a blogger here on Microblog, but elsewhere too, I probably have way too many websites, and I also share photos on two photo sharing platforms, Glass, and I started sharing photos more recently on Pixel Fed, which I like a lot.\nThis episode aims to test the publishing process to Microblog and how it goes out in a podcast player like PocketCast.\nDepending on the outcome following the publication of this pilot episode, I\u0026rsquo;ll make adjustments and try another one, which should be episode number zero.\nI expect to make this podcast available on Apple\u0026rsquo;s platform sooner than later, and I expect each episode to be no more than five minutes in length.\nFor those who are curious, recording is done using Ferrite, the excellent audio recording app for the iPhone and the iPad.\nI\u0026rsquo;m recording that on my iPhone 13 Pro with a Lavalier microphone.\nI\u0026rsquo;m not sure if I\u0026rsquo;m pronouncing it correctly, though.\nMost of what you\u0026rsquo;ll be listening to in the future shouldn\u0026rsquo;t be scripted, but if it is scripted, I\u0026rsquo;ll be using cue cards built with IE Presenter from the makers of the excellent text editor, IE Writer, and I intend to keep post-editing to a minimum to keep the burden of podcast production at the minimum level.\nNow, a few questions.\nHow many podcasts can Hearth sustain?\nWhy create another one?\nWho cares?\nWell, I don\u0026rsquo;t need to find an answer to this question.\nI\u0026rsquo;ll do it anyway.\nI\u0026rsquo;m not expecting to publish on a regular basis, only when I feel something is worth sharing about my everlasting creative journey using apps, services, and different devices, and when the audio format is the best for the content I want to share.\nI think Podcast Medium is suitable for sharing some in-the-moment thoughts, and I feel it fits perfectly my microblog\u0026rsquo;s mission.\nI think it could be a great complement to my blogs, too.\nIt\u0026rsquo;s not my first experience with podcasting.\nI did have one in French a while ago, but it didn\u0026rsquo;t take off.\nIt required way too many takes and took way too much post-processing editing.\nI had enough after only 15 episodes.\nYou can no longer find those episodes on the web.\nThat\u0026rsquo;s pretty much it for this pilot episode.\nDon\u0026rsquo;t be shy and share your thoughts or comments on microblog, Mastodon, and BlueSky, where this is cross-posted thanks to microblog\u0026rsquo;s cross-posting feature.\nThanks for listening to the whole episode.\nEither you\u0026rsquo;re just curious, or even better, you care about what I\u0026rsquo;m doing here in cyberspace.\nPlease, in this world constantly in crisis and in a state of emergency, take care until the next episode.\nBye.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-21 21:00:24 -0500", "date": "9:00 p.m. on Aug 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/transcripts/2023/08/21/419.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2Ftranscripts%2F2023%2F08%2F21%2F419.html" }, { "id": 2091, "type": "post", "title": "Introducing the Thoughts \u0026 Tribulations of a Compulsive Creator Podcast", "text": "I’m excited to introduce something new: a podcast. 🎙️Something short \u0026amp; 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. 😊\nTranscript\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-21 21:00:24 -0500", "date": "9:00 p.m. on Aug 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/21/introducing-the-thoughts.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F21%2Fintroducing-the-thoughts.html" }, { "id": 2092, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-21 13:29:21 -0500", "date": "1:29 p.m. on Aug 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/21/this-week-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F21%2Fthis-week-i.html" }, { "id": 2093, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-21 06:41:11 -0500", "date": "6:41 p.m. on Aug 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/21/made-some-visual.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F21%2Fmade-some-visual.html" }, { "id": 2094, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As a subscriber to Pocket Cast, I would love to be able to use the iPad version on my Apple Silicon Mac. It\u0026rsquo;s currently not possible. Yes, there is a web version, but an app is much better. Overcast, a very popular alternative, is available for the Mac but is not native. But I\u0026rsquo;m ok with that; it\u0026rsquo;s better than nothing. How much effort does it require to make an iPad app available on the Mac without having to depend on Catalyst? 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-20 19:20:02 -0500", "date": "7:20 p.m. on Aug 20, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/20/as-a-subscriber.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F20%2Fas-a-subscriber.html" }, { "id": 2095, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Glass questions at 2 years\nThere are effectively no success stories for Glass’s current business model. Small clones of Instagram and Twitter usually fail. To break out, there has to be something fundamentally different. For Micro.blog, the answer is simple: we are a social network but our business is blog hosting, a proven model. For Glass, the answer is less clear: they care deeply about photography, community, and design. I think the founders deserve a lot of credit for creating something beautiful. Is that enough?\nMy recent enthusiasm for Pixelfed comes down to being a good alternative to Instagram, open and not afflicted by a toxic business model. It might become a good alternative to Glass too if the latter doesn\u0026rsquo;t open up a little bit more to the modern world, post Meta-as-we-know-it.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-20 19:05:56 -0500", "date": "7:05 p.m. on Aug 20, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/20/glass-questions-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F20%2Fglass-questions-at.html" }, { "id": 2096, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m back with a new video about Micro.blog. This time, I explore the use of Categories and Tags. I hope you find it useful to better make use of Micro.blog features. Enjoy. Comments welcome, here or on my YouTube channel. Next up, something about\u0026hellip; podcasts 👀. Stay tuned. 😀 ", "dateiso": "2023-08-20 12:32:08 -0500", "date": "12:32 p.m. on Aug 20, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/20/im-back-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F20%2Fim-back-with.html" }, { "id": 2097, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A commentary video about Craft updates while waiting for the next wow moments for Craft. An update is supposedly coming out this week. My expectations are low. ", "dateiso": "2023-08-20 06:50:50 -0500", "date": "6:50 p.m. on Aug 20, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/20/a-commentary-video.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F20%2Fa-commentary-video.html" }, { "id": 2098, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today marks the day I\u0026rsquo;m returning to the regular schedule for YouTube video production. Next videos in the pipeline: an update about the lack of meaningful updates to Craft in recent months and what this could possibly mean for Craft users. Then, working with Categories and Tags in Micro.blog. Busy week-end. 😅\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-19 07:54:52 -0500", "date": "7:54 p.m. on Aug 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/19/today-marks-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F19%2Ftoday-marks-the.html" }, { "id": 2099, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Powerful hurricane Hilary headed toward the US southwest. Always impressive to see this from space. Less interesting is getting hit by it if you\u0026rsquo;re in this region.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-18 13:19:37 -0500", "date": "1:19 p.m. on Aug 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/18/powerful-hurricane-hilary.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F18%2Fpowerful-hurricane-hilary.html" }, { "id": 2100, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Trying to figure out robots.txt file format using freely available robots.txt generators on the web. My goal is to exclude this blog from being crawled by YandexBot. Is this file (safe link) achieving this? Seems counterintuitive in my mind. Oh, and do you think it\u0026rsquo;s a bad idea to block Yandex from crawling? Seems to be feeding other search engines like DuckDuckGo\u0026hellip; Thanks for your input!\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-18 06:25:22 -0500", "date": "6:25 p.m. on Aug 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/18/trying-to-figure.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F18%2Ftrying-to-figure.html" }, { "id": 2101, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Trying to post one or two or more of my pictures to Pixelfed every day so that I can move out of Smugmug by next year. It\u0026rsquo;s tedious, but it\u0026rsquo;s fun because I chose to add textual context to each image whenever possible. This wasn\u0026rsquo;t possible on Smugmug. 😅\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-18 05:58:08 -0500", "date": "5:58 p.m. on Aug 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/18/trying-to-post.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F18%2Ftrying-to-post.html" }, { "id": 2102, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;d love to buy one of these, simply because it\u0026rsquo;s a great object of art and design.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-17 06:03:07 -0500", "date": "6:03 p.m. on Aug 17, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/17/id-love-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F17%2Fid-love-to.html" }, { "id": 2103, "type": "post", "title": "Dear Original iMac, I Barely Knew You", "text": "Happy 25th anniversary, iMac! As I started documenting in my series about remembering every Mac I ever owned, in 1998, I wasn\u0026rsquo;t invested in Apple\u0026rsquo;s ecosystem at all. I was a \u0026ldquo;PC\u0026rdquo; guy because of my job. Right before the iMac came out, I got rid of my Power Mac 7100 in 1996. I barely saw the iMac in stores or public spaces where a computer was made available for things like web surfing. What an iconic but somewhat weird-retro-style computer.\nIsn\u0026rsquo;t the starting point of USB ports for the masses? Thanks, Apple.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-16 20:15:23 -0500", "date": "8:15 p.m. on Aug 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/16/dear-original-imac.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F16%2Fdear-original-imac.html" }, { "id": 2104, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finding a well-designed, non-bulky, sturdy iPhone bike holder seems mission impossible. Searching this on Amazon is even harder, with all the paid sponsors/scammers filling all possible space. The one from Peak Design product seems great, but I will have to wait for the iPhone 15 Pro Max case to come out!\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-16 20:02:17 -0500", "date": "8:02 p.m. on Aug 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/16/finding-a-welldesigned.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F16%2Ffinding-a-welldesigned.html" }, { "id": 2105, "type": "post", "title": "The Apple Way ", "text": "I just went through the complete process of an Apple Trade-In for the return of my \u0026ldquo;old\u0026rdquo; 13-inch MacBook Air after getting my brand new 15-inch MacBook Air. I\u0026rsquo;m super impressed by the logistics behind all of it and how the user (me) is guided in the process. The final step was to cancel the AppleCare+ that I originally bought with my old device. Took a 5 min call from somewhere in Texas. The call was automatically initiated from a web form I filled out by selecting a few options. Got a confirmation email before the call and after stating the actual amount of the refund. All done. Great user experience. The next time will be for the replacement of my iPhone 13 Pro with the upcoming iPhone 15 Pro. 😃\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-16 11:57:09 -0500", "date": "11:57 p.m. on Aug 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/16/the-apple-way.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F16%2Fthe-apple-way.html" }, { "id": 2106, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "★ Holy Hell, Trump Did Use Twitter Direct Messages, There Were ‘Many’ of Them, and the Special Counsel Now Has Them\nhttps://daringfireball.net/2023/08/holy_hell_trump_did_use_dms\nReader: mastodon.social daringfireball.net Daring Fireball https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/110897198691524215\rThe situation with Trump and his extensive use of Twitter and how Twitter responded to the search warrant/court order confirms that leaving Twitter was one of my best decision in a long time. Twitter\u0026rsquo;s actions to protect Trump are disgusting (telling him that there is a search warrant targeting his use of the platform). I cannot, in good faith, be on such platforms.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-16 06:25:58 -0500", "date": "6:25 p.m. on Aug 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/16/holy-hell-trump.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F16%2Fholy-hell-trump.html" }, { "id": 2107, "type": "post", "title": "An Observation About the Photos From IPPAWARDS Winners of 2023", "text": "I forgot to linkpost to the IPPAWARDS winners of 2023. Lot\u0026rsquo;s of great photos. Really. Twenty photos come from the iPhone 12 series (which came out in 2020). Five from the iPhone 13 series and another five from the iPhone 7 (which came out in 2016). Only four from the iPhone 14 series. What can we conclude from this? It doesn\u0026rsquo;t matter which camera you\u0026rsquo;ve got. The best one is the one you\u0026rsquo;ve got with you at the right place and time. Period.\nIn case you didn\u0026rsquo;t know, the iPhone 15 is coming soon.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-16 05:57:08 -0500", "date": "5:57 p.m. on Aug 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/16/an-observation-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F16%2Fan-observation-about.html" }, { "id": 2108, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If US legal institutions cannot take down Trump, then this country is in a dire situation.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-15 21:06:13 -0500", "date": "9:06 p.m. on Aug 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/15/if-us-legal.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F15%2Fif-us-legal.html" }, { "id": 2109, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I made many updates to my Complete Content Creator Toolset to reflect recent additions and removals. If you are curious about the apps and services that I\u0026rsquo;m using, this is the place to watch!\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-15 06:18:51 -0500", "date": "6:18 p.m. on Aug 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/15/i-made-many.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F15%2Fi-made-many.html" }, { "id": 2110, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Creating a Custom Branded File Sharing Service for Free mattlangford.comReader: mattlangford.com Matt Langford https://mattlangford.com/2023/07/27/creating-a-custom.html\rThanks to @Mtt, I completed my version in about an hour.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-15 05:42:50 -0500", "date": "5:42 p.m. on Aug 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/15/creating-a-custom.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F15%2Fcreating-a-custom.html" }, { "id": 2111, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s funny and cool how I\u0026rsquo;m slowly but surely rebuilding my social graph with people who fled X to Mastodon and Pixelfed. I feel at home again.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-14 20:17:37 -0500", "date": "8:17 p.m. on Aug 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/14/its-funny-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F14%2Fits-funny-and.html" }, { "id": 2112, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Say hello to hello@numericcitizen.me!. Finally decided to spend some time making my hello@numericcitizen.me work using the iCloud+ Custom Mail domain. Works great so far. Come and say hi!\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-13 19:25:10 -0500", "date": "7:25 p.m. on Aug 13, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/13/say-hello-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F13%2Fsay-hello-to.html" }, { "id": 2113, "type": "post", "title": "On Being Locked Out of an Apple ID Account", "text": "Being locked out of an Apple ID account is probably one of the worst nightmares I could imagine. This story (Reddit link) makes me pause for a bit. If you spend some time reading the comments thread, it seems the original poster doesn\u0026rsquo;t tell the whole story. There are some grey zones here. Nonetheless, the possibility of losing complete access to my previously purchased and subscribed content is really something that I wouldn\u0026rsquo;t want. I would feel helpless.\nMike Rockwell\u0026rsquo;s comment on the subject:\nI hope we’re nearing a future where you can realistically use an iPhone without an Apple ID at all — replacing all of Apple’s services, including the App Store, with independent alternatives.\nMike\u0026rsquo;s wishes are not going to be fulfilled anytime soon. Even with alternative authentication mechanisms and third-party stores, the prospect of losing access to previously purchased content is real. Somehow I think the government should step in and ask companies to provide secure content recovery means.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-13 16:52:38 -0500", "date": "4:52 p.m. on Aug 13, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/13/on-being-locked.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F13%2Fon-being-locked.html" }, { "id": 2114, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I decided to add a small collection of mini reviews that I read from time to time to my digital garden. The first two to make it to the collection: Matt Birchler’s comments about Ulysses and possible free and similar alternatives. The second is Manton’s comments on text editors for developers or other text manipulation.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-13 09:26:35 -0500", "date": "9:26 p.m. on Aug 13, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/13/i-decided-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F13%2Fi-decided-to.html" }, { "id": 2115, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m thinking of creating an email address like hello@numericcitizen.me using iCloud+. I\u0026rsquo;m not sure it\u0026rsquo;s worth the hassle, though. I\u0026rsquo;ll had to tweak the setup a bit for it to work with my current DNS settings at CloudFlare.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-11 07:17:30 -0500", "date": "7:17 p.m. on Aug 11, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/11/im-thinking-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F11%2Fim-thinking-of.html" }, { "id": 2116, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I don\u0026rsquo;t like these two \u0026ldquo;disconnected\u0026rdquo; visual elements: the menu bar from the dropdown menu. The highlighted portion of the menu bar and the menu itself. There, I said it. On a positive note: on recent MacBook Air like mine, I love the rounded screen corners.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-10 19:45:20 -0500", "date": "7:45 p.m. on Aug 10, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/10/i-dont-like.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F10%2Fi-dont-like.html" }, { "id": 2117, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Every single day, I read a new post by Pixelfed about upcoming features, additions or redesign. The list is too long to write here (and to build!). All apps are in beta. It\u0026rsquo;s a maturing platform / service for sure, but man, ship it already, stop the talk!\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-10 19:28:20 -0500", "date": "7:28 p.m. on Aug 10, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/10/every-single-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F10%2Fevery-single-day.html" }, { "id": 2118, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Call for comments: those with a recent MacBook with a notch, what utility are you using to make it \u0026ldquo;disappear\u0026rdquo;? TopNotch doesn\u0026rsquo;t work on the latest macOS release for me. I\u0026rsquo;m unsure if this is because it conflicts with another utility (like Bartender).\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-10 05:51:09 -0500", "date": "5:51 p.m. on Aug 10, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/10/call-for-comments.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F10%2Fcall-for-comments.html" }, { "id": 2119, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Running beta5 of Sonoma on my soon-to-be returned MacBook Air. I\u0026rsquo;m not so sure this thing is quite ready yet. I\u0026rsquo;ll wait a few more betas before installing Sonoma on my new MacBook Air.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-09 20:49:38 -0500", "date": "8:49 p.m. on Aug 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/09/running-beta-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F09%2Frunning-beta-of.html" }, { "id": 2120, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I think I\u0026rsquo;ll use my previous MacBook Air to test Sonoma this week-end before returning it to Apple! Who knows what will break.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-09 06:39:49 -0500", "date": "6:39 p.m. on Aug 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/09/i-think-ill.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F09%2Fi-think-ill.html" }, { "id": 2121, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I just enabled cross-posting from Micro.blog to my Pixelfed account. I\u0026rsquo;m not sure I\u0026rsquo;ll use it, simply because I don\u0026rsquo;t post that many photos here. I prefer to use a dedicated service for photography. But who knows, it might come in handy at some point. Thanks, @manton, for being so quick to add these features!\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-09 06:32:41 -0500", "date": "6:32 p.m. on Aug 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/09/i-just-enabled.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F09%2Fi-just-enabled.html" }, { "id": 2122, "type": "post", "title": "On Apple's Migration Assistant", "text": "Ok, can we agree that Apple\u0026rsquo;s Migration Assistant is magical? 🤯 After the new Mac got updated, it was required to match the version of the source Mac. It took about 45 minutes to transfer 375GB of data (with a peak speed of 650MB/s over Thunderbolt 4 cable), and boom. Of course, I had all those required permissions to be set again. But, wow, writing this on my brand new 15-inch MacBook Air this morning. It was my first experience with this process of getting a new Mac set up. I already feel at home on this machine.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-09 06:01:48 -0500", "date": "6:01 p.m. on Aug 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/09/on-apples-migration.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F09%2Fon-apples-migration.html" }, { "id": 2123, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Yep. 😎\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-08 19:44:27 -0500", "date": "7:44 p.m. on Aug 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/08/yep.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F08%2Fyep.html" }, { "id": 2124, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m seeing a lot more AirPods Max than I used to.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-08 16:18:37 -0500", "date": "4:18 p.m. on Aug 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/08/im-seeing-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F08%2Fim-seeing-a.html" }, { "id": 2125, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Decided to move PocketCast on my first iPhone homescreen so that I increase my podcasts listening. I under utilize this great app for which I’m a subscriber. I’m not sure it will move the needle.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-08 08:57:17 -0500", "date": "8:57 p.m. on Aug 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/08/decided-to-move.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F08%2Fdecided-to-move.html" }, { "id": 2126, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On my last flight heading back to Montreal. This is where, for me, the iPad shines. Hey @manton look carefully at what is on my iPad screen\u0026hellip; 👀 Ask @jean, she will explain to you what I\u0026rsquo;d like to do eventually with you.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-08 06:03:14 -0500", "date": "6:03 p.m. on Aug 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/08/on-my-last.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F08%2Fon-my-last.html" }, { "id": 2127, "type": "post", "title": "Apple Should Introduce FlightPlay™ ", "text": "Recently, while on a flight with United from Tenerife to Newark, I played with the infotainment screen in front of me. These infotainment systems really improved in recent years. Screens are bigger, speed is much faster, and interaction has improved quite a bit. Some of these systems look like iPad-in-the-seat, literally. It occurred to me that Apple while offering CarPlay, could try to find a way to create a version for flight infotainment systems. Let\u0026rsquo;s call it FlightPlay because Flighty is already used, and AirPlay, too!\nI want each plane to offer a complete set of flight data, ready to be consumed by my iPad or iPhone while in flight via a local wifi network. The iPhone or the iPad would then turn into a special StandBy mode where data would be visually presented dynamically, allowing for great interactions with the user. Modern devices have so much powerful CPU, the interaction would be much more fluid and enjoyable. The data provided would be based on a standard model and would provide speed, altitude, current destination, path, atmosphere metrics (temp, headwind speed, etc.), and so much more. The airplane company could directly provide TV shows, music, etc., to our devices. The same would be for games. But Apple could also allow consumption of locally stored content from the device itself. I can imagine Apple\u0026rsquo;s designers working on a great graphical dashboard.\nIs anybody at Apple reading this? What are you waiting for?\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-08 05:59:57 -0500", "date": "5:59 p.m. on Aug 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/08/apple-should-introduce.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F08%2Fapple-should-introduce.html" }, { "id": 2128, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thought of the day: sometimes, what you decide not to do is as important as what you decide to do! For bloggers and writers, for me at least, writing is fundamental to my existence, publishing and sharing, a lot less. I have many unfinished pieces that probably will never be shared with the world. And that is ok.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-07 18:44:44 -0500", "date": "6:44 p.m. on Aug 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/07/thought-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F07%2Fthought-of-the.html" }, { "id": 2129, "type": "post", "title": "My Non-Review of Apple's Latest Betas", "text": "Earlier this summer, when Apple\u0026rsquo;s OSes were at Beta 3, I installed iPadOS 17 on my iPad to test the latest improvements and additions to a maligned OS. Maybe I was bored too. I started gathering my notes, thinking that it would be part of a mini review. Then I upgraded my iPhone because my experience with iPadOS 17 was good for a beta. Then I upgraded both of my Apple Watch (Series 4 and Series 8). Then my two Apple TVs. All is good, and generally speaking, these are all great improvements to what can be considered a set of mature OSes. I tried to put my observations together, but I don\u0026rsquo;t think it\u0026rsquo;s worth it. Besides having the general impression of getting a new Apple Watch, thanks to Apple, who dare to revisit many fundamental aspects of the UI and many micro-interactions with watchOS 10, for all other platforms, most of the changes are great and show that Apple is headed in the right direction. Your mileage may vary, and this is ok. The end.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-07 18:35:55 -0500", "date": "6:35 p.m. on Aug 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/07/my-nonreview-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F07%2Fmy-nonreview-of.html" }, { "id": 2130, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It took Adobe Lightroom on my iPad Pro all morning to upload all my 350 photos to Adobe\u0026rsquo;s cloud. That is SLOWWWW! How does semi-pro photographers (or even amateurs) endure this? My upload experience always has been consistently slow with Adobe\u0026rsquo;s products. Am I alone?\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-07 12:14:20 -0500", "date": "12:14 p.m. on Aug 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/07/it-took-adobe.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F07%2Fit-took-adobe.html" }, { "id": 2131, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Two used, two more to go. I accidentally dropped my Apple Pencil on the floor while getting my iPad in a security tray at the airport. Just like for toasts, they always fall on the wrong side. 😩\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-07 08:50:12 -0500", "date": "8:50 p.m. on Aug 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/07/two-used-two.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F07%2Ftwo-used-two.html" }, { "id": 2132, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Back home. 😀 I have so many things to work on. It’s a typical return from vacation mood.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-07 07:19:08 -0500", "date": "7:19 p.m. on Aug 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/07/back-home-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F07%2Fback-home-i.html" }, { "id": 2133, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "There is a lot to say about this new terminal A. Chairs with integrated cup holders, accessible charging ports (USB-A, USB-C, std power outlet), big information display panels with clear directions, easy to ear speakers, etc. I love this place! Remaining problem: too low temperature everywhere we go in the US. They are crazy to set temperature at 70-72F. It is fucking too cold!!! And not environmentally friendly.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-07 04:34:45 -0500", "date": "4:34 p.m. on Aug 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/07/there-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F07%2Fthere-is-a.html" }, { "id": 2134, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just went through the security at Newark Airport’s new terminal A. Boy the scanners are so cool. The personal see our bags in 3D and can swipe the thing on a big screen! Impressive. Very efficient but technology has limits and that might explain why the guy wanted to open my bag for further inspection. 🤨😱🕵🏻\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-07 04:02:29 -0500", "date": "4:02 p.m. on Aug 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/07/just-went-through.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F07%2Fjust-went-through.html" }, { "id": 2135, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " Sketch, the Mac vector app used by over a million people, recently invited me to adjudicate their most recent #SketchDesignChallenge. But not wanting to miss out on the fun (even though I can\u0026rsquo;t win because I am a judge\u0026hellip; whatever\u0026hellip;), I still booted up the app and created a widget of my own: Widget Radio. Source: Widget Radio — Basic Apple Guy\nI follow Basic Apple Guy since his beginning. The quality of his work never ceases to impress me. He is so good that he was invited by the makers of Sketch! And boy did I like the iPod radio feature!\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-06 16:34:07 -0500", "date": "4:34 p.m. on Aug 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/06/sketch-the-mac.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F06%2Fsketch-the-mac.html" }, { "id": 2136, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Rumors of an M3-based MacBook Air are already being shared\u0026hellip; which I find surprising and troubling as I\u0026rsquo;m going to pick up my brand new M2 15-inch MacBook Air this Thursday. I know the drill\u0026hellip; and yet\u0026hellip; Sigh.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-06 16:26:19 -0500", "date": "4:26 p.m. on Aug 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/06/rumors-of-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F06%2Frumors-of-an.html" }, { "id": 2137, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " I want to stay in my holiday bubble and live a life of sun, sea sand and little to no worries. Source: Greg Morris - Back To Work\nI return to work, tomorrow at noon. I can relate to what Greg was feeling.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-06 16:21:50 -0500", "date": "4:21 p.m. on Aug 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/06/i-want-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F06%2Fi-want-to.html" }, { "id": 2138, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Spending the rest of the day at a hotel near the Newark airport. Hotels like this one are dull x 1000.😞 Our next flight is very early tomorrow morning, leaving no time to go to Manhattan for dinner, sadly.😒 UberEat for lunch tonight, Indian food, which we love a lot! 😊 Should be arriving home in the middle of Monday morning. A quick shower and hop go to work!\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-06 15:46:32 -0500", "date": "3:46 p.m. on Aug 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/06/spending-the-rest.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F06%2Fspending-the-rest.html" }, { "id": 2139, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Each passage in an airport is a reminder how bad signs design and positioning can be. Is there any airport designer on earth?\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-06 04:12:59 -0500", "date": "4:12 p.m. on Aug 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/06/101259.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F06%2F101259.html" }, { "id": 2140, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Each passage in an airport is a reminder of how useful Flighty can be.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-06 03:24:12 -0500", "date": "3:24 p.m. on Aug 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/06/each-passage-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F06%2Feach-passage-in.html" }, { "id": 2141, "type": "post", "title": "Adding Bookmarks to my Blog", "text": "I decided to expose my Micro.blog bookmarks, in the spirit of the “open blogger” movement (“I’m an open Blogger”), I think it’s a good thing to let other people know a portion of what I find interesting. The recently introduced tags for bookmarks is an indication that the premium feature continues to grow in functionality and usefulness. I\u0026rsquo;m happy with that. I didn\u0026rsquo;t play with the formatting, leaving the default one in place.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-05 13:32:38 -0500", "date": "1:32 p.m. on Aug 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/05/adding-bookmarks-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F05%2Fadding-bookmarks-to.html" }, { "id": 2142, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It is with sadness that I’m spending the last few hours of my full day in Tenerife. It was a great nine days trip to a country that I knew nothing about. Over the course of my stay, I managed to complete the full circle of the island. The south shore is much warmer and more humid than the north shore. Tenerife is a Spain territory and it\u0026rsquo;s a good thing! I love Spain food so much!\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-05 13:26:38 -0500", "date": "1:26 p.m. on Aug 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/05/it-is-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F05%2Fit-is-with.html" }, { "id": 2143, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Surprisingly useful during travel. This is Series 8 with watchOS 10 beta 4.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-04 04:40:03 -0500", "date": "4:40 p.m. on Aug 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/04/surprisingly-useful-during.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F04%2Fsurprisingly-useful-during.html" }, { "id": 2144, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If all goes well today, I should be able to make it to a site with many abandoned buildings. this could be a great photo opportunity. This would be the first site outside Canada where I practice urban exploration (aka \u0026ldquo;urbex\u0026rdquo;). Feeling excited. 😀\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-04 04:32:58 -0500", "date": "4:32 p.m. on Aug 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/04/if-all-goes.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F04%2Fif-all-goes.html" }, { "id": 2145, "type": "post", "title": "The Post-COVID iPad Era", "text": "Apple\u0026rsquo;s services help other Apple lines of products soften their respective crashes. COVID and work-from-home, learn-from-home was a boon for the iPad and Apple will suffer the post-COVID for quite some time. Knowing the longer-than-usual replacement cycle of the iPad, recovery is not for tomorrow. Great summary by Six Colors.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-04 02:17:48 -0500", "date": "2:17 p.m. on Aug 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/04/the-postcovid-ipad.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F04%2Fthe-postcovid-ipad.html" }, { "id": 2146, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Musk reminds me of Trump when he says he wants to have a conversation with Tim Cook about the App Store’s 30% cut on whatever shit they allow to sell through X.com. Just like Trump walking to the room in Ukraine or Russia and solving the Ukraine war in a day. What a pair of clowns these guys can be.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-04 02:03:20 -0500", "date": "2:03 p.m. on Aug 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/04/musk-reminds-me.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F04%2Fmusk-reminds-me.html" }, { "id": 2147, "type": "post", "title": "Apple Can’t Kill Siri Just Like That", "text": "And gone is Microsoft Cortana. What a weird name that was (Bard is not better in that respect). Some are suggesting Apple should do the same with Siri. I don’t think so because Apple has no apparent alternative to Siri, so they cannot just dump Siri because others are dumping their assistant. They do because they actively work on alternatives. Microsoft is clear in that respect and already shows what the alternatives are. Siri is a high-value brand name. Apple should build any next-generation AI-based tool to replace or complement the current back-end.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-04 01:55:02 -0500", "date": "1:55 p.m. on Aug 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/04/apple-cant-kill.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F04%2Fapple-cant-kill.html" }, { "id": 2148, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thought of the day: Tenerife beauties and greatness make me feel humbled as a living species.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-03 07:43:56 -0500", "date": "7:43 p.m. on Aug 3, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/03/thought-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F03%2Fthought-of-the.html" }, { "id": 2149, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Tenerife, in many ways, reminds me of Hawaii. Vegetation, volcano, photography opportunities and the weather, all contribute to this feeling. I would say that it\u0026rsquo;s the European-style version of Hawaii.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-03 04:24:19 -0500", "date": "4:24 p.m. on Aug 3, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/03/tenerife-in-many.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F03%2Ftenerife-in-many.html" }, { "id": 2150, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Yesterday, we went to visit the botanical garden of Puerto De La Cruz forgetting to bring my big camera with me, only with my iPhone. At first, I was wary that I would miss photo opportunities, but in the end, that wasn’t the case. Judging by the initial view of my photos, the iPhone wonderfully met the challenge. This garden was definitively a place for macro-photography! BTW, if you ever visite Tenerife, it\u0026rsquo;s a great place to visit and it is damn cheap.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-03 03:38:12 -0500", "date": "3:38 p.m. on Aug 3, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/03/yesterday-we-went.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F03%2Fyesterday-we-went.html" }, { "id": 2151, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Location check in 🗺 — The landscape here highly fascinating!\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-02 10:08:54 -0500", "date": "10:08 p.m. on Aug 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/02/location-check-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F02%2Flocation-check-in.html" }, { "id": 2152, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thought of the day: if only we spent as much time on great rollouts (Apple) than we do on really bad ones (X)… oh wait, we do actually! Seriously, I’m tired of those comments about X…\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-02 08:03:59 -0500", "date": "8:03 p.m. on Aug 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/02/thought-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F02%2Fthought-of-the.html" }, { "id": 2153, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just for you! Right from Santa Cruz! 😂 @maique !!\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-01 12:57:04 -0500", "date": "12:57 p.m. on Aug 1, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/01/just-for-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F01%2Fjust-for-you.html" }, { "id": 2154, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just finished glancing at my Micro.blog posts for the month of July, thanks to my newsletter. Man I do spend time on this blogging platform! Hope you enjoy reading my stuff as much as I love posting and blogging all this!\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-01 05:10:29 -0500", "date": "5:10 p.m. on Aug 1, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/01/just-finished-glancing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F01%2Fjust-finished-glancing.html" }, { "id": 2155, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today’s plan: going to the beach and then visit Santa Cruz. I’m not a “beach boy” but I’ll spend the time exploring the beach surroundings and do some photography while they relax under the sun.\n", "dateiso": "2023-08-01 05:01:53 -0500", "date": "5:01 p.m. on Aug 1, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/08/01/todays-plan-going.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F08%2F01%2Ftodays-plan-going.html" }, { "id": 2156, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Oh nice: the Citroen car info system reboots as soon as we try to use Car Play. 🤣 can’t use Apple Maps or Google Maps. ☹️🫣😨 It takes 5 minutes for the whole process to complete. 😩\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-31 09:05:50 -0500", "date": "9:05 p.m. on Jul 31, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/31/oh-nice-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F31%2Foh-nice-the.html" }, { "id": 2157, "type": "post", "title": "On The Refinement Game in Tech", "text": "I won’t bother linking to the original piece, linking to Math Birchler’s link post instead will be enough. Is the iPhone refined enough? It depends on how you define « refinement ». To me, the iPhone isn’t refined enough in a way that new tech can help make the iPhone even better. If this year’s rumors are true, this is exactly what will happen (faster processor, more power efficient, etc.). Craftmanship also is a big part of the refinement story (softer edges, etc.). I can\u0026rsquo;t wait for iPhone 15 Pro, coming from the 13 Pro, I\u0026rsquo;ll certainly enjoy all the refinements, big and small.\nOh and apparently, unlike Apple, other companies don’t bother keeping the refinement game going. Well, this is exactly why I love Apple, they care to refine and try to improve things, year after year.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-31 02:13:19 -0500", "date": "2:13 p.m. on Jul 31, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/31/on-the-refinement.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F31%2Fon-the-refinement.html" }, { "id": 2158, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I started testing Safari’s Profiles feature that comes with iOS 17. And judging from my initial experience, just like Focus modes, it takes a lot of management and understanding to make it work to my liking. I\u0026rsquo;ll make it work, but not today.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-30 03:31:28 -0500", "date": "3:31 p.m. on Jul 30, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/30/i-started-testing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F30%2Fi-started-testing.html" }, { "id": 2159, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In a few days, on August first to be exact, the next edition of my blog posts summary newsletter will be sent out to all my subscribers (millions of them…. not really, just a few people). Maybe it’s the right time for you to subscribe too, especially if you are a new follower of mine, so you get a better view of what I’m up to! Link below.👇 You\u0026rsquo;re welcome. 🙏🏻\nSubscribe\rSignup to receive monthly digest email on the first day of the month in your inbox. Optionally, you can also subscribe via RSS.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-30 03:04:37 -0500", "date": "3:04 p.m. on Jul 30, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/30/in-a-few.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F30%2Fin-a-few.html" }, { "id": 2160, "type": "post", "title": "Thoughts on Micro.blog Tags", "text": "I’ve been playing with Micro.blog’s new bookmark tags. At first, I thought the feature was underwhelming. I don\u0026rsquo;t think there is a way to add more than one tag to a bookmark. This might be a good thing after all. Still undecided on this. Then, I discovered how you can select a tag to display associated bookmarks. Hoping for the iOS app to receive an update soon. I updated a few dozen bookmarks to add a tag. I\u0026rsquo;ll see if it makes a difference. My bookmarks are not that many and many are deleted after a while.\nUpdate #1: someone pointed me that we can have more than one tag, simply by adding commas. Update #2: I can see Micro.blog bookmarks as a complement to Anybox, but focused on content originating from people I follow on Micro.blog / Mastodon. I don’t see that replacing Anybox anytime soon.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-30 02:37:31 -0500", "date": "2:37 p.m. on Jul 30, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/30/thoughts-on-microblog.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F30%2Fthoughts-on-microblog.html" }, { "id": 2161, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Location check in 🗺 — And we have a touch down! 😅✈️\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-29 06:07:33 -0500", "date": "6:07 p.m. on Jul 29, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/29/120733.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F29%2F120733.html" }, { "id": 2162, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Location check in 🗺 — We should be good to go now. Direction Tenerife! ✈️\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-29 00:48:15 -0500", "date": "12:48 p.m. on Jul 29, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/29/location-check-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F29%2Flocation-check-in.html" }, { "id": 2163, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "And hope we go to the airport. Hope this is the right time this time.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-28 22:38:53 -0500", "date": "10:38 p.m. on Jul 28, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/29/and-hope-we.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F29%2Fand-hope-we.html" }, { "id": 2164, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My next MacBook Air will have 16 GB of RAM (up from 8 GB), 1 TB of storage (of from 512 GB), all this in a 15 inch configuration. I decided to give my previous 2020 M1 MacBook Air to Apple for a 580 CAN$ credit, plus the 200$ credit for the “back to school” promotion. And… 1500 CAN$ of Apple Store credit, thanks to my job bonuses! This could be the cheapest upgrade ever!\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-28 12:21:00 -0500", "date": "12:21 p.m. on Jul 28, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/28/my-next-macbook.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F28%2Fmy-next-macbook.html" }, { "id": 2165, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Killing some time while waiting for diner time by processing and posting my photos on Pixelfed. Too bad they don’t seem to show up in my timeline here on Micrp.blog. Doing all this from my aging 2018 iPad Pro. That’s my traveling device, leaving the MacBook Air behind. Speaking of which, I ordered my 15-inch MBA yesterday and it should be ready just in time when I’m back home! 😎\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-28 11:30:44 -0500", "date": "11:30 p.m. on Jul 28, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/28/killing-some-time.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F28%2Fkilling-some-time.html" }, { "id": 2166, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Location check in 🗺 — Hotel life until early morning tomorrow. Thanks to messy airports and bad airports.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-28 07:34:54 -0500", "date": "7:34 p.m. on Jul 28, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/28/location-check-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F28%2Flocation-check-in.html" }, { "id": 2167, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Oh nice, we missed our connection flight to Tenerife🫤. We will have to spend the night in London. At the hotel. 😕\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-28 03:06:12 -0500", "date": "3:06 p.m. on Jul 28, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/28/oh-nice-we.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F28%2Foh-nice-we.html" }, { "id": 2168, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Woah. Bad weather northern US causes inbound flight postponed. We won’t make it to the next flight. Rebooked everything. Going to London instead of Newark. Then to Tenerife. All good now. 😅\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-27 15:27:53 -0500", "date": "3:27 p.m. on Jul 27, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/27/woah-bad-weather.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F27%2Fwoah-bad-weather.html" }, { "id": 2169, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If you take more than two flights per year, Flighty becomes a must-have, IMO. What a great app. So many things could be said about it. Not cheap, though. Quality and craftsmanship have a price.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-27 06:53:13 -0500", "date": "6:53 p.m. on Jul 27, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/27/if-you-take.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F27%2Fif-you-take.html" }, { "id": 2170, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Seems a good time to fly! 😀\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-27 06:47:08 -0500", "date": "6:47 p.m. on Jul 27, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/27/seems-a-good.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F27%2Fseems-a-good.html" }, { "id": 2171, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "👉🏻 Thought of the day: when people put responsibility for solving the climate crisis and the like on the governments and big companies, it\u0026rsquo;s a clever (or not so clever way) to NOT take responsibility as an individual. It\u0026rsquo;s too easy.\nGovernments \u0026amp; companies are made of and operated by people, for god sake! No willingness by the people, individually or in a government, produces the exact same result: no action. But what action can we take as an individual, you might ask? Revisit your consumption habits might eventually help. Less consumption = less need for recycling. Simple.\nMeanwhile: the planet IS burning.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-26 19:52:25 -0500", "date": "7:52 p.m. on Jul 26, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/26/thought-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F26%2Fthought-of-the.html" }, { "id": 2172, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m super excited about this upcoming trip to the Canary Islands. First time over there, for nine days. The weather is expected to be \u0026ldquo;perfect\u0026rdquo;. Once again, I\u0026rsquo;ll use Day One to document my trip, as needed. I\u0026rsquo;ll take a bunch of photos too! I\u0026rsquo;ve been West Africa a month ago, in Morocco. The islands are close! But I couldn\u0026rsquo;t combine those two trips, unfortunately.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-26 12:24:05 -0500", "date": "12:24 p.m. on Jul 26, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/26/im-super-excited.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F26%2Fim-super-excited.html" }, { "id": 2173, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Pixelfed is way more interactive and busier than Glass. My feeling is that the federative nature of Pixelfed helps be discovered. This is something Glass developers should consider if they want to expand their reach, IMHO.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-26 06:24:00 -0500", "date": "6:24 p.m. on Jul 26, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/26/pixelfed-is-way.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F26%2Fpixelfed-is-way.html" }, { "id": 2174, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Is anyone looking for Reddit alternatives? Is Beehaw such a viable alternative?\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-25 20:29:04 -0500", "date": "8:29 p.m. on Jul 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/25/is-anyone-looking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F25%2Fis-anyone-looking.html" }, { "id": 2175, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I digg iOS 17 beta 4: much smoother. I\u0026rsquo;m guessing we will start to get new betas weekly from now on or maybe from beta 5. I still have to test iPadOS 17 beta 4, though. Are you having a similar experience?\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-25 20:04:18 -0500", "date": "8:04 p.m. on Jul 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/25/i-digg-ios.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F25%2Fi-digg-ios.html" }, { "id": 2176, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Introducing Patron! https://glass.photo/highlights/introducing-patron\nReader: mastodon.world Glass https://mastodon.world/@glass/110775586144279718\rI decided to support Glass as a patron because I think these alternatives are important. They help create some sort of equilibrium. It\u0026rsquo;s the same reason I\u0026rsquo;m investing my time migrating 95% of my photos into Pixelfed. I believe in the open web and in honest alternatives like Glass. More than ever we need them.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-25 19:54:08 -0500", "date": "7:54 p.m. on Jul 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/25/205408.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F25%2F205408.html" }, { "id": 2177, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Fun fact: \u0026ldquo;at Threads\u0026rdquo; is available on Micro.blog. 🤪\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-25 17:00:58 -0500", "date": "5:00 p.m. on Jul 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/25/fun-fact-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F25%2Ffun-fact-at.html" }, { "id": 2178, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My analysis of Craft\u0026rsquo;s latest announcements for the summer. They think they are announcing a roadmap. They don\u0026rsquo;t. No words about eXtensions. No words for better automation support via Shortcuts. You must look at what isn\u0026rsquo;t announced to get a real view of what they did.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-25 06:51:38 -0500", "date": "6:51 p.m. on Jul 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/25/my-analysis-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F25%2Fmy-analysis-of.html" }, { "id": 2179, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Putting the final touches on my analysis of today\u0026rsquo;s announcements by Craft. I\u0026rsquo;m not sure they will like my take. I tend to be very critical of them. I\u0026rsquo;m still happy with Craft, but I\u0026rsquo;m honest in my sentiments.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-24 20:06:14 -0500", "date": "8:06 p.m. on Jul 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/24/putting-the-final.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F24%2Fputting-the-final.html" }, { "id": 2180, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Paying $44 billion to literally break a popular website, strip it of any recognizable brand, and drive all the users away. Remarkable.\nMike Haynes https://mastodon.design/@mikehaynes/110766250506883918\rWhat else to add? And do all that in less than a year? 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-23 19:53:25 -0500", "date": "7:53 p.m. on Jul 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/23/paying-billion-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F23%2Fpaying-billion-to.html" }, { "id": 2181, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "With the future demise of Vanmoof, I decided to look elsewhere for my ebike. I found it. And bought it. My first new bike in more than thirty years. It\u0026rsquo;s probably my last one, too. Today, a perfect bike day in Montreal, I ran for more than 28 km for my first test drive. 🚲🚴🏻‍♂️😎😅😊\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-23 17:10:44 -0500", "date": "5:10 p.m. on Jul 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/23/with-the-future.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F23%2Fwith-the-future.html" }, { "id": 2182, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m forcing myself to a Midjourney session daily to learn more about this fascinating service. I could spend all day on this thing. What a stimulating environment for a new kind of creative work. A few years from now, we could get an instant response to any requests. There is so much untapped UI addition that could be added to improve the UX, though. One such example would be to have in a palette all styles that can be asked in a prompt, just like filter examples in the Camera app.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-23 06:32:13 -0500", "date": "6:32 p.m. on Jul 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/23/im-forcing-myself.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F23%2Fim-forcing-myself.html" }, { "id": 2183, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Speak up. When something doesn't work. When someone is being hurt. When you don't agree. Speak up. Someone has to. It's a burden to see more, it's a duty and a privilege. So take care and speak up. You would be surprised how many people think the same and are equally afraid to speak up. Someone has to be the first.\nMichal Zelazny https://indieweb.social/@michalzelazny/110759287554896144\rIt\u0026rsquo;s not always easy to speak up, even more, if you\u0026rsquo;re the first. Good for you if other voices join yours. But if not, that\u0026rsquo;s ok too, even though some people might not like what you are saying.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-22 16:17:44 -0500", "date": "4:17 p.m. on Jul 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/22/speak-up-when.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F22%2Fspeak-up-when.html" }, { "id": 2184, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " (\u0026hellip;) the best way to improve your photography is to focus on your ideas, not your technique or gear Source: About — CJ Chilvers\nI couldn\u0026rsquo;t agree more. To everyone who came up to me and asked what camera they should buy to start their photography journey, my answer always has been this one: Don\u0026rsquo;t focus on the camera model and let\u0026rsquo;s start discussing possible photo subjects.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-22 16:00:39 -0500", "date": "4:00 p.m. on Jul 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/22/the-best-way.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F22%2Fthe-best-way.html" }, { "id": 2185, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This 👇🏻\nThe most prolific thinkers aren’t thinking with external brains. If you’re a photographer, take more pictures. If you’re a writer, produce more text. The tools will work themselves out. Source: RIP: The External 🧠\nI don\u0026rsquo;t really like the idea of a \u0026ldquo;second brain\u0026rdquo;. My brain, the only one that I got, already requires all my energy. Why bother creating another \u0026ldquo;brain\u0026rdquo;?\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-22 15:56:08 -0500", "date": "3:56 p.m. on Jul 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/22/this-the-most.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F22%2Fthis-the-most.html" }, { "id": 2186, "type": "post", "title": "The Beginning of My Journey to Midjourney", "text": "\u0026ldquo;A man sitting in front of a retro computer doing some important work\u0026rdquo;. 👀\nThis is my first ever prompt sent to Midjourney. I think this image is an excellent representation of my current state. A guy experimenting with Midjourney in front of my computer. I\u0026rsquo;m blown away. What a great time to be alive! Discord, as a client of this back-end service, is fascinating. 🤯\nI subscribed for one month to the basic plan. I\u0026rsquo;m not sure how I\u0026rsquo;ll use the service. One example could be to create illustrations for my blog posts on Numeric Citizen Space. Another use case would be for illustration purposes for my work. I\u0026rsquo;ll see and continue experimenting. I\u0026rsquo;ll report back here my discoveries and impressions.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-22 07:23:44 -0500", "date": "7:23 p.m. on Jul 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/22/the-beginning-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F22%2Fthe-beginning-of.html" }, { "id": 2187, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I was six years old. In my early days with computers, I was exposed to some of that stuff: fast line printers, disk packs, and punch card readers. ", "dateiso": "2023-07-21 21:09:53 -0500", "date": "9:09 p.m. on Jul 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/21/i-was-six.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F21%2Fi-was-six.html" }, { "id": 2188, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Right from Glass\u0026rsquo;s highlights website:\nWe\u0026rsquo;re wrapping up the final touches on our AI-powered Search beta that we\u0026rsquo;ll be releasing soon to Early Access. Early Access is an included perk for a new level of Glass membership that we\u0026rsquo;re announcing soon. Once we\u0026rsquo;ve tested it thoroughly over the coming months, it\u0026rsquo;ll be released to everyone. Source: New Member Search in Beta — Glass\nIn other words, Glass will add another subscription level where you\u0026rsquo;ll get pre-release features for testing. Subscriptions are not enough. Now we must pay to be beta testers. Great. 🤦🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-21 20:53:04 -0500", "date": "8:53 p.m. on Jul 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/21/right-from-glasss.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F21%2Fright-from-glasss.html" }, { "id": 2189, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A new camera app for the iPhone. Photon. 📸 By the makers of Camera+. I\u0026rsquo;m currently subscribing to Halide since my last trip in late June. I will skip that one, but Photon feels simpler to use yet more powerful. And I like the name.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-21 20:46:11 -0500", "date": "8:46 p.m. on Jul 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/21/a-new-camera.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F21%2Fa-new-camera.html" }, { "id": 2190, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Surprising how many Reddit posts about Notion never get an answer. It\u0026rsquo;s the vast majority in seems (3 out of 4 questions). This /r/Notion is super popular, with many subscribers (292K)! Weird.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-21 13:30:01 -0500", "date": "1:30 p.m. on Jul 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/21/surprising-how-many.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F21%2Fsurprising-how-many.html" }, { "id": 2191, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One of the reasons I\u0026rsquo;m leaving Smugmug is the fact that most of their improvements in the last year are geared toward selling your images. I\u0026rsquo;m not into this business. I tried selling some of my images on Stock a few years back and made a few dollars. I do have some images for sale on Adobe Stock. The revenue I get for selling an image is RIDICULOUS! I\u0026rsquo;ve sold 12 images, generating more than\u0026hellip; 17$ in revenue. Who\u0026rsquo;s buying images these days? There is so much free content available (looking at you, Unsplash! 👀). Why bother?\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-21 08:00:30 -0500", "date": "8:00 p.m. on Jul 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/21/one-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F21%2Fone-of-the.html" }, { "id": 2192, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "No Friday Notes post this week. I have a few ideas but didn\u0026rsquo;t have time to expand on them and write the article. Hint: it\u0026rsquo;s about photo sharing in the age of content abundance. Oh well. 😔\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-21 06:16:16 -0500", "date": "6:16 p.m. on Jul 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/21/no-friday-notes.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F21%2Fno-friday-notes.html" }, { "id": 2193, "type": "post", "title": "On Articles Size \u0026 Twitter", "text": "Tweets on Twitter use to be 140 characters max. Later it was increased to 280 characters. Now, apparently, you can post a note with a maximum of 2500 characters.\nNow, looking at MacRumors or similar sites, it seems we get shorter and shorter articles, almost the size of a note on Twitter. Isn’t it strange?\nPeople are busy and their attention span has shrunk considerably. Twitter once was very popular and others tried to adjust to its modus operandi. The web is adjusting in unexpected ways.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-20 21:23:32 -0500", "date": "9:23 p.m. on Jul 20, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/20/on-articles-size.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F20%2Fon-articles-size.html" }, { "id": 2194, "type": "post", "title": "I'm Subscribing, Now What?", "text": "Now that I\u0026rsquo;m a subscriber of Tapbots\u0026rsquo; Ivory client for Mastodon, what\u0026rsquo;s up with the updates? Is it because it\u0026rsquo;s summertime? Why do I feel that the development of new features and improvements has considerably slowed in recent weeks and months? After all, the roadmap is clear here.\nTweetbot followed the same trend. Not all developers or companies follow the same product releases, but regarding Tapbots, the trend is slowing and is a pattern. Now, look at Mastodon\u0026rsquo;s official client; there is an update nearly every two weeks or at least monthly. Ok, there are more than 40 contributors to the open source project of r the iOS app while Tapbots is a three-person company.\nI\u0026rsquo;m ok with subscriptions, but just like the subscription itself, the commitment from the developer has to keep up. The subscription model is everywhere and is here to stay. The software and services landscape has changed forever. Expectations from customers like me are changing too. It\u0026rsquo;s too easy to grab my money regularly without showing up in the App Store \u0026ldquo;Updates\u0026rdquo; tab.\nI\u0026rsquo;m watching you, Tapbots. Don\u0026rsquo;t deceive me again.\nYeah, Tweetbot was a great app, just like Ivory is, but it lacked some love in the last few years before its demise.\nRanting off. Sorry.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-20 21:04:09 -0500", "date": "9:04 p.m. on Jul 20, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/20/im-subscribing-now.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F20%2Fim-subscribing-now.html" }, { "id": 2195, "type": "post", "title": "On Clipboard Management \u0026 Subscription Model", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m testing Paste, a clipboard manager software utility for Mac, iOS (link). I kind of like it. It has better management features than Unclutter, which also offers some clipboard management. I\u0026rsquo;m on a 14-day trial period, but 19 $CAN, a year for a utility without a one-time purchase option, is bugging me. Will see where it goes.\nSubscribe\rSignup to receive monthly digest email on the first day of the month in your inbox. Optionally, you can also subscribe via RSS.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-20 07:28:37 -0500", "date": "7:28 p.m. on Jul 20, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/20/on-clipboard-management.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F20%2Fon-clipboard-management.html" }, { "id": 2196, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple\u0026rsquo;s Alan Dye interview. Super interesting interview.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-19 19:44:32 -0500", "date": "7:44 p.m. on Jul 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/19/apples-alan-dye.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F19%2Fapples-alan-dye.html" }, { "id": 2197, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🔎 Calling for hints: what do you use for sharing text snippets or sharing a single image with others (something like \u0026ldquo;pastebin\u0026rdquo;)\u0026hellip; 👀\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-19 18:40:26 -0500", "date": "6:40 p.m. on Jul 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/19/calling-for-hints.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F19%2Fcalling-for-hints.html" }, { "id": 2198, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Poof Vanmoof!\nJuly 17, 2023: “VanMoof was declared bankrupt in the Netherlands on Monday by the Amsterdam District Court, following the company's pandemic-time boom”\nSept 1, 2021: ↓\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-19 18:25:14 -0500", "date": "6:25 p.m. on Jul 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/19/poof-vanmoof-july.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F19%2Fpoof-vanmoof-july.html" }, { "id": 2199, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A new ad by Apple. I never share this but this one made me smile many times. Very entertaining too. Interesting how Apple highlights many features of its products in s single ad. ", "dateiso": "2023-07-19 06:36:21 -0500", "date": "6:36 p.m. on Jul 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/19/a-new-ad.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F19%2Fa-new-ad.html" }, { "id": 2200, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m excited and upbeat about the upcoming weeks/months. I\u0026rsquo;ll have a bunch of images to process (from my trips to Morocco \u0026amp; Canary Islands). Plus the migration out of Smugmug to Pixelfed will keep me busy. Finally, the upgrade to the iPhone 15 Pro Max(Ultra?) will be an occasion for a few photowalk sessions. All contribute to a more photography-intensive fall. 🏞️🏙️📷\nI wrote that for myself. I always like comments! 😊\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-19 06:19:08 -0500", "date": "6:19 p.m. on Jul 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/19/im-excited-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F19%2Fim-excited-and.html" }, { "id": 2201, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m a big fan of Inoreader. Make no mistake. But one quick comment. Consider the following screenshot where you can see the article-sharing option. You can see options like Blogger, Evernote, and Twitter. The first two options are dead horses. I mean, Blogger, really? Evernote is the next in line to die. The third is soon to be a dead horse, too. No other options are provided. I\u0026rsquo;m surprised that we don\u0026rsquo;t get to send an article by Fax, too.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-18 21:00:00 -0500", "date": "9:00 p.m. on Jul 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/18/im-a-big.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F18%2Fim-a-big.html" }, { "id": 2202, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is the Discover tab with the focus on “people to discover” on the @pixelfed@mastodon.social official app (still in beta). The problem with this “selection”: how is this list built? The same can be said of Micro.blog discover feature. Why is the criteria never or rarely explained? Why is this list mostly static? The open web should be about absolute transparency too. Cc @manton\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-18 18:03:01 -0500", "date": "6:03 p.m. on Jul 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/18/this-is-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F18%2Fthis-is-the.html" }, { "id": 2203, "type": "post", "title": "Notion Can Be Impressive", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been working hard with Notion at work for a unique project. It\u0026rsquo;s a 14-database setup containing 18 database relationships, many calculations as well as a place for knowledge management. I think I\u0026rsquo;m pushing the boundaries of what Notion is all about. It\u0026rsquo;s still manageable, and Notion still is speedy. I\u0026rsquo;m really impressed by what this tool can help achieve. 🤩🤯\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-18 13:25:22 -0500", "date": "1:25 p.m. on Jul 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/18/notion-can-be.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F18%2Fnotion-can-be.html" }, { "id": 2204, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hoping for a new beta (beta 4) today because it’s fun! 😂\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-18 11:15:17 -0500", "date": "11:15 p.m. on Jul 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/18/hoping-for-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F18%2Fhoping-for-a.html" }, { "id": 2205, "type": "post", "title": "On Data Portability in the Modern Digital World", "text": "I recently read about the news that Evernote is currently downsizing its operations worldwide, especially in the US. It\u0026rsquo;s not the first troubling episode for Evernote. I remember when they \u0026ldquo;redesigned\u0026rdquo; their app, which created a massive pushback from the community.\nI used Evernote in its early days and was appreciative of its capabilities. For some reason, I left for another solution. But for those who built massive data collections inside Evernote, now might be the time to think about going elsewhere. But there is a big gotcha: after searching for a way to export all the data, I discovered that it\u0026rsquo;s not that easy. And people are angry. This brings me to the data portability of modern software and services. Evernote\u0026rsquo;s ENEX export format was not a standard the last time I checked. A handful of apps can import ENEX files; Notion is one of them. HTML is also supported but is far from ideal. Options are limited and are seriously hindering the data portability of services like Evernote. Besides content, metadata is also critical (tags, dates, location, backlinks, etc.).\nIs Notion suffering from the same potential issues? PDF, CSV, and HTML are the supported formats. 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-18 06:24:02 -0500", "date": "6:24 p.m. on Jul 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/18/on-data-portability.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F18%2Fon-data-portability.html" }, { "id": 2206, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When I decided to subscribe to Exposure, it was because I wanted to write short stories using my photos. I did share six of them so far (see my profile page here). Now that I\u0026rsquo;m on Pixelfed, I find myself writing more with each shared image than I did on Exposure. 🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-18 06:03:15 -0500", "date": "6:03 p.m. on Jul 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/18/when-i-decided.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F18%2Fwhen-i-decided.html" }, { "id": 2207, "type": "post", "title": "Github Offers a Fascinating Look at Software Development", "text": "I learned to use GitHub for the repo of my Blot website last year (read more about my experience with Blot here). I didn\u0026rsquo;t want to use Dropbox. I\u0026rsquo;m no longer using Blot, but I\u0026rsquo;m still visiting Github occasionally to keep track of project development like Plausible, but more recently for Pixelfed and a few plugins for Micro.blog. Peeking at change logs, commit comments, files changed, etc. offers an intimate look at software development. It\u0026rsquo;s also a great way to learn something.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-18 05:42:10 -0500", "date": "5:42 p.m. on Jul 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/18/github-offers-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F18%2Fgithub-offers-a.html" }, { "id": 2208, "type": "post", "title": "Feeling Helpless About Climate", "text": "Due to Canada\u0026rsquo;s forest fires and easterly winds, bad air quality is returning to my town for the next few days. With all the bad climate-related news coming up from everywhere on Earth, trying to understand what is happening is essential, so we can better adapt our lifestyle. I like to read many things on a subject that I find interesting, but climate change topic is utterly depressing. The planet is clearly slowly burning. All indicators are going in the wrong direction. How can we not feel helpless? It\u0026rsquo;s hard to stay informed and keep faith in humanity. Prove me wrong.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-17 17:15:37 -0500", "date": "5:15 p.m. on Jul 17, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/17/feeling-helpless-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F17%2Ffeeling-helpless-about.html" }, { "id": 2209, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "George Monastiriakos: The only way to save Russia is to dismantle it:\n“To be clear: The Russian Federation is the third iteration of the Russian Empire. Spanning 11 time zones and comprising hundreds of ethnically, linguistically, religiously, and culturally distinct societies ruled by, from, and for the benefit of a small circle of kleptocrats primarily based in Saint Petersburg and Moscow, the Russian state has been unviable for centuries. Like empires of old, the only way to save Russia from itself is to dismantle it,“ writes George Monastiriakos, a fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security, in his recent op-ed.\nPhoto: Getty Images\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-17 09:32:15 -0500", "date": "9:32 p.m. on Jul 17, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/17/george-monastiriakos-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F17%2Fgeorge-monastiriakos-the.html" }, { "id": 2210, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apparently, Russian officials are now banning iPhone because they believe there is an espionage ops using American tech. 🕺🏼\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-17 07:06:54 -0500", "date": "7:06 p.m. on Jul 17, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/17/apparently-russian-officials.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F17%2Fapparently-russian-officials.html" }, { "id": 2211, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For those interested in what others are using in their workflow, I spent some time this early morning updating My Complete Content Creator Toolset. Added Plausible + Tinylytics, among other things.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-17 06:16:25 -0500", "date": "6:16 p.m. on Jul 17, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/17/for-those-interested.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F17%2Ffor-those-interested.html" }, { "id": 2212, "type": "post", "title": "The Apple Vision (Bible | Knowledge Base | Hub)?", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m thinking of building a central web portal gathering information and everything related to the Apple Vision (Pro). Think of this as something similar to a digital garden but targeted to a specific product line. I do maintain one about Apple rumors (the Apple Rumors Hub). I have a few possible names in mind:\nThe Apple Vision Bible / The Apple Vision Knowledge Base / The Apple Vision Hub /\nThe concept of an \u0026ldquo;information hub\u0026rdquo; seems popular. Which one sounds better? What other name suffix could I use?\nNote: since it is clear that Apple will release a lower-end version of the headset, I won\u0026rsquo;t include the \u0026ldquo;Pro\u0026rdquo; moniker, hence Apple Vision xxx.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-16 19:58:09 -0500", "date": "7:58 p.m. on Jul 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/16/the-apple-vision.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F16%2Fthe-apple-vision.html" }, { "id": 2213, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s funny how much effort I put into writing a small description for each image shared on Pixelfed. I did not do this while on Flickr, 500px and Smugmug. I\u0026rsquo;m even writing an ALT description. It\u0026rsquo;s great for reading in an RSS reader. Your thoughts?\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-16 19:46:46 -0500", "date": "7:46 p.m. on Jul 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/16/its-funny-how.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F16%2Fits-funny-how.html" }, { "id": 2214, "type": "post", "title": "My week-end so far", "text": "Exploring Pixelfed✅. Producing a 60-minute video about Pixelfed✅. Writing an article about Pixelfed✅. Learning about Tinylytics✅. Learning about templates in Micro.blog and custom themes✅. Adding Tinylytics to my blog✅. Subscribing to Tinylytics. ✅\nNext up: going to see the latest Mission Impossible.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-16 13:34:48 -0500", "date": "1:34 p.m. on Jul 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/16/my-weekend-so.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F16%2Fmy-weekend-so.html" }, { "id": 2215, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Even as a satisfied Plausible analytics subscriber (see current analytics), I proudly support @tinylytics on my blog (see current analytics). I paid for a year to show my support in a more concrete manner.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-16 13:09:36 -0500", "date": "1:09 p.m. on Jul 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/16/even-as-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F16%2Feven-as-a.html" }, { "id": 2216, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nThis screenshot is from Patreon about my profile page there. You can share a page on social networks when creating a page there. It’s a common thing to do, right? I’m wondering when Facebook and Twitter will stop to be the only two options for sharing stuff on the web. Pinterest is nice but what about the open web like Mastodon? Or Bluesky…?\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-16 07:51:46 -0500", "date": "7:51 p.m. on Jul 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/16/this-screenshot-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F16%2Fthis-screenshot-is.html" }, { "id": 2217, "type": "post", "title": "A 60-minute Video Tour of Pixelfed", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m finally ready to share my 60-minute video tour of Pixelfed. If you\u0026rsquo;re contemplating the idea of creating your account on Pixelfed, I encourage you to do so, but after watching this video. You\u0026rsquo;ll learn about Pixelfed\u0026rsquo;s capabilities. It\u0026rsquo;s not a comparison analysis with services like Flickr or Smugmug, though. ", "dateiso": "2023-07-16 06:16:16 -0500", "date": "6:16 p.m. on Jul 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/16/a-minute-video.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F16%2Fa-minute-video.html" }, { "id": 2218, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The star of the iOS 17 release is autocorrect and Siri dictation. Oh and text editing with the bigger and better design loupe. Wow. Apple finally corrected many wrongs here. 🤯\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-15 13:24:09 -0500", "date": "1:24 p.m. on Jul 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/15/the-star-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F15%2Fthe-star-of.html" }, { "id": 2219, "type": "post", "title": "My First (And Unexpected) FaceTime Moment on My Apple TV!", "text": "I just had my first experience with FaceTime with one of my sons on my Apple TV. My son called me on FaceTime. I picked up the call. A few seconds later into the conversation, my iPhone suggested putting the call on my Apple TV. I really didn\u0026rsquo;t expect that. The iPhone instructed me what to do with my iPhone so it could catch me on camera. It was such an \u0026ldquo;Apple\u0026rdquo; moment! Flawless. Barely no lags. 🤯\nMy iPhone runs iOS 17 beta 3, and the Apple TV tvOS 17.0 beta 3.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-15 12:45:02 -0500", "date": "12:45 p.m. on Jul 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/15/my-first-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F15%2Fmy-first-and.html" }, { "id": 2220, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finished recording an hour-long video about Pixelfed. Yep. 60 minutes. If you are on the fence, that’s the one video that you should watch. Online soon.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-15 11:18:35 -0500", "date": "11:18 p.m. on Jul 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/15/finished-recording-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F15%2Ffinished-recording-an.html" }, { "id": 2221, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "YouTube put this video suggestion in my feed this morning. I was curious and watched it. Then, I realized that without knowing it, I\u0026rsquo;m actually using the PARA approach in Craft. Now I\u0026rsquo;m wondering if I should rearrange and rename a few things in there to better align with the PARA naming convention. 🤔 ", "dateiso": "2023-07-15 06:48:39 -0500", "date": "6:48 p.m. on Jul 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/15/youtube-put-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F15%2Fyoutube-put-this.html" }, { "id": 2222, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How it started, how it ended. That was yesterday. 88mm of rain in two hours. Oh, and one tornado touchdown. Two others possible.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-14 21:22:50 -0500", "date": "9:22 p.m. on Jul 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/14/how-it-started.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F14%2Fhow-it-started.html" }, { "id": 2223, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For the first time, I’m installing a tvOS beta.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-14 18:36:39 -0500", "date": "6:36 p.m. on Jul 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/14/for-the-first.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F14%2Ffor-the-first.html" }, { "id": 2224, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Battery life on watchOS 10 \u0026amp; Series 8\u0026hellip; 🫠#notgood\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-14 12:00:08 -0500", "date": "12:00 p.m. on Jul 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/14/battery-life-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F14%2Fbattery-life-on.html" }, { "id": 2225, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wow, we are just in the last moments of a \u0026ldquo;three-wave\u0026rdquo; storm with heavy rain, winds and lighting. I guess we got between 50mm - 100mm of rain in three hours. Power failures all around are reported. One might say: well, it\u0026rsquo;s summer; it is expected. Yeah, but when you look at the trend this summer, we got way too much rain, too fast compared to the average rainfall.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-13 16:50:21 -0500", "date": "4:50 p.m. on Jul 13, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/13/wow-we-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F13%2Fwow-we-are.html" }, { "id": 2226, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What is the motivation for Google to maintain this rather excellent photo processing app (Snapseed).\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-13 14:57:54 -0500", "date": "2:57 p.m. on Jul 13, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/13/what-is-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F13%2Fwhat-is-the.html" }, { "id": 2227, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Tornado warning. We mostly never get those in our region. WTF?\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-13 14:42:45 -0500", "date": "2:42 p.m. on Jul 13, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/13/tornado-warning-we.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F13%2Ftornado-warning-we.html" }, { "id": 2228, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A year from now, my photo-sharing digital landscape will look like this: Pixelfed + Glass + Unsplash + Exposure. Gone will be Instagram, Smugmug.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-13 06:14:50 -0500", "date": "6:14 p.m. on Jul 13, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/13/a-year-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F13%2Fa-year-from.html" }, { "id": 2229, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Don\u0026rsquo;t be surprised by my relentless posting of photos\u0026hellip; I\u0026rsquo;m playing with my new toy: Pixelfed. Who\u0026rsquo;s on Pixelfed, here, btw?\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-12 19:41:37 -0500", "date": "7:41 p.m. on Jul 12, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/12/dont-be-surprised.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F12%2Fdont-be-surprised.html" }, { "id": 2230, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I would love to upgrade my iPhone 13 Pro to iOS 17\u0026hellip; but I won\u0026rsquo;t. Unless you tell me something like \u0026ldquo;it\u0026rsquo;s very stable\u0026rdquo;, \u0026ldquo;probably one of the best beta releases in years\u0026rdquo;, etc.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-12 19:40:07 -0500", "date": "7:40 p.m. on Jul 12, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/12/i-would-love.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F12%2Fi-would-love.html" }, { "id": 2231, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After reading this article from Filipe Esposito from 9to5Mac, about the iPhone 14 Pro Max, I\u0026rsquo;m happy to have skipped last year\u0026rsquo;s iPhone release. He complains about the shortened battery life compared to the previous generation and the lack of meaningful camera improvements. Those two things could significantly change in the upcoming iPhone 15 Pro Max (Ultra?). I can\u0026rsquo;t wait.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-12 06:13:48 -0500", "date": "6:13 p.m. on Jul 12, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/12/after-reading-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F12%2Fafter-reading-this.html" }, { "id": 2232, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "That is going away soon. #Instagram\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-12 05:51:56 -0500", "date": "5:51 p.m. on Jul 12, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/12/that-is-going.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F12%2Fthat-is-going.html" }, { "id": 2233, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The next time someone tells me that Mastodon is complicated, I\u0026rsquo;ll respond: try Discord. You ain\u0026rsquo;t see nothing yet.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-11 21:09:57 -0500", "date": "9:09 p.m. on Jul 11, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/11/the-next-time.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F11%2Fthe-next-time.html" }, { "id": 2234, "type": "post", "title": "A Simple Message to NATO", "text": "The world is watching. Don’t waste your second chance.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-11 11:08:08 -0500", "date": "11:08 p.m. on Jul 11, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/11/a-simple-message.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F11%2Fa-simple-message.html" }, { "id": 2235, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My experience with Pixelfed goes so well that I\u0026rsquo;m in the process of migrating my old photos from Instagram. And what comes after this migration? The IG account closure. While everyone goes wild about Threads and going in drove to Threads, I\u0026rsquo;m turning my back to this privacy nightmare and fully embracing Fediverse.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-11 08:31:28 -0500", "date": "8:31 p.m. on Jul 11, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/11/my-experience-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F11%2Fmy-experience-with.html" }, { "id": 2236, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nThese are my first downloads and purchases from the App Store in July 2008. Since the iPhone 3GS came to Canada the year after, those downloads were done on the iPod touch. For many people, the iTunes Remote was the first download. I have a hard time explaining the remaining ones. I mean, I never was a reader of the New York Times after having completed my university degree back in 1993 and yet, this is the second download.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-11 05:35:28 -0500", "date": "5:35 p.m. on Jul 11, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/11/these-are-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F11%2Fthese-are-my.html" }, { "id": 2237, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Am I the only one here on Micro.blog who feels satisfactory feelings when I upgrade one of my plug-ins to a newer version? Is there a cure for that? I\u0026rsquo;m asking because it was the same feeling when I was on WordPress\u0026hellip; and god knows that you can have many more plug-ins on WordPress.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-10 16:22:20 -0500", "date": "4:22 p.m. on Jul 10, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/10/am-i-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F10%2Fam-i-the.html" }, { "id": 2238, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I spent quite some time on Pixelfed today. I shared a few photos but also started writing an article about my experience with the service. So far, I do like the experience. Much more than I originally thought. Is it because of its polished design? Or is it because of its openness and its citizenship of the Fediverse landscape? I still don\u0026rsquo;t know. I do sense a few red flags here and there, though. More on that later. But for now, I enjoy the beginning of the ride.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-09 20:33:35 -0500", "date": "8:33 p.m. on Jul 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/09/i-spent-quite.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F09%2Fi-spent-quite.html" }, { "id": 2239, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple is now on Threads? Really? It didn\u0026rsquo;t take long. There is something profoundly ironic to see a company like Apple promoting privacy now subscribing to Thread. Apple is not on Mastodon, though. Why? Because it\u0026rsquo;s not a platform, Threads is. Apple is a platform company.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-09 16:05:40 -0500", "date": "4:05 p.m. on Jul 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/09/apple-is-now.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F09%2Fapple-is-now.html" }, { "id": 2240, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Fediverse is so fascinating and so much interesting. I searched for my handle (@numericcitizen) on the Pixelfed main page and found my account here (marked as \u0026ldquo;Remote\u0026rdquo;), on my Mastodon instance and on Pixelfed, too (obviously)! So cool.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-09 07:57:06 -0500", "date": "7:57 p.m. on Jul 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/09/fediverse-is-so.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F09%2Ffediverse-is-so.html" }, { "id": 2241, "type": "post", "title": "A New Start: Pixelfed", "text": "It didn\u0026rsquo;t take long. I\u0026rsquo;m now on Pixelfed (profile page). The reason it was a quick decision: I found a very specific use case for it. Since returning from my trip to Morocco, I have been looking for a way to share my best pictures with my family and friends. I prefer not to use Instagram / Facebook / Glass for different reasons. So here I am. Enjoy.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-09 07:41:27 -0500", "date": "7:41 p.m. on Jul 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/09/a-new-start.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F09%2Fa-new-start.html" }, { "id": 2242, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Glass doesn\u0026rsquo;t support ActivityPub, so I cannot cross-post with Micro.blog. Pixelfed supports ActivityPud, but Micro.blog doesn\u0026rsquo;t take advantage of it. Oh well. 🫥\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-09 07:11:01 -0500", "date": "7:11 p.m. on Jul 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/09/glass-doesnt-support.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F09%2Fglass-doesnt-support.html" }, { "id": 2243, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m curious about Pixelfed. I\u0026rsquo;m also cautious about joining another service (I already have too many). I see two issues. One: the lack of an iPhone app (still in beta, no TestFlight slot available). Two: I\u0026rsquo;m curious as to why Micro.blog doesn\u0026rsquo;t support cross-posting to Pixelfed. @manton ? Also, who\u0026rsquo;s on Pixelfed here?\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-09 06:36:15 -0500", "date": "6:36 p.m. on Jul 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/09/im-curious-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F09%2Fim-curious-about.html" }, { "id": 2244, "type": "post", "title": "Using Day One for Travel Journaling", "text": "When I decided to use Day One for my travel journal, I had the following requirements:\nData portability is paramount (markdown, text, or textbundle); It must work offline; Integration into my existing workflow to share travel moments on Micro.blog; Easy data entry with as much metadata automatically filled out for me as possible; Look at my current toolset before using something entirely new. I tried Craft last year, and it wasn\u0026rsquo;t up to the task. Apple Notes was a candidate, but it was dropped since notes’ metadata is nonexistent. Day One met all requirements. I’ve been using Day One for more than five years. It worked wonderfully for my last trip. Sometimes, the solution is right in front of our eyes.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-08 15:05:33 -0500", "date": "3:05 p.m. on Jul 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/08/using-day-one.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F08%2Fusing-day-one.html" }, { "id": 2245, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🤔 Pondering installing iPadOS 17 beta 3 on my 2018 iPad Pro. This is not my primary driver. There will be another beta before I leave for Canary\u0026rsquo;s Island in late July, in case Beta 3 is a disaster. I should be good to go with a more stable release and experience overall. Decisions decisions decisions.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-08 12:34:18 -0500", "date": "12:34 p.m. on Jul 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/08/pondering-installing-ipados.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F08%2Fpondering-installing-ipados.html" }, { "id": 2246, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I am bored. Is iPadOS 17 beta 3 stable enough?\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-08 10:09:03 -0500", "date": "10:09 p.m. on Jul 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/08/i-am-bored.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F08%2Fi-am-bored.html" }, { "id": 2247, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Testing a new Micro.blog plugin for embedding YouTube videos inside a post. You can ignore it. Or not. ", "dateiso": "2023-07-08 07:19:43 -0500", "date": "7:19 p.m. on Jul 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/08/testing-a-new.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F08%2Ftesting-a-new.html" }, { "id": 2248, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Writing an email to a long-time friend. What a joyful experience. I like the slowness of the process. It\u0026rsquo;s like blogging. ⌨️\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-08 06:51:20 -0500", "date": "6:51 p.m. on Jul 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/08/writing-an-email.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F08%2Fwriting-an-email.html" }, { "id": 2249, "type": "post", "title": "I’m Still Liking HEY Email But…", "text": "I’ve been using the HEY email service since its introduction. This week I had to search extensively in my email history to find transaction receipts and contracts. HEY email client has a unique take visually on emails and the inbox, and you either like it or hate it. I still like it, but I feel let down by the software for operations like searching, content rendering and attachment processing. This is where I wish HEY had a more standard take on email display and attachment preview. There is a lack of information density in this app which annoys me.\nIf there was another similar service but with a native client, I think I would switch.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-08 06:41:31 -0500", "date": "6:41 p.m. on Jul 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/08/im-still-liking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F08%2Fim-still-liking.html" }, { "id": 2250, "type": "post", "title": "We Must Do Something About Meta’s Monopoly", "text": "In my mind, every new platforms should start from 0 user base. Meta, just to name that one, have a monopoly of social graph. This is anti-competitive. Should Bluesky sue Meta? Should the open source community sue Meta? Yes. And yes.\nRemember Microsoft and Internet Explorer back in the days? Remember Apple and the App Store?\nWe are not ready to accept this but here we are. Meta is a monopoly in my book. Time for regulation. I casted my vote: no Threads for me.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-07 11:25:08 -0500", "date": "11:25 p.m. on Jul 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/07/we-must-do.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F07%2Fwe-must-do.html" }, { "id": 2251, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thought of the day: blog readers might not like negativity-tinted post or being told the truth they don’t want to read. I published my observations and opinion regarding our hyper-dependency on being connected all the time, so much that we don’t really connect in-person anymore. A few subscribers unsubscribed. 😒 Or maybe they just agree with my take and are looking for ways to regain more time in-person by unsubscribing from my blog? 😂\nI guess there is always a positive side of an event. 🙏🏻\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-07 11:08:24 -0500", "date": "11:08 p.m. on Jul 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/07/thought-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F07%2Fthought-of-the.html" }, { "id": 2252, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wondering something this morning: if Threads was to offer \u0026ldquo;free\u0026rdquo; APIs, would developers embrace them or think again and remember about Twitter and Reddit snafu? I bet they would embrace them.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-07 05:24:57 -0500", "date": "5:24 p.m. on Jul 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/07/wondering-something-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F07%2Fwondering-something-this.html" }, { "id": 2253, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I wish I had a blog about my professional life. I rarely share anything work-related here. Yet, there are soooo many juicy stories to talk about in professional life in general. I won’t do it because a few people at work know about “numericcitizen”… it could be prejudicial.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-06 06:14:59 -0500", "date": "6:14 p.m. on Jul 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/06/i-wish-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F06%2Fi-wish-i.html" }, { "id": 2254, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Threads is just another trick by cyberspace to divert my attention to being focused, creative, happy, hopeful, and more importantly to use me as another data point by scrapping my privacy. I say NO.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-06 05:14:12 -0500", "date": "5:14 p.m. on Jul 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/06/threads-is-just.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F06%2Fthreads-is-just.html" }, { "id": 2255, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So, as expected, I went to see the 15-inch MacBook Air. It\u0026rsquo;s a bigger MacBook Air. While testing the machine by browsing Apple.com, I noticed a promotion where you can get 200 $CAN off the purchase of \u0026hellip; the 15-inch MacBook Air. 🤔 Apple knows me well. 😅\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-05 19:03:55 -0500", "date": "7:03 p.m. on Jul 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/05/so-i-went.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F05%2Fso-i-went.html" }, { "id": 2256, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Planning a visit to the Apple Store after work today. Reason? To experience the 15-inch MacBook Air. 🕵🏻\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-05 07:06:56 -0500", "date": "7:06 p.m. on Jul 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/05/planning-a-visit.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F05%2Fplanning-a-visit.html" }, { "id": 2257, "type": "post", "title": "Bad News for Weather in Canada", "text": "Yesterday, weather report summary for June in Canada was released and it is ugly. Much higher temperatures in the wrong places and at much earlier time this year. Many records broken by wide margin (since 1871). Lot’s of discrepancies in rain distribution with lack of rain in the north of Quebec which then allowed much widespread forests fire than usual.\nOne month is not a trend but when you look far back, there are many worrying trends.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-05 05:56:34 -0500", "date": "5:56 p.m. on Jul 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/05/bad-news-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F05%2Fbad-news-for.html" }, { "id": 2258, "type": "post", "title": "Hunting vs ChatGPT", "text": "Hunters are not allowed to use drones to locate their prey. It is seen as an anti-competitive measure or an unfair practice. While “real” hunters who chase their future prey for fun aren’t allowed drone usage, what about those who hunt to eat meat because it is their way of living? Is it still forbidden?\nNow, let’s do a parallel with LLM-derived tools like ChatGPT. Is it ok for fun but not ok for actual work? When are the lines crossed? Is the content the only determining factor?\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-04 19:19:37 -0500", "date": "7:19 p.m. on Jul 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/04/hunting-vs-chatgpt.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F04%2Fhunting-vs-chatgpt.html" }, { "id": 2259, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Call it whatever you like, design it whatever you want, release today, tomorrow, in a year, if there is one simple link with Meta, I’m out. Enough of this platform / Zucherburg. 🤮\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-04 11:35:34 -0500", "date": "11:35 p.m. on Jul 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/04/call-it-whatever.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F04%2Fcall-it-whatever.html" }, { "id": 2260, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " I saved over $300 by cleaning up my custom domains Source: I saved over $300 by cleaning up my custom domains\nI always found those types of cleanups so satisfying. I\u0026rsquo;m almost as satisfied when I\u0026rsquo;m reading this type of blog post. Good job!\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-04 10:36:21 -0500", "date": "10:36 p.m. on Jul 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/04/i-saved-over.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F04%2Fi-saved-over.html" }, { "id": 2261, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Related to a previous post, now I\u0026rsquo;m starting to look at how I can remove Adobe Lightroom Classic from my photo-processing workflow, to keep Lightroom only. I think I need to disable photo syncing between the two Lightroom editions. This would be a start.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-04 05:52:03 -0500", "date": "5:52 p.m. on Jul 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/04/related-to-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F04%2Frelated-to-a.html" }, { "id": 2262, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Does Apple know that, with the Apple Vision Pro, they have a unique opportunity to reinvent weather apps? Imagine experiencing a thunderstorm forecast in this immersive environment. Can’t wait but I’m not holding my breath.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-03 06:47:56 -0500", "date": "6:47 p.m. on Jul 3, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/03/does-apple-know.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F03%2Fdoes-apple-know.html" }, { "id": 2263, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nOne thing that we don’t hear or read about these days is the lack of a standard way to get transaction receipts in stores, restaurants, and even online. Wouldn’t it be cool if there was an electronic standard to get these receipts by email or any other means? @Apple, are you reading this?\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-03 06:09:32 -0500", "date": "6:09 p.m. on Jul 3, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/03/one-thing-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F03%2Fone-thing-that.html" }, { "id": 2264, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The only time my M1 Mac mini with 16 GB of RAM struggles is when using Adobe Lightroom Classic. Even after all those promised and supposedly delivered \u0026ldquo;optimizations\u0026rdquo;, the classic version of Lr is still sluggish. Adobe Lightroom, being a brand new codebase, is actually way much faster in my experience.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-02 20:12:39 -0500", "date": "8:12 p.m. on Jul 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/02/the-only-time.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F02%2Fthe-only-time.html" }, { "id": 2265, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just added two photos to my Unsplash profile page. Spoiler alert: it\u0026rsquo;s coming from my last trip. Too bad Unsplash doesn\u0026rsquo;t support RSS feeds. Inoreader is of no help here, either.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-02 20:03:19 -0500", "date": "8:03 p.m. on Jul 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/02/just-added-two.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F02%2Fjust-added-two.html" }, { "id": 2266, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thought of the day: I rarely use my photos as a source of wallpapers on my devices. I\u0026rsquo;m wondering why.🤔\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-02 17:39:11 -0500", "date": "5:39 p.m. on Jul 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/02/thought-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F02%2Fthought-of-the.html" }, { "id": 2267, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Annnnnnnnd\u0026hellip; back home. 🛬 Feels good. 😃 But this jet lag\u0026hellip; bleh.😒\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-02 08:00:33 -0500", "date": "8:00 p.m. on Jul 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/02/annnnnnnnd-back-home.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F02%2Fannnnnnnnd-back-home.html" }, { "id": 2268, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m feeling upbeat about returning to a more normal blogging schedule. It’s part of my life and I miss it when I’m off-grid for a long time. Of course, I kept my travel journal up-to-date, so writing was still a thing.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-01 09:51:17 -0500", "date": "9:51 p.m. on Jul 1, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/01/im-feeling-upbeat.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F01%2Fim-feeling-upbeat.html" }, { "id": 2269, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Location check in 🗺 — Final step before being back home. Some news from home: forests fires still rage and my fridge is broken. Lost some food along the way, I guess. Oh well.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-01 09:47:35 -0500", "date": "9:47 p.m. on Jul 1, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/01/154735.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F01%2F154735.html" }, { "id": 2270, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Location check in 🗺 — First step in returning home. What a wonderful trip that was. 😍\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-01 06:17:24 -0500", "date": "6:17 p.m. on Jul 1, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/01/location-check-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F01%2Flocation-check-in.html" }, { "id": 2271, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "WSJ: Goldman Sachs wants to bail on Apple Card partnership after $1B loss, in talks with Amex\nGoldman Sachs is in talks with American Express about transferring its Apple partnership\nCould this be the needed change for Apple Card to come to Canada? It\u0026rsquo;s a long shot but who knows\u0026hellip; As a reminder, American Express was the very first partner to bring Apple Pay to Canada. They had a six-month exclusivity deal with Apple at that time.\n", "dateiso": "2023-07-01 03:12:00 -0500", "date": "3:12 p.m. on Jul 1, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/07/01/wsj-goldman-sachs.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F07%2F01%2Fwsj-goldman-sachs.html" }, { "id": 2272, "type": "post", "title": "The Bad Side of All Inclusive Resorts", "text": "I have spent the last two days at an all-inclusive in Agadir, Morocco. It’s quite busy here with a lot of people everywhere. People are from Morocco and mostly Europe. I don’t see many Russian (none actually).\nThe worst part of our experience here is at the buffet. People are eating way too much, because, it’s free or because they “paid for it”, so they are entitled. Yet, the amount of wasted food is astronomical. I would argue that 80% of people here are fat, 20% in advanced stage of being fat. Many people are rude with the personal (because they paid for it?). It’s sad. Many people lack the basic sense of why “waiting in line”. They skip, they bypass and they don’t give a damn. It’s a circus.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-30 11:55:40 -0500", "date": "11:55 p.m. on Jun 30, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/30/thr-bad-side.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F30%2Fthr-bad-side.html" }, { "id": 2273, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The time for a wrap up to this trip to Morocco is coming soon. Here’s one quick fact: I took 2 times more pictures with my iPhone than my Nikon. This ratio keeps increasing with each year. 🤨\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-30 06:24:50 -0500", "date": "6:24 p.m. on Jun 30, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/30/the-time-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F30%2Fthe-time-for.html" }, { "id": 2274, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Location check in 🗺 — Last stop. Chilling.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-29 06:36:06 -0500", "date": "6:36 p.m. on Jun 29, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/29/location-check-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F29%2Flocation-check-in.html" }, { "id": 2275, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Location check in 🗺 — Essaouira. 😍\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-27 12:49:49 -0500", "date": "12:49 p.m. on Jun 27, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/27/location-check-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F27%2Flocation-check-in.html" }, { "id": 2276, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m trying out “Weather on the way” (App Store link) for today’s road. Interesting take on weather forecasts. Carrot Weather should add this feature! We’re leaving Marrakesh one day earlier because of 🥵🥵🥵\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-27 09:05:12 -0500", "date": "9:05 p.m. on Jun 27, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/27/im-trying-out.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F27%2Fim-trying-out.html" }, { "id": 2277, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "We are staying at La Maison Arabe, a well-known Riad in Marrakesh. This hotel is full of corridors, stairs and interior jardins forming a complex maze where we can get lost pretty easily. It’s like Fes’s médina. Beautiful place, really.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-27 04:18:41 -0500", "date": "4:18 p.m. on Jun 27, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/27/we-are-staying.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F27%2Fwe-are-staying.html" }, { "id": 2278, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thought of the moment: to those who think that AI will cause human extinction, we must fight against it, is the wrong way to tackle the debate. It is borderline demagoguery.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-25 14:53:47 -0500", "date": "2:53 p.m. on Jun 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/25/thought-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F25%2Fthought-of-the.html" }, { "id": 2279, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Location check in 🗺 — Finally. Visiting tomorrow with 45C temp. 🥵\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-25 14:36:24 -0500", "date": "2:36 p.m. on Jun 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/25/location-check-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F25%2Flocation-check-in.html" }, { "id": 2280, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Location check in 🗺 — Magnificent place. Photos soon. I swear!\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-24 14:09:35 -0500", "date": "2:09 p.m. on Jun 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/24/200935.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F24%2F200935.html" }, { "id": 2281, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Location check in 🗺 — Time for a quick lunch before continuing our road!\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-24 06:26:37 -0500", "date": "6:26 p.m. on Jun 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/24/122637.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F24%2F122637.html" }, { "id": 2282, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Location check in 🗺 — Desert is 🥵\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-24 02:18:13 -0500", "date": "2:18 p.m. on Jun 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/24/location-check-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F24%2Flocation-check-in.html" }, { "id": 2283, "type": "post", "title": "Long Day Spent Visiting The Big Medina of Fez", "text": "Date:\tJune 21, 2023 at 5:54:55 PM GMT+1 Weather:\t29°C Mostly Clear Location:\tDerb Salaj, Fes, Fès-Meknès, Morocco What a strange, busy, surprising place. Strangely, I didn’t take as many pictures as I could. I guess I was too busy looking around me, up, down, everywhere. 🤯\nVisiting this Medina was like reliving the past, like going back in 800. Our guide told us that not that many things has changed since the early years. But man, everything is so coupled with the Islamic religion. I’m not used to that.\nThe Medina is a city in a city. You’ll find everything from food, clothes, and fake Apple gear (a lot). Oh, and, the young generation of sellers are all tied to their smartphone, all the time. I’m not sure this helps do good business. 🤔\nOh and boy we eat too much in Morocco.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-21 12:13:05 -0500", "date": "12:13 p.m. on Jun 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/21/long-day-spent.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F21%2Flong-day-spent.html" }, { "id": 2284, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Location check in 🗺 — Arrived today late afternoon. Visiting the médina tomorrow.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-20 16:19:42 -0500", "date": "4:19 p.m. on Jun 20, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/20/location-check-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F20%2Flocation-check-in.html" }, { "id": 2285, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When staying at a five star hotel equipped with a slow internet, you want to… 😡 sync your stuff, share photos but it takes like fovever.. 🤬 well, never mind. I shouldn’t complain. 🤦🏻‍♂️ But don’t expect any photos soon. Sorry. 🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-20 15:58:58 -0500", "date": "3:58 p.m. on Jun 20, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/20/when-staying-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F20%2Fwhen-staying-at.html" }, { "id": 2286, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Location check in 🗺 — Wow, such a different look here. 😍\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-19 12:24:10 -0500", "date": "12:24 p.m. on Jun 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/19/location-check-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F19%2Flocation-check-in.html" }, { "id": 2287, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Tempted to take the plunge and order the 15-inch MacBook Air so I can get it by the time I return home on July 1st. But I really want to try it first in an Apple Store. Oh well. Pleasure comes while waiting for something, as they say.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-19 02:48:32 -0500", "date": "2:48 p.m. on Jun 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/19/tempted-to-take.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F19%2Ftempted-to-take.html" }, { "id": 2288, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Waiting for a new release of Craft this week (v2.5.6 today?)👀. Curious to see what’s coming with it. I heard about few stability issues with Apple’s crop of new beta OSes. Those might get a fix. It might add a few tweaks here and there too. We will see. It will be hard for me to create the usual release analysis this time around (vacation time!).\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-19 02:46:34 -0500", "date": "2:46 p.m. on Jun 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/19/waiting-for-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F19%2Fwaiting-for-a.html" }, { "id": 2289, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Using Day One to document my trip in Morocco is so refreshing🥰. This app is so well designed and executed. Strangely enough, I rarely use Day One other than for peeking at past memories of my publications (automatically added through IFTTT automation with RSS feeds). I rarely add to my personal journal. That might change from now on.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-19 02:43:22 -0500", "date": "2:43 p.m. on Jun 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/19/using-day-one.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F19%2Fusing-day-one.html" }, { "id": 2290, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "An « Apple Store » in Tangier, Morocco!\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-18 13:22:00 -0500", "date": "1:22 p.m. on Jun 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/18/an-apple-store.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F18%2Fan-apple-store.html" }, { "id": 2291, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Location check in 🗺 — Tanger!!\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-18 09:58:37 -0500", "date": "9:58 p.m. on Jun 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/18/location-check-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F18%2Flocation-check-in.html" }, { "id": 2292, "type": "post", "title": "Leaving Rabat", "text": "Date:\tJune 18, 2023 at 7:28:55 AM GMT+1 Weather:\t22°C Mostly Cloudy Location:\tRue Jamaa Mourino, Rabat, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, Morocco Great city. Many photo opportunities. Like this wall and door. Unprocessed image.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-18 01:37:20 -0500", "date": "1:37 p.m. on Jun 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/18/leaving-rabat.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F18%2Fleaving-rabat.html" }, { "id": 2293, "type": "post", "title": "I’m really looking forward for this trip...", "text": "Date:\tJune 16, 2023 at 8:05:30 PM EDT Weather:\t20°C Rain Location:\tAéroport International de Montréal-Trudeau, Dorval, QC, Canada From a photography experience perspective\u0026hellip; My backpack 🎒 is so heavy with this camera and “only” two lenses. My hope is to use my big camera as much as my iPhone, so that I don’t think that I brought this with me for nothing. 😜\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-16 19:11:41 -0500", "date": "7:11 p.m. on Jun 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/16/im-really-looking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F16%2Fim-really-looking.html" }, { "id": 2294, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Location check in 🗺 — YUL. ✈️😎\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-16 17:42:58 -0500", "date": "5:42 p.m. on Jun 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/16/location-check-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F16%2Flocation-check-in.html" }, { "id": 2295, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This time of the year where I fill my iPhone with podcast episodes. Using PocketCast. Getting ready for the airport ✈️\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-16 16:10:17 -0500", "date": "4:10 p.m. on Jun 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/16/this-time-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F16%2Fthis-time-of.html" }, { "id": 2296, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finally finished and published this article this morning 😅. It\u0026rsquo;s been long in the making. Looking at my writing projects pipeline, it has always been pretty short. 😱\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-16 05:57:08 -0500", "date": "5:57 p.m. on Jun 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/16/finally-finished-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F16%2Ffinally-finished-and.html" }, { "id": 2297, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Well, Riccardo Mori doesn\u0026rsquo;t like Apple Vision Pro, visionOS, or many of what Apple is doing these days. I\u0026rsquo;ll reread his blog post because I think there is some good takes and also because there is so much to digest.\nNeither I nor he saw or experienced the headset, yet we are so far apart in our takes on Apple\u0026rsquo;s current vision. 😒\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-15 20:36:19 -0500", "date": "8:36 p.m. on Jun 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/15/well-riccardo-mori.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F15%2Fwell-riccardo-mori.html" }, { "id": 2298, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Charging all my devices. Installing app updates. Getting my bags ready. This two-weeks vacation is really welcome.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-15 15:52:32 -0500", "date": "3:52 p.m. on Jun 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/15/charging-all-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F15%2Fcharging-all-my.html" }, { "id": 2299, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just finished configuring my WhatsApp account on my iPhone. What a weird user experience. I couldn\u0026rsquo;t get my verification code to be sent by SMS after many tries. Finally asked to be called. WhatsApp asked me if I wanted to restore data from a non-existent iCloud backup. My account is configured with my current phone number which I\u0026rsquo;m pretty sure won\u0026rsquo;t work once I\u0026rsquo;m in Morocco. I bet that changing this phone number will require me to access my SMS on my primary line, which won\u0026rsquo;t be possible because I\u0026rsquo;ll depend on an eSIM. I\u0026rsquo;m not sure what is my \u0026ldquo;WhatsApp handle\u0026rdquo; either if such a thing exists. What is I prefer to use my email address so people can find me? I should probably spend an hour googling to sort this out.\nAnd WhatsApp is the de-facto standard in most parts of the world, except North America.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-15 11:55:39 -0500", "date": "11:55 p.m. on Jun 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/15/just-finished-configuring.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F15%2Fjust-finished-configuring.html" }, { "id": 2300, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Testing CloudFlare Analytics, because, I can, thanks to this plugin.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-15 07:32:10 -0500", "date": "7:32 p.m. on Jun 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/15/testing-cloudflare-analytics.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F15%2Ftesting-cloudflare-analytics.html" }, { "id": 2301, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day One creator Paul Wayne, on Apple\u0026rsquo;s foray into journaling app:\nRather than seeing this as competition, we embrace Apple’s entry into digital journaling as a testament to its growing importance. This evolution is not just beneficial for Day One, but also for our valued users. Source: Apple\u0026rsquo;s Journal App and Day One\u0026rsquo;s Evolution\nI applaud the positive attitude here. There is one thing that is missing from Day One: the capability to share a journal entry as a web page.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-14 20:08:33 -0500", "date": "8:08 p.m. on Jun 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/14/day-one-creator.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F14%2Fday-one-creator.html" }, { "id": 2302, "type": "post", "title": "Are We Ready for This Dystopian World?", "text": "Warning: it\u0026rsquo;s not about the Apple Vision Pro headset, which many people think will bring a touch of a dystopian future to our life. Something else more serious will.\nI read this week somewhere that, to get climate back into the normality zone🌪️ to ensure the sustainability of the human race and life in general, everyone on earth would need to live in an oppressive world where everything would be controlled by laws and government all the time and for decades. From buying food to cars to travelling to entertainment services, we would be under constant quotas, which would bring our quality of life much lower than we currently enjoy. In fact, developed countries\u0026rsquo; quality of life would join the much lower quality of life of the vast majority of the earth\u0026rsquo;s population in less developed countries. This would be the only way to get around this climate crisis. Not convinced? The COVID pandemic brought massive and repetitive confinements that weren\u0026rsquo;t enough to bend many climate change indicators downwards. It lasted two years, more or less. 😱\nOh, and should we talk about forced birth control everywhere? Because we should, even if this is a taboo subject.\nAre we ready for this dystopian world? 😷\nI can see a great Vision Pro use case right here where people watch daylong movies about what used to be a much more enjoyable world in 3D. 😒\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-14 06:02:13 -0500", "date": "6:02 p.m. on Jun 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/14/are-we-ready.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F14%2Fare-we-ready.html" }, { "id": 2303, "type": "post", "title": "Building a CRM in ... Notion? Really?", "text": "💡I\u0026rsquo;m trying to build my own CRM with Notion for my daytime job. After a few hours today building the data model using Notion tables and relations, I concluded that I underestimated Notion for such use case. It\u0026rsquo;s impressive and very flexible. It has a lot of potential. I\u0026rsquo;m pretty happy with my current work. I sometimes find it a bit laggy, but let\u0026rsquo;s keep the experiment running for a few months.😃\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-13 19:25:32 -0500", "date": "7:25 p.m. on Jun 13, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/13/building-a-crm.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F13%2Fbuilding-a-crm.html" }, { "id": 2304, "type": "post", "title": "On 15-inch MacBook Air: Is It Too Big?", "text": "When the 15-inch MacBook Air 💻 was officially announced, I was excited and knew it would replace my M1 MacBook Air. Since then, I read many reviews and watched many unboxing videos. People seem to enjoy the new bigger MBA, and all is good, right? But, is it?\nNobody talks about the device\u0026rsquo;s size when you use it on your lap like I do with my MBA right now as I write this post. It\u0026rsquo;s an important factor to consider for such laptop category which the MBA is targeting. Are 15 inches too wide? Is it still comfortable? For some reason, I have a few doubts. This 15-inch MacBook Air is\u0026hellip; big, but is it too big for me? 🤔\nWhen I come back from vacation, a visit to the Apple Store will help me decide once and for all.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-13 19:17:31 -0500", "date": "7:17 p.m. on Jun 13, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/13/on-inch-macbook.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F13%2Fon-inch-macbook.html" }, { "id": 2305, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Am I the only one who thinks that Adobe is slowly but surely morphine Lightroom Classic into Lightroom? From a distance, I sense that all the cool stuff appears in Lightroom first. The latest example: the capability of exporting a photo-processing session in a video file is available in Lightroom (iPad, iPhone only) but not in Lightroom Classic. 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-13 12:21:20 -0500", "date": "12:21 p.m. on Jun 13, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/13/am-i-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F13%2Fam-i-the.html" }, { "id": 2306, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A day at the office. Today, I had a meeting with my client\u0026rsquo;s external IT resources. One of them had a strange name, hard to pronounce. While waiting for everyone to join the meeting, wanting to fill in the silence, I asked where he was from. He responded, \u0026ldquo;Russia.\u0026rdquo; I said, \u0026ldquo;Oh.\u0026rdquo; 😱 This was followed by a big silence while I could see in mack back my Tidbyt display showing a prominent Ukrainian flag. 🇺🇦👊🏻We moved on to the meeting\u0026rsquo;s first subject. 😏😂\nA colleague of mine told me after the meeting that not all Russians are ok with this war in Ukraine. Yeah, right. I guess. This is not a valuable excuse in my book. Where are the diaspora demonstrations, in Canada? In the US?\nWomen in Iran have more courage to defend democratic values than those men in Russia to defend what is blatantly right from what is wrong. This is utterly frustrating.\nGlory to Ukraine. 🇺🇦🇺🇦\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-12 18:03:14 -0500", "date": "6:03 p.m. on Jun 12, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/12/a-day-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F12%2Fa-day-at.html" }, { "id": 2307, "type": "post", "title": "In Photography, the iPhone Can Be a Killer", "text": "My nephew, a semi-pro photographer, recently sold 90% of his photography gear (Canon). He only kept one body and one 50mm lens. 😱 He upgraded his phone to the iPhone 14 Pro. 😏He couldn\u0026rsquo;t be happier, he told me. Even with the iPhone, he essentially kept his photo-processing workflow as-is (Adobe Lightroom). This makes me pause a bit. Sure, he spends much less time doing professional photography work, but still. I call this the iPhone-photography killer effect.\nHe got his first exposure (pun intended) to the art of photography with me when he was still a child, more than thirty years ago, when he accompanied me for a short photowalk. He demonstrated that he could be a photographer, even at this young age, just by his numerous questions and suggestions.\nI\u0026rsquo;ll bring my small (but heavy) camera gear (Nikon) on my trip to Morocco and when I visit the Canary Islands later this summer. Will these trips be the last ones where I use the big one? 🤔 I know that I\u0026rsquo;m going to upgrade my iPhone 13 Pro to the upcoming iPhone 15 Pro Max later this fall. This could trigger a similar fate to my camera bag.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-12 05:53:30 -0500", "date": "5:53 p.m. on Jun 12, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/12/in-photography-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F12%2Fin-photography-the.html" }, { "id": 2308, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "📺 I always keep two Apple TVs: an Apple TV HD for the main bedroom that I gave to my brother-in-law, and an A12-based Apple TV 4K was my main ATV for the living room. Today, I bought the 2022 Apple TV 4K with Ethernet. The older one is now in the bedroom, and the new one is in the living room. Not what I call exciting upgrades. Had to redo all the apps setup. 😒 But it does feel faster in a more compact package.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-11 18:42:32 -0500", "date": "6:42 p.m. on Jun 11, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/11/i-always-keep.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F11%2Fi-always-keep.html" }, { "id": 2309, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Funny thing: I don\u0026rsquo;t see many comments about iOS 17\u0026rsquo;s autocorrect. Is it really better or what?? Either nobody cares, not that many are using iOS 17 yet (it\u0026rsquo;s beta 1, after all), people are busy checking compatibility with their apps, or it\u0026rsquo;s the same sh**? 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-11 18:30:55 -0500", "date": "6:30 p.m. on Jun 11, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/11/funny-thing-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F11%2Ffunny-thing-i.html" }, { "id": 2310, "type": "post", "title": "I’m Testing Day One for My Travel Journal Experiment", "text": "Date:\tJune 9, 2023 at 5:25:24 PM EDT Weather:\t18°C Mostly Cloudy Location:\tMontréal, QC, Canada I’ll be going to Morocco a week from now. I plan to use Day One to document my trip there. It will be the first time since I’m a Day One user. I don’t know how I could not think of this before. I’ve been a big fan of Day One forever. It’s such a rich journaling app for the Mac, the iPad and the iPhone. I can wait to use it on my iPhone to create rich journal entries as my vacation progresses.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-09 17:11:04 -0500", "date": "5:11 p.m. on Jun 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/09/date-june-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F09%2Fdate-june-at.html" }, { "id": 2311, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Still working from the coffee shop. 😅 While reading a technical document, I wish I could take notes and keep bookmarks about my readings. I discovered that, as well-thoughtful my personal creative workflow can be, I’m under-equipped for my work life🤦🏻‍♂️. OneNotes from Microsoft is great but so dull at the same time. This leaves me with Notion and Craft Docs. 🙄🤔 I really have to up my game at work; I’m way too lousy. I should use lessons learned from my blogger life.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-09 13:32:57 -0500", "date": "1:32 p.m. on Jun 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/09/still-working-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F09%2Fstill-working-from.html" }, { "id": 2312, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Suddenly, while I’m working on my iPad Pro in a coffee shop, I’m starting to wonder if having only my iPad Pro will be enough for my trip to Morocco. I need to travel « light », but… 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-09 12:51:49 -0500", "date": "12:51 p.m. on Jun 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/09/suddenly-while-im.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F09%2Fsuddenly-while-im.html" }, { "id": 2313, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As much as I\u0026rsquo;m invested in Craft Docs, I\u0026rsquo;m not sure I\u0026rsquo;ll use it for my travel notes this time around. It\u0026rsquo;s not very good when working offline. Maybe Apple Notes? Why not Day One? 🤔 The latter could be a fun experiment, and it\u0026rsquo;s easy to export journal entries into Markdown for reuse elsewhere!\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-09 07:28:20 -0500", "date": "7:28 p.m. on Jun 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/09/as-much-as.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F09%2Fas-much-as.html" }, { "id": 2314, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "There is one thing that I\u0026rsquo;m really looking forward to on our trip to Morocco🇲🇦. For the first time ever, we will have a private guide for the whole trip. I\u0026rsquo;m usually the main driver when going on such a vacation. Now, I\u0026rsquo;ll be quietly sitting in the van and be free to take pictures while on the move. 📷\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-09 06:50:25 -0500", "date": "6:50 p.m. on Jun 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/09/there-is-one.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F09%2Fthere-is-one.html" }, { "id": 2315, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m still slowly digesting Apple news of this week (think of a cow 🐄 in the field 🌿). About macOS Sonoma widgets 🖼️: it\u0026rsquo;s surprising that Apple is showing widgets to be perfectly aligned when they are dropped on the desktop background. According to some YouTuber\u0026rsquo;s early reviews, you can be messy with them and drop them wherever you want. People will get messy, for sure.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-09 06:15:07 -0500", "date": "6:15 p.m. on Jun 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/09/im-still-slowly.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F09%2Fim-still-slowly.html" }, { "id": 2316, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One week from now, it\u0026rsquo;s vacation time! I\u0026rsquo;m too busy at work, so this seems far away; I\u0026rsquo;m not in the vacation mood yet. This week-end, I really need to kick my butt and put myself in \u0026ldquo;get in the mood, get ready\u0026rdquo; mode! One way to achieve that, update my iPhone wallpaper. One step at a time.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-09 05:37:46 -0500", "date": "5:37 p.m. on Jun 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/09/one-week-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F09%2Fone-week-from.html" }, { "id": 2317, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "RSS \u0026gt; Reddit. That is all. Think twice before telling me that I\u0026rsquo;m wrong. Spoiler alert: contribute to your own destiny instead of other corporations\u0026rsquo; destiny.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-08 16:47:49 -0500", "date": "4:47 p.m. on Jun 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/08/rss-reddit-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F08%2Frss-reddit-that.html" }, { "id": 2318, "type": "post", "title": "Watch Out Reddit", "text": "🤨 Because of recent Reddit behaviors towards their API consumption models, seeing Apollo go, just like that, plus similarities of behavior with Twitter, I may drop my cross posting to Reddit as a first step of protests. Then, stop manual posting (in /r/craftdocs for example). Ultimately, closing my account could become a possibility. 🫤\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-08 14:13:38 -0500", "date": "2:13 p.m. on Jun 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/08/watch-out-reddit.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F08%2Fwatch-out-reddit.html" }, { "id": 2319, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " Use Ghost Bookmarker to easily add links and notes to a post, straight from your browser. Links are saved as a bookmark card (with an optional note) to a draft post called “Bookmarked links.” If this post doesn’t already exist, it’s created for you. Otherwise, bookmark cards are added to the existing content. If you publish the post or change the title, Ghost Bookmarker will create a new post with the “Bookmarked links” title. One way to use this is to save links during the week, publish your curated link list, and then repeat the process as needed. Source: Ghost Bookmarker - Chrome Web Store\nWhat a great Idea for @Manton and Micro.blog! I want this! Please! 🙏🏻\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-08 09:58:56 -0500", "date": "9:58 p.m. on Jun 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/08/use-ghost-bookmarker.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F08%2Fuse-ghost-bookmarker.html" }, { "id": 2320, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I don\u0026rsquo;t know if it is because I\u0026rsquo;m getting older, but I have more and more trouble and aversion with high-velocity feeds coming from platforms like Mastodon (when following tags like #WWDC during the dub dub week). I prefer the slowness of Micro.blog\u0026rsquo;s feed or a simple articles reading session.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-07 18:55:17 -0500", "date": "6:55 p.m. on Jun 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/07/i-dont-know.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F07%2Fi-dont-know.html" }, { "id": 2321, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m still digesting everything we heard and saw today. Like someone wrote today: what was that? I already read good (and dumb) reactions here and there, from which I\u0026rsquo;m trying to stay away, just to focus and maybe get my analysis and perspective one of my own. That\u0026rsquo;s not easy; it\u0026rsquo;s so noisy out there right now. Stay tuned for later this week.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-05 21:04:43 -0500", "date": "9:04 p.m. on Jun 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/05/im-still-digesting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F05%2Fim-still-digesting.html" }, { "id": 2322, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My blog theme was tweaked this morning to set a wider content area (from 40em to 60em). Since the content is resized according to the device screen, I don\u0026rsquo;t think it should create a problem.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-05 09:15:57 -0500", "date": "9:15 p.m. on Jun 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/05/my-blog-theme.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F05%2Fmy-blog-theme.html" }, { "id": 2323, "type": "post", "title": "A Few Last-Minute Questions for WWDC2023", "text": "\nIt’s Apple keynote day, and it is exciting but also stressful! Here are last-minute questions.\nWill the headset pricing be announced today? Will the headset be like the Apple Watch and be running apps, or will it be more like CarPlay, with some additional viewport from the iPhone? Or a combination? Is the headset unveiled with a “one more thing” segment? When the iPad was announced, Steve Jobs spent some time explaining its relative position within the use cases spectrum of our computing devices. Where does the headset fit? Will the headset announcement overshadow Apple’s timid foray into generative AI? Is Xcode finally coming to the iPad? Can we infer something about the rumors setting the price 1999$ when we compare that to the AirPods Max price? Tim Cook’s air time has decreased in recent events, is the trend continuing today? Can we expect another meme moment from Craig Federighi? Who’s going to present the headset? Jeff Williams, just like for the Apple Watch Ultra? Can any of the announcements today affect my Apple hardware upgrade plan? For someone who’s not interested in the headset, I have far too many questions about it. I’ll return to this post once the event is complete to fill in the answers!\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-05 09:08:06 -0500", "date": "9:08 p.m. on Jun 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/05/a-few-lastminute.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F05%2Fa-few-lastminute.html" }, { "id": 2324, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "👉🏻 This is WWDC day! Here are some informative tidbits. Two weeks ago, I set up a fake meeting in my work calendar for the entire afternoon (EST time here). I’ll be out of the office for the whole afternoon. I’ve been doing that for more than ten years. It worked 9 out of 10 times. I should be good to go today.\nI’ll watch the keynote from within Safari to take screenshots (with the TV app, screenshots don’t work 🤔). Then, using a configured button on my StreamDeck mini, I’ll take the screenshots that will be saved and moved to my Synology NAS automatically; thanks to Hazel. The excellent Mastodon client, Ivory, will be running too side-by-side so that I can see reactions coming in. Sadly, feed streaming is not yet a thing on Mastodon, apparently.\nMy expectations are relatively low for all the tech announcements but high for the keynote production value and quality.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-05 06:13:57 -0500", "date": "6:13 p.m. on Jun 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/05/this-is-wwdc.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F05%2Fthis-is-wwdc.html" }, { "id": 2325, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In case people want to react and discuss Apple\u0026rsquo;s WWDC keynote tomorrow, there is still this Wavelength invite available. Currently, 43 users are in the group.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-04 21:01:10 -0500", "date": "9:01 p.m. on Jun 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/04/in-case-people.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F04%2Fin-case-people.html" }, { "id": 2326, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "😱I just realized that for the first time in quite a while, I\u0026rsquo;ll be following WWDC news outside of Twitter. I\u0026rsquo;m unsure if I\u0026rsquo;ll go on Mastodon or Bluesky to read the room temperature. I\u0026rsquo;ll see. Maybe I\u0026rsquo;ll just make up my own mind, too, which is a good thing. 🤔💭\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-04 19:04:14 -0500", "date": "7:04 p.m. on Jun 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/04/im-just-realizing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F04%2Fim-just-realizing.html" }, { "id": 2327, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here’s a short “life at the office” story. Our VP of sales never stops bragging about how ChatGPT is cool and how it works for him for many use cases. I’m uncomfortable with his stance on ChatGPT \u0026amp; generative AI in general. I think about it each time he sends an email that was obviously created with ChatGPT.\nWhy is it a problem for me? Who am I to judge him and his “new way of working”? I think I have found the root cause.\nFirst, it’s not the results of his work. It’s the work of something else. He takes something “as is” without adding any value, any personal opinion, or a personal twist. Second, the fundamental problem is that he works in IT but is not a tech guy. He is a salesperson. He’s the type of guy who surfs on buzzwords a lot. Using ChatGPT makes him circumvent his lack of confidence because of a lack of IT knowledge and culture. He probably feels better and more “into the game” like most of my other colleagues, who studied computer science before getting to work in IT.\nHow many more people lack my colleague do the same, for the same reason?\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-04 18:47:42 -0500", "date": "6:47 p.m. on Jun 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/04/heres-a-short.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F04%2Fheres-a-short.html" }, { "id": 2328, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I miss ThinkSecret website.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-04 16:12:25 -0500", "date": "4:12 p.m. on Jun 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/04/i-miss-thinksecret.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F04%2Fi-miss-thinksecret.html" }, { "id": 2329, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I forgot so many things to talk about in my WWDC 2023 expectations YouTube video\u0026hellip; 🤦🏻‍♂️ like the Watch Face store that I wish Apple would be doing someday. At least this is covered in my article published earlier. Not all is lost. 😅\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-04 16:08:20 -0500", "date": "4:08 p.m. on Jun 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/04/i-forgot-so.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F04%2Fi-forgot-so.html" }, { "id": 2330, "type": "post", "title": "Reflecting on My Photo Processing Strategy", "text": "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? I like Photomator a lot; it is nicer than Lr and more approachable too. However, using Photomator to process images from my Nikon poses a challenge in file management. I’ll need to import the .NEF files from my SD card into my iPad in an iCloud Drive folder so I can work on imported files from any device (iPad, MacBook Air or iPhone). I prefer using iCloud Photos Library instead of managing files manually. I guess this will be this combo: Photomator + Halide for my “shot on iPhone” images!\nJust writing this blog post made things a little bit less fuzzy. I’ll take any suggestions!\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-04 15:43:30 -0500", "date": "3:43 p.m. on Jun 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/04/reflecting-on-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F04%2Freflecting-on-my.html" }, { "id": 2331, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Getting ready for my trip to north west Africa. Halide FTW!\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-04 12:14:24 -0500", "date": "12:14 p.m. on Jun 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/04/getting-ready-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F04%2Fgetting-ready-for.html" }, { "id": 2332, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Location check in 🗺 — I’m testing the Micro.blog checkin shortcut. Please, ignore.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-04 12:11:10 -0500", "date": "12:11 p.m. on Jun 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/04/location-check-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F04%2Flocation-check-in.html" }, { "id": 2333, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thanks to @Mtt \u0026amp; @rcrackley, I\u0026rsquo;m now using a different and quite nice Micro.blog theme for the first time in many years! I\u0026rsquo;m quite happy with the final results. Hope that you enjoy the change as much as I do!\nPS. There are a few things that I\u0026rsquo;d like to tweak, but that will be for another day!\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-04 10:36:25 -0500", "date": "10:36 p.m. on Jun 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/04/thanks-to-mtt.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F04%2Fthanks-to-mtt.html" }, { "id": 2334, "type": "post", "title": "365 Days Later", "text": "\nA 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:\n52 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. I feel I’m now on par with all the things I wanted to talk about regarding Craft. Future Craft videos will touch on new features and tweaked workflow. I still have much work to do for Micro.blog video series, though.\nAt the initial pace of new subscribers, I set the goal of hitting a thousand subscribers in the first year, but I’m sad to report that I won’t make it. The pace of new subscribers has slowed quite a bit.\nThis video production journey is full of learning and lessons. Over time, I settled on a production style I’m happy with. I finally found a way to get better sound quality. I recently added iA Presenter to get cue cards showing on my screen while recording (read “iA Presenter — A Different \u0026amp; Clever Take at Presentation Software”). My workflow is stable now and is supported by this Craft template (you can download and use it if you are a Craft user, BTW). Finally, I started using Play.app to gather all my video links in one place. This provides a quick way to refer to past videos whenever needed.\nI also produced videos about other apps like Capacities, Inoreader and Anybox. Some of these videos take the form of a 60 minutes session with the app as a first-time user. It’s fun as there is no script supporting those experiences.\nToday, I will record a video about the WWDC 23 conference. The video will complement my recently published article on the same subject. It will be my first foray into tech news and commentary. I’m not planning to do many of these, but WWDC is significant and needs some of my production time attention.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-04 08:58:12 -0500", "date": "8:58 p.m. on Jun 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/04/days-later.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F04%2Fdays-later.html" }, { "id": 2335, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been watching my feeds analytics through FeedPress, since I made the switch. I\u0026rsquo;m surprised by the number of subscribers that keeps going up and up. I wasn\u0026rsquo;t expecting that. Should I trust the FeedPress numbers? Am I more popular than I initially thought? 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-04 06:08:25 -0500", "date": "6:08 p.m. on Jun 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/04/ive-been-watching.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F04%2Five-been-watching.html" }, { "id": 2336, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Mmmm, it seems that I\u0026rsquo;m unable to use my test blog on Micro.blog to post from Ulysses or Micro.blog.app. Am I missing something here?\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-03 20:48:55 -0500", "date": "8:48 p.m. on Jun 3, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/03/mmmm-it-seems.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F03%2Fmmmm-it-seems.html" }, { "id": 2337, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "From the release notes of the May 30th version of Hazel:\nAdded missing arm64 support for certain auxiliary binaries. Not having these meant that certain specialized functions were being run using Rosetta on Apple Silicon Macs.\nThat 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.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-03 16:58:58 -0500", "date": "4:58 p.m. on Jun 3, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/03/from-the-release.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F03%2Ffrom-the-release.html" }, { "id": 2338, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "And just like that, I discovered that my original Mastodon account is enabled and active. I didn\u0026rsquo;t know my account was finally made active after I submitted my request in Dec, 2019. Now I\u0026rsquo;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?🤔\nWhat would you do?\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-03 16:07:15 -0500", "date": "4:07 p.m. on Jun 3, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/03/and-just-like.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F03%2Fand-just-like.html" }, { "id": 2339, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I hate .webm files. There, I said it. Why? I don\u0026rsquo;t know.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-03 10:55:34 -0500", "date": "10:55 p.m. on Jun 3, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/03/i-hate-webm.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F03%2Fi-hate-webm.html" }, { "id": 2340, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-03 09:58:55 -0500", "date": "9:58 p.m. on Jun 3, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/03/my-morning-so.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F03%2Fmy-morning-so.html" }, { "id": 2341, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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. 😎\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-03 09:00:11 -0500", "date": "9:00 p.m. on Jun 3, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/03/getting-ready-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F03%2Fgetting-ready-for.html" }, { "id": 2342, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Why my (numericcitizen.me) website is getting a lot more traffic in the last two days from … Facebook is a mystery for me 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-02 07:13:40 -0500", "date": "7:13 p.m. on Jun 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/02/why-my-numericcitizenme.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F02%2Fwhy-my-numericcitizenme.html" }, { "id": 2343, "type": "post", "title": "On Reddit API Access Pricing", "text": "So, apparently, just like Twitter, Reddit is entering into a \u0026ldquo;kill-third-party-apps\u0026rdquo; by charging an enormous amount of money to use their APIs. It looks like it. Apollo isn\u0026rsquo;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\u0026rsquo;s temperature. But maybe they are entitled, to some degree, I guess, to charge for their APIs, right?\nI\u0026rsquo;m tempted to make a parallel with Apple\u0026rsquo;s dreaded 15%-30% App Store commission. Is Apple\u0026rsquo;s stance on its App Store different from Reddit\u0026rsquo;s stance on its APIs? Is charging a commission to be on the App Store and take advantage of all Apple\u0026rsquo;s technology to get a chance to be distributed on hundreds of millions of iPhones similar to consuming a platform APIs? If not, what is different, actually? Is free API usage a dead end in today\u0026rsquo;s world? There are whole business models built around APIs these days. API speaks intellectual property in my book. Only companies with business models supported by massive ad distribution or expansive paid subscriptions can think of thriving by giving away their API access. It will be interesting to see how Reddit is reacting to third-party developers\u0026rsquo; pushback.\nOh, and if they actually kill the third-party Reddit client ecosystem, unlike Twitter, Reddit platform alternatives are not obvious to me.\nI guess it\u0026rsquo;s time to remember: there is no such thing as a free lunch.\n", "dateiso": "2023-06-01 07:26:10 -0500", "date": "7:26 p.m. on Jun 1, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/06/01/on-reddit-api.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F06%2F01%2Fon-reddit-api.html" }, { "id": 2344, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-31 06:17:27 -0500", "date": "6:17 p.m. on May 31, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/31/im-thinking-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F31%2Fim-thinking-the.html" }, { "id": 2345, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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. 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-30 10:59:12 -0500", "date": "10:59 p.m. on May 30, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/30/how-many-tech.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F30%2Fhow-many-tech.html" }, { "id": 2346, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;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 \u0026ldquo;Imbox / Feed / Paper Trail\u0026rdquo; model with a Gmail account + Mimestream? The other big issue with Mimestream: no iPhone or iPad client. 😔\nI like HEY\u0026rsquo;s service principles, but their mail client is a bit goofy. I\u0026rsquo;m due for renewal on July 9th.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-30 06:00:32 -0500", "date": "6:00 p.m. on May 30, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/30/ive-been-looking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F30%2Five-been-looking.html" }, { "id": 2347, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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.\nTried Mona and Icecube, too. Ivory feels better in most accounts.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-29 18:05:20 -0500", "date": "6:05 p.m. on May 29, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/29/im-not-into.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F29%2Fim-not-into.html" }, { "id": 2348, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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! 🤣\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-29 16:36:34 -0500", "date": "4:36 p.m. on May 29, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/29/i-finally-checked.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F29%2Fi-finally-checked.html" }, { "id": 2349, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "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.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-29 07:31:49 -0500", "date": "7:31 p.m. on May 29, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/29/mentally-my-creative.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F29%2Fmentally-my-creative.html" }, { "id": 2350, "type": "post", "title": "Where I’ve Been", "text": "To follow the trend started with Manton from Micro.blog, here’s my list of countries I visited.\n🇺🇸 United States 🇲🇽 Mexico 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇩🇴 Republic Dominica 🇯🇲 Jamaica 🇦🇷 Argentina 🇧🇷 Brazil 🇺🇾 Uruguay 🇫🇷 France 🇪🇸 Spain 🇵🇹 Portugal 🇦🇹 Austria 🇨🇿 Czechia 🇳🇱 Netherland 🇬🇧 England 🇮🇸 Iceland 🇦🇪 UAE 🇮🇹 Italy 🇧🇪 Belgium 🇸🇪 Sweden 🇩🇪 Germany 🇨🇭 Switzerland 🇬🇷 Greece soon 🇲🇦 Morocco ", "dateiso": "2023-05-29 06:03:21 -0500", "date": "6:03 p.m. on May 29, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/29/where-ive-been.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F29%2Fwhere-ive-been.html" }, { "id": 2351, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "YouTube reminds me every day why I hate algorithmic timelines. Suppose I open up YouTube and click on one video about long-range airplanes. The minute I\u0026rsquo;m done watching the video, my timeline becomes full of airplane-related videos. YouTube completely washes out my timeline with what the algorithm was programmed to show me based on my consumption behaviours (and probably based on some other weird and highly questionable factors). I hate it. One video and boom, my YouTube universe flips elsewhere. Disclaimer: I\u0026rsquo;m a paying subscriber so I never see an ad. This behaviour is infuriating.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-28 20:32:52 -0500", "date": "8:32 p.m. on May 28, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/28/youtube-reminds-me.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F28%2Fyoutube-reminds-me.html" }, { "id": 2352, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I never share my food over here but god this was delicious: aspergus, lobster for a risotto! Nothing left on the table. Sorry.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-28 18:12:12 -0500", "date": "6:12 p.m. on May 28, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/28/i-never-share.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F28%2Fi-never-share.html" }, { "id": 2353, "type": "post", "title": "My Morning So Far", "text": "\nWhat an intense morning.\nI learned about the existence of iTelescope, thanks to this blog post from Christopher Curtis, a service where you can rent astronomical observation time from the comfort of your home.\nI read about the Eternal Recurrence, thanks to a post from Gr36. I would be ok with the idea of reliving my life as is. Over and over again.\nThanks to this superb article about Fediverse from Glenn Fleishman for Tidbits, I learned that we could follow anyone on Mastodon using an RSS feed, which we could do with Twitter. I’ll be able to re-add accounts to Inoreader to get news in one place, just as I was doing when I was on Twitter. Cool.\nAll this because I was searching for ideas to write a few linkposts. I wrote none except this post, but I learned quite a lot. I updated my Digital Garden accordingly.\nAs reported by Om Malik, automation is the next evolution step for fast food chains. Should I care?\nAm I missing anything? I think so, and this is where Rewind could help me a lot.\nWhat about your morning?\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-28 08:11:42 -0500", "date": "8:11 p.m. on May 28, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/28/my-morning-so.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F28%2Fmy-morning-so.html" }, { "id": 2354, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One of the best activity-tracking apps focused on steps tracking is StepsApp. I always find something new each time I use it. It is such a well-crafted piece of software. A vast array of widgets come with the app too. I paid for it. That being said, I\u0026rsquo;m not proud of my activity trend for the last two years. 😒\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-27 15:22:44 -0500", "date": "3:22 p.m. on May 27, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/27/one-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F27%2Fone-of-the.html" }, { "id": 2355, "type": "post", "title": "On AI \u0026 Content Creators — So many Questions — So Few Answers", "text": "Should I care if my content is used to train AI models? How is it different than someone who uses part of my content in a citation to write a linkpost, for example? Is it ok for a portion of my content to be used elsewhere as opposed to the full content? Should I be able to opt out of any AI training, just like we can opt out of search engines when posting content online?\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-27 12:02:35 -0500", "date": "12:02 p.m. on May 27, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/27/on-ai-content.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F27%2Fon-ai-content.html" }, { "id": 2356, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Now there are 42 members (Micro.bloggers) on Wavelength! Keep joining if you want! Invite link.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-27 08:22:13 -0500", "date": "8:22 p.m. on May 27, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/27/now-there-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F27%2Fnow-there-are.html" }, { "id": 2357, "type": "post", "title": "On Slowing Down AI To Stay in Control", "text": "I had a discussion about AI yesterday with my wife. She came back from a two-day conference in Toronto. One of the sessions was about the place of AI in society and how it is time to engage in promoting and organizing some AI regulations.\nThe more I read and learn about AI capabilities as exposed in tools like ChatGPT, the more I think we will eventually need some regulation. For example, one thing we discussed (and on which we couldn’t agree) is the introduction of a delay in AI training. What I’d like to see is that AI companies are imposed a 2 or 3 years delay for their model training. And why would this be necessary? How would it change the game?\nRemember that current training is lagging simply because we lack the processing power to digest all the digital information produced daily. But, eventually, it will come, just like Google replaced Yahoo when index content was initially entered manually by a group of people and then by a community. Sooner or later, ChatGPT or similar tools will digest the web in near real-time. And this is where this is going to be even more scary and could really get out of control.\nImposing delay on models training would help public knowledge and content to settle down and let consensus emerge in any research field, for example. Short-term noise would be reduced. In my opinion, it would be more challenging for ChatGPT to be infected by bad actors who will eventually try to influence results with toxic data.\nMy wife and I couldn’t agree on the effectiveness of this simple measure. She thinks that it would make ChatGPT useless or less relevant. My take goes the opposite side where, like in real life, things like encyclopedias are still helpful even though they were written and got frozen as soon as they were printed. So there is a need for them, like there is a need for more dynamic knowledge content like Wikipedia.\nMore than ever, we need to define what makes us unique, how we protect how uniqueness and consider slowing things down a bit, so we can have more time to understand what is going on and where things could go if we let things go without proper framing.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-27 07:41:55 -0500", "date": "7:41 p.m. on May 27, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/27/on-slowing-down.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F27%2Fon-slowing-down.html" }, { "id": 2358, "type": "post", "title": "Targeting the First Thousand YouTube Subscribers", "text": "My goal when I started doing YouTube videos about Craft (and now Micro.blog) was to reach a thousand subscribers during the first year. At the current rate, I won\u0026rsquo;t make it. Am I sad about this? No. Is it nagging me? Yes. Why?\nI think there are a lot of Craft users out there, and I think they could benefit from watching a few of my videos. That\u0026rsquo;s the whole purpose and \u0026ldquo;raison d\u0026rsquo;être\u0026rdquo; for my YouTube channel which was (and still is) to help users get better at using Craft or learning about Craft if they are not currently using it. Is my absence from Twitter to promote my content making any difference? Maybe. Maybe not. Who knows.\nI still have some time left before June 6th, but I\u0026rsquo;m being realistic here.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-26 17:27:46 -0500", "date": "5:27 p.m. on May 26, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/26/targeting-the-first.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F26%2Ftargeting-the-first.html" }, { "id": 2359, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been following Apple since 1982. At that time, Apple was selling the highly successful Apple ][+ line, the much less successful Apple ///. The Lisa was still a project. The Mac was not even on the drawing board. I find it cool to see the young generation of tech guys today who are fervent admirers of Apple. These people weren\u0026rsquo;t even born in 1982.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-26 11:56:59 -0500", "date": "11:56 p.m. on May 26, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/26/ive-been-following.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F26%2Five-been-following.html" }, { "id": 2360, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What is it like to use the migration assistant on a Mac to move content \u0026amp; settings from one machine to another? Is it as good as moving from one iPhone to another?\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-26 08:23:02 -0500", "date": "8:23 p.m. on May 26, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/26/what-is-it.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F26%2Fwhat-is-it.html" }, { "id": 2361, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today\u0026rsquo;s thought: by accepting the idea that blogging is writing for myself, I would probably write more often.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-26 05:57:03 -0500", "date": "5:57 p.m. on May 26, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/26/todays-thought-by.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F26%2Ftodays-thought-by.html" }, { "id": 2362, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m fascinated by the lack of visual updates to Gruber\u0026rsquo;s Daring Fireball website. I mean, he has been using the same design like forever! And then I look at Micro.blog users here constantly trying themes or even building their own and tweaking it often. I\u0026rsquo;m not particularly fond of his design choices but hey, who am I to judge! Content wins over form?\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-25 18:24:39 -0500", "date": "6:24 p.m. on May 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/25/im-fascinated-by.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F25%2Fim-fascinated-by.html" }, { "id": 2363, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Some housekeeping this morning: I made some changes to the navigation bar on my website so that FeedPress feeds are more prominent. Removed is the link to the monthly newsletter tag as I\u0026rsquo;m no longer publishing them.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-25 06:40:14 -0500", "date": "6:40 p.m. on May 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/25/some-housekeeping-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F25%2Fsome-housekeeping-this.html" }, { "id": 2364, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As a fan of meteorology, I was fascinated today by this visible satellite imagery sequence of east North America. We can observe clouds at different levels in the atmosphere for the same geo area that travel in different directions. Just look at the cursor for where to observe the phenomena. This is not exceptional, but it is fascinating nonetheless.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-24 12:38:01 -0500", "date": "12:38 p.m. on May 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/24/as-a-fan.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F24%2Fas-a-fan.html" }, { "id": 2365, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nFor the first time in a long time, I’m satisfied with my online publishing setup. I don’t see changes in the future. This is relieving. This mean I can focus a writing projects. The only moving part around Mastodon/Bluesky clients. Nothing to call my (late) mother.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-24 11:54:46 -0500", "date": "11:54 p.m. on May 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/24/for-the-first.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F24%2Ffor-the-first.html" }, { "id": 2366, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Follow up to my previous post. I\u0026rsquo;ll probably keep Ivory and buy the bundle subscription: one app, for all Apple platforms. Also, It\u0026rsquo;s a way to show support for their journey out of Twitter. I\u0026rsquo;ll scrap Ice Cubes and Mammoth. Micro.blog, Ivory, Bluesky it will be. 😊 For now. 🫢\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-24 09:29:26 -0500", "date": "9:29 p.m. on May 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/24/follow-up-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F24%2Ffollow-up-to.html" }, { "id": 2367, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Eventually I’ll have to make a few decisions … 🤔🤦🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-24 07:20:51 -0500", "date": "7:20 p.m. on May 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/24/eventually-ill-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F24%2Feventually-ill-have.html" }, { "id": 2368, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If they are serious about supporting the federated web, @ivory@tapbots.social could add support for Micro.blog\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-24 06:31:51 -0500", "date": "6:31 p.m. on May 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/24/if-they-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F24%2Fif-they-are.html" }, { "id": 2369, "type": "post", "title": "From Weekly to Monthly Digest", "text": "Following the announcement of the tweaked Micro.blog newsletter functionality, I\u0026rsquo;m switching to a monthly digest instead with a specific category as the sole source for its content. Three reasons for this change: first, the digest will become a more intentional set of creative gestures instead of being the result of a weekly and automatic content spit out without any distinction. Second, monthly means less noisy than weekly. Third, less is more. Let\u0026rsquo;s try that. 🙂\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-23 21:04:06 -0500", "date": "9:04 p.m. on May 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/23/from-weekly-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F23%2Ffrom-weekly-to.html" }, { "id": 2370, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just finished watching a few videos about FinalCut Pro for iPad. One thing came to my mind: the iPad will probably continue to get bigger to accommodate the vision for FCP on the iPad. Even on the 12.9-inch iPad, FCP looked a bit cramped. I still don\u0026rsquo;t know if I\u0026rsquo;ll ever use it for my needs (when I upgrade my current and unsupported 11-inch 2018 iPad Pro. 🤨\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-23 19:37:23 -0500", "date": "7:37 p.m. on May 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/23/just-finished-watching.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F23%2Fjust-finished-watching.html" }, { "id": 2371, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Exposure asks me to upgrade to the business tier subscription to support Plausible analytics via custom HTML headers. Thanks but no thanks. My current subscription is already expensive enough, and I am barely able to justify the price. I\u0026rsquo;m not going to support something that I think should be builtin, like Google Analytics. Plausible is an external service and would require minimal changes on Exposure part to implement. They are being greedy here.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-23 06:23:43 -0500", "date": "6:23 p.m. on May 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/23/exposure-asks-me.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F23%2Fexposure-asks-me.html" }, { "id": 2372, "type": "post", "title": "On Belgorod Events", "text": "What is going on there? Who are behind these actions? Where does the equipment come from? Will it last? Is the Ukrainian government behind these guys? How many are they? Will it make a difference in the grand scheme of things? How is it possible to cross a frontier like this so quickly without much resistance? Is anybody home?\nSo many questions and so few answers.\nI’m following the news about this unexpected turn of events with great attention and hope. Now, if only they could go up 763 km north and get to Moscow!\n#ukrainianwar #belgorod\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-23 06:04:27 -0500", "date": "6:04 p.m. on May 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/23/on-belgorod-events.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F23%2Fon-belgorod-events.html" }, { "id": 2373, "type": "post", "title": "Thoughts On FCP for iPad vs Screenflow", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m more inclined and attracted by the idea of testing (and actually using) FCP on iPad than the Mac version. Without being an iMovie on steroids (something that I don\u0026rsquo;t want), I wish FCP for iPad to be a simpler (but not simplistic) version of FCP on the Mac.\nThe problem: all my videos are all done with Screenflow for Mac because It\u0026rsquo;s all about Mac screen recording. What value would bring another app like FCP for the iPad? I see a more complex workflow because I would need to \u0026ldquo;export\u0026rdquo; from Mac then import into FCP on iPad then do the actual montage on a less capable device (two different device paradigms, little added value).\nThoughts?\nPS: My 2018 iPad Pro isn\u0026rsquo;t capable enough for my 4K screen recordings. But let\u0026rsquo;s imagine that I\u0026rsquo;m on an M1 or M2 iPad Pro.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-22 20:57:40 -0500", "date": "8:57 p.m. on May 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/22/thoughts-on-fcp.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F22%2Fthoughts-on-fcp.html" }, { "id": 2374, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "From my experience (today I shared a visual story named \u0026ldquo;Cemeteries\u0026rdquo;), I don\u0026rsquo;t get much exposure with Exposure, which I find highly ironic.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-22 17:26:14 -0500", "date": "5:26 p.m. on May 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/22/from-my-experience.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F22%2Ffrom-my-experience.html" }, { "id": 2375, "type": "post", "title": "On Mimestream Going 1.0 \u0026 Native Mac Apps", "text": "\nMimestream, a native Gmail email client, is out of beta and looks quite good if this video, by Matt Birchler, is any indication. As a subscriber to HEY, I can only salivate when I see such great Mac apps being launched for such a mature category. The guys behind HEY brag a lot about having a unique take on email, but they seriously lack in their take on being native because their software is not and is one of their biggest problems IMHO. If only they had the guts to rebuild their client like Mimestream, it would be a real killer for me.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-22 16:15:07 -0500", "date": "4:15 p.m. on May 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/22/on-mimestream-going.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F22%2Fon-mimestream-going.html" }, { "id": 2376, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Quick follow-up to my blog post earlier today about using Craft to create photo journals. Sometimes, I look too far to find the perfect solution when there is one in front of my eyes: Exposure. I\u0026rsquo;m already paying for a subscription! My next photo journal will be created on Exposure.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-22 15:49:46 -0500", "date": "3:49 p.m. on May 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/22/quick-followup-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F22%2Fquick-followup-to.html" }, { "id": 2377, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I bought a Hookmark license recently, thinking it would play a big role in my creative workflow. It isn\u0026rsquo;t so far. Sure, it works great but use cases are scarce.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-22 14:13:01 -0500", "date": "2:13 p.m. on May 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/22/i-bought-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F22%2Fi-bought-a.html" }, { "id": 2378, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Last year, I went to Italy for my three-week summer vacation. What a trip it was. I built this travel journal with Craft to test Craft\u0026rsquo;s limitations. I concluded that Craft is great for building beautiful documents (and small websites), but for serious photography work: it’s far from perfect and needs big improvements. Can you imagine that nine months later, after so many releases, no single Craft release addressed any of my feedback? None!!! I’m going to Morocco in June. I guess I’ll look elsewhere for sharing a travel journal.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-22 11:18:28 -0500", "date": "11:18 p.m. on May 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/22/last-year-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F22%2Flast-year-i.html" }, { "id": 2379, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Time for another blog post category: Travels. Vacations are getting closer by the day.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-22 10:27:28 -0500", "date": "10:27 p.m. on May 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/22/time-for-another.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F22%2Ftime-for-another.html" }, { "id": 2380, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m looking for travel advice. I\u0026rsquo;m going to Morocco in June. I\u0026rsquo;m considering buying an eSIM for the first time for use in my iPhone 13 Pro. Any recommendations for me? When to buy? When to activate? What is it like when using an eSim on top of the physical SIM card? Thanks to all who will take the time to give me valuable insights!\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-21 16:05:30 -0500", "date": "4:05 p.m. on May 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/21/im-looking-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F21%2Fim-looking-for.html" }, { "id": 2381, "type": "post", "title": "From Authenticity To Attention and Eventually to Connection", "text": "I recently heard the notion of blogging for ourselves as opposed to writing for other people to read. I like this idea a lot, and after giving it some thought, I think I know why. If I’m being honest with myself in life and decide to share something like a thought about something, my guess is that writing for ourselves helps a lot in being authentic. I think it’s one of the best ways to attract attention and, eventually, maybe, make a connection.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-21 14:45:50 -0500", "date": "2:45 p.m. on May 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/21/from-authenticity-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F21%2Ffrom-authenticity-to.html" }, { "id": 2382, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I visited my university yesterday, where I studied computer science from 1987 to 1993 (B. Sc, M. Sc.). So it\u0026rsquo;s been 30 years since my last visit there. What a strange feeling to be there after all those years. Lots of vivid memories popped up just by being there! I wish I could go back in time.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-21 07:36:04 -0500", "date": "7:36 p.m. on May 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/21/i-visited-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F21%2Fi-visited-my.html" }, { "id": 2383, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " Photomator is an alternative to Lightroom. Pixelmator Pro is an alternative to Photoshop. Source: The Difference Between Photomator and Pixelmator Pro\nThat\u0026rsquo;s probably the best way to understand the difference between Pixelmator Pro and Photomator. I\u0026rsquo;m a big fan of the latter. I plan to use Photomator exclusively to process my iPhone photos for my upcoming trip to Morroco.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-20 07:56:18 -0500", "date": "7:56 p.m. on May 20, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/20/photomator-is-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F20%2Fphotomator-is-an.html" }, { "id": 2384, "type": "post", "title": "On Apple Stores Evolution", "text": " After 22 Years, Apple\u0026rsquo;s Very First Retail Store Is Reopening Its Doors in a New Location Source: After 22 Years, Apple\u0026rsquo;s Very First Retail Store Is Reopening Its Doors in a New Location | Inc.com\nI re-watched the video, where Steve Jobs is touring the very first Apple Store. It\u0026rsquo;s fascinating to see how things evolved over time. Software titles disappeared from shelves, thanks to the App Store. It\u0026rsquo;s no longer possible to put all Apple products on a single table. Macs, iPads, iPhones, watches, HomePod, and device cases took over the place and then more. Thankfully, the Genius bar is still there in many stores because, you know, people still have questions and broken devices to get fixed.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-20 07:53:05 -0500", "date": "7:53 p.m. on May 20, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/20/on-apple-stores.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F20%2Fon-apple-stores.html" }, { "id": 2385, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Being full of projects is being alive ™\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-19 17:50:55 -0500", "date": "5:50 p.m. on May 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/19/being-full-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F19%2Fbeing-full-of.html" }, { "id": 2386, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here’s a project (another 🤦🏻‍♂️😵‍💫) that I’d like to work on. I’m curious about the impacts of AI tools in our lives. In fact, I’m more fascinated by their impacts and the debates they generate than the power of the tools themselves. I’d like to spend time learning about these tools, document myself about them and forge my own take on them and their potential impacts on our lives. I’d like to work on it at the university-level research (not post-graduate, but bachelor degree-level would be a good challenge).\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-19 17:36:17 -0500", "date": "5:36 p.m. on May 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/19/heres-a-project.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F19%2Fheres-a-project.html" }, { "id": 2387, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Started testing Omnivore. 🫢\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-19 08:58:35 -0500", "date": "8:58 p.m. on May 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/19/started-testing-omnivore.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F19%2Fstarted-testing-omnivore.html" }, { "id": 2388, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "We used to be excited about new iOS releases, weren\u0026rsquo;t we? Even for small bug fixes releases like iOS 16.5 today, we would be drooling about any small improvements or additions to what constitutes the logic that brings the iPhone experience to life! The excitement over the slow progress bar on a black screen he behind us.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-18 20:45:26 -0500", "date": "8:45 p.m. on May 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/18/we-used-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F18%2Fwe-used-to.html" }, { "id": 2389, "type": "post", "title": "Apple's Headset — Alarming or Not?", "text": "A recent report on Apple\u0026rsquo;s upcoming headset:\nKey figures including software chief Craig Federighi have also kept their distance from the headset during its development and have seemed wary of it. Apple\u0026rsquo;s senior vice president for hardware technologies, Johny Srouji, is believed to privately be a skeptic of the device, comparing it to a science project. He has warned that designing the high-performance chips that the headset requires could distract from new iPhone chips that drive more revenue. Source: Report: Apple Executives Cautious of Mixed-Reality Headset Amid Compromises - MacRumors\nEverything will be fine, right? If Mr. Srouji is skeptical because the current product is too far from the original vision, I wouldn\u0026rsquo;t call this alarming. But overall, the signals coming out of these reports aren\u0026rsquo;t encouraging either. Is Apple headed in a bad direction?\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-18 12:17:58 -0500", "date": "12:17 p.m. on May 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/18/apples-headset-alarming.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F18%2Fapples-headset-alarming.html" }, { "id": 2390, "type": "post", "title": "On Android Switchers Coming in Drove to the iPhone", "text": "Report reveals Android users switching to iPhone at 5-year high\n15% of new iPhone owners report having an Android device as their last smartphone. That’s a 4% increase from what CIRP saw last year, and 5% higher than the data seen in 2020 and 2021.\nThe last time new Android switchers made up 15% of new iPhone buyers – according to CIRP – was back in 2018. The highest rate of switchers in the last nine years was 21% back in 2016.\nThe market is full of previously-owned iPhones for sale. You can find used iPhones from 2 to 3 years ago at reasonable prices these days. People who were using an Android phone probably can now afford to buy an iPhone much cheaper than a brand-new one. Moreover, according to this chart, iPhones from the last few years can still run the latest releases of iOS with most of the features available. It\u0026rsquo;s very tempting for switchers. This is how I would explain this phenomenon. The study covers the US market. The dynamics might be different in other parts of the world.\nOne question: what percentage of iPhone owners who buy a new iPhone are returning their iPhone to Apple to get a credit instead of selling their iPhone themselves?\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-18 06:09:25 -0500", "date": "6:09 p.m. on May 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/18/on-android-switchers.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F18%2Fon-android-switchers.html" }, { "id": 2391, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Pocket’s new features make it even easier to discover and organize content | The Mozilla Blog:\nPocket is rolling out a new mobile and web experience so you can easily find the stories and topics you care about\nand\nMoving forward, Pocket on iOS will be updated every two weeks. In the next few months, we’ll be bringing back the ability to create and view highlights on your saved articles, improving the quality of the articles that we recommend to you, and bringing additional functionality to our Listen feature, through which you can listen to your saved articles.\nIs Pocket being \u0026ldquo;rebooted\u0026rdquo;? I recently closed my Pocket account because I didn\u0026rsquo;t use it much. This renewed interest in its platform by its owner won\u0026rsquo;t make a difference. Inoreader + Anybox are meeting my needs.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-18 05:50:34 -0500", "date": "5:50 p.m. on May 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/18/pockets-new-features.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F18%2Fpockets-new-features.html" }, { "id": 2392, "type": "post", "title": "Is NATO Prolonging War in Ukraine?", "text": "Found on Reddit:\nNATO has always pandered to Putin, says former officer Samantha de Bendern. \u0026ldquo;If we\u0026rsquo;re gonna help Ukraine, we have to go in and help them with as much as we can as fast as we can. Drip feeding weapons is what\u0026rsquo;s prolonging the war\u0026rdquo;\nIndeed. I cannot see how, today, NATO could be more involved in the Ukrainian conflict. Politically it’s a big challenge to put boots on the ground.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-17 20:20:59 -0500", "date": "8:20 p.m. on May 17, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/17/is-nato-prolonging.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F17%2Fis-nato-prolonging.html" }, { "id": 2393, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " The case for Ethernet on Macs: Here’s how much speed you lose with WiFi Source: Ethernet vs WiFi: How much speed is lost? - 9to5Mac\nAt home, in my office room, my Macs are wired through 1GB Ethernet. It\u0026rsquo;s been only recently that I cabled my office so that Macs get a direct connection to my router. No more Wifi. I never look back.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-17 18:57:10 -0500", "date": "6:57 p.m. on May 17, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/17/the-case-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F17%2Fthe-case-for.html" }, { "id": 2394, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve got one Bluesky invite available. Just saying. 🙂\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-17 09:25:01 -0500", "date": "9:25 p.m. on May 17, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/17/ive-got-one.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F17%2Five-got-one.html" }, { "id": 2395, "type": "post", "title": "On Photomator 😍", "text": "\nCurrently using Photomator for a small project. I love this piece of software. I bought it for 99CAN$ for a lifetime purchase. I prefer Photomator design in general when editing a photo. It’s more approachable to me. Editing with masks is super easy to use, and it creates great results. The Mac version was the one last piece of the puzzle missing. Now we get the full picture (pun intended).\nIt makes me wonder if I will ever get out of the Adobe subscription trap. The one missing piece from Photomator is the library management. I cannot rely on iCloud Photos Library for this.\nThis wasn’t a review, obviously. Just a glimpse of my enthusiasm for this great Mac app.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-17 06:44:48 -0500", "date": "6:44 p.m. on May 17, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/17/on-photomator.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F17%2Fon-photomator.html" }, { "id": 2396, "type": "post", "title": "Important Housekeeping Announcement", "text": "If you consume my work through RSS, read carefully. I\u0026rsquo;ll be transitioning to FeedPress to act as the entry point for all my RSS feed publication needs. Consider updating your RSS client to use this new \u0026ldquo;superfeed\u0026rdquo;. Anything coming from long articles (Ghost), blog posts like this one (Micro.blog), photos (Glass) \u0026amp; videos (YouTube) will appear on this feed. I call this rather convenient, don\u0026rsquo;t you think? I\u0026rsquo;ll share the individual feeds soon if you prefer to be selective when consuming content. What will happen to the native/original feeds? They won\u0026rsquo;t go away, but in the future, If I decide to move to another publishing platform, you\u0026rsquo;ll probably be impacted if you are not making the change now. That\u0026rsquo;s the main reason why I\u0026rsquo;m moving to FeedPress.\nReturning to normal programming. 🙂\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-16 17:22:44 -0500", "date": "5:22 p.m. on May 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/16/important-housekeeping-announcement.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F16%2Fimportant-housekeeping-announcement.html" }, { "id": 2397, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I wish I had something interesting to share so I could be part of Micro Camp someday. Maybe next year? This is something I wanted to do last year, and yet\u0026hellip; I won\u0026rsquo;t be able to listen live either\u0026hellip; I cannot take off from work on Friday, so it leaves only Saturday, but I\u0026rsquo;ll be on the move that day too. Oh well.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-16 16:54:18 -0500", "date": "4:54 p.m. on May 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/16/i-wish-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F16%2Fi-wish-i.html" }, { "id": 2398, "type": "post", "title": "Two Thoughts On Apple’s New Upcoming Accessibility Features", "text": "Today, Apple announced upcoming features for people with critical disabilities. Here are some thoughts.\nFirst, Personal Voice is incredible! I can’t wait to try this out. I always feared being diagnosed with ALS, but I can see this new accessibility feature, coupled with Live Speech real game changer for people with ALS.\nSecond, looking at some user interface samples, especially the iPhone with iMessage (see below), we can see the return of shadows, depth, and better contrast, compared to what we have now. So my question is: why not have these UI traits everywhere instead?\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-16 12:00:45 -0500", "date": "12:00 p.m. on May 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/16/two-thoughts-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F16%2Ftwo-thoughts-on.html" }, { "id": 2399, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thought: read-later services should be called read-never because, for me, most of the time, I rarely come back to read my saved articles.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-16 07:00:00 -0500", "date": "7:00 p.m. on May 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/16/thought-readlater-services.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F16%2Fthought-readlater-services.html" }, { "id": 2400, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I really can\u0026rsquo;t wait to see this movie about Apple\u0026rsquo;s Lisa computer. My journey with computers started with the Apple ][+, then came the //e, the Mac. But I do remember the Lisa\u0026hellip; on paper, and I never had a chance to touch one.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-16 06:30:31 -0500", "date": "6:30 p.m. on May 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/16/i-really-cant.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F16%2Fi-really-cant.html" }, { "id": 2401, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I finally completed and shared the last part of my story \u0026ldquo;Moving out of WordPress\u0026rdquo;, this time, it\u0026rsquo;s the DNS side of the story, where I explain the process of moving out of GoDaddy to CloudFlare so that I can keep using my root domain numericcitizen.me. Go on my Numeric Citizen I/O website for all the details if you\u0026rsquo;re curious.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-16 06:13:52 -0500", "date": "6:13 p.m. on May 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/16/i-finally-completed.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F16%2Fi-finally-completed.html" }, { "id": 2402, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The next little challenge related to FeedPress will be deciding if I want to share individual feeds also or only the merged one. What if someone is only interested in my photos or videos?\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-15 21:33:31 -0500", "date": "9:33 p.m. on May 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/15/the-next-little.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F15%2Fthe-next-little.html" }, { "id": 2403, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Played with FeedPress this evening. The one thing that I like about it is the ability to merge many of my feeds into one and put it behind a custom domain. But at 10$ a month, it freaking expansive. Oh and I get analytics…. And yet…\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-15 21:19:10 -0500", "date": "9:19 p.m. on May 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/15/played-with-feedpress.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F15%2Fplayed-with-feedpress.html" }, { "id": 2404, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My creative goals are all met, and it\u0026rsquo;s Monday. 😅 Maybe I wasn\u0026rsquo;t aiming high enough? 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-15 17:40:59 -0500", "date": "5:40 p.m. on May 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/15/my-creative-goals.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F15%2Fmy-creative-goals.html" }, { "id": 2405, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thought: Read-later services or applications are a consequence of too much content availability and a lack of time for consuming that content.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-15 17:19:39 -0500", "date": "5:19 p.m. on May 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/15/thought-readlater-services.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F15%2Fthought-readlater-services.html" }, { "id": 2406, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My full review of Inoreader is finally out, with exclusive content for those who subscribe (free) to my website. I hope you find it useful. Empowering My Reading Workflow With Inoreader.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-15 07:47:25 -0500", "date": "7:47 p.m. on May 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/15/my-full-review.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F15%2Fmy-full-review.html" }, { "id": 2407, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For the first time in a long time, I\u0026rsquo;m starting to think I\u0026rsquo;m finally catching up to 90% of the things I wanted to write and share. It\u0026rsquo;s a good sentiment to have a month before a two-week summer vacation. I know it\u0026rsquo;s a bit of a cryptic post.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-14 20:09:44 -0500", "date": "8:09 p.m. on May 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/14/for-the-first.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F14%2Ffor-the-first.html" }, { "id": 2408, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I wanted to publish my long post about Inoreader this weekend so much, but it\u0026rsquo;s not ready yet. Tomorrow it\u0026rsquo;s probably the day. Being patient and knowing when something is not ready is a virtue of the writer.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-14 20:02:51 -0500", "date": "8:02 p.m. on May 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/14/i-wanted-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F14%2Fi-wanted-to.html" }, { "id": 2409, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In my last two YouTube videos, I decided to stop using cross-fade between segments. It\u0026rsquo;s a bit visually harsh (I\u0026rsquo;m not getting used to that), but it seems like the general trend among YouTubers these days. Plus, when using bookmarks, thumbnails get a better preview.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-14 13:26:12 -0500", "date": "1:26 p.m. on May 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/14/in-my-last.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F14%2Fin-my-last.html" }, { "id": 2410, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thanks to some people on my timeline (they recognize themselves, I\u0026rsquo;m sure 🙂), I\u0026rsquo;m giving a shot at FeedPress. The idea behind this experiment: have a way to consolidate all my RSS feeds into one tied to my custom domain. Let\u0026rsquo;s see what happens with that. Feel free to subscribe to the feed here: https://feeds.numericcitizen.me. You\u0026rsquo;ll get Long Posts, Blog Posts, Photos and Videos.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-14 12:59:38 -0500", "date": "12:59 p.m. on May 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/14/thanks-to-some.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F14%2Fthanks-to-some.html" }, { "id": 2411, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If you’re on Inoreader, this is a link to my profile page. I’m not sure there are many subscribers here, but in any case, you can follow me there if you want!\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-13 07:16:40 -0500", "date": "7:16 p.m. on May 13, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/13/if-youre-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F13%2Fif-youre-on.html" }, { "id": 2412, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m wondering how good MacWhisper will be at decoding my English with my accent. Will try for my next YouTube video ad I always wanted to add video captions.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-11 18:29:15 -0500", "date": "6:29 p.m. on May 11, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/11/im-wondering-how.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F11%2Fim-wondering-how.html" }, { "id": 2413, "type": "post", "title": "Can't Wait for the Upcoming Publishing Weekend", "text": "This weekend, I will publish a 6000 words thousand article about my migration to Inoreader. I\u0026rsquo;ve been working on that one for at least three months. While doing so, for the first time, I used Ulysses\u0026rsquo; \u0026ldquo;multi-sheets\u0026rdquo; feature, where each sheet is a different section tied together as a long article that I can publish as a whole. Pretty handy stuff when working on very long articles. Thanks to Ghost\u0026rsquo;s publishing feature, it will also be the first time that a portion of my article (the last three sections) will be made available to my subscribers only.\nI can\u0026rsquo;t wait to share with my readers the long journey that led me to Inoreder. Watch this space.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-11 11:55:45 -0500", "date": "11:55 p.m. on May 11, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/11/cant-wait-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F11%2Fcant-wait-for.html" }, { "id": 2414, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Fun and interesting fact: I have four times more followers on Bluesky than on Mastodon, even though the latter has much more users like in the millions instead of in the thousands for the former. 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-11 07:14:52 -0500", "date": "7:14 p.m. on May 11, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/11/fun-and-interesting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F11%2Ffun-and-interesting.html" }, { "id": 2415, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It took like 10 years to get FinalCut Pro on the iPad and now we’re reading that it could run on the upcoming VR/AR headset??? Really? Come on.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-10 11:51:00 -0500", "date": "11:51 p.m. on May 10, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/10/it-took-like.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F10%2Fit-took-like.html" }, { "id": 2416, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "By making FCP finally available on the iPad, is Apple getting ready to bring more flexibility to iPadOS audio handling too? I read somewhere that there are missing pieces on iPadOS to make it comparable to macOS for handling complex audio setups. Answers are probably coming in iPadOS 17.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-09 12:07:24 -0500", "date": "12:07 p.m. on May 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/09/by-making-fcp.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F09%2Fby-making-fcp.html" }, { "id": 2417, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Watch this space. This week is FCP and Logic for the iPad, next week? If Apple keeps releasing new things each week leading to WWDC, it certainly could mean that they have a packaged agenda for the Keynote. We already know that iOS 16.5 is coming out next week, but what else?\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-09 11:24:20 -0500", "date": "11:24 p.m. on May 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/09/what-this-space.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F09%2Fwhat-this-space.html" }, { "id": 2418, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The best UI, the ultimate interface, is the one that you don’t see.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-09 11:06:49 -0500", "date": "11:06 p.m. on May 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/09/the-best-ui.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F09%2Fthe-best-ui.html" }, { "id": 2419, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I got my first two paying members (annual subscription!) on my website (numericcitizen.me) hosted on Ghost! Two people are willing to give me their money for my work. I feel blessed. 😊\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-09 10:00:08 -0500", "date": "10:00 p.m. on May 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/09/i-got-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F09%2Fi-got-my.html" }, { "id": 2420, "type": "post", "title": "Like Anything Else, The World is Hybrid", "text": "DHH wrote “In defence of the office”:\nI salute Apple, for example, for sticking to their in-person culture now that the pandemic is long gone. They\u0026rsquo;re making that choice knowing that some, talented portion of their workforce will leave as a consequence, yet have the confidence that others will fill those chairs. Isn\u0026rsquo;t this what we wanted? The freedom to choose how we\u0026rsquo;d like to work by picking between a plentitude of companies offering the style of our preference?\nWe’re better served by diverse choices because of the diversity of people (profile, aspiration, culture, etc.).\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-08 05:38:07 -0500", "date": "5:38 p.m. on May 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/08/like-anything-else.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F08%2Flike-anything-else.html" }, { "id": 2421, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wow, the Opal C1 camera software is still in beta\u0026hellip; after so long on the market?? The last beta dates back to February. I have such a camera\u0026hellip; still in my drawer. Happily using the Continuity Camera with my iPhone 13 Pro.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-07 19:13:20 -0500", "date": "7:13 p.m. on May 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/07/wow-the-opal.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F07%2Fwow-the-opal.html" }, { "id": 2422, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In case you didn\u0026rsquo;t know: there is a small group of Microbloggers on the messaging app Wavelength. You can get on board and join the other 38 other members. Here is the invite link. The idea behind this group is not to replace Micro.blog, far from it, but to add a complementary option for discussing any subjects that you might find interesting in near real-time.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-07 16:38:33 -0500", "date": "4:38 p.m. on May 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/07/in-case-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F07%2Fin-case-you.html" }, { "id": 2423, "type": "post", "title": "A Peek Into My Typical Creative Week", "text": "Have you ever wondered what my typical creative week looks like? Here you go, courtesy of Things 3’s Logbook. As I was completing this week’s stretch, I had a look at the logbook, I thought it could be fun to share with you a behind the scene look. I love Things 3 logbook because it gives me a look at my past work.\nIf you want a closer look at my Things 3 usage in my creative workflow, you might want to watch this video. Oh, and don’t miss my documented micro-workflows.\nNow, it’s time to prepare for the upcoming week by duplicating the project template and setting my three goals for the week. 😅\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-07 06:59:35 -0500", "date": "6:59 p.m. on May 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/07/a-peek-into.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F07%2Fa-peek-into.html" }, { "id": 2424, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hot AI Summer (or, my practical uses for AI generators)\nThis is the sort of empowering interaction I love to experience with these new technologies: I’m not being replaced, I’m getting help, much in the way spellcheck and grammar checks in word processors have been doing for decades.\nInteresting parallel here with spell checkers and generative AI. At what point the help we\u0026rsquo;re getting becomes troubling or questionable? The same goes in real life. Suppose there is something that needs your attention in your house, and a fix is required. Either you know from the get-go what to do and fix it yourself, either you go o YouTube and find a visual guide on how to fix it, or you call someone to your house to fix it for you. What\u0026rsquo;s wrong with the latter approach?\nIf there is something that generative AI brings to the table is the inevitable discussion in society of what is the human touch and when is asking for help crosses the lines and what those lines are.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-07 06:12:28 -0500", "date": "6:12 p.m. on May 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/07/hot-ai-summer.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F07%2Fhot-ai-summer.html" }, { "id": 2425, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wait what? Even millennials don’t like algorithms I don’t fight the future — we need all the help — but as someone who has made the transition from no technology to some technology to always technology — no matter what I do, there is a tiny bit of me that is still holding on to the analog world.\nOm Malik is probably my age. And I feel the same all the time. I know what it was like before the Internet. I prefer chronological over algorithmic timelines. I enjoy human curation. I certainly remember and value the \u0026ldquo;human touch\u0026rdquo;.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-07 05:55:21 -0500", "date": "5:55 p.m. on May 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/07/wait-what-even.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F07%2Fwait-what-even.html" }, { "id": 2426, "type": "post", "title": "A Seemingly Mundane Visit to the Apple Store — Random Thoughts", "text": "It’s been quite a while since I visited an Apple Store. Last I went for a quick stop after work since I was working at my downtown offices.\nThere are soooo many iPad models to choose from! Too many? The 12.9-inch iPad Pro screen is unbelievably gorgeous!! I wish it would come to the 11-inch version. Maybe next year?\nOf all the iPad models that I looked at, Stage Manager is not enabled. So what’s up, Apple, with that? Isn’t the Stage Manager good enough for the showroom?\nI wish I had bought the Studio Display with the articulated arm. Expensive but give the most flexibility. Too bad it’s not possible to replace the monitor’s stand.\nI tested the 13-inch M2 MacBook Air and tried to imagine what a 15-inch version would be. Not an easy thing to do. Speaking of MacBook, when I looked around on the MacBook table, they all look about the same; only the thickness makes it look slightly different, oh and the “colors”.\nI love the latest version of the iPhone display stands. Less dangling wires. Easy to grab and put back in place.\nIn the previous image, I am holding the iPhone 14 Pro Max. I was still testing the device’s overall size. This is my next. I mean, the 15 Pro Max (Ultra?).\nIt was the day Apple released their FY2023 Q2 results. The store was unusually quiet. The illuminated decorations on the walls are getting old. I never really liked them.\nI’m out after having spent twenty minutes there.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-06 16:35:40 -0500", "date": "4:35 p.m. on May 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/06/a-seemingly-mundane.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F06%2Fa-seemingly-mundane.html" }, { "id": 2427, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m a big fan of Raycast, and I cannot wait to get my hands on Raycast AI, but there is one thing that I cannot stand about it: the app icon. 🤢 I\u0026rsquo;m wondering if @mattbirchler has the same opinion here.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-06 06:58:08 -0500", "date": "6:58 p.m. on May 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/06/im-a-big.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F06%2Fim-a-big.html" }, { "id": 2428, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Another YT video for the “Understanding Micro.blog” series coming soon. But, you know already what you need to know, right??\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-05 16:50:57 -0500", "date": "4:50 p.m. on May 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/05/another-yt-video.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F05%2Fanother-yt-video.html" }, { "id": 2429, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m going to Morocco this early summer for two weeks. I’ll bring my big camera gear but I wish I had the iPhone 14 Pro or better yet, the upcoming iPhone 15 Pro Max for this trip. The iPhone convenience is hard to beat and the big camera gear is heavy and the benefit from me getting this thing around is probably not much worth these days. It could be one of my last trip with the discreet camera. On my to do list: get my captor cleaned!\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-05 15:50:43 -0500", "date": "3:50 p.m. on May 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/05/im-going-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F05%2Fim-going-to.html" }, { "id": 2430, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Who\u0026rsquo;s actually using Apple\u0026rsquo;s Quick Notes feature? I never do because I always forget about its existence. It\u0026rsquo;s probably because it\u0026rsquo;s not useful or because it is tied to Apple\u0026rsquo;s Notes.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-05 06:11:21 -0500", "date": "6:11 p.m. on May 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/05/whos-actually-using.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F05%2Fwhos-actually-using.html" }, { "id": 2431, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " I own 3 YubiKeys that I have for personal use. There’s one that I keep connected to the USB hub on the desk in my study, another that I keep in my work bag, and a third that I keep in the safe at my mum’s house. Source: I Won\u0026rsquo;t Buy A YubiKey - Kev Quirk\nWhen I read stories like this one, I\u0026rsquo;m reminded of how bad I am at managing my security posture. I depend on 1Password (less and less) and (more and more) on Apple\u0026rsquo;s Keychain. Will passkeys suppress the need for YubiKeys?\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-03 17:01:00 -0500", "date": "5:01 p.m. on May 3, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/03/i-own-yubikeys.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F03%2Fi-own-yubikeys.html" }, { "id": 2432, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " So that sales pitch of “it’s just a coffee per month” really doesn’t hold water when you think that most people will subscribe to multiple services. Source: It Only Costs a Coffee per Month - Kev Quirk\nThis is why I maintain a spreadsheet of my monthly (and yearly) spending. And frankly, even with my recent subscriptions cleanup, you wouldn\u0026rsquo;t want to know my monthly spending on apps and services. Experimenting is not a free ride. Far from it.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-03 16:53:06 -0500", "date": "4:53 p.m. on May 3, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/03/so-that-sales.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F03%2Fso-that-sales.html" }, { "id": 2433, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I updated my main website to add a banner at the top, using Ghost\u0026rsquo;s new \u0026ldquo;Special Announcement\u0026rdquo; feature. 🇺🇦👀\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-03 05:42:44 -0500", "date": "5:42 p.m. on May 3, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/03/i-updated-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F03%2Fi-updated-my.html" }, { "id": 2434, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I am currently learning to use Hookmark. This thing is so, how I could say that, powerful? It’s the kind of app with a slow learning curve that will take some time to use to its fullest potential.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-02 18:59:25 -0500", "date": "6:59 p.m. on May 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/02/i-am-currently.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F02%2Fi-am-currently.html" }, { "id": 2435, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thanks @manton for the auto-complete! It works great on the iPad!\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-01 17:33:17 -0500", "date": "5:33 p.m. on May 1, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/01/thanks-manton-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F01%2Fthanks-manton-for.html" }, { "id": 2436, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I had such a busy creative weekend, to the point where I wonder if I did too much. I mean, I didn’t see most of the weekend. It was raining most of the time, and I had those videos and articles that I wanted to move forward. On the positive side, I feel that my ideas backlog is more than ever in control.\n", "dateiso": "2023-05-01 06:35:57 -0500", "date": "6:35 p.m. on May 1, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/05/01/i-had-such.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F05%2F01%2Fi-had-such.html" }, { "id": 2437, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nI made my decision. The coffee shop it is. It’s a brand new place near my home. Not too busy yet because there aren’t well-known.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-30 12:56:50 -0500", "date": "12:56 p.m. on Apr 30, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/30/i-made-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F30%2Fi-made-my.html" }, { "id": 2438, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m still wondering where I’ll spend my Sunday afternoon for my creative activities. Should I go out to a coffee shop near my house or should I stay home, make myself a coffee and go in my home office? 🤔🙄\nI like the ambiance of the coffee shops, looking around me and furtively watching some people in their own bubble, in front of their screen, with their AirPods on, typing, pausing, etc. It’s a stimulating environment.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-30 12:27:55 -0500", "date": "12:27 p.m. on Apr 30, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/30/im-still-wondering.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F30%2Fim-still-wondering.html" }, { "id": 2439, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "While spending some time in the Anybox bookmarks manager this morning, I was thinking of restarting my monthly newsletter because they are fun (but time-consuming) to build. I should find a way to better automate the production process, though.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-30 06:14:19 -0500", "date": "6:14 p.m. on Apr 30, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/30/while-spending-some.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F30%2Fwhile-spending-some.html" }, { "id": 2440, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For each video about Micro.blog that I make and share, I lose subscribers.😔 People don\u0026rsquo;t like the mixing of videos about two different things I guess: Craft \u0026amp; Micro.blog. 🤷‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-29 15:05:03 -0500", "date": "3:05 p.m. on Apr 29, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/29/for-each-video.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F29%2Ffor-each-video.html" }, { "id": 2441, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This blog post was created, edited and posted using the venerable and excellent MarsEdit text editor. Before switching to Ulysses, MarsEdit was my go-to choice for writing posts of a certain length and complexity because of its simplicity and for supporting posting to Micro.blog.\nThis blog post was used for recording an upcoming video about apps that I use for posting content on Micro.blog. The video will be published soon on my YouTube channel.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-29 09:44:22 -0500", "date": "9:44 p.m. on Apr 29, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/29/this-blog-post.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F29%2Fthis-blog-post.html" }, { "id": 2442, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Something that bugs me with Micro.blog. Nothing serious, but still. The questionable sidebar arrangement. Why is Replies at the near bottom? Why not have a “Website” category with Plug-ins + Design inside of it? Why plans not into Account? Why “Feeds” sits inside Accounts? Why not rename “Feeds” to “Digital hub”? I’m just wondering out loud, @manton!\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-28 11:55:58 -0500", "date": "11:55 p.m. on Apr 28, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/28/something-that-bugs.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F28%2Fsomething-that-bugs.html" }, { "id": 2443, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I started writing my 2023 year summary, and I must candidly admit that I\u0026rsquo;m proud of my digital accomplishment so far. 😊 You won\u0026rsquo;t notice, but a lot is going on\u0026hellip; you know, this iceberg 🧊 image where most of it is underwater, only to see a small portion on the surface?\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-28 09:15:47 -0500", "date": "9:15 p.m. on Apr 28, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/28/i-started-writing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F28%2Fi-started-writing.html" }, { "id": 2444, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nGrammarly just enabled Grammarly Go on my account. I think that’s cool and could prove to be handy occasionally. Grammarly isn’t perfect, far from it, but for someone like me who’s not an English native, it helps a lot. Now, with Go, I feel even more in good company for all my writing. I get 500 requests per month with my subscription, which is way more than enough. Are any Grammarly users out there?\nDisclaimer: I wrote this text entirely on my own, without any assistance or modification from AI technology.\nThe previous sentence is a false statement, Grammarly Go rewrote it for me. 😂\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-28 05:36:26 -0500", "date": "5:36 p.m. on Apr 28, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/28/grammarly-just-enabled.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F28%2Fgrammarly-just-enabled.html" }, { "id": 2445, "type": "post", "title": "Message to Those (Still) on Twitter", "text": "After seeing this post by Chris Hannah:\nIt\u0026rsquo;s incredible to see the effect of the various recent changes on how the \u0026ldquo;blue checkmarks\u0026rdquo; are given out and what they seemingly represent to different demographics of people.\nHere’s my take on this. It’s straightforward: you don’t need to be verified by Twitter (or any of these centralizing platforms) to feel that you exist, are relevant and be fabulous! Just be. If you’re uncomfortable with recently introduced changes at Twitter, move on elsewhere. That is all.\nI’m fed up with these stories about Twitter removing previously verified check marks! This is stupid. It was bound to bound to fail from the start. Now, here we are. It failed. Look ahead.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-26 18:33:31 -0500", "date": "6:33 p.m. on Apr 26, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/26/message-to-those.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F26%2Fmessage-to-those.html" }, { "id": 2446, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I have pulled the trigger: the concierge at Ghost(pro) is already working on importing my Substack content. It’s another nail in the coffin for Substack. If all goes well, bye bye Substack this weekend.\nI must admit that this one is mostly an impulsive decision compared to my exit of WordPress. The migration is much more simpler compared the moving out of WP. In the end, I know I won’t regret it. Moving between platforms shouldn’t be a source of anxiety.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-26 16:53:22 -0500", "date": "4:53 p.m. on Apr 26, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/26/i-have-pulled.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F26%2Fi-have-pulled.html" }, { "id": 2447, "type": "post", "title": "Major Updates Coming to WriteFreely And WriteAs", "text": "Matt, the founder of the WriteFreely ecosystem, recently wrote a promising post:\nIt’s become clear over time that in order to make WriteFreely (and Write.as) as useful as it can be, it needs to have a much more unified experience.\n…\nI don’t think it makes sense for our self-hosted product to be chopped up into multiple components like our hosted tools are. Instead, I want to bring all those tools into a single application in WriteFreely.\nEarlier this year, I wrote an article (“The Write.freely Ecosystem Explained”) trying to explain the WriteFreely ecosystem because I thought that, in its current form, it was a bit hard to grasp. It’s one of my most popular posts on Write.as. I think there is a need for unification and consolidation into a seamless experience. I’m glad the see that it’s coming.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-26 05:45:24 -0500", "date": "5:45 p.m. on Apr 26, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/26/major-updates-coming.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F26%2Fmajor-updates-coming.html" }, { "id": 2448, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "And now, I\u0026rsquo;m seriously considering closing my Substack account and migrating this to Ghost (using their excellent concierge service). 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-25 20:07:35 -0500", "date": "8:07 p.m. on Apr 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/25/and-now-im.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F25%2Fand-now-im.html" }, { "id": 2449, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Blank. At first, I thought it was a joke. It\u0026rsquo;s not.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-25 19:46:37 -0500", "date": "7:46 p.m. on Apr 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/25/blank-at-first.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F25%2Fblank-at-first.html" }, { "id": 2450, "type": "post", "title": "Hello, Bluesky. Nice to Meet You.", "text": "\nIn my Friday Notes edition #102, I shared my thoughts about my last four months without Twitter and how calm and quiet my digital life has become. I even wrote that I might ignore Bluesky. But that was last week.\nWell, it didn’t take long to contradict myself! As you might have guessed, I’m now on Bluesky as @numericcitizen (of course), thanks to a generous donator of an invite link (looking at you @Maique).\nPlease make no mistake; it’s an experiment. I’m not planning to spend too much time on Bluesky, but I’m genuinely curious about its evolution and the traction it gets, if any.\nI’m allowing myself to get on board for a simple reason: Manton from Micro.blog added support for cross-posting content to Bluesky. It didn’t take long. For me, it’s like getting a seal of approval from him. I highly value his opinion on Bluesky and the open web in general. So, I made the jump without really knowing what to do next except to enable the cross-posting of my content posted on MB.\nNow, I wish Bluesky doesn’t get filled up with too many dark clouds. My fingers are crossed.\nPS. I’m curious how Micro.blog will push that post onto the Bluesky universe. See you on the other side.\nPPS. I’m gathering my thoughts and observations for an upcoming experiment status report. Stay tuned.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-25 18:47:39 -0500", "date": "6:47 p.m. on Apr 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/25/hello-bluesky-nice.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F25%2Fhello-bluesky-nice.html" }, { "id": 2451, "type": "post", "title": "And Just Like That Micro.blog Syncs with Readwise.io", "text": "Today, I unexpectedly came across this announcement from Micro.blog: Highlights are now synced to Readwise.io, provided that you have an account with them and that you are on an Micro.blog Premium plan! How cool is that!\nI immediately configured my Readwise.io connection in the Bookmarks section and exported past highlights in a CSV file. Next, I tried the feature on an article from MacRumors.\nAfter a few minutes, I could read the archived version of the article and highlight some portions. And sure enough, my highlights were saved to Readwise.io in a snap.\nThe nice thing is that Inoreader also supports saving my highlights to Readwise.io. Everything going at the same place. Occasionally, I export and then import my highlights into Craft. Readwise remembers the point of my last export session.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-23 16:09:19 -0500", "date": "4:09 p.m. on Apr 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/23/and-just-like.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F23%2Fand-just-like.html" }, { "id": 2452, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How Amazon put Ukraine\u0026rsquo;s \u0026lsquo;government in a box\u0026rsquo; — and saved its economy from Russia\nSince the day Russia launched its invasion Feb. 24, Amazon has been working closely with the Ukrainian government to download essential data and ferry it out of the country in suitcase-sized solid-state computer storage units called Snowball Edge, then funnelling the data into Amazon’s cloud computing system.\nAs a guy working in IT for nearly 30 years, I can imagine how complex and critical this project was for Ukraine. Transferring a vast amount of data doesn\u0026rsquo;t happen overnight. Preparing a landing zone in a cloud provider is a complex project. AWS\u0026rsquo;s (Amazon) contribution is essential, and I wonder if their contribution covers the subscription fees too. I wish I could work on this kind of project myself.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-23 06:55:04 -0500", "date": "6:55 p.m. on Apr 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/23/how-amazon-put.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F23%2Fhow-amazon-put.html" }, { "id": 2453, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " There’s a lot of talk about how AI can get facts wrong. That’s fair, but in my experience it’s correct most of the time. Even when it’s slightly off, there’s usually some useful truth in the answer. Much more frustrating is voice assistants who can’t even begin to give an answer. Source: Manton Reece\nYou may be mind blown or not with ChatGPT and the like, but comparing these tools to Siri\u0026rsquo;s capabilities makes Siri look really bad. Not sure if comparing Alexa makes any difference. These assistant were leapfrogged.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-22 20:29:53 -0500", "date": "8:29 p.m. on Apr 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/22/theres-a-lot.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F22%2Ftheres-a-lot.html" }, { "id": 2454, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " Arm-based notebooks will gain share over Intel and AMD, almost doubling their shipment share to 25% by 2027 from 14% today.\nArm-based PC SoCs are highly customizable. Unlike x86 CPUs, which are designed to be general-purpose processors, Arm-based SoCs can be tailored to specific use cases. This means that SoCs can be designed with a greater number of high-performance CPU cores and highly integrated memory, enabling them to compete with x86 CPUs\nArm-based SoCs offer several advantages over x86 CPUs, including lower power consumption and improved thermal efficiency. Additionally, their integrated AI-feature cores make them superior to x86 CPUs.\nSource: Arm-based PCs to Nearly Double Market Share by 2027\nOne question: how is Intel going to fight back against ARM? Is this even possible without starting over? ARM advances are, simply put: massive.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-22 19:59:09 -0500", "date": "7:59 p.m. on Apr 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/22/armbased-notebooks-will.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F22%2Farmbased-notebooks-will.html" }, { "id": 2455, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "BasicAppleGuy writes about his website turning three:\nToday marks the third anniversary of basicappleguy.com. A challenging but also very successful year; I want to continue the tradition of recapping the year and thanking you all for the tremendous support.\nI worked from home for the first two years of the site because of the pandemic. That meant 19,200 minutes saved on commuting each year alone, which afforded me hundreds of hours to write and work on new wallpapers. This also meant I had around-the-clock access to a Mac (and a good internet connection), giving me abundant opportunities to work on projects with much more freedom. Source: 3 — Basic Apple Guy\nHis blog post resonates with me a lot. Since March 13, 2020, I have worked from home, and I also save a lot of commute time. I couldn\u0026rsquo;t do all that content creation that I did since then if I was returning to the office downtown. I\u0026rsquo;m super appreciative of that, and I hope that it will stay that way. I don\u0026rsquo;t see why it would change.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-22 06:07:40 -0500", "date": "6:07 p.m. on Apr 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/22/basicappleguy-writes-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F22%2Fbasicappleguy-writes-about.html" }, { "id": 2456, "type": "post", "title": "Apple Entering the Journal App Landscape Soon? Hell Yeah, Count Me In!", "text": "As reported by the Wall Street Journal (since it’s paywalled, look at MacRumors report instead), Apple is supposedly working on its own journaling application. Code named « Jurassic », many interesting details are emerging from this report.\nAs an avid user of Dayone (read « Documenting My Numeric Life With Dayone »). , I find the prospect of having Apple entering the journaling apps landscape quite exciting. The idea of using journaling to help users with mental health issues is pretty clever. There is so much information available on our devices from which, I guess, we can infer some mental states. I’m guessing machine learning can be of some tremendous help here. Coupled with Apple’s stance on privacy, this provides a potentially very compelling story for a lot of people. Me included. Yet, some people could find this move to be crossing a line that is not acceptable for them. We will see.\nThe WSJ story is referring to very specific detailed aspects of the rumoured app. For example, journaling suggestions would be based on call history and iMessage conversations, and be ephemeral. After four week they would vanish from suggestions. I’m guessing this would help automate some aspects of daily journaling.\nI asked this question to ChatGPT: « _Is the young generation into journal as much as older generations? _». Here is what it has to say:\n_ There is no definitive answer to this question, as attitudes towards journaling can vary widely among individuals of all ages. However, some studies suggest that younger generations may be more likely to engage in forms of expressive writing such as blogging or social media updates, which could be seen as a form of journaling._\nThe debate might still be out if the youngsters generation is very into the writing journey, but having some part of the journaling automated would alleviate some rebarbative aspects of maintaining a journal.\nCan you imagine having the journal app assembling photos, messages, phone calls, geo locations into pre populated journaling suggestions? Wow. I’m really looking forward into that one.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-21 12:17:14 -0500", "date": "12:17 p.m. on Apr 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/21/apple-entering-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F21%2Fapple-entering-the.html" }, { "id": 2457, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I read the \u0026ldquo;Making Something Wonderful\u0026rdquo; book during my vacations. It\u0026rsquo;s full of great reading moments, for sure. Albeit not as personal as I would have liked, that last picture of Steve Jobs glasses took me off-guard and got me on the verge of crying. Go and find them.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-21 06:14:25 -0500", "date": "6:14 p.m. on Apr 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/21/i-read-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F21%2Fi-read-the.html" }, { "id": 2458, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "iPhone 15 Pro \u0026lsquo;Action\u0026rsquo; Button to Replace Role of Volume Buttons When Performing a Power Off/Force Restart\nthe leaker also claimed that the \u0026ldquo;Action\u0026rdquo; button will replace the volume up button for taking photos in the Camera app, with force-sensitivity enabling a light press to auto-focus the camera, a hard press to take a picture, and a hard/long press to record video.\nOk, this is a rumour, but it\u0026rsquo;s an interesting one. If Apple does this, it would bring the iPhone 15 Pro / Max closer to traditional camera behaviour. Coupled with the upgraded cameras and possible addition of the periscope lens, Apple seems geared to make the next iPhone iteration another potential winner.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-17 06:11:51 -0500", "date": "6:11 p.m. on Apr 17, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/17/iphone-pro-action.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F17%2Fiphone-pro-action.html" }, { "id": 2459, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just curious here, is anyone paying OpenAI to get one of their apps (like Raycast AI) to work with ChatGPT?\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-16 09:31:43 -0500", "date": "9:31 p.m. on Apr 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/16/just-curious-here.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F16%2Fjust-curious-here.html" }, { "id": 2460, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "RIP Twitter 2007-2022 is now live (well, mostly live as tweets are still being processed and imported). Thanks for this @manton!\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-16 09:10:28 -0500", "date": "9:10 p.m. on Apr 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/16/rip-twitter-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F16%2Frip-twitter-is.html" }, { "id": 2461, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Coming back from vacations. 🛬 Returning to normal programming this week. Vacations are always a great opportunity to disconnect and let new ideas pop up.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-15 18:42:35 -0500", "date": "6:42 p.m. on Apr 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/15/coming-back-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F15%2Fcoming-back-from.html" }, { "id": 2462, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Still alive. Only on vacation. 😎\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-14 12:23:50 -0500", "date": "12:23 p.m. on Apr 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/14/still-alive-only.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F14%2Fstill-alive-only.html" }, { "id": 2463, "type": "post", "title": "What I Should Have Done Earlier", "text": "I’ve been following the war in Ukraine on a daily basis since the very beginning. It’s an enduring journey, to say the least. Imanyo has many sad and ugly stories and so many images from this conflict. Some of them are powerful symbols of any war\u0026rsquo;s ugly side. What I should have done was to collect images so I can remember what Ukrainians went (and are still) going through. Historic moments are being played right before our eyes; we should pay attention as they will define the next decades of international relations.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-07 09:33:30 -0500", "date": "9:33 p.m. on Apr 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/07/what-i-should.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F07%2Fwhat-i-should.html" }, { "id": 2464, "type": "post", "title": "Brazil's Stupid Suggestion to End Ukrainian War", "text": "As reported by The Kyiv Independent, Brazil’s proposal to get a peaceful resolution between Russia and Ukraine:\n“Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva suggested that Ukraine should be open to the idea of giving up Crimea in exchange for peace with Russia.” — Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva\nWow. That’s quite a suggestion. How can a sound man be so sure and trust Russia to bring peace by giving up a piece of land? Who do they think Putin’s Russia is? They already had Crimea, for god’s sake!!! It didn’t stop them from invading the rest of the country! Putin and Russia cannot be trusted, now and in the future. I find this proposal utterly irresponsible and lacking any sense of realism. What a clown.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-07 09:23:12 -0500", "date": "9:23 p.m. on Apr 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/07/brazils-stupid-suggestion.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F07%2Fbrazils-stupid-suggestion.html" }, { "id": 2465, "type": "post", "title": "When AI Failed to Inspire Me", "text": "\nI was looking for inspiration all week to write my next Friday Notes edition. Early morning yesterday, I was still unsure if I could make it, but at lunchtime, I tried ChatGPT with “Give me some blog post ideas about the positive effects on creativity of going on vacation for a week”. It came back with phrases that looked taken from a travel agency ad. I tried again with different variations of my question. It failed to impress and to inspire me. I’ll pass this week’s edition.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-07 06:13:07 -0500", "date": "6:13 p.m. on Apr 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/07/when-ai-failed.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F07%2Fwhen-ai-failed.html" }, { "id": 2466, "type": "post", "title": "The Trees of Death", "text": "These are the trees of death. This is what I call them. This scene was taken from a video in a combat zone near Bakmut. They all look the same; only the base trunk is standing, and the rest is pulverized with repetitive bombing and shelling. These skeletons of what used to be trees with thinner branches, leaves, and life are now dead in a vegetative expression. It’s all gone now. it will take a generation or two before it comes back. So sad.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-06 16:29:41 -0500", "date": "4:29 p.m. on Apr 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/06/the-trees-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F06%2Fthe-trees-of.html" }, { "id": 2467, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nI’m currently testing Little Snitch mini. I had the Little Snitch app on my radar for a while, but this week they released what could be a better \u0026amp; lighter solution for me. The problem? As an IT guy, I like to know what is happening in my machines, and this little piece of well-crafted software could be the answer. So far, I really like what I’m seeing. It makes me think of Flighty from a visual design perspective. It could replace a portion of Stats, an open-source replacement for iStats Menu. I’ll decide once I’m back from vacation.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-06 10:42:42 -0500", "date": "10:42 p.m. on Apr 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/06/im-currently-testing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F06%2Fim-currently-testing.html" }, { "id": 2468, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nStill in my spring cleanup phase, I’m archiving all my bookmarks and references to build a Hugo-based static website. I’m happy to keep my focus on content instead of trying to understand and configure a web site built on Hugo tech.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-06 05:42:52 -0500", "date": "5:42 p.m. on Apr 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/06/still-in-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F06%2Fstill-in-my.html" }, { "id": 2469, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Percentage of the moment: 4%\nhttps://9to5mac.com/2023/04/04/4-percent-of-teens-use-vr-apple-headset-challenges/\nMike Elgan https://mastodon.social/@MikeElgan/110148579136347400\rYou know what? I don't want this future. ", "dateiso": "2023-04-05 20:52:13 -0500", "date": "8:52 p.m. on Apr 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/05/percentage-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F05%2Fpercentage-of-the.html" }, { "id": 2470, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nSomehow, I forgot to include my devices in my creator toolset website. Done now.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-05 20:09:24 -0500", "date": "8:09 p.m. on Apr 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/05/somehow-i-forgot.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F05%2Fsomehow-i-forgot.html" }, { "id": 2471, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Going on vacation for a week. Leaving my MacBook Air behind, but bringing my iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard with me. It’s the only time that I use the iPad Pro with its Magic Keyboard since getting my MBA in 2021, otherwise, it’s my MacBook Air while at home.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-05 16:09:32 -0500", "date": "4:09 p.m. on Apr 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/05/going-on-vacation.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F05%2Fgoing-on-vacation.html" }, { "id": 2472, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "👉 I’ve been testing iA Presenter for a short while, and boy, I like this app. It’s not that often that we get new native apps on the Mac these days. I wonder if it is built with AppKit or other tech. Back in the day, before using Ulysses, I was a fan of iA Writer for its simplicity. iA Presenter feels so familiar and yet so rightly different. I’m impressed.\nNow, looking for a use case for it! 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-05 06:40:30 -0500", "date": "6:40 p.m. on Apr 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/05/ive-been-testing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F05%2Five-been-testing.html" }, { "id": 2473, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My wife recently told me how she was looking and considering tools like ChatGPT in her work. She considers ChatGPT like having an intern working with her. The intern will do the work she asks, but she knows she will have to give it a critical eye on the results just in case any errors creep in. If using interns in companies, why is ChatGPT not considered at the same level? Open for debate.\nI like this intern analogy.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-05 05:39:09 -0500", "date": "5:39 p.m. on Apr 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/05/my-wife-recently.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F05%2Fmy-wife-recently.html" }, { "id": 2474, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nI’m late in my readings. I’m not sure what to think of this weird take about the iPad and Mac future from Jason Snell.\nThe key to the Mac\u0026rsquo;s survival isn\u0026rsquo;t a new Air–it\u0026rsquo;s the next iPad Pro\nWould it be such a cataclysm if I could simply reboot that iPad into macOS or run macOS inside a virtual machine?\nYes, it would be. What a weird idea. I’m nearly baffled by this article. How many of these ideas and requests are age-dependent? How does the younger generation view those perceived limitations of the iPad or the Mac?\nFor us who have experienced both computing paradigms, it is tempting to ask for one paradigm to borrow some of the other paradigm traits. Does it make them better? I’m resigned and unexcited to the prospect of getting the touch screen trait on the Mac, but having to reboot an iPad to get the Mac experience is ludicrous, IMO.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-04 06:05:46 -0500", "date": "6:05 p.m. on Apr 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/04/im-late-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F04%2Fim-late-in.html" }, { "id": 2475, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nEven if Apple releases a HomePod with a screen in a form of a “iPad-like” device, I don’t see them beating Nixplay digital photo frames anythine soon. I recently got one for my home office and I’m really impressed with this very focused product. From the unboxing, to the frame setup and to the moment of my first uploaded photos started displaying on it, it was a great user experience. Very Apple-like.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-03 11:18:06 -0500", "date": "11:18 p.m. on Apr 3, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/03/even-if-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F03%2Feven-if-apple.html" }, { "id": 2476, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nIf the Beta switch is OFF, why do I get offered the latest beta of iOS 16.5? 🤔 Bug? Nope, because I had the beta profile from iOS 16.4 still in place.\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-03 05:51:46 -0500", "date": "5:51 p.m. on Apr 3, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/03/if-the-beta.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F03%2Fif-the-beta.html" }, { "id": 2477, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I find Rewind to be very fascinating. Now, it comes with ChatGPT integration where I can ask for a summary of the things that I worked on last Friday, for example. It’s a great way to document my numeric life. There is a free-tier, but at 10$ a month for the paid tier, I mean, it’s a lot of money. Anyone tried it?\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-02 15:40:02 -0500", "date": "3:40 p.m. on Apr 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/02/i-find-rewind.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F02%2Fi-find-rewind.html" }, { "id": 2478, "type": "post", "title": "Introducing “My Micro-Workflows Explained” Series", "text": "\nI’ve been working on this for a while and now I feel it’s time to share with the world. Follow this link, then expand each question to read the answer. It was a lot of fun to put together.\nThis site is going to be updated as new micro-workflows are documented or tweaked. This document is now joining my Complete Content Creator Toolset.\nIf you have a question, feel free to ask, using the commenting feature of the website as shown below. I welcomed suggestions for workflow improvements too! Enjoy and I hope you learn a few things along the way or that it triggers some ideas for your own workflows!\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-02 07:59:50 -0500", "date": "7:59 p.m. on Apr 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/02/introducing-my-microworkflows.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F02%2Fintroducing-my-microworkflows.html" }, { "id": 2479, "type": "post", "title": "Some Numbers", "text": "🚨 This is post #2000. I have already written more posts in 2023 than for the entire year last year. I’ll probably write more than 2021. The record year, 2020, will be hard to beat. This post was written using Ulysses on my MacBook Air which is the most used device, with 73%. My Mac mini comes second with 20%, and lastly, my iPad with 7%. I love numbers. Returning to normal programming.📺\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-02 06:30:14 -0500", "date": "6:30 p.m. on Apr 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/02/some-numbers.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F02%2Fsome-numbers.html" }, { "id": 2480, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finding software bugs at the least expected place and time while recording long YouTube videos, it\u0026rsquo;s always fun! #not #craftisbuggy\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-01 13:46:22 -0500", "date": "1:46 p.m. on Apr 1, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/01/finding-software-bugs.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F01%2Ffinding-software-bugs.html" }, { "id": 2481, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Make Something Wonderful | a book from the Steve Jobs Archive\nComing to digital platforms on April 11.\nA curated collection of Steve’s speeches, interviews and correspondence, Make Something Wonderful offers an unparalleled window into how one of the world’s most creative entrepreneurs approached his life and work. In the pages of this book, Steve shares his perspective on his childhood, on launching and being pushed out of Apple, on his time with Pixar and NeXT, and on his ultimate return to the company that started it all.\nCan’t wait for this. I guess this is a way to get as close to him as possible?\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-01 11:41:39 -0500", "date": "11:41 p.m. on Apr 1, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/01/make-something-wonderful.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F01%2Fmake-something-wonderful.html" }, { "id": 2482, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m fascinated by the fact that very notorious people in the tech space depends on so simple workflows or simple tools like Apple’s Notes or Reminders to do their work. I reproduce something found on Kottke “Ask Me Anything”:\nWhat do you use for a mobile note taking app (does it sync with your computer)? — Alan H\nI am very low-tech when it comes to note taking. I use the default iOS/MacOS Notes app for most things, including keeping track of my media diet. It\u0026rsquo;s simple, works pretty well, can handle to-do lists, and syncs seamlessly with all of my devices.\nI should pay attention to this and maybe think about it when I’m looking at new tools or new ways of doing my things.🤨\n", "dateiso": "2023-04-01 07:46:05 -0500", "date": "7:46 p.m. on Apr 1, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/04/01/im-fascinated-by.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F04%2F01%2Fim-fascinated-by.html" }, { "id": 2483, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nI’ve invested so much of my time into Craft, since I left Notion. I never really left Notion, actually, but my usage of this app dramatically dropped. Only a few very limited use cases were left under the Notion umbrella. Today, I tried something in Notion for a project at work. I’m blown away to see how Craft is so far behind compared to Notion for things like databases, integration via APIs and general flexibility.\nSure, Notion has been around for much longer. Yet, I secretly wish I could use the best of both worlds: the elegance of Craft built on top of the robust Notion foundation. I’m actively looking at use cases that I could do in Notion to keep it alive somewhere in my workflow.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-31 16:17:08 -0500", "date": "4:17 p.m. on Mar 31, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/31/ive-invested-so.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F31%2Five-invested-so.html" }, { "id": 2484, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hey, just a reminder that this invite is still open if you are curious about Wavelength, a secure and simple messaging service. We\u0026rsquo;re currently 26 nice people in there! Come on and join! You can leave at any given time!\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-31 08:35:24 -0500", "date": "8:35 p.m. on Mar 31, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/31/hey-just-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F31%2Fhey-just-a.html" }, { "id": 2485, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple, please do a real but simple password manager. I join my voice to many, like John Gruber and Cabel Sasser. I even suggested Ricky Mondello who’s working on the Safari team and very much involved in the password management side, to consider doing such a password manager outside of Safari on the Mac or Settings on the iPhone.\nIs Apple refraining from doing so because they see the future as passwordless, thanks to passkeys? Probably but it is a long road to get there, so what do we do in the meantime? As Gruber said, password management is probably as important as tips about using your iPhone, which has its own app on the home screen.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-31 06:01:59 -0500", "date": "6:01 p.m. on Mar 31, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/31/apple-please-do.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F31%2Fapple-please-do.html" }, { "id": 2486, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nThe maker behind ToolBox Pro has passed away, as reported here and there. It’s very sad. I recently re-installed this utility on my devices for a shortcut project I started working on. There are some features in ToolBox Pro that I could use, but now I’m not so sure. What will happen to this app? Is this developer account be terminated and when? Or maybe someone is going to take over?\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-31 05:50:36 -0500", "date": "5:50 p.m. on Mar 31, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/31/the-maker-behind.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F31%2Fthe-maker-behind.html" }, { "id": 2487, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "2010 - “Before printing this email, think environment”. 2023 - “Before using ChatGPT, just think.”\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-29 16:28:20 -0500", "date": "4:28 p.m. on Mar 29, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/29/before-printing-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F29%2Fbefore-printing-this.html" }, { "id": 2488, "type": "post", "title": "Quick Thoughts and Observations About Wavelength", "text": "\nAfter reading Gruber’s article about Wavelength, I decided to try it. I’m not sure I require another messaging solution. Besides using Apple’s iMessage and Telegram to get news from Ukraine, the rest of my messaging app usage is anecdotic.\nSo, what are my thoughts about this? The initial few moments with Wavelength are not what I call an honest onboarding experience. Well, I already shared my surprise at having to enter my phone number at the very first step of the application onboarding. I thought it was brutal. I was quickly reminded that asking for our phone number is the usual thing to ask in a messaging app. M’ok. 🤨 But hey, Wavelength is still in beta, right? So, let’s give them a break.\nSo I created a group called Microbloggers (invite link) for hosting people coming from Micro.blog (well, anyone with the link can join). As I’m writing this, there are 25 members. I’m surprised. I wasn’t expecting that many people to join. I guess my Micro.blog circle is made of very curious people. I love this. Is @Manton joining? Nope. But @Jean is among the participant, which I find cool!\nMy general feeling with the application is that its design reminds me of Micro.blog’s simplicity. Wavelength is simple but not simplistic. I love it very much. I’m using Wavelength mainly on the Mac, but also on the iPhone. I prefer the Mac experience. But, again, Wavelength is not complete. I’m looking forward to watching its future evolution.\nAn interesting byproduct of Wavelength is the inclusion of a ChatGPT client inside. It’s the group called “AI”. We can interact with it at any given time, even include this “guy” in a conversation within a group, using the @AI in a message. Each request to the AI entity is kept as an individual conversation (except the one occurring within a group conversation). It’s fun, valuable and fascinating at the same time.\nBut now, the big question: why would someone of Micro.blog starts using Wavelength and participates in a group chat? Conversations are already happening on Micro.blog. Just like on Micro.blog, if you are a member of a Wavelength group, conversations are public. I’m still pondering this. I understand people who are also wondering about the usefulness of having Wavelength alongside the Micro.blog. Maybe the instant nature of such messaging platform is something missing on Micro.blog? This is something I liked on Twitter: this ability to enter a private conversation with one of your followers.\nWell, that’s it for now.\nYou can join the “Microbloggers” Wavelength group with this invite link. I plan to leave the group open as long as my experiment with Wavelength lasts.\nOne last thing: after launching the app for the first time, this wave animation is mesmerizing.\nAnother thing: my avatar photo is me at 5. 😊\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-29 06:34:52 -0500", "date": "6:34 p.m. on Mar 29, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/29/quick-thoughts-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F29%2Fquick-thoughts-and.html" }, { "id": 2489, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Testing the latest Micro.blog beta with picture upload. This is a screenshot of the current list of threads on Wavelength (invite link). 😎\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-28 17:31:42 -0500", "date": "5:31 p.m. on Mar 28, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/28/testing-the-latest.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F28%2Ftesting-the-latest.html" }, { "id": 2490, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For those who are (very) curious about Wavelength. This in an invite link to join a private group. It is called “Microbloggers”. You’re welcome.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-28 11:51:19 -0500", "date": "11:51 p.m. on Mar 28, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/28/for-those-who.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F28%2Ffor-those-who.html" }, { "id": 2491, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Why a dedicated music app for Apple Music Classical? When we first learned that Apple would launch a different app for Apple Music Classical, I was surprised and wondered why not add a big tile in its current Apple Music app. Apple explains this in more detail here about the reason:\nClassical music is different. It has longer and more detailed titles, multiple artists for each work, and hundreds of recordings of well-known pieces. The Apple Music Classical app is designed to support the complex data structure of classical music.\nI get it. It makes sense. Now, here is another question: could there be a need to create more “genre-dedicated” apps offering different browsing and listening experiences? How much could an app be different for electronic music? How about creating an app dedicated to music videos? All of these apps could tap the Apple Music back end. This needs more time to think about.\nOh, no iPad app, at launch, really?\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-28 06:16:40 -0500", "date": "6:16 p.m. on Mar 28, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/28/why-a-dedicated.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F28%2Fwhy-a-dedicated.html" }, { "id": 2492, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nTime to update all my devices. There are many.🙃 I’m always impressed by how effective Apple can be to keep the beat going on and on for releasing so much new software all at once. If you’ve been in software development, you probably already know this is a major undertaking, each, and single time. Kudos to Apple.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-27 15:35:14 -0500", "date": "3:35 p.m. on Mar 27, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/27/time-to-update.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F27%2Ftime-to-update.html" }, { "id": 2493, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Notion releases buttons. The world goes wild🤯. Seriously, I came a cross this announcement on YouTube this morning and god I never thought buttons could be that useful in such a tool. I’m not holding my breath for such a thing in Craft, but yeah, I’m already thinking about a pretext to bring back Notion into my workflow just for the kick of using this🙃.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-27 08:33:00 -0500", "date": "8:33 p.m. on Mar 27, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/27/notion-releases-buttons.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F27%2Fnotion-releases-buttons.html" }, { "id": 2494, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nIt’s time for an update to my content creation workflow (on Numeric Citizen I/O). In the coming days (or in a week or two), I’ll add something new to help others find new ways to do simple tasks. Comments and questions are always welcomed. 😊👨🏻‍💻\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-26 20:06:35 -0500", "date": "8:06 p.m. on Mar 26, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/26/its-time-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F26%2Fits-time-for.html" }, { "id": 2495, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This morning, I had a heated (and respectful) debate about ChatGPT, what artificial intelligence is, what defines human intelligence, and why I believe we may be on a dangerous slope. We’re far from done with all of this. We need to define a new word to describe what is produced by ChatGPT-like bots. I think the problem stems from the fact that the “brute force” approach used by such tools makes it look intelligent for the mortal who doesn’t understand anything about computers. There is a clear distinction in my mind between what humans can produce and what ChatGPT can produce. The background behind the process is as much important to me as the actual results. Otherwise, we are doomed.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-26 10:16:52 -0500", "date": "10:16 p.m. on Mar 26, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/26/this-morning-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F26%2Fthis-morning-i.html" }, { "id": 2496, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " Senior Apple executives have apparently gotten a peek at the headset every year since 2018, but these demonstrations were discreet looks at the project\u0026rsquo;s progress rather than showcases of the complete device. Situated at the Steve Jobs Theater, the latest preview was reportedly a far more significant event, being \u0026ldquo;polished, glitzy, and exciting.\u0026rdquo; Source: Apple Reportedly Demoed Mixed-Reality Headset to Executives in the Steve Jobs Theater Last Week - MacRumors\nIf Gurman\u0026rsquo;s report is anywhere near the reality of what actually happened at the Steve Jobs Theater, why do I think they seem to look to galvanize the troop and get convinced they need to move forward anyway? In other words: throw spaghetti to the wall and see if it sticks. Doesn\u0026rsquo;t look good to me.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-26 09:53:02 -0500", "date": "9:53 p.m. on Mar 26, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/26/senior-apple-executives.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F26%2Fsenior-apple-executives.html" }, { "id": 2497, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Two years ago, I had this wish list for Micro.blog. As much as I love Micro.blog, my list shows that a lot still needs to happen.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-26 08:00:00 -0500", "date": "8:00 p.m. on Mar 26, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/26/two-years-ago.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F26%2Ftwo-years-ago.html" }, { "id": 2498, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This week I got two unexpected gifts from my readers (fans?). One reader on my Ghost-hoested blog paid a one-year subscription, a 25$ gift! Another sent me 40$ to my PayPal account because he likes my YouTube videos about Craft so much. These are in addition to this Italian who sent my money a few months ago.😊\nI don’t do what I do for the contributions, otherwise, I would have stopped a long time ago. Yet, these people make a difference and send good vibes to creators and writers like me.\nSo, dear past (and future?) contributors: thank you.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-26 07:08:03 -0500", "date": "7:08 p.m. on Mar 26, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/26/this-week-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F26%2Fthis-week-i.html" }, { "id": 2499, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " Earlier in March, Alisabeth Hayden, from Washington state in the US, was separated from her AirPods – Apple’s pricey micro headphones – while disembarking from a plane in San Francisco. She swiftly realized that they appeared to have been stolen. Source: This woman left her AirPods on a plane. She tracked them to an airport worker\u0026rsquo;s home | CNN\nSad story for sure. I remember my wife forgetting her iPad in the pouch in front of her seat after leaving the place many years ago. She never got it back after contacting the airliner personnel. It was before \u0026ldquo;Find my friends\u0026rdquo;. Who knows what happened to this iPad, but this story tells me that it probably ended up in someone else hands.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-25 11:18:27 -0500", "date": "11:18 p.m. on Mar 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/25/earlier-in-march.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F25%2Fearlier-in-march.html" }, { "id": 2500, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If you are curious about the migration process from WordPress.com to Ghost (the SaaS version), you can read all the details about it right here. There is another part of the process regarding the DNS management that will be published soon. So stay tuned.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-25 10:37:18 -0500", "date": "10:37 p.m. on Mar 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/25/if-you-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F25%2Fif-you-are.html" }, { "id": 2501, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nFound this in my archives. This was my old iPhone 7 in its old case. I love when things wear out like this.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-25 07:54:40 -0500", "date": "7:54 p.m. on Mar 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/25/found-this-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F25%2Ffound-this-in.html" }, { "id": 2502, "type": "post", "title": "From A to B — Another Digital Journey Completed", "text": "From the Numeric Citizen Blog\nto the Numeric Citizen Space.\nThe former was my WordPress site, now on Ghost and merged with what used to be the Numeric Citizen Introspection, the home for my Friday Notes Series newsletter. It took me a while, but here I am. I’m so relieved from not having to use WordPress anymore. I have learned quite a bit about WordPress since 2015, but my desire to simplify my digital life was pressing me to make some changes.\nFrom now on, in Ulysses, I got two places to push my articles, here or Ghost. That’s it.\nBoth are under the same domain name, which is something that I wanted for a while. Now, I hope to spend more time writing than moving things around. I will publish my migration process in the upcoming days on my Numeric Citizen I/O, my metablog.\nFrom a design perspective, I’m using Ghost’s Casper default theme, which is relatively close to what I was using on WordPress. I’m ok with this for the moment. I may hunt for alternatives in the future, but for now, that will be it.\nNow, returning to normal programming.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-25 07:13:35 -0500", "date": "7:13 p.m. on Mar 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/25/from-a-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F25%2Ffrom-a-to.html" }, { "id": 2503, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Ok, I\u0026rsquo;m done with this migration/merge ops. More details tomorrow.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-24 21:08:24 -0500", "date": "9:08 p.m. on Mar 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/24/ok-im-done.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F24%2Fok-im-done.html" }, { "id": 2504, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "WordPress to Ghost migration report. Content has been imported on Ghost. Domain name moved from GoDaddy to CloudFlare. WordPress subscription cancelled. Getting ready to rename my Ghost website to take over my blog domain. FYI: Ghost.org concierge service has done an incredible job in moving my content, a much better job than if I had used their WP plugin. I\u0026rsquo;m really impressed by the service. 😊\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-24 06:01:13 -0500", "date": "6:01 p.m. on Mar 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/24/wordpress-to-ghost.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F24%2Fwordpress-to-ghost.html" }, { "id": 2505, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "5G+ Is this new?\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-23 11:42:21 -0500", "date": "11:42 p.m. on Mar 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/23/g-is-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F23%2Fg-is-this.html" }, { "id": 2506, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Even if my full-time job is in IT infrastructure, I hate playing with DNS and registrars.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-22 21:00:46 -0500", "date": "9:00 p.m. on Mar 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/22/even-if-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F22%2Feven-if-my.html" }, { "id": 2507, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Yesterday, I got my first ever paid subscriber to Ghost website, even though it is basically a free website. Thanks to Ghost newsletters feature, I\u0026rsquo;m offering a way for users to pay anyway as a way for showing their support toward my writing efforts.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-22 07:48:12 -0500", "date": "7:48 p.m. on Mar 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/22/yesterday-i-got.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F22%2Fyesterday-i-got.html" }, { "id": 2508, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I hate Slack. I mean, a lot. What a UX clusterfuck. 🤮 There. I said it.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-21 20:59:06 -0500", "date": "8:59 p.m. on Mar 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/21/i-hate-slack.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F21%2Fi-hate-slack.html" }, { "id": 2509, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nSad news. DPReview is going away. 😔\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-21 12:58:21 -0500", "date": "12:58 p.m. on Mar 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/21/sad-news-dpreview.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F21%2Fsad-news-dpreview.html" }, { "id": 2510, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Moving out of WordPress is such a pain. It was a pain to be there. It is a pain to get out of it. My problem: I’m moving to Ghost. I need to use their plugin, but the resulting files will get ingested in Ghost with a format that I don’t like. Each post will be inside an HTML object instead of a native Ghost post. That, I don’t like. Thinking of exporting content using WordPress export option and then translating it to Markdown. But Ghost doesn’t support Markdown files import. I could republish each post using Ulysses for example. But I cannot back-date any post when publishing.\nDid anyone try importing from WordPress to Micro.blog?\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-21 06:47:22 -0500", "date": "6:47 p.m. on Mar 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/21/moving-out-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F21%2Fmoving-out-of.html" }, { "id": 2511, "type": "post", "title": "It Was (Probably) a Rough Day at Craft", "text": "Craft version 2.4.5 came out today after more than six weeks since the previous release. Usually, releases come out every two to three weeks. I guess people’s expectations were pretty high after having waited so long.\nNot only did the update bring very limited functionality, it broke a seemingly simple gesture that was used by a majority of users, mostly on the iPhone. As you might expect, this caused plenty of pushbacks on this. My guess is that it took the Craft team by surprise. Moreover, a new navigation sidebar design is also causing a some more pushback.\nThere is a recurring theme on Slack that people are tired of waiting for basic fixes while receiving questionable features they don’t see useful in general, not only for them. It’s a bit of a public relation crisis. Now my question, could this crisis be prevented? My short answer is yes. I gave a longer answer in my recent YouTube video\u0026hellip; “A Proposal for Handling Users Feedback Differently” and published an article too.\nCraft is a young company. They have plenty of things to learn, and managing expectations is certainly one of them. Managing or at the very least communicating a clear roadmap is another. It’s not enough to publish an article once a year on the company’s blog. Such messages need repetitive reminders and on more than one platform. If they would rather not share a roadmap, then they should probably stop using Slack and Circle. Those are discussion platforms where feedback and feature requests are expressed, albeit in a chaotic way.\nWhat I’m starting to find really troubling and worrisome is the lack of fixes to obvious issues affecting many users, me included. And we are talking about long-standing issues here. Slack is full of users expressing their resentment for unfixed problems. Sure we get answers like “we’re on it”, “will check this out, thanks for the report”, “bla bla bla”. Actions speak louder than words. For the first time since I’m using Craft, I’m starting to wonder if I should reconsider my posture with my dependency on Craft.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-20 19:08:44 -0500", "date": "7:08 p.m. on Mar 20, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/20/it-was-probably.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F20%2Fit-was-probably.html" }, { "id": 2512, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Never say never, I suppose.\nProof.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-19 19:28:51 -0500", "date": "7:28 p.m. on Mar 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/19/never-say-never.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F19%2Fnever-say-never.html" }, { "id": 2513, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I recently discovered two new apps that are now in my documented toolset: Anybox and Zavala. Both apps have something in common: the ability to copy a deeplink to an object like a collection or a document. For example, in Anybox, I select a collection and use the \u0026ldquo;Copy Link\u0026rdquo; option. In Zavala, I select a document and use the \u0026ldquo;Copy Document Link\u0026rdquo; option. Then, I can use these links in Craft. Here is an example: anybox://collection/2340CA48-16BC-4F33-AFFA-6323FEB6605A. When in Craft, clicking such a link will open the app with the target object in focus and selected. It\u0026rsquo;s super useful as those apps taken together form a powerful combination.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-19 18:49:36 -0500", "date": "6:49 p.m. on Mar 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/19/i-recently-discovered.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F19%2Fi-recently-discovered.html" }, { "id": 2514, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Manuel Moreale writes on his blog:\nI dislike the concept of editing old content on personal sites. And the motivation is related to my love for simple, straight to the point, chronologically organised personal blogs. I believe a personal blog can and should be a representation of who you are at different points in time. We change, we grow and our thoughts and ideas grow and change with us. And it\u0026rsquo;s important to have testament of that. If I change my mind on something and I go back end edit my post from 4 years ago, there\u0026rsquo;s no way for you to see and be aware of that change. And that\u0026rsquo;s a shame. Source: Thoughts on an unpolished note – Manu\nThis post made me think about the process I\u0026rsquo;m currently going through with my move from WordPress to Ghost. I\u0026rsquo;m deleting old content. In fact, as of today, I deleted about 60% of my old posts. Why? Because I feel that many posts are too time-sensitive to make sense today. They have little value to me now (and probably for the rest of the planet). I decided to keep only worthy articles that can endure the passing of time and stay relevant. My blog here, the \u0026ldquo;blog.\u0026rdquo; part of blog.numericcitizen.me better fits this purpose of expressing all sort of more or less worthy thoughts. There, I don\u0026rsquo;t care too much. And this is where I\u0026rsquo;m with Manuel. It\u0026rsquo;s all about sharing \u0026ldquo;thoughts\u0026rdquo;. Nothing more, nothing less.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-19 07:47:20 -0500", "date": "7:47 p.m. on Mar 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/19/manuel-moreale-writes.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F19%2Fmanuel-moreale-writes.html" }, { "id": 2515, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dear @vincode, I love your Zavala outliner. It’s a great native Mac app. I found a great use case for it when putting together my YouTube video. One thing I’d like to know, you are still updating the app? Do you plan to add the numbering of outline line items? Thanks, and I hope you’ll positively answer this small request.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-19 07:06:25 -0500", "date": "7:06 p.m. on Mar 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/19/dear-vincode-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F19%2Fdear-vincode-i.html" }, { "id": 2516, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Spent most of the day working on something that I hope will have some meaningful impact. Expect the unexpected. Hoping for a change of direction for one of my favourite tools. Stay tuned. 🤫\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-18 13:04:55 -0500", "date": "1:04 p.m. on Mar 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/18/spent-most-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F18%2Fspent-most-of.html" }, { "id": 2517, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "ActivityPub coming to WordPress, Automattic buying the developer of the ActivityPub plugin apparently. Ghost is next to add this to their platform?\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-17 18:20:17 -0500", "date": "6:20 p.m. on Mar 17, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/17/activitypub-coming-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F17%2Factivitypub-coming-to.html" }, { "id": 2518, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microsoft:\nToday, we are bringing the power of next-generation AI to work. Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot — your copilot for work. It combines the power of large language models (LLMs) with your data in the Microsoft Graph and the Microsoft 365 apps to turn your words into the most powerful productivity tool on the planet. Source: Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work - The Official Microsoft Blog\nIt\u0026rsquo;s funny how great some of Microsoft\u0026rsquo;s promotional videos are in regards to Office and Windows user interface. But why, in actual usage, does Microsoft products\u0026rsquo; UI suck anyway? We never seem to get the UI that Microsoft is presenting in their videos. Office doesn\u0026rsquo;t look like that at all. Windows doesn\u0026rsquo;t either.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-17 05:57:46 -0500", "date": "5:57 p.m. on Mar 17, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/17/microsoft-today-we.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F17%2Fmicrosoft-today-we.html" }, { "id": 2519, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Any Capacities users here? Is it me, or it looks more and more like another Notion? This small team is on fire with meaningful additions in each monthly release, but each of them seems designed to make Capacities a clone of Notion. Your thoughts? Am I mistaken?\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-15 16:32:43 -0500", "date": "4:32 p.m. on Mar 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/15/any-capacities-users.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F15%2Fany-capacities-users.html" }, { "id": 2520, "type": "post", "title": "Spending Most of Your Life Running a Blog", "text": "Kottke.org turns 25. It’s quite a remarkable journey. I didn’t know about this website until recently. I’m not a frequent reader of it, although I spent quite some time today on it to better get the gist of it. Yet, I’m barely sure how to pronounce it. But I’m quite impressed to see someone’s life spent running a blog and getting paid for it.\nI’ve been into computer tech since I was a teenager. I’m 55 now. I learned quite a lot from writing software, doing digital photography, followed Apple’s story with avid attention. My creativity is at its best with computers. I even found my career by simply being exposed to computers.\nFor some reason, I didn’t know much about website hosting back then, even less about blogs. I didn’t pay attention, I guess. It’s like being a writer who didn’t know we could write books. This sounds strange.\nI wish I had a blog for this long. It’s not the first time that I have written this thought. But Kottke.org turning 25 reminds me that I wish I were this guy. Can you imagine having written 40 000 posts? I don’t know if we can still read them all (it appears we can). You won’t find all my posted content since I first wrote my first post. And I keep deleting stuff while moving from one place to another because I think it makes no sense to keep all that.\nBravo to Kottke.org.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-15 06:32:37 -0500", "date": "6:32 p.m. on Mar 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/15/spending-most-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F15%2Fspending-most-of.html" }, { "id": 2521, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For those who watched the Severance series on Apple TV+: sometimes I feel like those guys staring at their screen trying to manipulate numbers\u0026hellip; don\u0026rsquo;t you have this feeling too, that our job is a string of numbers manipulation all day long?\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-13 14:43:55 -0500", "date": "2:43 p.m. on Mar 13, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/13/for-those-who.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F13%2Ffor-those-who.html" }, { "id": 2522, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Rant on. I love Apple\u0026rsquo;s Safari browser, but the lack of Safari Extensions support by many developers is starting to make me reconsider my love either of Safari or of Apple\u0026rsquo;s strict App Store policies. That is why, starting now, I\u0026rsquo;m switching to Firefox exclusively when I\u0026rsquo;m using Inoreader. Rant off.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-12 13:35:08 -0500", "date": "1:35 p.m. on Mar 12, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/12/rant-oni-love.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F12%2Frant-oni-love.html" }, { "id": 2523, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Good morning! The third video in the series \u0026ldquo;Understanding Micro.blog\u0026rdquo; is out! It is about understanding the cross-posting feature of Micro.blog. This is something people are struggling with at first when they come to MB. I hope some of you will find it useful.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-12 07:13:24 -0500", "date": "7:13 p.m. on Mar 12, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/12/good-morning-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F12%2Fgood-morning-the.html" }, { "id": 2524, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After so many iPadOS releases, these two gestures I suggested in 2019 were eventually added. This article was a timid entry in the user interface mockups world. It didn\u0026rsquo;t last long. Thanks to Apple for having listened. 🤣\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-11 19:57:27 -0500", "date": "7:57 p.m. on Mar 11, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/11/after-so-many.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F11%2Fafter-so-many.html" }, { "id": 2525, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Another big update to my complete toolset website: a new dedicated section for my current projects. Use the newly added table of content to navigate to the new section. Now you know more about how and why I\u0026rsquo;m spending my personal time.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-11 18:08:20 -0500", "date": "6:08 p.m. on Mar 11, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/11/another-big-update.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F11%2Fanother-big-update.html" }, { "id": 2526, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nHere is something that I really would like to do. Using Apple shortcuts, Charty for Shortcuts and Plausible analytics APIs: create an iPhone and iPad widget to display visitor statistics on my home screen. Another app like Actions would probably be needed too.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-11 08:53:51 -0500", "date": "8:53 p.m. on Mar 11, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/11/here-is-something.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F11%2Fhere-is-something.html" }, { "id": 2527, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So, in a nutshell: Obsidian is a Markdown text editor on steroids with a fancy plugin ecosystem. Did I miss something?\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-10 16:26:27 -0500", "date": "4:26 p.m. on Mar 10, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/10/so-in-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F10%2Fso-in-a.html" }, { "id": 2528, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Obsidian users: what do you use for syncing across devices if you don\u0026rsquo;t pay any subs to Obsidian? On the Mac, do you put your vaults on iCloud Drive and let the \u0026ldquo;magic\u0026rdquo; happen? Asking for a friend. 🤫\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-10 12:23:31 -0500", "date": "12:23 p.m. on Mar 10, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/10/obsidian-users-what.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F10%2Fobsidian-users-what.html" }, { "id": 2529, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For the time of my life, I downloaded Obsidian and launched it. Wrote something. Clicked here and there. Then, I closed it. I\u0026rsquo;m afraid. 🫣\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-10 06:36:46 -0500", "date": "6:36 p.m. on Mar 10, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/10/for-the-time.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F10%2Ffor-the-time.html" }, { "id": 2530, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In May 2019 I published this:\nPersonally, I think this year is too early for ARM-based Mac. Why? Because, my thinking is that Apple wants iOS on these ARM-Based Macs, not Mac. And they want a lot of ready-to-use, yet well-known apps to be available. For this, they are working on Marzipan (which later became Catalyst) to entice developers to write more powerful apps for iOS, especially the iPad. These are the prime candidates to run on this future ARM-based Mac. We are four weeks away from knowing a bit more about Apple’s strategy. Source: Apple Is Done With Intel - Numeric Citizen Blog\nThe Apple Silicon was announced more than a year later.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-09 19:59:43 -0500", "date": "7:59 p.m. on Mar 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/09/in-may-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F09%2Fin-may-i.html" }, { "id": 2531, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nDo you know MacUpdater? It’s a paid utility to keep your Mac up-to-date. I use it on my M1 Mac mini, but on my M1 MacBook Air, I use “Latest”. It’s open-source and free and a very well-crafted piece of software. I highlight recommend it. Download it here. You’ll thank me later.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-09 19:33:21 -0500", "date": "7:33 p.m. on Mar 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/09/do-you-know.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F09%2Fdo-you-know.html" }, { "id": 2532, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "21 years ago today, my first blog post. A bunch of promising social networks have come and gone in that time. Often feels like very little is permanent, so make sure to have your own space on the web.\nManton Reece https://www.manton.org/2023/03/09/years-ago-today.html\rI can barely remember what I was doing in 2002. I didn\u0026rsquo;t have a website. I didn\u0026rsquo;t know about website hosting. I didn\u0026rsquo;t really care about blogs, for that matter. I started blogging in 2009 when I started doing iPhone application development. I wanted to share my discoveries while learning Objective-C and publishing apps on the App Store. At some point, writing took more of my time than actually writing lines of Objective-C code.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-09 15:05:34 -0500", "date": "3:05 p.m. on Mar 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/09/years-ago-today.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F09%2Fyears-ago-today.html" }, { "id": 2533, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Riccardo Mori wrote an interesting take about the possible future of the Mac with a touch screen Why do you want to touch your Mac screen so badly? | Riccardo Mori:\nthe people who’d love to have a touchscreen Mac are people who prefer having the iPad and iPhone as primary devices for work and leisure. It’s the iPad-first guys who on the one hand are frustrated by the still mediocre multitasking and still limited functionality Apple is providing on the iPad, and on the other hand realize the sheer versatility and multitasking dexterity the Mac still has in spades despite the general worsening of Mac OS over the past few years. In short, they say they’d love a touchscreen Mac, but what they mean is that they’d love a hybrid iPad/Mac device that could offer the best of both worlds.\nToday at work, during a Zoom call, my colleague found out by error that she could touch the screen of her Windows portable to interact with it. She was totally mesmerized. Then she continued with the conversation. I don\u0026rsquo;t think it will make a big difference in her world. What people want is an iPad when it makes sense, a traditional computer, when it makes sense. Microsoft seems to have found an enduring combo with its Surface.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-08 21:35:04 -0500", "date": "9:35 p.m. on Mar 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/08/riccardo-mori-wrote.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F08%2Friccardo-mori-wrote.html" }, { "id": 2534, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "You are out: Newsy out. Newsify out. Raindrop.io out. Matter out. Readwise Reader out. Medium out. News Explorer out (soon). 😅 Substack Reader… jury is still out. 😂\nThe year 2023 is the year if cleanup for better focus.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-07 22:36:50 -0500", "date": "10:36 p.m. on Mar 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/07/you-are-out.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F07%2Fyou-are-out.html" }, { "id": 2535, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I finally completed and published my article about migrating to Anybox, a bookmarks manager competing with Raindrop.io. I\u0026rsquo;m not looking back.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-07 19:30:50 -0500", "date": "7:30 p.m. on Mar 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/07/i-finally-completed.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F07%2Fi-finally-completed.html" }, { "id": 2536, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If you can talk about it, explain it, even write about it, then I guess you can call yourself knowledgeable about it. Thought of the moment.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-06 22:30:50 -0500", "date": "10:30 p.m. on Mar 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/06/if-you-can.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F06%2Fif-you-can.html" }, { "id": 2537, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\n@numericcitizen@me.dm is my new Mastodon address on Medium’s newly launched Mastodon instance. It’s without enthusiasm that I created this address when Medium opened the door to all Medium members today. I left the Paid Partner Program earlier this year. First, because I was no longer publishing articles over there. Second, because I’m not at ease supporting a closed platform like Medium. I’m not sure where I’ll go from here. That being said, I find it interesting that a closed and proprietary platform like Medium opens up to Mastodon, a distributed and open source network. Call it opportunistic, it will be interesting to see where this will lead in the future. I’ll certainly watch from afar.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-06 18:37:10 -0500", "date": "6:37 p.m. on Mar 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/06/numericcitizenmedm-is-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F06%2Fnumericcitizenmedm-is-my.html" }, { "id": 2538, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If Twitter is broken, it might be a fix here and there, actually. Just saying.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-06 12:37:46 -0500", "date": "12:37 p.m. on Mar 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/06/if-twitter-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F06%2Fif-twitter-is.html" }, { "id": 2539, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Mind blown. 🤯\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-06 10:33:23 -0500", "date": "10:33 p.m. on Mar 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/06/mind-blown.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F06%2Fmind-blown.html" }, { "id": 2540, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Daniel Jalkut on AI-based art and \u0026ldquo;prose\u0026rdquo;\nLike everybody else, I was fascinated by AI art and prose. But I’m bored by it already. Why? Because it’s obviously not human. I like human things. Little quirks that make us laugh and cringe. That’s the beauty of life. AI is amazing, but it’s not human.\nI don\u0026rsquo;t think that I\u0026rsquo;m bored yet, but I certainly feel the same about human-based creations. I\u0026rsquo;ll never be bored and always be fascinated by it.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-05 22:04:13 -0500", "date": "10:04 p.m. on Mar 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/05/daniel-jalkut-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F05%2Fdaniel-jalkut-on.html" }, { "id": 2541, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " Gurman said it is \u0026ldquo;plausible\u0026rdquo; that at least the next 13-inch MacBook Air will be equipped with the as-yet-unannounced M3 chip, which will reportedly be manufactured based on TSMC\u0026rsquo;s latest 3nm process for improved performance. The current 13-inch model was released in July 2022 and is powered by the M2 chip, which is based on a 5nm process. Source: Gurman: New 13-Inch and 15-Inch MacBook Airs Likely to Launch by Summer - MacRumors\nI would be really surprised to see the updated MacBook Air product line introduce the new M3 so soon. Why? The MacBook Pro is based on the M2. Even if people buy computers, not chips, it would send a weird signal to have an M3 product at the entry level while the Pro machines are using M2. The 3 nanometer process will probably help reduce heat dissipation, but the last time I checked, the M2 in the 13-inch MacBook Air doesn\u0026rsquo;t exhibit any problems, even when the machine is running at full processing power.\nOne possibility, though, is if the M3 chip really helps make a difference from an end-user perspective enough to entice users to upgrade. We\u0026rsquo;ll see soon enough. And I can\u0026rsquo;t wait to get my hands on the 15-inch version of the MacBook Air.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-05 11:53:57 -0500", "date": "11:53 p.m. on Mar 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/05/gurman-said-it.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F05%2Fgurman-said-it.html" }, { "id": 2542, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "[@numericcitizen](https://micro.blog/numericcitizen) It's a good formal summary of the pros and cons of social networks, written by a textual robot capable of being unintentionally harassing itself...\nSo this is how the replies appear on micro.blog, a brilliant platform designed by [@manton](https://micro.blog/manton), both uncluttered and optimized for blogging, which seeks through a constrained design to avoid as best as possible the flaws mentioned by ChatGPT.\nTerence https://micro.blog/terence/17448886\rI couldn't agree more with this take too. In fact, I prefer this take to ChatGPT's. ", "dateiso": "2023-03-05 10:58:01 -0500", "date": "10:58 p.m. on Mar 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/05/numericcitizen-its-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F05%2Fnumericcitizen-its-a.html" }, { "id": 2543, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " “Social networks can be a great way to connect with friends and family, but they can also be toxic. Unfortunately, these networks can lead to cyberbullying, trolling, and other forms of online harassment. People can be cruel and insensitive in their comments, even if they don\u0026rsquo;t mean to be. Additionally, social networks can lead to feelings of envy and inadequacy, as users compare their lives to those they see on their timeline. It is important to remember to take a break from social media and step away whenever necessary to protect your mental health.” — ChapGPT\nThis text was used for the purpose of demonstrating the posting feature of Micro.blog. Please consider replying to this post so I can show how replies work. Thanks.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-05 10:08:36 -0500", "date": "10:08 p.m. on Mar 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/05/social-networks-can.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F05%2Fsocial-networks-can.html" }, { "id": 2544, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🎦 Smile, guys; you\u0026rsquo;re on camera! 😃 I\u0026rsquo;m getting myself ready to record th first video in the \u0026ldquo;Understanding Micro.blog\u0026rdquo; video series. This blog post on blog.numericcitizen.me will appear in the video while I\u0026rsquo;m giving a quick tour of a typical website hosted on Micro.blog.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-04 13:13:04 -0500", "date": "1:13 p.m. on Mar 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/04/smile-guys-youre.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F04%2Fsmile-guys-youre.html" }, { "id": 2545, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Spent part of the morning trying to do some automation using Hazel and Shortcuts. What a time-consuming task. I\u0026rsquo;m wondering if I\u0026rsquo;m not wasting any future productivity gains here. 🤔🤨\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-04 11:53:31 -0500", "date": "11:53 p.m. on Mar 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/04/spent-part-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F04%2Fspent-part-of.html" }, { "id": 2546, "type": "post", "title": "Here's The Weekend… Suggestions Instead of Infinite Social Media Scrolling...", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s the week-end in a few hours, consider those suggestions by Shawn Blanc: A few alternative things you can do when you’re bored (instead of scrolling social media)\nHere are a few alternatives to what I call the “Just Checks”.\n– Scroll through your Day One timeline and read a previous journal entry or browse some old photos and memories.\n– Launch Day One and log how you’ve spent your time so far for the day. Doing this for a few weeks can also be super helpful for getting a perspective of where your time and energy are being spent.\n– Write down 3 new ideas. These could be articles you want to write, business ideas, places you want to visit or photograph, topics you want to research, date ideas for you and your spouse, gift ideas for a friend, etc. These ideas never have to to be acted on — the point isn’t to generate a to-do list, but rather to exercise your mind and build your idea muscle. Ideation and creativity are muscles, and the more we exercise them the stronger they get.\n– Send a text message to a friend or family member to tell them how awesome they are.\n– Don’t get out your phone at all — do some stretches or take a 5-minute walk.\nMe? I\u0026rsquo;ll be creating, as always. Have a great weekend.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-03 16:18:12 -0500", "date": "4:18 p.m. on Mar 3, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/03/heres-the-weekend.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F03%2Fheres-the-weekend.html" }, { "id": 2547, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As noted by MacRumors:\nThe second beta of iOS 16.4 that was introduced to developers today appears to have a limited number of new features, but it does have a major update for those who use Apple Books - it reintroduces an option for the page-turning animation. Source: iOS 16.4 Beta 2 Re-Adds Page Turning Animation to Apple Books - MacRumors\nOne quick question: who decided it was a good idea to remove such page-turning animation in the first place? What problem did it solve? Books are still a big part of our life, and this animation is a great reference to the experience of reading a book.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-03 16:09:25 -0500", "date": "4:09 p.m. on Mar 3, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/03/as-noted-by.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F03%2Fas-noted-by.html" }, { "id": 2548, "type": "post", "title": "About This Special Apple Device", "text": "I couldn\u0026rsquo;t agree more with 9to5Mac here: There\u0026rsquo;s something special about the 2018 iPad Pro - 9to5Mac\nThe 2018 iPad Pro deserves a prominent spot in the Apple hardware hall-of-fame. No other product from Apple has remained so functional for so long without appearing long in the tooth. The 11-inch iPad Pro, specifically, has held up extraordinarily well for a product from nearly five years ago.\nI used my iPad Pro quite often and for so many different use cases. During work days, it becomes a second screen next to my Apple Studio Display. At night, it\u0026rsquo;s a content-consuming machine. During the weekend, it\u0026rsquo;s a streaming device while I do some food.\nThere’s something else special about the 2018 iPad Pro: New features for any given year are often likely to make their way to cheaper versions of the same product given enough time. The 2018 iPad Pro hasn’t had to deal with this.\nThe 2018 iPad Pro feels snappy and a very capable device, except when Stage Manager is turned on. It\u0026rsquo;s not.\nUpgrading from a 2018 iPad Pro would fetch you a LiDAR sensor, an ultra wide camera, 5G compared to LTE, and a modest new Apple Pencil feature with hover.\nNext year I\u0026rsquo;m pretty sure to upgrade my aging iPad Pro. I\u0026rsquo;ll be looking for the hover capabilities with the Apple Pencil as well as get an upgraded screen quality with OLED.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-03 07:14:09 -0500", "date": "7:14 p.m. on Mar 3, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/03/about-this-special.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F03%2Fabout-this-special.html" }, { "id": 2549, "type": "post", "title": "Another Day, Another Discovery: TimeStory", "text": "After Anybox earlier this week, now is the turn of TimeStory to make its debut on my list of apps under consideration. About TimeStory, from the application\u0026rsquo;s website:\nTimeStory is a Mac app for illustrating events on a timeline, designed to help you easily create plans and roadmaps, capture history, tell stories, and more.\nI spent quite some time today on a project at work using TimeStory. I\u0026rsquo;m blown away by the simplicity and the craftsmanship that went into this app. It\u0026rsquo;s very focused, which makes it easy to learn. At every step of my experimentation with the app, I was met with an evident interaction and response from TimeStory. I built something that took me a few hours instead of days in MS Project. Consider me impressed.\nI\u0026rsquo;m on the seven-day free trial. I\u0026rsquo;ll probably buy the app for two reasons: it brought me real added value in my workflow, joy, and some rewards along the way. Also, I can see a few use cases in my personal numeric life, for my Apple Rumours hub, for example.\nWe need more apps like this. Very focused, not trying to impress with undeeded features. On the Mac only. Native: AppKit + Swift. No subscription.\nOh, and I love TimeStory\u0026rsquo;s About page. It\u0026rsquo;s always interesting to learn about the behind-the-scenes story of an app. I hope this app continues to evolve and improve for as long as possible.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-02 17:51:09 -0500", "date": "5:51 p.m. on Mar 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/02/another-day-another.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F02%2Fanother-day-another.html" }, { "id": 2550, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "👉 Updated my complete toolset website. ➕ Zavala ➕Anybox ➕Inoreader ➖ Raindrop.io\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-02 07:45:28 -0500", "date": "7:45 p.m. on Mar 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/02/updated-my-complete.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F02%2Fupdated-my-complete.html" }, { "id": 2551, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "😅 Moving all my newsletter subscriptions to Inoreader (instead of Hey Mail) for a better reading and annotation experience. Unsubscribing to many along the way. That\u0026rsquo;s one of the many benefits of switching to Inoreader. Hey Mail isn\u0026rsquo;t that good for reading newsletters after all, when you compare it to other solutions (including Matter, Readwise Reader, etc.). Substack doesn\u0026rsquo;t make it easy to change the subscription email, BTW. 👨‍💻\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-02 07:28:00 -0500", "date": "7:28 p.m. on Mar 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/02/moving-all-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F02%2Fmoving-all-my.html" }, { "id": 2552, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Massive migration going on right now\u0026hellip; to Anybox. I\u0026rsquo;m in love with this little app. Currently moving out my bookmarks from Craft. Next up will be Safari. Thankfully, Anybox can import Safari-exported bookmark files.\nI\u0026rsquo;m always anxious when I use an app built and maintained by a single guy, as seems to be the case for Anybox.\n", "dateiso": "2023-03-01 07:30:54 -0500", "date": "7:30 p.m. on Mar 1, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/03/01/massive-migration-going.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F03%2F01%2Fmassive-migration-going.html" }, { "id": 2553, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I want to share a little follow-up to my previous post regarding Anybox. As much as I like what I see in this nifty little app, it must replace something else to make the cut (Raindrop.io?). It must help improve an existing portion of my workflow (putting my monthly newsletter together - possible initial use case). It must make a real difference, not only add a new stopgap.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-28 10:01:07 -0500", "date": "10:01 p.m. on Feb 28, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/28/i-want-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F28%2Fi-want-to.html" }, { "id": 2554, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Another day, another rabbit hole. This time, meet Anybox, a bookmark manager for macOS, iOS and iPadOS. I\u0026rsquo;ve been playing with it on macOS and I really like what I\u0026rsquo;m seeing. It\u0026rsquo;s a bit nerdy, but I do like it a lot. Everything I tried or wonder if it could do was met with a \u0026ldquo;ah\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;ooooh\u0026rdquo;. PopClip integration, easy integration with Things 3, data portability secured (lots of import \u0026amp; export formats), great user interface, Safari extension support. The list goes on and on.\nNow, the only thing is to try to find a real use case for it. I\u0026rsquo;ve been using Craft for the most part for bookmarks collection, so my need for an app like Anybox is still unclear. Stay tuned on that one.\nIs this another solution in search of a problem? 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-28 07:54:42 -0500", "date": "7:54 p.m. on Feb 28, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/28/another-day-another.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F28%2Fanother-day-another.html" }, { "id": 2555, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Got this for the Apple Studio Display and iPhone 13 Pro. With macOS Ventura Camera Continuity, it works much better than I thought. It works great with Microsoft Teams. Best way to add Center Stage to Microsoft Teams (using the Control Center settings while the camera is on). No latency. Surprising how low the battery power consumption is. It would have been nice if the iPhone mount could also recharge the iPhone, though.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-28 06:42:40 -0500", "date": "6:42 p.m. on Feb 28, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/16/got-this-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F16%2Fgot-this-for.html" }, { "id": 2556, "type": "post", "title": "Testing Micro.blog Bookmarking Feature", "text": "For the first time today, I diligently tested Micro.blog’s bookmarking feature. I don’t know if this is a popular feature among MB users, but I wonder if I should find a place for MB bookmarks in my workflow. Let’s see a typical workflow.\nSo, I start reading an article from my now favourite RSS reader: Inoreader. I decide to open the source website and use the bookmarklet to save the page into MB bookmarks. After a few minutes, MB diligently created a readable article archive stripped of all the noise. Think of it as an MB version of Instapaper.\nI open the newly created archive and start my reading. I find an interesting or very valuable passage that I select in the browser. MB shows a very gentle overlay titled “Highlight”. I click on it, and sure enough, the text gets highlighted. But that’s not all.\nMB can display a list of all my highlights. If I find a highlight that I want to create a linkpost for, I simply click the “New post” button underneath it. And voilà, I can start writing my linkpost right there.\nMoreover, MB offers a simple way to save a bookmark by entering the article’s URL into the provided field at the top of the “Bookmarks” section on the MB website. Very handy.\nBookmarks can be embedded in a blog post too. Just click “Embed” underneath a specific bookmark.\nThe only downside, for now, is the lack of data portability: bookmarks and highlights can’t be saved or exported outside MB.\nThe bookmarking feature is part of the Premium subscription tier.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-27 19:49:09 -0500", "date": "7:49 p.m. on Feb 27, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/27/testing-microblog-bookmarking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F27%2Ftesting-microblog-bookmarking.html" }, { "id": 2557, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Writing Shouldn’t Be Hard\nWe now live in a world of multimodal communications, and how we communicate is changing. The omnipresence of devices in our lives — smartphones to computers, means most of our conversations and communications happen through text. We have replaced so much of our face-to-face interaction with the written word. Teams, Slack and Discords, are part of our daily lives now. As the volume of text in our lives increases, we need tools that help facilitate and perhaps improve how we write and how fast we write.\nAm I alone in having the feeling that people no longer read?\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-27 19:25:41 -0500", "date": "7:25 p.m. on Feb 27, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/27/writing-shouldnt-be.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F27%2Fwriting-shouldnt-be.html" }, { "id": 2558, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple pays $12.1 mln fine for alleged app market abuse in Russia - Antimonopoly Service\nU.S. tech giant Apple has paid a 906 million rouble ($12.12 million) fine in a Russian antitrust case alleging abuse of its dominance in the mobile apps market, Russia\u0026rsquo;s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) said on Monday.\nFirst, where is the money going once paid by Apple? The current situation in Ukraine mandates more scrutiny. Personally, I would have shut down the App Store altogether in this market. Plain and simple as well as give a middle finger instead of paying the fine. But that\u0026rsquo;s me.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-27 16:52:02 -0500", "date": "4:52 p.m. on Feb 27, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/27/apple-pays-mln.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F27%2Fapple-pays-mln.html" }, { "id": 2559, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dear developers, be honest with us. In my usual morning rabbit hole digging, I stumbled on Flow, a Pomodoro app for the Mac. According to the website, Flow is free.\nI click on the “Available on the App Store” link. Once in the App Store, I look at the app details.\nThen, things start to look different. There is an “In-app purchases” tag. Scrolling down to the details, I get to see this.\nNow, I go up and read the app description. 😠 The developer fooled me. I feel cheated when basic and core features are under the “Pro” plan (like a timer custom duration). It’s a stupid one-feature app, and the developer manages to put the core feature under the pro plan!! I skip the app and move on because I don’t feel the developer is honest in his approach. Yeah, I know it’s called “marketing”.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-27 07:30:15 -0500", "date": "7:30 p.m. on Feb 27, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/27/dear-developers-be.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F27%2Fdear-developers-be.html" }, { "id": 2560, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Will be spending the rest if the weekend trying to advance my (many) projects. One being to produce my next YouTube video about using Craft as a website publishing tool.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-26 13:55:08 -0500", "date": "1:55 p.m. on Feb 26, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/26/will-be-spending.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F26%2Fwill-be-spending.html" }, { "id": 2561, "type": "post", "title": "Coming out of another rabbit hole…", "text": "👨‍💻 I’ve been extensively testing Inoreader recently and I have to say that as much as I like the service, I find the support for third-party services seriously lacking.\nInoreader supports many third-party services like Blogger, Telegram, Buffer, Evernote, LinkedIn, Hootsuite, Pocket, Google Drive, Instapaper, OneNote, Hatena Bookmarks and Dropbox.\nIt certainly a long list of services but the problem is that I don’t use any of them. I recently cancelled Buffer and Pocket. I’m surprised to see Blogger but not WordPress or Ghost. Who’s using Hootsuite these days?\nI wish Raindrop.io or Notion would be supported, after all, both of these services support offer APIs. Too bad because with better integration often come more efficient workflows.\nBuilding something around tags, IFTTT and RSS could unlock some form of automated workflow. For example, tagging an article would generate an article in a custom RSS feed built using Inoreader which would trigger an applet on IFTTT monitoring this RSS feed which in turn could create an entry in Things 3. The latter part is a challenge, though. IFTTT can’t talk to Things, but it can talk to Google Sheet.\nNothing is perfect I guess. 🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-25 16:22:50 -0500", "date": "4:22 p.m. on Feb 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/25/coming-out-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F25%2Fcoming-out-of.html" }, { "id": 2562, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "👉✅ I\u0026rsquo;m running a quick poll on my YouTube Channel, in the community section! I\u0026rsquo;m curious about your interest in \u0026ldquo;how-to\u0026rdquo; videos about Micro.blog. Thanks for taking the time to vote! 🙏🏻\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-25 08:32:37 -0500", "date": "8:32 p.m. on Feb 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/25/im-running-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F25%2Fim-running-a.html" }, { "id": 2563, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The funny thing about posting ideas on Friday nights, writing out loud ideas, it goes out unnoticed; nobody is paying attention. Everyone is too busy enjoying their weekend!\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-24 19:21:39 -0500", "date": "7:21 p.m. on Feb 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/24/the-funny-thing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F24%2Fthe-funny-thing.html" }, { "id": 2564, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Since last June I’ve been producing YouTube videos about Craft (the note taking app, not the game! 😜). I’m closing in to having fifty videos done. I like doing this quite a lot actually.\nNow I’m looking for the next product or service to talk about. 🧐\nIt seems there is a lot to talk about with Micro.blog, don’t you think? 🤓\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-24 19:00:40 -0500", "date": "7:00 p.m. on Feb 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/24/since-last-june.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F24%2Fsince-last-june.html" }, { "id": 2565, "type": "post", "title": "AI Comes to WordPress… Who Knew", "text": "The pervasiveness of AI is starting to look troubling at best. This week as I was heading to my WordPress admin page, I got this message at the top.\nWho knew? I was curious so I read the official “AI Engine” plugin page on WordPress.org. Here’s something that I found dubious.\nFive stars reviews only so far. I won’t have the pleasure to test this plugin or implement any of this on my website as I’m getting ready to move out of WordPress this year. Now, who’s next, Ghost?\nThe official plugin page can be found here.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-24 07:09:35 -0500", "date": "7:09 p.m. on Feb 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/24/ai-comes-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F24%2Fai-comes-to.html" }, { "id": 2566, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "👉 It\u0026rsquo;s Friday, and it is time for another quick experiment. For the next few days, I will cross-post from the Micro.blog to my Mastodon account and see how it goes. I\u0026rsquo;m unsure if I will add more confusion than anything else.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-24 06:56:35 -0500", "date": "6:56 p.m. on Feb 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/24/its-friday-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F24%2Fits-friday-and.html" }, { "id": 2567, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Tonight, following one of my year\u0026rsquo;s goals of focusing on and reducing my digital footprint, I deleted my Tumblr account, where each post was cross-posted from Micro.blog ➡️ Tumblr. This platform seems like a ghost town.\nI\u0026rsquo;m also testing the new \u0026ldquo;Show cross-posting\u0026rdquo; feature to push this post on my Mastodon instance. Zoom zip and hop to @numericcitizen@techhub.social!\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-23 20:59:20 -0500", "date": "8:59 p.m. on Feb 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/23/tonight-following-one.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F23%2Ftonight-following-one.html" }, { "id": 2568, "type": "post", "title": "A Typical Morning Rabbit Hole", "text": "I’m heading to Micro.blog and start reading on my timeline, I read someone’s post about note taking apps, mentioning how Bear Notes is great. I switch to Bear Notes website. After watching the introduction video, I head to the website’s blog section. Bear Notes certainly looks great. This particular blog post looks at how Bear Notes can work with other apps like Things 3 and Readwise. I wonder how I could use Brea Notes for my workflow. I’m reminded that we can export Readwise highlights in markdown files. I head to Readwise website and give it a try. I play with the export options for a while and export all my highlights, more than 1400 in total. Easy and quick. Next I wonder if I could import them in Craft. Yes I can. What about importing them in Ulysses. Yes I could. Then I remember that Ulysses, my go-to writing app, is great. And forget about Bear Notes.\nWritten and posted using Ulysses on my M1 MacBook Air.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-23 07:27:05 -0500", "date": "7:27 p.m. on Feb 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/23/a-typical-morning.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F23%2Fa-typical-morning.html" }, { "id": 2569, "type": "post", "title": "365 Days...", "text": "365 days of destruction.\n365 days of murdering.\n365 days of looting.\n365 days of terror.\n365 days of raping.\n365 days of horror.\n365 days of lies.\n365 days of absolute nonsense because of one man’s ego.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-22 22:16:11 -0500", "date": "10:16 p.m. on Feb 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/22/days.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F22%2Fdays.html" }, { "id": 2570, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\n👉🏻 Day One, now available on the web. Woah! This is cool.\nI’m a big fan of Day One. I use it 99% of time for documenting my numeric life (details here if you are curious). When Automattic bought them a while back, I was curious to see how it would influence its future. Now we get a much better idea. The web access maybe was an obvious “next step”, but they did a superb job of transposing most of the Day One experience on the web.\nWhat could be the next step for Day One? Well, what about being able to blog from Day One? A dedicated “public” journal could be created and any entry saved into that journal would go online. Boom.\nNow, if only I could spend more time writing personal thoughts in it.😒\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-22 21:41:29 -0500", "date": "9:41 p.m. on Feb 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/22/day-one-now.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F22%2Fday-one-now.html" }, { "id": 2571, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nGlass introduces “Highlights”. Oh I like this a lot. They keep adding more and more dimensions to an already solid, simple, honest, photo-sharing service. I’m glad to be supporting them.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-21 21:19:59 -0500", "date": "9:19 p.m. on Feb 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/21/glass-introduces-highlights.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F21%2Fglass-introduces-highlights.html" }, { "id": 2572, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nAnd here we go again with the new Mac Pro “problem”. Jason Snell writing about the challenges Apple is facing with the unfinished Apple Silicon transition of its Mac line:\nAnd all that custom work, all those distortions to what makes Apple silicon so successful, would be done for a product that’s a niche of a niche–and it’s work that Apple’s chip design team could have spent on a next-generation chip for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac.\nRemember the Trashcan Mac? The black cylinder Mac Pro was a closed system with very limited internal expandability beyond memory and SSD drive. Criticism from pro users lasted so long that Apple reverted his take on the Mac Pro with the return of the expandable machine in 2019. Pro users rejoiced as they could again add the PCI cards of their choices as well as adding as much memory they could afford. Problems fixed? Think again.\nNow, enter the Apple Silicon chip: a highly regarded and efficient system-on-a-chip design with fixed amount of RAM and GPU (except for Pro, Max, Ultra flavours). A Mac Pro built around this chip would go against having 1 TB of RAM or external GPU without sacrificing latency and performance with support for RAM or eGPU. Apple Silicon makes the Mac a more closed system, just like the 2013 Trashcan Mac was. How ironic this is.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-21 20:22:00 -0500", "date": "8:22 p.m. on Feb 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/21/and-here-we.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F21%2Fand-here-we.html" }, { "id": 2573, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nAttorney General Ashley Moody:\n“We must ensure that consumers have the information needed to make informed decisions about their data privacy and security. The existing lack of transparency in app stores can create a significant risk for American citizens, and could cause their personal information to be exploited by foreign entities of concern. That is why I am calling on Apple and Google to bring more transparency to their app stores—so consumers know what products are owned or developed by nations that may pose a national security risk.”\nI think this is a great idea. In challenging times, I want to know if an app is created or owned by someone who brings money into bad actor pockets. I do have internal debate about this issue from time to time, having such labeling in the App Store would certainly help in my buying or subscription decisions.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-21 19:59:50 -0500", "date": "7:59 p.m. on Feb 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/21/attorney-general-ashley.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F21%2Fattorney-general-ashley.html" }, { "id": 2574, "type": "post", "title": "What Comes After Missiles and Fighter Jets?", "text": "I walked today with my dear wife and quickly chatted about the Ukraine war. My wife asked me a question I didn’t expect: what if Western countries who had already sent armaments to Ukraine were sending soldiers with a promise not to attack Russia on their territory? Is this what should happen after sending fighter jets if we ever get there? I don’t recall Zelensky asking for boots on the ground. Will he eventually get there? How is this going to be perceived by the clowns in the Kremlin?\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-19 17:47:24 -0500", "date": "5:47 p.m. on Feb 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/19/what-comes-after.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F19%2Fwhat-comes-after.html" }, { "id": 2575, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m still pondering about cross-posting everything from MB to my @numericcitizen@techhub.social mastodon account. Why should I, why shouldn\u0026rsquo;t I?\nHint: I don\u0026rsquo;t want to de-focus from Micro.blog as my hub for feeling part of the larger fediverse microcosm.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-19 16:58:58 -0500", "date": "4:58 p.m. on Feb 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/19/im-still-pondering.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F19%2Fim-still-pondering.html" }, { "id": 2576, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Seriously, what\u0026rsquo;s wrong with me? 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-19 11:11:50 -0500", "date": "11:11 p.m. on Feb 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/19/seriously-whats-wrong.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F19%2Fseriously-whats-wrong.html" }, { "id": 2577, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I don\u0026rsquo;t know if it is a popular opinion or not, but Telegram is such a well-designed messaging app. It looks cool, and it has the right amount of gamification. Telegram.app feels native on all Apple platforms.\nI use Telegram passively to subscribe to channels that publish news and information about the war in Ukraine essentially. Many of the publishers were on Twitter too, but I left this shitty platform. I don\u0026rsquo;t use Telegram for chatting with others.\nI\u0026rsquo;m pondering about subscribing. there are things that I don\u0026rsquo;t like about Telegram (like insisting on getting access to my contacts and being owned by Pavel Durov). I don\u0026rsquo;t like the owner\u0026rsquo;s attitude toward Apple\u0026rsquo;s App store rules in general. He\u0026rsquo;s Russian with Ukrainian origins. Thankfully, is fled Moscow a long time ago to live in Dubai, a safe haven for many Russians these days. The fun fact is that Telegram is hugely popular in Ukraine and serves both sides in good and bad ways.\nAre there any Telegram users here? Do you share my sentiment? Are you subscribing to the Premium tier?\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-19 08:46:57 -0500", "date": "8:46 p.m. on Feb 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/19/i-dont-know.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F19%2Fi-dont-know.html" }, { "id": 2578, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nI rarely post my photography work here on Micro.blog, as I prefer to focus on dedicated photo-sharing services like Glass. But tonight, while doing some cleanup on my WordPress website, I stumbled on this post, “Confinement – A Visual Essay”, published on April 13th, 2020, in the early months of COVID-19. I almost instantly remembered and felt what it was like during these dire moments of confinement.\nIf pictures can trigger memories of challenging moments, I think they are good enough. This is why I am sharing this montage here tonight. Look carefully at each of them, they each contain a specific message.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-18 20:15:19 -0500", "date": "8:15 p.m. on Feb 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/18/i-rarely-post.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F18%2Fi-rarely-post.html" }, { "id": 2579, "type": "post", "title": "The Computer is Wrong — Stay Critical \u0026 Curious", "text": "This evening, using an Apple Shortcut called Clips, I imported the « Apple in 2022 The Six Colors report card » by Six Colors into Craft. It’s a 25 000 article that I started reading on my iPad, within Craft. Then, fifteen minutes into my reading, I asked Craft assistant to summarize the Mac section. It came out with this summary:\n« In 2022, Apple released the M2 MacBook Air, Mac Studio, and Studio Display. The hardware in the Mac lineup is powerful and impressive, and the M2 MacBook Air has become a favorite of Mac users due to its light weight, zero noise, and long battery life, as well as its ability to handle workloads that used to require a pro-level desktop. macOS Ventura has some great features, but there is still backsliding represented by bugs that have gone unfixed and apps that don\u0026rsquo;t work well. While many users are disappointed that an expected Mac Pro did not arrive, Apple is still praised for their strong hardware lineup and the Mac Studio, which might be a success except for the long shipping delays. »\nBecause I’m an Apple pundit; I read a lot about Apple in general, I find this summary « plausible », but also because I read the entire Mac section of the Six Colors report. Otherwise, I could I really know? This is where this article ChatGPT from Matt Birchler comes into view « The Computer is Wrong »: it’s fun to play with ChatGPT or any derivative services but staying critical, curious is still a mandatory thing to be these days.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-17 21:20:20 -0500", "date": "9:20 p.m. on Feb 17, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/17/the-computer-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F17%2Fthe-computer-is.html" }, { "id": 2580, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "😕 Installing iPadOS 16.4 beta1 on my iPad Pro. This cannot be worst than anything since iPadOS 16.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-17 10:15:38 -0500", "date": "10:15 p.m. on Feb 17, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/17/installing-ipados-beta.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F17%2Finstalling-ipados-beta.html" }, { "id": 2581, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog things I like:\nNo ads\rNo likes\rNo brands\rNo metrics\rNo algorithms\rNo influencers\rNo follower count\rNo suggested/sponsored posts\rReverse chrono social timeline\rBookshelves feature\rSimple, clean, UI\rCustomizability\rPhotos feature\rFriendly folks\rBlog hosting\riPhone app\rJason McFadden https://jasonmcfadden.com/2023/02/16/microblog-things-i.html\rNothing more to add. ", "dateiso": "2023-02-16 21:44:30 -0500", "date": "9:44 p.m. on Feb 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/16/microblog-things-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F16%2Fmicroblog-things-i.html" }, { "id": 2582, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nOK, I’m excited. According to recent leaks, the iPhone 15 Pro could be ultra interesting (puns intended). I’m ok with USB-C; the time has come for standardization. The thing that gets me excited is the softer, slightly rounder hedges. I like the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro flat edges, but they are too rough for my taste. So flat edges with a softer corner radius will be a welcomed tweak.\nNext, still about the edge, is the titanium brushed finish, similar to the titanium Apple Watch finish. I Digg this choice if that’s the case. I don’t like the Pro line’s current flashy chrome finish.\nThis leak of the possible iPhone 15 Pro also reminds me of the iPhone 4, which was a great design, BTW.\nOh, and the black bezels are becoming even thinner, which is also cool. Sure, some Android phones go way further than that, but on the iPhone, it’s a mandatory evolution, in my opinion.\nFor someone like me who takes his iPhone as a camera, these design changes could make a real difference in holding the iPhone like a camera. I’m really looking forward to this iPhone.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-16 21:35:55 -0500", "date": "9:35 p.m. on Feb 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/16/ok-im-excited.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F16%2Fok-im-excited.html" }, { "id": 2583, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Better late than never. As a content creator, these are goals for 2023. More in my Digital Garden.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-15 16:56:19 -0500", "date": "4:56 p.m. on Feb 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/15/better-late-than.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F15%2Fbetter-late-than.html" }, { "id": 2584, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Mailbrew still works but sadly feels increasingly abandoned by its founders fooling around with TypeFully, a writing tool for Twitter. Now Twitter is dead. TypeFully too. And Mailbrew is dying too. How sad this story is.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-15 07:10:18 -0500", "date": "7:10 p.m. on Feb 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/15/mailbrew-still-works.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F15%2Fmailbrew-still-works.html" }, { "id": 2585, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🤔 @help @manton could look into this error message that I\u0026rsquo;ve been getting on my timeline for a few days now? Thanks a lot! Love ya! Sorry for the interruption. Returning to normal programming.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-15 06:41:58 -0500", "date": "6:41 p.m. on Feb 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/15/help-manton-could.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F15%2Fhelp-manton-could.html" }, { "id": 2586, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "👨🏻‍💻I\u0026rsquo;ve spent quite some time recently on Inoreader, and I must say that I like it a lot. I\u0026rsquo;m on their generous three-month subscription. I can test everything without worrying too much about hitting the paywall. I must say that I\u0026rsquo;m more of an RSS-type-of-guy which fits Inoreader\u0026rsquo;s mission perfectly. I\u0026rsquo;m seeing fewer and fewer reasons to consider Matter or Readwise\u0026rsquo;s Reader\u0026hellip; who knew.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-14 22:07:42 -0500", "date": "10:07 p.m. on Feb 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/14/ive-spent-quite.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F14%2Five-spent-quite.html" }, { "id": 2587, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🤔👀👇🏻\nApple is exploring a stand-alone device that combines an iPad with a speaker hub. The idea is to offer something that users can place on a kitchen counter, in the living room or on their nightstand. But Apple also has worked on an iPad docking accessory that it could sell separately and would accomplish much of the same thing. Source: Apple Working on Whole New Way to Use iPad at Home - MacRumors\nNearly every day, I use my iPad in the kitchen while preparing food to listen to the news or to YouTube videos. I can imagine the iPad UI to be something like CarPlay UI (or HomeKit UI?) with tiles where I could see a video source, some HomeKit controls, the weather, etc.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-14 06:31:27 -0500", "date": "6:31 p.m. on Feb 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/14/apple-is-exploring.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F14%2Fapple-is-exploring.html" }, { "id": 2588, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The rumoured launch of a 15-inch MacBook Air this early Spring brings me joy and excitement. As an M1-MacBook Air owner, I understand the actual value of a lightweight and mighty Mac. I’m not looking for a much more powerful machine, but a bigger screen in a still-light package is something that I’m looking for. One of the reasons, you might be surprised, is the notch presence which removes some real space in the menubar to display menubar icons. Even with Bartender, a bigger screen could help reduce competition for the menubar on the left portion of the screen. That’s a small detail but an important one for me. I still have over a year of active Apple Care coverage, which should help resell my Mac.\nNow, about the possible pricing. After spending some time on the Apple website looking at the current MacBook Air and MacBook Pro offerings, I expect the new 15-inch MacBook Air to be priced at around $1499..$1699 for an 8 GB of RAM, 8 cores CPU, 10 cores GPU and 256 GB SSD. So the starting price would represent a $300-$500 difference.\nI wouldn’t be surprised to see the 13-inch MacBook Pro to be dropped from the product line too.\nSpring can’t come soon enough.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-13 21:06:05 -0500", "date": "9:06 p.m. on Feb 13, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/13/the-rumoured-launch.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F13%2Fthe-rumoured-launch.html" }, { "id": 2589, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Are there any Inoreader subscribers here? How do you take advantage of the service’s features? Do you use the Broadcast feature? How about tags and annotation features?\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-12 10:56:13 -0500", "date": "10:56 p.m. on Feb 12, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/12/are-there-any.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F12%2Fare-there-any.html" }, { "id": 2590, "type": "post", "title": "Eternally Unsatisfied With My Reading Apps", "text": "I’ve been a News Explorer RSS reader user for a long time. It’s a less-known RSS reader compared to Reeder or anything else. It’s really good, but missing a few things that keep bugging me. There is no web version, no filtering feature, and no text highlighting either.\nI started testing Inoreader yesterday and Feedbin. Both seem good RSS readers, but none of them is satisfying. In fact, I’m never satisfied with anything when it comes to RSS readers and reading applications or services in general. It’s been going on forever.\nRead-later apps are unsatisfying, too, for me. None of Instapaper, Pocket, Matter, and Readwise’s Reader satisfy my needs. Readwise is too busy and still immature, Matter is nice, but some things like tags handling don’t scale well.\nThe perfect combination of a read-later function with an RSS reader doesn’t exist. If I were twenty years younger, I would write my own.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-10 06:41:40 -0500", "date": "6:41 p.m. on Feb 10, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/10/eternally-unsatisfied-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F10%2Feternally-unsatisfied-with.html" }, { "id": 2591, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I thought I was done with the \u0026ldquo;macOS user interface isn\u0026rsquo;t touch-friendly\u0026rdquo; debate but tonight, I\u0026rsquo;m reading this piece from Jack Wellborn (emphasis is mine):\nThe Mac was also built for a mouse, and while I would argue macOS is more usable than Windows, there is no getting around the fact that controls optimized for pointers are inherently unfriendly to touch input. It’s foolishly optimistic to think that Microsoft or even Apple can make pointer interfaces as touch friendly as iPadOS without also destroying the very thing that makes them more productive than iPadOS — information density. Smaller controls means these platforms can disclose more information and interactivity to their users at once. That’s why a bunch of windows on even a 11″ MacBook Air feels natural while only four windows on a “large” 13″ iPad feels ungainly. Source: Touchability, Productivity, and Portability — Pick Two – Worms and Viruses\nAnd\nConversely, it’s impossible to make iPadOS more information dense without sacrificing the very thing that makes it the best tablet OS — touch friendliness. iPad users want more information on screen because that will help them be more productive, but the only way to present more information in iPadOS without sacrificing touch friendliness is a larger display. Not only is a larger display not portable, iPadOS’s support for larger displays still sucks. There’s nothing Apple can do about large displays not being portable, but better support for larger displays? That’s a problem Apple can solve.\nI don\u0026rsquo;t agree with the author\u0026rsquo;s suggestions at the end, but it shows that the debate about macOS being touch-friendly or not is still raging and far from being settled.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-08 20:48:48 -0500", "date": "8:48 p.m. on Feb 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/08/i-thought-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F08%2Fi-thought-i.html" }, { "id": 2592, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nI digg the updated design of Apple.com. The drop-down menus remind me of the Mac in its early days.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-07 21:40:46 -0500", "date": "9:40 p.m. on Feb 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/07/i-digg-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F07%2Fi-digg-the.html" }, { "id": 2593, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dear Apple, I’m done. It took me a long time, but I get it. Today, I turned off Stage Manager on my iPad. I tried with all my heart. I tried. But, even at iPadOS 16.3, after betas and final releases, six months later, I tired of fighting. Stage Manager is a mess on the iPad. In fact, Stage Manager breaks the iPad experience. Plain and simple. What is a nice improvement on the Mac, is a disastrous UX on the iPad form factor. Apple, go back to the drawing board, let me know when you’re done. Thanks.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-07 20:49:04 -0500", "date": "8:49 p.m. on Feb 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/07/dear-apple-im.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F07%2Fdear-apple-im.html" }, { "id": 2594, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nNo. Great mockup design but no, I don’t want to get an Apple Watch Ultra in the form of an iPhone. First, I prefer flat edges over rounded ones. They make the iPhone easier to grab from a table and hold for taking pictures. Second, I want the rumoured rounded glass surface on the screen edges which would make the phone a little bit more organic.\nWhat I would LOVE ❤️ to get though is a dedicated multipurpose button, like on the Ultra. Yet, the probability that Apple add another button is low in my opinion. They would rather prefer to get rid of all physical buttons if they could without compromising usability (which I don’t see how this could be done). A less prominent camera assembly would be welcomed too, even if this means a thicker device (and bigger battery along the way).\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-07 13:27:04 -0500", "date": "1:27 p.m. on Feb 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/07/no-great-mockup.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F07%2Fno-great-mockup.html" }, { "id": 2595, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "TechCrunch interview with Apple\u0026rsquo;s exec Millet:\nOne rationale for shipping M2 is also that Apple wanted to establish the line in a regular cadence. It was important, Millet says, to make sure people didn’t see the M1 as a “one and done.” Source: Apple execs on M2 chips, winning gamers and when to buy a Mac • TechCrunch\nThe Mac has never been this thriving, thanks to Apple Silicon. Specs bumps and general redesign when needed are moving the Mac forward. Next stop: Macs with touch screen with an Apple twist.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-07 12:38:24 -0500", "date": "12:38 p.m. on Feb 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/07/techcrunch-interview-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F07%2Ftechcrunch-interview-with.html" }, { "id": 2596, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Matt makes a compelling case for the feasibility of touch-based macOS:\nI think Apple should add touch to Macs, and I think that this will allow them to not only make current form factors better, but it will allow them to create Macs that are more flexible, more powerful, and more accessible than any Macs before them.\nThat said, there are people in the Mac community who disagree with me here, and their number one concern is that macOS has a UI that is simply unusable with touch. It\u0026rsquo;s the ace-in-the-hole argument, and it\u0026rsquo;s honestly something I haven\u0026rsquo;t pushed back on because it feels true.\nYeah, I\u0026rsquo;m one of them. 🫣\nThere\u0026rsquo;s a narrative out there that touch is just so incompatible with macOS and that in order to make it work, the macOS UI would have to get blown up to comical proportions, but I don\u0026rsquo;t think that\u0026rsquo;s the case. Changes will be made, but I think macOS is more touch-friendly today than many people give it credit for. Source: macOS Isn\u0026rsquo;t as Small As You Think\nI\u0026rsquo;m happy to report that I\u0026rsquo;m convinced that macOS is closer to being touch-friendly than I originally thought. Matt spent the required time to demonstrate that 90% of the job was already done. I\u0026rsquo;m happy to change my mind on this. Would I jump to use a touchscreen Mac? I hate fingerprints on any screen except on the iPad. 🫳🏻😵‍💫\nNo more questions, your honour.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-07 07:35:25 -0500", "date": "7:35 p.m. on Feb 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/07/matt-makes-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F07%2Fmatt-makes-a.html" }, { "id": 2597, "type": "post", "title": "No Olympic Games for Russians — Here's Why", "text": "Should Russians be allowed to participate in the Olympic Games in Paris, France, next year? The question is out, and the debate is already raging. For me, the answer is simple and unequivocal: no. My reasons are multiple. Here are a few of them.\nFirst of all, we cannot pretend that Olympic Games are apolitical. Participation or non-participation in games can also have a political character. History has shown it on several occasions. In addition, the symbolism behind the Olympic Games and sports, in general, is not compatible with the behaviour of Russia internationally. The Russians are doing anything but show fraternity towards other countries like Ukraine.\nCases are well documented that local Olympic organizations are often close to the government, especially in countries like Russia and China. Governments jump at the opportunity of hosting or participating in games to promote political agendas, to make propaganda tacitly or explicitly. We cannot provide them with this opportunity.\nFurthermore, we cannot contribute militarily, financially and humanly to the legitimate defence of Ukraine and, on the other hand, allow Russian athletes to come and strut as if nothing had happened alongside Ukrainian athletes. This is nonsense and an insult to Ukrainian athletes.\nSome will say that it is not the role of the International Olympic Committee to act as a police officer. However, it is not about that but about a moral question that goes beyond the committee\u0026rsquo;s mission. The respective countries will be responsible for demonstrating their coherence with their actions towards Ukraine by abstaining from presenting themselves at the Olympic Games, if appropriate. I count on the Canadian government to show consistency and courage equal to that of the Ukrainians.\nFinally, the question of the athletes themselves arises. Some will say that we must not unduly hinder athletes from participating in the games after so many efforts and sacrifices. Do I need to remind you that thousands of Ukrainian civilians are making the ultimate sacrifice of their own lives? Russian athletes can stay home and suffer a little bit. Besides, isn\u0026rsquo;t this one of the objectives of international sanctions against Russia, to make the government and its people suffer? Otherwise, what good is it?\nI say it, I repeat it, it would be immoral to allow Russians to participate in the Olympic Games next year, and even in any other sporting competition, as long as the war is raging and Russia has not paid reparations.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-07 06:41:01 -0500", "date": "6:41 p.m. on Feb 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/07/no-olympic-games.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F07%2Fno-olympic-games.html" }, { "id": 2598, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microsoft Authenticator for Apple Watch to be retired:\nThe Microsoft Authenticator app for Apple Watch joins a long list of third-party watchOS apps that have been discontinued over the last few years, either because of perceived redundancy or lack of user uptake. Other notable Apple Watch apps that have been discontinued include Twitter, Instagram, Target, Trello, Slack, Hulu, and Uber. Source: Microsoft Authenticator Discontinues Apple Watch App - MacRumors\nThere is a clear trend.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-06 14:13:03 -0500", "date": "2:13 p.m. on Feb 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/06/microsoft-authenticator-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F06%2Fmicrosoft-authenticator-for.html" }, { "id": 2599, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I really hope we get iPadOS 16.4 beta this week because right now, I never experienced so many weird behaviours on my iPad since iPadOS 16. Stage Manager is one problem, weird keyboard placement is another, rotation bugs, etc.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-06 12:08:51 -0500", "date": "12:08 p.m. on Feb 6, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/06/i-really-hope.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F06%2Fi-really-hope.html" }, { "id": 2600, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Continuing with this usability musing on possible touch-based MacBook, Jack Wellborn writes in response to an article by Federico Viticci:\nThe Mac was also built for a mouse, and while I would argue macOS is more usable than Windows, there is no getting around the fact that controls optimized for pointers are inherently unfriendly to touch input. It’s foolishly optimistic to think that Microsoft or even Apple can make pointer interfaces as touch friendly as iPadOS without also destroying the very thing that makes them more productive than iPadOS — information density. Smaller controls means these platforms can disclose more information and interactivity to their users at once. That’s why a bunch of windows on even a 11″ MacBook Air feels natural while only four windows on a “large” 13″ iPad feels ungainly.\nConversely, it’s impossible to make iPadOS more information dense without sacrificing the very thing that makes it the best tablet OS — touch friendliness. iPad users want more information on screen because that will help them be more productive, but the only way to present more information in iPadOS without sacrificing touch friendliness is a larger display. Not only is a larger display not portable, iPadOS’s support for larger displays still sucks. There’s nothing Apple can do about large displays not being portable, but better support for larger displays? That’s a problem Apple can solve. Source: Touchability, Productivity, and Portability — Pick Two – Worms and Viruses\nI couldn’t put my finger on it (pun intended), but this article brings up an interesting point that might explain something I couldn\u0026rsquo;t do myself: The size of controls in a user interface largely dictates information density. Many longtime Mac users decry the iPadification of its UI. I\u0026rsquo;m not one of them but I value information density a lot.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-05 19:53:26 -0500", "date": "7:53 p.m. on Feb 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/05/continuing-with-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F05%2Fcontinuing-with-this.html" }, { "id": 2601, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just found out about iA Presenter, from the makers of iA Writer. Looking at the website, this app looks like a superb macOS app! I can see a specific use case here for me: writing queue cards for when I\u0026rsquo;m recording my YouTube videos. Is anyone on the beta from TestFlight here? Any thoughts?\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-05 14:19:39 -0500", "date": "2:19 p.m. on Feb 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/05/just-found-out.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F05%2Fjust-found-out.html" }, { "id": 2602, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Benjamin Mayo commenting on laptops with touch screen:\nAll the time, I see people swipe up and down on their vertical laptop screens to navigate webpages and zoom into photos with a pinch gesture. The ergonomics of this are naturally poor. Stretching your arm out forwards to reach the laptop screen quickly becomes uncomfortable. And yet, people still do it frequently. The touch screen is used as an accessory to primary mouse input. They swipe around a bit, then they go back to the mouse. They read a screenful of content, then they swipe to the next page, and put their arm back down. It’s a surprisingly subconsciously natural thing to do. Source: Apple Working On Touchscreen Mac Laptops — Benjamin Mayo\nI wonder if Apple could get away with only supporting minimal gestures on their touchscreen Mac. I\u0026rsquo;m thinking about things like \u0026ldquo;pinch to zoom\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;swipe\u0026rdquo; but nothing else… I could imagine using my left hand for a vertical swipe and the right hand on the trackpad to click on a button or text field. This way, I see only a need for a minimal macOS user interface rework.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-05 13:56:40 -0500", "date": "1:56 p.m. on Feb 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/05/benjamin-mayo-commenting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F05%2Fbenjamin-mayo-commenting.html" }, { "id": 2603, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In the \u0026ldquo;Competition in the Mobile Application Ecosystem\u0026rdquo; report published by the NTIA recently:\nPre-installed apps, default options, and anticompetitive self-preferencing should be limited, including in search results. Source: Biden Administration Report Recommends Sweeping Changes to Apple\u0026rsquo;s Ecosystem - MacRumors\nCan you imagine unboxing your brand-new iPhone, powering it up, and after completing the initial setup process, you end up on a mostly empty home screen? What should the user do next? Could Apple provide a single icon pointing to their App Store to download \u0026ldquo;The Full iPhone Experience\u0026rdquo; package? Would Apple even be allowed to do just that? Reading the recommendation again, I think it would go against it. It there a more effective way at killing a product?\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-05 13:50:55 -0500", "date": "1:50 p.m. on Feb 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/05/in-the-competition.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F05%2Fin-the-competition.html" }, { "id": 2604, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A few people here probably already know that I\u0026rsquo;m a big fan and power user of Craft, the document creation app. Over the years, I created and shared many documents online for different purposes. Today, I\u0026rsquo;m sharing an index of all the published documents. My goal is to showcase many of Craft\u0026rsquo;s capabilities. If you are curious, you can ask me questions about these. I\u0026rsquo;ll be more than happy to respond.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-05 09:48:07 -0500", "date": "9:48 p.m. on Feb 5, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/05/a-few-people.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F05%2Fa-few-people.html" }, { "id": 2605, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "You might have noticed that I’m experimenting with YouTube shorts. They are easy to create using the YouTube app but the next ones will be created with Apple’s Clips, if it’s even possible. 🧐\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-04 12:30:14 -0500", "date": "12:30 p.m. on Feb 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/04/you-might-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F04%2Fyou-might-have.html" }, { "id": 2606, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Rumours and articles like this one about Apple’s upcoming headset, supposedly called “RealityPro” is simply getting out of hand. I wish we could put an end to them. I mean, this is ridiculous.\nEven if Apple actually comes out with something this year, I’ll consider this as a technological proof of concept, nothing compared to the actually useful and usable iPhone we got back in 2007.\nUse cases for a headset are not what the tech pundits would like us to believe. Family reunions with everyone wearing these things on our heads will not happen. Office meetings with people wearing them don’t make sense either. We can barely stand meetings in hybrid modes where some employees are working from home and appearing on the big screen while others are “present” in the meeting room staring at their laptop or tablet screen and doing something else.\nThe Apple headset could be the next HomePod or the next iPod HiFi. Set your expectations accordingly and better pay attention to what will come out from Hu.ma.ne, instead. Something that looks to be much more natural and less rebarbative.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-04 08:01:08 -0500", "date": "8:01 p.m. on Feb 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/04/rumours-and-articles.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F04%2Frumours-and-articles.html" }, { "id": 2607, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I took back the iPad Air that my mom was using a few years ago. I would like to repurpose the iPad as a photo frame. It was updated to the latest iPadOS release the iPad can support, but unfortunately, slide options in Apple’s Photos are pretty limited. I wish there were a “Photo frame” mode in Photos. Synology Photos required iPadOS 13.\nHow would you reconfigure this iPad, so it becomes a photo frame?\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-03 06:53:46 -0500", "date": "6:53 p.m. on Feb 3, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/03/i-took-back.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F03%2Fi-took-back.html" }, { "id": 2608, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Tim Cook\u0026rsquo;s introductory comment on Apple\u0026rsquo;s latest quarter:\n“As we all continue to navigate a challenging environment, we are proud to have our best lineup of products and services ever, and as always, we remain focused on the long term and are leading with our values in everything we do,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “During the December quarter, we achieved a major milestone and are excited to report that we now have more than 2 billion active devices as part of our growing installed base.”\nHow many devices count as being active if a user has an iPhone and two Apple Watch, two HomePod and an Apple TV? Six. That\u0026rsquo;s a lot of devices but not as many users.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-02 20:18:46 -0500", "date": "8:18 p.m. on Feb 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/02/tim-cooks-introductory.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F02%2Ftim-cooks-introductory.html" }, { "id": 2609, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "DHH\u0026rsquo;s concluding words about testing an Android phone:\nI\u0026rsquo;m no fan of Google in general. And I still prefer the fit and finish of iOS over Android, but there\u0026rsquo;s something deeply appealing about having a phone where at least it\u0026rsquo;s actually possible to install Forbidden Software, like Fortnite, without wild interventions like jailbreaking. The fidelity gap is real, but the freedom gap is bigger. Source: Another Android\nHis post is a reminder for me that I never tried or used an Android device for real. Never ever. Should I? Why would I? But then I read this article from Gruber commenting about his perception of the Android app landscape:\nAndroid enthusiasts don’t want to hear it, but from a design perspective, the apps on Android suck. They may not suck from a feature perspective (but they often do), but they’re aesthetically unpolished and poorly designed even from a “design is how it works” perspective.\nAfter all, I might never waste my time testing an Android phone. Life is too short.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-02 20:05:18 -0500", "date": "8:05 p.m. on Feb 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/02/dhhs-concluding-words.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F02%2Fdhhs-concluding-words.html" }, { "id": 2610, "type": "post", "title": "Highly Troubling—Ops are Taking Over Apple My Friends ", "text": "Don\u0026rsquo;t bother reading too much into the latest Apple financial numbers. They\u0026rsquo;re not too bad. What you should be paying attention to is this:\nApple is eliminating one of its most high-profile executive positions. According to a new report today, Apple is eliminating the role of “industrial design chief” as part of a broader shake-up. This role was once held by Jony Ive, and most recently held by Evans Hankey.\nMore specifically:\nUnder this new structure, the design team will report to Apple’s chief operating officer Jeff Williams. Source: Apple is eliminating its iconic \u0026lsquo;industrial design chief\u0026rsquo; position\nThis comment by one of the 9To5Mac staff members is not reassuring at all:\nI think it’s important to keep in mind, however, that Williams has been involved with the design team for several years at this point. Hankey has reported to Williams since 2019. The difference now is that the middle ground between Williams and the rest of the design team is being removed.\nMaybe Hankey saw this coming and couldn\u0026rsquo;t adhere to this direction. Here\u0026rsquo;s my take: ops are taking over Apple, and design is no longer the top priority. It is utterly troubling to read rumours of Williams possibly replacing Cook which looks like being more of the same if you ask me. Maybe Williams has more design experience, but not as a first-party involvement. Troubling.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-02 18:50:31 -0500", "date": "6:50 p.m. on Feb 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/02/highly-troublingops-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F02%2Fhighly-troublingops-are.html" }, { "id": 2611, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If I had enough time on hand, I would build a one-pager website comparing all Mastodon clients. Then, I would update it as new app releases come out. I can see the feature-by-feature comparison table with an overall score at the bottom. I think it could be helpful for new Mastodon users and developers to better understand their app\u0026rsquo;s position in the client landscape.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-02 07:24:14 -0500", "date": "7:24 p.m. on Feb 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/02/if-i-had.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F02%2Fif-i-had.html" }, { "id": 2612, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Some telling excerpt from a recent story in the Globe and Mail about a Canadian helping Ukraine:\n“There’s a couple of shots I made that day that will be with me,” he said. One was a Russian in a T-shirt who was carrying a box of ammunition more than 1,800 metres behind the front line – a distance Teflon says was the longest shot he’s ever made. “He saw no threat, he thought he was safe. But it’s my job to ensure that they know that they’re not safe anywhere,” Teflon said. “The role of a sniper is to ultimately push into the minds of the enemy and make them question everything.”\nAnd\n“There’s allegations that all these Russians must be drugged. There’s no way. I think it’s just lack of training. Because they still act like human beings. I’ve watched guys cry and I’ve watched guys scream and I’ve watched guys try to pull their friends back when they get killed. They’re humans but they don’t have an ounce of training when it comes to fighting a war.”\nAnd\n“Sadly, it’s working. That’s why they’re doing it. We’re defending until we can’t defend that spot any more because they just destroy it with tanks. And they just keep sending another wave. It’s just relentless,” Teflon said. “So, they’ve gained 500 metres of dirt, but they just took over a completely destroyed position and lost hundreds of guys to do so.”\nFinally\n“The world deserves to hear the truth and after losing Joe and Greg, they need to understand we’re not stopping this work,” he said. “There’s no point me dying without telling my story.”\nThis a poignant story about a Canadian snipper “working” on the front line in Ukraine.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-02 07:01:44 -0500", "date": "7:01 p.m. on Feb 2, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/02/some-telling-excerpt.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F02%2Fsome-telling-excerpt.html" }, { "id": 2613, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "CarPlay in 2023 will see its most significant upgrade since its launch. I don’t know when we’ll actually be able to get this in a real car, but I certainly look forward to it.\nI recently spent some travel time in a high-end Mercedes. The Dashboard was very impressive. Still, the future CarPlay version seems a bit pale in comparison.\nWhy did Apple choose to make this early announcement?\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-01 13:38:37 -0500", "date": "1:38 p.m. on Feb 1, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/01/carplay-in-will.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F01%2Fcarplay-in-will.html" }, { "id": 2614, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It is so slow to recharge an Apple Magic Mouse. Considering how we need to connect this thing for a recharge, Apple should have made it much quicker to recharge. 😒\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-01 11:44:04 -0500", "date": "11:44 p.m. on Feb 1, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/01/it-is-so.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F01%2Fit-is-so.html" }, { "id": 2615, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wow, I spent 10 minutes searching for \u0026ldquo;how to save an email into a .EML file on the iPad\u0026rdquo;. It\u0026rsquo;s not in the action menu. The only way is to do a \u0026ldquo;drag \u0026amp; drop\u0026rdquo; of the mail into Files.app (or any app that understands this file format, for that matter). Who knew it could be that hard to discover such a simple thing. It should really be in the action menu too.\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-01 11:19:36 -0500", "date": "11:19 p.m. on Feb 1, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/01/wow-i-spent.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F01%2Fwow-i-spent.html" }, { "id": 2616, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Any Little Snitch users here? Thoughts? I\u0026rsquo;m using NextDNS to block tracking sites, but what would be the added value of using Little Snitch?\n", "dateiso": "2023-02-01 08:59:36 -0500", "date": "8:59 p.m. on Feb 1, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/02/01/any-little-snitch.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F02%2F01%2Fany-little-snitch.html" }, { "id": 2617, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A special message to all the people who expressed their support for the loss of my mother. It really means a lot, even though I don\u0026rsquo;t know you personally. Thanks.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-31 21:06:09 -0500", "date": "9:06 p.m. on Jan 31, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/31/a-special-message.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F31%2Fa-special-message.html" }, { "id": 2618, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m back. Mostly. It was an enduring experience to see my mom go as she did. It was an unintentional instructional experience too. Life has many lessons in store for us. We just have to open our minds and our heart. Easier said than done.\nWriting is part of the healing process, I guess.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-31 20:46:45 -0500", "date": "8:46 p.m. on Jan 31, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/31/im-back-mostly.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F31%2Fim-back-mostly.html" }, { "id": 2619, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Well, expect a change of mood for the next couple of days. It’s seems that my mother, 89, is at the very end of her road. Not only that was expected but also I’m relieved somehow. 😔\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-28 11:50:24 -0500", "date": "11:50 p.m. on Jan 28, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/28/well-expect-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F28%2Fwell-expect-a.html" }, { "id": 2620, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I don’t have many subscribers to my Ghost-hosted website. I always find it sad when someone unsubscribes the very same day I send out a new edition of my newsletter. If I had hundreds of thousands of subscribers, I wouldn’t notice.\nWhat did I do wrong? Was the content not worth reading? These are the questions that come to my mind every time.\nI shouldn’t pay attention to that. 😔\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-27 21:13:09 -0500", "date": "9:13 p.m. on Jan 27, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/27/i-dont-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F27%2Fi-dont-have.html" }, { "id": 2621, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m no longer spreading Twitter content. Today is a cleanup day in my bookmarks collection, acting as a repository for future editions of my monthly newsletter: Numeric Citizen Introspection. Each bookmark is stored in one of the six “buckets” in Craft, as shown in this screenshot. What is noteworthy today is the fact that many of those bookmarks were links to tweets. They were all deleted. Quitting Twitter also means stopping spreading references to the platform’s content.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-27 20:34:23 -0500", "date": "8:34 p.m. on Jan 27, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/27/im-no-longer.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F27%2Fim-no-longer.html" }, { "id": 2622, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple every second. Mind blown. Source.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-27 07:29:05 -0500", "date": "7:29 p.m. on Jan 27, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/27/apple-every-second.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F27%2Fapple-every-second.html" }, { "id": 2623, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Is there something like Shortcuts on Windows? I’m asking because, with the release of Things 3.17, I made a few tweaks to my blogger workflow, thanks to the addition of many Shortcuts actions. This new Shortcut can run on the iPad, the iPhone and the Mac. That’s so cool.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-26 21:57:31 -0500", "date": "9:57 p.m. on Jan 26, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/26/is-there-something.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F26%2Fis-there-something.html" }, { "id": 2624, "type": "post", "title": "Much More Than Tanks Will Be Needed", "text": "I’m super happy to see so many countries contributing to the war efforts. Kyiv has been asking for tanks for a long time. Finally, the last roadblock to a significant contribution has been lifted thanks to the German government, who seemingly found the light and made the right decision. Now for serious questions…\nWill those tanks, a few hundred of them, of all sizes, models and with various capabilities, really reverse the tide in favour of the Ukrainians? I’m afraid we will have to face reality sooner than later. Much more will be needed to put Russia’s army on its knees and force them to retreat or be defeated. Fighter jets are next. But again, I don’t see that as being enough. Remember when Iraq invaded Kuwait? We had to send people on the ground, not just boats, tanks or fighter jets.\nI guess that, collectively, the west is not ready to accept this fatality. The time will come.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-25 21:49:13 -0500", "date": "9:49 p.m. on Jan 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/25/much-more-than.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F25%2Fmuch-more-than.html" }, { "id": 2625, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Well well well, 15-25cm approaching. Winds should be under 60 KM/h. Some blowing snow is expected, more expected along the river. Very mild but snowy winter so far. I\u0026rsquo;m a weather enthusiast, as you can tell. The map is from Ventusky.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-25 10:42:49 -0500", "date": "10:42 p.m. on Jan 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/25/well-well-well.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F25%2Fwell-well-well.html" }, { "id": 2626, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "9to5Mac reporting about a short Financial Times article on a silent war between Apple and Google:\nFormer Apple engineers say that Apple still holds a grudge over how Android allegedly copied iOS, and is steadily working to remove Google from the iPhone. Source: Apple is engaged in a \u0026lsquo;silent war\u0026rsquo; against Google, claim engineers | AppleInsider\nIf there is something that I\u0026rsquo;d like to see Apple do: Apple (oops, Siri) Search for the web. No user tracking, no ads, full integration within Apple\u0026rsquo;s ecosystem. Imagine the possibilities.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-25 07:17:56 -0500", "date": "7:17 p.m. on Jan 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/25/tomac-reporting-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F25%2Ftomac-reporting-about.html" }, { "id": 2627, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Adam Mosseri, Instagram boss, spoke about the controversy growing on its platform:\nWe definitely have a number of photographers who have been upset. I want to be clear: though we are leaning into video, we still value photos. Photos will always be a part of Instagram. Source: Instagram showed people too many videos last year, admits Adam Mosseri - The Verge\nIf you like photography, go elsewhere than Instagram. They focus on user engagement, not photography. There are so many great platforms these days that are built for photography enthusiasts.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-25 07:11:01 -0500", "date": "7:11 p.m. on Jan 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/25/adam-mosseri-instagram.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F25%2Fadam-mosseri-instagram.html" }, { "id": 2628, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For those who don\u0026rsquo;t know me, I love photography. I\u0026rsquo;m an amateur photographer myself. Today, I want to share a link about an inspiring photographer named Adrian. If you like the B\u0026amp;W style, consider subscriber to his work (he\u0026rsquo;s on YouTube too).\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-25 07:04:48 -0500", "date": "7:04 p.m. on Jan 25, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/25/for-those-who.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F25%2Ffor-those-who.html" }, { "id": 2629, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m super happy to see Ivory going out to light and all. I was on the beta, downloaded the official release and played with it a bit. It’s really a great client. For now, I’ll let things settle down and see how Tapbots delivers on its promise. I’m focusing on Micro.blog for now, but I’m curious about Mastodon ecosystem evolution. I don’t want a new Twitter in disguise. Micro.blog in its current form is a very good compromise.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-24 20:59:30 -0500", "date": "8:59 p.m. on Jan 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/24/im-super-happy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F24%2Fim-super-happy.html" }, { "id": 2630, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m seriously warming up to Readwise Reader. I get the feeling that I\u0026rsquo;ll be able to build a database of references and notes while I\u0026rsquo;m reading. The close proximity to Readwise is also a plus. It\u0026rsquo;s really geeky stuff for power readers, which I\u0026rsquo;m probably not. I\u0026rsquo;m waiting for the filtered view builder, they are working on a simplified and more visual version. Filtering the feed\u0026rsquo;s content by removing things like \u0026ldquo;Deal\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;Special Deal\u0026rdquo; would help remove some noise. I also keep an eye on the mobile app.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-24 19:14:05 -0500", "date": "7:14 p.m. on Jan 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/24/im-seriously-warming.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F24%2Fim-seriously-warming.html" }, { "id": 2631, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sometimes I’m reminded that I wish I had picked out “Digital Citizen” instead of “Numeric Citizen” as my “nom de plume”. In English, Digital has a better significance than Numeric. Am I correct? 🧐\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-24 18:06:55 -0500", "date": "6:06 p.m. on Jan 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/24/sometimes-im-reminded.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F24%2Fsometimes-im-reminded.html" }, { "id": 2632, "type": "post", "title": "My Taxi Ride to The Past", "text": "\nI recently took a taxi ride to leave the airport as Uber taxis were unavailable and plagued with longer than usual delays. We were directed to the traditional taxi lines. I couldn’t use an app on my iPhone to call a taxi instead.\nBoy, it was a trip in the past. The taxi driver had no Google or Waze open to know where to go, only his memory and his knowledge of the city. The taxi timer was this old and ugly box installed on his car dash, partially blocking his view.\nIt was disorienting not to get any feedback about how long the trip would go, what was the best road alternatives along the way, and not having a driver reputation score.\nYou would think that Uber would kick the butt of taxi companies so they evolve the customer experience and get their shit together to build a competitive experience, but no. They seem to have given up a long time ago.\nMy message to taxi companies: enjoy the ride while it last.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-24 06:36:20 -0500", "date": "6:36 p.m. on Jan 24, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/24/my-taxi-ride.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F24%2Fmy-taxi-ride.html" }, { "id": 2633, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "More details are emerging about the rumoured Apple\u0026rsquo;s headset\u0026hellip; and this is troubling\u0026hellip;\nUsing the headset will \u0026ldquo;feel familiar to Apple users,\u0026rdquo; with an interface that is close to identical to the look of an ‌iPhone‌ or an ‌iPad‌. There will be a Home screen with app icons that can be rearranged, as well as customizable widgets. Source: Apple\u0026rsquo;s Mixed Reality Headset to Feature iOS-Like Interface, Advanced Hand Tracking, and Will Work as Second Display for Mac - MacRumors\nOh boy\u0026hellip; I would expect a brand-new metaphor for the brand-new form factor. Otherwise, by using a familiar interface, it\u0026rsquo;s as if Apple is locked into their own creation.\nLikely to be named \u0026ldquo;Reality Pro,\u0026rdquo; the headset will be able to switch between augmented reality and virtual reality. Augmented reality will overlay virtual objects on the real world, while virtual reality is an entirely virtual environment that shuts out the wearer\u0026rsquo;s surroundings. Augmented reality functions will work through a pass-through mode that will use the exterior cameras on the headset, and swapping between AR and VR will be done with a Digital Crown-like control knob.\n\u0026ldquo;Reality Pro\u0026rdquo;!!!?? Someone must be kidding about that one, right? What an awful name! What about \u0026ldquo;viewPod\u0026rdquo;? Or something less \u0026ldquo;Macintosh Performa 620\u0026rdquo;-type of thing, please.\nFor those who wear glasses, Apple will provide custom lenses that are able to sit within the enclosure, and Apple is expecting users to wear AirPods to get an audio experience on par with the visual experience that the headset provides, though it will have built-in speakers.\nI do.\nAs previously rumored, the headset will have an external battery pack to prevent it from overheating on a user\u0026rsquo;s face due to the high-end Mac chips used for the device. The battery is approximately the size of two iPhone 14 Pro Max models stacked on top of one another, and it will power the headset for around two hours. An external battery will allow users to swap one battery and charge another to use the device for a longer period of time.\nNo. Just no. It\u0026rsquo;s a proof of concept sold to consumers.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-23 16:33:44 -0500", "date": "4:33 p.m. on Jan 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/23/more-details-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F23%2Fmore-details-are.html" }, { "id": 2634, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " For 2023, Apple is reportedly working on a larger 15-inch MacBook Air to join its Mac lineup. The new MacBook Air will feature the upcoming M3 chip, according to Bloomberg\u0026rsquo;s Mark Gurman. The 15-inch MacBook Air is expected to feature the same design as the current 13.6-inch model but with a larger display and longer battery life thanks to the efficiency of the M3 chip and the inclusion of a larger battery. Source: What\u0026rsquo;s Next for the Mac: M3 iMac, 15-Inch MacBook Air, Mac Pro, and More - MacRumors\nThe possible 15-inch MacBook Air makes a lot of sense from a product line perspective (non pro machine with high portability but a larger screen). Where I disagree with Gurman is the possibility of the device getting an M3 chip. This is way too early. The rest of the product line is still on the just-released M2. When the Mac Pro finally makes the switch, then the M3 is a higher probability. In other words, I expect to see the 15-inch MacBook Air to get the same M2 chip as the current but smaller ones.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-23 11:39:10 -0500", "date": "11:39 p.m. on Jan 23, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/23/for-apple-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F23%2Ffor-apple-is.html" }, { "id": 2635, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "OK, I\u0026rsquo;m mind blown. I went to see the latest Avatar movie today. I was blown away. It\u0026rsquo;s probably the most beautiful, entertaining, touching, impressive and well-balanced movie I have ever seen. I\u0026rsquo;m just in awe of the ingenuity and craftsmanship that went into this movie. Wow.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-22 21:42:18 -0500", "date": "9:42 p.m. on Jan 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/22/ok-im-mind.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F22%2Fok-im-mind.html" }, { "id": 2636, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nSo, the only way to set a profile image in IFTTT is to use one of the following services?? Not possible to upload a picture. My profile image is now blank because I deleted my connection to Twitter. Weird.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-22 09:19:33 -0500", "date": "9:19 p.m. on Jan 22, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/22/so-the-only.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F22%2Fso-the-only.html" }, { "id": 2637, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nOn the web, I prefer Matter, but on the iPad, I think I prefer the Readwise Reader. In particular, I prefer the customizable home screen of the latter. But I prefer the reading experience of the former. Today that is what it is. Tomorrow? Who knows. 🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-21 20:22:20 -0500", "date": "8:22 p.m. on Jan 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/21/on-the-web.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F21%2Fon-the-web.html" }, { "id": 2638, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Spent most of the day in front of a computer. Thankfully, I learned quite a bit about video production. I saved 400$ by not buying Final Cut Pro. I produced my first video of 2023.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-21 18:11:14 -0500", "date": "6:11 p.m. on Jan 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/21/spent-most-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F21%2Fspent-most-of.html" }, { "id": 2639, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve been watching a few beginner videos about Final Cut Pro just because I’m searching for ways to improve my video production workflow. The new problem now is this: how do I export recording segments out of Screenflow so I can import them in Final Cut Pro? There is currently no easy way to do this automatically. The process is manual but documented in a Telestream forum. I’m not so sure the use of Final Cur Pro would be a boon to my workflow. Back to square one, but I learned a few things about Final Cut Pro and Screenflow export options. It’s a good thing in the end, as I won’t find a reason to upgrade to an M2 Pro Mac mini. 🤣\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-21 15:00:14 -0500", "date": "3:00 p.m. on Jan 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/21/ive-been-watching.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F21%2Five-been-watching.html" }, { "id": 2640, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nI’ve been testing Continuity Camera mode with my iPhone 13 Pro as the video and audio sources for recording with Screenflow. I must say that I was very impressed and positively surprised.\nFirst, the video quality is excellent, and I get Center Stage as a bonus. Screenflow sees this as a standard camera source. Second, using the Voice Isolation option, I no longer hear background noises in the house, which is cool because I’ll stop asking people to be less noisy neighbours. Now, If only I could integrate Adobe Enhance Voice into my workflow… 🙏\nSolution found (link)!\nI may have a Blue Yeti microphone for sale soon!\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-21 12:22:31 -0500", "date": "12:22 p.m. on Jan 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/21/ive-been-testing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F21%2Five-been-testing.html" }, { "id": 2641, "type": "post", "title": "Integrating Adobe Enhance Voice Tech Into My Video Production Workflow — In Search of a Solution", "text": "I don\u0026rsquo;t know if anyone knows about this free web tool by Adobe: Enhance Voice (link), but it is really impressive (@MattBirchler knows about it). Here is what I\u0026rsquo;d like to do: find a way to integrate this tool into my video production workflow.\nSo, I\u0026rsquo;m producing YouTube videos with ScreenFlow (my YouTube Channel). So far, I\u0026rsquo;m ok with the results, but I think my voice, and the sound in general, could be improved (I\u0026rsquo;m using the Blue Yeti Microphone, but Adobe Enhance Voice is really impressive).\nSo, how can I:\nDo my recording sessions as usual Do my video montage as usual Extract the audio track Use Adobe Enhance Voice to re-process the audio track Replace the audio track in my Screenflow document Export the final video Step 3 and 5 are not possible in the current release of Screenflow. Any suggestion of tools I could use instead?\nHere’s what I know or already use:\nPermute allows for easy conversion of audio files, including converting video files into the audio-only version. QuickTime Player can export the audio track only out of a video file. I know how to use iMovie. I’m a happy user of Audio Hijack I don’t really want to get rid of Screenflow. LumaFusion, FinalCut Pro, etc., maybe could do the job here, but it would be ok if I could find a simple utility that can replace the audio track easily instead. This question has been posted to the Screenflow Telestream forum.\nUpdate #1: corrected a few typos but added the solution using iMovie. Here’s the solution.\nDo my recording sessions as usual Do my video montage as usual and export the video Extract the audio track using Permute in .MP3 format Use Adobe Enhance Voice to re-process the audio track Convert .WAV into .MP3 Launch iMovie and create a new Project Import the produced video in step 2 Detach the audio track and delete it Add the enhanced version of the audio track Export the final video using iMovie’s share option Voilà!\nUpdate #2: there is a major issue with this process, the video and audio are not in sync over time, even though both files are of the same duration. This is not something easy to fix. Back to the drawing board. 😒\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-21 11:56:15 -0500", "date": "11:56 p.m. on Jan 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/21/integrating-adobe-enhance.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F21%2Fintegrating-adobe-enhance.html" }, { "id": 2642, "type": "post", "title": "Genuine Questions About The War in Ukraine", "text": "Here are a few questions that pop up in my mind when reading the news about the war in Ukraine.\nHow do they estimate Russian casualties? They are around 500-800 KIA per day. That’s a lot. Is this number inflated for propaganda purposes?\nWhy is Putin not saying, “Any country sending arms to help Ukraine is, in fact, a declaration of war against Russia”? What would be the implications of such a declaration? Putin looks like a low-profile leader. So why is Putin not more vocal against the west?\nWhy is the West not sending military aid to Modlova to put pressure on the 1200 Russian soldiers in Transnistria? How is it possible for Russia to feed them with the required resources?\nWhy are tanks so much needed instead of other types of weapons? Are fighter planes effective? What is the aviation role in Ukraine? Are they making a difference?\nHow many Ukrainian soldiers are killed each day? Why don’t we get these numbers as much as the Russian KIA?\nSo many unanswered questions.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-21 10:34:50 -0500", "date": "10:34 p.m. on Jan 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/21/genuine-questions-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F21%2Fgenuine-questions-about.html" }, { "id": 2643, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Google\u0026rsquo;s official announcement of incoming layoffs:\nI have some difficult news to share. We’ve decided to reduce our workforce by approximately 12,000 roles. We’ve already sent a separate email to employees in the US who are affected. In other countries, this process will take longer due to local laws and practices. Source: A difficult decision to set us up for the future\nAnd comment from Gruber:\nThere are numerous reasons the tech industry wound up at this layoffpalooza, but I think the main reason is that the biggest companies got caught up in a game where they tried to hire everyone, whether they needed them or not, to keep talent away from competitors and keep talent away from small upstarts (or from founding their own small upstarts). These big companies were just hiring to hire, and now the jig is up. Source: Daring Fireball\nHere\u0026rsquo;s my view on this. Google is not alone. Microsoft and Meta announced major layoffs too. I\u0026rsquo;ve been working in IT for over thirty years, and I have never been in such a situation where we have so much difficulty finding or hiring new people. Big companies are competing for great talent not only with each other but also draining talent from smaller companies. It\u0026rsquo;s very difficult to compete in this context.\nI think what is happening is not as catastrophic as it sounds. We will see a redistribution of the workforce in the industry. A lot of talent is being freed in the process from the big ones and is now available for the smaller companies where management is more sound, and financial posture is in good shape.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-21 08:44:51 -0500", "date": "8:44 p.m. on Jan 21, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/21/googles-official-announcement.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F21%2Fgoogles-official-announcement.html" }, { "id": 2644, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Matter is officially a paid service (if I want to get all the goodies). Well, my queue is full of unread articles. So this should be an excellent indicator to decide whether or not to subscribe.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-20 22:33:15 -0500", "date": "10:33 p.m. on Jan 20, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/20/matter-is-officially.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F20%2Fmatter-is-officially.html" }, { "id": 2645, "type": "post", "title": "Thanks for Paying Attention", "text": "There’s this question that keeps popping up in my mind all the time since I’m being more active on Micro.blog. Why am I getting way more interactions with others on Micro.blog compared to Twitter? What am I doing differently? I write about the same subjects, albeit maybe more frequently. I think I have a few possible explanations.\nFirst, Twitter is full of bots. Twitter is a dumpster. I suspect many people or organizations are simply cross-posting stuff on Twitter without real human beings behind the content. I did exactly that myself via Buffer for a few years. Optimizing exposure by scheduling posts at the “right” time was the idea. A bot worked for me.\nSecond, and this is probably the most probable reason: algorithmic timeline. The Twitter engine is tuned to generate higher engagement. The more you engage, the higher the probability that your content will appear on people’s timelines. If you’re well-known, again, the higher the likelihood that you will make it to the timeline of others.\nI’m not well-known. I didn’t engage that much with others. Both made me a near-nobody on Twitter. So I didn’t get exposure, hence the lack of engagement with my content.\nThird, there is just too much noise on Twitter to get noticed. My content competes against the rest of the Twittosphere. My context was noise for others, hence the lack of feedback, comments, and interactions.\nHere on Micro.blog? Night and day. I’m not a star, far from it. But I get a sense that some people are paying attention.\nThanks for that anyway. 🤗\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-20 22:05:21 -0500", "date": "10:05 p.m. on Jan 20, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/20/thanks-for-paying.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F20%2Fthanks-for-paying.html" }, { "id": 2646, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m on the Ivory beta. Is it me of updates a long in coming or non existant?\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-20 19:18:21 -0500", "date": "7:18 p.m. on Jan 20, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/20/im-on-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F20%2Fim-on-the.html" }, { "id": 2647, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So, I started the cleanup of numericcitizen.me. Each day, on WordPress.com, I look at my past posts and select the ones that won\u0026rsquo;t make the cut. Most of them are simply deleted. However, some posts get exported in markdown files before being deleted. Those exported posts, in turn, are imported in Craft for archival purposes. It\u0026rsquo;s a tedious process.\nBefore moving to Ghost, I want to bring the most valuable content. But, what is valuable content, actually? I realize that I have put a lot of time and effort into writing in the past several years. Some posts are short and very time or context-specific. Today, they no longer sport any value except for giving a glimpse of what was. Then what? Nothing. It\u0026rsquo;s probably more of a value to me than to my readers. I probably should be writing in a personal journal instead, right?\nAnyhow, it\u0026rsquo;s time to move on. I know what I want numericcitizen.me to become. But, in its current form and content, it\u0026rsquo;s off. There is too much noise, I want it to be more focused. Deleted old, insignificant posts will help, but at the cost of time and losing some of my memories.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-20 18:06:58 -0500", "date": "6:06 p.m. on Jan 20, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/20/so-i-started.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F20%2Fso-i-started.html" }, { "id": 2648, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here is something that I always find funny. On any photo-sharing platform, let\u0026rsquo;s say you like someone\u0026rsquo;s pictures. The guy will probably get notified and start looking at your photos, generally only the most recent ones. If you\u0026rsquo;re lucky, he or she will like a few of them and then boom, start following you. It\u0026rsquo;s like someone who\u0026rsquo;s clicking with another on the dance floor. 😂\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-20 07:37:27 -0500", "date": "7:37 p.m. on Jan 20, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/20/here-is-something.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F20%2Fhere-is-something.html" }, { "id": 2649, "type": "post", "title": "The Write.freely Ecosystem Explained", "text": "The time has come for the return of a more open web. I’m embracing this movement by joining platforms or services that are built on open standards and promoting the open web in general as a byproduct.\nWrite.as is an instantiation version of the WriteFreely writing platform, available as an open-source project. Think of WriteFreely as the open-source version of WordPress. Anyone can get the source and install their own instance.\nIn May 2022, I took advantage of five-year special pricing to subscribe to the Write.as platform. Without exactly knowing what would be my use case for it, I decided to support the platform, just like I’ve been supporting Micro.blog since 2018. After a while, I discovered the many facets of this writing ecosystem and found it to be a bit confusing. In this article, I explain all the parts of the open and dedicated blogging platform.\nFirst, let’s see what ChatGPT says about Write.as (unedited responses from ChatGPT):\nAaron Taylor is the founder \u0026amp; CEO of Cosmic.org and a team of remote employees who work on the Write.as and Remark.asplatforms. He is passionate about creating secure, anonymous spaces where people can express themselves without judgement or censorship. He has worked to create tools and features that make anonymous publishing easier and more secure for users. He is also the creator of the Remark.as platform, which gives users more control over how and when they share their thoughts.\nWrite.as is a project of a small team led by the founder \u0026amp; CEO, Aaron Taylor, at Cosmic.org. They are a remote team based all over the world, from Portland to Berlin to Mexico City.\nWrite.as is a platform designed to help people express themselves freely and anonymously. It provides a space for everyone to post their thoughts without worry of judgement or censorship. All posts are public and open to comments, however, the identities of the posters can remain anonymous. The project offers a suite of applications and services to make anonymous publishing easier, more secure, and more secure for users. It also provides a way for people to follow topics, publications, or users, engaging in thoughtful dialogue and idea exchange.\nRemark.as is a project that is a part of the Write.as platform. It is designed to help users to have conversations with each other in an anonymous, secure, and censorship-free environment. Remark.as has features like tagging topics and publications, creating polls, and engaging in private forums. It also gives users more control over how and when they share their thoughts. Remark.asalso provides users with the ability to create polls, surveys, and other interactive features to encourage public participation.\nAll in all, Write.as and Remark.as are projects by Aaron Taylor and the team at Cosmic.org that provide users with an anonymous, censorship-free space in which to express themselves freely and engage with others. They are both designed to make anonymous publishing easier, more secure, and to give users more control over how and when they share their thoughts.\nWrite.as is a simple, privacy-focused writing platform. It allows users to create and publish anonymous blog posts, journal entries, and other types of writing without the need for an account or personal information. The platform also includes a built-in editor and the ability to customize the appearance of your writing with different fonts and themes. Additionally, Write.as supports markdown formatting and has a feature called \u0026ldquo;focuses\u0026rdquo; which allows users to group related posts together. The platform is designed for those who value privacy and simplicity.\nMore seriously, here’s a brief description of each component, starting with an overview.\nAn Overview of the WriteFreely Ecosystem The following diagram shows all the parts making up the Write.as service, which is part of the WriteFreely ecosystem. The Write.as service is where all the writing experience happens. Since this article isn’t a review, suffice it to say the editor offers a minimalistic and distraction-free environment. Write.as supports adding tags to any blog posts. Cross-posting content in Write.as is available for other platforms like Tumblr, Ghost and Twitter. I connected my account to Ghost but rarely cross-post over there. It’s nice to have, though.\nThe writer can attach photos at the end of each post by dragging them on the bottom bar. Photos attachments go to the “snap.as” minimalistic photo sharing add-on, tied to Write.as. All photos attachments are shown in one place, on snap.as. Photo galleries are available, albeit with a 10$ one-time purchase. Some features are marked as coming soon, but I suspect they are long in coming. I\u0026rsquo;m unsure if I would invest in this as I prefer dedicated services like Glass.\nSubmit.as is another add-on to Write.as. As the name suggests, it is a way for an author to accept submissions from other writers. No registration is required from the submitter, helping a frictionless experience. This service is not cheap and comes with a 12$ per month minimal fee. It’s not cheap and I don’t know why. Again, integration with other platforms is marked as coming.\nRemark.as is yet another add-on closely tied to Write.as and offers commenting to any of the writer’s blog posts. Commenting is enabled on a per-post basis by adding a special \u0026lt;—discuss—\u0026gt; line anywhere within the post.\nRead.write.as is like a content feed coming from other writers. Content published on Write.as gets published on this feed. It comes from the hosted version of Write.as. According to this website, content is cross-posted to an RSS feed, Mastodon and Twitter, but I fear this has been abandoned as the content is somewhat old.\nThe Mail add-on is where you’ll receive comments from other writers. Those comments are grouped in one place and are public.\nCafé is a place for discussion, but frankly, I don’t know how posts get promoted there. Those discussions are conversations happening on the Read.write.as section.\nOther add-ons like a post signature are available for a one-time purchase of 10$ and eBooks export is also available for another one-time purchase of 10$.\nStill with me? I know it’s not simple. Write.as certainly feels like a bunch of add-ons taped together.\nSome remarks about the whole thing The Write.as experience is minimalistic and in need of some polishing. I didn’t see improvements since I’m subscribing to the platform. This annoys me. Overall, the Write.as ecosystem feels minimalistic and unfinished. I don’t expect many improvements to come to the platform. Yet, Matt, the founder of Write.as, is active on discuss.write.as discussion forum, so it’s a good sign. There’s a Mac app for the Write.freely ecosystem, which should support Write.as but it has been in beta for more than a year. iOS and iPadOS are also available. All apps are available here. I didn\u0026rsquo;t test these, preferring the web experience. All these services are part of a suite called the Musing Studio. It’s more of a branding thing. The site hasn’t been updated for a while. With this article, I hope I shed some light on this open-source project dedicated to writers and bloggers. Overall I like Write.as, even with some rough edges or unfinished integration. If I failed to explain something correctly, let me know in the comments!\nUpdate #1: Some references to subscription fees for add-ons have been corrected to one-time purchases, as required. It was an error based on the documentation miss-interpretation.\n#tools #services #openweb #opensource\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-20 07:03:17 -0500", "date": "7:03 p.m. on Jan 20, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/20/the-writefreely-ecosystem.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F20%2Fthe-writefreely-ecosystem.html" }, { "id": 2650, "type": "post", "title": "When Matter Made a Major Strategic Error", "text": "\nToday I spent some time in Matter to read a few articles. I went to the Staff Picks section, noticed those tweets between articles and remembered Matter's decision to leave the social portion in their early days. They preferred to go the Twitter route instead. That was before the Elon Musk fiasco. As you might expect, it was a deception for me, and I preferred Matter to build its own thing instead. I actually like to comment on articles and share my thoughts on them within the Matter sphere. Oh well… How ironic things can sometimes be. I think the Matter team made a significant strategic error by dropping the social portion of their initial offerings, and they should reconsider their decision.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-19 22:02:47 -0500", "date": "10:02 p.m. on Jan 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/19/when-matter-made.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F19%2Fwhen-matter-made.html" }, { "id": 2651, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I was searching for something in one of my past posts here on Micro.blog, using the built-in search option. Searching is swift. Looking at the search results, It's funny to see all the different writing strategies I used over time. I count four of them that I name like this: the newbie, the teaser, the titled and the balanced.\nThe newbie strategy was to write and don't pay too much attention. It was in my early days here on Micro.blog. Then came the teaser strategy era. Taking advantage of Micro.blog cross-posting feature, all my posts had to be cross-posted on Twitter and made sure to systematically add hashtags to the post's title to get attention. People on Twitter using hashtags for search could potentially hit my posts. That was total nonsense. Then, the \"titled strategy\" came in where all my posts would get a title. Readers would then need to expand my post to read the content. Lastly, the current strategy, the best IMO, is to use the title for longer posts only. Otherwise, I leave the title field empty, hoping readers will hit the link to read the rest of the post.\nMaybe I should have set the title for this one. 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-19 21:26:06 -0500", "date": "9:26 p.m. on Jan 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/19/i-was-searching.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F19%2Fi-was-searching.html" }, { "id": 2652, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Interesting (and sadly valid point) from Om Malik:\nRegardless of age, the big elephant in the room is that we are certified addicts to attention.\nIt doesn’t matter whether it is Twitter, Instagram, or Mastodon. Everyone is playing to an audience. The social Internet is a performance theater praying at the altar of attention. Journalists need attention to be relevant, and experts need to signal their expertise. And others want to be influencers. For now, Twitter, Instagram, and their ilk give the biggest bang for the blast. It is why those vocal and active about Mastodon are still posting away on Musk’s Twitter.\nIf we didn’t care for attention, we wouldn’t be doing anything at all. We wouldn’t broadcast.\nWe care. I certainly care that you care about my content, my words, and my thoughts.\nInstead, we would socialize privately in communication with friends and peers.\nEven in this social scenario, we are broadcasting and expecting that people are listening. This is how we are programmed. This is why social networks, and the web in general, are so addictive.\nSource: Why internet silos win – On my Om\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-19 18:58:12 -0500", "date": "6:58 p.m. on Jan 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/19/interesting-and-sadly.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F19%2Finteresting-and-sadly.html" }, { "id": 2653, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Listening to Leo Laporte\u0026rsquo;s voice of Twit.tv in my AirPods Pro 2\u0026hellip; wow, what a great voice this man has.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-19 18:50:34 -0500", "date": "6:50 p.m. on Jan 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/19/listening-to-leo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F19%2Flistening-to-leo.html" }, { "id": 2654, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today, from WordPress:\nYour favorite Jetpack-powered features from the WordPress app – including Stats, Notifications, and the Reader – have a new home: the Jetpack app! These features will soon be removed from the WordPress app so that its focus will be on essential user and publishing tools. With the Jetpack app, you can expect the same attention to core features like managing and editing content, as well as next-level tools to grow your audience on a trusted platform.\nThe JetPack app is now officially being pushed out, and WP asks site owners like me to consider transitioning to JetPack for managing the website and viewing stats. I\u0026rsquo;m not sure why the one-app-fits-all\u0026quot; is considered in need of a rework. I\u0026rsquo;ve read the blog post and couldn\u0026rsquo;t find a real reason worth forking these apps into two. Even more strange, when you run both WordPress and JetPack on the same device, the latter suggests removing the former from the device. Anyways\u0026hellip;\nI\u0026rsquo;m not sure if I want to spend too much energy trying to understand what\u0026rsquo;s going on. The reason is that I\u0026rsquo;m in the early stage of planning my migration off the WordPress.com platform. It will require some serious planning and some tedious work, but I\u0026rsquo;ll move out, before the end of the present year.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-19 14:41:23 -0500", "date": "2:41 p.m. on Jan 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/19/today-from-wordpress.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F19%2Ftoday-from-wordpress.html" }, { "id": 2655, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The new HomePod, as well as the mini, can measure room temperature and humidity. I don\u0026rsquo;t want to sound cynical but, what a clever way for Apple to trigger more HomePod sales. I want temperature and humidity readings in all my house!\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-19 07:56:51 -0500", "date": "7:56 p.m. on Jan 19, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/19/the-new-homepod.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F19%2Fthe-new-homepod.html" }, { "id": 2656, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " The new chips are yet another example of Apple’s chip division being so far ahead of the rest of the company. The reason iPad suffers is not that it isn’t good; it is because it is too good, and very few applications take advantage of its hardware to the maximum. Source: Apple launches new (M2) chips – On my Om\nAs an owner of an M1 Mac mini, I\u0026rsquo;m pretty much sure that none of the software I depend on would take advantage of the M2 or M2 Pro. Lightroom? Nope. Screenflow? Nope. Teams? Nope. What else? The same goes for my aging 2018 iPad Pro.\nIs there such a thing as a local version of ChatGPT?\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-18 21:34:28 -0500", "date": "9:34 p.m. on Jan 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/18/the-new-chips.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F18%2Fthe-new-chips.html" }, { "id": 2657, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I won’t upgrade my original HomePod pair but I thank Apple for bringing new features to a product that I thought was done. I’m happy to learn that release 16.3 will enable dormant sensors of the HomePod mini.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-18 21:00:05 -0500", "date": "9:00 p.m. on Jan 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/18/i-wont-upgrade.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F18%2Fi-wont-upgrade.html" }, { "id": 2658, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On October 13, 2018, I wrote:\nThis morning I found out about the existence of a blogging platform called Micro.blog. Something very special. Very lean. Very light. Without ads. Leaner than WordPress. Yet capable. Close to Twitter but with less clutter. I’m on a 10 days trial period. Tested the web posting interface. Tested the native macOS (light) client. Tested the iPad version too. Now, testing cross-posting from WordPress via an IFTTT applet. I’m loving it so far. Stay tuned for more discoveries about Micro.blog.Source: The Return of Micro Blogging? - Numeric Citizen Blog\nThis is the oldest post on my main website. I still love this platform, more than ever.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-18 12:46:51 -0500", "date": "12:46 p.m. on Jan 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/18/on-october-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F18%2Fon-october-i.html" }, { "id": 2659, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " “With the popularity of HomePod mini, we’ve seen growing interest in even more powerful acoustics achievable in a larger HomePod. We’re thrilled to bring the next generation of HomePod to customers around the world.” Source: Apple introduces the new HomePod with breakthrough sound and intelligence - Apple\nWhat?? Am I dreaming? It really seems to be the same device from the exterior. Still expansive. Still wireless only. Old Bluetooth (5.0).\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-18 11:07:37 -0500", "date": "11:07 p.m. on Jan 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/18/with-the-popularity.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F18%2Fwith-the-popularity.html" }, { "id": 2660, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The yearly renewal of my WordPress.com business plan is a reminder that I need to go elsewhere. This thing no longer makes sense to me. Hard to justify. Where (and how) to move my data? Ghost?\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-18 09:56:28 -0500", "date": "9:56 p.m. on Jan 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/18/the-yearly-renewal.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F18%2Fthe-yearly-renewal.html" }, { "id": 2661, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m dropping this here. It\u0026rsquo;s a matter of time. Mark my words.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-18 07:02:40 -0500", "date": "7:02 p.m. on Jan 18, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/18/im-dropping-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F18%2Fim-dropping-this.html" }, { "id": 2662, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Following recent changes in my digital landscape, I needed to spend some time tonight updating my About page, built using Craft. I hope you pay a visit and learn a few things about me. 🙂\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-17 21:44:56 -0500", "date": "9:44 p.m. on Jan 17, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/17/following-recent-changes.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F17%2Ffollowing-recent-changes.html" }, { "id": 2663, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One of the nice surprises about this morning\u0026rsquo;s announcements is the addition of two more USB-C ports to the Mac mini and the addition of a configuration with M2 Pro in a small package like the mini. This narrows the gap between a Mac Studio and a Mac mini. Oh, and up to three monitors are supported!\nAn M1 Mac mini owner. 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-17 20:32:17 -0500", "date": "8:32 p.m. on Jan 17, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/17/one-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F17%2Fone-of-the.html" }, { "id": 2664, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Gruber is whining about and calling out Twitter. Fine. I did too. I still do. And probably keeping doing it for a little while. But I left. I moved on. My actions followed my words. Will he do the same? 🧐\nIt’s a matter of credibility somehow.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-17 18:46:53 -0500", "date": "6:46 p.m. on Jan 17, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/17/gruber-is-whining.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F17%2Fgruber-is-whining.html" }, { "id": 2665, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My latest project\u0026hellip; explaining this thing\u0026hellip; harder than I originally thought. 😅\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-17 07:17:33 -0500", "date": "7:17 p.m. on Jan 17, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/17/my-latest-project.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F17%2Fmy-latest-project.html" }, { "id": 2666, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I kind of forgot in my previous post to include the link to my Apple Rumours Hub that I maintain (using Craft). It’s not only about tomorrow’s product releases but everything Apple is working on. Enjoy.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-16 20:19:12 -0500", "date": "8:19 p.m. on Jan 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/16/i-kind-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F16%2Fi-kind-of.html" }, { "id": 2667, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " Krugman said that Musk\u0026rsquo;s behaviour had shown that he\u0026rsquo;s nothing like Apple cofounder and former CEO Steve Jobs – who was famed for his high level of discipline and focus on Apple\u0026rsquo;s products.\nAnd\n\u0026ldquo;I don\u0026rsquo;t think even if Musk had been as disciplined as Steve Jobs was, that Tesla was ever going to be a sustained profit machine the way that Apple has been,\u0026rdquo; he added. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s just — it\u0026rsquo;s not his fault. It\u0026rsquo;s just not that kind of industry.\u0026rdquo;\nAnd\n\u0026ldquo;But then, you know, I don\u0026rsquo;t know anyone who\u0026rsquo;s done as much to hurt his image of cool in as short a time as Musk has done.\u0026rdquo; Source: Paul Krugman says Elon Musk\u0026rsquo;s Tesla can never be a \u0026lsquo;profit machine\u0026rsquo; like Apple, because there\u0026rsquo;s no scope for that in the car industry\nComparing Musk to Jobs is tempting, but Musk a so few traits of Steve. Jobs didn\u0026rsquo;t hurt Apple\u0026rsquo;s brand when he was at Pixar. Musk, at Twitter is hurting Twitter\u0026hellip; and Tesla. Poor guy.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-16 20:01:20 -0500", "date": "8:01 p.m. on Jan 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/16/krugman-said-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F16%2Fkrugman-said-that.html" }, { "id": 2668, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So, Apple is rumoured to release new products through press releases tomorrow. I don’t expect exciting news (M2 MacBook Pro — specs bump). In fact, besides the iPhone 15 Ultra, I think 2023 could be the most boring year in a long time. Since Apple is known to be working its product lines many years in advance, does this reflect the COVID era, where it was hard for Apple to keep the momentum while everyone was enduring the pandemic from 2020 to 2022? Are we paying the COVID price?\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-16 19:51:04 -0500", "date": "7:51 p.m. on Jan 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/16/so-apple-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F16%2Fso-apple-is.html" }, { "id": 2669, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Did you know I\u0026rsquo;m writing a newsletter named \u0026ldquo;Friday Notes\u0026rdquo; on Ghost? It\u0026rsquo;s free and probably more personal than what I\u0026rsquo;m writing here. Here\u0026rsquo;s the link. I also publish a monthly newsletter called \u0026ldquo;Numeric Citizen Introspection\u0026rdquo;, but that one takes longer to produce, so It\u0026rsquo;s not exactly on a monthly basis. Here\u0026rsquo;s the link. Of course, if RSS is your thing, both are available too. Shameless plug /end.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-16 07:39:25 -0500", "date": "7:39 p.m. on Jan 16, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/16/did-you-know.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F16%2Fdid-you-know.html" }, { "id": 2670, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " Arstechnica’s Jackqui Cheng:\n“One way to look at the MacBook Air is as the largest and most capable iPod in Apple’s line—think of it as an iPod touch Extreme with a built-in keyboard.” “I found the Air’s size and weight to be nothing less than absolutely delightful.” “Despite all of the Air’s (sometimes glaring) flaws, I plan to keep it and use it as my notebook from here on out (maybe with a hard drive upgrade in the near future, and definitely with a battery upgrade when they become available).” Source: MacBook Air: The past, the present, and the future\nThe M1 MacBook Air is, I think, the culmination of the original Air design with a definitive fix for performance and battery life. I\u0026rsquo;m grateful for owning one.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-15 21:08:33 -0500", "date": "9:08 p.m. on Jan 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/15/arstechnicas-jackqui-cheng.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F15%2Farstechnicas-jackqui-cheng.html" }, { "id": 2671, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " There’s no sense in clinging to the personal whims of a clown leading a shit show. Especially when his circus will end up being a $44 billion version of MySpace. Source: The Shit Show • furbo.org\nPriceless.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-15 20:07:29 -0500", "date": "8:07 p.m. on Jan 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/15/theres-no-sense.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F15%2Ftheres-no-sense.html" }, { "id": 2672, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Up until now, the Mastodon ecosystem felt like some sort of black magic to me. Today I spent a few minutes explaining to my wife what Mastodon is. As someone who already knows about Twitter and its subtleties, she got it pretty quickly. I couldn’t have done it a few weeks ago, but now, I could. I always thought that when you can explain something to someone, it is probably because you know enough about the subject. I think my explanation made sense to her, and for me! It was only then that the magic and the profound nature of the social and decentralized network became so clear to me. It was an enlightening moment, for sure. Better late than never. I instantly felt convinced that my awakening to the open web and Mastodon, a form of open web instantiation, would be a game-changer for me.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-15 18:24:00 -0500", "date": "6:24 p.m. on Jan 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/15/up-until-now.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F15%2Fup-until-now.html" }, { "id": 2673, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " This is a fucking blog, and it’s wonderful. It’s perfect. It allows you to share your words, in your own voice, with no corporate fuckery to fuck it up for you.\nSource: Start a Fucking Blog\nI\u0026rsquo;m still fucking laughing!\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-15 11:05:36 -0500", "date": "11:05 p.m. on Jan 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/15/this-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F15%2Fthis-is-a.html" }, { "id": 2674, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today, for some reason, I decided to delve into the Write.as \u0026ldquo;ecosystem\u0026rdquo;. I\u0026rsquo;ve been subscribing to this writing service for nearly a year, I post from time to time like I did yesterday. I\u0026rsquo;m not so sure to grasp all of it. To get started, I went into Craft, and through the Craft Assistant, I asked a few questions (since ChatGPT seems overloaded). I got surprisingly good results, enough to get some context around the write.freely project. Then, I started a diagram illustrating all the components of the platform. This will become a blog post for sure. Today, I have a better understanding of this project.\nWhat I want to emphasize here is the help that a service like ChatGPT (through an app) can bring to kick-start a small project like this. I\u0026rsquo;m blown away. But I\u0026rsquo;m staying critical too. More on that eventually.\nThis blog post was written by me.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-15 10:04:16 -0500", "date": "10:04 p.m. on Jan 15, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/15/today-for-some.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F15%2Ftoday-for-some.html" }, { "id": 2675, "type": "post", "title": "Here's What I Would Do After Winning $1.35 Billion Jackpot", "text": "After I told my wife that the second-biggest jackpot had been won, she asked me what I would do with all that money. So here’s what I would do.\nFirst, after the usual and probably mandatory press conference, I would get home and patiently wait for the deposit. Once received, I would call my bank to set aside a few million for my personal needs (and for my immediate family, of course).\nThen the fun would begin.\nSecond, I would reach the highest Canadian Government representative, telling him I wanted to meet with Zelensky from Ukraine. The sooner, the better, and I would make sure he gets the message that he should accept my request and wouldn’t regret any minutes of this meeting.\nOnce in Ukraine, I would ask to meet with the government’s and army’s top lieutenants. My question for them: I have more than $1 billion at your disposal; what do you need the most? I would make sure they get what they are asking for.\nAfter my meeting, I would ask for a joint press conference with Zelensky, telling the world about our agreement and explaining what will happen with all my money spent on helping this country and its people. Next, I would read a message aloud to the wealthiest people in the world and ask them to move their butt and make something out of their money to help Ukraine. Third, and lastly, I would read another special message, this time directed at Putin: “now is the time to put me on the ‘banned from Russia list’” and I would conclude with, “you can go fuck yourself.”\nThis is what I would do after winning a $1.35 Billion Jackpot. Thank you.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-14 21:34:55 -0500", "date": "9:34 p.m. on Jan 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/14/heres-what-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F14%2Fheres-what-i.html" }, { "id": 2676, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I just finished recording my MacBook Air screen with my face using Screenflow \u0026amp; iPhone 13 Pro as the webcam, thanks to macOS Ventura and Continuity. The end results are pretty good. I didn\u0026rsquo;t expect it to work. For Screenflow, the iPhone is just like a plugged-in standard webcam. No lag whatsoever. Consider me impressed.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-14 14:33:22 -0500", "date": "2:33 p.m. on Jan 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/14/i-just-finished.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F14%2Fi-just-finished.html" }, { "id": 2677, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🇺🇦 There is one thing that I\u0026rsquo;m finding hard to replace from Twitter: all Twitter accounts I was following reporting about the war in Ukraine, from people on the front or close to it. This is critical information that goes beyond what the general media is saying. But things are starting to move in the right direction, as I have found many tweeps who are now on Mastodon. Yeah! 🙂\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-14 13:27:19 -0500", "date": "1:27 p.m. on Jan 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/14/there-is-one.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F14%2Fthere-is-one.html" }, { "id": 2678, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thought of the moment: on any platform, porn is never very far. #mastodon 🫣\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-14 11:43:48 -0500", "date": "11:43 p.m. on Jan 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/14/114348.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F14%2F114348.html" }, { "id": 2679, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I just updated my Numeric Citizen I/O website to summarize the last few weeks of change to my blogging setup if you are curious to know more.\nThis post is required because Craft\u0026rsquo;s shared documents don\u0026rsquo;t support RSS feeds, sadly. 😔\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-14 11:38:47 -0500", "date": "11:38 p.m. on Jan 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/14/i-just-updated.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F14%2Fi-just-updated.html" }, { "id": 2680, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I don’t know what’s wrong with me. When posting content on Micro.blog, sometimes I’ll do it directly from the Micro.blog website, sometimes from the “native” Micro.blog client on the Mac, sometimes using MarsEdit, sometimes using Ulysses. What the hell? Why can't I settle on one way of doing things as simple as posting on Micro.blog? The pattern seems to be that the longer the post is expected, the more sophisticated the tool I select. Sometimes I’ll start on the web, then copy and paste in MarsEdit (rarely on Ulysses).\nThis blog post was first started on the web, then copy \u0026amp; pasted in MarsEdit. 🤣🤦🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-14 09:53:16 -0500", "date": "9:53 p.m. on Jan 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/14/i-dont-know.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F14%2Fi-dont-know.html" }, { "id": 2681, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nWhile on Twitter, I was a fan of Tweetbot. Now that I'm on Mastodon (I have an account but don't plan to be very active for now), I feel at home with Ivory, their new client, still in beta. I wish they were doing a Micro.blog client. I would pay more to get it than I paid for Tweetbot.\ncc ivory@tapbots.social\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-14 09:43:09 -0500", "date": "9:43 p.m. on Jan 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/14/while-on-twitter.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F14%2Fwhile-on-twitter.html" }, { "id": 2682, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "There are a lot of rumours surrounding the upcoming Apple headset. I call them noise at best. I\u0026rsquo;m afraid Apple is losing focus on other areas, which would require much more attention to benefit this project. Maybe I\u0026rsquo;ll eat my words when this thing finally comes out. Maybe I\u0026rsquo;ll say \u0026ldquo;OMG, now I understand what the fuss it was all about\u0026rdquo;. In the meantime, this conclusion from John Gruber is pretty much in line with my view: what is the point?\nThis headset project is very much real and, I believe, very much shipping this year. But the fundamental question remains: What’s the point? Think back to Steve Jobs’s presentation announcing the original iPad — the nut of the whole keynote was Jobs explaining where the iPad might fit between an iPhone and MacBook. If it didn’t serve some tasks not just a little but a lot better than either an iPhone or Mac, there was no point to the iPad. The same is true for this headset. And if it costs $3,000 and/or requires a tethered battery strapped around your waist, the “this better be an awesome experience” bar is raised even higher. Source: Daring Fireball: Knee-Jerk Reactions and Thoughts Regarding The Information’s Latest Report on Apple’s Upcoming Headset\nDisclaimer: I\u0026rsquo;ll never buy such a thing. We\u0026rsquo;re already too much sucked into tech, I won\u0026rsquo;t accept putting a headset on my face and pretending that this is cool. It is not.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-14 09:09:34 -0500", "date": "9:09 p.m. on Jan 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/14/there-are-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F14%2Fthere-are-a.html" }, { "id": 2683, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nThought of the Saturday morning: I like the principle of logging my digital life activities, especially my actions leading to content publishing. The Logbook in Things 3 and Dayone and IFTTT greatly help here. [Rewind](https://www.rewind.ai) would be fantastic on the Mac, but it is way too expensive. PS. What you are seeing in the screenshot is my actual logbook in Things 3. ", "dateiso": "2023-01-14 08:28:43 -0500", "date": "8:28 p.m. on Jan 14, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/14/thought-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F14%2Fthought-of-the.html" }, { "id": 2684, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "👉🏻 Well, that was fast: @numericcitizen@techhub.social 😎\nReasons why I joined this Mastodon instance. 1) I like the name \u0026ldquo;techhub.social\u0026rdquo;. 2) It\u0026rsquo;s operated by a Canadian. 3) He speaks french and has a Ukrainian flag on his profile.. 4) I\u0026rsquo;ll be able to see the interaction between Micro.blog and a Mastodon instance.\nMicro.blog will stay my home, but I\u0026rsquo;ll experiment with Mastodon, even though I said and wrote that I would focus this year. Damn.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-13 22:01:05 -0500", "date": "10:01 p.m. on Jan 13, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/13/well-that-was.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F13%2Fwell-that-was.html" }, { "id": 2685, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "blog.numericcitizen.me should point here on Micro.blog hosted website, while numericcitizen.me should point there to my main website on WordPress.com. I hope I didn\u0026rsquo;t mess up too many things. 🙃\nPlease, would you check for me? 🙏🏻\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-13 18:34:54 -0500", "date": "6:34 p.m. on Jan 13, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/13/blognumericcitizenme-should-point.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F13%2Fblognumericcitizenme-should-point.html" }, { "id": 2686, "type": "post", "title": "What's Really Behind a Subscription Fee?", "text": "This video from birchtree@mastodon.social resonated greatly with me today. Here\u0026rsquo;s why.\nFirst, someone is finally calling out something about software subscriptions that I always wanted to call out myself. Every developer seems entitled to charge a subscription for whatever reason. Matt brilliantly illustrates that some subscriptions are ok, some are borderline ok, but others are not.\nFor applications like Notion or Craft, developers must pay costs for hosting the backend. For example, Craft\u0026rsquo;s backend seems to be on the AWS cloud. In that specific case, it\u0026rsquo;s clear that a subscription makes sense. So we must help the developers pay their bills, right?\nThings get more controversial when the developers charge for a subscription, even though no backend services are required. Why would the developers go with a subscription model, then, you might ask? Well, this is where I want to chime in. The developers may not have to pay hosting costs, but what about their development time? It is as if we value infrastructure costs more than craftmanship time. It should not be this way.\nI\u0026rsquo;m willing to pay for software or service using a subscription if the product comes with updates regularly. Matt has shown Tweetbot as an example. Well, this isn\u0026rsquo;t the best example because Tweetbot rarely gets any updates; it doesn\u0026rsquo;t fit my criteria for using a subscription. CleanShot X, absolutely yes. I recognize, through my subscription, not only the value of the service but the time it took to put it together and keep it running fine. I\u0026rsquo;m willing to support the developer for that through a subscription.\nWe pay 5$ for a drink that takes less than a minute to prepare at Starbucks. Why is it so hard to pay for developers\u0026rsquo; time, spending weeks or months writing great software? Also, we must try to consider not only backend bills when deciding that a subscription is ok; craftmanship is something to pay for too.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-13 17:02:38 -0500", "date": "5:02 p.m. on Jan 13, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/13/whats-really-behind.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F13%2Fwhats-really-behind.html" }, { "id": 2687, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "👉🏻 Getting ready for: numericcitizen.micro.blog 🔜 blog.numericitizen.me 😎\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-13 13:32:48 -0500", "date": "1:32 p.m. on Jan 13, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/13/getting-ready-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F13%2Fgetting-ready-for.html" }, { "id": 2688, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "And now Twitter suspends third-party app? Really? Another good reason to GTF of this platform. I’m so happy to be Twitter free now. Even though I find Tapbots a bit lazy in updating its apps (the macOS app hasn’t been updated for quite a while the last time I checked), they are great ones.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-13 12:20:50 -0500", "date": "12:20 p.m. on Jan 13, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/13/and-now-twitter.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F13%2Fand-now-twitter.html" }, { "id": 2689, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nSomething will have to happen in 2023 in the Mastodon world. I would love to join (even though I said I wouldn’t). Now that I’m starting to get it, to understand all this is about, I fail miserably at finding an instance that I can join and fit my content publishing desires. ", "dateiso": "2023-01-13 06:49:48 -0500", "date": "6:49 p.m. on Jan 13, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/13/something-will-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F13%2Fsomething-will-have.html" }, { "id": 2690, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I still can\u0026rsquo;t believe how different the interaction I get here, on Micro.blog, compared to what I used to (not) get on Twitter. It is night and day, literally. I\u0026rsquo;m blown away 🤯 by the quality of responses I got to some of my posts and the discussion that this sometimes triggers. I do get in touch with people here that I never thought was possible on Twitter, even thought we were following each other over there, thanks to Mastodon and Micro.blog \u0026ldquo;talking to each other.\u0026rdquo; I\u0026rsquo;m so appreciative of this digital community. 😃\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-12 14:59:35 -0500", "date": "2:59 p.m. on Jan 12, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/12/i-still-cant.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F12%2Fi-still-cant.html" }, { "id": 2691, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I really like how Substack is evolving as a platform for content creators, especially for writers. I kept my account open after moving from Substack to Ghost.org. You may disagree with the fact that you don\u0026rsquo;t really own the content or whatever, but Substack is evolving quite a bit. If I compare the features set when it started and today, it is night and day. They are really killing it. As a member of Substack (free) and Ghost (paid), I would say Substack \u0026gt; Ghost.\nI would really like to find a niche use case for Substack. And I thought that 2023 was the year of focusing more.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-12 07:38:14 -0500", "date": "7:38 p.m. on Jan 12, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/12/i-really-like.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F12%2Fi-really-like.html" }, { "id": 2692, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " As we can see, while there are definite improvements in Windows 11’s design consistency, they are somewhat superficial (but still more thorough than those that were introduced with Windows 10), and there still is plenty of room for improvement. However, compared to Windows 10, at least most of the “casual” UI is somewhat consistent.\nIn 2023 Windows 11 will reportedly get 3 of the new “moment” updates, which are supposed to bring in new features and UI fixes. Not only that, but Microsoft is thought to be working on decoupling the UI elements from the rest of the OS even further, so we should probably see more improvements more quickly. Source: State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 11? – NTDEV\nThe conclusion of this excellent article about Windows 11 UI design inconsistencies is a bit off compared to the rest of the article. You really have to have a look for yourself. Windows, as it is shipping today, contains a plethora of previous-generation UI design languages, all packed together. When I look at macOS, I fail to find any similar example. Now, my question: why can Apple change everything in the UI (like when they introduced macOS BigSur) and not keep old UI designs? What is Apple doing differently? Is macOS easier to maintain than Windows? Or is it because Microsoft simply doesn\u0026rsquo;t care enough?\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-12 07:12:24 -0500", "date": "7:12 p.m. on Jan 12, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/12/as-we-can.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F12%2Fas-we-can.html" }, { "id": 2693, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " And the Mac and the iPad continue to move closer together… Source: Gurman: Apple working on touchscreen Macs – Six Colors\nJason Snell reacting to an article on Bloomberg about a possible new development for the Mac in 2025: touchscreen. I\u0026rsquo;m unfazed about this rumour at all. Touching the screen will probably represent 10%-20% of user interaction use cases, while the touchpad or the mouse will grab the rest.\nThere is one thing that I wonder if it would be possible: can you imagine the macOS UI reacting to the finger coming closer to the screen without actually touching it, something along the lines of the hover gesture with the latest iPad and the Apple Pencil? That could be interesting to watch. Apple will need to increase the size of UI elements, right now, many things are way too small to interact with the fingers. So yeah, the Mac is getting closer to the iPad.\nOne last thing: I would have thought that Apple would start with the iMac instead of a MacBook Pro, though. The bigger screen and the lack of a touchpad on the iMac would make the touchscreen a helpful option.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-11 20:24:47 -0500", "date": "8:24 p.m. on Jan 11, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/11/and-the-mac.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F11%2Fand-the-mac.html" }, { "id": 2694, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A pivotal year for AR/VR? Hu.ma.ne are set to announce their thing this year. Apple is reportedly set to announce their AR/VR headset this year. Other than that, it is expected to be a quiet year for Apple, helping to set the stage for a focus on the headset. BYW, the updated Mac Pro, a niche product, won’t make much noise in the grand scheme of things. What else will bring noise on the line? The iPhone 15 switching to USB-C? Then what? Nothing that I can think of.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-11 12:46:28 -0500", "date": "12:46 p.m. on Jan 11, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/11/a-pivotal-year.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F11%2Fa-pivotal-year.html" }, { "id": 2695, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I just finished expanding the descriptions of the apps and services in my toolset.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-11 07:18:30 -0500", "date": "7:18 p.m. on Jan 11, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/11/i-just-finished.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F11%2Fi-just-finished.html" }, { "id": 2696, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Must watch video about the iPhone photography quality. Are the photos shot on the latest iPhone 14 Pro better than other high-end phones?? Are they the best ones? There is no universal answer for sure, but I find iPhone photos to be overly processed by Apple\u0026quot;s \u0026ldquo;magic sauce\u0026rdquo; called: software or, better yet, computational photography.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-10 21:49:47 -0500", "date": "9:49 p.m. on Jan 10, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/10/must-watch-video.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F10%2Fmust-watch-video.html" }, { "id": 2697, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Has anyone noticed this weird behaviour in Apple’s Photos app when browsing images shot in RAW format? Let’s say you shoot a photo in RAW and then switch to Apple’s Photos app. Tapping on the thumbnail brings up the image, and after a few seconds, the image gets changed to a lower-quality version. Contrast is lost, and exposure is somewhat lowered. The result is a dull image. My possible explanation is that the thumbnail is a JPEG post-processed interpretation of the RAW image that is presented in the UI. When tapping on the thumbnail, the RAW version gets uncompressed and presented, which replaces the full-size JPEG preview version, hence the image quality degradation. Do you have a similar understanding, or do you have another explanation?\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-10 20:02:59 -0500", "date": "8:02 p.m. on Jan 10, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/10/has-anyone-noticed.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F10%2Fhas-anyone-noticed.html" }, { "id": 2698, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dear @manton, please consider adding share sheet support on MB client on iOS so we can easily create link posts. What should be included: source link, options for quoting text and a comment. Thanks. 👋🏻🙏🏻\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-10 12:41:03 -0500", "date": "12:41 p.m. on Jan 10, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/10/dear-manton-please.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F10%2Fdear-manton-please.html" }, { "id": 2699, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "During my trip to South America, I started to experience RSS feeds sync issues in News Explorer. None of the feeds would update, even after resetting the sync status for all feeds. It lasted a few days. It was very inconvenient. I couldn’t get my news and instead had to visit websites individually, which implied getting content I didn’t care about (ad placements, other promotional stuff, etc.) After a while, the issue fixed itself. It was due to very slow network connectivity.\nLong story short, RSS feeds are central to my content reading workflow. Without them, I’m lost. The convenience of having all the feeds converge in one app, without the noise, is unbeatable. Long live RSS!\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-10 07:03:28 -0500", "date": "7:03 p.m. on Jan 10, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/10/during-my-trip.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F10%2Fduring-my-trip.html" }, { "id": 2700, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Why is it so slow to read content in Apple News in general? Opening an article in News takes 2 to 3 times longer to render than its equivalent through the RSS feed in News Explorer (my RSS reader). Another case for RSS feeds.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-10 06:54:22 -0500", "date": "6:54 p.m. on Jan 10, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/10/why-is-it.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F10%2Fwhy-is-it.html" }, { "id": 2701, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I cannot count how often I select an image, thinking it will look nice as wallpaper. Most of the time, it sucks. Would it be cool if Apple added a smart album with selected photos based on their potential to be great as wallpaper? This could be something done using on-device AI, just like face recognition.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-09 19:43:58 -0500", "date": "7:43 p.m. on Jan 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/09/i-cannot-count.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F09%2Fi-cannot-count.html" }, { "id": 2702, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " With the introduction of an always-on display in the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max, many users have wondered how much impact the feature has on battery life. A new video takes a careful look at just how much battery drain there is with the always-on display and whether turning off the wallpaper reduces that drain.\nAnd\nit was found that by having the wallpaper enabled for the always-on display, an iPhone 14 Pro will drain around 0.8% per hour, compared to 0.6% an hour for the wallpaper disabled on the always-on display. Source: Test Shows How Much Battery Drain Your Wallpaper Causes on the iPhone 14 Pro\u0026rsquo;s Always-On Display - MacRumors\nPeople asked for an always-on display because Android had it for a long time, and they got it. Be careful for what you wish for. This is something that Apple could improve with a more power-efficient A17 this coming fall in the iPhone 15 Pro line.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-09 07:04:30 -0500", "date": "7:04 p.m. on Jan 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/09/with-the-introduction.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F09%2Fwith-the-introduction.html" }, { "id": 2703, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today, you can choose not to drive a Tesla if you don’t want Elon Musk, Inc. knowing everywhere you go.\nTomorrow, you might have to limit where you live because you won’t live in a Google Home and reconsider having 20/20 vision again in exchange for the artificial lens company seeing everything you see.\nPrivacy is not something you can “vote with your wallet” on. We either protect it as a human right or we lose it altogether.\n#privacy #humanRights #BigTech #peopleFarming #capitalism\nAral Balkan https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/109658369370900545\r👀🤔\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-09 06:59:28 -0500", "date": "6:59 p.m. on Jan 9, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/09/today-you-can.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F09%2Ftoday-you-can.html" }, { "id": 2704, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " Physical buttons are increasingly rare in modern cars. Most manufacturers are switching to touchscreens – which perform far worse in a test carried out by Vi Bilägare. The driver in the worst-performing car needs four times longer to perform simple tasks than in the best-performing car.Source: Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds | Vi Bilägare\nI\u0026rsquo;m not surprised by these results. My wife always told me she wouldn\u0026rsquo;t buy a car with a touchscreen-only dashboard. Not only that is the fact that it is far less secure to use a touch screen simply because we need to look at the screen for a long period of time, diverting our attention to what is happening in front of us.\nMy gut feeling is that, eventually, we will return to a hybrid model when screens have to cohabit with physical dials and buttons. I\u0026rsquo;m paying close attention to what Apple will do in that space. The next generation of CarPlay that we got to see last June at the WWDC conference points in the wrong direction. But who am I to judge, you might ask!\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-08 21:21:24 -0500", "date": "9:21 p.m. on Jan 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/08/physical-buttons-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F08%2Fphysical-buttons-are.html" }, { "id": 2705, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If reports and rumors about Apple’s upcoming products this years are to be believed, 2023 looks to be pretty boring. I’m ok with this only if Apple spend more time fixing things instead of constantly adding up and pilling up unfinished features. What worries me is that Apple’s Reality Pro (what a weird and uninspired name) becomes a resources draining hole within the company for a product that is so niche.\nPersonally, I’m 99% sure to upgrade to the iPhone 15 Ultra. The next possibility is the 15-inch MacBook Air.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-08 17:49:34 -0500", "date": "5:49 p.m. on Jan 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/08/if-reports-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F08%2Fif-reports-and.html" }, { "id": 2706, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Now, I\u0026rsquo;m wondering if I should keep a \u0026ldquo;Replies\u0026rdquo; page on my microblog website. I don\u0026rsquo;t think people care to see what and to whom I\u0026rsquo;m replying. Your thoughts?\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-08 16:16:39 -0500", "date": "4:16 p.m. on Jan 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/08/now-im-wondering.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F08%2Fnow-im-wondering.html" }, { "id": 2707, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I recently wondered if I should put a title to a Microblog post or not (see my post). I finally came up with an easy decision process.\nMost of the time, my post won\u0026rsquo;t include a title. Much longer and feature posts will get a title. I don\u0026rsquo;t expect many of them here, though.\nCan you imagine that at some point in the past, I included #hashtag in the title because MB would cross-post my content to Twitter, hoping to get traction from those on Twitter searching with #hashtag? It was a bad idea in retrospect.\nThis post had no title. 🤣\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-08 16:01:26 -0500", "date": "4:01 p.m. on Jan 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/08/i-recently-wondered.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F08%2Fi-recently-wondered.html" }, { "id": 2708, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today is the day I turned my Twitter accounts (apple_observer \u0026amp; numericcitizen) into private mode. It’s the last step before disabling them altogether.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-08 15:50:49 -0500", "date": "3:50 p.m. on Jan 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/08/today-is-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F08%2Ftoday-is-the.html" }, { "id": 2709, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dear @manton, How can I get the “reply with Micro.blog” on my post details?\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-08 11:27:26 -0500", "date": "11:27 p.m. on Jan 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/08/dear-manton-how.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F08%2Fdear-manton-how.html" }, { "id": 2710, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Can someone tell me what this iCloud Drive status means? I don’t appear to have any synchronization issue and yet, the icon seems to indicate the opposite. A special thanks to Apple here for the obscurity of their UI. 🫤\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-08 11:25:14 -0500", "date": "11:25 p.m. on Jan 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/08/can-someone-tell.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F08%2Fcan-someone-tell.html" }, { "id": 2711, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is my current content creator workflow and tools. I recognize that it is more focused on the tools but not the flow between them could be better explained.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-08 10:32:07 -0500", "date": "10:32 p.m. on Jan 8, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/08/this-is-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F08%2Fthis-is-my.html" }, { "id": 2712, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "During my trip to South America, I decided to shoot every photo in RAW (using iPhone 13 Pro). If the picture isn’t worth editing or publishing, I can easily use my “RAW to JPEG” shortcut to convert the image into JPEG and delete the RAW version. If the photo has real potential, I leave it in RAW for later editing in either Apple Photos, Pixelmator or Lightroom, depending of the editing required. Those photos are added to a dedicated album, for easy retrieval. I no longer use Camera+, Halide or Lightroom Camera module. I want the iCloud Photos library integration.\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-07 18:20:15 -0500", "date": "6:20 p.m. on Jan 7, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/07/during-my-trip.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F07%2Fduring-my-trip.html" }, { "id": 2713, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This one for @maique from Punta Del Este. 😉\n", "dateiso": "2023-01-04 10:09:13 -0500", "date": "10:09 p.m. on Jan 4, 2023", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2023/01/04/this-one-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2023%2F01%2F04%2Fthis-one-for.html" }, { "id": 2714, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I wish I had prepared a year in review post. Not this year. Maybe next year.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-31 09:20:02 -0500", "date": "9:20 p.m. on Dec 31, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/31/i-wish-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F31%2Fi-wish-i.html" }, { "id": 2715, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As we get closer and closer to 2023, with announcements surrounding Mastodon ecosystem, the latest being the creation of an instance by the creators of Mammoth, a Mastodon client, my challenge will be to not succumb and get my own account. I want to focus in 2023, that’s why it is a challenge. That said, creating an instance to ease the adoption of Mastodon with a simple setup and sign up procedure is clever.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-31 08:14:55 -0500", "date": "8:14 p.m. on Dec 31, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/31/as-we-get.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F31%2Fas-we-get.html" }, { "id": 2716, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I always wonder if I should put a title to my posts. Short post = no title. Longer post = with title? Long post without a title gives a preview of the post content which is good for readers to see what the post is all about? Decision decision decision.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-30 09:09:54 -0500", "date": "9:09 p.m. on Dec 30, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/30/i-always-wonder.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F30%2Fi-always-wonder.html" }, { "id": 2717, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Editing the framing of a photo in Apple Photos.app is tricky. Initial framing suggested by Photos.app is always tight compared to the maximum possible. I generally prefer to relax Apple’s assumptions here. This is something important when working with relatively low resolution images at 12 MP, the native resolution of my iPhone 13 Pro.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-30 08:38:20 -0500", "date": "8:38 p.m. on Dec 30, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/30/editing-the-framing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F30%2Fediting-the-framing.html" }, { "id": 2718, "type": "post", "title": "Should Apple Offer AI-based Services at the OS Level? ", "text": "In recent months, we’ve seen the addition of many AI-based features in apps like Notion and Craft, two apps that I know pretty well. Now I’m wondering if it would be a good idea that Apple integrates such features at the operating system level. Just like we can double tap a word in a text and get its definition from the dictionary, wouldn’t be cool if we could select a whole text and ask for a summary or anything involving the selected content? Apple would have to decide which AI sources to use or provide users a choice, just like for search engines. Any apps manipulating text would instantly benefit from this added capabilities. Your thoughts?\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-29 09:32:06 -0500", "date": "9:32 p.m. on Dec 29, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/29/should-apple-offer.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F29%2Fshould-apple-offer.html" }, { "id": 2719, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s funny how I’m rediscovering people on Mastodon (via MB) who I first met on Twitter in 2009, 2010 or 2011. People moved away from one platform to go elsewhere.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-28 12:33:39 -0500", "date": "12:33 p.m. on Dec 28, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/28/its-funny-how.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F28%2Fits-funny-how.html" }, { "id": 2720, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I would rather buy a Micro.blog client from Tapbots than a Mastodon client. There. I said it.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-28 12:25:53 -0500", "date": "12:25 p.m. on Dec 28, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/28/i-would-rather.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F28%2Fi-would-rather.html" }, { "id": 2721, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "AirTags can be quite useful and… stressful to track. Here we are in the plane quite ready to depart and yet my main luggage is still in the airport. 😵‍💫🫣\nTechnology shouldn’t create anxiety like this.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-28 07:59:46 -0500", "date": "7:59 p.m. on Dec 28, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/28/airtags-can-be.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F28%2Fairtags-can-be.html" }, { "id": 2722, "type": "post", "title": "Which is Best for Photographers: Twitter or Flickr? ", "text": "Which platform is best for photographer between Flickr and Twitter if you have about the same number of followers on both? You might think it’s Flickr? According to this experiment, you get 2x more exposure on Twitter, but you get 2x more engagement on Flickr. Things get even better on Flickr if your photo gets selected for Flickr Explore page.\nThe “views” count definition is not clear but I would think that Twitter’s definition is a wide one (I don’t trust them for being honest about anything). A tweet could get a view count if it goes through an API without guarantee of human actually seeing the picture.\nPersonally, I prefer engagement over views. This is something to expect I guess from a photo-sharing service like Flickr or Glass. Finally, this is an indication of Twitter being an empty promise for photographers.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-28 07:06:21 -0500", "date": "7:06 p.m. on Dec 28, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/28/which-is-best.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F28%2Fwhich-is-best.html" }, { "id": 2723, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thought of the day: airports are probably the most user hostile commercial environment that we can think of. Bad UX. Wrong expectations management in general. Badly designed physical areas. The list goes on and on. Convince me of the opposite. 🫤\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-26 23:47:31 -0500", "date": "11:47 p.m. on Dec 26, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/26/thought-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F26%2Fthought-of-the.html" }, { "id": 2724, "type": "post", "title": "Remembering Sad Souvenirs With Great Words and Images", "text": "Here’s a great visual recollection of a trip to Italy back in 2011, when Steve Jobs died. Great images. Gentle words. It’s not only about the iPhone as a great camera, but about Italy, a place I visited last summer, and how it felt to be there when Steve death made the news. Must see and read.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-26 21:11:40 -0500", "date": "9:11 p.m. on Dec 26, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/26/remembering-sad-souvenirs.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F26%2Fremembering-sad-souvenirs.html" }, { "id": 2725, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Would buy an iPad in a vending machine at the airport? The model was a 64 GB iPad latest model at 599 CAN$. Same price as in Apple Store.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-26 17:34:02 -0500", "date": "5:34 p.m. on Dec 26, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/26/would-buy-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F26%2Fwould-buy-an.html" }, { "id": 2726, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Flighty is such a great iPhone app. Here Flighty is showing in a shiny and clever way that one of my flight is 2h20m late at destination. 😳🤦🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-26 15:25:55 -0500", "date": "3:25 p.m. on Dec 26, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/26/flighty-is-such.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F26%2Fflighty-is-such.html" }, { "id": 2727, "type": "post", "title": "⚙️ FYI — From Write.as to Micro.blog", "text": "To my readers, I wanted to let you know that all my posts on Write.as are also cross-posted on my Micro.blog feed from where you can respond or comment, on top of what Write.as offers via remark.as. Be sure to follow me there (Micro.blog supports RSS feeds too).\n#meta\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-26 12:10:26 -0500", "date": "12:10 p.m. on Dec 26, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/26/fyi-from-writeas.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F26%2Ffyi-from-writeas.html" }, { "id": 2728, "type": "post", "title": "On Making Apple Lovable Again", "text": " The DMA holds the promise to return Apple to an earlier age without these gluttonous service and tax aspirations driving seemingly every major decision at the company. The EU just might make Apple lovable again by outlawing their monopolistic excesses. What a twist. Source: Apple\u0026rsquo;s big monopoly loss comes curtesy of the EU\nFor once, I agree with David Heinemeier Hansson. Apple\u0026rsquo;s arrogance is slowly killing all the magic.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-26 11:07:33 -0500", "date": "11:07 p.m. on Dec 26, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/26/on-making-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F26%2Fon-making-apple.html" }, { "id": 2729, "type": "post", "title": "🇺🇦 Putin is Complaining Again", "text": "Poor Putin, now he complains that Ukraine is sending drones to their military bases to destroy military assets and make it hard for planes to take off in the direction of Ukraine to commit crimes on civilians. Poor little boy. Fuck him. He’ll wait forever for any kind of negotiation if you ask me.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-26 10:50:16 -0500", "date": "10:50 p.m. on Dec 26, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/26/putin-is-complaining.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F26%2Fputin-is-complaining.html" }, { "id": 2730, "type": "post", "title": "30 Years of Platforms Learning", "text": "To celebrate my calculator app PCalc turning 30 today, I've written up all the history I can still remember:\nhttp://pcalc.com/thirty\nThere's also a rare 30%-off sale, which runs until midnight tonight, PST:\nMac:\nhttps://pcalc.com/store/pcalcmac\niOS:\nhttps://pcalc.com/store/pcalc\nA big thanks to everybody who has used PCalc during the last three decades!\nJames Thomson https://mastodon.social/@jamesthomson/109562907458479500\rI never bought PCalc but for as long I\u0026rsquo;ve been following the Apple story, PCalc always was somewhere to be seen in a magazine, on the web or an App Store. What a great way to learn, explore over the years.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-26 10:29:19 -0500", "date": "10:29 p.m. on Dec 26, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/26/years-of-platforms.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F26%2Fyears-of-platforms.html" }, { "id": 2731, "type": "post", "title": "Thinking About 2023 and My Future Creative Projects or Experimentation", "text": "It’s the time of the year where I start to think of my upcoming year from a content creation perspective and as someone who likes to try new things. Here are a few things that I’m going to explore. First, as a subscriber of SoundCloud, I’m finding it hard to find content for my DJ mixing experimentation. More often than not, those publishing content on SoundCloud wants you to buy what's available on Beatport. Someone told me recently to use Beatport instead. I may switch from SoundCloud to Beatport for 2023. Second, I’ll continue my slow migration from Smugmug to my Exposure page. Smugmug was good but didn’t fit well with what I expected from a modern photo-sharing service. Third, I finally found a use case for recording videos with CleanShot. I’ll use it to add short video clips showing how to use specific features and tricks in Craft. Those clips will be added to The Craft Bible (a website dedicated to Craft, the document writing app) and will come as a complement to my YouTube channel. It’s fun to be full of projects.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-26 09:07:49 -0500", "date": "9:07 p.m. on Dec 26, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/26/thinking-about-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F26%2Fthinking-about-and.html" }, { "id": 2732, "type": "post", "title": "Leaving the Nikon D750 Behind", "text": "Can you believe it? As an amateur photographer, I’m leaving my Nikon D750 home for my upcoming trip to Brasil. This trip certainly classifies itself as a once-in-a-lifetime event, yet I won’t bring my camera with me. There are a few reasons for this. First, I’ll be on a cruise ship for most of my twelve-day trip. Second, I don’t feel it’s secure to bring such gear to some parts of Rio or Sao Polo when we go off-board. Third, it’s tough to beat the convenience of an iPhone 13 Pro in the pocket. The Nikon bag with all my lenses feels quite heavy at times. I’ll see when I return home if I made the right decision.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-25 18:53:06 -0500", "date": "6:53 p.m. on Dec 25, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/25/leaving-the-nikon.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F25%2Fleaving-the-nikon.html" }, { "id": 2733, "type": "post", "title": "A Few Takeaways About My Mastodon-Related Questions Today", "text": "Thanks to all who replied to my question regarding Mastodon. What a great community over here! Never had this in fifteen years on Twitter. 😊\nHere are a few takeaways (many may be obvious, duh!). Just like for emails, one cannot \"reserve\" a username in the Mastodon-friendly world. Makes sense. Registering with a specific instance (or server) is mandatory just like opening an account with an email provider. Using a custom domain that I own is something I should consider doing. I should probably go ahead with my custom domain name for Micro.blog before doing anything related to Mastodon. Setting my websites (I do have a few) to display my Mastodon username or profile is a good idea too. Setting my Mastodon profile to display my website is another good practice. Finding an instance I can relate to is probably the most daunting task if my research is any indication. I didn’t find any so far. I still don’t understand how a Micro.blog compatible Mastodon name is helping in any of this. Having a registered account on a Mastodon won’t do much for me. I already get everything I want on Micro.blog. People can follow me from their Mastodon instance, and I can, too, from Micro.blog. Thinking about all this on Christmas day shows that I don’t have a life! LOL Anyway, happy holidays to you all! 👋\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-25 18:21:23 -0500", "date": "6:21 p.m. on Dec 25, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/25/a-few-takeaways.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F25%2Fa-few-takeaways.html" }, { "id": 2734, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Any Mastodon experts in the room? One quick question: how do I proceed to \u0026ldquo;reserve\u0026rdquo; my content creator name \u0026ldquo;numericcitizen\u0026rdquo; in the Mastodon world? I understand that I need to select a Mastondon server first where the account would be created, am I right? Then, what else?\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-25 13:16:13 -0500", "date": "1:16 p.m. on Dec 25, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/25/any-mastodon-experts.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F25%2Fany-mastodon-experts.html" }, { "id": 2735, "type": "post", "title": "A Few Observations on Apple's Latest AirPods Pro", "text": "I got a pleasant surprise under the tree for this Christmas🎄: AirPods Pro 2. Some observations: I would say the clicking sound when closing the lid is different, with a bit lower tonality. The setup experience is top-notch, of course. Sound quality is definitively upgraded with more present bass and deeper sound. Noise cancellation is better too. I’ll have to experience it in a noisy place like an airplane tomorrow. For my next trip, I will leave my AirPods Max behind (they are too big for sleeping on the plane) and use the new, much lighter ones and easier to travel with.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-25 11:56:50 -0500", "date": "11:56 p.m. on Dec 25, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/25/a-few-observations.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F25%2Fa-few-observations.html" }, { "id": 2736, "type": "post", "title": "Comparing Elon Musk at Twitter to Steve Jobs at Pixar", "text": "When I read articles like this one from The Washington Post about Elon Musk’s current tenure at Twitter, I think about Steve Jobs's tenure at Pixar. Both are quite different leaders, but I think Steve Jobs had a much more positive impact on Pixar than Musk on Twitter. My comparison comes from the belief that Steve could be seen as a jerk or be very hard on people. Elon is certainly seen and behaves like a real jerk. His leadership image is being tarnished every single day. ", "dateiso": "2022-12-25 10:36:49 -0500", "date": "10:36 p.m. on Dec 25, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/25/comparing-elon-musk.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F25%2Fcomparing-elon-musk.html" }, { "id": 2737, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just posted on my Twitter account.\n\"This account is being phased out. I no longer believe in Twitter as a viable and valuable social platform. I don’t share any values with Twitter’s owner. Hence my decision to leave soon. You’ll be able to find me elsewhere as documented here: https://www.craft.do/s/9ILVvNnwHVAmJk\" ", "dateiso": "2022-12-24 14:26:53 -0500", "date": "2:26 p.m. on Dec 24, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/24/just-posted-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F24%2Fjust-posted-on.html" }, { "id": 2738, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Merry Christmas 🎅\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-24 13:58:01 -0500", "date": "1:58 p.m. on Dec 24, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/24/merry-christmas.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F24%2Fmerry-christmas.html" }, { "id": 2739, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As you can see, my plan to exit Twitter is well underway. I think I could turn this shit off by January 1, 2023. It was much faster than I initially thought. This to-do list gives you an idea of how deeply Twitter was embedded in my digital life. Well, no more.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-24 10:54:34 -0500", "date": "10:54 p.m. on Dec 24, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/24/as-you-can.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F24%2Fas-you-can.html" }, { "id": 2740, "type": "post", "title": "The Digital Cleanup Continues", "text": "This morning, I visited IFTTT and Zapier to turn off ten applets which were using Twitter. My About page was updated to remove references to my Twitter accounts. While at it, I removed all references to Medium and GetRevue since they are no longer used.\nI still have to figure out how I will follow people on Twitter who are valuable (there are a few) but refuse to move elsewhere. I might use News Explorer to follow them, cutting the noise because I refrain from using a Twitter client. It’s not a perfect solution because I would get all their replies which makes things noisy. Speaking of Twitter clients (Twitter \u0026amp; Tweetbot), these were removed from my devices too.\nIt is one of the most comprehensive digital cleanups I ever did since 2007. For the upcoming year: I’ll focus on the open web services and tools for publishing most of my content. There are a few exceptions: YouTube and WordPress.com.\nI may sound a bit extremist.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-24 08:43:38 -0500", "date": "8:43 p.m. on Dec 24, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/24/the-digital-cleanup.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F24%2Fthe-digital-cleanup.html" }, { "id": 2741, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If you don’t have a website, a blog or a newsletter and only exist on Twitter, then I give up. You’re not worth it. Thought of the night.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-23 22:22:16 -0500", "date": "10:22 p.m. on Dec 23, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/23/if-you-dont.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F23%2Fif-you-dont.html" }, { "id": 2742, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Digital cleanup night. Medium Partner Program: Cancelled. Buffer: Cancelled. WP for Buffer Plug-in: Cancelled. Typefully subscription: Cancelled.\nFeels much better now.\nTwitter: you’re the next.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-23 22:08:53 -0500", "date": "10:08 p.m. on Dec 23, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/23/digital-cleanup-night.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F23%2Fdigital-cleanup-night.html" }, { "id": 2743, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "That is a hell of a low pressure. Very windy now. Lots of rain earlier. Getting way colder by tomorrow.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-23 17:21:00 -0500", "date": "5:21 p.m. on Dec 23, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/23/that-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F23%2Fthat-is-a.html" }, { "id": 2744, "type": "post", "title": "🇺🇦 I Wish Them Happy Holidays But...", "text": "We’re close to Christmas and getting closer to new years eve. I hope Ukrainians can get a small break during the holidays. News about increased military activities by Russia in Belarus, north of Ukraine, close to the frontier, isn’t encouraging. It’s like when Russia was preparing to break Ukrainian borders last February. Who knows what they’re up to? We shouldn’t trust them. Are these military exercises like they said? My fingers are crossed.\nIf Russia tries to take Kyiv a second time, I hope the Ukrainian army is ready. They are probably exhausted by months of defensive combats on the south and eastern sides. How will the international community react if Belarus is again used to attack Ukraine?\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-23 15:08:38 -0500", "date": "3:08 p.m. on Dec 23, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/23/i-wish-them.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F23%2Fi-wish-them.html" }, { "id": 2745, "type": "post", "title": "Getting Ready for the Holidays and my Next Trip", "text": "Closing out my working session with my office for the holidays. What a year it was. Now is the time to finally get ready for Christmas and everything that comes with it. Next, on December 26th, we\u0026rsquo;re leaving Canada for Brasil and our first cruise trip in five years! 😅\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-23 11:24:59 -0500", "date": "11:24 p.m. on Dec 23, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/23/getting-ready-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F23%2Fgetting-ready-for.html" }, { "id": 2746, "type": "post", "title": "After Closing Twitter, Medium Will Be Next", "text": "The next victim of my \"digital cleanup\" will be my Medium account. Even though I stopped writing original content there a while ago, I currently get a few cents a month of revenue, maybe a few dollars when I’m lucky. It’s tough to expand the readership over there. My revenue used to be enough to pay for my Partner Program annual membership, but not anymore. All in all, the time has come to move on.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-22 21:49:07 -0500", "date": "9:49 p.m. on Dec 22, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/22/after-closing-twitter.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F22%2Fafter-closing-twitter.html" }, { "id": 2747, "type": "post", "title": "An iPhone + a Belkin iPhone Mount + macOS Ventura + FaceTime Call", "text": "I finally tested a FaceTime call with my iPhone 13 Pro and the Belkin iPhone mount with my M1 MacBook Air running macOS Ventura. The setup was easy. iPhone automatically detected as a possible camera source within FaceTime. The image quality was obviously top-notch. The sound was great too. The tabletop feature required a bit of tweaking but eventually led to good (but not \u0026ldquo;top-notch\u0026rdquo;) results.\nThe only problem is the weight of the combined iPhone 13 Pro with a case and the Belkin mount: the screen panel of my MacBook tends to move back during the call. Oops. 🤣\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-22 20:07:00 -0500", "date": "8:07 p.m. on Dec 22, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/22/an-iphone-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F22%2Fan-iphone-a.html" }, { "id": 2748, "type": "post", "title": "More is Indeed Better on Micro.blog", "text": "I receive more user feedback or interactions in a day here on Micro.blog than in an entire month on Twitter. On top of that, the quality is 100x higher too.\nThink about that for a second.\nThank you guys!\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-22 15:58:14 -0500", "date": "3:58 p.m. on Dec 22, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/22/more-is-indeed.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F22%2Fmore-is-indeed.html" }, { "id": 2749, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sometimes I wish I had started blogging fifteen or twenty years ago. It would be so cool to have this long stretch of writing at my disposal and reflect back at what I wrote. I guess I’ll do just that in ten or fifteen years from now… 🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-22 14:04:53 -0500", "date": "2:04 p.m. on Dec 22, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/22/sometimes-i-wish.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F22%2Fsometimes-i-wish.html" }, { "id": 2750, "type": "post", "title": "Who Should Be Complaining Again?", "text": "🇺🇦Russian’s top brass are complaining that Zelensky and Biden didn’t have a single word about Russia’s demands and their “quest for peace”. Ukrainians continuously ask for more weapons to defend themselves against the invaders. They complain that it’s not enough.\nWho started the war? Who’s hitting civilian structures 95% of the time? Who’s raping who? Who is stealing who? You tell me then I’ll make up my mind about who’s right to be complaining.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-22 13:25:20 -0500", "date": "1:25 p.m. on Dec 22, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/22/who-should-be.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F22%2Fwho-should-be.html" }, { "id": 2751, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Starting from now: I no longer cross-post my original Micro.blog posts to Twitter. Curious to see how bad it will be for my visitors analytics.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-22 12:43:59 -0500", "date": "12:43 p.m. on Dec 22, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/22/starting-from-now.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F22%2Fstarting-from-now.html" }, { "id": 2752, "type": "post", "title": "Musing About Writing Needs And This War", "text": "Earlier this year, back in May I think, I started a subscription to Write.as. Why? I was curious about this platform for writers and there was a special for a five-year subscription. So, why not! Then I started to write about my reactions to the war in Ukraine. I wrote maybe a dozen of posts on this subject. I had to let go my feelings. Then I stopped. But I still follow the news about this senseless war. I’m still in state of mixed feelings ranging from feeling helpless, frustrated, desperate, raging, etc.\nNow, I don’t know what to do. Should I continue writing on Write.as or move my written frustrations elsewhere? Here? I don’t know. Enabling posts import to my timeline from the Write.as RSS feed might be a good solution.\nTell me what you think about dilemma.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-22 12:36:26 -0500", "date": "12:36 p.m. on Dec 22, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/22/musing-about-writing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F22%2Fmusing-about-writing.html" }, { "id": 2753, "type": "post", "title": "What I'll Lose By Leaving Twitter", "text": "As per my current analysis and preparation for leaving Twitter, here\u0026rsquo;s what I\u0026rsquo;m going to lose.\nAccess to product announcements, most of which I track because they are part of my workflows (Examples: Glass, Unsplash, Substack, Opal, Readwise, and 90 more). This could be hard to replace, not all websites support RSS feeds. Access to some public services status messages like special events or some type of alerts. Two of my Brews on Mailbrew that are entirely based on Twitter content will need to be deleted. Interaction with people following me who won’t leave Twitter to go elsewhere. I rarely get replies, though. Not a big loss. According to [my Plausible page](https://plausible.io/numericcitizen.micro.blog), 50% of visitors coming from non-direct sources are coming from Twitter. One way to mitigate this is by enabling RSS feeds and letting people no in advance other ways to get in touch. Quite a few of my published articles or blog posts refer to my tweets as links or embed. They won’t show up anymore when I turnoff public access to my tweets. That's not cool. But, I'll gain other things too. That's for another post. ", "dateiso": "2022-12-22 08:25:59 -0500", "date": "8:25 p.m. on Dec 22, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/22/what-ill-lose.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F22%2Fwhat-ill-lose.html" }, { "id": 2754, "type": "post", "title": "Write.as: Are You Fediverse Friendly?", "text": "Write.as and Fediverse support (or lack of):\nWrite.as doesn't render the URLs of both the toot and the PeerTube video. The HTML embedding code does work, but the rendered video is not responsive and doesn't blend well with the page on mobile. My guess is that we will see changes to Write.as to make it more Fediverse friendly. ", "dateiso": "2022-12-21 20:57:37 -0500", "date": "8:57 p.m. on Dec 21, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/21/writeas-are-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F21%2Fwriteas-are-you.html" }, { "id": 2755, "type": "post", "title": "Assign to All Desktops - A Must Know macOS Stage Manager Trick", "text": "Updated my last Mac to macOS Ventura and discovered something super useful when using Stage Manager. If you want to have an application always visible, make sure to select \u0026ldquo;Assign To: All Desktops\u0026rdquo; from the application icon in the Dock. This is particularly useful with the Finder so we can easily do drag \u0026amp; drop of a file into the active window; the Finder needs to always be available for this to be possible.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-21 20:01:09 -0500", "date": "8:01 p.m. on Dec 21, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/21/assign-to-all.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F21%2Fassign-to-all.html" }, { "id": 2756, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Found a great place for my Tidbyt.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-21 19:08:35 -0500", "date": "7:08 p.m. on Dec 21, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/21/found-a-great.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F21%2Ffound-a-great.html" }, { "id": 2757, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " The trend is clear: people are leaving Twitter. This is my follower count since June of 2022. If there was any doubt left about my decision to quit Twitter, no more. ", "dateiso": "2022-12-21 16:49:23 -0500", "date": "4:49 p.m. on Dec 21, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/21/the-trend-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F21%2Fthe-trend-is.html" }, { "id": 2758, "type": "post", "title": "Why Close My Twitter Accounts? Here Are My Five Reasons", "text": "I think it is essential to elaborate on why I will close my Twitter accounts in 2023. This is not something to do lightly. So, after much thought, here are my five main reasons.\nI disagree with the values and views as they are expressed by its new owner: Elon Musk. Even if he resigns, it won’t matter much. Elon Musk has broken too many things since he became the owner. Twitter is a broken platform and cannot be trusted. I no longer want to feed the beast (user tracking, advertising networks, algorithm-based timelines). I won’t pay to get rid of 50% of the ads or whatever Musk decides to ask for. I no longer trust Twitter’s sustainability and ability to thrive in the future. Twitter has become a loser in my digital landscape. If anything, Twitter has become the other wake-up call for the toxicity of a centralized web. The time has come for decentralizing the Internet. Twitter doesn’t add significant unique value to my digital life anyway. Most of what I’m getting from Twitter can be found elsewhere. Before I decided to close my accounts, I wanted to focus on one of my two accounts anyway (numericcitizen) instead of apple_observer, but it doesn’t have enough traction to warrant the efforts for the change. What are your reasons?\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-21 14:13:32 -0500", "date": "2:13 p.m. on Dec 21, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/21/why-close-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F21%2Fwhy-close-my.html" }, { "id": 2759, "type": "post", "title": "Installing Windows in 2022", "text": "I just spent part of my morning installing Windows 10 version 22H2 on a virtual machine with VMware Fusion 12 on my recently acquired 2013 Mac Pro. God, it\u0026rsquo;s been a long time since I experienced the Windows installation process. It is so freaking slow (way faster to install a Linux machine, BTW) and with so many reboots. I still prefer Apple\u0026rsquo;s macOS in that respect.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-21 09:44:28 -0500", "date": "9:44 p.m. on Dec 21, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/21/installing-windows-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F21%2Finstalling-windows-in.html" }, { "id": 2760, "type": "post", "title": "My Experience With Tidbyt LED-Based Display", "text": "\nAfter six weeks of waiting, I finally got this little LED-based display called “Tidbyt”, a reference, I guess, to the old Lite-Brite game which came out in 1967 (I had one when I was a child).\nTidbyt is an intelligent wireless LED-based panel that displays content configured from the Tidbyt app available on a smartphone. Physically, the device feels high quality and well-designed and is framed with real wood, reminiscent of mid-century furniture.\nContent is configured using applets that you put together on a canvas. The display content will switch from one applet to another in the order defined on the canvas. Applets can be set to display only on a specific schedule, but the scheduling options are rather limited. It’s very simple to set this up.\nOnce the display is plugged into power via its USB-C cable, it will wait for the configuration to be done from the smartphone, a six-step process. Bluetooth is required to detect the display, and a Wifi network is required for the display to get its data from the Internet. The applets catalogue is growing but still is relatively limited. Thanks to an SDK and open APIs, developers constantly add new ones. The display is bright and can be adjusted according to a manual setting or time of the day. There is a night mode, too, if you want to put the device in one bedroom.\nThe screen resolution seemed low at first, but from a distance, it is surprisingly good, enough to display small images.\nAll in all, the Tidbyt makes a great addition to my home office, and people at work have already noticed it during Teams meetings and are asking questions about this little thing sitting on the shelf behind me.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-20 07:02:32 -0500", "date": "7:02 p.m. on Dec 20, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/20/my-experience-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F20%2Fmy-experience-with.html" }, { "id": 2761, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So what do have here\u0026hellip; quick and dirty review coming soon. 🤓🤗\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-19 21:22:59 -0500", "date": "9:22 p.m. on Dec 19, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/19/so-what-do.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F19%2Fso-what-do.html" }, { "id": 2762, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I get way better interactions here on Micro.blog (more often, better quality) than on any other platforms I ever spent time on. Just a not-so-random thought.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-19 11:52:01 -0500", "date": "11:52 p.m. on Dec 19, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/19/i-get-way.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F19%2Fi-get-way.html" }, { "id": 2763, "type": "post", "title": "On Twitter's Attention Seekers", "text": "On Twitter, you can get notified when someone starts following you. Sounds great until it isn\u0026rsquo;t. You know, many people will start following others to get attention about their existence, hoping to get a follow back. It\u0026rsquo;s easy to know they are seeking your attention because after a few days they will unfollow you. I always despised this behaviour. For this reason, I prefer Micro.blog\u0026rsquo;s lack of notifications when someone starts to follow me. I don\u0026rsquo;t pay attention.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-19 08:32:21 -0500", "date": "8:32 p.m. on Dec 19, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/19/on-twitters-attention.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F19%2Fon-twitters-attention.html" }, { "id": 2764, "type": "post", "title": "Rewind: Thanks but No Thanks", "text": "After watching a recent video from Matt Birchler about Rewind, a constant screen recording utility for the Mac, I was excited to give my email address and get onboard the waiting list for early access to the app. I got my invite a few days ago. As much as I would like to test this app, here's this deal-breaker for me: 20 US$ per month to get on the early access program, no thank you. Why?\nI understand Rewind is still in beta, but the developer wants me to pay for testing the application. Shouldn’t it be the other way around so I get a rebate when the app goes out of beta? I mean, even with a 30-day “trial” I still can’t get over this. If it’s 20 US$ a month now for the early access, what will be the price of the final product then? Even more expansive?\nRewind makes me think of CleanShot, and I find Rewind’s pricing overly expansive if I think about the scope of both apps. Rewind is a great idea, even if it pauses many security risks, but I’ll pass for now.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-19 07:32:44 -0500", "date": "7:32 p.m. on Dec 19, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/19/rewind-thanks-but.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F19%2Frewind-thanks-but.html" }, { "id": 2765, "type": "post", "title": "The Cost of Twitter", "text": "I could save more than a whopping 400$ annually by shutting down my Twitter accounts. Thanks to the potential removal of a few service subscriptions from my workflow and potentially unjustified without Twitter in my digital life: Buffer, Typefully, Mailbrew. It’s incredible how thinking about my Twitter reliance makes me realize so many things on so many levels in my content creation workflow.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-18 21:57:27 -0500", "date": "9:57 p.m. on Dec 18, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/18/the-cost-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F18%2Fthe-cost-of.html" }, { "id": 2766, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve stopped clicking on Twitter links. Starve the site of attention.\nBrent Simmons https://micro.inessential.com/2022/12/18/ive-stopped-clicking.html\rGreat idea. Time to give more space to non-centralizing platforms. ", "dateiso": "2022-12-18 21:11:23 -0500", "date": "9:11 p.m. on Dec 18, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/18/ive-stopped-clicking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F18%2Five-stopped-clicking.html" }, { "id": 2767, "type": "post", "title": "Less Than 1%", "text": "The longer you’ve been on Twitter (I joined in 2007), the more likely that most of your followers are inactive accounts. My guesstimate would be that less than 1% of my followers are actually active, and even fewer actually care about what I’m saying or posting. So why on earth, give a damn?\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-18 20:12:23 -0500", "date": "8:12 p.m. on Dec 18, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/18/less-than.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F18%2Fless-than.html" }, { "id": 2768, "type": "post", "title": "Twitter Is Xenophobic Now", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m in violation of Twitter\u0026rsquo;s guidelines because I do promote content coming from other social platforms. I do use Linktree and have my Linktr.ee URL set on @numericcitizen.\nThis new \"Promotion of alternative social platforms policy\" on Twitter deserves memorializing for the pure idiocy of it.\nJamie Thingelstad https://www.thingelstad.com/2022/12/18/this-new-promotion.html\r\"Accounts that are used for the main purpose of promoting content on another social platform may be suspended.\". ", "dateiso": "2022-12-18 17:40:36 -0500", "date": "5:40 p.m. on Dec 18, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/18/twitter-is-xenophobic.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F18%2Ftwitter-is-xenophobic.html" }, { "id": 2769, "type": "post", "title": "Twitter Down, Micro.blog Up", "text": "I would love @manton to speak out about how the current Twitter turmoils, people flocking to Mastodon, and the ability to follow people over there right from my Micro.blog feed is increasing Micro.blog engagement, subscriptions and general usage. Personally, I’m much more active than before.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-17 08:37:46 -0500", "date": "8:37 p.m. on Dec 17, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/17/twitter-down-microblog.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F17%2Ftwitter-down-microblog.html" }, { "id": 2770, "type": "post", "title": "On \"Load Bearing Mac Mini\"", "text": "Is this true?\n12 years ago, Twitter’s office used a Mac Mini to tunnel into the servers. One day, an IT guy found it in the closet. “Anyone know who owns this?”\n“Unplug it. Someone will show up.”\nEveryone lost access to servers. Huge crisis. It became known as the “Load Bearing Mac Mini.”\nhttps://mastodon.social/@sandofsky/109434832011074072 ", "dateiso": "2022-12-17 08:33:56 -0500", "date": "8:33 p.m. on Dec 17, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/17/on-load-bearing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F17%2Fon-load-bearing.html" }, { "id": 2771, "type": "post", "title": "Mailbrew, Typefully and Twitter", "text": "I finally found how to reconfigure my Mailbrew account to log in without using Twitter. Good thing. I don’t log in often in Mailbrew, but this morning I learned that I’d need to adjust many things when I close my Twitter account. As an example, this newsletter setup will need to be revisited to remove any references to Twitter as a data source.\nMailbrew is an excellent tool for generating newsletters, but it hasn’t been updated for quite a while (October of 2021, according to the change log). The developers behind Mailbrew are too busy working on their other product: Typefully, a web service for writing Twitter threads. I’m subscribing to both services. Typefully was cool when it launched but being entirely dependent on Twitter puts them in danger IMHO. I don’t use Typefully much, preferring Buffer for scheduling cross-posted content to Twitter, something Typefully doesn’t support. It’s sad to see Mailbrew coming to a halt. Typefully will go down the drain with my Twitter account closure next year.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-17 08:27:42 -0500", "date": "8:27 p.m. on Dec 17, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/17/mailbrew-typefully-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F17%2Fmailbrew-typefully-and.html" }, { "id": 2772, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Found in my Micro.blog bookmarks collection:\nCulture is shaped by SEO experts and algorithms. Neither of which have our best interests in mind.\nMike Rockwell https://mike.rockwell.mx/asides/1160\rAnother good reason to quit Twitter and concentrate my energy here on Micro.blog. ", "dateiso": "2022-12-17 07:46:47 -0500", "date": "7:46 p.m. on Dec 17, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/17/found-in-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F17%2Ffound-in-my.html" }, { "id": 2773, "type": "post", "title": "The Stars of the Show for 2022 Are...", "text": "If I look back at my software usage in 2022, three stars stand out:\nRaycast Things 3 Screenflow Raycast was a revelation. It is so pervasive in my workflow that I feel lost when returning to my iPad for serious work. I underutilize Raycast for sure. It's free and constantly evolving. Things 3 returned after more than a year of trying Apple Reminders and Craft Daily notes. It was a futile exercise. Things 3 is beautifully supporting my content creator workflow. Managing to-dos has never been so enjoyable.\nScreenflow is essential to my YouTube video creation workflow. I don\u0026rsquo;t use FinalCut Pro, Luma Fusion or anything that sophisticated. I could use Screenshot screen recording too, but Screenflow is really the simplest and most focused video creation app out there that clicks with me.\nI love using great software.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-16 21:15:40 -0500", "date": "9:15 p.m. on Dec 16, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/16/the-stars-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F16%2Fthe-stars-of.html" }, { "id": 2774, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " Back in the nineties, I tried drawing a few things, like this Apple's Newton MessagePad. Not bad, hen!? ", "dateiso": "2022-12-16 09:13:23 -0500", "date": "9:13 p.m. on Dec 16, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/16/back-in-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F16%2Fback-in-the.html" }, { "id": 2775, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " Raycast year in review. Wow. I love this thing so much! ", "dateiso": "2022-12-16 08:24:11 -0500", "date": "8:24 p.m. on Dec 16, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/16/raycast-year-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F16%2Fraycast-year-in.html" }, { "id": 2776, "type": "post", "title": "Twitter — It’s Really Getting Worse", "text": "According to media and users on Twitter:\nMany Twitter users added a Mastodon profile link into their bios as the Twitter alternative picked up steam. Now, any links to blocked Mastodon servers are disabled and accompanied by the text “Warning: this link may be unsafe.\nAnd\nTwitter on Thursday evening suddenly suspended several high-profile journalists who cover the platform and Elon Musk, one of the richest people in the world, who acquired the company just a few months ago.\nHours after the suspensions took hold, Musk faced off with one of the journalists he suspended in a Twitter Space audio discussion before an audience of more than 30,000 listeners. The suspended journalist, along with several others, found a backdoor way onto the platform through the website's audio function.\n“You doxx, you get suspended. End of story. That's it,” Musk said, explaining his latest policy to the group, before he left minutes after having joined the discussion.\nWow. What a shit show. After suspending targeted individual accounts, now it appears it is getting more systematic. Is there an employee at Twitter capable of saying no to Musk even if it means being fired? Or is Musk at the command and personally disabling those accounts? Twitter is turning into USSR with a fake free-speech proponent leader.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-16 07:06:30 -0500", "date": "7:06 p.m. on Dec 16, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/16/twitter-its-really.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F16%2Ftwitter-its-really.html" }, { "id": 2777, "type": "post", "title": "Hands Down to Hand Mirror Plus", "text": "Just got my notice for the Hand Mirror update today. The latest release offers a paid version, for which I gladly paid. Why? Hand Mirror is a great example of useful software with attributes of the work of great craftsmanship. It was an instant buy because of this. The onboarding screen is simply gorgeous. ", "dateiso": "2022-12-15 21:31:08 -0500", "date": "9:31 p.m. on Dec 15, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/15/hands-down-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F15%2Fhands-down-to.html" }, { "id": 2778, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Nobody Cares Apple Missed Their Apple Silicon Timeline birchtree.meMatt Birchler https://birchtree.me/blog/nobody-cares-apple-missed-their-apple-silicon-timeline/\rMatt is right, we don\u0026rsquo;t care. I don\u0026rsquo;t care. The big enigma, though, is the Mac Pro. What is it going to look like?\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-15 21:16:58 -0500", "date": "9:16 p.m. on Dec 15, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/15/nobody-cares-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F15%2Fnobody-cares-apple.html" }, { "id": 2779, "type": "post", "title": "Eyeing the Rumoured 15-Inch MacBook Air", "text": " Apple\u0026rsquo;s rumored 15-inch ‌MacBook Air‌ is expected to feature the same general design as the 13-inch ‌MacBook Air‌ that was released in 2022 with flat edges, a large Force Touch trackpad, a keyboard with function keys, and more. It will also likely include a MagSafe charging port, upgraded speaker system, and a 1080p camera. Source: 15.5-Inch MacBook Air Expected to Launch in Spring 2023 - MacRumors\nThis year, as an M1 MacBook Air owner, I decided to skip the M2 MacBook Air. The differences aren\u0026rsquo;t significant enough for me to upgrade, performance and design-wise. But getting a bigger display in a light package without going to the Pro line is a different story. It won\u0026rsquo;t come cheap, for sure. Count me in the line up.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-15 18:31:28 -0500", "date": "6:31 p.m. on Dec 15, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/15/eyeing-the-rumoured.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F15%2Feyeing-the-rumoured.html" }, { "id": 2780, "type": "post", "title": "Exit Plans are Important — Learning the Hard Way With Twitter", "text": "Exit plans are important. My Twitter exit planning reminds me that we all should have some sort of exit plan for anything we use and depend on online. Every building has an emergency exit plan. Businesses who subscribe to cloud-based services need to plan their exit in case they no longer like their cloud provider. The same should be planned for using services like Twitter. Having a plan is one thing but maintaining it is quite another. I’m learning my lesson the hard way my friends. More to come soon.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-15 11:07:42 -0500", "date": "11:07 p.m. on Dec 15, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/15/exit-plans-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F15%2Fexit-plans-are.html" }, { "id": 2781, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Updated my bio today, adding a mention of being a Qwitter (someone planning to Quit Twitter). When I tell my wife that I\u0026rsquo;m going to close my Twitter accounts next year, she gives me a dubious look and says: why wait next year? 🫣😂\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-14 17:57:08 -0500", "date": "5:57 p.m. on Dec 14, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/14/updated-my-bio.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F14%2Fupdated-my-bio.html" }, { "id": 2782, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I love the idea of Ooh.directory, blog directory and most supporting RSS feeds. I submitted mine. Will see if they accept it.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-14 08:13:53 -0500", "date": "8:13 p.m. on Dec 14, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/14/i-love-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F14%2Fi-love-the.html" }, { "id": 2783, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I just realized that to see the list of people I follow on Micro.blog, I need to visit my own profile page, right? Am I missing something @manton? If so, may I suggest having a link somewhere else, like in the Account section or the Discovery section?\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-14 07:22:08 -0500", "date": "7:22 p.m. on Dec 14, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/14/i-just-realized.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F14%2Fi-just-realized.html" }, { "id": 2784, "type": "post", "title": "Twitter Is the Uneeded Intermediary and How I'm Planning to Get Rid of It", "text": "Whenever I want to go to Twitter, I should remember that Twitter is mostly a big dump of content originating from other places. So, why not consume content at the source instead? In my journey to a Twitter-free world, I’ll need to rebuild my habits of visiting the following places:\n* Techmeme: for consuming news;\n* RSS Reader: for consuming news and articles;\n* Telegram: for consuming news;\n* Mailbrew: for consuming content;\n* Hackernews: for discovering content;\n* Reddit: for consuming content, exploring and discovering new content;\nA special mention about Mailbrew is required here: a portion of the content generated in my private newsletters comes from Twitter. I’ll need to revisit this sooner than later. Thankfully, Mailbrew supports RSS feeds as a content source. But then, maybe using my RSS reader will render Mailbrew mostly useless? ", "dateiso": "2022-12-14 06:54:43 -0500", "date": "6:54 p.m. on Dec 14, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/14/twitter-is-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F14%2Ftwitter-is-the.html" }, { "id": 2785, "type": "post", "title": "On Rumours of Apple Working on Its App Stores Overhaul", "text": "Bloomberg:\nApple to Allow Outside App Stores in Overhaul Spurred by EU Laws.\nBoom. If true, it’s massive. I can imagine Apple's engineering efforts to make it happen for WWDC 2023. I wrote earlier this year that I changed my mind about sideloading apps on the iPhone. I still stand with my change of heart. I expect the iPhone experience to suffer with increased complexity for ordinary users. Not by much, but somehow, things will have to change to accommodate new workflows. It’s not an easy task to keep things simple. I trust Apple to find a good compromise. I don’t expect to use apps installed from other sources, except if there is a significant pricing difference or if it’s a unique app not available otherwise. ", "dateiso": "2022-12-13 20:18:18 -0500", "date": "8:18 p.m. on Dec 13, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/13/on-rumours-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F13%2Fon-rumours-of.html" }, { "id": 2786, "type": "post", "title": "On Apple's Freeform and Tools Palettes", "text": "Freeform, the visual and collaborative application from Apple, is finally out for the iPad, the Mac and… I spent some time with it on the iPad and found it enjoyable and deceptively minimalistic. On the Mac, once updated to Ventura 13.1, Freeform can be used to continue working on the content, albeit with a different set of tools, since there is no Apple Pencil support over there. One question is, why is the tools palette on the iPad different from the one with Apple Notes? I mean, there are pencils or crayons that I prefer on Notes over the available choices in Freemform’s palette. Following is a comparison of both. At the top is the Apple Notes tools palette. At the bottom is Apple’s Freeform. The latter seems a bit childish, too simplistic. I really wish there were more pencil types. Other than that, I didn’t test the collaborative work with someone else. I see Freemore as more for individualistic creative work. I’m not sure yet if I’ll ever make good use of it. Certainly not at work, as we’re more of a “Microsoft” business. Time will tell. ", "dateiso": "2022-12-13 19:49:47 -0500", "date": "7:49 p.m. on Dec 13, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/13/on-apples-freeform.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F13%2Fon-apples-freeform.html" }, { "id": 2787, "type": "post", "title": "Starting a Journey to My Twitter-Free Digital Life", "text": "After much thinking and due to recent events on Elon Musk\u0026rsquo;s Twitter, I\u0026rsquo;m starting to put together a plan for phasing Twitter out of my digital life entirely. The journey will be long, and I made it to be one of my goals for 2023.\nTwitter is well entrenched in my digital life. One example of this is the Mailbrew service that I\u0026rsquo;m subscribing to: sign in requires my Twitter account. Duh. Lots of generated newsletter content is pulled off Twitter. Duh.\nI\u0026rsquo;ll need to be methodical in pursuing a better digital world. I\u0026rsquo;ll learn a lot about along the way and probably reconsider many aspects of my digital workflows.\nFrom now on, I\u0026rsquo;ll use the \u0026ldquo;Qwitter\u0026rdquo; category for these posts.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-13 08:14:45 -0500", "date": "8:14 p.m. on Dec 13, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/13/starting-a-journey.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F13%2Fstarting-a-journey.html" }, { "id": 2788, "type": "post", "title": "Following Mastodon Users From Micro.blog", "text": "[@anildash@mastodon.cloud](https://micro.blog/anildash@mastodon.cloud) I've been improving our ActivityPub support in Micro.blog. Just posted a video earlier today that you might find interesting: www.youtube.com/watch\nManton Reece https://micro.blog/manton/14888307\rThanks to this video, I understand that I can follow Mastodon users right from Micro.blog. ", "dateiso": "2022-12-12 21:03:59 -0500", "date": "9:03 p.m. on Dec 12, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/12/following-mastodon-users.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F12%2Ffollowing-mastodon-users.html" }, { "id": 2789, "type": "post", "title": "When Ukraine Is Home of Great Software Makers", "text": "I recently wrote my satisfaction about Readdle’s Documents.app on-boarding experience on the iPad. Now I’m reading about Spark’s cleverness take on emails. Without being as opinionated as Hey.com, Spark is a serious professional email client. Readdle’s home is Ukraine 🇺🇦 too. I’m considering integrating both software in my toolset. All good reasons to show some support to them.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-12 20:10:32 -0500", "date": "8:10 p.m. on Dec 12, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/12/when-ukraine-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F12%2Fwhen-ukraine-is.html" }, { "id": 2790, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Matter to begin offering a subscription early next year. It was bound to happen. I’ll have to take a position and choose sooner than I originally thought. 🤦🏻‍♂️🫤\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-12 18:01:29 -0500", "date": "6:01 p.m. on Dec 12, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/12/matter-to-begin.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F12%2Fmatter-to-begin.html" }, { "id": 2791, "type": "post", "title": "Welcome to the TwitterDump", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m not a Qwitter. I don\u0026rsquo;t think I\u0026rsquo;ll ever close my Twitter account. But, there will be a day where I no longer post original content on Twitter, only cross-posting stuff from other sources. That day, I\u0026rsquo;ll refer to Twitter as the TwitterDump™.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-11 16:03:12 -0500", "date": "4:03 p.m. on Dec 11, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/11/welcome-to-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F11%2Fwelcome-to-the.html" }, { "id": 2792, "type": "post", "title": "Another Day, Another Rabbit Hole", "text": "Well, I almost forgot about it. Today I received my invite to start testing Post.news; another potential exit door from Twitter.\nFrom what I\u0026rsquo;m seeing, there is already quite a few people in there and I like the posting experience so far. It\u0026rsquo;s way easier to setup than anything Mastodon-related. Yeah, I know, it\u0026rsquo;s not the \u0026ldquo;federated\u0026rdquo; \u0026amp; \u0026ldquo;open web\u0026rdquo; et al., but hey, it\u0026rsquo;s not Elon Musk\u0026rsquo;s Twitter!\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-11 15:08:59 -0500", "date": "3:08 p.m. on Dec 11, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/11/another-day-another.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F11%2Fanother-day-another.html" }, { "id": 2793, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Isn’t that weird that we need to jump to an external website to enjoy the 2022 Replay? Why not have it within Music.app itself? 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-10 17:27:49 -0500", "date": "5:27 p.m. on Dec 10, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/10/isnt-that-weird.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F10%2Fisnt-that-weird.html" }, { "id": 2794, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sorry for your timeline flooding about this Mac Pro thing\u0026hellip; probably a big in MarsEdit 5.0. Returning to normal programming now.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-10 15:22:11 -0500", "date": "3:22 p.m. on Dec 10, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/10/sorry-for-your.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F10%2Fsorry-for-your.html" }, { "id": 2795, "type": "post", "title": "The Most Divisive Mac Pro Is a Thing of Beauty", "text": "This week, a new Mac joined the family. The 2013 Mac Pro. I always dreamed of owning one. It’s probably one of the most singular Macs Apple has ever designed. Yes, it has limited expansion. Yes, it is not the Pro Mac that the pros wanted back in 2013. Yes, you need to unplug everything from the machine to open it up. It’s borderline baffling. But this hardware piece, just like the monolith in the 2001 Space Odyssey movie, seems to come from an alien planet, far from earth. Once plugged in and turned on, you can hear it barely humming, just like in any space station depicted in science fiction movies. I’m starting to use this Mac Pro for a project that requires an Intel processor. You can read about it here if you are curious.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-10 15:15:47 -0500", "date": "3:15 p.m. on Dec 10, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/10/the-most-divisive.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F10%2Fthe-most-divisive.html" }, { "id": 2796, "type": "post", "title": "Glass Is Evolving Nicely", "text": "It’s good to see Glass introduce new methods for discovering photos on its platform. I would love to see percentages relative to each camera and smartphone brand. Searching by lenses tells us that Nikon is way behind Canon regarding diversity and representation. Can’t wait for Glass’s next move. ", "dateiso": "2022-12-08 13:29:55 -0500", "date": "1:29 p.m. on Dec 8, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/08/glass-is-evolving.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F08%2Fglass-is-evolving.html" }, { "id": 2797, "type": "post", "title": "The Password-Less Future Looks Bright and Secure", "text": "For the first in years, I just bought something from eBay. Man, this website design sucks and seems to date back to the early web. Is there anyone who cares about design at eBay? Anyway, they do care about security, though. Upon logging in with my password this morning, there was a popup asking me if I wanted to get rid of my password. I thought it was the eBay website that was about to turn on the Touch ID but instead asked me to confirm the passkey creation. It took me a confirmation with my finger on the Touch ID sensor on my M1 MacBook, and voilà, no more password required! That’s super cool.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-08 07:01:41 -0500", "date": "7:01 p.m. on Dec 8, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/08/the-passwordless-future.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F08%2Fthe-passwordless-future.html" }, { "id": 2798, "type": "post", "title": "Upgraded to MarsEdit 5.0...", "text": "Because native software is cool. Because indie developers are cool. Because it supports Micro.blog but not Twitter. Because it is cheap. Because it’s a small company. Because their new Micropost (markdown) editor is nice, perfect for posting on Micro.blog. It is frictionless. Micropost \u0026amp; micro.blog, any coincidence? Mmmm.\nAnyways… it’s a great update that I’m currently testing. Returning to normal programming.\nWritten from the couch, on my M1 MacBook Air.\n", "dateiso": "2022-12-07 21:53:40 -0500", "date": "9:53 p.m. on Dec 7, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/12/07/upgraded-to-marsedit.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F12%2F07%2Fupgraded-to-marsedit.html" }, { "id": 2799, "type": "post", "title": "Twitter’s Essentials", "text": "I read about so many people flocking to Mastodon, leaving Twitter behind. I actually started to see a definitive decline in my followers number. Something is really going on. I myself started to think about the possibility of leaving the platform too. Just like I did with Facebook, Flickr, and Tumblr, only to leave a place where my content is simply cross-posted from another source without a real and active presence of mine. Twitter could be next. Really. I could live without the traffic influx from Twitter, which represents about 15% of all my visitors.\nThere is one thing that it would be hard for me to leave behind, though. If it wasn’t about the war in Ukraine, it would be an easy decision. The problem is that I follow a few people and news sources that diffuse their content on Twitter. Is there a Twitter equivalent for this type of small blips of nano content? I don’t see that in Mastodon yet. RSS feeds are not a platform but transport. The next Twitter has yet to emerge.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-30 07:00:00 -0500", "date": "7:00 p.m. on Nov 30, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/11/30/twitters-essentials.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F11%2F30%2Ftwitters-essentials.html" }, { "id": 2800, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If you read my Friday Notes series, then it’s a good way to learn about me. Just sayin. Happy Saturday night!\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-12 17:20:50 -0500", "date": "5:20 p.m. on Nov 12, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/11/12/if-you-read.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F11%2F12%2Fif-you-read.html" }, { "id": 2801, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just released: my first visual story on Exposure.\nTwenty days in Italy / Summer 2022.\nEnjoy.\n", "dateiso": "2022-11-05 14:01:31 -0500", "date": "2:01 p.m. on Nov 5, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/11/05/just-released-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F11%2F05%2Fjust-released-my.html" }, { "id": 2802, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been quietly testing Exposure recently, an excellent visual storytelling service. I could probably replace my Smugmug page. That\u0026rsquo;s the goal of my experiment anyway: testing Exposure service\u0026rsquo;s ability to replace Smugmug. Stay tuned. This is my first short story.\n", "dateiso": "2022-10-30 09:05:25 -0500", "date": "9:05 p.m. on Oct 30, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/10/30/ive-been-quietly.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F10%2F30%2Five-been-quietly.html" }, { "id": 2803, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I don’t know what will happen with Musk at the helm of Twitter. It’s probably going to turn really bad before turning potentially better (no guarantee here) but I have a backup plan: Micro.blog.\n", "dateiso": "2022-10-28 17:53:16 -0500", "date": "5:53 p.m. on Oct 28, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/10/28/i-dont-know.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F10%2F28%2Fi-dont-know.html" }, { "id": 2804, "type": "post", "title": "Clear Thoughts on a Confusing iPad Lineup", "text": "\nThere we have it, a new iPad, a new iPad Pro, joining a growing and more confusing iPad lineup than ever. I won’t repeat the best comments from MacStories (“Apple Announces Strange New iPad and iPad Pro Lineup“) and Six Colors (“The iPad’s erratic odyssey continues”). How are this week’s announcements influencing my buying decisions?\nI’m currently using a 2018 11-inches iPad Pro. Going to the 2022 M2 iPad Pro would be a significant step, at least from a processing power perspective. Should I stay on the 11-inches size or go to the 12.9-inches version and get a big screen upgrade? Using this new iPad as a photo-processing machine and as a second screen to any of my Mac would undoubtedly support the bigger iPad. But what a weird setup this would make to use a much-better secondary screen like the 12.9-inches iPad Pro on a 2020 M1-based MacBook Air machine. There is no comparison to be made.\nIn its video clip of fewer than five minutes, Apple is positioning the latest iPad Pro weirdly and surprisingly: the best machine to experience the “exciting” Stage Manager. What a strange way to present the iPad Pro. It will undoubtedly help but having to buy an expensive iPad to get a different and questionable way to multitask on a tablet is doubtful.\nOh, and what a missed opportunity to have Freeform ready simultaneously and present it as the best way to collaborate in a creative environment! We will have to wait until “later this year” to come to get a sense of Apple’s vision of collaborative work. Oh, and Final Cut is still MIA. Instead, Apple continues to rely on third-party apps to show how powerful the iPad Pro actually is. Thanks to DaVinci Resolve or Affinity, when they ship their new beast of software. Later. Eventually.\nI don’t know why but my feeling is that the 2022 iPad Pro is only a transition machine, and the real deal will be next year’s update. Oh, and these keyboard choices are as strange as all the rest.\nI’m unsettled. 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2022-10-19 06:21:48 -0500", "date": "6:21 p.m. on Oct 19, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/10/19/clear-thoughts-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F10%2F19%2Fclear-thoughts-on.html" }, { "id": 2805, "type": "post", "title": "Adobe, Lightroom and the Camera", "text": "\nThe Adobe Max conference was held this week. With each conference comes a slew of new application update releases. I’m not really into Adobe ecosystem except for using Adobe Lightroom on the Mac and the iPad Pro. This is my main photo processing engine, coupled with the excellent Pixelmator Pro. For About a year, Adobe spent some of its development money to “augment” Lightroom, a photo-processing application, with video-processing features. Why? I don’t get it. I don’t want it.\nAs Adobe is adding video-processing features to Lightroom, I fear they are making it less focused and slowly becoming a bloated piece of software, on the outside but also the inside. Adobe Lightroom’s mission was to start over and make a new solid foundation apart from its aging Adobe Lightroom Classic.\nI want Adobe to focus on photography; they already have video-processing apps like Adobe Premiere!\nI’d love Adobe to focus on making the camera feature compete with a dedicated camera app like Apple’s camera app or Halide or Camera+. I cannot remember when the last release of Adobe touched this portion of Lightroom in significant ways. Why is it important? As a subscriber of an Adobe photography plan, I would use the Lightroom camera more, and my images would directly go to the Adobe Cloud, just like the Apple camera app saved photos in iCloud. It would be so much more convenient. I prefer Adobe cloud for my RAW images instead of having to transit my RAW photos through the Apple Photos library. The more Adobe improves the built-in camera module of Lightroom, the more I’ll stay within Lightroom while in a photography moment.\n", "dateiso": "2022-10-19 06:00:14 -0500", "date": "6:00 p.m. on Oct 19, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/10/19/adobe-lightroom-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F10%2F19%2Fadobe-lightroom-and.html" }, { "id": 2806, "type": "post", "title": "On This AI-Generated Podcast Interview Between Joe Rogan and Steve Jobs", "text": "\nWhat. The. Fuck.\nThis podcast example about a fake interview between Joe Rogan and Steve Jobs is a blatant example of where some more thoughts should take place before putting high tech to work. What is the purpose of this? Is this a tech demo or some bad-taste proof-of-concept? It\u0026rsquo;s not hard to imagine how it could derail in the future when used in politically-heated contexts. Oh, and no, I didn’t waste my time listening to this garbage, and I won’t share the link to this podcast, either.\nImage credits: generated using Dall-E with the following phrase: “an hand drawn Mac computer that never existed digital art”\n", "dateiso": "2022-10-18 06:08:47 -0500", "date": "6:08 p.m. on Oct 18, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/10/18/on-this-aigenerated.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F10%2F18%2Fon-this-aigenerated.html" }, { "id": 2807, "type": "post", "title": "When the iPad Is No Longer a Novel Device", "text": "\nAs I write this, rumours are pointing to an imminent release of some updated iPads today. What is novel this time is not the CPU to be used, the screen attributes, or the long-awaited app called Freeform. What is novel is the fact that there won’t be an Apple event for the announcement but a few well-crafted press releases. Apple judges the updates as not worth tech pundits’ time, flight to Cupertino, or even a secret press briefing.\nI would argue that we are officially entering the iPad commodity era. Thanks to Apple, who neglected to show the iPad’s true potential with a ported version of powerful apps like Final Cut Pro, a real multitasking experience, the iPad is becoming a mundane device. Putting an M2 processor in it won’t change the story here. Freeform, a low-profile app that Apple quickly demonstrated at the WWDC conference last June, won’t probably appeal to many, being late in the game of collaborative work and creativity. Even long-time bloggers and iPad believers like Matt Birchler are no longer waiting for the iPad to ignite the personal computing segment.\nWe will see shortly if Apple has a few surprises in-store today.\nPhoto credits: Photo by Niklas Hamann on Unsplash\n", "dateiso": "2022-10-18 05:44:07 -0500", "date": "5:44 p.m. on Oct 18, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/10/18/when-the-ipad.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F10%2F18%2Fwhen-the-ipad.html" }, { "id": 2808, "type": "post", "title": "The Waiting Game", "text": "In case you didn’t know, I’m a big fan of Apple (from the corporation, the products to the company’s history). Here’s a little secret: I maintain a document of possible upgrade paths for all my current Apple products. It’s fun. Yes, I’m a bit crazy.\nEach year, during the fall, Apple releases a slew of new products. Each year, I spend some time updating my document to reflect my analysis of possible product upgrades. Take the iPhone for example. I’m currently using last year’s iPhone 13 Pro. I’m super happy with but I’m pondering the idea of upgrading to the iPhone 14 Pro Max. So, I list all the reasons why I should do it and all the reasons why I should refrain from doing the upgrade. It’s the same drill for my aging 2018 11-inches iPad Pro. Or my Apple Watch Series 6. It’s quite fun and educative because for each product, I spend quite some time studying it and pondering their technical advances over my current product. It’s really fun. And crazy.\nThis year, it’s a bit different for some reasons. There’s still nothing in the Apple tech landscape that could trigger a purchase. Not yet. Rumours about an upcoming iPad Pro refresh and a more powerful Mac mini with an M2 are aplenty. Things could change in a few weeks.\nBut, seriously, what is more fun than anything else is the waiting game. Pleases come while waiting for something to happen. I read somewhere that people who wait patiently to get something are more happy in life than those who succumb rapidly to fill their immediate needs. I must be quite happy then.\nHeader photo credits: Photo by Zhiyue on Unsplash\n", "dateiso": "2022-10-16 14:37:33 -0500", "date": "2:37 p.m. on Oct 16, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/10/16/the-waiting-game.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F10%2F16%2Fthe-waiting-game.html" }, { "id": 2809, "type": "post", "title": "Russian's Strategy — Possible Response", "text": "🇺🇦It is becoming clear that Russians are angry about the near collapse of their army in south and east Ukraine. The strategy now seems to bomb all over Ukraine, mostly civilian infrastructures, to terrorize the civil population, double down with Belarus, and get ready for another take from the north for a second time. They probably hope to disrupt the Ukrainian counteroffensive in the south by diverting precious Ukrainian army resources back to the north. Devilish.\nHere’s what would be my plan:\nFirst and foremost: officially declare Russia a terrorist state. Then:\nApply all possible remaining sanctions against Russia;\nApply all possible sanctions against Belarus;\nFully Isolate Kaliningrad economically and commercially;\nKick out Russia from the Security Council at the UN;\nBring more military resources to Nato countries in Europe;\nSend all requested anti-air, tanks and long-range missile launchers to Ukraine ASAP.\n", "dateiso": "2022-10-10 12:22:16 -0500", "date": "12:22 p.m. on Oct 10, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/10/10/russians-strategy-possible.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F10%2F10%2Frussians-strategy-possible.html" }, { "id": 2810, "type": "post", "title": "On the Dynamic Island Inception and Possible Future", "text": "A recent Twitter thread about the possible iPhone Dynamic Island inception by Matt Birchler caught my attention a few days ago but couldn\u0026rsquo;t find the required time to write my take.\nHow long could Dynamic Island have been in gestation at Apple? A few weeks, a few months? I think this has been in the works for quite some time. Besides the visual appearance, the API goes with it and needs a design period too. I\u0026rsquo;m sure Matt understands and knows about that. I would argue that Apple worked on this way before this year\u0026rsquo;s announcement. Best integration between hardware and software takes time because of how Apple is internally structured. Secrecy plays a significant role in making things longer to achieve too. Apple plan\u0026rsquo;s for the long run, and I think the pill shape was set in stone last year.\nThe second thing that caught my attention is this: How long will Dynamic Island be with us? What if Apple can make the camera disappear under the iPhone\u0026rsquo;s display? Would this make Dynamic Island pointless? No. My take is that the feature is here for the long run, even though the camera and all other sensors could disappear entirely. Apple is training us to accept Dynamic Island as a fundamental part of the iPhone experience. We may even expect the feature to be the de facto standard of the best iPhone user experience. I don\u0026rsquo;t think we will revert to the previous design that Dynamic Island is taking care of. The black pill share could be dynamically removed when not required but could then pop up to respond to the current context dictated by the user interaction.\nThe Dynamic Island is such a terrible name but the feature in itself is brilliant, so Apple.\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-26 17:39:36 -0500", "date": "5:39 p.m. on Sep 26, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/09/26/on-the-dynamic.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F09%2F26%2Fon-the-dynamic.html" }, { "id": 2811, "type": "post", "title": "Press Releases it will be — Next Round of Apple Products Releases", "text": "The way I see it, there is nothing in an updated MacBook Pro line with M2 processors and a tweaked iPad Pro line to warrant a keynote. There has to be something special, really special. iPadOS 16.1, macOS Ventura aren\u0026rsquo;t enough. The rumoured Mac Pro? Maybe, but no signals on its imminent release either. An updated Apple TV hardware? Nah. A larger MacBook Air (like 15\u0026quot;)? Why now? That is why I agree with Gurman\u0026rsquo;s view and the next product release will go through a set of press releases later in October.\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-26 16:23:56 -0500", "date": "4:23 p.m. on Sep 26, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/09/26/press-releases-it.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F09%2F26%2Fpress-releases-it.html" }, { "id": 2812, "type": "post", "title": "On Software Subscriptions", "text": " Tweetbot hasn’t been updated for over 6 months, I thought a subscription was going to mean more frequent updates? Source: Letting my Glass and Tweetbot subscriptions expire – LJPUK:\nThis blog post triggered the following thoughts.\nThe movement to subscriptions in the software landscape is MASSIVE but is far from being a guarantee of more frequent updates from the developers. I\u0026rsquo;m utterly infuriated when I see a yearly subscription for a small utility with a limited scope when no \u0026ldquo;lifetime\u0026rdquo; options are offered with reasonable pricing. Many devs are lazy, and greedy and send you a big middle finger.\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-23 06:30:23 -0500", "date": "6:30 p.m. on Sep 23, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/09/23/on-software-subscriptions.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F09%2F23%2Fon-software-subscriptions.html" }, { "id": 2813, "type": "post", "title": "Putin, the loser", "text": "🇺🇦 Putin is showing signs of being a loser (as if it wasn’t clear yet), because he is losing, slowly but surely. Sure we’d like things to happen quicker to save lives and infrastructures. But with yesterday’s “speech”, Putin is signing for more collaboration across western countries, hoping for reinforcements of support for Ukraine.\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-21 09:44:33 -0500", "date": "9:44 p.m. on Sep 21, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/09/21/putin-the-loser.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F09%2F21%2Fputin-the-loser.html" }, { "id": 2814, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " So, if you want to push your career and your life in a new direction then take care of your blog. Because it all adds up. Source: Take Care of Your Blog\nYep, it all adds up pretty quickly and moves your life in the direction of your own choosing.\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-20 08:00:00 -0500", "date": "8:00 p.m. on Sep 20, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/09/20/090000.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F09%2F20%2F090000.html" }, { "id": 2815, "type": "post", "title": "Let Apple Fix All Bugs, Will Ya?", "text": "MacRumors in iPhone 14 Pro Owners Complain of \u0026lsquo;Slow\u0026rsquo; Camera App - MacRumors:\nAffected users are seeing the Camera app take four to five seconds to activate after the Camera app icon is tapped, with the problem occurring after the camera has been opened once already.\nCoupled with other issues related to the camera and AirDrop, even though I\u0026rsquo;ll probably upgrade to the 14 Pro Max, I\u0026rsquo;ll gladly wait a few months before taking the plunge. But, fixes are coming very soon, apparently.\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-20 07:30:00 -0500", "date": "7:30 p.m. on Sep 20, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/09/20/let-apple-fix.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F09%2F20%2Flet-apple-fix.html" }, { "id": 2816, "type": "post", "title": "On iPhone Internal Design - as Important as the External Design", "text": "iFixit writing about the internal redesign of the iPhone 14 in \u0026ldquo;The iPhone 14 Feature Apple Didn’t Tell You About\u0026rdquo;:\nThis is the most substantial iPhone redesign since the X. It’s hard to understate how big a change this is. For a reference point, Samsung hasn’t changed their phone architecture since 2015.\nSo, with the biggest update in years, we’re upgrading the iPhone 14 to a repairability score of 7 out of 10. That’s the best score we’ve given an iPhone since the iPhone 7. This is the most repairable iPhone in years.\nWho wrote that smartphones, iPhone in particular, have peeked? A fundamental redesign of the iPhone to make it more repairable seems not only a good move but a much-needed change of thinking. If Apple is serious about environment protection and carbon footprint, they not only have to think about the choice of materials but also the way iPhones are built so they are more easily fixed. Kudos to Apple. Why this design is only for the iPhone 14, not the Pro, is a mystery to me.\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-20 07:00:00 -0500", "date": "7:00 p.m. on Sep 20, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/09/20/on-iphone-internal.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F09%2F20%2Fon-iphone-internal.html" }, { "id": 2817, "type": "post", "title": "The more I think about it...", "text": "The more I look at reviews, watch YouTube videos and visit Apple.com, the more I realize that considering my current hardware setup, there aren\u0026rsquo;t many reasons to upgrade to the iPhone 14 Pro (currently with 13 Pro), the Apple Series 8 (currently with Series 6) or the AirPods Pro 2 (currently the original Pro version). The Apple Watch Ultra could be a reason, but I\u0026rsquo;m not the target customer for that one.\nWaiting for October releases and going to the Apple Store tomorrow. Just for fun.\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-15 17:45:46 -0500", "date": "5:45 p.m. on Sep 15, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/09/15/the-more-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F09%2F15%2Fthe-more-i.html" }, { "id": 2818, "type": "post", "title": "The Unexpected Pain That Comes With Lock Screen Customization", "text": "\nSo, I’ve been testing iOS 16 since its early beta stage, and I love it so much. One of the best features is the customizable Lock Screen. But it also creates an issue, the same with Apple Watch watch faces: how to decide which widgets to use and place in those limited slots. There are more and more widgets available each day, but the space is so constrained. I cannot find a strategy to create a Lock Screen that I’m fully satisfied with. I end up creating many of them, but switching among them isn’t smooth, except if they are linked to a focus mode. It’s not a first-world problem, but it is annoying. I’m left with a sense of constant dissatisfaction.\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-14 06:11:22 -0500", "date": "6:11 p.m. on Sep 14, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/09/14/the-unexpected-pain.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F09%2F14%2Fthe-unexpected-pain.html" }, { "id": 2819, "type": "post", "title": "Feeling So Happy...", "text": "🇺🇦 What is happening right now in Ukraine is nothing but encouraging! I was waiting for this to happen the day we started to help Ukraine. Now it seems it is making a difference. News is coming on an hourly basis from the northeast and the south. Let\u0026rsquo;s kick Russia out once and for all ASAP! Glory to Ukraine!\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-13 08:06:06 -0500", "date": "8:06 p.m. on Sep 13, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/09/13/feeling-so-happy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F09%2F13%2Ffeeling-so-happy.html" }, { "id": 2820, "type": "post", "title": "What's Hot in Italy? Android or iPhone? My Observations", "text": "Here\u0026rsquo;s an interesting post by Gruber about Android vs iPhone\u0026rsquo;s relative popularity in different places around the world. I have some observations to share from my experience.\nAfter spending three weeks in Italy for vacation, from what I could see, there was a lot of iPhone around me independently of the place I visited. Sure I saw many Android phone users too. But a majority were iPhone users. Regarding Android\u0026rsquo;s relative popularity in Germany and France, I would consider the possibility of an aversion for what Apple represents (an \u0026ldquo;American icon\u0026rdquo;) in those countries as a partial explanation. Maybe it\u0026rsquo;s not cool to support an American company like Apple?\nAnother interesting fact: WhatsApp is THE messaging service app people seem to use the most. iMessage isn\u0026rsquo;t popular in Italy, it seems.\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-07 02:30:29 -0500", "date": "2:30 p.m. on Sep 7, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/09/07/whats-hot-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F09%2F07%2Fwhats-hot-in.html" }, { "id": 2821, "type": "post", "title": "Away from Apple's Far out event", "text": "Next week, Apple will release a bunch of new iPhone and Apple Watch. I think it\u0026rsquo;s the first time I feel so detached from this media event. I\u0026rsquo;ll still be in Italy on vacation. The \u0026ldquo;Far out\u0026rdquo; event will happen at 19:00 local time. I\u0026rsquo;m not sure I\u0026rsquo;ll be able to watch the keynote live since I\u0026rsquo;ll probably be having dinner or visiting a village. I don\u0026rsquo;t want to impose a stay at the apartment for that. I\u0026rsquo;ll watch the YouTube video when I\u0026rsquo;m back at the apartment.\n", "dateiso": "2022-09-03 03:43:26 -0500", "date": "3:43 p.m. on Sep 3, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/09/03/away-from-apples.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F09%2F03%2Faway-from-apples.html" }, { "id": 2822, "type": "post", "title": "M2 MacBook Air — Not Going To Happen", "text": "\nI paid a quick visit to the Apple Store yesterday to get a pack of AirTags and give another look at the M2 MacBook Air, especially the Midnight colour version. In principle, this colour is gorgeous, but in practice, I don’t think I would go with this colour if I were to upgrade to the M2 MacBook Air. It’s really a fingerprints magnet. I know my fingers can be “oily” at times, which would be even worse than in this picture. I like the idea of having black keyboard keys on a dark frame (like the MacBook Pro). Too bad. Another reason to postpone any upgrade plans.\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-19 05:57:43 -0500", "date": "5:57 p.m. on Aug 19, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/08/19/m-macbook-air.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F08%2F19%2Fm-macbook-air.html" }, { "id": 2823, "type": "post", "title": "AirTags Can Make a Difference", "text": "I want to chime in here, following the publication of this article from Om Malik about AirTags. I\u0026rsquo;m leaving for Italy in a few days. Knowing how bad the airport experience can get and reading those stories about airline companies\u0026rsquo; inability to keep up and keep losing track of customers’ luggage, AirTags can make a big difference. I\u0026rsquo;m going to double-down on AirTags. I already own four, and I\u0026rsquo;ll buy another four before leaving, so I get my base covered. AirTags already saved me a lot of trouble in the past on more than one occasion by reminding me that I left something behind. It\u0026rsquo;s well worth the money.\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-16 06:54:56 -0500", "date": "6:54 p.m. on Aug 16, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/08/16/airtags-can-make.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F08%2F16%2Fairtags-can-make.html" }, { "id": 2824, "type": "post", "title": "Building a Photo Diary Using Craft — An Experiment", "text": "I started another experiment: a photo diary of my upcoming trip to Italy. I\u0026rsquo;ll be using Craft for this. My objective is simple: testing Craft for photography-related work. I explain why and how I will do it in much more detail on the website. Here\u0026rsquo;s the link.\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-16 06:00:00 -0500", "date": "6:00 p.m. on Aug 16, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/08/16/building-a-photo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F08%2F16%2Fbuilding-a-photo.html" }, { "id": 2825, "type": "post", "title": "Waiting for the Surprises", "text": "Interesting fact: I rarely look at pictures of the places I\u0026rsquo;m going to visit. I could go online and look at many images of Milan, for example, or all the other places I\u0026rsquo;ll be visiting starting next week, but I don\u0026rsquo;t. My trips are organized by my wife. She\u0026rsquo;s the one doing the scouting and spends hours looking at where we\u0026rsquo;re going. I\u0026rsquo;m the guy who spends hours post-processing images I\u0026rsquo;ll be taking during the trip, making our trip live forever.\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-14 07:06:22 -0500", "date": "7:06 p.m. on Aug 14, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/08/14/waiting-for-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F08%2F14%2Fwaiting-for-the.html" }, { "id": 2826, "type": "post", "title": "How Apple Is Encouraging Developers to Have Their Own Identity", "text": "Telegram\u0026rsquo;s CEO, M. Pavel Durov, complains that Apple is making his life harder than necessary by having to wait for the review process to complete its job. When Apple finally accepts the update but requires him to remove the Telemoji package, he goes on to say:\n\u0026hellip; this will motivate Telegram to make Telemoji even more “unique and recognizable.”\nHe sounds like a whining baby. Thanks to Apple, Mr. Durov now gets the idea and his team will have to return to their drawing board and be more creative.\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-13 09:29:26 -0500", "date": "9:29 p.m. on Aug 13, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/08/13/how-apple-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F08%2F13%2Fhow-apple-is.html" }, { "id": 2827, "type": "post", "title": "My Photo Publishing Flow for Italy", "text": "Following my post earlier this week, I finally found my publishing workflow for my vacation in Italy. From time to time, I\u0026rsquo;ll write a story on my Photo Legend Series. Glass will be for regular publishing of my best shots of the day. I\u0026rsquo;ll use Craft to build a photo diary, it\u0026rsquo;s part of another project. I\u0026rsquo;ll share the link when I\u0026rsquo;m ready. Finally, Micro.blog will receive posts from my blog and Glass via the RSS cross-posting feature. What I think will be my best photos of the vacation will go to Unsplash and Smugmug when I return from vacation and after post-processing them in Lightroom. Unsplash will only get a few of them, while the full set will go to my Smugmug page.\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-13 06:31:07 -0500", "date": "6:31 p.m. on Aug 13, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/08/13/my-photo-publishing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F08%2F13%2Fmy-photo-publishing.html" }, { "id": 2828, "type": "post", "title": "No, no, no, and no. ", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m sorry, Dropzone, you\u0026rsquo;re good but not that useful. I mean, for such a narrow-usage utility, I\u0026rsquo;m not going to pay that much monthly. I\u0026rsquo;m the one who buys and rent software but come on. It\u0026rsquo;s becoming ridiculous. Provide a lifetime contribution, and I\u0026rsquo;ll make the deal. You\u0026rsquo;re a feature, not a product. Delete. 😞\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-13 06:15:13 -0500", "date": "6:15 p.m. on Aug 13, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/08/13/no-no-no.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F08%2F13%2Fno-no-no.html" }, { "id": 2829, "type": "post", "title": "How fast do you need your internet to be?", "text": "A recent post from MereCivilian about subscribing to a fast Internet service triggered this one. Here are a few reasons for having fast Internet at home:\n1. You’re many people (four or more) living under the same roof who are active Internet users;\r2. You’re many users who are doing streaming at the same time;\r3. You’re downloading or uploading really big files all the time;\r4. You’re playing online games;\rOther than that, high-speed internet is useless as each micro-transaction (small HTTPS requests) won’t benefit from the bandwidth available. In other words, a 100K web page on a 100 Mbits or 400 Mbits or 1000 Mbits link will take about the same time to load and render within your browser. Finally, consider the DNS service, which plays a big role in the latency involved while browsing the Internet.\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-12 06:07:21 -0500", "date": "6:07 p.m. on Aug 12, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/08/12/how-fast-do.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F08%2F12%2Fhow-fast-do.html" }, { "id": 2830, "type": "post", "title": "On Ghost Explorer", "text": "\nThis could be the best thing to come to Ghost in a long time: Ghost Explorer. And there is more coming next week, apparently 🤔. For someone who left Substack for Ghost more than a year ago, this is something that I was missing on Ghost. Now, it is much easier to get discovered. I guess. It remains to be seen if this will change the bottom line for me, though.\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-12 05:58:51 -0500", "date": "5:58 p.m. on Aug 12, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/08/12/on-ghost-explorer.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F08%2F12%2Fon-ghost-explorer.html" }, { "id": 2831, "type": "post", "title": "War zone, danger zone", "text": "🇺🇦 I’m going to Italy in the next few days, and I realize this will put me at the closest point to a war zone I have ever been to. It’s still far from the front lines, but as the Russians are working towards a nuclear disaster, distances are never long enough in these situations. My fingers are crossed that nothing of that sort happens while I’m in Italy. 🤞\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-10 06:34:49 -0500", "date": "6:34 p.m. on Aug 10, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/08/10/war-zone-danger.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F08%2F10%2Fwar-zone-danger.html" }, { "id": 2832, "type": "post", "title": "Wondering About Photo Journal for My Upcoming Trip to Italy", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m two weeks away from a long trip to Italy, and I\u0026rsquo;m wondering about posting photos while on the trip, but where? Since I\u0026rsquo;m not active on Facebook or Instagram but have a SmugMug and Glass account, what will I do? My Glass and SmugMug accounts aren\u0026rsquo;t for photo journaling, after all. I\u0026rsquo;m very selective with those. Maybe I could create posts in my Photo Legend series on Ghost? Could I try experimenting with Craft and adding photos to a shared page? Unfortunately, Craft isn\u0026rsquo;t the best app for images. Craft is much more about written words. What about posting here, on Micro.blog, using Sunlit? Decision, decision, decision. 🤔\nBut, fundamentally, who cares about my trip to Italy? 😉\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-09 06:45:21 -0500", "date": "6:45 p.m. on Aug 9, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/08/09/wondering-about-photo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F08%2F09%2Fwondering-about-photo.html" }, { "id": 2833, "type": "post", "title": "Less Colour Options at First, Introduce More Later", "text": "Color Options for All iPhone 14 Models: Everything We Know - MacRumors If iPhone 14 colour options are reduced compared to the iPhone 13 lineup, I think it’s because Apple is trying to reduce manufacturing options in a time of highly constrained manufacturing capacity. New colours could later be introduced like they did for the purple option this year.\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-09 06:19:51 -0500", "date": "6:19 p.m. on Aug 9, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/08/09/less-colour-options.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F08%2F09%2Fless-colour-options.html" }, { "id": 2834, "type": "post", "title": "About Heavy Camera Gear for Vacations", "text": "In The Weight Of Creativity – On my Om, Om Malik thinks about camera gears weight during trips. I\u0026rsquo;m on the verge of going to Italy for a three weeks vacation, and I\u0026rsquo;ll have to decide about the content of my camera backpack. As the iPhone is taking a more prominent role in photography, there are fewer incentives to bring heavy gear with me.\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-09 06:13:18 -0500", "date": "6:13 p.m. on Aug 9, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/08/09/about-heavy-camera.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F08%2F09%2Fabout-heavy-camera.html" }, { "id": 2835, "type": "post", "title": "Light at the End of the Tunnel?", "text": "🇺🇦 It’s been a long time since I posted something here. This morning, an article from the Kyiv Independent brought me into a cheerful mood regarding the conflict in Ukraine. There is something wrong with Russia’s army capabilities right now which looks like an opportunity window for the west. Are we going to take advantage of it? What kind of winter do we want for the Ukrainians? I hope the war fatigue doesn’t take over and obliterate this window of opportunity. Summer will come to an end; we’ll be back from vacations and return to the news watching, hopefully. Eventually, we, the west, will have to up (again) our support game if we want to give a bright future to the Ukrainian people and the rest of the western world. 🙏\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-07 08:53:50 -0500", "date": "8:53 p.m. on Aug 7, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/08/07/light-at-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F08%2F07%2Flight-at-the.html" }, { "id": 2836, "type": "post", "title": "About This Reading Enabling Device", "text": "For many reasons that I’m aware of, I forgot that the iPad is the best device for reading and collecting information tidbits that are fueling my content creation workflow. The iPad enables me to effortlessly annotate and store content into Craft using a Shortcut. In fact, unsurprisingly, the iPad actually is a devide that invites reading sessions into my morning routine. I should use my iPad more often; I’ll probably read more consequently.\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-03 06:39:12 -0500", "date": "6:39 p.m. on Aug 3, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/08/03/about-this-reading.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F08%2F03%2Fabout-this-reading.html" }, { "id": 2837, "type": "post", "title": "Switching from Instagram to ... ", "text": "It is surprising and fascinating that we seem to skip Flickr or 500px as a replacement for Instagram when thinking like this about Instagram possible replacements. Those platforms should take advantage of the Instagram pivot to something other than photos. They don’t and they are missing an occasion to reinvent themselves. I’m a paid user of Glass and Smugmug, and I love them.\n", "dateiso": "2022-08-01 07:00:00 -0500", "date": "7:00 p.m. on Aug 1, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/08/01/switching-from-instagram.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F08%2F01%2Fswitching-from-instagram.html" }, { "id": 2838, "type": "post", "title": "On Apple Silicon Macs and lack of Windows Support", "text": "Regarding the lack of Boot Camp on Apple Silicon Macs: I think that the lack of Windows support on Apple Silicon machines is hurting some buyers, me included. I’d like to be able to run Windows on a Mac, because of my job in IT. I came close to buying a Mac Pro to run VMware stuff. But who’s really at fault here, Apple or … Microsoft? Linux is another story, though. I\u0026rsquo;m not fully aware of current Linux compatibility with Apple Silicon, but I think it\u0026rsquo;s slowly coming. Oh, and don\u0026rsquo;t even try to mention Windows ARM to me. This thing won\u0026rsquo;t run on Apple Silicon Macs unless Microsoft and Apple actively cooperate on this.\n", "dateiso": "2022-07-29 05:49:02 -0500", "date": "5:49 p.m. on Jul 29, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/07/29/on-apple-silicon.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F07%2F29%2Fon-apple-silicon.html" }, { "id": 2839, "type": "post", "title": "The Lost of the Nobs", "text": "About the updated design of the media player on the iPhone with iOS 16 beta 4: this enhancement in iOS 16 illustrated by Six Colors is real. At first, I didn’t like the loss of the little and reassuring nob, but now the interface feels cleaner and yet shows some affordance as we now know what these lines are for.\n", "dateiso": "2022-07-28 20:16:20 -0500", "date": "8:16 p.m. on Jul 28, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/07/28/the-lost-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F07%2F28%2Fthe-lost-of.html" }, { "id": 2840, "type": "post", "title": "Only 84 posts this year", "text": "Woah, I just paid a visit to my stats for Micro.blog. This year, I\u0026rsquo;ve got only 84 posts published; the lowest since 2019. It\u0026rsquo;s a bit sad because I like the platform, its values and the community. It\u0026rsquo;s not the first time I have lamented the lack of time elasticity. I have too many projects and fall into many rabbit holes. At the very least, I could tweak my routine to visit and post once a week. Vacations are a month away, but this could be the occasion to spend more time here.\n", "dateiso": "2022-07-23 07:53:48 -0500", "date": "7:53 p.m. on Jul 23, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/07/23/only-posts-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F07%2F23%2Fonly-posts-this.html" }, { "id": 2841, "type": "post", "title": "The Disconnected Country", "text": "We\u0026rsquo;re currently experiencing a major and nationwide cellular network outage here in Canada 🇨🇦, thanks to Rogers telecommunication company. It\u0026rsquo;s been going on since early this morning. Everything seems affected in one way or another: phone calls, internet access, emergency calls via 911, travellers, banking services via Interac, and lots of public non-urgent services, just to name a few. We will need a few days to comprehend the ramifications of what happened. It\u0026rsquo;s a major event illustrating that big telco companies concentration like we endure here in Canada isn\u0026rsquo;t a good thing. Also a good (and sad) example of how badly we\u0026rsquo;re dependent on technologies for everything.\n", "dateiso": "2022-07-08 15:15:03 -0500", "date": "3:15 p.m. on Jul 8, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/07/08/the-disconnected-country.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F07%2F08%2Fthe-disconnected-country.html" }, { "id": 2842, "type": "post", "title": "That Rabbit Hole that is named YouTube Videos Production", "text": "I felt in a rabbit hole with these YouTube videos production. Either it\u0026rsquo;s because Craft is such a great application to talk about, or I\u0026rsquo;m just discovering the subtleties of the video medium, and I like it a lot. Or it could be both. Either way, I have much less time to write and publish here or on other publishing platforms.\nIf you aren\u0026rsquo;t aware yet, I recently started a YouTube channel about Craft. I\u0026rsquo;ll definitively write an article on my metablog about my adventure. I\u0026rsquo;m learning a lot.\n", "dateiso": "2022-07-02 11:11:33 -0500", "date": "11:11 p.m. on Jul 2, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/07/02/that-rabbit-hole.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F07%2F02%2Fthat-rabbit-hole.html" }, { "id": 2843, "type": "post", "title": "How Much is Too Much?", "text": "🇺🇦 When reading about the war raging in Ukraine, there is so much to read, see and… digest. As it has become the focus of my attention from a news consumption perspective since the start of the invasion, I tend to talk about it with my surroundings. I think they are starting to feel the war fatigue. They look at me with rolling eyes 🙄, wondering why I focus so much on what’s happening in Ukraine. Now, here’s the question: who’s at fault here? 🧐\nI feel sad about our reactions to this mess. It’s a major issue that will occupy the political, economic and world hungriness for quite some time. Most of these will have some sort of impact on us, individually. We should care and stop turning this war into just another war we don’t have control over. We do.\n", "dateiso": "2022-06-27 20:18:54 -0500", "date": "8:18 p.m. on Jun 27, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/06/27/how-much-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F06%2F27%2Fhow-much-is.html" }, { "id": 2844, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As much as I like #Ghost as a hosting service for my monthly and weekly newsletters, the lack of community, commenting, and recommendations by other readers make me wonder if I made the right move when I left #Substack.\n", "dateiso": "2022-06-24 13:10:37 -0500", "date": "1:10 p.m. on Jun 24, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/06/24/as-much-as.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F06%2F24%2Fas-much-as.html" }, { "id": 2845, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Is there any user of Craft in here? In any case, may I suggest that you take a look at my YouTube channel for videos about Craft? The latest is my take on the latest release, version 2.2.3.\n", "dateiso": "2022-06-24 05:18:29 -0500", "date": "5:18 p.m. on Jun 24, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/06/24/is-there-any.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F06%2F24%2Fis-there-any.html" }, { "id": 2846, "type": "post", "title": "Sievierodonetsk down. Sad day. Again. ", "text": "🇺🇦 I feel sad for Ukraine which has been fighting hell for so long and having to retreat from Sievierodonetsk. It’s probably the best decision from a military perspective. Yet, I feel sad for them. For all of us because we can’t stop the criminals from territory gains. Is there an end to this nightmare? 😞\n", "dateiso": "2022-06-24 05:14:22 -0500", "date": "5:14 p.m. on Jun 24, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/06/24/sievierodonetsk-down-sad.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F06%2F24%2Fsievierodonetsk-down-sad.html" }, { "id": 2847, "type": "post", "title": "A More Healthy Attitude", "text": "Dear (few readers), in case you were wondering, I’m still staying informed about the war in Ukraine. Over the weeks, I’ve taken a more distanced view of the conflict. I try not to make it too personal. I’m still horrified by what Russian criminals are capable of. I still wish we, the west, get even more involved to help Ukraine fight against the invader. I guess things take time; we must be patient. Eventually, Ukraine will prevail. Summer will see hot combats, and I wish the army of Ukraine will start to kick Russia out of occupied regions.\n", "dateiso": "2022-06-19 07:57:41 -0500", "date": "7:57 p.m. on Jun 19, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/06/19/a-more-healthy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F06%2F19%2Fa-more-healthy.html" }, { "id": 2848, "type": "post", "title": "There’s no such thing as time elasticity", "text": "\nSince early June, I’ve been quite busy working and producing YouTube videos about Craft which left me no time for posting here. As seen in the following graph, YouTube videos production is now the lion share of my spare time schedule. 👀\nI expect things to return to normal in the coming weeks as my recording and producing setup is complete. Creating videos takes about 2-3 hours of my time. Subjects that I want to tackle will eventually dry out. If you are wondering what’s those videos are really about, feel free to pay a visit to my YouTube Channel. Tell me what you think here or over there in the comments!\n", "dateiso": "2022-06-18 07:17:46 -0500", "date": "7:17 p.m. on Jun 18, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/06/18/theres-no-such.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F06%2F18%2Ftheres-no-such.html" }, { "id": 2849, "type": "post", "title": "100 days", "text": "Time flies. It’s been already 100 days since the beginning of the criminal declaration of war on the west by Putin and his team of criminals. One hundred days of suffering by Ukraine and the rest of the world. One hundred days of war crimes, destruction and stealing of lives and lands. One hundred days of redefining the global security, or lack of security, landscape.\nHow long will it take to end this shit? How long before we can put Putin to trial for war crimes? How long before we reconstruct Ukraine and retake their lands? How long before we learn to not let this happens again, for real this time?\nSpecial mentions for those who participate in letting this happen again: French president Macron for telling us, seriously, that we shouldn’t humiliate Russia, the Turkish president for trading Ukraine loves to advance his political agenda, Hungary\u0026rsquo;s president for being too close to Russia and finally Switzerland\u0026rsquo;s president who refuses to help Ukraine with weapons.\n", "dateiso": "2022-06-06 08:32:51 -0500", "date": "8:32 p.m. on Jun 6, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/06/06/days.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F06%2F06%2Fdays.html" }, { "id": 2850, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Special pre-announcement: I\u0026rsquo;m mostly done with my preparation for creating YouTube videos. Publishing videos isn\u0026rsquo;t new for me, but I\u0026rsquo;m working differently and on different hardware this time. Oh, and I\u0026rsquo;ll be touching on a different subject matter. I hope it will take off.\n", "dateiso": "2022-06-02 21:10:00 -0500", "date": "9:10 p.m. on Jun 2, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/06/02/special-preannouncement-im.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F06%2F02%2Fspecial-preannouncement-im.html" }, { "id": 2851, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I never post this type of thing here but I wanted to share my enthusiasm about eating this! Simple and healthy. 😀\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-29 11:13:42 -0500", "date": "11:13 p.m. on May 29, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/05/29/i-never-post.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F05%2F29%2Fi-never-post.html" }, { "id": 2852, "type": "post", "title": "Appeasing Russia, Are You Kidding Me?", "text": "After more than 90 days of this nonsense, this criminal invasion by the Russian, are we starting to hear voices that ask for some appeasement toward Russia? It seems so if you read the story about Henry Kessinger suggesting Ukraine should concede some piece of its territory. What. The. Fuck? Can’t we look back at history, in 1938 to be precise, for god’s sake?\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-26 06:16:48 -0500", "date": "6:16 p.m. on May 26, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/05/26/appeasing-russia-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F05%2F26%2Fappeasing-russia-are.html" }, { "id": 2853, "type": "post", "title": "On The Myth of Lack of Mac Management Tools", "text": "\nRecently, during a discussion in a meeting at work, a colleague of mine was expressing his frustration about the fact that one of our customers was using Macs in its business. He went on saying the Mac is such a pain to manage and is an immature platform in the business world compared to Windows PC. I couldn\u0026rsquo;t help myself to tell him he couldn\u0026rsquo;t be farther than the truth.\nHere’s the thing: of course, management tools and services are aplenty on the Windows platform. Why is that? Well, because it needs so much attention, so they can keep working! Just think of security-related software needed to keep hackers away from your machine full of security holes, thanks to Windows.\nIt was a “🙄” moment for sure. I think I’m on earth on a mission: to debunk false perceptions about the Mac.\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-26 05:35:44 -0500", "date": "5:35 p.m. on May 26, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/05/26/on-the-myth.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F05%2F26%2Fon-the-myth.html" }, { "id": 2854, "type": "post", "title": "I’m Not Publishing an iOS 16 or iPadOS 16 Wish List This Year", "text": "WWDC is around the corner. It’s usually the time of the year when tech pundits will work hard on their wish list for the next major revision of Apple’s iOS 16 and iPadOS 16. I typically do that myself. This year, though, I’ll skip the whole thing. Apple’s core operating systems are mature, low-hanging fruits are scarce. At this maturity stage, it seems that expressing our desires is more and more a matter of preferences, or interpretation of what could be better user experiences. I may sound bored. Maybe I am. Sure, I’d like improvements to the iPad like full external monitor support, but then what? Apple owns the agenda, decides how to move the needle and protect its bottom line. The rest is pure noise.\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-24 06:04:14 -0500", "date": "6:04 p.m. on May 24, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/05/24/im-not-publishing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F05%2F24%2Fim-not-publishing.html" }, { "id": 2855, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For those looking to Craft as a site building, here is my most recent experiment: Numeric Citizen I/O. It\u0026rsquo;s a blog about blogging or a meta-blog if you will. Comments are always welcomed. 😉\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-22 15:36:03 -0500", "date": "3:36 p.m. on May 22, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/05/22/for-those-looking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F05%2F22%2Ffor-those-looking.html" }, { "id": 2856, "type": "post", "title": "A Typical Friday Morning", "text": "If you’re curious about my Friday morning routine. There you have it.\n#writer #meta\nDiscuss\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-20 06:26:46 -0500", "date": "6:26 p.m. on May 20, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/05/20/a-typical-friday.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F05%2F20%2Fa-typical-friday.html" }, { "id": 2857, "type": "post", "title": "A Week of Software Releases in Review", "text": "\nSome weeks are busier than others for software or service updates. This week saw meaningful updates to many applications that I used daily.\nCraft version got bumped to 2.2, a controversial update. Using the updated Share Page feature, my Craft wish list was completely reworked. According to the Craft community channels on Slack, people would rather prefer to see the core experience to be refined and straighten up. I\u0026rsquo;m one of them. It seems to me that there are many unfinished core features within Craft that are in need of attention. For example, the Share Page is super useful but we still miss the use of custom domain names or notifications from people who post comments. It\u0026rsquo;s not a deal-breaker but it is annoying and frustrating. Matter, the new kid on the block in the read-later service space was updated too. The team behind Matter made a decision to focus more the product by dropping the social portion of it. Good move. The new update makes a lot of sense and is a joy to use on all Apple platforms. Microsoft updated the beta version of Teams for Apple Silicon, latest public build May, 19th. Previous release provided a very buggy in-conference experience. According to people on Reddit, it seems to be fixed. I didn’t try it yet. Apple’s platforms received a slew of updates. I was eagerly awaiting the Studio Display 15.5 firmware. I did a comparison of the image quality that I posted on Twitter. It’s not perfect but it’s a noticeable upgrade. Some more detailed video on the update. Finally, I wanted to mention something about Glass. It wasn’t updated this week, but I had a chance to sit with the team behind Glass in a Zoom Q\u0026amp;A session. It was a nice talk. We had a chance to voice our delights or wishes for where the product should go next. ", "dateiso": "2022-05-20 05:58:13 -0500", "date": "5:58 p.m. on May 20, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/05/20/a-week-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F05%2F20%2Fa-week-of.html" }, { "id": 2858, "type": "post", "title": "On Being Able to Choose", "text": "The ability to choose the tools you use in your job make a big difference. It’s true for surgeons who select the best tools for each task, sometimes going as far as using custom-made instruments. It’s also true for car mechanicians who often bring their toolset from place to place their work.\nFor me, being able to be fully invested in the Apple ecosystem for my job is a must. I wouldn’t want to be forced to use a Windows machine or an Android phone. I would rather move to another job instead. Salary, vacations, or insurance aren’t the only incentives for working for one company or another.\nI might sound obvious here, but this was my thought for today anyway.\nAre you lucky enough to be able to choose?\n#musing #job #tools\nDiscuss\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-19 11:40:50 -0500", "date": "11:40 p.m. on May 19, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/05/19/on-being-able.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F05%2F19%2Fon-being-able.html" }, { "id": 2859, "type": "post", "title": "The Power of Instant Publishing", "text": "\nI’m currently working on a proof-of-concept to migrate one of my website to Craft using the application’s SharePage feature. The beauty of this solution is the simple fact that the content of the documents are always readily available on the web. Once the root document has been shared, there’s nothing more to do on my part. It’s the most frictionless experience to date. I find this powerful and satisfying.\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-18 09:39:34 -0500", "date": "9:39 p.m. on May 18, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/05/18/the-power-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F05%2F18%2Fthe-power-of.html" }, { "id": 2860, "type": "post", "title": "Don't Call Them Soldiers", "text": "Each time I get news from the war in Ukraine, and I read or hear the expression “Russian soldiers,” I want to puke. These guys aren’t soldiers; they aren’t part of an army but a gang. They are criminals, rapists, cowards, looters, stealers, hypocrites, dumb, and stupid, to name a few adjectives. They are everything but soldiers or, even worse, humans.\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-12 19:44:40 -0500", "date": "7:44 p.m. on May 12, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/05/12/dont-call-them.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F05%2F12%2Fdont-call-them.html" }, { "id": 2861, "type": "post", "title": "Ask Me Something", "text": "Friday is coming. Fast. Each Friday, I publish a new edition of the Friday Notes Series. As I’m writing this, I don’t have a subject for this week’s edition, but I have this simple idea: ask me something, and I’ll try to answer in the next edition. Don’t be shy. Time is running up. 😅\n#writing\nDiscuss\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-11 20:38:40 -0500", "date": "8:38 p.m. on May 11, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/05/11/ask-me-something.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F05%2F11%2Fask-me-something.html" }, { "id": 2862, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today was a special day. So many memories.\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-10 20:43:01 -0500", "date": "8:43 p.m. on May 10, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/05/10/today-was-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F05%2F10%2Ftoday-was-a.html" }, { "id": 2863, "type": "post", "title": "Smoke \u0026 Mirrors", "text": "If I summarize what we saw today from Moscow, it was a smoke \u0026amp; mirrors show. Even Putin’s speech was a letdown, and I felt uninspired. He used fake news to justify the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. He didn’t do what the West was afraid of declaring conscription or a full-out war with Ukraine. He didn’t because he probably knew that he couldn’t. Declaring a war would have been a sign of failure of the “special military ops”. Conscription wouldn’t bring combat-effective resources soon enough anyway. Russia is simply failing at so many levels.\nAgain, for me, and probably for many military pundits, Russia is showing a pale version of its past. We shouldn’t be afraid of them. And we must keep the pressure on them so that when they lose, they will remember their losses for a long time.\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-09 06:03:49 -0500", "date": "6:03 p.m. on May 9, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/05/09/smoke-mirrors.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F05%2F09%2Fsmoke-mirrors.html" }, { "id": 2864, "type": "post", "title": "My Reading Workflow Is in a State of Flux", "text": "\nFirst, I got back to Pocket and paid for the subscription. Then I added Readwise. Then I found Matter, and fell in love with it. I’m not sure why. I’m still waiting for Readwise Reader application. While waiting for it, what’s the point of Readwise, again? News Explorer is my go-to application for most of my readings via RSS feeds; I can save links as favourites, but I never do so. My reading workflow is in a total state of flux.\nWhich application or service should I use to bookmark articles that I want to read later? What should I prioritize in such application: organization of links or the reading experience? How is that fact that I collect more than I read should change my application selection? Comparing applications like Matter, Pocket, and Raindrop.io, I find many common features, which brings confusion to me. Matter seems better for reading, but Raindrop.io more complete at organizing links collections. Why can’t I have both in the same application? Craft is my goto application for drafting and writing my articles, but can save links with nice previews. Craft is lacking tags to organize objects and doesn’t offer a reading experience as it doesn’t save content from a link. Craft is of no help here in my reading workflow. And what about highlights, how do I create them and make use of them later? Matter is good at creating highlights, Raindrop.io recently added highlight support too, but that’s it. Oh, and RSS readers like Reeder or News Explorer can save links and add tags too. Finally, I wish I could find a great text highlighting extension for Safari, after all, it’s my goto browser.\nTo some degree, read later applications or services are still maturing, no solution is complete. This explains that, I guess.\nHelp, please. 😫\nPhoto by Javier Esteban on Unsplash\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-07 06:25:24 -0500", "date": "6:25 p.m. on May 7, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/05/07/my-reading-workflow.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F05%2F07%2Fmy-reading-workflow.html" }, { "id": 2865, "type": "post", "title": "I Should Read More Books", "text": "📚 Today, after opening Apple Books on my Mac, I concluded that I’m not reading enough books. Why is it so hard for me to sit down regularly and read a book is beyond me? I do read a lot during the day, but only fragments of things like articles, tweets, and RSS items. I started to read The Phoenix Project a long time ago but didn’t finish it. However, it was amusing and in line with my job!\nA friend of mine shared a draft of a book she is writing; I’m only halfway into it. I cannot finish it. Pathetic. 😒\nAm I alone with this?\n#reading #musing\nDiscuss\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-06 07:05:56 -0500", "date": "7:05 p.m. on May 6, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/05/06/i-should-read.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F05%2F06%2Fi-should-read.html" }, { "id": 2866, "type": "post", "title": "Giving", "text": "🇺🇦 Today, I gave 100 US$ to the just recently crowdfunding platform United24. I chose to donate to the defence and demining of Ukraine. This comes after giving 200 CAN$ in the first few weeks of the war. What did you do today? 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-05 12:13:02 -0500", "date": "12:13 p.m. on May 5, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/05/05/giving.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F05%2F05%2Fgiving.html" }, { "id": 2867, "type": "post", "title": "Some Facts About Engagement", "text": "💡 Interesting facts: about 5%-10% of visitors to my blogs will click on outbound links (links pointing to the stuff on the internet). Less than 1% will drop a comment on a blog post.\n#blogging #musing #writer\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-03 07:19:32 -0500", "date": "7:19 p.m. on May 3, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/05/03/some-facts-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F05%2F03%2Fsome-facts-about.html" }, { "id": 2868, "type": "post", "title": "On Returning on Telegram", "text": "\nI’m back on Telegram, after closing my account about a year ago. I wrote about the reasons why on my story published on Micro.blog. Since the start of the criminal invasion of Ukraine by the Russian, I found out quickly that a lot of information about the conflict is being published on Telegram. I decided to come back and open a new account.\nI read on Mr. Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram. Some compare him to Elon Musk. He\u0026rsquo;s opinionated, just like Musk. He has his views on Apple and technology. He seems to advocate user privacy protection. Furthermore, he flew from Russia because he refused to cooperate with the government, which was asking to leak information from Telegram users.\nA few words on Telegram, my usage, its design and the application. It’s available on most of the Apple platforms, including the Mac. I like its design a lot. I don’t use it for chatting, only to receive messages from channels where comments aren’t enabled.\nOnly fools don’t change their mind.\n", "dateiso": "2022-05-02 05:56:44 -0500", "date": "5:56 p.m. on May 2, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/05/02/on-returning-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F05%2F02%2Fon-returning-on.html" }, { "id": 2869, "type": "post", "title": "On Keeping a Seperate Computer for Creative Work", "text": "\nIn a recent article from Josh Ginter for The Newsprint, If found the idea of having a separate computer for work and one for creative activities interesting and I’m close to feeling the same about my personal and work life. I do most of my work on an M1 Mac mini, while my creative work is done on an M1 MacBook Air. My iPad is used as a second screen on my Mac mini or for some photo processing stuff with Adobe Lightroom. The distinction between two worlds gets blurry when you consider how the cloud brings those two worlds closer to each other. If you are like me and use a single Apple ID for all your Apple services, as soon as you set up iCloud on both computers, you’ll get access to the same “virtual space and digital content” on both machines. This is where the idea of two separate computers becomes blurry and probably more of a theory.\nPhoto by freestocks on Unsplash\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-30 19:23:20 -0500", "date": "7:23 p.m. on Apr 30, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/04/30/on-keeping-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F04%2F30%2Fon-keeping-a.html" }, { "id": 2870, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Notes of interest from Apple\u0026rsquo;s Q2 2022 earnings report and conference call | AppleInsider\nThe last seven quarters have been the best ever for Mac\nWhat a difference a few years make on the Mac. I\u0026rsquo;m happy to see the Mac thrive like this.\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-28 20:48:40 -0500", "date": "8:48 p.m. on Apr 28, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/04/28/notes-of-interest.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F04%2F28%2Fnotes-of-interest.html" }, { "id": 2871, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Now more than ever, it seems it is the perfect time for @manton to welcome people on Micro.blog who want to quit Twitter because\u0026hellip; you know\u0026hellip; Elon Musk. Just saying.\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-26 06:16:28 -0500", "date": "6:16 p.m. on Apr 26, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/04/26/now-more-than.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F04%2F26%2Fnow-more-than.html" }, { "id": 2872, "type": "post", "title": "Interesting Ideas for iPadOS 16", "text": "\nI recently wrote an article about where the iPad should go from here. On the subject of iPadOS, looking at this article on Behance from Parker Ortolani, here are the few interesting ideas that caught my attention:\nThe updated Dock with the ability to move an application window to an external display. Still on the Dock, the frequently used applications replaced with standard folders (like downloaded items). Stacks in the Dock, just like on macOS. Home Screen icon placements can include things like Shortcuts, or files. Studio Mode for external display full support. My number one request. Addition of Preview from macOS would be super useful for more pro-like workflows. Same with the addition of Dictionary. It would be super useful for content creators like me. WWDC 2022 is around the corner, starting another round of updates for iPadOs over the coming year.\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-26 05:52:23 -0500", "date": "5:52 p.m. on Apr 26, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/04/26/interesting-ideas-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F04%2F26%2Finteresting-ideas-for.html" }, { "id": 2873, "type": "post", "title": "When Uber is Being Rude", "text": "\nI recently came back from a one-week vacation in Cancun, Mexico. The first thing I did before leaving the airport to go home was to call an Uber taxi. My last experience with Uber went well, but it was quite a while. Boy, this time it was a surprising and unexpected experience. After ordering the car, I was met with a plethora of notifications and ads within the application and via Uber Eat to order food on the go or before arriving at home. Those ads took the form of notifications, but also big popups taking the whole screen within the application. It was so intrusive, it wasn’t always clear how to dismiss the ad to return to the actual trip details.\nI understand the idea of integrating two different services from the same company, but doing so at the expense of a great user experience with the basic feature of the application is not the way to go with me. Even Apple sometimes seems to be going in that direction. Not good.\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-24 07:00:53 -0500", "date": "7:00 p.m. on Apr 24, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/04/24/when-uber-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F04%2F24%2Fwhen-uber-is.html" }, { "id": 2874, "type": "post", "title": "Russia, GTFO of my blogs", "text": "🚫🇷🇺⛔If I could block any IP addresses from Russia from visiting my blogs, I would do it.\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-23 20:26:45 -0500", "date": "8:26 p.m. on Apr 23, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/04/23/russia-gtfo-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F04%2F23%2Frussia-gtfo-of.html" }, { "id": 2875, "type": "post", "title": "Doing Some Cleanup in My Home Office", "text": "\nAfter spending some time cleanup my office this today, I found these in my drawers and other places. I no longer use these. Do you? I know some people here on Micro.blog do. I don’t which I find fascinating because I did a lot in my younger times. Before the computers.\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-23 11:49:18 -0500", "date": "11:49 p.m. on Apr 23, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/04/23/doing-some-cleanup.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F04%2F23%2Fdoing-some-cleanup.html" }, { "id": 2876, "type": "post", "title": "Wondering About Returning to Podcasting", "text": "\nNow that I’m finally having my dedicated room in the house for working, I’m wondering about returning to podcasting (I used to have a podcast, in French) or even testing the YouTuber world (even though I wrote in the past that I’ll never be a YouTuber). Why is that?\nFirst, a dedicated room is mandatory to be able to record without being disrupted too much. Second, sound quality would probably be much better than recording in an open space. Third, I could create a better background because my room is decorated to my personal tastes.\nBut is this enough to convince myself to seriously consider getting back to audio or video content creation? I have all the tools: a great MacBook Air, a Mac mini, an Apple Studio Display, a good microphone, a NAS for archiving purposes, etc. Yet, I’m not really good at audio or video production, and it’s very time-consuming for me. I would certainly learn a lot while working hard at this. Moreover, should I do this in my native language which is French or do it in English, which I’m not perfectly fluent with? Maybe I could try to do it together with other podcasters (I know a few of them). Too many questions, not many answers.\nPhoto credit: Will Francis on Unsplash.\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-23 09:39:21 -0500", "date": "9:39 p.m. on Apr 23, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/04/23/wondering-about-returning.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F04%2F23%2Fwondering-about-returning.html" }, { "id": 2877, "type": "post", "title": "War Games", "text": "🇺🇦 It’s fascinating how the war in Ukraine makes me think about many video games. Let me explain. Looking at some Telegram channels feeding the results of attacks with anti-tank missiles or other means. You’ll find many short video clips with music and animation while a tank is destroyed. It makes things look like they aren’t real, only a game, which is far from the case for obvious reasons. Yet, there is the gamification of some aspects of what is filtering out of this ugly and devastating war. 😟\nBTW, many tidbits flowing on Telegram are utterly disgusting. Is this the first war to feel so close to the action?\nWhen the coalition attacked Iraq during the Gulf War, I remember people saying it was the first war to be televised. The war in Ukraine is probably the first one made public on social media.\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-22 13:41:26 -0500", "date": "1:41 p.m. on Apr 22, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/04/22/war-games.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F04%2F22%2Fwar-games.html" }, { "id": 2878, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m not writing my Friday Notes edition this week, and I feel guilty. I had a hectic week at work after returning from a one-week vacation. Writing weekly series comes with its challenges. 😔\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-22 06:18:21 -0500", "date": "6:18 p.m. on Apr 22, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/04/22/im-not-writing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F04%2F22%2Fim-not-writing.html" }, { "id": 2879, "type": "post", "title": "Taking a break of many things", "text": "If you are wondering what’s up with me, I’m on vacation for a week. I’m not only taking a break from work, my office, but also from blogging. Expect a return to normal programming next week.\nWritten on my iPad, somewhere on a sandy beach in Mexico 😃😛\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-12 11:29:02 -0500", "date": "11:29 p.m. on Apr 12, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/04/12/taking-a-break.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F04%2F12%2Ftaking-a-break.html" }, { "id": 2880, "type": "post", "title": "Suddenly Missing Mikhail Gorbachev", "text": "This morning while reading the news, I suddenly remembered about Mikhail Gorbachev. He’s still alive, which I didn’t know. His birthday was March 2th. He’s 92. I vividly remember his presidency and what he brought to Russia and the world. One big and hard lesson we’re currently learning is that we cannot take anything for granted regarding democracy. Does he know what’s happening in Ukraine? What’s his take on all this shit? I would love to see him in an interview. He certainly wasn’t perfect, but Russia seemed to have a much more prevalent “human side” under his tenure. Under Putin, I just want to puke. 🤮\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-08 10:04:04 -0500", "date": "10:04 p.m. on Apr 8, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/04/08/suddenly-missing-mikhail.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F04%2F08%2Fsuddenly-missing-mikhail.html" }, { "id": 2881, "type": "post", "title": "On West Europe Surprising Weak Stance", "text": "🧐⁉️ It’s surprising to see European countries’ weak stance against Russia and the dire situation in Ukraine. I mean, world war II is not that far in history after all. Doesn’t Germany remember anything from fascism or Hitler? What about Austria? Their inaction speaks for themselves. I would have thought they would be more proactive in supporting Ukraine and trying to prevent another European war, if not another world war. What will it take to make them change their action cadence? 😮\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-07 06:37:54 -0500", "date": "6:37 p.m. on Apr 7, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/04/07/on-west-europe.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F04%2F07%2Fon-west-europe.html" }, { "id": 2882, "type": "post", "title": "About TAGS", "text": "🤨 Question of the day: are TAGS a sign of bad or weak content indexing in any computer-based systems? TAGS should be inferred, no?\n#thinking #musing\nDiscuss\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-06 14:55:53 -0500", "date": "2:55 p.m. on Apr 6, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/04/06/about-tags.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F04%2F06%2Fabout-tags.html" }, { "id": 2883, "type": "post", "title": "The Price To Pay", "text": " \u0026ldquo;(…) And we\u0026rsquo;re likely going to see skyrocketing prices if we did put a complete ban on oil.” — US treasury secretary\nWell, what is the price of thousands and thousands of people dying, tortured, raped? I can live with rising energy prices. For fuck sake, support the oil and coal embargo against Russia NOW! We cannot escape any impact of this war without some form of sacrifice.\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-06 14:10:53 -0500", "date": "2:10 p.m. on Apr 6, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/04/06/the-price-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F04%2F06%2Fthe-price-to.html" }, { "id": 2884, "type": "post", "title": "On My (Lack of) Medium Readings", "text": "📖 This week, I received my revenues report from Medium for last year (for taxes purposes). I made less than 500 CAN$. It reminded me that I was a much more active publisher last year than now. My last publication on Medium was on February 12th.\nThis morning, I spent a few minutes on Medium. I can’t remember when was the last time I visited the homepage. I was curious about the web experience changes introduced since my last visit. Another reminder is that I don’t spend as much time on the platform as I used to.\nI’m wondering if I should keep my Medium account. 🧐\n#medium #reading #writing\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-06 06:20:12 -0500", "date": "6:20 p.m. on Apr 6, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/04/06/on-my-lack.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F04%2F06%2Fon-my-lack.html" }, { "id": 2885, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Two quick questions: how do you cope with what\u0026rsquo;s happening in Ukraine? Are you watching the news?\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-04 20:42:00 -0500", "date": "8:42 p.m. on Apr 4, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/04/04/two-quick-questions.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F04%2F04%2Ftwo-quick-questions.html" }, { "id": 2886, "type": "post", "title": "When Apple Pivoted", "text": "Thanks to MacRumors, as reported today, I didn’t know today was the fifth anniversary of a special meeting between Apple’s top brass and select journalists to talk about Apple’s plans with the pro users and their commitment to the Mac.\nAt the time, we didn’t know how serious Apple’s upcoming pivot would be. In retrospective, Apple delivered and then some. It is simply a tour-de-force to flip the Mac product line upside down and bring power efficient, mighty and beautiful Mac designs. The Mac transition to Apple Silicon is probably the most important change to come to the Mac line since its inception in 1984.\nI can’t wait to see what the next ten years will be made of.\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-04 20:27:55 -0500", "date": "8:27 p.m. on Apr 4, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/04/04/when-apple-pivoted.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F04%2F04%2Fwhen-apple-pivoted.html" }, { "id": 2887, "type": "post", "title": "Europe's Future", "text": "“…the fate of the whole Eastern and Central Europe and the Black Sea region is being decided on the territory of Ukraine. Therefore, to protect the freedom of Ukraine and Ukrainians is to guarantee the security of Europe.”.\nNothing more to add, your honour.\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-04 19:16:26 -0500", "date": "7:16 p.m. on Apr 4, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/04/04/europes-future.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F04%2F04%2Feuropes-future.html" }, { "id": 2888, "type": "post", "title": "How Low Can They Go?", "text": "🇺🇦 What is it that Russia doesn’t like about life, love, freedom, everything that makes us humans? 😞\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-03 15:46:02 -0500", "date": "3:46 p.m. on Apr 3, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/04/03/how-low-can.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F04%2F03%2Fhow-low-can.html" }, { "id": 2889, "type": "post", "title": "It’s Was So Fun", "text": "\nThis weekend I did some cleanup in my old papers and documents. I found an old bank account statement where I can see a withdraw transaction to help me pay for my Macintosh 128K in 1985: 3460.75 CAN$. 🤑 Ouch. I did some research to better document the time when I had a Macintosh SE while studying at the university and remembered about using Think Pascal, Prototyper and ResEdit to build a floppy disks indexer. That was before the Internet. It was so much fun. It’s gives you an idea how old I am. 😜\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-03 09:06:23 -0500", "date": "9:06 p.m. on Apr 3, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/04/03/its-was-so.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F04%2F03%2Fits-was-so.html" }, { "id": 2890, "type": "post", "title": "On Ukrainian's ", "text": "💥Today’s news about a possible attack by the Ukrainian army on Russia’s land is potentially game-changing in this war between Ukraine and Russia. A few thoughts.\nFirst, Russia doesn’t have the exclusive right to use “Special Operation” when referring to war-related actions. Second and more seriously, Who did this? If indeed it is Ukraine, was it to test Russia’s defence? If so, Russia again failed miserably from a military perspective at protecting its territory as, surprisingly, helicopters didn’t face any shots from the ground. Is someone paying attention to the sky in Russia? Another point goes in the column of “weak army.” Mind blown. Or is it that Ukraine wants something else: drag Russia into war and force the West to intervene? Is this scenario too twisted?\nWhat if it is Russia? I wouldn’t be surprised at a deliberate act to help build even more momentum and justify what they are doing against Ukraine. This momentum will be needed when Russia returns on the east front once they finish regrouping and replenishing their units.\nThe next few hours will be interesting to watch. 📺\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-01 15:07:59 -0500", "date": "3:07 p.m. on Apr 1, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/04/01/on-ukrainians-special.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F04%2F01%2Fon-ukrainians-special.html" }, { "id": 2891, "type": "post", "title": "Already a Routine", "text": "🇺🇦 For over a month, Ukrainians have been fighting to defend themselves against the invaders. This is a watershed moment in history, happening just before our eyes. Sadly, we can already see the routine of war being in place. Emphasis on the events during the news bulletin is decreasing already. We are so easily bored. We will move on to the next crisis unless there is a significant turn of events. I’m so sorry for that. 😞\n", "dateiso": "2022-04-01 06:54:43 -0500", "date": "6:54 p.m. on Apr 1, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/04/01/already-a-routine.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F04%2F01%2Falready-a-routine.html" }, { "id": 2892, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🇺🇦 Another edition of my free monthly Introspection newsletter is out NOW. Get it here! Talked about themes are Apple, photography, privacy protection and climate change. This month, though, to help build awareness, I have many war-related tidbits on each of these themes. 🇺🇦\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-30 07:07:04 -0500", "date": "7:07 p.m. on Mar 30, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/03/30/another-edition-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F03%2F30%2Fanother-edition-of.html" }, { "id": 2893, "type": "post", "title": "Keep The Pressure on Putin", "text": "🤨 As diplomatic talks progress, don’t be fooled by Russian words. The only viable solution is for them to leave what was known as “Ukraine before 2014”. Nothing less. We must keep pressure on Putin and our respective governments! Oh, and why do we feel so bad about recent Biden’s words about Putin? I mean, a lot of people wish for much more than simply “not staying in power.”\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-29 11:41:40 -0500", "date": "11:41 p.m. on Mar 29, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/03/29/keep-the-pressure.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F03%2F29%2Fkeep-the-pressure.html" }, { "id": 2894, "type": "post", "title": "Killing Quality ", "text": "🧐 Thought of the day: the narrative about having to publish on a regular basis to build an audience is killing content quality.\n#musing #writing\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-24 20:56:31 -0500", "date": "8:56 p.m. on Mar 24, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/03/24/killing-quality.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F03%2F24%2Fkilling-quality.html" }, { "id": 2895, "type": "post", "title": "Is the Wind Slowly Turning?", "text": "💪🏻 Stalled or retreating troops. Low morale. Decreasing attacks. High casualties and losts. Retaken cities by Ukrainian troops. Odessa and Kyiv free with minimal damages. I’m not a military expert or a military pundit, but these signs point to a turning point. Let me hope for even brighter days ahead. 🙏🏻✌🏻\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-23 18:24:54 -0500", "date": "6:24 p.m. on Mar 23, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/03/23/is-the-wind.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F03%2F23%2Fis-the-wind.html" }, { "id": 2896, "type": "post", "title": "Venting My Frustration About Microsoft Teams", "text": "\nIt’s March 2022. Spring is finally here. Moreover, among us, Apple Silicon, first announced in June 2020 and massively available since November 2020. Furthermore, also available is Center Stage, a new feature introduced with the 2021 iPad Pro and now available on the MacBook Pro and more recently the Apple Studio display.\nHere’s the thing. Microsoft Teams, currently at version 1.5 still isn’t supporting Center Stage and worst, Apple Silicon. Running Teams on any recent Mac is an execrable experience: slow, bad image quality (compared to Zoom for example) and consume far too much memory. How is it possible for a company the size of Microsoft who’s so slow to move and fix Teams? I don’t buy the argument about Teams being built with the Electron framework. The latter already supports the M1 chip. Microsoft is supposedly working on Teams version 2.0 which will be presumably built on WebView2. They’ve been working on this since June of last year.\nIt’s highly frustrating. Sorry for the bad mood, but Teams is one of the most used application for work giving me the right to vent my frustration.\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-23 05:46:54 -0500", "date": "5:46 p.m. on Mar 23, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/03/23/venting-my-frustration.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F03%2F23%2Fventing-my-frustration.html" }, { "id": 2897, "type": "post", "title": "Feeling More Optimistic", "text": "😀 After reading the news this morning on the situation of the war in Ukraine, I feel more upbeat than usual. It appears that Russian advances in recent days and hours are very limited, except in the sky, but they don’t have sky supremacy yet. Far from it. Ukrainians are simply incredible at fencing one of the world\u0026rsquo;s most powerful (well, that’s what we thought) armies. 🇺🇦\nIt will take ages to recover from this mess, but I’ll take any ray of light in a heartbeat.\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-22 11:46:10 -0500", "date": "11:46 p.m. on Mar 22, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/03/22/feeling-more-optimistic.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F03%2F22%2Ffeeling-more-optimistic.html" }, { "id": 2898, "type": "post", "title": "Dear Mobile Apps Developers", "text": "\nDear iOS developers, dear @Substack, when building screenshots for the App Store, show us your software, not the device on which it is running. Thank you. With love. The Direction.\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-21 19:28:36 -0500", "date": "7:28 p.m. on Mar 21, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/03/21/dear-mobile-apps.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F03%2F21%2Fdear-mobile-apps.html" }, { "id": 2899, "type": "post", "title": "Discussing War Matters ", "text": "🇺🇦🍽 I had this dinner yesterday night with some friends. The war in Ukraine subject came up. In fact, I brought it up, on purpose. As you might expect, I was adamant about our lack of support for the Ukrainian people. My point is that we must do much more even if we have to pay a price. I was emotional about it. Sure, it made my friends feel uneasy. I cannot envision a discussion about Ukraine without being passionate and emotional. 😒🖤\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-19 11:40:42 -0500", "date": "11:40 p.m. on Mar 19, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/03/19/discussing-war-matters.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F03%2F19%2Fdiscussing-war-matters.html" }, { "id": 2900, "type": "post", "title": "Russia Isn't That Super Power", "text": "🤔 I’m not a military expert, far from it, but as we go further into this insane and highly criminal war, facts show there is something wrong with the Russian army. Highly exposed and long columns of standing still vehicles, attacking way too many fronts at once, and losing so many soldiers in such a short time frame are good examples that show how amateurish the Russian army is. Russia isn’t a superpower, both military and economically. Rumours are to the effect that missile inventories are at an all-time low. And I’m not even talking about troops’ morale. As much as 75% of the operational army of Russia is supposedly dedicated to the invasion of Ukraine. Only 25% of their active resources are left scattered across Russia. 🇷🇺🔫\nRussia apparently is failing at their primary military objectives: occupy territory in a sustainable way and seize Ukraine’s leadership.\nNow the question is: why are you so scared of Russia?\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-18 10:34:39 -0500", "date": "10:34 p.m. on Mar 18, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/03/18/russia-isnt-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F03%2F18%2Frussia-isnt-that.html" }, { "id": 2901, "type": "post", "title": "Pausing My Apple Studio Display Buying Decision", "text": "\nWell, after a promising start, following reviews of the Apple Studio display, it seems that I’ll put my buying decision on hold. As I wrote, one of the reasons why I’m considering this display is the integrated camera and speakers for a better video conference experience. It appears image quality is not good at all, judging by the examples posted online. It’s close to being a deal breaker.\nApparently, the Apple Studio display is running a version of iOS 15.4. Yep, sounds overkill, and yet, it’s the case, according to Gruber. Apple is promising a software update to fix the problem and bring image quality on par with the iPad Pro equipped with the same camera and essentially using th same software to enable Center Stage.\nHere’s something: when we look at preview integrated cameras in MacBook Pro or the iMac and find the image quality to be bad, we try to excuse Apple of fitting a camera in a too-thin enclosure. But we know it’s not enough to explain the issue of image quality. Software is the problem. Look no further than the iPhone for an example.\nAs soon as:\nI can go to an Apple Store to see the Apple Studio display for myself; Normal people are publishing their reviews and comment on their experience with the display; Apple fixes the camera image quality with an update to the display operating system; Then, I’ll make a final decision. Now, I can’t wait to see in action the software upgrade process on this thing.\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-18 06:46:39 -0500", "date": "6:46 p.m. on Mar 18, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/03/18/pausing-my-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F03%2F18%2Fpausing-my-apple.html" }, { "id": 2902, "type": "post", "title": "Negociating", "text": "🇺🇦 While current negotiations between Russian criminals and Ukraine leaders are taking place, I sincerely hope that if ever a deal is signed between the two, the West will be the next to convince and deal with and the one who sets the conditions to undo even in small steps, the pressure on Russia. They have to pay the price for decades to come. I’m so angry at them. Does it show? 😡\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-16 11:37:22 -0500", "date": "11:37 p.m. on Mar 16, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/03/16/negociating.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F03%2F16%2Fnegociating.html" }, { "id": 2903, "type": "post", "title": "”The Mac Studio contains radical innards in a plain exterior”", "text": "\nBenjamin Mayo in Apple Introduces Mac Studio:\n“…the introduction of a brand new model of Mac is precisely the best time to do something entirely new.”\nAnd\n“The Mac Studio is a boring box with rounded corners, and has no party tricks to speak of. The trashcan was a truly wild, out-there, design.”\nI share the same sentiment. A new form-factor is a rare thing from Apple. An elongated Mac mini doesn’t do justice the Mac Studio interior, even less to its name. Another missed opportunity. I guess “real pros” doesn’t give a damn about all of this.\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-15 06:33:24 -0500", "date": "6:33 p.m. on Mar 15, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/03/15/the-mac-studio.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F03%2F15%2Fthe-mac-studio.html" }, { "id": 2904, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I wrote this some time ago (thanks to Surprise Me!). It was when I started using HEY World to publish posts. It didn\u0026rsquo;t last long. And I\u0026rsquo;m quite happy with this decision. Happy to be here. Happy to be there instead.\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-13 19:55:47 -0500", "date": "7:55 p.m. on Mar 13, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/03/13/i-wrote-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F03%2F13%2Fi-wrote-this.html" }, { "id": 2905, "type": "post", "title": "Two Years Ago…", "text": "On March 13th, in 2020, the world flipped, my world flipped. So many things are different now. This short blog post is about reflecting on the last two years and how they became the foundation for what is to come in my life.\nTime flies and making judicious decisions is more important than ever. Working from home is important. I’ll never return full time at the office. Even if I move to another job, working from home is now a requirement. Visiting customers for the sake of shaking hands no longer make sense to me. There has to be more than this. The price is too high to pay: wasted time.\nTraveling is more important than ever too; that’s the only way for me to do more photography. Something that I didn’t do much in the last two years. This visual work posted in April of 2020 was the trigger to write this blog post. I’m sad about this because photography is my most important source of inspiration and my biggest creativity playground after writing. Still on the travel subject, I can envision traveling abroad for more than two weeks now and splitting my time between leisure and remote work. Leaving for a month or more is now possible.\nSpeaking of writing, I’ll probably continue to write but probably not as much as in the last two years. A more balanced life is taking place and will take away some of my writing time. It’s ok. It’s also part of making better choices.\nThe last two years of COVID-19, the more and more frequent climate disturbances and the recent events in Europe are telling me this: the world is more than ever in a constant state of emergency. I better learn how to cope with this otherwise I’m not finished at being in constant consternation mood while reading the news.\nThanks for reading this. I know your time is precious too and you made the decision to read this short piece.\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-13 09:18:30 -0500", "date": "9:18 p.m. on Mar 13, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/03/13/two-years-ago.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F03%2F13%2Ftwo-years-ago.html" }, { "id": 2906, "type": "post", "title": "Back to Telegram", "text": "📧 I decided to return to Telegram to get the news about the war in Ukraine. It’s fast. Simple. I subscribe to a few groups. We see things in there that are unavailable on other news feeds. I prefer Telegram to Twitter for that type of stuff. Some content is shocking, for sure. But it is. Call me a masochist. 😞\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-12 09:19:00 -0500", "date": "9:19 p.m. on Mar 12, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/03/12/back-to-telegram.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F03%2F12%2Fback-to-telegram.html" }, { "id": 2907, "type": "post", "title": "Putin = Hitler", "text": "😡 Let’s face it. Vladimir Putin has no morale. He’s a criminal. His only goal in life is war. He doesn’t care about his people. He only cares about himself. He wants to make Russia “great again” but not for his people, for himself. After Ukraine, he will look around and select his next target. And invade. Eventually, he will make a mistake. Either he will pay for it, or we will all pay for it. Mark my words.\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-11 20:29:29 -0500", "date": "8:29 p.m. on Mar 11, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/03/11/putin-hitler.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F03%2F11%2Fputin-hitler.html" }, { "id": 2908, "type": "post", "title": "Diverting My Attention to Survive", "text": "🗓️ The title may be a bit “clickbait-ish”, but it is what it is. Again, my creativity (writing, musing, photography) is taking me off the compulsive consumption of news about the war in Ukraine. In a way, my creativity is helping me survive and stay sane. How do you stay sane?\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-06 09:02:13 -0500", "date": "9:02 p.m. on Mar 6, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/03/06/diverting-my-attention.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F03%2F06%2Fdiverting-my-attention.html" }, { "id": 2909, "type": "post", "title": "Path to the WWIII", "text": "‼️ 🇷🇺 Current events around the world, triggered by the criminal invasion of Ukraine, are setting the stage for WWIII. I cannot see how this conflict can continue without forcing more countries to get militarily involved. It could be anything involving another country’s reaction to help before Putin thinks it is an act of war. This criminal is just patiently waiting for it.\nThe longer the war continues, the more apparent it is to me: we’re not ready to admit it yet, but we are clearly on the path to the next world war in Europe.\n#ukraine #war\nDiscuss\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-06 08:23:55 -0500", "date": "8:23 p.m. on Mar 6, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/03/06/path-to-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F03%2F06%2Fpath-to-the.html" }, { "id": 2910, "type": "post", "title": "Duties of Russians Living Abroad", "text": "➡️ 🇷🇺 If people living in Russia don’t have access to objective news, only to state-controlled propaganda, then I would argue that Russians living abroad have a responsibility to tell the truth from the outside. They are being complicit in what is going on right now by not doing so. I would say to them: talk to your friends, family, or relatives inside Russia about what is happening. Tell the truth and ask them to regroup and organize demonstrations. NOW‼️\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-03 12:41:16 -0500", "date": "12:41 p.m. on Mar 3, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/03/03/duties-of-russians.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F03%2F03%2Fduties-of-russians.html" }, { "id": 2911, "type": "post", "title": "Peek Performance, Low Interest", "text": "\nIt’s now official. Apple will host another virtual event next week, on March 8th. It’s the first Apple event of 2022, but it’s far from being the first real event of 2022. Current events happening in Ukraine are troubling and make me pause on a lot of things. Apple-related stuff is one of these. I’m not in the mood for that. My thoughts and energy are diverted, seized. I don’t care if it’s a new iPhone SE, a beefed up Mac mini or whatever else. These look so irrelevant in this incredible and terrible era. Low interest indeed.\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-02 20:00:08 -0500", "date": "8:00 p.m. on Mar 2, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/03/02/peek-performance-low.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F03%2F02%2Fpeek-performance-low.html" }, { "id": 2912, "type": "post", "title": "Morning Routines in War Time", "text": "🇺🇦 Each morning, I open my laptop and visit some news websites to get the latest news from the war in Ukraine. I expect the worst all the time. It looks like, between some good news for the Ukrainians, the fundamentals are bleak. The aggressors, the Russians, are making progress toward their goal of crushing the country. While tainted by sadness and sorrow, my morning routine is nothing compared to the people’s routine in Ukraine: fear, sadness, abandonment, and distress. 😢📰\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-02 06:59:15 -0500", "date": "6:59 p.m. on Mar 2, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/03/02/morning-routines-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F03%2F02%2Fmorning-routines-in.html" }, { "id": 2913, "type": "post", "title": "Apple is Finally Showing Courage", "text": "\nI asked for this since the beginning of the Ukrainian war (on Twitter: first here, then here, then here), and today Apple delivered. Apple’s products are no longer being sold through its online store. While the App Store is still working apparently, I’m ok with their decision. On top of that, Apple will donate money, twice the amount that employees will give to help Ukrainians. It’s a good move, the only move, without using real arms, to make an impact. It’s even more powerful when many companies are doing exactly the same.\nYep, finally.\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-01 19:30:18 -0500", "date": "7:30 p.m. on Mar 1, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/03/01/apple-is-finally.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F03%2F01%2Fapple-is-finally.html" }, { "id": 2914, "type": "post", "title": "The Real Nature of Putin as an Army Leader", "text": "🇺🇦 By not telling his own Russian troops in Belarus what the training and military exercises were all about (invading Ukraine), you can see the real nature of Putin. We didn’t need this proof, but here you go.\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-01 13:42:28 -0500", "date": "1:42 p.m. on Mar 1, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/03/01/the-real-nature.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F03%2F01%2Fthe-real-nature.html" }, { "id": 2915, "type": "post", "title": "The Apparent Weakness of Democracy", "text": "🇺🇦 Compared to the aggressors, the invaders and the criminals (Russian leadership and Russian’s army), democracy is slow to react. We need discussions between partners and allies. We look for consensus, it takes time. Meanwhile, the enemy is progressing. The whole process makes us look weak and undetermined. ☮️\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-01 10:03:24 -0500", "date": "10:03 p.m. on Mar 1, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/03/01/the-apparent-weakness.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F03%2F01%2Fthe-apparent-weakness.html" }, { "id": 2916, "type": "post", "title": "NATO's Response is Too Weak", "text": "🇺🇦 As I keep watching the unbearable news from Europe, from Ukraine, something is becoming clearer by the day: NATO is failing its mission of defending Europe’s integrity. NATO must step up its response and fast. We are losing precious time. The longer we wait, the harder it will be to restore any form of democracy in Ukraine after Russian wins. It breaks my heart that we need to endure these historic and horrific moments. After two years of fighting against COVID-19, I find it hard to swallow. 💔\n", "dateiso": "2022-03-01 07:22:59 -0500", "date": "7:22 p.m. on Mar 1, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/03/01/natos-response-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F03%2F01%2Fnatos-response-is.html" }, { "id": 2917, "type": "post", "title": "Going Downwards", "text": "\nI don\u0026rsquo;t know about you but I find current events in Ukraine very disturbing and distracting. As much as I’m happy to see Russia being more and more isolated every hour, I can see its leader being more and more pissed off and willing to commit the worst. The world seems to go in a spiralling direction toward even more violence and hard to resolve situations.\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-28 20:13:39 -0500", "date": "8:13 p.m. on Feb 28, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/28/going-downwards.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F28%2Fgoing-downwards.html" }, { "id": 2918, "type": "post", "title": "Ukraine — Some of My News Sources", "text": "🗞️ I thought I could share the news sources I consume to stay in touch with current events in Ukraine. First, I’m following The Telegraph World News section. In particular, I keep this live webpage open all the time containing a constant news feed. Second, I’m using the BBC News World section, again referring to their live updating web page. Third, I use a Twitter list to get more up-to-the-minute updates. 🇺🇦\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-28 13:48:30 -0500", "date": "1:48 p.m. on Feb 28, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/28/ukraine-some-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F28%2Fukraine-some-of.html" }, { "id": 2919, "type": "post", "title": "Media Consumption Frenzy", "text": "🇺🇦 Current events in Ukraine are triggering a media consumption frenzy in me that resembles the one that came after the 9/11 attacks. If similarities are to continue, fear is going to be next to invite itself into my life. 😨\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-27 21:13:17 -0500", "date": "9:13 p.m. on Feb 27, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/27/media-consumption-frenzy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F27%2Fmedia-consumption-frenzy.html" }, { "id": 2920, "type": "post", "title": "Marks Left From Two Years of COVID-19", "text": "⌛ If I look at myself these days, I find that I’m less willing to go out for a quick getaway outside the city than I used to be. In the last two years, repetitive confinements and strict sanitary rules certainly left their marks on me. I hope time will bring back my willingness to open myself for opportunities and take advantage of them when they present themselves. Today was such a day of “taking advantage” of opportunities: seeing my sister, going out for a walk on a commercial strip in the afternoon. This made me happy. 😀\n#COVID-19\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-27 18:00:34 -0500", "date": "6:00 p.m. on Feb 27, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/27/marks-left-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F27%2Fmarks-left-from.html" }, { "id": 2921, "type": "post", "title": "All My Idols are Dead", "text": "😢 What do you think they have in common? Creativity. Man, I miss all of them. They are so different from each other. Three in music, one in technology. I often ask myself: what if they were still alive, what would be their next gift to us? From who do you find inspiration?\n#musings #creativity\nDiscuss\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-27 09:03:45 -0500", "date": "9:03 p.m. on Feb 27, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/27/all-my-idols.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F27%2Fall-my-idols.html" }, { "id": 2922, "type": "post", "title": "The Online Streaming of War", "text": "📺 With current events happening in Ukraine, with the help of smartphones and the internet, dramatic events like these are streaming with a constant flow. My attention is diverted like a plane from its programmed destination. It’s really hard to stay focused on my writing projects. I have so many. 🇺🇦\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-26 21:53:48 -0500", "date": "9:53 p.m. on Feb 26, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/26/the-online-streaming.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F26%2Fthe-online-streaming.html" }, { "id": 2923, "type": "post", "title": "And Suddenly, No More COVID", "text": "🦠 It is fascinating to see all media switch from one crisis to another, on a dime. A few days ago, COVID took the majority of air time. Now, no more, it’s the crisis in Ukraine. It’s as if COVID had vanished from the surface of the earth, just like that. Just a simple observation. 🇺🇦\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-25 19:00:08 -0500", "date": "7:00 p.m. on Feb 25, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/25/and-suddenly-no.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F25%2Fand-suddenly-no.html" }, { "id": 2924, "type": "post", "title": "Ukraine, I Can't Believe It", "text": "🇺🇦 The news of this criminal invasion of a democratic and independent country like Ukraine by Putin and his army is appalling and troubling and brings an uncertain future for Europe and the world. We’re in 2022, and we still have to deal with criminal leaders like Putin. How should we react to this? Cancel any international sports events or competition in Russia, block Russians from participating in any sports events around the world, remove any medals won from the last Olympic, turn off ll the pipeline leading to Russia, freeze Russian banks assets, etc.✌🏻🕊️☮️\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-24 08:58:33 -0500", "date": "8:58 p.m. on Feb 24, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/24/ukraine-i-cant.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F24%2Fukraine-i-cant.html" }, { "id": 2925, "type": "post", "title": "A Message for Ukrainians", "text": "The news of the Russian criminal invasion of its sovereign neighbour, Ukraine, is appalling. Putin and his regime is committing an aggression that shall be punished, at the right time, at the right place with the right means. I cannot believe that we’re seeing such an invasion in Europe, in 2022. What’s next? Who’s next? We’re all going to suffer at various degrees from this utterly criminal invasion. I pay no respect to Putin, his government, his propaganda machine and every single Russian who support this aggression. This is an act of war against democracy.\nNo wonder why Ukraine wanted to stay in NATO camp, because Russia is simply an antidemocratic land. Democratic governments and systems are far from perfect, but they are the least imperfect solution.\nFor now, I’m sending my positive waves of support to the Ukrainians community of Montreal, Canada. I cannot wait for the next demonstration, so I can show my full support of the Ukrainians.\nHitler must be so proud.\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-24 06:48:57 -0500", "date": "6:48 p.m. on Feb 24, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/24/a-message-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F24%2Fa-message-for.html" }, { "id": 2926, "type": "post", "title": "On Time Machine Backups Over Network", "text": "\nIf you own a desktop Mac, you probably use an external drive for Time Machine. If you use a portable Mac, most likely not, and according to the Tidbits article, you’re not alone. The portability of the Mac is hindered by having an external drive hooked permanently. I, personally, have a different strategy: I use a Synology NAS DS720+ with Time Machine enabled to do my backups over the wireless network. It works perfectly, but I don’t do a full backup of my MacBook Air. Files that are part of iCloud Drive are excluded (read more here, you’ll find out why it’s a good idea). In fact, most of the files are excluded, except a few critical folders, outside the scope of any cloud syncing services. Applications aren’t backed up either (easy to recover in case of lost). Backups are small but are just what I need to protect my work.\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-22 20:48:09 -0500", "date": "8:48 p.m. on Feb 22, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/22/on-time-machine.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F22%2Fon-time-machine.html" }, { "id": 2927, "type": "post", "title": "Am I Making a Difference?", "text": "🏢 As my workday is coming to an end, I have a few questions in my mind. The same questions pop up when I take short walks during the day, so I can step back for a few moments and reflect on my current day.\nDid I do my best today? Did I help my colleagues to achieve their goals? Did It make a difference? Am I always actively listening? Did I add value to the process? Am I the best one to do this job today, right now? Did I start the right discussion, ask the right questions? Were my answers ok? Complete? 🙇🏻\nSo many questions.\n#work #musings #workday #purpose\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-21 17:21:25 -0500", "date": "5:21 p.m. on Feb 21, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/21/am-i-making.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F21%2Fam-i-making.html" }, { "id": 2928, "type": "post", "title": "Quitting Facebook but Staying in Touch", "text": "👉🏻 I posted a farewell letter on my Facebook wall before making it inactive for a while. But here is another one that I wish I would have seen before writing mine: \u0026ldquo;Goodbye Facebook\u0026rdquo;. There are a few really good ideas that I should have used myself. One is to set up an email newsletter so my friends could get some news from me and from which we could interact. Too bad I didn\u0026rsquo;t think about it. Is it too late? How many of my friends would take the time to get in touch with me and me about my life, what am I up to? Probably not that many.🤨\n#musings #facebook #socialnetworks\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-21 11:51:52 -0500", "date": "11:51 p.m. on Feb 21, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/21/quitting-facebook-but.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F21%2Fquitting-facebook-but.html" }, { "id": 2929, "type": "post", "title": "Slowing Our Life", "text": "I like this idea of consciously slowing our life by making choices like the ones exposed in this article \u0026ldquo;Putting on some wait\u0026rdquo;.\nIn a world where everyone seems to be super busy all the time, bumping into more moments with nothing to do seems like a real discovery.\nThink about it the next time you are waiting in line for something. I will.\n#musing #life\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-20 15:11:54 -0500", "date": "3:11 p.m. on Feb 20, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/20/slowing-our-life.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F20%2Fslowing-our-life.html" }, { "id": 2930, "type": "post", "title": "Still Mystified by ProRAW", "text": "\nEven after reading this excellent article by the guy behind Halide, I’m still mystified by Apple’s ProRAW format. The question that keeps popping up in my mind is: if computational photography processing is involved in creating the ProRAW file (in DNG format), how can we still call this a variant of a RAW image?\nPhoto credit: Jason Strull on Unsplash\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-20 11:20:55 -0500", "date": "11:20 p.m. on Feb 20, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/20/still-mystified-by.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F20%2Fstill-mystified-by.html" }, { "id": 2931, "type": "post", "title": "Dune Movie - Woah!", "text": "\nToday, I finally saw the Dune movie, by the Canadian director, Denis Villeneuve. As a Canadian myself I’m so proud of him! It’s not a movie review, far from it. Let me just say that when I think about this movie, the word “equilibrium” comes to my mind. The movie is well balanced: storyline, intrigue, visual effects (visual effects serving the story), music, Dune’s world imaginary world. But the best for me were those “ornithopters”. Wow, they were sooooo cool! Can’t wait for the next part.\nHave you seen the movie? What do you think of it?\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-19 21:23:19 -0500", "date": "9:23 p.m. on Feb 19, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/19/dune-movie-woah.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F19%2Fdune-movie-woah.html" }, { "id": 2932, "type": "post", "title": "Old Computer-Related Memories", "text": "\nFrom 1993 to 1994, I owned a PowerBook Duo 210 sporting a trackball, a low-profile keyboard and a grayscale screen. I didn’t like the trackball as the pointing device. The keyboard wasn’t that great either. But, it was small, highly portable. Coupled with the Duo Dock and an external monitor, it was a cool and novel setup. It’s been a long time ago. This article was written using a M1 MacBook Air, in a coffee shop.\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-19 14:52:44 -0500", "date": "2:52 p.m. on Feb 19, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/19/old-computerrelated-memories.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F19%2Fold-computerrelated-memories.html" }, { "id": 2933, "type": "post", "title": "On Carrot Weather — Is It That Cool?", "text": "\nWhy is Carrot Weather so popular? I’m a weather enthusiast and I like trying new weather-related applications. I use many all year long, but Carrot Weather is not part of my application arsenal. They recently introduced updated weather maps, but to get a sense of them, I would need to subscribe for a year subscription. Most of the interesting features are available in the premium tier. I like the maps feature, but I wonder how better they will get compared to the ones that I’m already using in MyRadar. iOS 15 brought a significant update to the weather too, but I find the maps lacking radar resolution.\nIf there are users of Carrot Weather subscription, tell me more, tell my why it is so nice?\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-19 14:23:34 -0500", "date": "2:23 p.m. on Feb 19, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/19/on-carrot-weather.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F19%2Fon-carrot-weather.html" }, { "id": 2934, "type": "post", "title": "Floating in My Head While...", "text": "💬 Music is playing in my AirPods. I’m not sure that I made the right music choice. What am I gonna do next? Should I finish working on that article that is taking way too much of my time? I should configure the Raycast utility on my MacBook Air, downloaded earlier this week; it looks so useful. Is this vacuum cleaner doing its job or what? These are the thoughts floating in my head while cleaning up the house today. 🧼\n#musings\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-19 14:06:52 -0500", "date": "2:06 p.m. on Feb 19, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/19/floating-in-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F19%2Ffloating-in-my.html" }, { "id": 2935, "type": "post", "title": "I'm Soooo Productive", "text": "😌 With silence, a coffee, alone, early in the day, full of ideas and feeling creative, it’s the time when I’m the most creatively productive. I wish I could stretch out these moments.☕️\nWhat’s your best creativity moment?\n#morning #creativity\nDiscuss\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-19 07:57:33 -0500", "date": "7:57 p.m. on Feb 19, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/19/im-soooo-productive.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F19%2Fim-soooo-productive.html" }, { "id": 2936, "type": "post", "title": "Winter's Worst Part", "text": "\n❄️ Right in the middle of February, another snowstorm hit the city. February always felt like the worst part of winter for me. It feels like we’ve been in winter forever. Spring still feels far, and December seems like yesterday. The only good part is that daylight increases steadily, and it’s a short month. Oh, TGIF! 🌨\n#winter #TGIF\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-18 06:56:06 -0500", "date": "6:56 p.m. on Feb 18, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/18/winters-worst-part.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F18%2Fwinters-worst-part.html" }, { "id": 2937, "type": "post", "title": "My Source of Dopamine", "text": "🧠 It is well documented that social networks are a great source of dopamine. Likes, retweets, etc., all contribute to providing the much-needed boost that we, as humans, are in constant need of. I’m ok with that. You might think that I’m no different. You are partly right. But, as a writer, I also get my dopamine when I hit publish. That’s the one source that I’m trying to prioritize. Not always easy. 💉\n#musing #socialnetworks\nDiscuss\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-17 07:46:25 -0500", "date": "7:46 p.m. on Feb 17, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/17/my-source-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F17%2Fmy-source-of.html" }, { "id": 2938, "type": "post", "title": "Now Discovering Remark.as", "text": "🤦🏻‍♂️ Today, I just found out how to use Remark.as for commenting on a writer’s post. On the same occasion, I found out that many people were replying to my posts. I didn’t get notified by this, and I’m unsure how to enable this. 😳\nI wanted to let you know that I read them all and thank you in advance for your comments and remarks. I’m highly appreciative of that. 🙏🏻😊\n#meta\nDiscuss\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-16 17:55:19 -0500", "date": "5:55 p.m. on Feb 16, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/16/now-discovering-remarkas.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F16%2Fnow-discovering-remarkas.html" }, { "id": 2939, "type": "post", "title": "Reminder of Substack to Ghost", "text": "🤨 Even though I moved my newsletter home a few months ago from Substack to Ghost, as explained here, people are still subscribing to the newsletter on Substack. I’m happy to welcome new subscribers, but I need to register them on my Ghost instance manually. What else could I do? 💡Update my signup newsletter telling them about the new place! ⚠️\n#newsletter #bloggerlife\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-16 17:35:57 -0500", "date": "5:35 p.m. on Feb 16, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/16/reminder-of-substack.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F16%2Freminder-of-substack.html" }, { "id": 2940, "type": "post", "title": "About ME", "text": "👨🏻‍💻 I think it’s important that you know a bit about who’s behind this continuous musing feed. So, here you go.\nDear visitor, welcome to my write.as blog. My real name is JF Martin, but I prefer to be called Numeric Citizen in cyberspace. This is my pen name (learn why I\u0026rsquo;m using this name). I\u0026rsquo;m an IT (Information Technologies) professional since the early nineties. I\u0026rsquo;m 55, I\u0026rsquo;m probably getting old, I know. I have many hobbies, but writing is the one that’s taking up much of my spare time. I spend about twenty hours a week on writing and publishing (fully documented here). Why? Get the answer in “I read, I learn, I write, I Share”. As explained in this post, I write about my passions which are revolving around Apple, photography, privacy protection and climate change. You\u0026rsquo;ll find plenty of stuff on these subjects in my digital garden (⚠️ warning: it\u0026rsquo;s a rabbit hole 🐇).\nAs you can see, I have more than enough interests to trigger my inspiration. So much so that they are the source of my monthly newsletter.\nYou can find more information about me here. Get to know all my sites with Linktr.ee. (think of this as some sort of visitors card)!\nThat\u0026rsquo;s about it! 😳😅\nLast updated: 2023-04-26.\n#aboutme #meta #announcement\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-16 14:19:51 -0500", "date": "2:19 p.m. on Feb 16, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/16/about-me.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F16%2Fabout-me.html" }, { "id": 2941, "type": "post", "title": "People No Longer Read Apparently", "text": "📚 While looking around me and paying attention to the generation that follows, I see most people on their screen looking at videos (Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube, etc.). I rarely see someone reading on their screen, even less a book. I find it troubling in a few ways. First, I think people are becoming lazy about getting new knowledge and culture. Second, it’s harder to read than watching videos. Third, attention span has never been this short in the younger generation.\nWhen I write an article with an average read time of more than four or five minutes, I know before hitting the publish button that very few people will read it. Those who do are probably older people. I might be wrong. I hope. 😒\nDo you feel the same way?\n#reading #writing #musing\nDiscuss\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-16 07:27:55 -0500", "date": "7:27 p.m. on Feb 16, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/16/people-no-longer.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F16%2Fpeople-no-longer.html" }, { "id": 2942, "type": "post", "title": "Maybe I'm Thinking Way Too Much", "text": "🤔 When thinking about my newsletter subscribers, I often think about them as being people attending a class or a presentation: each newsletter being some sort of a presentation. According to my recent analytics, 45% of my subscribers read the newsletter. If I continue with the class or presentation analogy, this means more than half of the people who show up don’t even bother listening to what’s I’m saying. 🤨😔\nSome writers prefer newsletters instead of having a blog, thinking they have a more personal relationship with their readers by sending them an email. Allow me to think differently. 🤔\n#newsletter #blogger #bloggerlife #musing\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-15 17:43:14 -0500", "date": "5:43 p.m. on Feb 15, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/15/maybe-im-thinking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F15%2Fmaybe-im-thinking.html" }, { "id": 2943, "type": "post", "title": "Musing About the Typical Blog Post", "text": "📝 As I gain acquaintance with write.as, a typical blog post content and format is settling in. Each blog post has to be short (less than 400-500 characters), contain highlighted words for improved readability, include tags at the end, a few emojis and optionally a “Discuss” link to invite the user to comment. Each of these posts should require less than 10 minutes to write and publish. 🏷\n#blogging #writing #blog #tips\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-15 06:47:01 -0500", "date": "6:47 p.m. on Feb 15, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/15/musing-about-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F15%2Fmusing-about-the.html" }, { "id": 2944, "type": "post", "title": "Musing About External Links", "text": "🔗 When I write articles or blog posts, like this one or this one, I’m trying as much as possible to include external links. For link posts, it’s obviously mandatory for citing the source and the context. For other types of content, external links might guide the reader to read complementary content. Whatever the reason, adding external links can be time-consuming. My experience (and analytics) show that less than 10% of the visitors will click on them. I wonder if the time it takes to include these links is worth it. Do you visit external links when reading an article or do you find it distracting to do so? 🧐\n#blogger #writer #musing\nDiscuss\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-15 06:34:41 -0500", "date": "6:34 p.m. on Feb 15, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/15/musing-about-external.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F15%2Fmusing-about-external.html" }, { "id": 2945, "type": "post", "title": "Learning as I write.as...", "text": "🧠 Every day, I learn a few new things about write.as. Today it’s about using tags and the reader mode. I went back in time to add those to most of my past posts. They are helpful, for the reader and for me the writer.☝🏻\n#tools #writeas\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-14 20:28:24 -0500", "date": "8:28 p.m. on Feb 14, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/14/learning-as-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F14%2Flearning-as-i.html" }, { "id": 2946, "type": "post", "title": "Content Expiration Date", "text": "Today, I deleted 54 blog posts from my blog at https://numericcitizen.me. This blog is where it all started for me, in 2018. Unfortunately, most of these posts were of very low value or simply outdated. This brings me to the question of content value on the internet; things move fast, value often declines quickly. It’s the case for my content anyway.\n#blogging #writing\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-13 19:38:24 -0500", "date": "7:38 p.m. on Feb 13, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/13/content-expiration-date.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F13%2Fcontent-expiration-date.html" }, { "id": 2947, "type": "post", "title": "My Oldest Post", "text": "Going back in time on previously published content can be the source of a few smiles. My oldest post on my main blog is about Micro.blog. Here is an excerpt:\nThis morning I found out the existence of a blogging platform called Micro.blog. Something very special. Very lean. Very light. Without ads. Leaner than WordPress. Yet capable. Close to Twitter but with less clutter.\nIt’s funny. It’s not about introducing my blog or something like “hello” world.\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-13 18:00:50 -0500", "date": "6:00 p.m. on Feb 13, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/13/my-oldest-post.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F13%2Fmy-oldest-post.html" }, { "id": 2948, "type": "post", "title": "On Content Portability", "text": "🚀 A message to content creators out there: be wary of content portability when selecting a writing platform. It\u0026rsquo;s not that easy to move things around. There are always issues of all sorts that can make your experience miserable and time-consuming. ⚙️\n#tools #platform #cms\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-13 14:27:18 -0500", "date": "2:27 p.m. on Feb 13, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/13/on-content-portability.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F13%2Fon-content-portability.html" }, { "id": 2949, "type": "post", "title": "Challenge of the day: exporting posts from WordPress to Ghost", "text": "Well, well, well, it seems that data portability among CMS is an issue. Who knew! I\u0026rsquo;m trying to find an easy way to move a few posts from my WordPress blog into my Ghost website. Exporting data from WordPress seems like an all-or-nothing situation. There are a few plugins available for this. The problem is that the content isn\u0026rsquo;t easily imported into Ghost. The latter does have a plugin, but it doesn\u0026rsquo;t support selecting posts. I don\u0026rsquo;t want to do this manually.\nAny idea or suggestions?\nUpdate 2022-02-16: There is a follow-up to my quest, read all the details here\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-13 07:51:00 -0500", "date": "7:51 p.m. on Feb 13, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/13/challenge-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F13%2Fchallenge-of-the.html" }, { "id": 2950, "type": "post", "title": "Digital Citizen", "text": "🤨 I wish I could have used Digital Citizen instead of Numeric Citizen as my pen name. Digital \u0026gt; Numeric in English, from the word meaning perspective and the idea of being a citizen of the digital world. Oh well. 🤦🏻‍♂️\n#thinking\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-12 22:15:58 -0500", "date": "10:15 p.m. on Feb 12, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/12/digital-citizen.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F12%2Fdigital-citizen.html" }, { "id": 2951, "type": "post", "title": "Voluntary Simplicity", "text": "Minimalistic. Scarce. Effective. Bare. Imperfect but perfect for the task. Trustworthy. Simple. Modern. Open. Frictionless. Unobtrusive. Distraction-free. Focused. Cheap. That’s write.as.\n#tools\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-12 16:14:58 -0500", "date": "4:14 p.m. on Feb 12, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/12/voluntary-simplicity.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F12%2Fvoluntary-simplicity.html" }, { "id": 2952, "type": "post", "title": "Peeking at AirDrop in the Coffee Shop", "text": "☕️ Going to the coffee shop today after six weeks of sanitary restrictions. Those were lifted recently, at long last. After setting up my MacBook Air, I open up AirDrop in the Finder to see who’s there. Naturally, I don’t know anyone from the list of available devices. It’s just for fun. Available devices vary a lot for each visit. Today was a great crop. 👨🏻‍💻😜\n#musing\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-12 13:41:30 -0500", "date": "1:41 p.m. on Feb 12, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/12/peeking-at-airdrop.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F12%2Fpeeking-at-airdrop.html" }, { "id": 2953, "type": "post", "title": "An Unexpected Side of the Pandemic", "text": "The pandemic gave me more time and opportunities to create, write and publish. I don’t want to lose these when it’s all over. My creativity-related activities helped me go through all of this.\n#covid19 #creativity\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-12 08:19:21 -0500", "date": "8:19 p.m. on Feb 12, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/12/an-unexpected-side.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F12%2Fan-unexpected-side.html" }, { "id": 2954, "type": "post", "title": "Feeling the COVID-19 Fatigue", "text": "😒 We’re approaching two years of this COVID-19 pandemic. We’re entering a phase where people no longer feel the need to care about COVID-19. I feel that way. I don’t care anymore. I don’t feel guilty about it. When I look at the news, more and more signs of people being fed up are popping up. Our collective energy is now directed at saying out loud how we’re tired of all this instead of making concessions about our liberties to fight some invisible virus. I certainly hope that no other major variant will come to life, requiring another six months of confinement, sanitary rules, and de-confinement. But, unfortunately, I am afraid people are going to resist this time. 😔\n#covid19\nDiscuss\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-11 20:20:51 -0500", "date": "8:20 p.m. on Feb 11, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/11/feeling-the-covid.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F11%2Ffeeling-the-covid.html" }, { "id": 2955, "type": "post", "title": "Engage", "text": "👉🏻 If there is something that I have learned in recent months is this: the more you engage with a community, the better and the most rewarding it is. Most of the time. 👀\n#socialnetwork\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-11 13:11:05 -0500", "date": "1:11 p.m. on Feb 11, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/11/engage.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F11%2Fengage.html" }, { "id": 2956, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Please, don\u0026rsquo;t think that because I\u0026rsquo;m now subscribing to write.as that I\u0026rsquo;m leaving Micro.blog. It couldn\u0026rsquo;t be farther than the truth. You\u0026rsquo;re pretty much stuck with me here, for as long as I can see! ☺️\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-11 13:07:07 -0500", "date": "1:07 p.m. on Feb 11, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/11/please-dont-think.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F11%2Fplease-dont-think.html" }, { "id": 2957, "type": "post", "title": "The Inspiration Killer", "text": "I’m sad that I’m rarely doing photography these days… the pandemic and COVID-19 killed my inspiration.\n#covid19 #photography #creativity\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-11 09:32:14 -0500", "date": "9:32 p.m. on Feb 11, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/11/the-inspiration-killer.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F11%2Fthe-inspiration-killer.html" }, { "id": 2958, "type": "post", "title": "Bonus Content", "text": "I like the idea of selectively cross-posting some of the posts here to Twitter or Ghost, but not that many. Each cross-posting is some sort of blips or advertisement on the web. People who pay attention or are simply curious in nature hitting the source link will be in for a treat. Unpublicized posts would act like bonus content for the reader to discover.\nDiscuss\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-11 07:27:20 -0500", "date": "7:27 p.m. on Feb 11, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/11/bonus-content.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F11%2Fbonus-content.html" }, { "id": 2959, "type": "post", "title": "TGIF", "text": "Time flies; I didn’t see the week. Where did it go? On the eves of the weekend, I’m thinking about possible subjects for participation in the Micro.camp conference, this coming March. The one topic that seems to stick as I’m writing this: coffee shops and creative work.\n#musing\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-11 07:05:53 -0500", "date": "7:05 p.m. on Feb 11, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/11/tgif.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F11%2Ftgif.html" }, { "id": 2960, "type": "post", "title": "I'm in perpetual experimentation mode", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m still thinking about the possibility of subscribing to this service. I\u0026rsquo;m trying to find a specific use case for it. Even though I might not find one, I could consider my subscription as a vote for the service\u0026rsquo;s mission. It would be a sign of appreciation. Three dollars a month for five years is less than many of the much-less valuable services that I\u0026rsquo;m already subscribing to. Six days left for the promotion.\nI got my inspiration from this post.\nThis post will be cross-posted to https://numericcitizen-introspection.blog.\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-10 17:22:44 -0500", "date": "5:22 p.m. on Feb 10, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/10/im-in-perpetual.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F10%2Fim-in-perpetual.html" }, { "id": 2961, "type": "post", "title": "Health of Developer Relations with Apple in Free Fall", "text": "\nAccording to this year’s Six Colors Report Card, relationships between Apple and its developers\u0026rsquo; community is in terrible shape. The trend isn’t looking good either.\nMarco Arment said, “Apple’s tightening grip on App Store fees, attempts to reach into other parts of businesses that they don’t deserve, and extremely entitled and galling statements on the matter continue to be distasteful and extremely damaging to their reputation. It seems like a huge strategic blunder to inflame developer relations, generate bad PR, invite more regulatory scrutiny, and risk governments imposing much worse changes for such a small percentage of their revenue.”\nIs Apple still able to read the room temperature, or it is blind because of its financial successes? For once, I think Apple should copy Microsoft’s leadership.\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-10 07:50:55 -0500", "date": "7:50 p.m. on Feb 10, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/10/health-of-developer.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F10%2Fhealth-of-developer.html" }, { "id": 2962, "type": "post", "title": "What am I doing here?", "text": "Here I am, on write.as. What am I doing here? Am I going to subscribe to this service? Do I really need it?\nMicro.blog being linked with @Apple_Observer, Typefully being linked to Apple_Observer, write.as could be behind @NumericCitizen. I could use it for my Numeric Citizen Twitter account and cross-post to Ghost? It probably doesn\u0026rsquo;t matter much if there is no native application for Write.as.\nI\u0026rsquo;m still thinking about it. Wishing for a final call before the end of the five-year subscription deal, ending this coming Feb. 16th.\nThis was my very first post on write.as.\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-09 15:29:19 -0500", "date": "3:29 p.m. on Feb 9, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/09/what-am-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F09%2Fwhat-am-i.html" }, { "id": 2963, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On Sideloading on iPhone — It’s OK, I’m Changing My Mind numericcitizen.meNumeric Citizen https://numericcitizen.me/2022/02/09/on-sideloading-on-iphone-its-ok-im-changing-my-mind/\rI\u0026rsquo;d love to get feedback on this subject, from this community, here on MB\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-09 12:29:02 -0500", "date": "12:29 p.m. on Feb 9, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/09/on-sideloading-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F09%2Fon-sideloading-on.html" }, { "id": 2964, "type": "post", "title": "Only 3$ a Month", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m getting ready to pull the trigger on write.as. For a mere 3$ a month, it won\u0026rsquo;t be an expensive experience. I think I can do it without going bankrupt. 👨🏻‍💻\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-09 09:39:57 -0500", "date": "9:39 p.m. on Feb 9, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/09/only-a-month.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F09%2Fonly-a-month.html" }, { "id": 2965, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Write.as. Why am I looking at Write.as now? Aren\u0026rsquo;t WordPress, Micro.blog, Ghost and Blot enough already? Is this a disease? I like the concept of Write.as, but the lack of any native apps bugs me a lot. There is a deal right now running through Feb 16th. Gosh.\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-08 18:32:35 -0500", "date": "6:32 p.m. on Feb 8, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/08/writeas-why-am.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F08%2Fwriteas-why-am.html" }, { "id": 2966, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple is clearly crossing the red line here IMHO. They are being disingenuous.\nThese guidelines from Apple about external payments are even worse than I expected. So many hoops to jump through, and a ridiculous 27% fee. No one is going to go along with this, which means it doesn’t relieve any regulatory pressure on Apple. Burning more developer trust.\nManton Reece https://www.manton.org/2022/02/04/these-guidelines-from.html ", "dateiso": "2022-02-04 11:06:11 -0500", "date": "11:06 p.m. on Feb 4, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/04/apple-is-clearly.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F04%2Fapple-is-clearly.html" }, { "id": 2967, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For (more) personal stories of mine, here is the place to go.\nFriday Notes #61 — Knowing Our Parents numericcitizen-introspection.blogNumeric Citizen https://numericcitizen-introspection.blog/friday-notes-61-knowing-our-parents/ ", "dateiso": "2022-02-04 10:07:21 -0500", "date": "10:07 p.m. on Feb 4, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/04/for-more-personal.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F04%2Ffor-more-personal.html" }, { "id": 2968, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m mostly done with my love letter to Cleanshot, a screen grabber utility for the Mac. I\u0026rsquo;m close to 500 words. I should be paid for doing this. Oh well\u0026hellip; what passion can make us do\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-02 07:31:27 -0500", "date": "7:31 p.m. on Feb 2, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/02/im-mostly-done.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F02%2Fim-mostly-done.html" }, { "id": 2969, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On December 18th of 2019, Here\u0026rsquo;s what I wrote on Micro.blog:\nNow that I’m closing my account here on micro.blog I’m starting to get more interactions 🤷🏻‍♂️.\nThe responses I got were so enlightening, I changed my mind. What a great community. 😀\n", "dateiso": "2022-02-01 20:06:13 -0500", "date": "8:06 p.m. on Feb 1, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/02/01/on-december-th.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F02%2F01%2Fon-december-th.html" }, { "id": 2970, "type": "post", "title": "From Apple’s AirPort Exterme to Ubiquiti’s Amplify HD", "text": "\nAs reported in my previous blog post, I had a chance to perform a “tech refresh” of my sister’s WiFi installation at her house. As a satisfied user of Ubiquiti product, the Dream Machine, I suggested to go with a lower end model, the Amplify HD. She has a big two levels home, with numerous rooms that poses a challenge for good wireless connectivity. It was a delightful experience, from the unpacking to final configuration. It’s a beautiful device with an informative display.\nThe setup was simple. Turning off the AirPort Express after taking note of the SSID, so I could reuse it with the same password. This prevents the reconfiguration of every device connecting to the WiFi with an already known SSID-password combination. After the initial power up sequence, the router will ask the user to download the configuration application from the App Store. An account has to be created with Ubiquity. Thankfully, Sign In with Apple is available.\nThe next phase happens on the iPhone with an initial discovery over Bluetooth. The setup process is quick and flawless. As expected, a firmware update was waiting to be applied. During the update process, it was the right rime to deploy the two WiFi extenders, in strategic places where the WiFi signals used to be weak. Once completed, I could name each devices with a more meaningful name, to represent where were each device. All in all, the process took less than 30 minutes. It’s a very Apple-like experience. The following table shows the situation before and after the new router. Numbers speaks for themselves.\nMission accomplished. Another happy customer. I came back with the old AirPort Extreme. No idea what to do with it.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-30 20:01:54 -0500", "date": "8:01 p.m. on Jan 30, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/01/30/from-apples-airport.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F01%2F30%2Ffrom-apples-airport.html" }, { "id": 2971, "type": "post", "title": "Replacing (Another) Aging AirPort Extreme With…", "text": "\nIn mid-2020, I wrote about my experience of replacing an aging Apple AirPort Extreme with an Ubiquiti’s Dream Machine. Today, I’m kind of repeating the experience, but this time with the Amplify HD router, also from Ubiquiti, for my sister. Don’t expect a complete review, but expect a post with a few observations. My sister is having weak WiFi issues in her house and I suggested her to get the kit to form a mesh network. I’ll be taking measure before and after to see if it brings meaningful improvements in her big house. Stay tuned.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-30 09:25:39 -0500", "date": "9:25 p.m. on Jan 30, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/01/30/replacing-another-aging.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F01%2F30%2Freplacing-another-aging.html" }, { "id": 2972, "type": "post", "title": "Universal Control — Finally!", "text": "\nI’m a big fan of Apple’s Sidecar. I frequently use it for work. When Apple announced Universal Control at the 2021 WWDC keynote, I was blown away by the technical challenge it might have represented for Apple’s engineers. It really makes for great demos. Then, I started to wonder if this feature would enable new workflows, and I failed to find meaningful ones. With Sidecar, the iPad acts like a passive device most of the time, and I’m happy with this configuration. Then, following the release of iOS 15.4b1, videos (like this one from MacRumors) demonstrating Universal Control in action started to pop up. I changed my mind.\nUnder a Universal Control configuration, the iPad acts like an intelligent extension of the Mac desktop. It’s like Sidecar Pro Max (just kidding here). The iPad becomes a second computing device readily available to the Mac. The user simply and seamlessly can take advantage of this second screen in a matter where the computing power of the device adds up to the Mac, the screen, the system memory. It’s absolutely clever.\nI can see myself using Craft on the MacBook Air and Ulysses on the iPad Pro, all using the MacBook’s keyboard and trackpad. Or vice versa. Clever. Really.\nI’m considering updating my M1 MacBook Air and my iPad Pro to this beta.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-27 21:36:18 -0500", "date": "9:36 p.m. on Jan 27, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/01/27/universal-control-finally.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F01%2F27%2Funiversal-control-finally.html" }, { "id": 2973, "type": "post", "title": "On HomePod mini with a screen - STOP!", "text": "\nConsider this recent article from 9to5Mac: Concept: How Apple could turn HomePod mini into a delightful and adorable smart display - 9to5Mac.\nPlease, stop thinking that a screen on the HomePod mini makes sense because it just doesn\u0026rsquo;t. Why? Well, by looking at where we put these devices in our house, most of the time, you wouldn\u0026rsquo;t be able to see the screen from a distance. What Apple really wishes is that you buy an iPad mini with a Smart Folio cover for that purpose.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-26 07:37:12 -0500", "date": "7:37 p.m. on Jan 26, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/01/26/on-homepod-mini.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F01%2F26%2Fon-homepod-mini.html" }, { "id": 2974, "type": "post", "title": "MP3 Files and the iPhone — Harder Than Necessary", "text": "\nI find it surprisingly hard to find a simple MP3 player for an iPhone these days. I mean, just a simple application capable of downloading an MP3 file locally on the device with good playback controls, simple library management, nothing fancy. Readdle\u0026rsquo;s Documents (which I know very well) and EverMusic seem to be popular options. Documents offers a good user experience, albeit its multipurpose mission with documents management.\n(I’m a moderate consumer of Soundcloud (paid subscription) and use Downie to download files from the service. Those files are stored on my DS720+ Synology NAS.)\nWhat’s your experience in playing MP3 files on your iPhone? I’m curious.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-23 15:02:57 -0500", "date": "3:02 p.m. on Jan 23, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/01/23/mp-files-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F01%2F23%2Fmp-files-and.html" }, { "id": 2975, "type": "post", "title": "It’s the Time of the Month to Start Crafting the Next Edition of My Monthly Newsletter", "text": "\nWell, it’s the time of the month where I start to work on the next edition of my monthly newsletter (it’s free BTW). I spend about ten to fifteen hours each month to put this together using my past readings and discoveries, Craft and Ulysses. Each time, it’s a pleasure to create. I think I should put together an article about the workflow I use to create each newsletter. Would you find this interesting?\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-23 09:15:51 -0500", "date": "9:15 p.m. on Jan 23, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/01/23/its-the-time.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F01%2F23%2Fits-the-time.html" }, { "id": 2976, "type": "post", "title": "Yep, Notion is Bad", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m nearly done with my Notion to Craft migration. I know I\u0026rsquo;ve been lazy; I\u0026rsquo;ve been using Craft for many months while my old content was still sitting there in Notion. While doing the migration, I realized, again, that I don\u0026rsquo;t really like Notion\u0026rsquo;s handling of a document. It just feels unnatural and quirky. Export options are very limited, which makes my job much harder. I\u0026rsquo;m also losing some metadata along the way (and database content too). I don\u0026rsquo;t have high hopes for a Craft eXtension to support Notion\u0026rsquo;s API to help users do this kind of rich content migration. I expect to finish the migration in the coming days.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-22 21:53:16 -0500", "date": "9:53 p.m. on Jan 22, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/01/22/yep-notion-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F01%2F22%2Fyep-notion-is.html" }, { "id": 2977, "type": "post", "title": "Give Me Some Time...", "text": "\n\u0026hellip;and I’ll move out of 1Password. It’s on my to-do list for 2022. Gruber’s article is a reminder that time is ticking. I’m just being too lazy to move my stuff out of 1Password and put that in Apple’s Keychain. It takes time, which is a rare resource for me.\nI don’t like 1Password’s direction. It seems to me that going the enterprise way is counterproductive for the average users. Corporations and individuals don’t share the same objectives. Why do you think Microsoft is making Teams for personal use?\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-22 09:33:32 -0500", "date": "9:33 p.m. on Jan 22, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/01/22/give-me-some.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F01%2F22%2Fgive-me-some.html" }, { "id": 2978, "type": "post", "title": "Dear Apple: Bring Back the Dashboard", "text": "\nI want this so much. We have to voice our desire to get back the Dashboard on macOS. As explained by 512px a long time ago:\nJobs pitched widgets as mini-apps that let you look up a quick bit of information without ruining your workflow or train of thought. They allowed for quick interactions. They were present when you needed them, and disappeared when you didn’t.\nWhy try to imagine new solutions to fix the widgets conundrum on macOS? The Dashboard was the only good solution where you could put widgets anywhere on the screen, then invoke them as needed. Dear Apple, are you reading this? 🥺🙏🏻\nLet’s enjoy one more time the Dashboard in its full glory.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-22 08:25:23 -0500", "date": "8:25 p.m. on Jan 22, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/01/22/dear-apple-bring.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F01%2F22%2Fdear-apple-bring.html" }, { "id": 2979, "type": "post", "title": "Taking Advantage of the iPad Screen", "text": "\nConsider the previous annotated screenshot from Matter. Way too many applications have the same design issue. Why, in 2022, developers cannot fix these wasted space? I see that the content is of the same width if the iPad is used in portrait or landscape orientation. Why not adjust width dynamically? Is it that hard?\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-22 08:05:46 -0500", "date": "8:05 p.m. on Jan 22, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/01/22/taking-advantage-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F01%2F22%2Ftaking-advantage-of.html" }, { "id": 2980, "type": "post", "title": "About iMessage - Again", "text": " Apple’s Messages app, why does it only support iMessage and SMS? iChat had support for AIM, Yahoo Messanger, ICQ, and XMPP. Why hasn’t Apple gone beyond the blue and green bubbles, introducing support for additional protocols with more message bubble colors?\nApple likes control. They didn\u0026rsquo;t have it with those protocols. How could they implement things like CSAM?\nSource: The Green Bubble Myth - Initial Charge\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-20 19:31:37 -0500", "date": "7:31 p.m. on Jan 20, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/01/20/about-imessage-again.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F01%2F20%2Fabout-imessage-again.html" }, { "id": 2981, "type": "post", "title": "I’m a Big Fan of Craft But…", "text": "\nAs you probably know, I’m a big fan of Craft. This application is really at the center of everything I do online, as thoroughly documented in my blogger workflow. That being said, I always keep an eye open for competing services, thanks to my Twitter list “Apps \u0026amp; Services”. Notion is one of them. Before Craft, there was Notion, which I loved too. But it felt too complicated or overkill for my needs. Craft is nowhere near Notion in terms of features. There is no comparison, even though I wrote one. Really. Yet, according to their recent tweets, Notion has been on a roll lately, adding features, tweaking things or rewriting a portion of the user experience like the text editing engine. So, where am I going with this?\nIt is tempting to think: what if I came back to Notion? I still have my account, after all. Things always look better on the other side of the fence, right? The thing is the speed of evolution of Craft, while being considered at a fast pace by some, I’m realistic, and I would argue the contrary. The team behind Craft is surely a fraction of Notion’s. Basic things are hard to come by. Said another way, my expectations aren’t met as fast as I wished. Take this week’s update, which was released earlier this week. While I’m happy to see improvements, there is not much to talk about. The release notes starts by the possibility to “star” a document, so it is easier to find in the navigation bar on the left. The second thing on the list is some improvements to the display of backlinks at the end of a page. While being welcomed by many, it’s not exactly mind-blowing. Sure it is a dot dot release (v2.0.3), but I was expecting so much more, as documented in my Craft wish list. Craft eXtensions, announced with the 2.0 release at the end of 2021 sure looks full of potential, but my expectations lean toward Craft’s core experience, which I find somewhat lacking.\nI think I’m being overly demanding. Patience is a virtue.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-19 21:22:41 -0500", "date": "9:22 p.m. on Jan 19, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/01/19/im-a-big.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F01%2F19%2Fim-a-big.html" }, { "id": 2982, "type": "post", "title": "Exploring the World of DJing", "text": "\nI always liked electronic music, but I’m not a musician. In recent moths, I’ve been exploring the world of DJing. It’s a way for me to feel that I can do music without deep knowledge of musical theory. It’s a fascinating world.\nLast year I bought a Pioneer DDJ-400 controller for use with my Mac mini. There is two major roadblocks in my experience so far: finding good quality tracks to mix and selecting the best DJ app. I want to draw your attention to the software side of my story.\nSome well known DJ apps are Rekordbox, Serato and DJay. My understanding is that in recent years, software makers all switched to subscription models. Application like Rekordbox will “unlock” some of its features while being used with certain DJ controller models, but to get the whole thing, you have to subscribe to some plan. It’s irritating for someone like me who’s just trying to learn and experiment. But there is another problem: applications design sucks. Rekordbox and Serato are visually terrible. On the Mac, these apps really feels like aliens coming from… I don’t know… even on Windows they probably look aliens. The best looking application is Algoriddim’s Djay, by far. Problem is, the application is lacking many features. For now, my conclusion is that It appears that we cannot have both fully featured applications with a great design.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-19 07:31:56 -0500", "date": "7:31 p.m. on Jan 19, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/01/19/exploring-the-world.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F01%2F19%2Fexploring-the-world.html" }, { "id": 2983, "type": "post", "title": "Green vs Blue Bubbles: The Definitive And Honest Point of View", "text": "A few days ago, I wrote a small commentary post regarding the WSJ article on Apple’s iMessage, its effects on the crowd of young iPhone users, and how Apple is being evil. Man, it’s a pale and superficial perspective compared to Gruber’s view of the article, and the controversy that followed. Must read, if this short-lived controversy is picking up your curiosity.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-14 20:24:15 -0500", "date": "8:24 p.m. on Jan 14, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/01/14/green-vs-blue.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F01%2F14%2Fgreen-vs-blue.html" }, { "id": 2984, "type": "post", "title": "On iOS 15 Update Conundrum — Why Apple Is Changing is Mind", "text": "\nApple finally published the numbers of people who upgraded to iOS 15 and iPadOS 15. While the percentages show the vast majority of users upgraded their devices, there are more people than with previous years who didn’t. It’s probably Apple’s fault.\nWith iOS 15, Apple is no longer forcing users to adopt the latest release to get the latest security updates. A user running iOS 14.7 can stay there as long as he can apply the security patches made available for that version. It’s an entirely new approach for Apple. I wonder why Apple made that change. I think I found one big reason.\nIf you compare Apple’s ecosystem to Android, Apple has a clear advantage here by being able to move the needle much faster for releases adoption, until now. In a single year, Apple can transform its ecosystem of users by adding features that are quickly making their way into people’s devices. By allowing users to stay on previous releases, Apple is shooting itself in the foot. Now they seem to change their mind, though. Apple could be changing his mind. As reported by MacRumors:\niOS 15‌ used to be listed as an optional update on devices running iOS 14, but now it is front and center on devices that still have iOS 14, and it is the only available update option as Apple has now stopped making security updates available for devices running iOS 14. Those who want the latest security fixes need to upgrade to ‌iOS 15‌, as all devices capable of running iOS 14 also support ‌iOS 15‌.\nI think it’s the right move for Apple, since they tend to support old devices longer than other manufacturers. Apple could tweak iOS to be less aggressive is upgrading to the latest release by introducing delays in a random manner. Users eager to upgrade can do so manually, others would randomly get a notification suggesting the availability of the newer release. As time passes, those notifications would increase in frequency. This new behaviour will probably never come to like and not be enough. Here is why.\nThere might be another reason behind this change of mind on Apple’s part. Look at antitrust regulations looming on the horizon all around the world. Apple is probably making sure that all users adopt the latest release faster to comply with possible new regulations imposed by lawmakers, which would need to trigger changes to the operating system.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-14 07:21:24 -0500", "date": "7:21 p.m. on Jan 14, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/01/14/on-ios-update.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F01%2F14%2Fon-ios-update.html" }, { "id": 2985, "type": "post", "title": "Bye Bye 500px", "text": "It was written on the walls: my subscription to 500px is coming to an end next week, and I won\u0026rsquo;t renew. It was a nice ride for sure, but Smugmug + Glass took over. Sure, comparing those services isn\u0026rsquo;t fair. For my needs, 500px doesn\u0026rsquo;t fit anymore. Another reason is the fact that I\u0026rsquo;m not taking as many photos as I used to, thanks to the pandemic.\nI\u0026rsquo;ll keep my 500px account but in \u0026ldquo;read-only\u0026rdquo; mode for the year to come.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-12 08:05:51 -0500", "date": "8:05 p.m. on Jan 12, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/01/12/bye-bye-px.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F01%2F12%2Fbye-bye-px.html" }, { "id": 2986, "type": "post", "title": "Carriers vs Apple", "text": "Om Malik writing on the iPhone fifteen anniversary and the carrier companies at the time (emphasis is mine):\nThese were wireless walled gardens crammed with absolutely rotten apps, games, and everything from mobile backgrounds to ringtones. They were an opportunity for carriers to nickel-and-dime their customers and extracted mafia-like fees from startups. Source: Looking back: iPhone \u0026amp; its impact on mobile industry \u0026amp; us. – On my Om\nI have great admiration for Mr. Malik, but a lot of people, especially developers, would jump in right here and use the same paragraph to describe Apple and its App Store today. You may agree or not with them. I mostly don\u0026rsquo;t.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-10 20:46:39 -0500", "date": "8:46 p.m. on Jan 10, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/01/10/carriers-vs-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F01%2F10%2Fcarriers-vs-apple.html" }, { "id": 2987, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Working from home since March 2020. Over the months, I made quite a few tweaks to my home office. I\u0026rsquo;m so much more at ease at home than at the office with a desk, a chair, a lamp, and devices that I chose, instead of being imposed on me.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-10 19:42:06 -0500", "date": "7:42 p.m. on Jan 10, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/01/10/working-from-home.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F01%2F10%2Fworking-from-home.html" }, { "id": 2988, "type": "post", "title": "\"It’s not just how things look, it’s about how things work.\"", "text": "Somehow, I missed David Sparks\u0026rsquo; observations regarding the Wallpaper feature of Apple\u0026rsquo;s Design Team (emphasis is mine):\nInstead of quoting Steve Jobs, I would have preferred an explanation from Alan Dye about his philosophy of user interface design and what his north star is when he does his work. I’d like him to make his case. If he explained the thinking behind this minimal approach, it might make more sense. Maybe this article was never meant to be that kind of deep dive on design philosophy, but it feels like a missed opportunity.\nIndeed. I\u0026rsquo;m not fond of Alan Dye\u0026rsquo;s work.\nSource: The Wallpaper* Feature on the Apple Design Team and a Missed Opportunity - MacSparky\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-09 19:09:33 -0500", "date": "7:09 p.m. on Jan 9, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/01/09/its-not-just.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F01%2F09%2Fits-not-just.html" }, { "id": 2989, "type": "post", "title": "One More Gripe Against Apple’s Photos Memory Feature", "text": "\nJim Novell \u0026amp; Stephen Hackett both have valid points against Apple’s Photos Memory feature. I would another one: memories are created on a very aggressive schedule. There are way too many; I miss most of them. I don’t know if this is related to the fact that my library contains more than 42K images or if other factors come into play here. There should be a way to reduce the frequency.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-09 18:58:50 -0500", "date": "6:58 p.m. on Jan 9, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/01/09/one-more-gripe.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F01%2F09%2Fone-more-gripe.html" }, { "id": 2990, "type": "post", "title": "Blue vs Green Bubbles — Blue is In, Green is Out?", "text": "\nA recent article in the Wall Street Journal created a concerted reactions chain from news sites and people on Twitter. In “Why Apple’s iMessage Is Winning: Teens Dread the Green Text Bubble”, the WSJ article paints Apple as using highly questionable tactics to keep its users locked in iMessage messaging service. I want to share my thoughts on this.\nPeer pressure among teens isn’t a new phenomenon, far from it. Way before the Internet became accessible, when I was a teen myself, I vividly remember the feeling of not wearing the same brand of clothes as my friends. The problem here is teen\u0026rsquo;s social behaviour, not the technology. They are the one to blame if they reject people using non iMessage messaging service. I would argue that Apple as nothing to do with this. Sure, they like the stickiness of their platform, but I wouldn’t say it\u0026rsquo;s the defining goal when they add features to it.\nOf course, Apple can’t provide the dot-dot-dot feedback showing people who are actually writing a response to a text message because the SMS standard doesn’t provide that. Duh.\nWhen Mr. Hiroshi Lockheimer from Google refers to “standards” in one of his tweets to fix the interoperability issues of messaging platforms like iMessage, I wonder what standards he is referring to, Google’s RCS. And if this standard is actually a standard, why is it so hard to take off? Why are messaging services like Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp, WeChat, Facebook Messenger, etc.?\nI would also argue that, for a company like Apple, the ecosystem stickiness is part of their differentiating factor. Of course, iMessage plays a major role here. For a company like Google, where massively providing free services with ads, the more people who get to use your services, the more revenues you get. It’s their differentiating factor. It’s easy to say: Apple should open up their messaging service.\nMy anecdotal experience is to the effect that when something breaks in the conversation between an iPhone user and an Android users, they usually go with Messenger or WhatsApp. People still have access to many alternatives.\nWSJ’s article is a prime example that finding the right angle to portray Apple as the devil in the room attracts numerous clicks.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-09 10:18:36 -0500", "date": "10:18 p.m. on Jan 9, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/01/09/blue-vs-green.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F01%2F09%2Fblue-vs-green.html" }, { "id": 2991, "type": "post", "title": "On Talent Retention Challenges", "text": "\nI’ve been working in information technologies for nearly three decades. Finding competent people has always been a challenge. Keeping them too. But, in recent years, the situation has become simply critical, to the point where businesses are deeply impacted: delayed projects, abandoned initiatives, high pressures on other people, stress, etc. Businesses’ bottom line if at stake here.\nThe news of the departure of one of the directors behind Apple’s transition from Intel to Apple’s own silicon, Mr. Jeff Wilcox, for its Mac product line is sad but probably just the tip of the iceberg. I wouldn’t read too much into this. I can imagine a team of many hundred engineers working on this program. People come, people go. Apple must cope with this. One could argue that when there are empty seats to fill, it becomes an opportunity for others to move in and try to be their best.\nThere are an infinite number of reasons why people leave a company. For Apple, the challenge is probably to stay attractive in a sea of opportunities for engineers. Apple cannot please everyone, all the time. I guess salaries is one of many other factors that come into play here. Apple is a legendary company where countless people would like to work there, me included. Pressure most be high in many key positions. Yet, the reward must be satisfying. I guess Mr. Wilcox has done what he thought could be done and succeeded. It’s often the good time to move on, and try something else while being at the top of their game.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-08 15:06:54 -0500", "date": "3:06 p.m. on Jan 8, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/01/08/on-talent-retention.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F01%2F08%2Fon-talent-retention.html" }, { "id": 2992, "type": "post", "title": "Those Curves…", "text": "\nI’m a big fan of curves, but up until now, I didn’t really know how to take advantage of them. 🙃 Enter this short tutorial for Pixelmator Pro. 😂 You’ll learn how to use the curves adjustment to tweak colours and luminance of any photos. I usually prefer to use sliders just because up until now I didn’t really get how to use the curves. Now, thanks to this tutorial, I have a much better idea. Many more tutorials are available on the Pixelmator Pro YouTube channel.\nThe production quality of these tutorials is impeccable. I really love Pixelmator in general, and I always thought this photo processing application could have been done by Apple, when they cared enough about making one, back in the days. This isn’t a paid advertisement. I’m just being enthusiastic about great native macOS applications. 😌\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-06 20:53:34 -0500", "date": "8:53 p.m. on Jan 6, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/01/06/those-curves.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F01%2F06%2Fthose-curves.html" }, { "id": 2993, "type": "post", "title": "On iPhone 14 Pro Max Pricing", "text": "\nKuo has also said that the iPhone 14 Max, or whatever it ultimately ends up being called, will be priced at under $900. For comparison’s sake, the current iPhone lineup’s “Max” only includes the 6.7-inch iPhone 13 Pro Max, which is priced at $1,099.\nI highly doubt that Apple will reduce the price of the top-of-the-line model of their iPhone line-up. Why would they do that? This would put pressure on lower-end models to go down in price too. Non sense.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-06 13:14:44 -0500", "date": "1:14 p.m. on Jan 6, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/01/06/on-iphone-pro.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F01%2F06%2Fon-iphone-pro.html" }, { "id": 2994, "type": "post", "title": "Surprise Me!", "text": "\nThe Surprise Me! plugin for Micro.blog is undoubtedly a lot of fun to play with. It will pick a random post from this blog out of 1578 posts published since 2018. It\u0026rsquo;s a fun way to resurface old yet still relevant content. Try it! I wonder how many hours of my life were used to write and publish all that stuff?\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-06 08:00:19 -0500", "date": "8:00 p.m. on Jan 6, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/01/06/surprise-me.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F01%2F06%2Fsurprise-me.html" }, { "id": 2995, "type": "post", "title": "Beyond the iPhone", "text": "\nRemember when people claimed Java would replace all computer languages? Maybe you remember when tech pundits told us that network computers would replace Windows PC? Or what about those who said that netbooks would replace laptops? Why some people consider the tech world to be a place where technologies always get replaced with another one? I tend to view the tech world as a space where several waves hitting the shores. Not everything disappears with each wave, and most of the time, technologies keep adding up.\nWhat will replace the iPhone, you might ask? For me, nothing will replace the iPhone. But, according to Kelly Evans, the iPhone is going away. I don’t think her article will age well. Is she really thinking that a vast majority of people will wear goggles and stop buying smartphones? Really? Is she serious, or am I missing something in her writing?\nAs much as I despise articles who pretend to predict a product failure on day one, I hate articles who predict success of an unannounced product like Apple’s AR headset.\nI should create a Craft document where I store those articles with a date attached to them, like five years from now, and get back to them to see how well the prediction came to be.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-04 19:38:55 -0500", "date": "7:38 p.m. on Jan 4, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/01/04/beyond-the-iphone.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F01%2F04%2Fbeyond-the-iphone.html" }, { "id": 2996, "type": "post", "title": "On NFTs: What Am I Missing?", "text": "\nFirst, consider this announcement from Samsung:\n“In 2022, Samsung is introducing the world’s first TV screen-based NFT explorer and marketplace aggregator, a groundbreaking platform that lets you browse, purchase, and display your favorite art — all in one place.”\nWhat? Why is there so much talk around NFTs these days? What problems do they solve? What am I missing? This short Twitter thread makes me think that I’m not missing a lot, and that I should probably move on. Nothing to see here. Yet, how long before platforms like Unsplash steps in? 🤦🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-04 19:20:51 -0500", "date": "7:20 p.m. on Jan 4, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/01/04/on-nfts-what.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F01%2F04%2Fon-nfts-what.html" }, { "id": 2997, "type": "post", "title": "COVID — Did He Really Got Me?", "text": "Here is an update following yesterday’s post about getting caught by COVID. I thought that I had been infected because of my symptoms. We all did a quick test after posting my article. The results came up positive for one of my friends, but everyone else was negative, including me. It could be false negatives, but I highly doubt it, except if we didn’t do the test correctly.\nHow am I feeling 24 hours later? I had a not-so-good night with a sour throat. It was like if I had a fever, my body felt heavy. That’s a strange feeling. We still have two quick tests on hand, which we’ll probably use before going back home today. We’ll probably go to a clinic to get a PCR test, but long lines of people are waiting to get tested, which is discouraging. I should probably just declare myself as positive.\nThe thing about COVID is that not everything is clear-cut, far from it. There is a lot of confusion, especially in this fifth wave with Omicron. We didn’t really know what to do with a single test coming out as positive. We spent the last week together, with the Omicron variant, It’s pretty sure we would become infected. My friends thought of leaving early but changed their minds because we all had very mild symptoms because we were all fully vaccinated. So we didn’t feel the need to panic or worry too much.\nOur holiday vacation is ending on a sour note, to say the least. 😒\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-04 08:41:04 -0500", "date": "8:41 p.m. on Jan 4, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/01/04/covid-did-he.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F01%2F04%2Fcovid-did-he.html" }, { "id": 2998, "type": "post", "title": "COVID — Got Me!", "text": "\nAfter close to two years of relentless fight to protect myself from COVID-19, after following all the government’s sanitary rules and telling others how it is important to get vaccinated, It appears that the virus won over me.\nWe had this “get together week” planned for a long time, with friends. We were six. Everyone limited their contacts to the minimum in the week before, in accordance to the rules in place at the time. Yet, the virus got in. One of my friend got infected probably following a quick visit to their family for a gift exchange. They stayed half an hour then left. It was enough, apparently to get infected. So they came to this vacation week with us, without knowing they would bring the virus with them. I’m not angry. I’m resigned.\nI’m not feeling that bad as I write and publish this post. I have very few secretions, but I feel my lung irritated and I cough sometimes. No fever. No out-of-ordinary fatigue. My sleep is unaffected. It’s seems to be in line with people who got two vaccines. I’m hoping this will stay that way for the coming days.\nNow, I’ll have to tell my kids that I got it in a social gathering that I asked them well too often not to do with their friends. That’s the hardest part. Guilt. 🤦🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-03 09:17:18 -0500", "date": "9:17 p.m. on Jan 3, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/01/03/covid-got-me.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F01%2F03%2Fcovid-got-me.html" }, { "id": 2999, "type": "post", "title": "The Real Cost of Crypto", "text": "The real cost of Crypto. We need to stop buying into this shit and fast. Why is it so hard to think about these \u0026ldquo;side effects\u0026rdquo; when creating new technologies? I recently wrote about not getting into Crypto, NFTs, web3 because I\u0026rsquo;m probably just getting old. I know just enough to understand the costs of the technology behind and how bad it is for the planet.\n", "dateiso": "2022-01-02 09:54:07 -0500", "date": "9:54 p.m. on Jan 2, 2022", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2022/01/02/the-real-cost.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2022%2F01%2F02%2Fthe-real-cost.html" }, { "id": 3000, "type": "post", "title": "A New Project for 2022 — Every Apple Computers…", "text": "\nWhat if I documented all Apple computers I ever actively used or owned? For each of them, there is a story worth remembering and to write (like this one from 1986), the general context of its use, what software did I use on it at the time, how I bought it, how long did I own it and which new computer replaced it? There is even a ten-years pause where I left the Apple bandwagon to switch to the other side. What happened? Why?\nUsing the excellent and must-have utility, MacTracker, which I should have included in my post “The Perfect Apple Enthusiast — Find Out Where You Stand”, I started to process of going back in times. It won’t be easy to go back forty years back, but it’s worth it. I want this article to be as complete as possible and fun to read, full of high-quality pictures. Be patient, it will be a long journey.\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-28 09:28:03 -0500", "date": "9:28 p.m. on Dec 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/12/28/a-new-project.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F12%2F28%2Fa-new-project.html" }, { "id": 3001, "type": "post", "title": "He says \"Hi!\"", "text": "For no apparent reason, I started a photo series of this little guy in all sorts of visual contexts. I\u0026rsquo;m using an album to store them all. I\u0026rsquo;m currently at 23 photos of him. He\u0026rsquo;s so cute, isn\u0026rsquo;t he? I got my inspiration from someone here on Micro.blog who did the same in recent months. I can\u0026rsquo;t remember who, though. So who knows where this is headed. It\u0026rsquo;s the time of the year for frivolous projects. 😂\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-26 09:46:43 -0500", "date": "9:46 p.m. on Dec 26, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/12/26/he-says-hi.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F12%2F26%2Fhe-says-hi.html" }, { "id": 3002, "type": "post", "title": "Completed The Servant Season 2 - At Long Last!", "text": "Finally was able to finish season 2 of The Servant on Apple TV+ yesterday, just in time for the third season. What a weird story. The only occasion I can spend time watching TV series is during the holidays. Using AirPods Max for the listening experience is pure magic; nobody in the living gets distracted by the TV, and the sound quality is impressive. Now, I should finish For All Mankind Season 2.\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-26 09:19:19 -0500", "date": "9:19 p.m. on Dec 26, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/12/26/completed-the-servant.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F12%2F26%2Fcompleted-the-servant.html" }, { "id": 3003, "type": "post", "title": "A Message for Christmas", "text": "\nTo all of you, even though I don’t know you personally, since I spend quite some time here all year long reading your posts, I kind of feel familiarity. It’s like being part of a small community. I like this a lot. It’s something not possible on Twitter. So, I want to wish you a merry Christmas to all of you. Take care of you, of your family and your friends. 🎄\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-24 08:17:03 -0500", "date": "8:17 p.m. on Dec 24, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/12/24/a-message-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F12%2F24%2Fa-message-for.html" }, { "id": 3004, "type": "post", "title": "Doing Nothing Useful and Feeling Guilty About It", "text": "First day of holiday vacations. I\u0026rsquo;m not into Christmas at all this year. It\u0026rsquo;s the kind of day where I should work on my many writing projects or even do some photo processing! Yet, I feel in a lethargic state. I\u0026rsquo;m barely able to finish my newsletter. I\u0026rsquo;m unable to organize myself. Reading seems the best option. Or Netflix. I feel guilty for doing nothing useful. At least, I was able to express myself on this. 🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-23 14:30:32 -0500", "date": "2:30 p.m. on Dec 23, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/12/23/doing-nothing-useful.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F12%2F23%2Fdoing-nothing-useful.html" }, { "id": 3005, "type": "post", "title": "Phasing Out My Vimeo Account", "text": "Well, I’m not a video guy. I prefer photography. My experience with Vimeo is coming to an end. I won’t renew my subscription. I’ll keep my account but returning to the free tier will remove many of my previously published content. This prompts me to remove some content from my main blog too. Deleting content is something that I don’t like to do. It’s like putting hard work, countless hours of work down the drain. 😔\nYou can have a look at my Vimeo profile if you are curious.\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-23 08:23:49 -0500", "date": "8:23 p.m. on Dec 23, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/12/23/phasing-out-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F12%2F23%2Fphasing-out-my.html" }, { "id": 3006, "type": "post", "title": "Glass — Maybe We Need to Be Patient?", "text": "\nMatt Birchler blog post about his interest for Glass’s fading out:\nI was very high on Glass, a new photo sharing app this summer, but my enthusiasm for it has dropped in perfect sync with the temperature dropping here in the Midwest since then.\nLee Peterson blog post about his interest is so low that he canceled his Glass subscription:\nI still feel it was a bad slope to start down by adding appreciation and I’ve cancelled my subscription.\nFinally, Andy Nicolaides on Twitter thinking out loud about the introduction of “appreciation” (a term used instead of “likes”):\nI’m not one of the folks that wasn’t a big fit of Glass adding the likes / appreciation function, but I’ll tell you this much, in my small case study of one, it’s completely killed off any comments I used to receive.\nLet’s be honest: Glass has been alive for less than four months. They kept updating the service since the beginning to improve the experience and discoverability. They didn’t fall in the “me too” trap yet. Aren’t we expecting too much too soon from such a small organization? Should we expect them to come out with the right recipe on day one? Could this be much more difficult to be different and yet familiar in the crowded space of on-line photo sharing? I would argue that your feed is as good as the people you follow. Sure, Glass needs to attract great photographers. I suspect they are working on it as I write this. People are busy. Living in a pandemic put a lot of stress on everybody and cancelled so many opportunities for doing photography, but it created others too. It wasn’t the best moment to launch such a service, and yet, they’ve done a great job so far.\nI do have a subscription to Glass (my profile page here) and I’m willing to be patient here. I have a goal of posting at least one picture a week, even though I have another place to do so, on Smugmug (my profile page here).\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-20 11:56:40 -0500", "date": "11:56 p.m. on Dec 20, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/12/20/glass-maybe-we.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F12%2F20%2Fglass-maybe-we.html" }, { "id": 3007, "type": "post", "title": "An idea. The iPad. A Brainstorming Session. Another Article in the Works.", "text": "I love the iPad. Apple’s Notes.app in dark mode is 😍. You’re currently seeing a brainstorm of ideas for an upcoming blog post in early 2022. The subject? Can you tell just by looking at my notes? Hint: It’s a meta blog post. Another hint: https://numericcitizen.io.\nYes, I know, my handwriting sucks. 🤦🏻‍♂️😔😉\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-19 17:53:48 -0500", "date": "5:53 p.m. on Dec 19, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/12/19/an-idea-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F12%2F19%2Fan-idea-the.html" }, { "id": 3008, "type": "post", "title": "The Enigmatic Snapseed from Google ", "text": "Surprising to see Snapseed being updated since it is owned by Google. I use this photo processing application to create the posts in the Perfect Imperfection Series on my Smugmug account. If Google was to kill this app, it would probably put an end to my photo series. I tried to find other apps to replace Snapseed but failed to find something that comes close. Now, why is Google even bother maintaining Snapseed? How does it fit their business model?\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-19 14:31:03 -0500", "date": "2:31 p.m. on Dec 19, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/12/19/143103.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F12%2F19%2F143103.html" }, { "id": 3009, "type": "post", "title": "Is The iPad Still Exciting — It Depends", "text": "\nI want to chime in on a series of posts by Matt Birchler (on his YouTube channel) and Andy Nicolaides (on his The Dent website) regarding the iPad. The question is clear: is the iPad still exciting?\nIt all depends on the use case. I came to realize in 2021 that the iPad (even in its Pro incarnation) cannot be as powerful and effective in my workflow as the MacBook Air. Besides creating content, is the iPad Pro still relevant? You bet! There is nothing beating the feeling of tearing the iPad from its Magic Keyboard and sitting on the couch for reading or browsing the web. Every single time, I enjoy the experience in all its glory, if such a thing can be said. The other use case that I came to appreciate is Sidecar. The iPad Pro, even in its 11” size, proves to be a superb and useful second screen to my Mac mini. And using the iPad with its Magic Keyboard, when I’m on the go, is still a superb experience, as long as I set my expectations accordingly.\nWith iPadOS 15, Apple did address a few more low-hanging fruits from a software perspective. There is still a lot to accomplish, but more than ever I feel Apple is giving the iPad the attention it deserves.\nIn summary, the iPad can be super exciting, it all comes down to its use case. For me, it still is, when I use it.\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-17 16:29:48 -0500", "date": "4:29 p.m. on Dec 17, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/12/17/is-the-ipad.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F12%2F17%2Fis-the-ipad.html" }, { "id": 3010, "type": "post", "title": "I Just Paid $50 to Wikipedia", "text": "\nI think it’s worth it and it’s important. The transaction was easy (Apple Pay), which makes a big difference. Consider this an impulsive buy.\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-17 07:49:44 -0500", "date": "7:49 p.m. on Dec 17, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/12/17/i-just-paid.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F12%2F17%2Fi-just-paid.html" }, { "id": 3011, "type": "post", "title": "Currently Working On — A Teaser", "text": "\nDirectly from Craft, a peek at four articles that I’m currently working on, almost ready for publication! 👀👨🏻‍💻\nI dare you to meet me in my Digital Garden! 🏡\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-15 07:19:32 -0500", "date": "7:19 p.m. on Dec 15, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/12/15/currently-working-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F12%2F15%2Fcurrently-working-on.html" }, { "id": 3012, "type": "post", "title": "On iOS 15’s Legacy Contacts", "text": "\nI remember working on “A Guide for Preparing to Leave Your Numeric Legacy”, one of the cited challenges was to get access to the deceased person’s online data. I provided ways and a methodology to get ready for their numeric legacy. With iOS 15’s Legacy Contacts, Apple is making it much easier. The setup process takes less than 2 minutes to complete. An access key and a death certificate are required to ask Apple to let the legacy contacts to gain access to the online data. At long last, big tech companies now consider important to let people surviving people to keep access to deceased people in a simple and secure way. I can see countless headaches being prevented with this feature, first promised at WWDC last June. Bravo to Apple.\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-13 19:33:15 -0500", "date": "7:33 p.m. on Dec 13, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/12/13/on-ios-s.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F12%2F13%2Fon-ios-s.html" }, { "id": 3013, "type": "post", "title": "iOS 15.2 \u0026 iPadOS 15.2 are OUT — A Few Thoughts", "text": "\nThe previous screenshots show the release notes, as seen on an iPhone. I just can’t believe Apple cannot fix the font size. It’s been like this life forever. It’s all in the details, Apple, in the details. Gosh.\nThe most interesting thing for me is the App Privacy Report, which I love. As an IT guy in my professional life, I like to see what’s going on in my devices. App Privacy Report is a great way to show this to me.\nNotifications Summary has a refined design. The summary goes edge-to-edge with the screen. It’s a bit weird. I don’t know if this is a bug or a feature. Yet, I like to see more information in the summary as each notification offers expanded content.\nAs a side note, apparently, Apple won’t release Universal Control this year. I couldn’t care less because I don’t see this as useful in my current workflow. Maybe there is something to Universal Control that I don’t get.\nWallpaper by Basic Apple Guy.\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-13 16:31:12 -0500", "date": "4:31 p.m. on Dec 13, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/12/13/ios-ipados-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F12%2F13%2Fios-ipados-are.html" }, { "id": 3014, "type": "post", "title": "Being Unsplashed — Take 2", "text": "\nIf you’ve been reading my blogs for a while, you probably know by now that I’m a big fan of Unsplash (“My Growing Love Affair with Unsplash”). I’ve been using Unsplash constantly to find and use pictures in many of my posts (when I cannot find one of mines that fit the post subject). My contributions slowed a bit in the last year because I spend more time building my online presence on Smugmug (my Smugmug page) and more recently on Glass (my profile on Glass).\nThis week, the picture above has been selected to be featured in the architecture category. I’m honoured. You can see my featured photo in the architecture category right now. The last time that I’ve been unsplashed was less than a year ago, I wrote about it on my main blog: OMG — I’ve Been Unsplashed!.\nTo see all of my contributions to Unsplash, visit my profile page. The expression of “being Unsplash” is a creation of mine. 😂\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-12 08:33:19 -0500", "date": "8:33 p.m. on Dec 12, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/12/12/being-unsplashed-take.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F12%2F12%2Fbeing-unsplashed-take.html" }, { "id": 3015, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hey guys, the first microblog posts digest newsletter coming out tomorrow morning, 9EST. If you didn\u0026rsquo;t subscribe, it still is time to do so. numericcitizen.micro.blog/subscribe\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-10 17:21:55 -0500", "date": "5:21 p.m. on Dec 10, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/12/10/hey-guys-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F12%2F10%2Fhey-guys-the.html" }, { "id": 3016, "type": "post", "title": "On #Glass Appreciation", "text": "\nSurprise! Today, Glass introduced something I thought would never come: Like! Oops, Appreciation (Announcement on Twitter)! In summary: they are private. They are note at the forefront of the experience. They don’t propels algorithms. They aren’t used to sell targeted ads. They are merely a check box in a database. They are gentle. They are a gift. The team behind Glass is showing sign of lucidity. I like what’s I’m seeing since the start of this special place.\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-09 17:38:02 -0500", "date": "5:38 p.m. on Dec 9, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/12/09/on-glass-appreciation.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F12%2F09%2Fon-glass-appreciation.html" }, { "id": 3017, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "💥So, you\u0026rsquo;re an #Apple fan, like #photography, care about #privacy, #privacyprotection and #climatechange? We do have many things in common. Why not take a look at my #free newsletter and subscribe? Not sure, visit the link below to see it all in action!🙏🏻 numericcitizen-introspection.blog\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-08 08:00:00 -0500", "date": "8:00 p.m. on Dec 8, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/12/05/so-youre-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F12%2F05%2Fso-youre-an.html" }, { "id": 3018, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Strangely, my last post about the Micro.blog newsletter feature intro wasn\u0026rsquo;t made available in my timeline but it was published on the website and on the RSS feed. It was scheduled, could this be the cause? @manton @help\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-07 09:48:47 -0500", "date": "9:48 p.m. on Dec 7, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/12/07/strangely-my-last.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F12%2F07%2Fstrangely-my-last.html" }, { "id": 3019, "type": "post", "title": "Micro.blog Officially Launches Support for Newsletters", "text": "So, as expected, yesterday Micro.blog introduced support for newsletters in the premium subscription tier. The official announcement follows:\nToday we’re announcing a major new feature for Micro.blog Premium subscribers: email newsletters. Micro.blog can now manage, letting readers subscribe to your blog and receive emails for new blog posts. It’s deeply integrated into Micro.blog and works great for collecting multiple microblog posts together automatically.\nHere is why I upgraded my subscription plan almost instantly after the news came out.\nFirst, I’m a big fan of Micro.blog as a publishing platform and also of its foundational principles. I’m totally ok with paying a monthly fee of $10 to support the team behind—I want the platform to thrive. Second, adding support for newsletters is a great idea. Not everyone is using an RSS feed reader or like to read content through a browser. Everyone uses email clients! It’s important to provide different ways of communicating content to the readers. Newsletters are making a comeback.\nEnabling newsletter is dead simple as shown below. I chose the weekly newsletter containing all the posts for the past week. Email go out at 9AM, local time, each Saturday morning. It’s a good way to start the weekend, isn’t it?\nAs you can see, the settings are quite simple. There is no formatting option (yet). Having a choice between all text vs excerpt would be a useful one. Speaking of formatting, one thing that I\u0026rsquo;m curious about, though: how does one newsletter look like? I couldn\u0026rsquo;t find an example in the documentation. Furthermore, how can we preview the next newsletter issue? It seems that, in case the first option is selected (one email for each post), the author has 30 minutes after posting to preview the email as explained here:\n@timapple The preview works the same for the weekly and monthly option except it only creates it 30 minutes before it\u0026rsquo;s ready to send. Micro.blog will send you a preview email automatically with a link to edit it then. — Manton Reece https://micro.blog/manton/12238527\nHow does Micro.blog newsletter feature fit in my workflow? Micro.blog newsletter joins two other services that I depend on: Mailbrew to create something very similar in nature to Micro.blog offering and Ghost for my monthly newsletter (previously on Substack). On Mailbrew though, my summary newsletter also brings in content published on other platforms (WordPress, Blot, Ghost, Smugmug, etc.). It’s the ultimate weekly posts summary newsletter. Ghost, for my introspection newsletter, is like Substack, but better. I see Micro.blog offering as being a convenient way for my readers to get my content into their mailbox. It won’t replace Mailbrew or Ghost, obviously.\nBy subscribing to the premium tier, I also get a few goodies that could prove to be useful: bookmarking archiving and highlighting. The former allows for the bookmarking of a post on my timeline. The latter allows me to highlight some text while reading a bookmarked post or URL. Highlighted text can be conveniently used to create a link post easily. One thing that I would love to see is a browser extension for selecting text in any website. I’m not holding my breath, though.\nAll in all, I’m pretty happy with this addition to an already great service for content creators like me. Oh, and don’t forget to subscribe to the weekly digest! So, to those who subscribe, I guess this post is the first to get through the newsletter feature of Micro.blog!\nDon’t miss the YouTube video explaining the feature.\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-07 07:30:00 -0500", "date": "7:30 p.m. on Dec 7, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/12/07/microblog-officially-launches.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F12%2F07%2Fmicroblog-officially-launches.html" }, { "id": 3020, "type": "post", "title": "About Micro.blog Upcoming Update — Newsletter Support", "text": "\nApparently, it looks like tomorrow, Micro.blog is going to add support for newsletters. A few weeks ago, I can’t remember exactly, Manton posted a screenshot (which I can no longer find) where a “newsletter” item was shown on the left sidebar on the Micro.blog main site.\nI’m very curious about Micro.blog take on newsletter. Micro.blog is all about simplicity without being too simplistic. If the feature is available to entry-level paid tier, I’m might enable it and use it myself. Right now, I’m using Mailbrew to gather all my published posts via the RSS feed to generate a newsletter. There is one thing though, are we starting to feel a bit of newsletters fatigue?\nCan’t wait for tomorrow.\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-05 14:03:40 -0500", "date": "2:03 p.m. on Dec 5, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/12/05/about-microblog-upcoming.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F12%2F05%2Fabout-microblog-upcoming.html" }, { "id": 3021, "type": "post", "title": "On My Photographic Style", "text": "\nThe photo thumbnails are from a personal trip to Austria in 1998. When I look back at these photos, I have to come to a conclusion that my photographic style didn’t really change in 30 years. It feels a bit depressing. It is basically revolving about architecture, nature. Very rarely about people, these are too hard to capture; I don’t have a good sense of timing, and I’m shy. I’m rarely doing street photography. The only addition to my subjects in recent years is urban exploration. Do we come into this world with a pre-determined photographic style?\nHere is my Glass page.\nAnd my SmugMug page.\nOh and my Unsplash page!\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-04 10:40:15 -0500", "date": "10:40 p.m. on Dec 4, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/12/04/on-my-photographic.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F12%2F04%2Fon-my-photographic.html" }, { "id": 3022, "type": "post", "title": "Changing my Mind", "text": "\nBoooooo… Well, it looks like I changed my mind. I didn’t remember that I wrote this blog post following the release of Ghost 4.0. At the time, I didn’t see the benefit, but now, it’s quite another story. I really love Ghost and I think I made the right choice for a few significant reasons:\nGhost comes with APIs, which enable all sort of possibilities to improve my workflow. Ghost editor is much more powerful than Substack’s. This week, they started to release new cards type: GIF and Button. They promise another ten before Christmas! Yeah! I prefer Ghost’s design in general over Substack. In case you didn’t know, my newsletter website is reachable here: https://numericcitizen-introspection.blog\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-03 18:13:16 -0500", "date": "6:13 p.m. on Dec 3, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/12/03/changing-my-mind.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F12%2F03%2Fchanging-my-mind.html" }, { "id": 3023, "type": "post", "title": "Testing Synology Photos as a digital assets management solution (#synology #beta #dsm7)", "text": " I\u0026rsquo;m currently testing Synology as a storage solution for all my non-personal, non-photographic digital assets that I often use to complement my blog posts. After testing Synology Moments, their previous solution for photo management on DSM 6.2, Synology Photos in DSM 7.x is a step in the right direction, a big improvement. I like what I\u0026rsquo;m seeing. It\u0026rsquo;s fast. The ability to use folders as well as albums to organize my collection is a big plus. I\u0026rsquo;ve yet to find a bug. There is an iPad version of their Synology Photos. It\u0026rsquo;s not perfect but it works. Lacking is support iPad multitasking, which is a shame but not a deal-breaker.\nIn order to test this solution, I\u0026rsquo;m using my DS720+ running DSM7 beta inside a virtual machine. DSM Virtual Machine Manager allows the execution of a Virtual DSM which is very cool for testing future releases of their software. I\u0026rsquo;m impressed by the relative speed of this setup running on 6 GB of RAM, 2 x 6 TB SATA drives and a Samsung M2 NVMe 512 GB cache drive.\nStay tuned for more.\n", "dateiso": "2021-12-03 18:01:15 -0500", "date": "6:01 p.m. on Dec 3, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/13/testing-synology-photos.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F13%2Ftesting-synology-photos.html" }, { "id": 3024, "type": "post", "title": "Will Apple SharePlay Really Take Off?", "text": "\nReaddle software released an update to PDF Expert with support for Apple’s SharePlay. Using FaceTime, up to 32 people can share and annotate a PDF. According to the documented workflow on The MacObserver website, while in a FaceTime call, opening a PDF file with PDF Expert enables the SharePlay feature.\nI tried the SharePlay experience using Music and screen sharing to see how easy the SharePlay workflow is to master. Each of my test with Apple Music ended up with a popup saying the selected content couldn’t be shared (probably controlled by the owner of the music track-not surprising at all). With screen sharing, I had more success and the feature worked as expected.\nI think this is all cool and SharePlay brings Apple’s ecosystem closer to what is possible within Zoom or Teams.\nWhat I’d like to see is more application support for SharePlay. Apple’s Keynote would be another winner where people could watch the same presentation together. I find it surprising that’s not already the case. Maybe an upcoming update to iWork will fix that.\nl’ll definitively play with this more in the coming days because I think SharePlay has a lot o potential, especially in the business space.\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-28 20:51:00 -0500", "date": "8:51 p.m. on Nov 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/11/28/will-apple-shareplay.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F11%2F28%2Fwill-apple-shareplay.html" }, { "id": 3025, "type": "post", "title": "Photo editing while on the beach", "text": "\nOn my iPad Pro, in split-screen view: on the left, Lightroom. On the right, Apple’s Photos. Same photo in DNG format (ProRAW) edited with available features and possibilities of each application. Lightroom wins, obviously. Recent update to Lightroom adds editing masks which makes a big difference in achieving desired results. Picture taken with iPhone 13 Pro. On the beach. While in vacation. Cheers. 😎🍹\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-26 10:30:36 -0500", "date": "10:30 p.m. on Nov 26, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/11/26/photo-editing-while.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F11%2F26%2Fphoto-editing-while.html" }, { "id": 3026, "type": "post", "title": "My Current Status", "text": "\nMy current status — spending quality time on vacations in Tulum, Mexico. It’s the first trip for more than 22 months. After so many sacrifices, time has come to say: enough, let’s enjoy life. 😎🌅\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-20 08:45:06 -0500", "date": "8:45 p.m. on Nov 20, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/11/20/my-current-status.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F11%2F20%2Fmy-current-status.html" }, { "id": 3027, "type": "post", "title": "A New Home, Same Purposes", "text": "\nI’m done putting the final touches to my new home, a place where I continue sharing my newsletter and publish new posts under the Friday Notes and Photo Legend Series. Instead of using Substack, I’m now on Ghost(Pro). And I love it! I hope you stay with me in this transition.\nConsidering bookmarking this link: https://numericcitizen-introspection.blog or adding it to your favourite RSS reader: https://numericcitizen-introspection.blog/rss/.\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-17 07:46:25 -0500", "date": "7:46 p.m. on Nov 17, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/11/17/a-new-home.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F11%2F17%2Fa-new-home.html" }, { "id": 3028, "type": "post", "title": "RTFM (Read The Fuckin Manual They Say!)", "text": "When I got my first AirTags, I was anxious to get this wallet from this KickStarter project: “Snapback Slim Air - A Wallet for AirTags”. This is my Snapback Slim Air. With the AirTag inserted.\nCan you see the problem? The AirTag hardly stays in place and has the tendency to pop out of its place. Not great at all. I always found the fitting to be so so. Then, today I got an email from KickStarter with the following promotional photo. Can you see what I’m doing wrong?\nI happen to insert my AirTag the wrong side. Duh! The white side (the best looking one IMHO) must be inside and the silver side exposed outside. Ooops. Here’s the result.\nAs you can see, the fitting is a bit better but not that much better. I’m already looking for alternatives. Any suggestions?\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-15 20:14:30 -0500", "date": "8:14 p.m. on Nov 15, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/11/15/rtfm-read-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F11%2F15%2Frtfm-read-the.html" }, { "id": 3029, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Some of my heroes over the years. Do you have any?\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-13 14:33:18 -0500", "date": "2:33 p.m. on Nov 13, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/11/13/some-of-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F11%2F13%2Fsome-of-my.html" }, { "id": 3030, "type": "post", "title": "Like the Dislike — Put the Decision in Creator’s Hands", "text": "\nSo, YouTube will remove the dislike button soon from its platform. In one of his recent video, the popular YouTuber, Marques Brownlee, expresses his dissatisfaction about Google’s decision. His view echos mine. I’m not a big consumer of YouTube content, but when I do spend time there, I want to spend it on good quality content. The like / dislike ratio is an important indicator for me, and I suspect it is for many people.\nWe heard during the experiment that some of you have used the public dislike count to help decide whether or not to watch a video. We know that you might not agree with this decision, but we believe that this is the right thing to do for the platform.\nI think the content creators should play a bigger role in all this: let them decide. The same way a blogger can turn off the comment section at the end of each blog post, people’s reactions on each video could be turned off by the author’s decision. In fact, I would argue that the ultimate decision to allow likes and dislikes should be held by the content creators. Simple as that. Make it an opt-in or opt-out default, but put the decision in creator’s hands. I would go as far as saying that the counters could stay private to the author if he or she decides so.\nTo me, one of the best rewarding indicator is the one that shows how far users are watching videos. They may agree or disagree, but as soon as they watch most of it, anything else is irrelevant.\nI wonder if this decision by YouTube better serves their interests. I mean, without any ratio indicator, users have no choice but to start to play the video to decide if it is worth the time. This simple change makes people spend more time on the platform. Or is it the other way around and users will instead look at the comments to get a better idea of the video quality? I doubt it, as reading takes too much time to decide. People are busy, their attention span is short, a quick glance at the like dislike ratio is the way to go.\nOnce the decision to let people react to a video is made, then the platform could finally make it available only if the user watch “most of” the video. That no rocket science. There are probably other tricks that could be played to better control what’s going on in user’s reactions. But at this stage, it seems closer to be only implementation details.\nAs for the creator’s mental health issue, again, I would argue that if they tend to rely too much on the likes to feel rewarded, they could turn off the option. That’s something that could help others in dealing with this.\nGlass, a photo sharing service, didn’t provide a like button from day one and doesn’t plan to add one. Is it good? Well, it depends. One thing is clear, from the comments I’m seeing posted by others, I have to ask myself: what is the difference between getting dozens of “I love it” or hitting the “like” button? Not much.\nPhoto credit: Karsten Winegeart on Unsplash\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-13 13:55:56 -0500", "date": "1:55 p.m. on Nov 13, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/11/13/like-the-dislike.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F11%2F13%2Flike-the-dislike.html" }, { "id": 3031, "type": "post", "title": "Android Phones Are For…?", "text": "\nA story by MacRumors reports Tim Cook’s answer about not being able to sideload applications on the iPhone is not restricting customers choice. Here’s the beginning of Tim Cook’s answer:\n“I think that people have that choice today, Andrew, if you want to sideload, you can buy an Android phone.”\nTim Cook’s answer reminds me of another one. Steve Jobs once said that if you want porn on a phone, just buy an Android phone. Apple’s stance is fascinating. You want shit? There’s Android for that.\nPhoto credits: Dainis Graveris on Unsplash\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-09 20:55:45 -0500", "date": "8:55 p.m. on Nov 9, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/11/09/android-phones-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F11%2F09%2Fandroid-phones-are.html" }, { "id": 3032, "type": "post", "title": "Revisiting My Craft Content Organization", "text": "\nEven though I’m using Ulysses for most of my writings, after reading the “A Complete Ulysses Writing Workflow”, it gave me the idea of revisiting the way I organize my content in Craft. As shown in the previous screenshot, my content is now organized following a similar flow often seen on Kansan boards. As you might expect, everything start in the Inbox folder then eventually get “promoted” to the next folder, according to the content’s maturity. I like this a lot—it’s much cleaner than before. I should have known better, as I experienced the Kanban method a few years ago at work.\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-08 21:05:07 -0500", "date": "9:05 p.m. on Nov 8, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/11/08/revisiting-my-craft.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F11%2F08%2Frevisiting-my-craft.html" }, { "id": 3033, "type": "post", "title": "From ProRAW to JPEG — When JPEG is Simply Enough", "text": "\nHere is a situation for which I’m searching for a solution. Let’s say I’m going out with my iPhone 13 Pro to take a few pictures outside. After a while, I notice that all the pictures that I was shooting were in ProRAW format. What if the lighting conditions were great that day and my photos didn’t require post-processing of any kind besides the iPhone’s own processing? How can I convert from ProRAW to their optimized JPEG counterparts and keep them in my iCloud Photo Library? Such process would decrease image size by a factor of ten.\nI cannot find an answer for this seemingly easy question. So far, it all comes down to exporting the photos from Apple’s Photos application and then reimporting them. Such process needs to be followed by the deletion of all the original photos to prevent duplicates. There has to be a better way. Shortcuts, on iOS or macOS doesn’t provide any solutions as far as I can tell. Why is such thing not possible? If you happen to have a solution for this, please let me know.\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-07 17:13:04 -0500", "date": "5:13 p.m. on Nov 7, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/11/07/from-proraw-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F11%2F07%2Ffrom-proraw-to.html" }, { "id": 3034, "type": "post", "title": "Exposure Notifications — Still Useful?", "text": "\nThe other day I was looking at my iPhone battery consumption only to find out that the Exposure notifications feature was consuming close to 10% of the power on a 24 hours period. It’s not the first that I see Exposure Notifications to take so much juice out of my iPhone battery. I’m not alone, apparently, according to a Google search with the “exposure notifications battery drain” keywords.\nThe question is simple: considering that I’m fully vaccinated, considering the state of the pandemic here in Canada, considering that hardly any people actually enter their test results if found positive, why should I continue to care about having this turned on? I think I could turn it off.\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-07 16:50:49 -0500", "date": "4:50 p.m. on Nov 7, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/11/07/exposure-notifications-still.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F11%2F07%2Fexposure-notifications-still.html" }, { "id": 3035, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here is my Sunday so far… how is yours going?\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-07 13:33:36 -0500", "date": "1:33 p.m. on Nov 7, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/11/07/here-is-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F11%2F07%2Fhere-is-my.html" }, { "id": 3036, "type": "post", "title": "Got Things Done This Week", "text": "\nI’m feeling pretty happy again this week-end as I managed to do everything that I was sitting in my blogger’s to do list (which is setup every Sunday in Craft). What you’re seeing in my summary newsletter here is only part of my content creator story.\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-06 11:36:30 -0500", "date": "11:36 p.m. on Nov 6, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/11/06/got-things-done.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F11%2F06%2Fgot-things-done.html" }, { "id": 3037, "type": "post", "title": "Remembering Macintosh Floppies", "text": "\nThis seemingly insignificant box used to be sold by Apple and contained ten single-sided floppy disks. Those were meant to be used in a Macintosh computer. I had a bunch of them but somehow managed to keep an empty box. It was a great time.\nEach floppy contained a whopping 400 KB of storage for a single-sided version. At one point we could get them for 70$ a piece. It was expansive compared to 5 1/4 inches flexible floppy disks that contained either 160 KB or 360 KB that were typically used in IBM PCs. From a design perspective, Apple’s floppy disks were rigid, smaller, sturdier and dust proof, hence a higher asking price.\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-06 10:59:19 -0500", "date": "10:59 p.m. on Nov 6, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/11/06/remembering-macintosh-floppies.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F11%2F06%2Fremembering-macintosh-floppies.html" }, { "id": 3038, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Comparing Notion and Craft running on an M1 MacBook Air. Notion takes 382 MB of RAM while Craft uses less than half of this. Both are native, but Notion is based on Electron. Well, Craft is based on Catalyst, it\u0026rsquo;s not pure AppKit. Yet\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-06 08:04:16 -0500", "date": "8:04 p.m. on Nov 6, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/11/06/comparing-notion-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F11%2F06%2Fcomparing-notion-and.html" }, { "id": 3039, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Time to relax, it’s Friday after all. Who’s playing?\n", "dateiso": "2021-11-05 16:27:02 -0500", "date": "4:27 p.m. on Nov 5, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/11/05/time-to-relax.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F11%2F05%2Ftime-to-relax.html" }, { "id": 3040, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve been experimenting with something in recent weeks. Each Sunday, I open Craft and switch to the calendar view and create my todo list for the upcoming week. I love this. It it because I’m checking off most of the items on the list? Probably. Here’s last week plan.\nNot bad. Now, let’s prepare the upcoming week. 🧐🧑🏻‍💻\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-30 13:38:16 -0500", "date": "1:38 p.m. on Oct 30, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/10/30/ive-been-experimenting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F10%2F30%2Five-been-experimenting.html" }, { "id": 3041, "type": "post", "title": "Glass Profile Page — Finally?", "text": "\nAfter a successful initial launch, categories support addition, now here is profile page support. Glass is maturing, one step at a time. The web experience wasn’t part of the initial launch and I think it is fine. This is my profile page. Works great on iPhone, and on iPad which is cool. To join, you need to download the application. Works great on iPhone, not available on iPad. Oops. Next? Like support? I don’t think so. Hoping to meet you there!\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-27 18:43:14 -0500", "date": "6:43 p.m. on Oct 27, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/10/27/glass-profile-page.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F10%2F27%2Fglass-profile-page.html" }, { "id": 3042, "type": "post", "title": "Computational Photography Meet Traditional Cameras", "text": " But I wonder, where is photography headed from here? Surely, computational photography will play a big role in the short term. In my opinion, smartphones are not the future of photography, but they are hinting at where standalone, interchangeable lens cameras have to go in the next few years. I can’t wait to see what’s coming next. Source: Where is photography headed? — aows\nWhat if Canon or Nikon were developing computational photography features in their cameras, just like Apple does for its iPhone? Imagine a \u0026ldquo;real\u0026rdquo; lens, a much bigger CCD captor, algorithms coupled with machine learning running on a powerful CPU. I wonder if this is the only way for Canon and Nikon to survive.\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-26 19:52:51 -0500", "date": "7:52 p.m. on Oct 26, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/10/26/computational-photography-meet.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F10%2F26%2Fcomputational-photography-meet.html" }, { "id": 3043, "type": "post", "title": "Understanding Halide Pro+ Capture Format", "text": "\nI’m still learning new things about shooting in ProRAW on my iPhone 13 Pro. The latest tidbits that I learned is not directly related to ProRAW usage, but to a setting in Halide related to photo capture modes.\nWhen using what is called “Pro+” setting, Halide will take two photos for each shot. One is taken in HEIC format, the other is taken in ProRAW. Both photos are tied together and stored in Apple’s Photos library as one image. Here is the thing that I learned: when browsing previously taken photos from within Halide, metadata is shown in two different panels: HEIC and DNG (see above screenshots). Each component is taking a certain amount of space. The former being the smallest one. The latter, being the ProRAW version, is usually ten times bigger. But, when browsing the same photo in Photos, only the HEIC size is shown, as depicted in the following screenshot.\nIn summary, for pictures taken with Halide’s Pro+ format, don’t be deceived by Apple’s Photos showing only the HEIC size. The actual space consumed by this image is actually the sum of the HEIC part + ProRAW part (in DNG). That’s big, for only one image. Is it worth it? It depends, as I recently wrote about this.\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-25 06:19:41 -0500", "date": "6:19 p.m. on Oct 25, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/10/25/understanding-halide-pro.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F10%2F25%2Funderstanding-halide-pro.html" }, { "id": 3044, "type": "post", "title": "Is the Cost of ProRAW Worth It? #apple #photography #proraw ", "text": "I’m still trying to wrap my mind around Apple’s ProRAW. I know, I’m late to the party. Image size can be as much as 10x the size of a jpeg. I think that for non-edge cases (optimal lighting), ProRAW “cost” isn’t worth it. Also, ProRAW images taken with Halide are much smaller than using Apple’s camera app, for reasons I still don’t understand.\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-23 13:45:14 -0500", "date": "1:45 p.m. on Oct 23, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/10/23/is-the-cost.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F10%2F23%2Fis-the-cost.html" }, { "id": 3045, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hey guys! I\u0026rsquo;m still around! Been busy on Twitter recently, using Typefully. I\u0026rsquo;m still in love with Micro.blog even though I\u0026rsquo;m publishing less from here. I\u0026rsquo;m reading my timeline from time to time and I\u0026rsquo;m happy to report that it\u0026rsquo;s still a vibrant community. Keep it up!\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-23 09:17:05 -0500", "date": "9:17 p.m. on Oct 23, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/10/23/hey-guys-im.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F10%2F23%2Fhey-guys-im.html" }, { "id": 3046, "type": "post", "title": "Big Update to Timery — I Love It!", "text": "\nTimery received a major addition in this week’s update: REPORTS! As I wrote recently, I’m tracking the time I spend on my blogging and content creation activities. Timery is my go-to client for Toggl, a time tracking service. Having access to reports within the application, instead of heading to the Toogl’s website is really helpful. Now, looking forward for Timery to support macOS Monterey’s Shortcuts!\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-20 06:30:30 -0500", "date": "6:30 p.m. on Oct 20, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/10/20/big-update-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F10%2F20%2Fbig-update-to.html" }, { "id": 3047, "type": "post", "title": "A Few #Unleashed Observations About That #AppleEvent", "text": "\nThe less than an hour Unleashed event took place yesterday, I was there… watching on my Mac mini. I had these observations.\nThe opening sequence with the man in its garage building a song based on sound from Apple devices, like the Mac startup sound was different, some sort of Mac celebration. Is this garage setup intentional and a reference to Apple’s beginnings? Probably. Today, I would argue that Apple completed 80% of its transition to its Apple Silicon. The Mac Pro will probably be the last to get the Apple Silicon treatment. What a monster it will be. We’ll probably get a bigger iMac and beeper Mac mini meanwhile. 2022. There is not much not to like in Apple’s MacBook Pro announcement. These MacBook Pro are technical marvels. Lots of “speeds and feeds” for sure but hey, that was for the pros, right? The M1 Pro / M1 Max branding makes me think of Intel’s. The notch… comes with a bonus, more screen estate. Is there room to complain? I wonder how good apps with many menus will look like. Yet, with all the hardware prowess Apple is capable of, I still wonder why they cannot put the FaceTime camera in the bezel, even that thin. Center Stage? Nope. Requires a better camera for that. I’m not looking to buy a new MacBook or any Apple devices for that matter. I’m super happy with my M1 Mac mini and M1 MacBook Air. But, a friend of mine ordered the 14”. Can’t wait to have his comments. This design changes are more or less subtile and it is quite interesting to note that it is reminiscent of the PowerBook G4 Titanium. I love it. The keyboard, without the Touch Bar, with its black background, looks so… pro. I love it. The best combination to me is with the silver version of the MacBook Pro, the contrast is even higher, more pro. Now, am I alone to think that the iMac / Mac mini could be the next to receive the M1 Pro and M1 Max treatment? The ProMotion display, which is based on the Liquid Retina Display, looks impressive. We’ll see what the reviewers have to say next week. Another solid virtual event for Apple. Oh, Voice plan for Music? That was weird. I don’t get it. I thought Siri was bad as an interface to search for music. Apple must have a different take with that one. Now, the big question, is there any new stuff left for Apple this year? I think so. And that’s ok.\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-19 11:30:58 -0500", "date": "11:30 p.m. on Oct 19, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/10/19/a-few-unleashed.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F10%2F19%2Fa-few-unleashed.html" }, { "id": 3048, "type": "post", "title": "Going to the movies still sucks", "text": "\nWe went to the movies yesterday night. The first time in two years. “No Time To Die” was good. As much as other types of business has evolved in this time frame, buying tickets, bad quality lighting, flaky sound systems are still part of my usual subpar experience at the movies. No wonder why this is a dying business.\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-17 11:19:40 -0500", "date": "11:19 p.m. on Oct 17, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/10/17/going-to-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F10%2F17%2Fgoing-to-the.html" }, { "id": 3049, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve been playing with my iPhone 13 Pro last weekend. On the following diagram, the picture on the left was shot with the telephoto lens, while the picture on the right was shot in macro mode, in the area shown on the left. Both pictures were processed in Adobe Lightroom CC.\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-15 05:57:05 -0500", "date": "5:57 p.m. on Oct 15, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/10/15/ive-been-playing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F10%2F15%2Five-been-playing.html" }, { "id": 3050, "type": "post", "title": "Where Should Glass Go? A Debate About Likes", "text": "\nMatt Bircher on the lack of “Like” on Glass:\nMaybe this is a terrible idea and I\u0026rsquo;m in the minority here, but I really do think that I would enjoy the app more if I was able to give lower-friction reactions to people\u0026rsquo;s photos. I still like Glass quite a bit, and I browse it everyday, but I do often feel like I don\u0026rsquo;t have the energy to comment on all the photos I like, and that\u0026rsquo;s a shame.\nLee Peterson’s take on his blog:\nNot having follower counts and likes is a great way to stop the comparison to others and help to reduce the stress of feeling bad about myself for not making engaging content.\nIt’s not an easy thing to consider. Matt’s point of view also echos mine. If Glass added likes, does that put them on the path of Instagram, ads, and algorithm-based feed? I don’t think so. Glass is a paid service. That’s the key.\nWhat if the decision of enabling likes was delegated to the photographer posting photos? I would enable it, Matt probably would too, but not Lee. The same goes for seeing and showing the followers count on the profile page. What if those decisions were put in the hands of the content creator? Let the platform have it builtin and the content creator decide what to do with it. Twitter’s Revue offers such a feature of showing the subscribers count on the Revue profile page. I like it, and it is enabled, even though I only have two subscribers.\nOn Micro.blog, the situation is pretty much the same. We don’t get likes to our posts, we don’t get to see how many followers we’ve got. I made requests to the guy behind Micro.blog for the ability to see the followers count on Micro.blog without much success. This data could be made private, and we could enable to show it on our profile page.\nWhy is the platform the only one making those decisions? Let the content creators decide. You can find me on Glass under the Numericcitizen moniker, here is one of my shared photo.\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-13 05:47:21 -0500", "date": "5:47 p.m. on Oct 13, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/10/13/where-should-glass.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F10%2F13%2Fwhere-should-glass.html" }, { "id": 3051, "type": "post", "title": "Google, Are You Kidding Me?", "text": "Google, recently on Twitter, announcing their adoption of Apple’s UIKit design language instead of using their Material design:\n“Does a switch really need to be built custom in alignment with a generic design system? Or might it be sufficient to simply use the system solution and move on?”\nI don’t buy Google’s explanation. Google is trying to say that UIKit wasn’t good enough for them, so they went their own way. Bullshit. The other way to look at this: building native apps is a better way to go than trying to build apps on unifying frameworks.\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-12 19:06:12 -0500", "date": "7:06 p.m. on Oct 12, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/10/12/google-are-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F10%2F12%2Fgoogle-are-you.html" }, { "id": 3052, "type": "post", "title": "E-Bikes: #VanmoofV — What Is Going on Here?", "text": "\nToday, Vanmoof announced their latest e-bike, the Vanmoof V model. The announcement video, reminiscent of Apple’s product reveals, is light on details. The singular design, in white, is both intriguing and looks heavy on the look. Some specs are impressive, on paper. But, there is something absolutely troubling: the V model is going to ship near the end of 2022. Yep, in more than a year. What is going on here? What this premature announcement could mean for Vanmoof? Well, obviously they are trying to gain mind share among potential e-bike buyers, and they are afraid to lose market share.\nWe’ll be developing the VanMoof V over the upcoming year, and will keep you updated with news and features as the bike comes to life.\nCan you imagine if Apple were to announce a new flagship product iteration, the next iPhone, more than a year in advance? I wonder if Vanmoof is aware of the Osborne effect. 🧐\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-12 18:47:08 -0500", "date": "6:47 p.m. on Oct 12, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/10/12/ebikes-vanmoofv-what.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F10%2F12%2Febikes-vanmoofv-what.html" }, { "id": 3053, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "👉🏻 This game was destined for the iPad. I\u0026rsquo;m in love. 🥰 Bye bye Steam! Currently in beta and pre-orders are open. Works great! Read my comments about this game here: A Simple Review of Townscraper - Numeric Citizen Blog\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-12 06:06:51 -0500", "date": "6:06 p.m. on Oct 12, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/10/12/this-game-was.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F10%2F12%2Fthis-game-was.html" }, { "id": 3054, "type": "post", "title": "On the way back home ", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m on my way back home from a weekend in the Niagara Falls region. I put my iPhone 13 Pro to the test. I\u0026rsquo;m quite happy with my experience. Most of my photos are in ProRAW format. I\u0026rsquo;m not sure how I\u0026rsquo;ll process them: with Pixelmator? Lightroom CC? If the latter, the import process is putting me on the break instead of a more integrated experience with Pixelmator.\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-11 11:32:23 -0500", "date": "11:32 p.m. on Oct 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/10/11/on-the-way.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F10%2F11%2Fon-the-way.html" }, { "id": 3055, "type": "post", "title": "Am I missing Notion? @notionhq @craftsdocsapp", "text": "Been thinking about Notion recently. Before using Craft, I was a fan of Notion. I spent a few moments today on Notion to make some cleanup. I think I’m still a fan. Craft feels better for me as a writer tool. Yet, Notion is features rich. They keep improving it. I don’t know if they do it at a faster pace than Craft. They are certainly more mature. The team behind Craft being smaller, they don’t have the same resources. Many features are missing. But there is something to it that is missing in Notion. Craft being native on the Mac (it’s a Catalyst app), it makes a big difference. Anyway, I’ll keep an eye on Notion. Who knows if I’ll come back.\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-09 15:32:23 -0500", "date": "3:32 p.m. on Oct 9, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/10/09/am-i-missing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F10%2F09%2Fam-i-missing.html" }, { "id": 3056, "type": "post", "title": "The Read Later Syndrome", "text": "Pocket. Refind. Readwise. Matter. Safari Read Later. When is this going to stop, so I can make up my mind? If you do a search on my Micro.blog page, you’ll see how tormented I can be about saving web stuff stuff to read later. I’m not very good at reading later. Yet, I’m eager to read more. I’m watching Readwise Reader to come out (I signed up for an early access), but just yesterday I stumbled on Matter, which looks really interesting, but still a bit limited.\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-07 06:19:12 -0500", "date": "6:19 p.m. on Oct 7, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/10/07/the-read-later.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F10%2F07%2Fthe-read-later.html" }, { "id": 3057, "type": "post", "title": "It’s Becoming Harder and Harder to Sell Second Hand Apple Gear", "text": "\nAfter many weeks of trying, I finally sold my 2017 21.5 inches iMac. Even though Apple is currently selling M1 iMac at a competitive price, I thought that it would be easier to get rid of my Mac. It was a maxed out configuration, which helped me ask for a higher than usual price compared to other sellers. Yet, it wasn’t easy. As you might guess, I’m not the only one trying to sell an Intel-based iMac.\nThe next device put on sale was my iPhone 11 Pro with 256 GB of storage. One week before the officiel launch of the iPhone 13 Pro, I put up my older iPhone for sale. I got quite a few people interested in it, but the problem was the price they were willing to offer. It was way under my asking price, closer to what Apple is offering as a trade-in value. I think this is part of the problem. Many people are looking to get rid of their older devices to help pay for the new one, but potential buyers are comparing to what Apple is offering, which shouldn’t be used to fix the value of the second hand iPhone. Apple will refurbish the device or recycle it. This cannot be used as a comparison. After a week of getting my trade-in kit, I decided to return my iPhone instead of bothering to sell it.\nWhen I bought my MacBook Air back in August, it came with a free pair of AirPods. I didn’t need them, so I put them on sale too. That one was easy to sell, though. It took less than half a day to find someone willing to get them.\nIt’s true that Apple hardware keep their resale value, but I think it’s not what it used to be. Apple is no longer the underdog, their devices are everywhere, which puts pressure on pricing.\nWhat’s I’d like to see come in Canada is the iPhone upgrade program available in the US. I think I would pay a monthly price to always get the newer iPhone.\n", "dateiso": "2021-10-02 13:11:13 -0500", "date": "1:11 p.m. on Oct 2, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/10/02/its-becoming-harder.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F10%2F02%2Fits-becoming-harder.html" }, { "id": 3058, "type": "post", "title": "Dear @Viticci, I’m Not a Professional Reviewer, So What?", "text": "\nThis podcast episode from MacStories featuring Viticci triggered quite a few reactions. Why? Because of these two sentences in the first moments of the episode talking about the iPad mini:\n“You wouldn’t want to read/or watch a review by someone who is not a professional reviewer. It wouldn’t be enjoyable.”\nYep. Viticci said that. In “The value of a non-reviewer’s perspective” from Mere Civilian:\n”I agree, a review from a person who does not write for a living may not be enjoyable. However, I strongly disagree with the first sentence. “\nWhat? Really? Then, I read this reaction from Lee Peterson on his blog:\n”MacStories posts some great stuff but not everyone wants to read long articles, some like smaller easy to digest articles from independent writers, I like to think I do that here. I get to the point and try to respect my audiences time, does that make my opinion invalid or not enjoyable?”\nAnd here is my response. Viticci comments make him look full of himself. Period. I’m happy for him if he can live from writing reviews. I would rather read review from real end-users because the point is to get comments and observations from real use case scenarios. Sure, I like reviews from Marques Brownlee because he has well-balanced and critical point of views on a lot of stuff. It also touches the subject of what makes someone a blogger or a writer. If you write constantly, then you are a writer. Are you Shakespeare? Probably not. There is a starting point for everyone. Some will fall along the road, others will thrive. I tend to think of reviews by professionnel reviewers as synthetic reviews, where there is a lot of speed and feed talk. At some point, we want to go beyond that and have comments coming from experience. So, sure, I’d like to read comments from pilots about the real usefulness of the iPad mini. They are the one who can make a judgment on the subject.\nLast year I wrote “I’m not an audiophile, but here are my thoughts on Apple’s AirPods Max” which is not of “review” but a collection of observations. I concluded with this:\n”So, do I like the sound quality of my AirPods Max? Yes. Do they sound better than my Bose QC25? Yes. By a wide margin compared with the price difference with my Bose Q25? No. But, hey, they are wireless, convenient, comfier, have transparency mode, spatial audio and they fit within Apple’s walled garden.”\nIs there any value in this? I think so. Should Viticci care? Certainly not. I do have genuine thoughts and opinions, and this is my ultimate right to share them with the world for exactly what they are: thoughts and observations. Nothing more, nothing less.\nPhoto by Markus Winkler on Unsplash\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-30 05:56:26 -0500", "date": "5:56 p.m. on Sep 30, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/09/30/dear-viticci-im.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F09%2F30%2Fdear-viticci-im.html" }, { "id": 3059, "type": "post", "title": "Apple’s Maps — Nine Years of Iterative Updates", "text": "\nToday Apple is publishing an article on its newsroom website about all the new thing that comes with Maps in iOS 15. There is a lot to like in this update, like the 3D detailed views in some major cities like San Francisco. These 3D views remind me of SimCity, a game on which I’ve spent countless hours playing. Maps as matured over the years, following the iterative nature of Apple’s approach to everything they do. Some don’t like it, others see the value in it. I’m one of those who think this is the best approach as each iteration helps build the next one with good cumulative experience. Today’s Maps, nine year later after a rocky start, in 2012, is impressive and as good as other popular alternatives, in my area at least.\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-27 12:01:05 -0500", "date": "12:01 p.m. on Sep 27, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/09/27/apples-maps-nine.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F09%2F27%2Fapples-maps-nine.html" }, { "id": 3060, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The waiting combo. It’s the story of a lonely couple waiting for something to happen. Tomorrow they will come together at last.\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-23 06:29:52 -0500", "date": "6:29 p.m. on Sep 23, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/09/23/the-waiting-combo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F09%2F23%2Fthe-waiting-combo.html" }, { "id": 3061, "type": "post", "title": "Microsoft: Wow. Your Turn, Apple.", "text": "\nMicrosoft’s announcements this week are nothing less than impressive. Microsoft is showing courage. Their Surface are striking. These things will probably be hot as hell (pun intended, thanks to Intel Inside). I’m hoping users will have a better experience than many of my colleague who had their Surface replaced in the last year because of over heating issues. Stylus On the surface (pun intended) may not work as well as the Apple Pencil on the iPad. Apple is at their best in that regard. Yet, we have to give them credits for what they are doing. They are iterating with more than incremental updates. They try new things. It’s interesting to see Microsoft aligning itself with Apple strategy: vertical integration (hardware + software: Windows) with a yearly release schedule. Designed for Windows 11. Well done.\nNow, looking forward to Apple’s next announcement: the MacBook Pro “redesign”. Don’t expect anything close to what Microsoft is doing. But expect Apple to reintroduce the HDMI port and the SD Card reader. According the latest leaks.\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-22 19:48:09 -0500", "date": "7:48 p.m. on Sep 22, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/09/22/microsoft-wow-your.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F09%2F22%2Fmicrosoft-wow-your.html" }, { "id": 3062, "type": "post", "title": "Tim Would Love Stopping the Leaks", "text": "\nOf course the memo from Tim Cook about leakers is being leaked. It’s funny to read a leaked memo from Tim Cook expressing his concern and frustration about leakers working within Apple. After reading it, I do think part of the message is for outside leakers too, knowing the memo would be… leaked.\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-22 19:24:16 -0500", "date": "7:24 p.m. on Sep 22, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/09/22/tim-would-love.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F09%2F22%2Ftim-would-love.html" }, { "id": 3063, "type": "post", "title": "On iOS 15 Early Adoption Rate", "text": "\nCompared to last’s year iOS 14, early numbers show a much slower adoption rate for iOS 15. The problem? Last year was about the iPhone experience getting widgets. That’s a very material change. This year? Even if widgets now come to the iPad, it is far less reaching than it was on the iPhone. Things like focus modes are not as flashy as widgets but are damn useful, to me at least.\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-22 19:12:18 -0500", "date": "7:12 p.m. on Sep 22, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/09/22/on-ios-early.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F09%2F22%2Fon-ios-early.html" }, { "id": 3064, "type": "post", "title": "Happy iOS 15 \u0026 iPadOS 15 to you all!", "text": "\nAfter a long summer of beta releases, today we get to see the final releases of iOS 15 and iPadOS 15. Are you feeling as excited as a few years ago at the same time? Personally, even if I think those are great iterative updates, I don’t. There is less to grab by developers it seems. I’m not expecting exciting new releases for any of my apps. What about yours?\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-20 07:08:32 -0500", "date": "7:08 p.m. on Sep 20, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/09/20/happy-ios-ipados.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F09%2F20%2Fhappy-ios-ipados.html" }, { "id": 3065, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Bokeh is not going to happen apparently. It was written on the walls for quite some time. Too bad. I think Glass had a good start and updates are coming on a regular basis. I wish them success. So far, I\u0026rsquo;m happy with them.\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-18 08:56:10 -0500", "date": "8:56 p.m. on Sep 18, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/09/18/bokeh-is-not.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F09%2F18%2Fbokeh-is-not.html" }, { "id": 3066, "type": "post", "title": "Dear @AppleInsider STOP THIS!", "text": "I don\u0026rsquo;t know who got the idea at AppleInsider of putting video auto-play right in the middle of every articles, but this doesn\u0026rsquo;t enable a great reading experience. Even worst, scrolling the page to the bottom while reading will put the video in the bottom right corner on top of the content. It makes me wonder if I should stop reading their content altogether. Ads are bad but this is even worst. It\u0026rsquo;s not a good reading experience at all. Please, reconsider. Thanks. A long time reader.\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-18 08:00:08 -0500", "date": "8:00 p.m. on Sep 18, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/09/18/dear-appleinsider-stop.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F09%2F18%2Fdear-appleinsider-stop.html" }, { "id": 3067, "type": "post", "title": "The iterative Apple that delivers", "text": "\nIf you think that this year\u0026rsquo;s updates from Apple are meh, I think, either you didn’t pay attention during the keynote or you’re simply bored. You may not like the iterative nature of Apple under Tim Cook, maybe you forgot to remember that the smartphone (and to some degree) the smartwatch are mature products. Since Apple is paying attention to what the majority of people actually care about, improving battery life, adding more storage, keeping prices steady, not having to wait three months to get a new device, stop expecting folding iPhone to prove Apple is still innovating.\nThere, I said it.\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-16 05:43:34 -0500", "date": "5:43 p.m. on Sep 16, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/09/16/the-iterative-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F09%2F16%2Fthe-iterative-apple.html" }, { "id": 3068, "type": "post", "title": "The future of the App Store According to Marco Arment", "text": "\nOne of the best recent take on the possible future of the App Store.\nRegarding IAP purchases:\nMost apps will be required to also offer IAP side-by-side with any external methods\n…\nMany games will offer both IAP and external purchases, with the external choice offering a discount, bonus gems, extra loot boxes, or other manipulative tricks to optimize the profitability of casino games for children\n…\nExternal purchase methods will evolve to be almost as convenient as IAP\n…\nThe payment-fraud doomsday scenarios argued by Apple and many fans mostly won’t happen\nNow, App Store side-loading and alternative App Stores:\nFacebook would soon have apps that bypassed App Review installed on the majority of iPhones in the world.\n…\nWithout the threat of App Review to keep them in check, Facebook’s apps would become even more monstrous than they already are.\n…\nAlternative app stores would be even worse. Rather than offering individual apps via side-loading, Facebook could offer just one: The Facebook App Store.\n…\nMaybe Google would bring the Play Store to iOS and offer a unified SDK to develop a single codebase for iOS and Android, effectively making every app feel like an Android app\n…\nMedia conglomerates that own many big-name properties, like Disney, might each have their own app stores for their high-profile apps.\n…\nMost developers would probably need to start submitting our apps to multiple app stores, each with its own rules, metadata, technical requirements, capabilities, approval delays, payment processing, stats, crash reports, ads, promotion methods, and user reviews.\nIn a few words: what a fucking mess.\nI don’t expect side-loading or alternative app stores to become possible, and I’m relieved, because that is not a future I want for iOS.\nI’m not so sure this won’t happen, but I’m sure that’s something I don’t want too. If only Apple could better read the room’s temperature and budge a tad.\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-14 11:17:03 -0500", "date": "11:17 p.m. on Sep 14, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/09/14/the-future-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F09%2F14%2Fthe-future-of.html" }, { "id": 3069, "type": "post", "title": "Readwise.io Reader App — A Potential Game Changer?", "text": "\nIn a recent announcement by Readwise.io:\nWe\u0026rsquo;re now in position to reimagine aspects of the digital reading experience itself, from how you annotate a document, to how you navigate. Readwise as you know it today isn\u0026rsquo;t going anywhere, but this is our future.\nAnd:\nWith the new Readwise reading app, not only will these resurfacing and syncing features not go away, they will be enhanced through tight integration into the reading experience.\nThere is much more to digest on their published essay. They’ve been thinking about this for a while and judging from a few screenshots, their reading app seems compelling and well done. I’m hoping they will support Safari’s extensions. RSS feeds will be supported too. Sadly, it will probably be another Electron-based app. We’ll see if this doesn’t affect too much the experience.\nI’ve been a subscriber of Readwise.io for a while, but I must admit that I’m not taking advantage of it as much as I would have liked. It does get synced with my Pocket account, but that’s about it. Oh, and my saved quotes get resurfaced in my Mailbrew summary newsletter, which is cool.\nI’ve subscribed to their private beta testers waiting list and I can’t wait to try it out. If all goes well and is up to what they say on their blog post, this could entirely replace Pocket for me.\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-12 10:38:51 -0500", "date": "10:38 p.m. on Sep 12, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/09/12/readwiseio-reader-app.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F09%2F12%2Freadwiseio-reader-app.html" }, { "id": 3070, "type": "post", "title": "E-Bike and the Apple Watch — a Quick Question", "text": "\nSo, you’ve got an e-Bike. Good for you. I’m jealous. You’ve got an Apple Watch too. Good for you, just like me. Now you want to go for a ride and record this activity with your Apple Watch. Which activity type will you select? Selecting Bike will probably record wrong data as you can move much faster than a regular bike and getting lower than normal heartbeat rate. Should Apple provide another type of biking activity?\nPhoto by Wolfram Bölte on Unsplash\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-11 12:15:26 -0500", "date": "12:15 p.m. on Sep 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/09/11/ebike-and-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F09%2F11%2Febike-and-the.html" }, { "id": 3071, "type": "post", "title": "Courage, Apple?", "text": "\nJohn Gruber on Apple’s lack of courage regarding vaccination of their employees:\nSo where’s Apple on this? Why isn’t Apple requiring proof of vaccination for employees, including for retail employees and customers? Why reserve courageous decisions only for removing headphone jacks?\nBoom.\nPhoto by Marisol Benitez on Unsplash\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-11 06:49:41 -0500", "date": "6:49 p.m. on Sep 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/09/11/courage-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F09%2F11%2Fcourage-apple.html" }, { "id": 3072, "type": "post", "title": "Remembering that day", "text": "\nI was at the office. A normal day. It was a perfect sunny and more than usual mild September day. Blue sky. Then the news struck. At first, I didn’t understand what was actually happening. The internet went slow, to the point of becoming unusable. My colleagues started to leave their desks. We all turned to the TV set in the employees cafeteria. It was such a unique accident, we all thought. Then, the second plane, which marked a turning point in our history of modern barbarism. We are still trying to recover from it. I think of this day so often, each time with deception and bitterness because we didn’t learned the right lessons.\nSide note: I find the American society fascinating. They seems to treat those who died on 9-11 differently then those who die each year from guns. The latter are more than three times those who died on 9-11. Each year. The US spent close to 6 000 billions dollars on war since 2001. It didn’t fix anything. How much do they spend on guns to try to fix this problem? Fascinating indeed.\nPhoto by Magnus Olsson on Unsplash\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-11 06:27:31 -0500", "date": "6:27 p.m. on Sep 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/09/11/remembering-that-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F09%2F11%2Fremembering-that-day.html" }, { "id": 3073, "type": "post", "title": "Can’t wait to try this", "text": "\nThis is the Opal webcam. For the Mac. Made by Apple people. Can’t wait to try this out. Not cheap, though. Not ready yet either.\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-09 20:13:31 -0500", "date": "8:13 p.m. on Sep 9, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/09/09/cant-wait-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F09%2F09%2Fcant-wait-to.html" }, { "id": 3074, "type": "post", "title": "Quick Ranting On Medium App Updates", "text": "\nConsider this screenshot of the Medium.app updates streak. It’s not a joke. At least one update a week for reimagining their app. I used to like Medium but their app, probably a major conduit to their content, is broken on the iPad and it never gets fixed (mainly layout issues).\nHow are we supposed to take online publishers seriously when for months they let bugs hinder the user experience of… reading their content? I greatly reduced my use of Medium for reading content, partly because of this.\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-09 06:19:05 -0500", "date": "6:19 p.m. on Sep 9, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/09/09/quick-ranting-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F09%2F09%2Fquick-ranting-on.html" }, { "id": 3075, "type": "post", "title": "On VMware Not Supporting the Mac Pro", "text": "\nVMware:\nDue to various challenges of COVID-19 and the recent announcement from Apple on their transition away from x86 to Apple Silicon, VMware will no longer pursue hardware certification for the Apple 2019 Mac Pro 7,1 for ESXi.\nThis is sad news and probably not a surprising news. In early 2020, I came close to buy an entry-level Mac Pro in order to build a lab-in-a-box for experimenting different environments and software, all related to my work. I started this thread on my blog about my SDDCbox project, and was nearly ready to make the decision. Somehow, priorities shifted and I dropped my project entirely.\nIt is one thing to see new apps being non-native to the Mac, like 1Password 8 and maybe the upcoming Readwise Reader app, but it is another when a major player like VMware no longer consider the Mac as a viable platform for things like ESXi. Apple’s transition to its own silicon has obviously something to do with it. The Mac has never been more popular than today, yet, on the software side, I feel there is a “malaise”.\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-09 05:47:40 -0500", "date": "5:47 p.m. on Sep 9, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/09/09/on-vmware-not.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F09%2F09%2Fon-vmware-not.html" }, { "id": 3076, "type": "post", "title": "The next #AppleEvent is coming! ", "text": "Just in time for the upcoming Apple event, my rumours site has been updated to reflect the most recent rumours. New iPhone. New Apple Watch. New AirPods. iOS 15. iPadOS 15. No MacBook Pro updates. That is all.\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-07 17:49:39 -0500", "date": "5:49 p.m. on Sep 7, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/09/07/the-next-appleevent.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F09%2F07%2Fthe-next-appleevent.html" }, { "id": 3077, "type": "post", "title": "The (short) story of a scratch ", "text": "Here is a picture of my 2020 MacBook Air that I recently bought. I wanted to use it as a banner somewhere, but this visual defect on the Apple logo put an end to my intention. Then, I started to think how bad things go for Apple these days and I came to the conclusion that this scratch perfectly illustrates the current status of Apple as a symbol. What a useless post. 🙂🤦🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-05 08:27:59 -0500", "date": "8:27 p.m. on Sep 5, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/09/05/the-short-story.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F09%2F05%2Fthe-short-story.html" }, { "id": 3078, "type": "post", "title": "A thought on the Apple Watch Series 7", "text": "\nIn recent days or weeks, rumours are rampant on the updated design of the Apple Watch: bigger but flatter screen, boxier design are the main themes, with no new health sensors. I’m not so sure about the boxy design. It’s ok for the iPad or the iPhone but for a watch? To me, it could make it less approachable, less jewelry. We’ll see in a few weeks. There is one thing that I’d like to point out about the Series 7: Apple is not only presumably launching an updated design, they are creating a new price point. The bigger screen helps legitimate this. They have been doing this since Tim Cook is CEO.\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-03 06:09:32 -0500", "date": "6:09 p.m. on Sep 3, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/09/03/a-thought-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F09%2F03%2Fa-thought-on.html" }, { "id": 3079, "type": "post", "title": "A typical month on Substack", "text": "Five publications each month. Four Friday notes posts, one monthly newsletter. Some new subscribers. No comments. A lot of fun at writing and publishing these posts. I\u0026rsquo;m writing for myself. I don\u0026rsquo;t feel the pressure of regular writing schedules. It\u0026rsquo;s easier than I thought. The more I do it, easier it becomes. Substack is a slowly evolving publishing platform. I wish it was a bit more like Twitter\u0026rsquo;s Revue. Anyways. https://numericcitizen.substack.com.\n", "dateiso": "2021-09-02 06:16:34 -0500", "date": "6:16 p.m. on Sep 2, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/09/02/a-typical-month.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F09%2F02%2Fa-typical-month.html" }, { "id": 3080, "type": "post", "title": "And so it begins. What's next?", "text": "According to the Wall Street Journal:\nSouth Korea today passed a bill that bans Apple and Google from requiring developers to use their own respective in-app purchasing systems, allowing developers to charge users using third-party payment methods\nNow what? How will Apple respond? Will they create a different version of iOS for South Korea? Can they simply appeal this law, if such a thing is possible? How is this going to help other countries and parties to go after Apple\u0026rsquo;s practices? How much time will Apple be given to change its practices? Three months? A year? South Korea is probably a small market for Apple compared to other places in the world, but this new law seems like a tsunami in the making.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-31 05:37:55 -0500", "date": "5:37 p.m. on Aug 31, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/08/31/and-so-it.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F08%2F31%2Fand-so-it.html" }, { "id": 3081, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I spend between 4 to 5 hours each month to put together my Numeric Citizen Introspection newsletter.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-29 14:37:27 -0500", "date": "2:37 p.m. on Aug 29, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/08/29/i-spend-between.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F08%2F29%2Fi-spend-between.html" }, { "id": 3082, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m mostly done with my next issue of The Numeric Citizen Introspection newsletter. Get ready to get it in your inbox, subscribe, it\u0026rsquo;s FREE. It\u0026rsquo;s the best way for you to show support! Even better, share the word about it if you already are subscribed! Thanks! 👍🏻\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-29 09:16:46 -0500", "date": "9:16 p.m. on Aug 29, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/08/29/im-mostly-done.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F08%2F29%2Fim-mostly-done.html" }, { "id": 3083, "type": "post", "title": "On Apple's M1 MacBook Air energy efficiency", "text": "Funny and fascinating to see that 95% of the time, the four energy-efficient CPU cores are doing all the legwork on my M1 MacBook Air. I rarely see the performance cores doing work for a long time.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-28 07:28:25 -0500", "date": "7:28 p.m. on Aug 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/08/28/on-apples-m.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F08%2F28%2Fon-apples-m.html" }, { "id": 3084, "type": "post", "title": "While waiting for iCloud Private Relay...", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m using NextDNS.io for a better web experience\u0026hellip; not the same but it does a great job of making the web more privacy friendly and a lot faster too. Too bad that we will have to wait for iOS 15.1 or later for iCloud Private Relay. Each year there are features that get dropped from the initial release\u0026hellip; remember iMessage in the cloud, anyone?\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-28 06:57:25 -0500", "date": "6:57 p.m. on Aug 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/08/28/while-waiting-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F08%2F28%2Fwhile-waiting-for.html" }, { "id": 3085, "type": "post", "title": "Late to the party, but...", "text": "Just got this yesterday. You know what this mean, right? Well, maybe not. Anyway, I\u0026rsquo;m a bit late to the MacBook Air party, but this thing is probably THE best Mac Apple ever made. It\u0026rsquo;s not the best Air Apple ever made, though. A tad too big probably, yet so powerful. And this keyboard\u0026hellip; a real and trusty keyboard. 🥰\nI\u0026rsquo;m working on an essay about my new adventure in the MacBook Air land. Stay tuned.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-26 05:40:10 -0500", "date": "5:40 p.m. on Aug 26, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/08/26/late-to-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F08%2F26%2Flate-to-the.html" }, { "id": 3086, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Decided to put everything I read online through @Pocket. Highlights are synced to my @Readwiseio account, and I share a lot of them with comments on my Pocket page here. Feel free to follow me there.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-24 07:03:48 -0500", "date": "7:03 p.m. on Aug 24, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/08/24/decided-to-put.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F08%2F24%2Fdecided-to-put.html" }, { "id": 3087, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If all goes well, I should be getting my CraftingMAChine today. 👈🏻 👨🏻‍💻 #macbookair #applesilicon #m1chip\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-24 06:28:34 -0500", "date": "6:28 p.m. on Aug 24, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/08/24/if-all-goes.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F08%2F24%2Fif-all-goes.html" }, { "id": 3088, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Gosh, importing my stuff from Notion into Craft is not funny. There has to be a better way. 😵‍💫\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-23 05:53:45 -0500", "date": "5:53 p.m. on Aug 23, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/08/23/gosh-importing-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F08%2F23%2Fgosh-importing-my.html" }, { "id": 3089, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m trying something new, again. I\u0026rsquo;m testing Revue, by Twitter. What I found is quite interesting, from a Substack user perspective. You can read all about it here, on Revue. Tell me what\u0026rsquo;s your impressions.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-21 09:33:41 -0500", "date": "9:33 p.m. on Aug 21, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/08/21/im-trying-something.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F08%2F21%2Fim-trying-something.html" }, { "id": 3090, "type": "post", "title": "Feeling honored", "text": "It doesn’t happen too often but when it does, I feel very proud about it. One of my blog post about the story of 1Password 8 going Electron on https://numericcitizen.me received a backlink from Michael Tsai (look for “JF Martin” and you’ll see the excerpt).\nMr. Tsai does a tremendous work with his link posts in general. I can imagine how much work he puts into this each day.I would love to have a peek at his blogger workflow.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-18 18:55:19 -0500", "date": "6:55 p.m. on Aug 18, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/08/18/feeling-honored.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F08%2F18%2Ffeeling-honored.html" }, { "id": 3091, "type": "post", "title": "About this “in-public” design", "text": "Gruber writing about how Apple mostly fixed Safari 15 on iPhone with beta 6 (emphasis is mine):\nThe unusual part is that we got to see Apple’s design process play out in public. The Safari team has been kept busy this summer. (There has to be one hell of backstory here, right?) There was a certain pessimism amongst some who perceived the problems with the original iOS 15 Safari design, simply because Apple seldom makes drastic UI changes between their unveiling at WWDC in June, and when they officially ship in the fall. But seldom isn’t never.\nI’d love to read the behind-the-scene-story about this “in public” design process that we all witnessed. The Safari team surely scrambled to fix the design issues between beta 1 and beta 6… or was just all planned in advance? I bet on the former. The whole saga was unusual for Apple. They look less confident from a design perspective.\nI love Safari 15 in beta 6. They nailed it, and it is an improvement compared to the pre-iOS 15 implementation.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-18 18:43:02 -0500", "date": "6:43 p.m. on Aug 18, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/08/18/about-this-inpublic.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F08%2F18%2Fabout-this-inpublic.html" }, { "id": 3092, "type": "post", "title": "When designers can’t decide...", "text": "\niOS 15 beta 6 is out and Apple is making great progress with Safari on iPhone. For me, they finally hit the right notes. I think that’s the design they should have included since day one of iOS 15. Yet, I find it funny to see Apple put a new option in settings for those who prefer the pre-iOS 15 release. I guess it’s another case of “If you can’t decide which design is the best, just add another option in Settings so the user decide.”\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-17 20:43:24 -0500", "date": "8:43 p.m. on Aug 17, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/08/17/when-designers-cant.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F08%2F17%2Fwhen-designers-cant.html" }, { "id": 3093, "type": "post", "title": "We will have to wait for these... sadly.", "text": "SharePlay, ID Cards, App Privacy Report, Custom email domain, detailed 3D navigation in CarPlay, Legacy Contacts, Universal Control won’t ship with iOS 15.0 this fall. We’ll have to wait for an update later, like 15.1, 15.2 or even later. That’s a lot of stuff missing the deadline. I was looking forward to Legacy Contacts and Universal control\u0026hellip; Apple is often a waiting game.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-17 20:34:11 -0500", "date": "8:34 p.m. on Aug 17, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/08/17/we-will-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F08%2F17%2Fwe-will-have.html" }, { "id": 3094, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finally Apple. I love this!\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-17 18:06:11 -0500", "date": "6:06 p.m. on Aug 17, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/08/17/finally-apple-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F08%2F17%2Ffinally-apple-i.html" }, { "id": 3095, "type": "post", "title": "What a bizarre advice", "text": "A successful Apple investor, Paul Lane, had advice to give to other Apple investors, as reported on PED: buy Apple gear to return some money to Apple as a sign of appreciation and support. That’s the most bizarre advice I ever heard of from an investor. I would expect something along the line: buy low, sell high. I, personally, own a few Apple shares and a lot of their products. Yet, I don’t feel invested in a mission to show my support to Apple, either by buying shares or their products.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-17 05:44:31 -0500", "date": "5:44 p.m. on Aug 17, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/08/17/what-a-bizarre.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F08%2F17%2Fwhat-a-bizarre.html" }, { "id": 3096, "type": "post", "title": "Doing all the things I love", "text": "\nAfter an emotional week-end, long in coming, today I\u0026rsquo;m doing all the things I love the most: doing computer stuff — writing in a coffee shop — feeling like a real blogger — doing some photo processing — walking — biking. I know time will fly.\nLife is good. Those days are so rare. I\u0026rsquo;m enjoying every single minutes of it. Work resumes tomorrow.\nPhoto by karl chor on Unsplash\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-16 13:40:34 -0500", "date": "1:40 p.m. on Aug 16, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/08/16/doing-all-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F08%2F16%2Fdoing-all-the.html" }, { "id": 3097, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Switching to a weekly beta cycle this week? #ios15beta6 #apple\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-15 16:21:48 -0500", "date": "4:21 p.m. on Aug 15, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/08/15/switching-to-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F08%2F15%2Fswitching-to-a.html" }, { "id": 3098, "type": "post", "title": "Apple’s cheap labour: concept creators", "text": "\nParker Ortolani for 9to5Mac published a two-parts concept on a future version of macOS named Mammoth.\nmacOS Big Sur did a great job of refining the Mac desktop, but it didn’t fundamentally change any of its behavior. We’d like to see that change with the next version of macOS. With Monterey being mostly full of small refinements rather than big ideas, we’d expect Mammoth to be a monstrous release.\nI’m using one of his screen design that pertains to widgets improvements. I recently wrote about those and Apple’s sad design decision to keep them in the notifications center for Big and Monterey. I think Ortolani’s design is interesting and plausible. Freedom of placement certainly makes the experience more satisfying. It’s so true they liberated widgets on iPad with iPadOS 15.\nThere is so much work going into these visual essays. I mean, there are release notes too! I often considered people doing these mockups has being Apple’s cheap labour. I wonder if Apple’s designers notice those.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-13 06:17:08 -0500", "date": "6:17 p.m. on Aug 13, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/08/13/apples-cheap-labour.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F08%2F13%2Fapples-cheap-labour.html" }, { "id": 3099, "type": "post", "title": "On this unexpected and mysterious macOS Big Sur 11.5.2 update", "text": "Dear Apple, as an owner of an M1 Mac mini, a MacBook Air and an iMac, don’t you think that I’m entitled for an explanation about what does this update fix? I think I do.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-11 17:23:12 -0500", "date": "5:23 p.m. on Aug 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/08/11/on-this-unexpected.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F08%2F11%2Fon-this-unexpected.html" }, { "id": 3100, "type": "post", "title": "Excited for a… keyboard", "text": "\nI got the new Magic Keyboard with Touch ID. I chose the one without the numeric keypad; the desk space being scarce. Setting this thing up took one minute. I had to read the (slim) manual as I wasn’t sure how the pairing would work: connect the keyboard to my M1 Mac mini with the provided USB-C to Lightning cable, quickly press the M1 Mac mini power button two times to trigger the setup process for Touch ID configuration (Bluetooth is automatically configured). The Touch ID setup screen looks similar to the one on the iPhone when settings up Touch ID for the first time. It’s one of the best Apple keyboard; keys feeling is similar to the previous generation. Touch ID is the star of the show here, and I love it. Only works with M1 Macs. This Magic Keyboard brings to the Mini, a feature otherwise only available to the MacBooks (and the M1 iMac). That’s why I bought the keyboard. It’s not cheap, but convenience has a price for Apple.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-10 05:31:20 -0500", "date": "5:31 p.m. on Aug 10, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/08/10/excited-for-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F08%2F10%2Fexcited-for-a.html" }, { "id": 3101, "type": "post", "title": "About the Store, the Store Tab.", "text": "There is so much to think or write about a simple \u0026ldquo;Store\u0026rdquo; tab. Something so \u0026ldquo;obvious\u0026rdquo; can lead to weird design decisions, even for Apple. I love this (rare) blog post from Ken Segall.\nSarcasm ON: \u0026ldquo;I’m feeling inspired by Apple’s new way of thinking. It’s liberating. Who needs “Apple” when you have “Store”? Generic is just so much easier, don’t you think?\u0026rdquo; - Ken Segall\nTo be honest, I don\u0026rsquo;t remember when there was a dedicated Store section on the Apple.com website. Apple brought it back, leaving \u0026ldquo;Buy\u0026rdquo; buttons scattered around every single product pages. It is now so much easier to buy something from Apple these days.\nSarcasm OFF\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-09 19:15:35 -0500", "date": "7:15 p.m. on Aug 9, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/08/09/about-the-store.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F08%2F09%2Fabout-the-store.html" }, { "id": 3102, "type": "post", "title": "(Re)Introducing the Store Tab", "text": "Yesterday, Apple made some changes to their website with the introduction of a new Store tab at the top of their website. Not only that, but the store design has been completely redone. I find it a bit disorienting at first, but after a few minutes, I think the elements and general reorganization make sense; I find it easier to navigate in general. Apple chose the horizontal scrolling sections instead of going vertical. I’m not always sure this is the best way to go, though. The bouncing effect is inconsistent, it’s there while going to the right but not when hitting the limit on the left. AirTags have their section, which is surprising for such a small device.\nIt’s interesting to note that Apple’s top navigation bar is now spanning a store, physical products, services, support, search, and a shopping cart.\nApple is getting ready for this fall slew of new products. Oh, one of the first thing I noticed is that the Magic Keyboard With Touch ID that is bundled with the 24” iMac is now sold separately. I ordered one for my M1 Mac mini. It will take less space on my desk and Touch ID will so much more convenient for the mini. One last thing: convenience has a price: 179 CAN$. Ouch.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-04 20:17:42 -0500", "date": "8:17 p.m. on Aug 4, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/08/04/reintroducing-the-store.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F08%2F04%2Freintroducing-the-store.html" }, { "id": 3103, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Magic Keyboard with Touch ID for Mac models with Apple silicon — available separately. 😳🤔👍🏻\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-03 20:17:32 -0500", "date": "8:17 p.m. on Aug 3, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/08/03/magic-keyboard-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F08%2F03%2Fmagic-keyboard-with.html" }, { "id": 3104, "type": "post", "title": "I Love This Machine", "text": "It is light, fast and an absolute design gem. Small, but not too small. It runs a powerful operating system. It’s highly portable. It is venerable. It is a rare “species”. There is something really special about it. Furthermore, it has a real keyboard that I can trust. Battery life is good. It is out of the way. It’s the perfect device for writing and blogging.\nIt’s a 2013 11” MacBook Air.\nI’ll explain in the coming week or so.\n", "dateiso": "2021-08-03 06:05:42 -0500", "date": "6:05 p.m. on Aug 3, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/08/03/i-love-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F08%2F03%2Fi-love-this.html" }, { "id": 3105, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple: everything is at least to taps away™ #apple #safari15 #newdesigntrend\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-30 16:34:00 -0500", "date": "4:34 p.m. on Jul 30, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/30/apple-everything-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F30%2Fapple-everything-is.html" }, { "id": 3106, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s always saddening me a bit when, on the day of a new issue of my newsletter is being published, a few people decide to unscubscribe. I know, I cannot please everyone, people are busy, etc. And yet… 😒 oh well. 🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-30 11:06:58 -0500", "date": "11:06 p.m. on Jul 30, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/30/its-always-saddening.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F30%2Fits-always-saddening.html" }, { "id": 3107, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m mostly done with the latest issue of my Numeric Citizen Introspection newsletter. It\u0026rsquo;s been a year since I started this free monthly newsletter and I still love it. While waiting for the next issue tomorrow, why not give a look at the previous one here. Subscribe, it\u0026rsquo;s free!\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-28 06:22:37 -0500", "date": "6:22 p.m. on Jul 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/28/im-mostly-done.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F28%2Fim-mostly-done.html" }, { "id": 3108, "type": "post", "title": "Documenting past home screen arrangements", "text": "Matt Birchler had an interesting blog post this week about a screenshot of his 2013 iPhone home screen. There are a few interesting things to note. In 2013, it was the arrival of the controversial iOS 7 redesign. It\u0026rsquo;s interesting to look at the Camera+ icon design which was still not updated for the new style. The dock design style was pretty basic and felt out of place. A few apps are not longer among us these days: Path (which was really a great design example) but most of the third-party apps are still available today.\nI wish I had kept screen shots of previous home screen arrangements in the past. Something that I have kept is many screen shots of my password manager user interface dating back pre-iOS 7 era. Here is an example below. When I saw iOS 7, I didn’t have the courage to rework my design. The development of my app stopped right there. I made five thousands dollars with this adventure, between 2009 and 2013. Now I’m using a combinaison of 1Password and Apple’s passwords vault.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-27 20:07:23 -0500", "date": "8:07 p.m. on Jul 27, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/27/documenting-past-home.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F27%2Fdocumenting-past-home.html" }, { "id": 3109, "type": "post", "title": "On Safari 15 in iPadOS 15 Beta 4", "text": "\nApple is slowly but surely getting there with this release of beta 4 of iPadOS 15 and Safari 15. I like what I’m seeing, on the iPad. Yet, “when you don’t know what is best, just add an option to Settings so the user can decide” strategy seems to be the way to go this time. You know what’s my choice, don’t you?\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-27 19:52:26 -0500", "date": "7:52 p.m. on Jul 27, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/27/on-safari-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F27%2Fon-safari-in.html" }, { "id": 3110, "type": "post", "title": "I’ve been invited to test Safari 15 Preview on Big Sur", "text": "\nI’m going to jump in because on macOS, I don’t see the change as controversial as on iOS 15. I find it surprising that Apple seeks feedback on the new design. It’s a good thing but also surprising has they tend to do their thing alone. Now, they look a bit in distress while searching for a solution.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-27 06:08:14 -0500", "date": "6:08 p.m. on Jul 27, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/27/ive-been-invited.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F27%2Five-been-invited.html" }, { "id": 3111, "type": "post", "title": "Four days week day? We can only dream it seems", "text": "Again, Matt Birchler:\ntechnology and improved general productivity always had the promise of letting us work less, and yet today we work more than ever and have less than before Source: A Four Day Work Week? Yes, Please!\nI sure wish we had this four days work week. I cannot see the day it will become reality. The problem in IT where I work, there is a worsening trend of a lack of qualified people for many IT fields. This trend puts pressure on those who are qualified to do more working hours.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-26 20:49:26 -0500", "date": "8:49 p.m. on Jul 26, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/26/four-days-week.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F26%2Ffour-days-week.html" }, { "id": 3112, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I wish I could have used « Digital Citizen » instead of « Numeric Citizen ». Oh well. It’s a branding issue, nothing serious.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-26 20:40:44 -0500", "date": "8:40 p.m. on Jul 26, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/26/i-wish-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F26%2Fi-wish-i.html" }, { "id": 3113, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hey, @Medium, what are these updates all about? Are you counting weeks, days? Meanwhile, on my iPad, using splitview… this has been an ongoing bug since forever… If you want to be taken seriously as a reading platform, get your act together and fix your app, once and for all. ❤️\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-26 20:35:19 -0500", "date": "8:35 p.m. on Jul 26, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/26/hey-medium-what.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F26%2Fhey-medium-what.html" }, { "id": 3114, "type": "post", "title": "Do you remember when you switched to Apple's ecosystem?", "text": "Matt Birchler writing about Apple ecosystem stickiness:\n\u0026ldquo;As I buy more and more Apple products, all of those Apple products get better. My iPhone is more valuable because of the HomePod Mini I AirPlay my podcast to while I’m working. My iPad gets more valuable because it has seamless file sync with my Mac. Reminders is better because it works with Siri in a way no other app is allowed. The list goes on. But this is of course also a bit of a trap. I can’t really get an Android phone, even if I think I would enjoy it more than my iPhone, because then my HomePods become worse, my Mac gets worse, my iPad gets worse, and my Apple services get worse. Because each additional Apple product makes all my other Apple products better, likewise removing something from that mix brings down everything else.\u0026rdquo;\nYou cannot use an Apple Watch with an Android smartphone. In Apple\u0026rsquo;s garden, every product has an extension that takes the form of a service or another physical product from Apple. Did we forget that once upon a time we made a switch from platforms like Windows or OS/2? When a new offering is really making a difference, we tend to switch. Back in the days, a Windows PC was an island, leaving it for the Mac meant that you had to re-buy new software, a few accessories. All things equal, the switch wasn\u0026rsquo;t necessarily funny. Today\u0026rsquo;s digital world is quite different, for sure, but pose a similar kind of challenge when switching.\nPhoto by Miguel Tomás on Unsplash\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-26 06:31:00 -0500", "date": "6:31 p.m. on Jul 26, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/26/do-you-remember.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F26%2Fdo-you-remember.html" }, { "id": 3115, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Part of my digital garden focusing on Apple\u0026rsquo;s rumours has been updated this morning. Most recent rumours about upcoming iPhone and Macs now added. Made with @Craftdocsapp.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-26 06:00:48 -0500", "date": "6:00 p.m. on Jul 26, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/26/part-of-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F26%2Fpart-of-my.html" }, { "id": 3116, "type": "post", "title": "On iPadOS 15 Photos improvements", "text": "I’ve been using Photos in iPadOS 15 since beta 2 and I must say that Apple is in fact offering a major update to their photos application. Beyong the updated Stories automatic creation and management improvements, face recognition has become quite impressive. According to a published article by Apple, people faces should be more detectable and recognizable in more extreme conditions. I can confirm this is actually the case. A large number of new photos were surfaced by Photos’ improved algorithms which brings more potential content for new stories creation. Managing tagged faces is easier too and provides a refined experience overvall. Photos enhancements in iPadOS 15 is a big reason to upgrade.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-25 07:34:13 -0500", "date": "7:34 p.m. on Jul 25, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/25/on-ipados-photos.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F25%2Fon-ipados-photos.html" }, { "id": 3117, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thought of the day: you know that you are entering a post-COVID world when you\u0026rsquo;ve had your two vaccin doses for a while and when you get your first cold in nearly two years. 😳🤧\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-21 16:45:46 -0500", "date": "4:45 p.m. on Jul 21, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/21/thought-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F21%2Fthought-of-the.html" }, { "id": 3118, "type": "post", "title": "Moving Adobe Lightroom from one machine to another", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m finally done moving Adobe Lightroom Classic from my iMac to my M1 Mac mini. A few takeaways: it\u0026rsquo;s a tricky process involving many folders to copy (presets, settings, photos, catalog, etc.). Lightroom is bad at managing digital assets when things need to be reorganized. The Apple Silicon optimized version is faster but not as much as I thought it would be. My Mac mini never stop to impress me, it\u0026rsquo;s such a fast device. I\u0026rsquo;m close to being able to put my 2017 iMac for sale.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-21 06:04:40 -0500", "date": "6:04 p.m. on Jul 21, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/21/moving-adobe-lightroom.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F21%2Fmoving-adobe-lightroom.html" }, { "id": 3119, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How many times one of my colleage at work, knowing that I’m an Apple zealot, said that iPhone was losing ground to Android? Countless times. Where is this guy now? www.ped30.com\nApple vs. Android: In the U.S., they’re neck and neck\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-19 20:35:40 -0500", "date": "8:35 p.m. on Jul 19, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/19/how-many-times.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F19%2Fhow-many-times.html" }, { "id": 3120, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "THIS! 👇🏻 www.macsparky.com\nThat Car Project\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-18 17:31:01 -0500", "date": "5:31 p.m. on Jul 18, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/18/this-wwwmacsparkycom-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F18%2Fthis-wwwmacsparkycom-that.html" }, { "id": 3121, "type": "post", "title": "iPhone 13 Pro Max or iPhone 13 Pro — That is the question", "text": "I’m planning to go big screen this fall with the iPhone 13 Pro (12s?) Max (I currently own an iPhone 11 Pro). I never owned the biggest iPhone (Plus or Max). There is one thing that makes me pause: information density of the Max seems about the same if not a bit higher compared to the non-Max model. There are six row of icons on the home screen on both models (Max and non-Max), which is kind of lame. Am I getting this wrong?\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-18 17:06:21 -0500", "date": "5:06 p.m. on Jul 18, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/18/iphone-pro-max.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F18%2Fiphone-pro-max.html" }, { "id": 3122, "type": "post", "title": "When a 2013 MacBook Air is \u003e than a two-years old Chromebook", "text": "I’ll be getting a old 2013 MacBook Air for one of my son to replace an aging Chromebook that I bought about two years ago. Think about it. This eight years old MacBook Air is faster, much better design, much better screen quality, more memory and will be able to run macOS Big Sur and all other apps like iWorks et al. I find this incredible that we can read and hear people saying Apple gear is expansive and that is under Apple’s obsolescence progamming. I call this bullshit.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-18 16:17:35 -0500", "date": "4:17 p.m. on Jul 18, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/18/when-a-macbook.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F18%2Fwhen-a-macbook.html" }, { "id": 3123, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Weird.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-17 15:22:19 -0500", "date": "3:22 p.m. on Jul 17, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/17/weird.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F17%2Fweird.html" }, { "id": 3124, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "First deception with Pocket Cast: no support for widgets. 😒\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-17 09:06:31 -0500", "date": "9:06 p.m. on Jul 17, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/17/first-deception-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F17%2Ffirst-deception-with.html" }, { "id": 3125, "type": "post", "title": "Moving from Castro to Pocket Cast: 100% completed. 👨🏻‍💻⌛️👍🏻😁", "text": "I waited for close to a year for Castro to bring its podcasts app to the iPad. Today, with the announcement of Automattic buying Pocket Cast, it came back on my radar. It didn’t take too long to make the switch. Pocket Cast is a real multi-platform player, feature rich and has an as good design as the other players. After Tumblr, DayOne, now Pocket Cast, I want to give it a try and see how Automattic will build on it. Meanwhile, I’m really enjoying it.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-17 08:50:30 -0500", "date": "8:50 p.m. on Jul 17, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/17/moving-from-castro.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F17%2Fmoving-from-castro.html" }, { "id": 3126, "type": "post", "title": "On PC in the cloud", "text": "Microsoft announced their PC in the cloud offerings this week. While it is probably based on their previous offering, Windows Virtual Desktop service, it does look like a milestone to me. I’ve been in IT for more than 25 years. I saw the migration from the mainframe to the client-server applications architecture. After that, it was about virtualization taking over with the popular VMware hypervisor. In the last five years, I saw the cloud taking over the IT world. The latter has a much more profound impact than any trend I witnessed or was part of in my career.\nPC in the cloud is only offered to business customers, for now. I can see Microsoft offering the service to the general public in a not too distant future. I’ll probably subscribe to an instance for my personal needs. Being able to run the PC in a browser means being able to use it on any of my current Apple devices, from the M1 Mac mini to my iPad Pro. This is something Apple will never enable itself, certainly not within Safari. The future looks interesting.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-15 05:43:53 -0500", "date": "5:43 p.m. on Jul 15, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/15/on-pc-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F15%2Fon-pc-in.html" }, { "id": 3127, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Joke of the day: “We believe that personalized ads and user privacy can coexist.”. 😂😂😂\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-14 11:31:25 -0500", "date": "11:31 p.m. on Jul 14, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/14/joke-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F14%2Fjoke-of-the.html" }, { "id": 3128, "type": "post", "title": "User Interface design dark age era", "text": "We are in the dark age (not dark mode!) of user interface design for sure. We get excited for new animated UI elements (example here), but overall, delight has been lost in translation a long time ago. As Mike Rockwell is a link post say:\n“I can’t really identify anything that I’ll be nostalgic for in ten or twenty years.”\nI wouldn\u0026rsquo;t go back to pre-iOS 7 days but there has to be some delightful in-between degree of crafted user interface that had some real joyful elements in them. Apple is not the only one at fault here. It looks like it is a design trend spanning many mediums (print, TV, web, etc.).\nHas the industry decided that our devices have reached a level of maturity that warrants making everything minimal, sterile, and utilitarian to help \u0026ldquo;do work\u0026rdquo; and \u0026ldquo;get stuff done\u0026rdquo;?\nExcellent question, Tyler Hall.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-14 06:06:52 -0500", "date": "6:06 p.m. on Jul 14, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/14/user-interface-design.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F14%2Fuser-interface-design.html" }, { "id": 3129, "type": "post", "title": "Google’s openness isn’t enough apparently (#antitrust #security #cybersecurity)", "text": "\nWow, that one is close to being hilarious. Big tech companies are the target of hate these days. Google was hit by another antitrust lawsuit by no less than 36 states about their handling of applications side loading on Android. In summary, it is so cumbersome to side load an app on Android, thanks to security measures, that it makes it hard for competing App Store to compete.\nGoogle makes the sideloading process unnecessarily cumbersome and impractical by adding superfluous, misleading, and discouraging security warnings and by deterring users by requiring them to grant permission multiple times for a single app installation (discussed in more detail in Sections I.C. and I.D. below). The effect of Google’s conduct is to practically eliminate competition in Android app distribution.\nAndroid is supposedly more permissive than Apple’s App Store and yet, it looks like it’s not enough. This lawsuit is a prime example on why I don’t like the current trend. People want more open platforms but it’s never enough. If Apple is ever forced to make profound changes to their App Store business, it will be the beginning of a worrisome trend that I prefer wouldn’t happen. I recently wrote about not wanting another Android platform. Now, I should say that I don’t want another Windows platform disguised in a mobile device. To me, it is scary and close in nature to the same problem of who should own encryption keys. Raging ransomeware cyberattacks are signs of what is coming on mobile devices if we open them up too much, just like Windows.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-13 05:53:22 -0500", "date": "5:53 p.m. on Jul 13, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/13/googles-openness-isnt.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F13%2Fgoogles-openness-isnt.html" }, { "id": 3130, "type": "post", "title": "Bye Bye Skylum - I barely knew you", "text": "In preparing to move off my 2017 Intel iMac (and put if for sale), I must make sure to re-install remaining applications on my M1 Mac mini. Photography-related apps were the last to be updated for the M1 chip. Lightroom CC is now fully optimized, but none of the Skylum apps I was (rarely) using: Luminar 4 and Aurora 2019 HDR. After spending some time on their support forums, I found out that none of their apps are optimized for the M1 chip. I had to make the call: bye bye Skylum. I barely knew you.\nIf a software vendor like Skylum is unable to update their apps in a timely matter, more than a year after the M1 chip has been announced, I give up. It is sad because these are the kind of applications that would take advantage of the power of the M1 chip. Too bad. My photography workflow will focus on Adobe applications, for good or for worse.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-12 06:16:29 -0500", "date": "6:16 p.m. on Jul 12, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/12/bye-bye-skylum.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F12%2Fbye-bye-skylum.html" }, { "id": 3131, "type": "post", "title": "What comes before the right to repair? (#apple #righttorepair)", "text": "The next step for Apple is to design for repairability which goes beyond recycling. AirPods are the worst example of this. When the battery life on these is reached, there is no practical way to replace them without throwing it to the trash and buying a new one. So for me, the right to repair goes way beyond having a choice of where I’m going to take a device for repair. It is about buying a device that was designed for and built to use recycled materials, but also it is about buying a device that can be repaired for basic things like battery replacement.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-11 19:37:29 -0500", "date": "7:37 p.m. on Jul 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/11/what-comes-before.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F11%2Fwhat-comes-before.html" }, { "id": 3132, "type": "post", "title": "Going to space… to watch a burning planet. ", "text": "So Richard Branson went to space. Next, Jeff Bezos. And then, what? Is there any scientific purposes in these flights to space? Nope, not directly at least. Is this a publicity stunt? Yes and no. I’m not at ease seeing billionnaires spending their pretty money on something that don’t bring value to a community except for themselve. Oh, they want to start a new commercial flight in space business apparently, for billionaires:\nBranson\u0026rsquo;s flight — which came just nine days before Amazon bilionaire Jeff Bezos is slated to rocket into suborbital space aboard his own company\u0026rsquo;s spacecraft — is a landmark moment for the commercial space industry. The up-and-coming sector has for years been seeking to make suborbital space tourism (a relatively simple straight-up-and-down flight, as opposed to orbiting the Earth for longer periods) a viable business with the aim of allowing thousands of people to experience the adrenaline rush and sweeping views of our home planet that such flights can offer.\nIs there a better way to spend our resources to see the burning planet from space? Gosh.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-11 18:38:22 -0500", "date": "6:38 p.m. on Jul 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/11/going-to-space.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F11%2Fgoing-to-space.html" }, { "id": 3133, "type": "post", "title": "A few thoughts on cleaning up my Twitter accounts following list", "text": "Since last year, I’ve been making a major cleanup of my Twitter account. I came from following more than 2000 people down to less than 300… and my goal is to drop below 100. I’m slowly getting there. Here are a few take outs from this major cleanup of my accounts following list.\nFirst, there are a lot of stale accounts on Twitter, which tends to artificially increase “followship”. It looks like people stopped tweeting a while ago — they left the building. Second, a bunch of accounts were iPhone developers that I started following during my indie developer era, back in 2009-2013. My interests have since then shifted to writing and blogging. I no longer need to get in touch with the developers community. Third, and this coud be the most troubling take out: Twitter has become less and less useful in my numeric life. Articles readings happens more and more though RSS feeds and Mailbrew. So, what’s left for me from Twitter? Getting reactions from people during specials events, related to Apple’s announcements. That’s pretty much it.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-10 13:00:52 -0500", "date": "1:00 p.m. on Jul 10, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/10/a-few-thoughts.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F10%2Fa-few-thoughts.html" }, { "id": 3134, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The Touch Bar is a great example of a divisive feature. I love the Touch Bar. Poll: Do you think Apple should kill the MacBook\u0026rsquo;s Touch Bar? - 9to5Mac\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-09 13:20:03 -0500", "date": "1:20 p.m. on Jul 9, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/09/the-touch-bar.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F09%2Fthe-touch-bar.html" }, { "id": 3135, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve been experimenting with time tracking. I\u0026rsquo;ve been doing it as an experiment at first, but now it\u0026rsquo;s part of my workflow. I\u0026rsquo;m using Toggl and Timery. Ask me anything.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-09 06:35:57 -0500", "date": "6:35 p.m. on Jul 9, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/09/ive-been-experimenting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F09%2Five-been-experimenting.html" }, { "id": 3136, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The more we wait for beta 4, the more chance we will get a step back for Safari redesign. That’s my guess.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-08 18:29:43 -0500", "date": "6:29 p.m. on Jul 8, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/08/the-more-we.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F08%2Fthe-more-we.html" }, { "id": 3137, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If you depend on automation shortcuts and use shortcuts in general on iOS 15 \u0026amp; iPadOS 15, you’ll quickly realize that any advance Apple made in Notifications are ruined by Shortcuts generated notifications. Those notifications should be treated separately.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-08 07:02:50 -0500", "date": "7:02 p.m. on Jul 8, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/08/if-you-depend.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F08%2Fif-you-depend.html" }, { "id": 3138, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Maybe Apple should sell iPhone without any operating system, that way, everyone is equal. I’d love to build my own kernel because I think it would be the best but since Apple is bundling one, I’m seriously disadvantaged. How is this even allowed?\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-07 11:30:55 -0500", "date": "11:30 p.m. on Jul 7, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/07/maybe-apple-should.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F07%2Fmaybe-apple-should.html" }, { "id": 3139, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The power of iPadOS 15: setting up a workspace made of four apps with a simple shortcut from the home screen. So cool. 👨🏻‍💻🤓\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-07 07:02:23 -0500", "date": "7:02 p.m. on Jul 7, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/07/the-power-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F07%2Fthe-power-of.html" }, { "id": 3140, "type": "post", "title": "The return of the Touch ID?", "text": "A recent poll ran by 9To5Mac gives surprising results about what people would like to see if Touch Id is to return to the iPhone. Touch ID under the screen wins popular favour\u0026hellip; personally, I would prefer Touch ID to go on the power button, just like the iPad Air because it is easily accessible while holding the phone.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-07 05:47:36 -0500", "date": "5:47 p.m. on Jul 7, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/07/the-return-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F07%2Fthe-return-of.html" }, { "id": 3141, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Can’t wait for a fresh coat of paint: beta 3. Tomorrow? Thursday? Next week? 🥸\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-06 19:03:11 -0500", "date": "7:03 p.m. on Jul 6, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/06/cant-wait-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F06%2Fcant-wait-for.html" }, { "id": 3142, "type": "post", "title": "Here is some relief for Safari 15 users who hate the new design… (#ios15beta2 #apple)", "text": "For those like me who despise Safari redesign in iPadOS 15 \u0026amp; iOS 15: here is simple trick to better cope with Safari redesign: keep the number of open tab to ONE. Why do you think Apple thought it was a good idea to include a “Close Other Tabs” in the popup menu while pressing the address bar? With on,y one tab open, this is close to what we had before.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-04 20:25:11 -0500", "date": "8:25 p.m. on Jul 4, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/04/here-is-some.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F04%2Fhere-is-some.html" }, { "id": 3143, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Every few days, I go on the Apple Store app to configure a 12.9” 2021 iPad Pro with 512 GB just to confirm delivery date estimates. I’m crazy.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-03 16:43:53 -0500", "date": "4:43 p.m. on Jul 3, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/03/every-few-days.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F03%2Fevery-few-days.html" }, { "id": 3144, "type": "post", "title": "Apple in a weakness position… ", "text": "I keep thinking of this phrase from Phil Schiller who once said:\n\u0026ldquo;whenever we make a change we do it from a position of strength rather than weakness.\u0026rdquo;.\nThe window has closed a long time ago for Apple and they find themselves in a weakness position. I thought Mr. Schiller was still partly involved in the App Store related decisions.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-03 13:51:16 -0500", "date": "1:51 p.m. on Jul 3, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/03/apple-in-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F03%2Fapple-in-a.html" }, { "id": 3145, "type": "post", "title": "Let’s pretend there is side-loading of apps on the iPhone, then what?", "text": "InitialCharge:\nThe only one that stands to lose anything in this scenario is Apple and that’s why they’re doing everything they can to convince us that side-loading is inherently bad. But they’re wrong.Source: Apple’s Head of Privacy Doubles Down on Anti-Sideloading Stance - Initial Charge\nI\u0026rsquo;m a bit late on this one but, let say Apple does go ahead and allow for side loading of apps. Besides the proliferation of App Stores, what will we get in this scenario that we don’t get today? Proponents of applications sideloading are always shy on providing the real long term benefits of such opening. Let me guess: lower prices for apps? Faster install? Better layout App Stores? Apps that use private APIs? What examples of previsouly missed innovations that we get with side-loading? Apps that can trick differently users in thinking they are safe? Or is this choices for the sake of choice?\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-03 08:21:53 -0500", "date": "8:21 p.m. on Jul 3, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/03/lets-pretend-there.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F03%2Flets-pretend-there.html" }, { "id": 3146, "type": "post", "title": "Please… stop… using… ellipsis… for gods sake (#apple #ux #design #iosdev)", "text": "In the following screenshot taken this morning on my iPad screen, how many ellipsis signs to you catch? I highlighted them for you to make it easier. To all developers, to all designers, to Apple: please, stop this shit NOW and find a better way, use your imagination, stop being lazy at design. Thank you.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-02 11:11:59 -0500", "date": "11:11 p.m. on Jul 2, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/02/please-stop-using.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F02%2Fplease-stop-using.html" }, { "id": 3147, "type": "post", "title": "I’m starting a new trend: open writing.", "text": "If you’ve been paying attention in recent months, did you know that you can have a peek at my upcoming blog posts that I’m working on? Thanks to Craft, You can peak at a selection of drafts, ideas, reference lists, etc. I give a name to this: open writing. Think of this as being this observer looking at a painter while he or she is painting a new artwork.👨🏻‍💻\nWhat would be super cool is if someone interacted with this by posting comments… which is something Craft makes possible.\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-02 09:17:11 -0500", "date": "9:17 p.m. on Jul 2, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/02/im-starting-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F02%2Fim-starting-a.html" }, { "id": 3148, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " Instagram Plans to Take on TikTok With Full-Screen Video Content\nRidiculous. Facebook: the Instagram destructor. www.macrumors.com\n", "dateiso": "2021-07-01 07:48:24 -0500", "date": "7:48 p.m. on Jul 1, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/07/01/instagram-plans-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F07%2F01%2Finstagram-plans-to.html" }, { "id": 3149, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m very surprised by the public release of iOS 15 today… it’s really rough.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-30 17:37:00 -0500", "date": "5:37 p.m. on Jun 30, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/30/im-very-surprised.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F30%2Fim-very-surprised.html" }, { "id": 3150, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ll never consider moving my newsletter from Subtack to go to Facebook. Over my dead body. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg: Bulletin Is “Directly for Journalists and Individual Writers” – The Hollywood Reporter\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-30 17:01:37 -0500", "date": "5:01 p.m. on Jun 30, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/30/ill-never-consider.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F30%2Fill-never-consider.html" }, { "id": 3151, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I rarely post my photos here… but here we are, it’s an exception day. This one is from the lake in front of my rented chalet. My photos are available here for those wondering: numericcitizen.photos\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-30 13:36:13 -0500", "date": "1:36 p.m. on Jun 30, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/30/i-rarely-post.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F30%2Fi-rarely-post.html" }, { "id": 3152, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Public beta, already? That was fast. (#ios15publicbeta #ios15beta2) If my experience is any indication, I wouldn’t install that on an iPhone, if it’s the only device a user have.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-30 13:24:23 -0500", "date": "1:24 p.m. on Jun 30, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/30/public-beta-already.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F30%2Fpublic-beta-already.html" }, { "id": 3153, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Problem of the day: my read later list is spread among Safari Reading List, Apple’s Reminders, Pocket, Craft and since iPadOS 15, QuickNotes😳. What is the problem with me? 🤦🏻‍♂️\nI have to do something about this, once and for all.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-30 08:30:16 -0500", "date": "8:30 p.m. on Jun 30, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/30/problem-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F30%2Fproblem-of-the.html" }, { "id": 3154, "type": "post", "title": "On Apple’s Hybrid work model — Apple’s employees to become targets?", "text": "Dave Mark for LoopInsight:\nDid the pandemic make a foundational change to the way we think about where we do our jobs? Or was this a blip, with a slow slide back to the old ways?\nI certainly hope that we won’t return massively to the old days. For Apple, it looks like the pandemic was a blip and employees will need to be back at the office at least three days a week. It’s a corporate culture thing, which doesn’t get amended easily. Now, for employees not wanted to return to the previous model, even partially, they could become poaching targets by other companies where remote work is fundamental to them. This is where Apple could have to open up more.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-30 08:27:33 -0500", "date": "8:27 p.m. on Jun 30, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/30/on-apples-hybrid.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F30%2Fon-apples-hybrid.html" }, { "id": 3155, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Reading this story of the original iPhone demo Steve Jobs did, 14 years ago, using a barely working iPhone prototype, makes you realize how far we’ve come. Man, time flies.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-29 20:09:29 -0500", "date": "8:09 p.m. on Jun 29, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/29/reading-this-story.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F29%2Freading-this-story.html" }, { "id": 3156, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "With iPadOS 15, the more home pages you create on the iPad, the more you’ll wish Apple made a “home page switcher” just like the “app switcher”. Maybe I should file a feedback report. 🧐\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-28 16:23:16 -0500", "date": "4:23 p.m. on Jun 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/28/with-ipados-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F28%2Fwith-ipados-the.html" }, { "id": 3157, "type": "post", "title": "What if nobody really knows what is going on? (#google #privacy #surveillance)", "text": "What if nobody at Google knows exactly what their data hungry engine is all about? I mean, what if nobody has a global picture, so nobody can say “oh my god, it\u0026rsquo;s terrible, we must stop it!”. This makes me think of the nazis in second world war: very few had a global picture of what was really going on. It was devised this way so it was easier to “manage” and keep the machine humming.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-28 15:11:07 -0500", "date": "3:11 p.m. on Jun 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/28/what-if-nobody.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F28%2Fwhat-if-nobody.html" }, { "id": 3158, "type": "post", "title": "Another coat of paint to Windows UI mess? (#windows11)", "text": "So Windows 11 is a thing. Is it a revolution to Windows? Maybe, maybe not. It depends if you can install it on your PC, which is far from certain. But let’s say you can, how deep goes the UI refresh? Is it like it was for Windows 10 which was supposedly a redesign of Windows 8 which was tweaks to Windows 7 UI that came before it. Here is a simple question: Did Microsoft really clean up the Windows UI mess that it has become over the years? I don’t care too much about windows transparency level, toolbars, icons. Getting rid of UI legacy feels a more useful and laudable endeavour.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-28 13:16:00 -0500", "date": "1:16 p.m. on Jun 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/28/another-coat-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F28%2Fanother-coat-of.html" }, { "id": 3159, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thought of the day: for me, Apple’s Widgets are more transformative to the iPad experience than they were to the iPhone, by far.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-28 12:58:22 -0500", "date": "12:58 p.m. on Jun 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/28/thought-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F28%2Fthought-of-the.html" }, { "id": 3160, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I made many updates to my Apple-centric rumours micro website which happens to be made entirely with Craft. Enjoy.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-28 08:23:07 -0500", "date": "8:23 p.m. on Jun 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/28/i-made-many.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F28%2Fi-made-many.html" }, { "id": 3161, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "💉✖️2️⃣. 😎 Let’s go and put all this behind us: get vaccinated.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-27 11:34:59 -0500", "date": "11:34 p.m. on Jun 27, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/27/lets-go-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F27%2Flets-go-and.html" }, { "id": 3162, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Since I began extensively testing iPadOS 15, my idea of upgrading my 2018 11” iPad Pro to a 2021 12.9” version is suddenly less tempting… what does this even tell about the very nature of iPadOS 15 for the iPad Platform?\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-26 11:11:09 -0500", "date": "11:11 p.m. on Jun 26, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/26/since-i-began.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F26%2Fsince-i-began.html" }, { "id": 3163, "type": "post", "title": "On design trends — sadness", "text": "While reading a recent article from Basic Apple Guy about News+, there is this illustration that shows how far Apple News icon has come since its beginnings. I have included the illustration here. It shows how bad design has become in the last five to ten years. That is really depressing to see. As much as things like AR and LiDAR technology help bring real world and virtual world closer together, UI design seems to go the opposite direction. Why is that? When will that trend stop and maybe revert a bit? Why can’t we get visually joyful icons anymore? Is it a matter of design costs being too high?\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-26 08:59:33 -0500", "date": "8:59 p.m. on Jun 26, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/26/on-design-trends.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F26%2Fon-design-trends.html" }, { "id": 3164, "type": "post", "title": "A few observations on my iPadOS 15 beta2 experience so far", "text": "So, I took the plunge and installed iPadOS 15 beta2 on my iPad Pro. A few observations. It’s beta and it shows. Home screen and widgets placement is janky. One springboard crash so far. All my apps are working just fine. Battery life is taking a hit. Text recognition in pictures is jaw breaking and open up all sort of new use cases. The QuickNote feature is a nice addition that will complement my blogger workflow. QuickNotes appear as regular notes on iOS 14. The loupe is back, thanks god, but I think refinements are needed: it is hard to distinguish from the surrounding text. I completely redone my home screen arrangment. I didn’t setup Focus modes yet as I’m not done with home screens setup yet, both are tied together. I love the new notifications design. I’m really liking iPadOS 15 so far. I use App Library a lot, much more than on my iPhone. 1x1 Widgets are replacing application icons on my first home screen page and I love it! Reordering of home pages is alone enough to justify upgrading! Didn’t use the new multitasking a lot yet, just played a bit with it and it’s a good improvement. Alt-tab in split-view will switch focus between the apps, welcome in 2021. Unpopular opinion: I kind of like Safari’s new design, not sure if this will hold true on the iPhone, though. I love the new keyboard overlay at the bottom of the screen; it is no longer as wide as the screen. I like the refreshed design of the shortcuts editor and the suggestions. That’s it for now. Back to home pages setup.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-26 07:36:26 -0500", "date": "7:36 p.m. on Jun 26, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/26/a-few-observations.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F26%2Fa-few-observations.html" }, { "id": 3165, "type": "post", "title": "When hackers strikes personal NAS-type devices", "text": "Pool Western Digital My Book Live NAS owners… many of them woke up to find out that their content was gone from their devices. Apparently, hackers came in by using an unpatched vulnerability on devices where the last update was issued in 2015 by Western Digital. This brings me to ask the following questions: were those devices directly connected on the internet? If yes, that dumb. If this was a known vulnerability, why WD didn\u0026rsquo;t issue a patch? Companies should be required to publish security-only fixes for far longer than they do right now. I\u0026rsquo;m sorry but 2015 isn\u0026rsquo;t that old for such a type of devices. Finally, I personally own a Synology NAS, obviously not directly connected on the Internet, yet, I have to wonder if it is still secure. I\u0026rsquo;m planning on enabling 2FA to add another layer of protection, though.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-25 15:04:11 -0500", "date": "3:04 p.m. on Jun 25, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/25/when-hackers-strikes.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F25%2Fwhen-hackers-strikes.html" }, { "id": 3166, "type": "post", "title": "iPadOS 15 beta 2: install or not, that is the question (#ipados15 #ipadod15beta2)", "text": "I’m on vacation. I have some time to spare. My vacation time is spent between my home and a rented chalet. The iPad Pro and my iPhone 11 Pro are my main devices. Beta 2 came late this week and reports are starting to come in. In summary, lot’s of fixes, a bit faster and apparently no big show stopper. I’m mostly using Craft these days and Apple’s stock apps like Reminders and Notes. What could go wrong?\nMy situation is similar to James Rogers’ from iPadInsight. Last year, I went all in with iOS 14 betas on my iPad and iPhone. This year? I’m a bit more caution. I’m looking to test iPadOS more than anything. As I write this, I get a feeling that I’m trying to convince myself of either waiting for the public beta of simply live dangerously and make the plunge. But what happens in Photos memories on non-upgraded devices? What about Messages in the cloud? What if I create a new reminder item on iOS 15 but want to check it off on a non-iOS 15 device? So many questions… Help me with this.\nI know that I should put some time in writing my next issue of my monthly newsletter instead of writing this microblog post. 🤷🏻‍♂️\nJust got an idea: have a look at the release notes and see if there are any deal breaker in there. Stay tuned. 😅\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-25 14:07:05 -0500", "date": "2:07 p.m. on Jun 25, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/25/ipados-beta-install.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F25%2Fipados-beta-install.html" }, { "id": 3167, "type": "post", "title": "Are Facetime Links Enough to compete against Zoom or Teams?", "text": "Benjamin Mayo on FaceTime 15 in the landscape of collaboration tools like Zoom and Teams:\nFaceTime is more like an add-on of Messages, competing against WhatsApp and traditional phone calls if anything. You also see this in how each service handles identity; Zoom and Teams have abstracted user accounts, whereas on FaceTime you connect by sharing your personal phone number or email address — information that you only want to give out to close friends. Source: FaceTime in iOS 15 — Benjamin Mayo\nSurprisingly, to use FaceTime, you need to give very personal information like your phone number of your email address… while other competing platform has abstracted that account information a long time ago. FaceTime links represent a step in the right direction, as sharing a link is enough for others to get onboard. Time will tell if this proves to be enough in the enterprise.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-25 13:30:21 -0500", "date": "1:30 p.m. on Jun 25, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/25/are-facetime-links.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F25%2Fare-facetime-links.html" }, { "id": 3168, "type": "post", "title": "One design doesn’t fits all device sizes — Safari in iOS 15", "text": "This Safari redesign concept misses the point of Apple’s decision to redesign Safari on iPhone. Apple’s intention was two-fold: provide a better navigation on the iPhone with the thumb and bring the navigation model of switching across open websites closer to switching between apps. Apple’s intention were good but where they fail is to provide the exact same design for things like opened tabs the same across all screen sizes. It’s probably not needed on the Mac, it’s good on the iPad but messy on the iPhone. I wonder how Apple will backtrack on this one and when.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-24 08:04:57 -0500", "date": "8:04 p.m. on Jun 24, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/24/one-design-doesnt.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F24%2Fone-design-doesnt.html" }, { "id": 3169, "type": "post", "title": "On Gruber’s annotating Apple’s latest white paper", "text": "This blog post by Gruber is probably one of its best. He annotates Apple’s publication regarding Anti-Sideloading White Paper. You may disagree with him (I do agree with him), he points to very solid arguments.\nBy having side-loading available, I can already see a bunch of lazy-scammy developers who will skip the App Store because, you know, it’s a pain in the ass to deal with these app reviews… so let’s drop a bin file with a download link on a Facebook page, that should be just “good enough”. Oh and clusless IT guys who will require those apps to be downloaded because, you know, they are mandatory for this or that… schools would probably be the first in line…. wake up guys, we don’t need this shitty world.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-23 18:14:00 -0500", "date": "6:14 p.m. on Jun 23, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/23/on-grubers-annotating.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F23%2Fon-grubers-annotating.html" }, { "id": 3170, "type": "post", "title": "Apple and Architecture", "text": "This is one of the many reasons why I love Apple. They put so much money into this building restoration, it is mind blowing. The amounf of efforts that went into renovating this historic site is beyond any public-founded projects could have done. This brings me to this interesting question by Basic Apple Guy:\n(…) should corporations be allowed to get their hands on this historic architecture and turn them into private businesses? Rightly or wrongly, the fact of the matter is that many governments don\u0026rsquo;t prioritize or have the means to prioritize the extensive work required to take on this scale of restoration.\nI tend to have a polarizing view on anything related to architecture. My father was an architect and so I’m profoundly sensitive on the subject. Yes corporation can take over abandoned historic buildings as long as they do it under the supervision of an urbanism council or something like it. Here, Apple transformed a building into a store but each time Apple chose to do it in a gentle way. I mean, it is barely noticeable from the outside that this is an Apple Store. It’s a very respectful way to do it.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-23 13:22:12 -0500", "date": "1:22 p.m. on Jun 23, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/23/apple-and-architecture.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F23%2Fapple-and-architecture.html" }, { "id": 3171, "type": "post", "title": "Apple’s Shortcuts and Photo processing", "text": "Now that Darkroom officially supports iOS Shortcuts (and will support Shortcuts on Monterey this fall), I can’t wait to get Pixelmator to do the same, as this is my go-to alternative to Lightroom CC for photos editing on the iPad. I like Darkroom by the way but I do have to make choices. Screenshot from MacStories.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-23 13:08:21 -0500", "date": "1:08 p.m. on Jun 23, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/23/apples-shortcuts-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F23%2Fapples-shortcuts-and.html" }, { "id": 3172, "type": "post", "title": "Let me repeat it: we don’t need another Android platform (#apple #privacyprotection)", "text": "As I wrote in this essay, we don’t need another Android platform. I understand Apple being on a PR blitz. I know Apple is holding a contradictory position when talking about the iPhone and the Mac. It is well documented that side-loading doesn’t fix the lack of choice issue, quite the opposite actually. I don’t accept the idea of weakening a platform in the name of “choice” for a minority of techy guys.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-23 07:57:21 -0500", "date": "7:57 p.m. on Jun 23, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/23/let-me-repeat.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F23%2Flet-me-repeat.html" }, { "id": 3173, "type": "post", "title": "Reinventing my usage of the iPhone — A start", "text": "I’ve been working hard in recent days to reinvent the way I use my Apple devices. The idea being to focus more, be more efficient, increase my experience quality and better grasb how and where I spend time as a blogger and content creator. Tools involved? Toggl, Timery, Shortcuts and Automation. The trigger? iOS 15. 🤓🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-22 17:29:13 -0500", "date": "5:29 p.m. on Jun 22, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/22/reinventing-my-usage.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F22%2Freinventing-my-usage.html" }, { "id": 3174, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Never looked at soooo many YouTube videos on upcoming iOS releases. I’m very excited for what is coming. Can’t wait for the public beta.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-21 20:30:49 -0500", "date": "8:30 p.m. on Jun 21, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/21/never-looked-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F21%2Fnever-looked-at.html" }, { "id": 3175, "type": "post", "title": "People are underwhelmed by Apple’s updates, yet… ", "text": "According to a survey by SellCell, people aren’t too much excited for iOS 15 and iPadOS 15. Without trying to read too much in these numbers, I think the next major revision of Apple’s flagship operating systems will grow on people when they start to use them.\nThere are some profound changes like focus modes that has the potential to change the way we use our iPhone or iPad. It’s hard to judge this feature just by looking at YouTube videos. The new focus mode certainly requires a bit of setup and tuning but me feeling is that it will have a much profound impact on users than what multi-users support could have brought to the table.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-21 16:50:15 -0500", "date": "4:50 p.m. on Jun 21, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/21/people-are-underwhelmed.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F21%2Fpeople-are-underwhelmed.html" }, { "id": 3176, "type": "post", "title": "Full iOS 15 Beta Schedule Revealed! (#apple #ios15beta2)", "text": "As we are probably getting iOS 15 beta 2 this week (today?), here is a probable schedule for this summer betas. RED colour is for developer betas, blue is for public betas. We should get 8 betas for developers, first public beta set for July 7th. Let’s see if these guesses are good or not.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-21 09:20:30 -0500", "date": "9:20 p.m. on Jun 21, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/21/full-ios-beta.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F21%2Ffull-ios-beta.html" }, { "id": 3177, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finally on vacation for two weeks. Been a long time. For the second summer in a row, we rented a chalet which happens to be real nice. But there is one thing: internet access is flaky at best. Good time to disconnect and spend more time writing I guess. 😌\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-20 14:05:45 -0500", "date": "2:05 p.m. on Jun 20, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/20/finally-on-vacation.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F20%2Ffinally-on-vacation.html" }, { "id": 3178, "type": "post", "title": "On Antitrust legislation and Apple iPhone experience", "text": "I always thought that politicians and their aides don’t really have clues about technology in general. If you want to fuck up something in tech, ask the politicians. This is exactly what could happen if these antitrust legislation proposal become laws.\nImagine that: you take out your brand new iPhone out of its box, turn it on only to be welcomed with an empty screen, no builtin apps, just a simple “Hello”. In the name of what: competition. Developers like the one behind Basecamp and HEY would be so happy, because in this hypothetic world they would feel in better position to compete against Apple. What a bunch of retards.\nI just wish this type of legislation would be in effect in the US, so that here in Canada, we would continue to get the standard iPhone experience.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-19 12:20:00 -0500", "date": "12:20 p.m. on Jun 19, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/19/on-antitrust-legislation.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F19%2Fon-antitrust-legislation.html" }, { "id": 3179, "type": "post", "title": "On Safari 15 redesign", "text": "Great Safari 15 critic here. I didn’t test the new Safari design yet, but eventually I will (probably when public beta is released). Apple made bold moves with this new design. I’m afraid that, if they change something or revert some of the design decisions, it will come in iOS 16, and present it as the next big thing in internet browser experience. That’s typical of Apple.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-19 12:10:13 -0500", "date": "12:10 p.m. on Jun 19, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/19/on-safari-redesign.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F19%2Fon-safari-redesign.html" }, { "id": 3180, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "iOS 15 brings a lot of tweaks, additions, changes. This YouTube video presents 500 of them. It’s massive. Probably the most ambitious release to date. Can’t wait to test it when the public beta comes out. Probably at beta3, beta2 coming next week.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-19 07:20:55 -0500", "date": "7:20 p.m. on Jun 19, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/19/ios-brings-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F19%2Fios-brings-a.html" }, { "id": 3181, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently entering vacation area. Enjoy. I\u0026rsquo;m going to be much more active. Be warned.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-18 18:00:53 -0500", "date": "6:00 p.m. on Jun 18, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/18/currently-entering-vacation.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F18%2Fcurrently-entering-vacation.html" }, { "id": 3182, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple did bring back the loupe for selecting text on iOS. Good. The only thing is that we need to find it, as shown here. I know, it\u0026rsquo;s beta 1 but come on, I can\u0026rsquo;t believe this sort of design comes out of Apple. Someone is clearly sleeping here.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-18 17:01:16 -0500", "date": "5:01 p.m. on Jun 18, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/18/apple-did-bring.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F18%2Fapple-did-bring.html" }, { "id": 3183, "type": "post", "title": "On Intel’s market share falling", "text": " Intel may see its market share fall to a new low next year, in large part thanks to Apple\u0026rsquo;s decision to move away from using Intel processors in its Mac computers and instead use Apple silicon. Source: Intel Processor Market Share May Fall to New Low Next Year Due to Apple Silicon - MacRumors\nHow much Apple business did represent to Intel overall numbers before the Apple Silicon transition started? My feeling is that it wasn\u0026rsquo;t that big. Ten pourcent, maybe? If Intel share numbers are falling, Apple is not the only culprit in my view. The move to mobile-only devices like smartphones which are not based on Intel\u0026rsquo;s chip is the culprit.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-18 05:59:46 -0500", "date": "5:59 p.m. on Jun 18, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/18/on-intels-market.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F18%2Fon-intels-market.html" }, { "id": 3184, "type": "post", "title": "Is your iPhone really yours? ", "text": " But the thread running through everything was that if you buy an Apple device, it\u0026rsquo;s yours. And it\u0026rsquo;s you. And if you buy, well, anything else, you\u0026rsquo;re just a slab of meat holding a slab of glass through which the internet will manipulate and extract data from you any way it wants. So, yeah, the garden\u0026rsquo;s walls may be high, but Apple says that\u0026rsquo;s only to keep you safe.\n— David PierceSource: Apple defends the walled garden - Protocol — The people, power and politics of tech\nMany would argue the since you cannot install apps from outside the App Store, your iPhone isn\u0026rsquo;t really yours. Others would argue that since you don\u0026rsquo;t have a choice but go to Apple to get \u0026ldquo;your\u0026rdquo; iPhone repaired, your iPhone isn\u0026rsquo;t really yours. what is \u0026ldquo;your\u0026rdquo; take on this?\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-16 20:47:40 -0500", "date": "8:47 p.m. on Jun 16, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/16/is-your-iphone.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F16%2Fis-your-iphone.html" }, { "id": 3185, "type": "post", "title": "App Clip can be really cool", "text": "I’m a bit late to the party but this use of Apple’s App Clip technology is clever: point your iPhone to the Apple Watch band package, an App Clip will pop up on your phone to help you get the matching Watch Face. Cool. Great case of Apple eating its own dog food, and showing a great integration experience.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-15 19:03:49 -0500", "date": "7:03 p.m. on Jun 15, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/15/app-clip-can.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F15%2Fapp-clip-can.html" }, { "id": 3186, "type": "post", "title": "Michael Tsai: On macOS Big Sur lingering issues", "text": "This blog post from Michael Tsai paints a very terrible picture of macOS Big Sur. Unstable, weird design decisions, lot’s of issues in Apple’s Mail, etc. Sounds like the worst macOS incarnation of all time. Personnally, I don’t experience many issues with macOS Big Sur, but I do feel it’s a weird design overall. The next release, macOS Montery, doesn’t appear to fix bad design choices… I’m thinking about widgets handling and notifications dismissal.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-15 18:57:54 -0500", "date": "6:57 p.m. on Jun 15, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/15/michael-tsai-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F15%2Fmichael-tsai-on.html" }, { "id": 3187, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Another exciting update coming this fall is Apple’s Maps data. This site carefully documents what’s new, what’s updated. Really well done. Day and night difference. Nice updated typography. Some features are available on more capable devices. Is this new?\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-15 18:51:16 -0500", "date": "6:51 p.m. on Jun 15, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/15/another-exciting-update.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F15%2Fanother-exciting-update.html" }, { "id": 3188, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "macOS Monterey looks more and more exciting each day. Can’t wait for this update from the makers of Pixelmator Pro. I can see two of my Automator scripts that will easily migrate to Shortcuts this fall.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-15 18:45:02 -0500", "date": "6:45 p.m. on Jun 15, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/15/macos-monterey-looks.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F15%2Fmacos-monterey-looks.html" }, { "id": 3189, "type": "post", "title": "Focus — A Game changer feature in experiencing Apple devices?", "text": "The more I read and learn about the upcoming “Focus” feature in Apple’s upcoming OS updates, the more I think it could be a transformative feature in experiencing Apple’s devices. The combinaison of notifications and home page configurations assigned to each focus mode has powerful implications. Even though I’m not on the beta train right now, I’m already at work designing the different focus modes I plan to use on my devices. As you might expect, I’ll be writing a detailed blog post about this in the future.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-14 07:02:23 -0500", "date": "7:02 p.m. on Jun 14, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/14/focus-a-game.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F14%2Ffocus-a-game.html" }, { "id": 3190, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A few words to help you get a peek on what I\u0026rsquo;m working on right now: Toggl. Focused Work.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-14 06:00:10 -0500", "date": "6:00 p.m. on Jun 14, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/14/a-few-words.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F14%2Fa-few-words.html" }, { "id": 3191, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Tomorrow I\u0026rsquo;ll go to an Apple Store to pay a visit to the Genius Bar for a repair. My last visit goes back to more than a year. I may feel disoriented. 😳 I\u0026rsquo;ll have a look at the iMac! And the iPhone 12 Pro! And the Mac Pro! And….\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-11 06:36:13 -0500", "date": "6:36 p.m. on Jun 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/11/tomorrow-ill-go.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F11%2Ftomorrow-ill-go.html" }, { "id": 3192, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "FaceTime in iOS 15: too little too late? Maybe. At least, FaceTime is better positioned as a videoconference platform for the next pandemic. Because, you know, one day, there will be another one.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-10 06:20:46 -0500", "date": "6:20 p.m. on Jun 10, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/10/facetime-in-ios.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F10%2Ffacetime-in-ios.html" }, { "id": 3193, "type": "post", "title": "The change that didn’t came (#apple #wwdc21 #developers)", "text": "\nThis take from Gruber “App Store: The Schiller Cut” has a sour taste following the WWDC keynote and Platforms state of the union. Did Apple announce something this week to appease developers relations? Nope. Will they announce something in the coming weeks in regard to App Store commissions? Who knows. If they do, they will do it in a position of weakness:\nIf someday down the road we will be changing 70/30, then I think the question moves from “if” to “when” and “how”. I’m not suggesting we do anything differently today, only that whenever we make a change we do it from a position of strength rather than weakness. That we use any such change to our advantage if possible. And thinking about this long in advance can only help to look at an eventual change as an opportunity (with developers, press, customers, etc). — Phil Schiller in 2011\nThey missed the opportunity this year. Apple is in a weak position and I don’t see how this could change anytime soon.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-10 06:09:49 -0500", "date": "6:09 p.m. on Jun 10, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/10/the-change-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F10%2Fthe-change-that.html" }, { "id": 3194, "type": "post", "title": "That’s clever, Apple.", "text": " To run an internal version of iOS, each employee must first install a special profile on the device — just as we do for downloading beta versions. However, each profile sent to employees determines which of these features will be enabled for each person working on new versions of iOS and possibly other Apple operating systems as well.\nSource: Apple doubles down on secrecy with a new way to hide iOS 15 features from engineers - 9to5Mac\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-09 20:30:53 -0500", "date": "8:30 p.m. on Jun 9, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/09/thats-clever-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F09%2Fthats-clever-apple.html" }, { "id": 3195, "type": "post", "title": "Time to move off Apple’s Intel iMac? (#apple #adobe #lightroomclassic #applesilicon)", "text": "With Adobe finally releasing Lightroom Classic for Apple Silicon Macs, This could enable me to move off my 2017 21.5” Intel Mac for once. The prospect of Lightroom catalogs and data migration is not enchanting though. There the issues of plugins migration too. Is it time for me to go all-in cloud with Lightroom CC only? Not sure it is the right time either.\nI have a few incentives for selling my iMac: one being to help me finance a shiny new 2021 12.9” iPad Pro with 1 TB of RAM. This could serve as my iPadOS 15 test bed for the second half of summer. I still have quite some time to think about all this as these devices are back-ordered for at least the second half of July.\nYou thoughts?\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-08 11:33:56 -0500", "date": "11:33 p.m. on Jun 8, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/08/time-to-move.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F08%2Ftime-to-move.html" }, { "id": 3196, "type": "post", "title": "I was over-simplifying quite a bit", "text": "After publishing my essay on what I was hoping Apple would do in response to the developers community, Matt Birchler wrote a small response regarding my assertion about payments processing platform being a limited feature in the grand scheme of things. It appears I was wrong. Thanks to Matt blog post, I have a better view of what goes behind the scene here.\nThat being said, Apple’s payment processing service within the App Store serves Apple\u0026rsquo;s purposes and is the one that is very narrow, very focused. It\u0026rsquo;s a good thing. I\u0026rsquo;m not sure Apple has to compete against this industry. Allowing third-party payment processing services would need to focus on the minimum in order to protect privacy or help guarantee that privacy is in good hands. It\u0026rsquo;s an attainable goal.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-07 06:14:35 -0500", "date": "6:14 p.m. on Jun 7, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/07/i-was-oversimplifying.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F07%2Fi-was-oversimplifying.html" }, { "id": 3197, "type": "post", "title": "iPadOS 15 to limit certain features to iPad Pro? (#apple #ipados15 #wwdc21)", "text": "If Apple ups the game with iPadOS 15 (background tasks, better multitasking, external monitor support, etc.), we could see a situation where iPadOS crawls on lower or mid-range iPad while working like a breeze on the iPad Pro. Could Apple limit certain features to the high end only? Quite possibly. Your thoughts?\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-06 13:37:24 -0500", "date": "1:37 p.m. on Jun 6, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/06/ipados-to-limit.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F06%2Fipados-to-limit.html" }, { "id": 3198, "type": "post", "title": "Popup Menus — Comments About This Relic of iOS 3 — Could There Be A Better Design? (#apple #wwdc21 #ipadOS15 #ios15)", "text": "\nConsider the previous screenshot showing the popup menu when selecting a word in a document. This menu hasn’t been touched since iOS 3, if I remember correctly. Tomorrow, as we are about to get a peek at iPadOS 15 and iOS 15, I’m wondering if there are better ways to display such a menu. Consider a few design problems and possible improvements.\nThis menu doesn’t scale well; it isn’t exactly elegant. In some situations, we have to scroll through its options which is not always obvious and is tricky to do with the finger without selecting the option at touch and scroll time. Also, this design involves too much finder travel to my taste; I would prefer a more condensed version. The design is flat and doesn’t allow for hierarchical grouping of options which could help is situations where many options are available. The design is flat and is not as distinctive as it could be. Adding some depth, contour line would help.\nDo you have any suggestions on how Apple could improve on this?\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-06 13:12:01 -0500", "date": "1:12 p.m. on Jun 6, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/06/141201.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F06%2F141201.html" }, { "id": 3199, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s always fun to re-watch a previous Apple Event. Just did the Spring Loaded one and used CleanShot to capture the best moments creating a library of 260 shots, all stored in Synology Photos, ready to be used, just in case. Tech is fun.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-06 07:48:36 -0500", "date": "7:48 p.m. on Jun 6, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/06/its-always-fun.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F06%2Fits-always-fun.html" }, { "id": 3200, "type": "post", "title": "The iMac vs a Simple Monitor", "text": "\nThe Thunderbolt display is now a vintage product for Apple. When I look at this beautiful monitor, I’m thinking about the recently introduced redesigned iMac. Many people would have preferred to see the iMac chin disappear. We should know better and see this is a distinctive design attribute of the iMac which make it look different than from a simple monitor. It’s an important visual differentiation factor in my opinion. The iMac is not a simple monitor.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-03 17:11:24 -0500", "date": "5:11 p.m. on Jun 3, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/03/the-imac-vs.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F03%2Fthe-imac-vs.html" }, { "id": 3201, "type": "post", "title": "Micro.blog \u003e Twitter Blue. ", "text": "I like how Micro.blog stacks up against Twitter’s subscription. $5: Micro.blog hosting, photos, use your own domain name, categories, bookmarks, themes, CSS, plug-ins, bookshelves, standalone pages, native apps, open APIs. $3: undo tweet, thread viewer, free Twitter features.\nManton Reece https://www.manton.org/2021/06/03/i-like-how.html\rIndeed.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-03 11:19:20 -0500", "date": "11:19 p.m. on Jun 3, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/03/microblog-twitter-blue.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F03%2Fmicroblog-twitter-blue.html" }, { "id": 3202, "type": "post", "title": "Count me OUT then - Twitter Blue #twitterblue ", "text": "Here is why I won\u0026rsquo;t subscribe anytime soon (another reason on top of many, btw):\nBut what is interesting is one thing that you won’t get with Twitter Blue: an ad-free experience. Advertising is still the biggest chunk of Twitter’s revenue, and they’re not going to replace that with direct subscriptions anytime soon. Source: Twitter Blue subscription launches in Australia, Canada – Six Colors\nPaying to be a beta-tester and give feedback? Can you imagine paying to get beta releases of Apple\u0026rsquo;s OSes? No way.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-03 11:02:13 -0500", "date": "11:02 p.m. on Jun 3, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/03/count-me-out.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F03%2Fcount-me-out.html" }, { "id": 3203, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Better reading experience of Twitter Threads, via Twitter Blue, will encourage people to write more threads on Twitter instead of publishing a blog post. I’m not sure that I like the trend here.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-03 10:45:39 -0500", "date": "10:45 p.m. on Jun 3, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/03/better-reading-experience.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F03%2Fbetter-reading-experience.html" }, { "id": 3204, "type": "post", "title": "Certainly a massive leak... (#apple #iphone13)", "text": "This CAD view of the iPhone 13 shows a bigger than usual camera assembly on the front of the iPhone. It\u0026rsquo;s massive. Not sure what to make out of this leak. Good news for photography enthusiasts?\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-02 16:31:09 -0500", "date": "4:31 p.m. on Jun 2, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/02/certainly-a-massive.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F02%2Fcertainly-a-massive.html" }, { "id": 3205, "type": "post", "title": "One WWDC wish: bring back that loupe! (#apple #wwdc #wwdc21)", "text": "Don’t you find it weird and contradictory to see Apple investing so much in accessibility features at the operating system level yet they thought it was a good idea to remove the loupe in text selection interactions? Is this a typical “one team not talking to the other”? Please, Apple, bring back the loop in iOS 15. Thanks.\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-02 06:06:15 -0500", "date": "6:06 p.m. on Jun 2, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/02/one-wwdc-wish.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F02%2Fone-wwdc-wish.html" }, { "id": 3206, "type": "post", "title": "Another solid update to Craft! ", "text": "Another solid update to Craft released today. This time, Calendar view was added for those who would like to take daily notes or write meeting notes as this update integrates with Apple\u0026rsquo;s calendars.\nIf you pay attention to the Craft\u0026rsquo;s update page, you\u0026rsquo;ll see Craft rapidly evolving over time. Who knows what\u0026rsquo;s next for this essential tool in my blogger and writer workflow.\nOh, and Craft has made it to the Apple Design Awards finalist! Congrats to them!\n", "dateiso": "2021-06-02 05:31:25 -0500", "date": "5:31 p.m. on Jun 2, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/06/02/another-solid-update.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F06%2F02%2Fanother-solid-update.html" }, { "id": 3207, "type": "post", "title": "Time to move off Google Photos I guess (#photography #googlephotos)", "text": "Time is running out to those using and depending on Google Photos for their online photo library storage needs. The free tier is now capped at 15GB for new stuff added. That\u0026rsquo;s small. Why not consider moving to iCloud Photo Library if you are already invested into Apple ecosystem? And, if privacy protection is something you care about, now is the best time to switch.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-31 16:17:58 -0500", "date": "4:17 p.m. on May 31, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/31/time-to-move.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F31%2Ftime-to-move.html" }, { "id": 3208, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Aaaaaah the joy of RAW photo processing.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-30 16:47:44 -0500", "date": "4:47 p.m. on May 30, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/30/aaaaaah-the-joy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F30%2Faaaaaah-the-joy.html" }, { "id": 3209, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Tempted by a 2013 MacBook Air. Yep, 2013. Runs Big Sur. I want a small laptop running macOS for writing. Bad idea with macOS Big Sur?\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-29 19:52:24 -0500", "date": "7:52 p.m. on May 29, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/29/tempted-by-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F29%2Ftempted-by-a.html" }, { "id": 3210, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Current status: publishing.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-29 08:27:52 -0500", "date": "8:27 p.m. on May 29, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/29/current-status-publishing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F29%2Fcurrent-status-publishing.html" }, { "id": 3211, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Current status: writing. Who knew. 👀\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-29 06:05:27 -0500", "date": "6:05 p.m. on May 29, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/29/current-status-writing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F29%2Fcurrent-status-writing.html" }, { "id": 3212, "type": "post", "title": "About those digital attention seekers ... GTFO (#socialnetworks)", "text": "I hate it when people subscribe to my stuff, to my blog, my newsletters, or whatever, just to grab my attention and wish that I\u0026rsquo;ll follow them back. That is not the way I operate or think. I\u0026rsquo;m looking for real content, enlightenment, creativity, singularity. I rarely follow back someone unless they meet what I\u0026rsquo;m looking for online. Just saying.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-28 16:40:48 -0500", "date": "4:40 p.m. on May 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/28/about-those-digital.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F28%2Fabout-those-digital.html" }, { "id": 3213, "type": "post", "title": "Here is a free pro-tip for content creators (#writing #author #protip #tip)", "text": "An easy way to differentiate yourself from the crowd is to persevere with your journey of publishing your stuff out there. There are countless authors who started something only to stop after a while. Be the one who continue and keep it going. Regularity and continuity are key factors to build your online presence. I guarantee you that people will come and stick around if you meet these goals.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-28 16:24:38 -0500", "date": "4:24 p.m. on May 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/28/here-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F28%2Fhere-is-a.html" }, { "id": 3214, "type": "post", "title": "A new home for my best photos (#photography #visualarts #creativity)", "text": "\nI’ve been more silent than usual in recent days. That’s because I was busy building up my new home for posting online my best photos. I’m also writing about my experience while doing so. As you wait for the whys and hows, here is a peek. Hope you enjoy.\nhttps://numericcitizen.smugmug.com/\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-27 07:18:52 -0500", "date": "7:18 p.m. on May 27, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/27/a-new-home.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F27%2Fa-new-home.html" }, { "id": 3215, "type": "post", "title": "Where iPadOS Current Multitasking Experience Falls Apart (#apple #iPadOS #ipados15)", "text": "\nMulti-Tasking on the iPad is Actually Pretty Great - The Newsprint:\nSlide Over is genuinely convenient. Certain apps work better than others inside the Slide Over deck, and when they’re optimized, their convenience is unmatched. I keep a calculator app in Slide Over at all times, I keep an iteration of all messaging apps in Slide Over, and I like to keep an iteration of the Files app available at all times. These kinds of “in-and-out” apps are exceptional for Slide Over.\nAt least one person really likes multitasking on iPadOS. The thing about the Slide over feature is that it requires setting it up. It doesn’t happen “just like that”. I rarely find the right app to use in the Slide over view… I need to “bring it in” and this is where the experience falls apart. This is where I want to see Apple improve things.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-26 09:02:50 -0500", "date": "9:02 p.m. on May 26, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/26/where-ipados-current.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F26%2Fwhere-ipados-current.html" }, { "id": 3216, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If iOS 15 actually brings an updated lock screen design based on the concept of complications like on the Apple Watch, Apple will be able to say that this is the next (and final?) phase of the iPhone experience to be revisited (widgets being the first phase with iOS 14).\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-25 18:34:57 -0500", "date": "6:34 p.m. on May 25, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/25/if-ios-actually.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F25%2Fif-ios-actually.html" }, { "id": 3217, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\nFollowing the end of the recalibration period for my iPhone 11 Pro battery under iOS 14.5, the verdict is in: before = 89%, after: 89%. I was expecting more. 😒\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-25 16:52:51 -0500", "date": "4:52 p.m. on May 25, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/25/following-the-end.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F25%2Ffollowing-the-end.html" }, { "id": 3218, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Working on something bigger than I thought. Can\u0026rsquo;t wait to share.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-24 11:58:01 -0500", "date": "11:58 p.m. on May 24, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/24/working-on-something.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F24%2Fworking-on-something.html" }, { "id": 3219, "type": "post", "title": "Everything Comes From China These Days", "text": "Apple’s Troubling Relationship With China - Initial Charge\nThis problem isn’t unique to Apple. Most, if not all, of the major companies whose products and services we interact with each day are being influenced by China. And I expect that influence is growing with each day that passes. If you’re in favor of freedom, liberty, and individual rights, you should be concerned about this.\nIt’s refreshing to see that Apple isn’t the only one where its products are made and a lot of them are sold to. What can we do instead of just bashing on Apple?\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-23 12:39:37 -0500", "date": "12:39 p.m. on May 23, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/23/everything-comes-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F23%2Feverything-comes-from.html" }, { "id": 3220, "type": "post", "title": "Let’s the iPhone Become Android (#apple #android #security #appstore)", "text": "There is apparently no money to be done from having apps on Android; all money being on the iPhone side. So developers are asking for their share of revenues from Apple, by reducing their commission, urging Apple to open up the App Store, weakening the security model along the way, making the user experience worse, making iOS experience more like\u0026hellip; Android\u0026hellip; we have a full circle.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-23 10:19:42 -0500", "date": "10:19 p.m. on May 23, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/23/lets-the-iphone.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F23%2Flets-the-iphone.html" }, { "id": 3221, "type": "post", "title": "iPadOS is holding the iPad back (#apple #2021ipadpro #ipados)", "text": "Daring Fireball: The 2021 M1 iPad Pros:\nThe elephant in the room is iPadOS. It’s just not good enough. In the same way that Intel’s chips were holding back Macs, iPadOS has been holding back iPad Pros. With Intel chips, the hardware was holding back the Mac platform. With iPads, it’s the software holding the platform back. This hardware is indisputably amazing, and iPadOS is fine for casual use. But it still feels like I’m trying to do fine detail work while wearing oven mitts for my day-to-day work.\nI like Gruber’s introduction in his review of the M1 iPad Pro. But his review echos other reviews. Nearly all M1 iPad Pro reviews that I have read note the same issue: iPadOS lacks maturity to sustain iPad Pro aspirations. Can’t wait for Apple’s WWDC in three weeks.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-20 11:47:04 -0500", "date": "11:47 p.m. on May 20, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/20/ipados-is-holding.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F20%2Fipados-is-holding.html" }, { "id": 3222, "type": "post", "title": "About These Apple Watch Series 7 Mockups (#apple #applewatch #series7)", "text": "\nAccording to circulating rumours, the Apple Series 7 will go through a small redesign. The Series 4 introduced a bigger screen but the overall shape stayed the same. This time, a more boxy look is expected. I’m not sure that I like what I’m seeing here on this mock-up. To me, the Apple Watch would loses some of its iconic traits. If this boxy design allows for more internal space, hence probably more sensors or new features, better battery life, so be it.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-20 07:00:06 -0500", "date": "7:00 p.m. on May 20, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/20/about-these-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F20%2Fabout-these-apple.html" }, { "id": 3223, "type": "post", "title": "About Those Tiny Release Notes (#apple)", "text": "\nI wonder when Apple will fix the issue of tiny release notes, on the iPhone. I can’t remember since when the issue started, but it’s been a very long time. It’s all the details, Apple, all the details.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-20 05:35:30 -0500", "date": "5:35 p.m. on May 20, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/20/about-those-tiny.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F20%2Fabout-those-tiny.html" }, { "id": 3224, "type": "post", "title": "This is so Clever (#apple #applewatch #watchOS8)", "text": " To support users with limited mobility, Apple is introducing a revolutionary new accessibility feature for Apple Watch. AssistiveTouch for watchOS allows users with upper body limb differences to enjoy the benefits of Apple Watch without ever having to touch the display or controls.\nSource: Apple previews powerful software updates designed for people with disabilities - Apple\nThe demo on Apple’s Newsroom website is really impressive. Surprisingly, it looks like the feature will work on recent Apple Watch generations (Series 4 and up).\nOne question: why announce these initiatives now? We’re 17 days away from WWDC. Looks like WWDC will have more room to announce even more exciting stuff. 😀\nAnother question: if you look at the following screenshot taken from today’s announcement, we can see that table cells are narrower than what we have on iOS 14. Is this a first glimpse of what is coming in iOS 15? I certainly hope so because it looks much better, friendlier. It reminds me of the pre-iOS 7 era.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-20 05:30:29 -0500", "date": "5:30 p.m. on May 20, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/20/this-is-so.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F20%2Fthis-is-so.html" }, { "id": 3225, "type": "post", "title": "I’m Closing my Telegram Account — Here is why", "text": "First:\nApple is very efficient at pursuing their business model, which is based on selling overpriced, obsolete hardware to customers locked in their ecosystem,\u0026quot; Durov wrote. \u0026ldquo;Every time I have to use an iPhone to test our iOS app I feel like I\u0026rsquo;m thrown back into the Middle Ages. The iPhone\u0026rsquo;s 60Hz displays can\u0026rsquo;t compete with the 120Hz displays of modern Android phones that support much smoother animations.\nAnd:\nDurov added that the worst part about Apple’s technology is not “clunkier devices or outdated hardware,” but that users who have an iPhone are a “digital slave of Apple.”\n”You are only allowed to use apps that Apple lets you install via their App Store, and you can only use Apple’s iCloud to natively back up your data,” he said.\n“It’s no wonder that Apple’s totalitarian approach is so appreciated by the Communist Party of China, which – thanks to Apple – now has complete control over the apps and data of all of its citizens who rely on iPhones.”\nSource: Telegram founder says iPhone users are digital slaves | AppleInsider.\nMr. Durov can go to hell. Typical talk from an Android guy. Nobody his forcing him to develop for the iPhone. Nobody. He is a digital slave of Apple himself. I can’t stand this attitude and I’m voting with my digital means: closing my Telegram account.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-19 16:39:38 -0500", "date": "4:39 p.m. on May 19, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/19/im-closing-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F19%2Fim-closing-my.html" }, { "id": 3226, "type": "post", "title": "Keep it Simple, Apple, will ya? (#apple #m1chip)", "text": " For the new MacBook Pros, Apple is planning two different chips, codenamed Jade C-Chop and Jade C-Die: both include eight high-performance cores and two energy-efficient cores for a total of 10, but will be offered in either 16 or 32 graphics core variations.\nSource: Apple (AAPL) Readies MacBook Pro, MacBook Air Revamps With Faster Chips - Bloomberg(https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-18/apple-readies-macbook-pro-macbook-air-revamps-with-faster-chips)\nThe “one chip SKU to rule them all” won’t last forever it seems. Apple will take advantage of its ability to decide what goes in its chips to help differentiate each models within the same product line. We already witness this with the 7-core vs 8-core variant of the M1 chip in the 2021 iMac, but this variability will increase over time. My hope is that Apple doesn’t try to hard to be greedy with this strategy and keep the product\u0026rsquo;s differentiation simple to grasp.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-19 06:30:35 -0500", "date": "6:30 p.m. on May 19, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/19/keep-it-simple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F19%2Fkeep-it-simple.html" }, { "id": 3227, "type": "post", "title": "About Apple’s Flaky Bluetooth Devices (#apple #imac2021)", "text": "\nThe keyboard flaked out on me once. I wanted to spend time testing the Touch ID button, so I moved an application to the Trash, which requires authentication. That worked. Then I tried to move the app back to the Applications folder, and … Touch ID just didn’t work. After 30 seconds of trying, I realized the whole keyboard just wasn’t working. I turned the keyboard off and on again, and boom, everything has been normal since — including Touch ID recognizing my finger very quickly.\nSource: Daring Fireball: The 24-Inch M1 iMac(https://daringfireball.net/2021/05/the_24_inch_m1_imac)\nAh, ah, another moment of Apple’s Bluetooth device not working as expected. Since I got my 2017 21.5” iMac, I’ve experienced unstable Bluetooth connectivity with Apple’s mouse and keyboard. I don’t know when it started, if it’s related to a certain release of macOS, but it is happening all the time. The worst part is the mouse being jerky while moving on the screen. Bluetooth\u0026rsquo;s instabilities also impact my AirPods usage with the Mac. My AirPods simply drops from receiving the Mac audio while in Zoom meetings. It is infuriating. Eventually, I need to reboot the Mac to reset the Bluetooth stack.\nWhen I got the M1 Mac mini, I thought Bluetooth connectivity issues would be a thing of the past. I couldn’t be more wrong. It was worst. The mouse and the keyboard are both having instabilities. They need to be turned off and on to temporarily fix the problem, but eventually the Mac needs a full reboot. Again, this is exasperating. It is a well documented issue which macOS 11.1 and 11.2 tried to fix but the problems still happen, albeit a bit less often.\nThere is something wrong with Apple’s Bluetooth implementation in general. Is it the driver, the firmware, the chip, a combination of these that is at fault? I don’t know but the fact that this shiny new iMac with the wireless keyboard with TouchID stops working like Gruber experienced is not a good sign.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-19 06:13:26 -0500", "date": "6:13 p.m. on May 19, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/19/about-apples-flaky.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F19%2Fabout-apples-flaky.html" }, { "id": 3228, "type": "post", "title": "About This White Bezel (#apple #imac2021)", "text": " I know a lot of people are concerned that the white bezel surrounding the display will be distracting. In practice, I found that it just disappears. If there can be such a thing as a muted white — a white that most certainly looks white, not light gray, but yet not white white, this white is that white. I didn’t need time to get used to it\nSource: Daring Fireball: The 24-Inch M1 iMac(https://daringfireball.net/2021/05/the_24_inch_m1_imac)\nThere is a lot of talk regarding the white bezel of the new iMac. I still don’t know what to think about them. They make it look like if there was a white masking tape all around the display. But the thing is, considering the fact that Apple’s macOS overall user interface is so “white-ish” in general, this should help make the bezel kind of disappear in reality and just be an extension of the user interface.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-19 05:55:19 -0500", "date": "5:55 p.m. on May 19, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/19/about-this-white.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F19%2Fabout-this-white.html" }, { "id": 3229, "type": "post", "title": "Xcode for iPad — Who’s asking for this? (#apple #iosdev #developers #wwdc2021)", "text": "\nThe iPad is a mighty device considering its form-factor. Many people are asking for Apple to make Xcode available for the iPad. I wonder: who are asking for this? Are they serious developers or just hobbyists? I would find it surprising if it was the former because there can be so many tools besides Xcode that is needed I order to build an app, and not all those things are available on the iPad. Serious developers would need to bring in a Mac to complete the development picture. If this is the hobbyists, does it even matter?\nWould it be the full version of Xcode or a diminutive version? If it is the latter, what kind of apps would it be able to create, and what are the others it wouldn’t? Would it be Swift-only with SwiftUI? If that’s the case, are we in the “tech proof of concept” territory or if it is a viable path going forward? What would iPadOS 15 need to make Xcode for iPad a viable solution? Better file management? External monitor support? A link to a Mac for certain tasks and features? Is the 12.9” iPad Pro the only supported device or is the 11” version be supported too?\nIf you are a developer reading this post, would you use Xcode for iPad to build your apps if Apple made it available?\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-17 06:26:10 -0500", "date": "6:26 p.m. on May 17, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/17/xcode-for-ipad.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F17%2Fxcode-for-ipad.html" }, { "id": 3230, "type": "post", "title": "Can't wait for reviews (#apple (ipadpro2021)", "text": "Can\u0026rsquo;t wait for Apple\u0026rsquo;s embargo to be lifted this week so we can get a better appreciation of the 12.0\u0026quot; 2021 iPad Pro. Some people got their device, early. I\u0026rsquo;ll never be able to get an XDR display from Apple, but the one that within an iPad, seems a bargain. The possibility of getting this device just increased a bit.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-16 16:19:09 -0500", "date": "4:19 p.m. on May 16, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/16/cant-wait-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F16%2Fcant-wait-for.html" }, { "id": 3231, "type": "post", "title": "On Extending the Home Screen", "text": "Parker Ortolani for 9to5Mac:\nBut what if you could add other kinds of things to your Home Screen too? (\u0026hellip;) Apple could add the same ‘Add to Home Screen’ button to the share sheet in Music, in Podcasts, in News, and in TV. Each content type could have a distinct shape for differentiation. Albums, podcasts and publications could have more squared off icons. Magazines could be more narrow to show off covers. TV Shows and movies could use the same artwork that appears in app.\nFrankly, I love this idea. On the iPad, it could be the ultimate playground to play with this feature, thanks to the device size. I can see me adding all kind of stuff like my wife iMessage contact, an RSS feed to my favourite content creators, a shortcut to a podcast or an Apple Music playlist or artist. So much possibilities.\nThe idea of adding all sort of content on the home screen is not new, yet on iOS and iPadOS, current design feels really restricted. We are ready to go to the next phase in evolution. I want freedom in folder size and placement, I want Apple Watch complication-style widgets. I want freedom. Apple, by any chance, are you listening?\nConsider this added to my WWDC, iOS and iPadOS 15 wish list.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-16 09:08:09 -0500", "date": "9:08 p.m. on May 16, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/16/on-extending-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F16%2Fon-extending-the.html" }, { "id": 3232, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve completed my first release of my Digital Garden. Entirely made with @Craftdocsapp which makes a great job of building a website with integrated navigation. It’s really cool. The only missing thing is support for custom domains, which will probably be coming in the future.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-16 08:46:03 -0500", "date": "8:46 p.m. on May 16, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/16/ive-completed-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F16%2Five-completed-my.html" }, { "id": 3233, "type": "post", "title": "Importing HEY World Posts to Substack? @SubstackInc", "text": "Nope. Better chance next time. No easy way to ask for help either. Tried different variations of the RSS feed URL. Nope, doesn’t work. There is no option to expert from within HEY either. As you can see, looking for some easy way out of HEY World. 👨🏻‍💻\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-15 10:48:40 -0500", "date": "10:48 p.m. on May 15, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/15/importing-hey-world.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F15%2Fimporting-hey-world.html" }, { "id": 3234, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "HEY World was a fad. Using the dice feature to pop up a random HEY World website shows that the vast majority of users didn’t keep updating their feed. What could explain this lack of durable enthusiasm?\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-15 08:02:41 -0500", "date": "8:02 p.m. on May 15, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/15/hey-world-was.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F15%2Fhey-world-was.html" }, { "id": 3235, "type": "post", "title": "My Go-To Internet Destination for Reading: Mailbrew Website", "text": "I recently noted that I’m spending much more time on Mailbrew website for my newsletters reading rather than in HEY Feed. Why is that? Well, I think there are a few sticky features in Mailbrew that helps me better process information tidbits. First, the reading experience is great. The “Read” button next to a URL will bring a nicely formatted version of an article from a URL. Second, A “save” button is handily available for me to use if I want to keep a piece of information for later use. My collection of saved items is growing by the day. There’s also the Save to Mailbrew bookmarklet that comes handy. The website on the iPad is also a joyful experience.\nMailbrew update schedule is pretty fast and brings many small improvements on a constant flow. Now, if only there was a highlighting feature it would make Mailbrew reading experience a perfect fit for my workflow.\nBy the way, thanks to Mailbrew, you can get a weekly summary of all my publications here.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-15 07:17:39 -0500", "date": "7:17 p.m. on May 15, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/15/my-goto-internet.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F15%2Fmy-goto-internet.html" }, { "id": 3236, "type": "post", "title": "Are we supposed to cry?", "text": " \u0026ldquo;I upended my life for Apple. I sold my WA residence which I built with my own hands, relocated myself, shut down any public media presence and future writing aspirations, and resolved to build my career at Apple for years to come,\u0026rdquo;\nWell, now that he has been fired, he is complaining on Twitter that Apple knew in advance\u0026hellip; maybe, maybe not. My gut feeling is that the C-Level knew, but not the upper management. When it came to their attention, they acted in accordance to their well-known values.\nSource: Antonio Garcia Martinez says Apple fired him, company was \u0026lsquo;well aware\u0026rsquo; of his writing | AppleInsider\nMr. Martinez Twitter thread is here.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-15 06:23:43 -0500", "date": "6:23 p.m. on May 15, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/15/are-we-supposed.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F15%2Fare-we-supposed.html" }, { "id": 3237, "type": "post", "title": "Only 17K Apps for the Apple Watch (#apple #applewatch #appstore #apps)", "text": " (\u0026hellip;) there are only 17k Watch apps: like Amazon’s Alexa, the Apple Watch is a huge success but has largely failed as an app platform. Source: Benedict Evans\u0026rsquo; takeaways from the first week of Epic vs. Apple | Philip Elmer‑DeWitt\nOnly 17K apps for the Apple Watch?? Calling this a failure is a bit surprising. The Watch is a narrow platform compared to the iPhone, the iPad or the Mac. I don\u0026rsquo;t expect as many apps to be available for the Watch. This form-factor isn\u0026rsquo;t obviously suitable for a lot of applications categories. I think 17K apps is quite a lot actually because I don\u0026rsquo;t get a sense of it when I browse the App Store from the Apple Watch itself or from my iPhone. This is where Apple is failing: discovery of Watch apps is miserable, just like it is in general on Apple\u0026rsquo;s App Store.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-14 06:02:48 -0500", "date": "6:02 p.m. on May 14, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/14/only-k-apps.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F14%2Fonly-k-apps.html" }, { "id": 3238, "type": "post", "title": "This form-factor, this one or… this one? ", "text": "One of the cooless by-product of the Apple strategy is the unification of the processing unit among its product lines, leaving the form-factor the unique differenciation attribute.\nPreviously there were many people who wanted a laptop, but ended up buying a desktop because it would be more powerful. Now the only choice the customer has to make is whether they prefer the MacBook or iMac form-factor, because the internal hardware is the same in each. Source: Apple execs praises how M1 enables same performance for different devices in interview - 9to5Mac\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-13 19:49:02 -0500", "date": "7:49 p.m. on May 13, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/13/this-formfactor-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F13%2Fthis-formfactor-this.html" }, { "id": 3239, "type": "post", "title": "Thought (or frustration) of the day", "text": "Apple\u0026rsquo;s macOS Big Notifications Center is probably the most frustrating, infuriating and un-Apple experience of all. Man this thing is badly designed. Who at Apple think it ok? He or she is a C player! Hoping for major re-work for macOS 12. There, I said it. 🤬\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-13 07:48:28 -0500", "date": "7:48 p.m. on May 13, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/13/thought-or-frustration.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F13%2Fthought-or-frustration.html" }, { "id": 3240, "type": "post", "title": "Here is Why Apple’s Safari Purposely Lags Behind", "text": "Browsers look more and more like operating systems. Apple knows this, and they are probably afraid for their App Store business.\nThis article from Alex Russell of Infrequently Notes is very convincing: Apple purposely delay implementation of new web standards to refrain developers to build web applications. New web standards are enablers for new kinds of web applications with richer features set. Those richer apps could go against Apple’s App Store profitable business. No wonder why so many people are using alternative browsers to Safari. But that’s not all. Since Apple, in general is a big player, its influence is unquestionably high, the lack of support from them for so many basic and essential web standards discourage new application opportunities. That’s too bad and makes me wonder how sites like Mailbrew who offers a web application could improve if all browsers, including Safari would support most web standards. Mailbrew is already good on the iPad, closely mimicking a native application, yet I wonder.\nCan we hope for changes at the next WWDC conference?\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-13 05:47:59 -0500", "date": "5:47 p.m. on May 13, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/13/here-is-why.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F13%2Fhere-is-why.html" }, { "id": 3241, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I am re-falling in love with Apple\u0026rsquo;s Sidecar with my iPad Pro connected to my M1 Mac mini. Such a useful and really fast duo. For some reason, I stopped using this setup for a while. Was it because at some point it wasn\u0026rsquo;t stable enough? Can\u0026rsquo;t remember. Are you using Sidecar?\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-12 15:41:29 -0500", "date": "3:41 p.m. on May 12, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/12/i-am-refalling.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F12%2Fi-am-refalling.html" }, { "id": 3242, "type": "post", "title": "Be careful for what you wish for (#apple #appstore #monopoly)", "text": "Apple is under so much pressure on so many fronts these days. It is so fashionable to put pressure on them. The App Store is one big target. I’m getting tired of people wishing for changes that I don’t want to become reality. Sure Apple is far from perfect, yet, people should be careful for what they wish for. I decided to express my voice and started to write on the subject. It will be controversial, but it will be honest and true to my beliefs and wishes. I don’t really care if I’m right or wrong. I expect to publish my article just before WWDC. Stay tuned.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-12 07:22:39 -0500", "date": "7:22 p.m. on May 12, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/12/be-careful-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F12%2Fbe-careful-for.html" }, { "id": 3243, "type": "post", "title": "Apple, please, consider us like grown ups (#apple #ios15)", "text": "On Apple\u0026rsquo;s Shortcuts notifications: I second this! Notifications are not needed for most of us and should be silenced in iOS 15. At least, provide an option to make it quieter. I like the idea of a status bar indicator, just like the localization services when they are trigerred.\nApple Shortcuts Is Great, but It Needs a Notification Toggle - Initial Charge\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-10 10:41:48 -0500", "date": "10:41 p.m. on May 10, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/10/apple-please-consider.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F10%2Fapple-please-consider.html" }, { "id": 3244, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One quick question: do you think Apple already has a plan B to enable sideloading of applications, ready to go just in case? After all, they already allow this on macOS so they know how to do it. I don’t see it as a major rework of iOS. #apple #appstore\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-09 07:33:05 -0500", "date": "7:33 p.m. on May 9, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/09/one-quick-question.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F09%2Fone-quick-question.html" }, { "id": 3245, "type": "post", "title": "96%. (#asknottotrack #privacy #privacyprotection)", "text": "\nI’m so proud of people right now: medias are reporting that 96% of them chose to protect their basic right for online privacy. I wasn’t expecting that many people to select the “Ask Not To Track” option. This is a game changer. This should serve as a clear message to businesses with business models essentially based on personal data mining and online profiling without user consent. Enough is enough. For those who are ok with hyper targeted ads, fine, but not at this cost. I salute Apple for moving forward with this feature in iOS 14.5. Coupled with services like NextDNS, I’m starting to see quite an improvement in my web surfing experience and being more at ease doing so.\nThose who selected “Allow” probably didn’t know what it was all about.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-09 06:53:29 -0500", "date": "6:53 p.m. on May 9, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/09/asknottotrack-privacy-privacyprotection.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F09%2Fasknottotrack-privacy-privacyprotection.html" }, { "id": 3246, "type": "post", "title": "Apple: Opinionated and Stubborn", "text": "\nKen Segall on Apple’s stubborn attitude:\n“It’s disappointing that the modern Apple is so willing to stonewall, and that it can take an inexcusably long time to set things right.”\nMr. Segall piece is baffling. Taken together, those bad apples make Apple look terrible at design. Apple is opinionated and takes bold risks when designing new products and services. This comes at a cost, occasionally. Apple is far from perfect, but they should know that quickly admitting when they fail makes the mistakes more easily forgiven.\nWhat Apple product currently shipping that has baffling design flaws for which Apple doesn’t seem to care fixing, beside the Magic Mouse? I don’t see that many as they silently fixed most of them in recent years.\nPhoto credit: Maria Teneva / Unsplash\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-08 08:36:53 -0500", "date": "8:36 p.m. on May 8, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/08/apple-opinionated-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F08%2Fapple-opinionated-and.html" }, { "id": 3247, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " It was a reminder that technology can play unexpected roles in our lives. Source: Seeing Death From a Distance, Through FaceTime Calls - Numeric Citizen Blog\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-08 07:55:53 -0500", "date": "7:55 p.m. on May 8, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/08/it-was-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F08%2Fit-was-a.html" }, { "id": 3248, "type": "post", "title": "Where is Adobe Lightroom Classic for Apple Silicon? (#photography #adobe #lightroom)", "text": "That\u0026rsquo;s a serious question. I mean, we do have Lightroom CC for M1 Macs\u0026hellip; (performance is good but not stellar compared to Intel version. There\u0026rsquo;s still work to be done by Adobe to take performance further). The absence of the optimized Lightroom Classic version is troubling. What does it mean about Lr or even Adobe? Is Adobe relying too much on cross-platforms libraries or components that are much harder to re-compile for the M1 chip? I find this fascinating that such a big company is falling behind compared to much smaller players\u0026hellip; I\u0026rsquo;m thinking about Pixelmator here.\nI\u0026rsquo;m waiting for this optimized version to complete my migration from Intel iMac to the M1 Mac mini.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-05 19:25:14 -0500", "date": "7:25 p.m. on May 5, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/05/where-is-adobe.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F05%2Fwhere-is-adobe.html" }, { "id": 3249, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "That could prove to be quite useful! Link posts are always a pain to prepare. Thanks to @cdevroe 🙏🏻 Source: Introducing the Micro.blog Posting Bookmarklet – Colin Devroe\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-05 11:38:56 -0500", "date": "11:38 p.m. on May 5, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/05/that-could-prove.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F05%2Fthat-could-prove.html" }, { "id": 3250, "type": "post", "title": "On Apple's Night Shift (#apple #iphone)", "text": "Surprisingly, Apple\u0026rsquo;s Night Shift does not help in any way to fall asleep, according to a study. Intuitively, I thought of the opposite. When Apple launched this feature, in 2016, they said it would help. It seems it\u0026rsquo;s not the case after all. Will they backtrack and remove the feature in a future version? I highly doubt it. Many people do like this feature (I do on the iPhone, I hate it on the Mac), others like @Gruber don\u0026rsquo;t. What I don\u0026rsquo;t like is when the feature is in action, opening Photos abruptly turn the visual effect off. The effect is brutal as the screen turns blueish and cold because of the contrasting mode. I would prefer a more gentle disabling of the feature.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-05 05:39:06 -0500", "date": "5:39 p.m. on May 5, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/05/on-apples-night.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F05%2Fon-apples-night.html" }, { "id": 3251, "type": "post", "title": "What the hell is this? (#apple #appstore)", "text": "\nOne evidence taken out of the Epic vs Apple trial yesterday, the above email. This email from Mr. Schiller shows how unhappy he was with scam apps being #1 on the App Store. His numerous questions are expressing frustrations. He saw what we keep seeing all too often today, nine years later. So, where are the reviewers? What value are they adding to the user experience’s bottom line? Apple could strictly rely on machine-based curation only instead, but they prefer the added touch of human-based curation for the editorial content. Does it make a real difference? On the surface maybe. With the scale of the App Store, cracks are obviously possible, hence bas actors are taking advantage of them, to create scams one after another.\nApple doesn’t look good because some of their arguments aren’t backed with proven and irrefutable facts. As a gatekeeper of the quality on the App Store, Apple is failing. Big time. From scams apps to badly designed ones, to never updated ones, beneath the front page surface, the App Store feels and look like a junkyard.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-04 05:35:31 -0500", "date": "5:35 p.m. on May 4, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/04/what-the-hell.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F04%2Fwhat-the-hell.html" }, { "id": 3252, "type": "post", "title": "Found! (#apple #airtags)", "text": "\nGot my four pack of AirTags. Unboxing is simple. Nice to hold and feel in the hands. Easily scratched. Setup is so Apple-esq. Love em! Keys. Backpack. Wallet. On for my wife. For her wallet. Obviously. Tested the Find My to locate my items. Works great. Will report back if I ever lose one of my things and find it back. For real. Can’t wait to use them for traveling.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-03 19:36:02 -0500", "date": "7:36 p.m. on May 3, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/03/found-apple-airtags.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F03%2Ffound-apple-airtags.html" }, { "id": 3253, "type": "post", "title": "The Pandemic Effects on my Digital Good Purchases", "text": "I never bought so many applications and utilities or subscribed to so many services since the beginning of the pandemic. For the latter, I had to use Apple’s Number just to keep track of all of them😳🤪. Because I’m working from home since March 2020, my work-related expanses are close to zero. I don’t go buy a coffee or snacks in the middle of the workday as I used to. I don’t buy transportation titles anymore. I no longer commute. Furthermore, I no longer travel. My home office setup upgrade is complete. This mean that I have more to spend on something else. I’m more inclined to buy digital goods. Some are impulse buys. That’s why I invested in many macOS applications and utilities which gave me the idea of writing this article “Tips \u0026amp; Tricks \u0026amp; Utilities for Boosting Your Productivity with Apple’s macOS Big Sur”.\nI don’t know if a return to normal will push me to cancel any of my applications or utilities subscriptions. I don’t think so as I think they are needed and useful to my blogger workflow. I return to this commuting world as I’ll keep working from home forever. I’m not alone and this makes me wonder how profound changes caused by this pandemic could be on so many economic levels.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-03 06:17:01 -0500", "date": "6:17 p.m. on May 3, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/03/the-pandemic-effects.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F03%2Fthe-pandemic-effects.html" }, { "id": 3254, "type": "post", "title": "My Apple Purchase Plans (#apple #airtag #mynext)", "text": "It’s been a quiet week-end in term of content creation; I took a small break. As the week-end come to an end, I decided to spend some time in creating a web page using Craft. This web page is about my Apple purchase plans. It’s part of my Digital Garden. As you’ll see, my next Apple device is coming tomorrow: AirTags. I bought a four pack. Can’t wait to try these small wonders.\nHappy end of week-end.\n", "dateiso": "2021-05-02 18:15:44 -0500", "date": "6:15 p.m. on May 2, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/05/02/my-apple-purchase.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F05%2F02%2Fmy-apple-purchase.html" }, { "id": 3255, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I find it a bit surprising that we don’t get reviews of the iMac today. Next week? #apple #imac2021\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-30 11:34:45 -0500", "date": "11:34 p.m. on Apr 30, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/04/30/i-find-it.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F04%2F30%2Fi-find-it.html" }, { "id": 3256, "type": "post", "title": "Friday musing", "text": "TGIF! 🙏🏻 It\u0026rsquo;s a rainy Friday here. Friday is a slow and strange day for me as a blogger and content creator. I should go more often on Flipboard. In a way, Ello makes me think of Micro.blog. It\u0026rsquo;s been a long time since my publishing pipeline has been that low. I\u0026rsquo;m catching up, I guess. My Micro.blog feed is quieter than usual; is the Ulysses effect already fading? I\u0026rsquo;m not a good podcasts listener. I won\u0026rsquo;t get my four-pack AirTag today. I didn\u0026rsquo;t order the Apple TV 4K with updated remote; don\u0026rsquo;t know when I will. That\u0026rsquo;s a great question.\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-30 06:21:20 -0500", "date": "6:21 p.m. on Apr 30, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/04/30/friday-musing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F04%2F30%2Ffriday-musing.html" }, { "id": 3257, "type": "post", "title": "Build it and they will come (#ipadpro #m1chip)", "text": "\nThe way I look at this upcoming M1 iPad Pro is, according to this interview with some Apple’s top brass, Apple thinks that, by building a powerful iPad (not referred as a tablet), developers will find a way to take advantage of it. Like the old saying: build it and they will come. Did Apple create performance headroom for themselves too, not just for third-party developers? Apple certainly wants some form of future proofing with this year’s iterative design. I’m still pondering the idea of buying such big iPad while keeping my “older” 2018 11” iPad Pro, it will depends of iPadOS 15.\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-29 05:20:46 -0500", "date": "5:20 p.m. on Apr 29, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/04/29/build-it-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F04%2F29%2Fbuild-it-and.html" }, { "id": 3258, "type": "post", "title": "Back to the 2005 Internet — Thanks to NextDNS (#notracking #nextdns)", "text": " This is not an ad. I promise. I finally decided to enable NextDNS on all my devices and subscribed to their yearly plan after testing it on my iOS devices. The last configuration applied was on my M1 Mac mini. Oh boy, surfing the web feels like the internet back in the days. Places like CNN or iPhoneInCanada or MacRumors are now without any ads and are crazy fast to load. Now, I can see content without distraction. I feel that I’m back to the 2005 Internet. I feel that I\u0026rsquo;m winning, for once. Numeric life can be good, thanks to NextDNS.\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-28 05:38:06 -0500", "date": "5:38 p.m. on Apr 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/04/28/back-to-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F04%2F28%2Fback-to-the.html" }, { "id": 3259, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I love it! Sooo soft. Thanks to @BasicAppleGuy for the design!\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-27 09:58:59 -0500", "date": "9:58 p.m. on Apr 27, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/04/27/i-love-it.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F04%2F27%2Fi-love-it.html" }, { "id": 3260, "type": "post", "title": "About My Numeric Citizen Introspection newsletter", "text": "My next newsletter issue is nearly done. On Substack, I\u0026rsquo;m not a big name in the blogger sphere or a journalist dropping from places like the New York Times. Yet, I enjoy putting together this monthly newsletter, and I generally like the end results. Subscribers are staying and keep increasing over time. It\u0026rsquo;s a good sign, I guess. Are you one of them? https://numericcitizen.substack.com\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-27 07:07:40 -0500", "date": "7:07 p.m. on Apr 27, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/04/27/about-my-numeric.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F04%2F27%2Fabout-my-numeric.html" }, { "id": 3261, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s that simple: choice. That\u0026rsquo;s all we are asking, us, humans. Thinking otherwise is wrong doing. Simple. as. that. Thanks to Apple for letting me, decide, have a choice, not to be part of being a product, just be a human. [www.youtube.com/watch\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-26 13:54:21 -0500", "date": "1:54 p.m. on Apr 26, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/04/26/its-that-simple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F04%2F26%2Fits-that-simple.html" }, { "id": 3262, "type": "post", "title": "Happy Apple Updates Day! (#apple #ios145 #notracking #stoptracking)", "text": "To all my followers, have an successful Apple update day! This one has been long in coming! Don\u0026rsquo;t forget to disable app tracking as soon as you can. Best way to say “🖕🏻” to Facebook et al. Now turning to iOS 14.6 beta which seems to bring new devices support only (2021 iPad Pro).\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-26 12:13:38 -0500", "date": "12:13 p.m. on Apr 26, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/04/26/happy-apple-updates.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F04%2F26%2Fhappy-apple-updates.html" }, { "id": 3263, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As much as I like HEY, Mr. @DHH, Basecamp fails big time here: lack of universal binary support in release 1.2. You may spit your hate about Apple all the time, yet you fail to meet such a basic feature, months after M1 release, for a simple app as a mail client. Drop Electron!!\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-24 06:34:08 -0500", "date": "6:34 p.m. on Apr 24, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/04/24/as-much-as.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F04%2F24%2Fas-much-as.html" }, { "id": 3264, "type": "post", "title": "About these iPadOS 15 rumours (#apple #rumours #ipados15)", "text": "According to the infamous Bloomberg (remember the Big Hack story?), iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 will bring two much requested features. One is, for the iPhone presumably, is a redesigned Lock Screen. I’m in for that one. In fact, I would prefer a customizable Lock Screen, more than a redesign. But, the most interesting part is regarding the iPad. At long least, Apple is about to bring the full widgets experience on the iPad. YES! I do have high hopes for that one. Having full liberty on widgets placement on the iPad screen will be transformative. Even better if they support some form of minimal interactions with the applications behind them. Can’t wait for WWDC 21.\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-22 15:01:07 -0500", "date": "3:01 p.m. on Apr 22, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/04/22/about-these-ipados.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F04%2F22%2Fabout-these-ipados.html" }, { "id": 3265, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As I\u0026rsquo;m currently writing my thoughts on Apple\u0026rsquo;s \u0026ldquo;Spring Loaded\u0026rdquo; event, I\u0026rsquo;m wondering what are your thoughts? Anything that stands out? I\u0026rsquo;m genuinely curious. #appleevent #applevent2021\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-21 06:03:50 -0500", "date": "6:03 p.m. on Apr 21, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/04/21/as-im-currently.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F04%2F21%2Fas-im-currently.html" }, { "id": 3266, "type": "post", "title": "One of those days (#appleevent)", "text": "\nThis is one of those days where it will be hard to stay focused, thanks to the first Apple Event of 2021. I’ve got a pretty busy schedule at work, so I won’t be able to catch the live feed with full attention this time around. I know that all these notifications will spoil the show. Rumours and leaks already made a great job already, though. But, what if there is “one more thing”?\nTonight, I’ll catch it all up, partially knowing most of the takeaways. It will be weird. Who likes to go see a movie knowing the story line in advance? I hate that. 😒\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-20 06:53:41 -0500", "date": "6:53 p.m. on Apr 20, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/04/20/one-of-those.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F04%2F20%2Fone-of-those.html" }, { "id": 3267, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here is a post I wish I would have written. He nailed it. We won\u0026rsquo;t get iPadOS 15 tomorrow.\nHardware Is Good, Now It's Software's Turn little.zachphillips.blogZach Phillips https://little.zachphillips.blog/2021/04/19/hardware-is-good.html ", "dateiso": "2021-04-19 20:35:22 -0500", "date": "8:35 p.m. on Apr 19, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/04/19/here-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F04%2F19%2Fhere-is-a.html" }, { "id": 3268, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Who\u0026rsquo;s excited for tomorrow\u0026rsquo;s #AppleEvent? Why?\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-19 19:23:07 -0500", "date": "7:23 p.m. on Apr 19, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/04/19/whos-excited-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F04%2F19%2Fwhos-excited-for.html" }, { "id": 3269, "type": "post", "title": "On Facebook’s pervasive destruction (#deletefacebook #stopmasssurveillance)", "text": "Today I woke up with this idea of hating Facebook and everything they represents. For those who know me, this is nothing new. But today is one of those days where I despise Facebook more than ever.\nLet’s face it, again: Facebook has made massive data collection an ordinary thing. Facebook normalized global surveillance a mundane fact. Facebook is killing the pillars of democracy without fanfare. Facebook has turned most of us a beast feeders. Facebook gave voice to those who should have been silenced because of their toxic and extremist thoughts. Facebook is the source of social cancer.\nOne day, we will wake up. I hope. 😔\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-19 06:58:55 -0500", "date": "6:58 p.m. on Apr 19, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/04/19/on-facebooks-pervasive.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F04%2F19%2Fon-facebooks-pervasive.html" }, { "id": 3270, "type": "post", "title": "HEY World slowly fading... but... (#thoughts #blogging)", "text": "From time to time, I use the « HEY World Shuffle » URL to trigger the display of a randomly chosen HEY World user website. It’s funny as I never know what discovery I’ll make. I see a lot of users who made their first try of the service in its early days by sending random thoughts. The vast majority of users didn’t bother to continue but a few did, and there are a few gems to discover. I’m slowly building a list of HEY World bloggers, like a blog roll, by subscribing through RSS feeds. It is fun. That being said, the question is: was HEY World a fad? The jury is still out on that one. Yet, I see a lot of potential growth in features for this service. Will the owners care to make them happen?\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-18 06:36:49 -0500", "date": "6:36 p.m. on Apr 18, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/04/18/hey-world-slowly.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F04%2F18%2Fhey-world-slowly.html" }, { "id": 3271, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m ready for Google\u0026rsquo;s May 2021 algorithm update. Are you? #SEO #google https://numericcitizen.io/2021/04/17/getting-ready-for-google-s-may-2021-algorithm-update\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-17 11:21:25 -0500", "date": "11:21 p.m. on Apr 17, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/04/17/im-ready-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F04%2F17%2Fim-ready-for.html" }, { "id": 3272, "type": "post", "title": "HEY World missing button", "text": "I wish there would be a “Reply to the author” button on HEY World user website. As it is now, I cannot find an easy and quick way to respond to a past post. I prefer to consume HEY World content through RSS feeds, not by subscribing via email.\nI’m on HEY World, by the way. https://world.hey.com/jf.m. ☝🏻👋🏻\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-17 08:16:39 -0500", "date": "8:16 p.m. on Apr 17, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/04/17/hey-world-missing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F04%2F17%2Fhey-world-missing.html" }, { "id": 3273, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Feature blog post (more than 1700 words) coming up to Numeric Citizen I/O talking about my main blog optimization in preparation for Google’s May 2021 algorithm update. Stay tuned.\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-17 08:08:26 -0500", "date": "8:08 p.m. on Apr 17, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/04/17/feature-blog-post.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F04%2F17%2Ffeature-blog-post.html" }, { "id": 3274, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Still relevant.\nnumericcitizen.me/2021/04/0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-16 18:36:05 -0500", "date": "6:36 p.m. on Apr 16, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/04/16/193605.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F04%2F16%2F193605.html" }, { "id": 3275, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I rarely post pictures of mine here. But, hey, it’s Friday, why not. The structure.\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-16 17:34:15 -0500", "date": "5:34 p.m. on Apr 16, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/04/16/i-rarely-post.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F04%2F16%2Fi-rarely-post.html" }, { "id": 3276, "type": "post", "title": "iPhone is getting fatter and fatter (#apple #jonyive)", "text": "iPhone is getting fatter and fatter (#apple #jonyive)\nSince Jony Ive left Apple, a few years ago, the iPhone design adopted an opposite trend of becoming fatter and fatter. It’s not a night and day difference but there is a trend. It is a welcomed one because this gives Apple more “room” to improve the cameras and the battery life. Speaking of the cameras, did you see the camera assembly protuberance on the CAD designs? It is getting bigger too, that I don’t like.\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-16 06:58:14 -0500", "date": "6:58 p.m. on Apr 16, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/04/16/iphone-is-getting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F04%2F16%2Fiphone-is-getting.html" }, { "id": 3277, "type": "post", "title": "Thinking of the next iPad (#appleevent #apple #ipadpro)", "text": "\nTonight, using Craft, I’m writing my next piece for “Numeric Citizen I/O” on my 2018 11’’ iPad Pro with the Apple Magic Keyboard. I’m being this multitasking guy as I’m constantly switching between Craft, Soundcloud, Twitter, Safari, Ulysses, etc. Then, suddenly, my thoughts goes toward imagining what can Apple do to make me upgrade to the next iPad Pro.\nYou see, my current setup is near perfect for my needs and my current use cases. I’m far from maximizing this iPad’s potential. So, ask me again, why should I upgrade to what’s coming next week? I cannot see anything. Maybe Apple has a few well hidden cards, just waiting to be played, one by one at next week’s virtual event. We shall see soon.\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-14 19:48:31 -0500", "date": "7:48 p.m. on Apr 14, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/04/14/thinking-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F04%2F14%2Fthinking-of-the.html" }, { "id": 3278, "type": "post", "title": "My Expectations for “Spring Loaded” Virtual Event (#apple (#appleevent #springloaded)", "text": "\nAt long last, Apple is calling the first virtual event of 2021 for next week. I have mixed up feelings about this one. AirTags, if they are real, aren’t game changer and really are complementary to anything Apple is doing these days.\nI wrote a few times that for the iPad, the next major step won’t come in the form of hardware upgrades but in software, with iPadOS 15. And this, happens every year on June at the WWDC conference. So, unless there is a last minute surprise from Apple’s updated iPad Pro, my attention will be for the next WWDC, not this spring event.\nOh, about this rumoured iMac redesign, THIS I will be looking forward to it, but somehow, I think it is more a WWDC thing than anything else.\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-13 13:15:54 -0500", "date": "1:15 p.m. on Apr 13, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/04/13/my-expectations-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F04%2F13%2Fmy-expectations-for.html" }, { "id": 3279, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Upcoming blog post on Numeric Citizen Blog: more than 2800 words 😳 to talk about how I tweaked and made macOS Big Sur a powerful and productivity friendly desktop experience for me with the use of more than 20 third-party utilities. 👨🏻‍💻\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-11 08:05:23 -0500", "date": "8:05 p.m. on Apr 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/04/11/upcoming-blog-post.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F04%2F11%2Fupcoming-blog-post.html" }, { "id": 3280, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Well, if that was the case, this would add fuel to any anti-trust initiative. No?\niMessage Kept Off Android for iOS Lock-in initialcharge.net/2021/04/i\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-09 20:39:03 -0500", "date": "8:39 p.m. on Apr 9, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/04/09/well-if-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F04%2F09%2Fwell-if-that.html" }, { "id": 3281, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Why I Love Taking Photos of Abandoned Places. world.hey.com/jf.m/why-\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-08 19:39:08 -0500", "date": "7:39 p.m. on Apr 8, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/04/08/why-i-love.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F04%2F08%2Fwhy-i-love.html" }, { "id": 3282, "type": "post", "title": "On Apple Arcades dubious Games quality (#apple #appstore #applearcades)", "text": "Consider the following App Store screenshot of a recently introduced game in the Apple Arcades service.\nReviews of this game are really bad because the game doesn’t load on people’s devices. Does Apple really test their stuff before putting them out? Tim Cook et al. brags all the time about being a mandatory gatekeeper for iPhone security and quality control with the App Store. In this illustrative case, and there are many others, Apple is failing big time to play his role. I just can’t understand why this shit is possible.\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-08 09:13:02 -0500", "date": "9:13 p.m. on Apr 8, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/04/08/on-apple-arcades.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F04%2F08%2Fon-apple-arcades.html" }, { "id": 3283, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I should read this every day. Thanks to @gr36.\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-07 06:29:56 -0500", "date": "6:29 p.m. on Apr 7, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/04/07/i-should-read.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F04%2F07%2Fi-should-read.html" }, { "id": 3284, "type": "post", "title": "About those two icons (#apple #iOS15)", "text": "\nI rarely comment on rumours from highly speculative reports, but this report from MacRumors is different:\n“The Apple Music for Artists app now features a simpler, streamlined icon with a pinkish red music logo rather than the multicolored logo that was used before. The icon also has an embossed look that makes it stand out from other Apple icons.”\nand\n“App Store Connect in October was updated with a refreshed icon that\u0026rsquo;s similar to the ‌Apple Music‌ for Artists icon, which means Apple has now updated two app icons with this new design.”\nThe simple fact that two icons got updated with similar look at several months interval could signal a trend leading to the upcoming design update with iOS 15. I much prefer the right version of these icons, particularly the embossed design. This 3D effect adds some depth and dynamism to the design, and yes I like the fine line marking the icon boundaries.\nI wouldn’t be surprised if those two icons were part of an A/B testing program, within Apple. Second, what Apple has done with macOS Big Sur was only the beginning destined to encompass all platforms, in some form or another (icon design wise).\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-06 16:54:34 -0500", "date": "4:54 p.m. on Apr 6, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/04/06/about-those-two.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F04%2F06%2Fabout-those-two.html" }, { "id": 3285, "type": "post", "title": "On Tim Cook’s interview by Kara Swisher (#apple #timcook #privacy)", "text": "\nThere is a lot to like in the recent Tim Cook’s interview with Kara Swisher (link to Podcast). It’s a must-listen. Here are a few observations and remarks.\nI love Tim Cook’s stance on issues like privacy protection. But at the same time, I have a hard time understanding how Apple can continue to sign a search deal with Google while advocating privacy protection. This is simply unsustainable and hard to defend if you ask me. I know… $$$. Yet… will they ever try to make their search engine or buy one like DuckDuckGo and kick Google out as the default search engine? That would be such a powerful message to send. Today, Apple under Tim Cook, has never been so well positioned to represent the best corporate defender of many of my core values: privacy protection, careful attention to details in design, openness to diversity, environment protection, sustainable development, great user experiences. Apple is not perfect, far from it. Yet, there is nothing like them these days. Tim Cook is candidly answering the question of where he sees himself in ten years from now. I wonder what are the plans for his or her successor? Does he and Apple’s upper management actively put as much thought into it as Steve Jobs did in his last few years at Apple? I wonder and I hope this is the case. This interview maybe seen as a bit self-serving, yet it is what it is. We, Apple’s customers like me, pay Apple to make calls on issues like encryption and privacy protection, environmental protection, etc. That’s the way I see my voting dollars anyway. As soon as I like most of their calls, I’ll be fine and be one of their customer. I dearly hope it stays that way because alternatives are scarce to say the least. Is Apple playing the same rules for ALL developers? I doubt it. Is Apple’s curation of the App Store perfect? Far from it: 80% of the stuff in there is pure junk. I think it is important to stay critical about Apple. We must keep them on their toes.\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-06 11:43:47 -0500", "date": "11:43 p.m. on Apr 6, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/04/06/on-tim-cooks.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F04%2F06%2Fon-tim-cooks.html" }, { "id": 3286, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " \u003e numericcitizen [numericcitizen.io](https://numericcitizen.io/) ", "dateiso": "2021-04-05 16:59:00 -0500", "date": "4:59 p.m. on Apr 5, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/04/05/numericcitizen-httpsnumericcitizenio.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F04%2F05%2Fnumericcitizen-httpsnumericcitizenio.html" }, { "id": 3287, "type": "post", "title": "My trick to read more (#reading #writing #tips #tricks)", "text": "\nIn a word: Pocket. I’ve been rediscovering this application in recent days, and I’m loving it a lot. I no longer read articles within Safari or News Explorer. As soon as I think the article is interesting, I save it to Pocket and continue from there. The reading experience is simple and is frictionless. Being able to tag and highlight each article helps me organize and add value to my readings. Above all, Pocket will become a repository of all my past readings. The recommend feature creates some exposure for the authors. Each of my recommendation is accompanied by some text. I love it.\nYou can have a look at my Pocket profile here. Enjoy.\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-04 14:58:33 -0500", "date": "2:58 p.m. on Apr 4, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/04/04/my-trick-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F04%2F04%2Fmy-trick-to.html" }, { "id": 3288, "type": "post", "title": "Remembering... (#techmemories)", "text": "\nToday, I’m remembering things like Turbo Pascal, TRS-80, ResEdit, 6502, LDA #$69, Inside Macintosh, Z-80, TI 99-4A, Logo, Commodore 64, Apple //c, ATZ modem command, eWorld, POKE 63280,0, COBOL 85, PDP-11, Choplifter, Broderbund, Multiplan, 4th Dimension, Sprites, Omni Database, Think Thank, Mac Draw, PageMaker.\nThese are some of the most significant souvenirs of numeric artifacts of my past numeric life. What are yours?\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-04 10:07:27 -0500", "date": "10:07 p.m. on Apr 4, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/04/04/remembering-techmemories.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F04%2F04%2Fremembering-techmemories.html" }, { "id": 3289, "type": "post", "title": "It’s been a long time... (#apple #iphone12)", "text": "\nToday, I have come to realize that, since its introduction, I didn’t see the iPhone 12 lineup in person. It’s the first time that I didn’t go to an Apple Store to see, manipulate and experience a new Apple product release. How big is the Max? How small is the mini? What about this new edge? The same goes for the Mac Pro.\nThe pandemic has really put a dent in our lives in some unexpected ways, big and small. But, do I really miss something? After all, the iPhone 12 is the return of the beloved iPhone 5, which I owned. I guess I’ll have to wait for the iPhone 13 or whatever it is called.\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-03 12:27:24 -0500", "date": "12:27 p.m. on Apr 3, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/04/03/its-been-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F04%2F03%2Fits-been-a.html" }, { "id": 3290, "type": "post", "title": "Curiously Entering the World of DJing (#music #dj #mixing #electronicmusic)", "text": "\nI’m no musicien. I know barely nothing about music theory. Yet, I always wanted to do some form of music. Synthesizer would be my instrument if I was to do music. Yet, I’ve been fascinated by music, especially electronic music since I was a teenager. I’m a big listener of techno and house music. Recently, I started to use my iPad while exercising on the treadmill to play video on YouTube of DJ doing mixes. This got me curious about the equipments and software DJs are relying on. I downloaded Algoriddim’s Djay app and stared to play with it on my iPad. I was really excited. I started to read more about the world of music mixing. So, I learned about DJ mixer, controllers, DJ software, music sources, digital record pools, file formats, MIDI, etc. Then, yesterday, unexpectedly, while visiting a music instruments store to see these equipments in person, I bought a Pioneer DDJ-400, a pair of small speakers, went home, enabled a trial of Djay Pro AI on my iPad Pro and started to plug all the pieces together. I feel like it’s Christmas time. Will see where it goes from here. Expect more details on my endeavour soon.\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-03 08:40:37 -0500", "date": "8:40 p.m. on Apr 3, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/04/03/curiously-entering-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F04%2F03%2Fcuriously-entering-the.html" }, { "id": 3291, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So, Pocket + Readwise for one year it will be. Expect a blog post about why I chose Pocket over Instapaper.\n", "dateiso": "2021-04-01 17:40:59 -0500", "date": "5:40 p.m. on Apr 1, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/04/01/so-pocket-readwise.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F04%2F01%2Fso-pocket-readwise.html" }, { "id": 3292, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m thinking about subscribing to Instapaper and Readwise to help me gather and manage text quotes and other tidbits. The former is a “classic” while the later seems a work in progress and not exactly easy to grasp for me. Your thoughts?\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-31 20:59:05 -0500", "date": "8:59 p.m. on Mar 31, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/03/31/im-thinking-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F03%2F31%2Fim-thinking-about.html" }, { "id": 3293, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "👉🏻 The next issue of the Numeric Citizen Introspection newsletter is coming out tomorrow, while waiting for it, why not give a look at the previous issue! Please, don\u0026rsquo;t miss it! It\u0026rsquo;s something really different. 👀\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-30 12:45:24 -0500", "date": "12:45 p.m. on Mar 30, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/03/30/the-next-issue.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F03%2F30%2Fthe-next-issue.html" }, { "id": 3294, "type": "post", "title": "And so it begins (#apple #wwdc #wwdc21 #wwdc2021)", "text": "\nApple just kicked off the 2021 season of high expectations, endless wishes lists, criticism, betas, crashes, deception, no-show products, expected hardware refreshes, iPad deceptions, etc. Again, this year, it will be a digital-only version, thanks to the lingering COVID-19 pandemic. I’m happy with that. As I wrote in the past, my hope is that this type of event stays digital. I’ve never been to a real WWDC so I don’t miss anything.\nNow, trying to read into WWDC’s announcement art: sure, there is this reference to last year’s Craig Federighi with its MacBook Air, but it is also clear to me that Apple is set to announce their AR Glasses. Yep. Remember, you read it here first guys. 😜\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-30 09:04:44 -0500", "date": "9:04 p.m. on Mar 30, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/03/30/and-so-it.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F03%2F30%2Fand-so-it.html" }, { "id": 3295, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The race is on. Can’t wait for the moment Notion’s APIs go live and Craft be updated to support them so it can suck all my data from Notion. #notionhq #craftdocs\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-29 06:14:19 -0500", "date": "6:14 p.m. on Mar 29, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/03/29/the-race-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F03%2F29%2Fthe-race-is.html" }, { "id": 3296, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is a test with the most recent update to a little-know utility: Linky. I love it. 👍🏻\nSubstack vs Buttondown — Who’s Better? — My Observations - Numeric Citizen Blog numericcitizen.me/2021/03/2\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-28 13:06:01 -0500", "date": "1:06 p.m. on Mar 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/03/28/this-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F03%2F28%2Fthis-is-a.html" }, { "id": 3297, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What is your Micro.blog wish list? I’m starting mine for a future post, but I’m really curious to see if my wishes are “out of this place”. Thanks for all the replies!\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-28 11:41:53 -0500", "date": "11:41 p.m. on Mar 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/03/28/what-is-your.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F03%2F28%2Fwhat-is-your.html" }, { "id": 3298, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Anyone here using a CDN to accelerate their website access around the world?\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-27 06:42:26 -0500", "date": "6:42 p.m. on Mar 27, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/03/27/anyone-here-using.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F03%2F27%2Fanyone-here-using.html" }, { "id": 3299, "type": "post", "title": "My micro.blog instant joy", "text": "Friday thinking\u0026hellip; I find is so refreshing to be able to have decent conversations on the open web. There is no drama here, everything seems so\u0026hellip; simple. It brings back some confidence about human’s capabilities to engage in respectful conversations\u0026hellip;. That’s be because there are lots of nice guys here on Micro.blog\u0026hellip; it is lacking elsewhere (no finger pointing here, I won’t name a platform\u0026hellip; but, well, ya know, right?).\nReturning to normal programming.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-26 16:21:34 -0500", "date": "4:21 p.m. on Mar 26, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/03/26/my-microblog-instant.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F03%2F26%2Fmy-microblog-instant.html" }, { "id": 3300, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Preparing my next Friday Notes issue to be published on HEY World, tomorrow.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-25 18:58:51 -0500", "date": "6:58 p.m. on Mar 25, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/03/25/preparing-my-next.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F03%2F25%2Fpreparing-my-next.html" }, { "id": 3301, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Good morning. There was a time, a long long time ago, I used to say « Good morning » on Twitter. I don’t know really why I did that. Oh well. Anyways, good morning. 😎\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-25 06:06:58 -0500", "date": "6:06 p.m. on Mar 25, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/03/25/good-morning-there.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F03%2F25%2Fgood-morning-there.html" }, { "id": 3302, "type": "post", "title": "On Intel’s Tick Tock Strategy (#intel #apple #applesilicon)", "text": "How funny is that? It seems Intel is applying its “tick-tock strategy” to its relationship with Apple. One week, Intel is slamming Apple’s M1 Macs with highly questionable ads featuring Justin Long, the week after Intel is luring Apple’s business to make their future processors.\nSo obviously you’ve seen some of the competitive energies resume because there’s a lot of great innovation to be done, and we haven’t seen PC demand at this level for a decade and a half. The world needs more of that, and there is competitive fun going on with Apple and the Mac ecosystem” — Gelsinger\nI don’t know if this competitive landscape is fun like Gelsinger is mentioning, maybe we could ask Tim Cook?\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-24 18:24:30 -0500", "date": "6:24 p.m. on Mar 24, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/03/24/on-intels-tick.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F03%2F24%2Fon-intels-tick.html" }, { "id": 3303, "type": "post", "title": "Beyond the HomePod (#apple #homepod)", "text": "\nAppleInsider:\nApple needs to release new products to compete in the home. Be it an \u0026ldquo;Apple TV 6\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;HomeHub,\u0026rdquo; something needs to change the customer\u0026rsquo;s perspective in order to get traction in the space.\nThe article fails to mention a feature a HomePod replacement could and should include: home networking. I wrote about this many times. Apple left home networking market at a time where it was transitioning to WIFI 6 and home automation really started to pick up pace, thanks to things like HomeKit.\nMesh networking is something critical these days with the new work-from-home trend caused by the pandemic. Only Apple could create an easy to use networking product, à la Ubiquity or something like the AirPort product line. Speakers like the HomePod mini could evolve to be mesh extenders. I don’t really care if this product does have a screen or multiple mics. Sure it has to be HomeKit integrated. No, I don’T want it to be a successor to the Apple TV. Pricing would be too out of control. It has to be a separate product.\nLeaving the home networking space could be one of the worst Apple decision in recent years. We keep seeing the consequences of it now.\nImage credit: taken from AppleInsider’s article.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-23 05:51:21 -0500", "date": "5:51 p.m. on Mar 23, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/03/23/beyond-the-homepod.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F03%2F23%2Fbeyond-the-homepod.html" }, { "id": 3304, "type": "post", "title": "Fuck Facebook — Dear Parents RESIST ! (#facebook #masssurveillance)", "text": "From BuzzFeed:\nExecutives at Instagram are planning to build a version of the popular photo-sharing app that can be used by children under the age of 13, according to an internal company post obtained by BuzzFeed News.\nSorry for the bad words, but this is beyond any shit ever spit out by Facebook. They literally scrap anything they touch: Instagram, WhatsApp, society. WTF are Facebook’s Instagram leadership thinking? I’m so tired of this shit! I’m utterly angry! Now, since those people can’t figure out reality, what’s good, what’s bad, this message is for parents: RESIST! You hold the destiny of your children, just say NO! Don’t allow your children on social networks. Period. Enough, already.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-22 19:01:36 -0500", "date": "7:01 p.m. on Mar 22, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/03/22/fuck-facebook-dear.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F03%2F22%2Ffuck-facebook-dear.html" }, { "id": 3305, "type": "post", "title": "Is bloatware coming to iPhone? (#apple #iPhone #russia)", "text": "\nAccording to 9to5Mac, users from Russia, upon setup of their brand-new iPhone:\nApple users will see a dialog box upon initial setup of new devices that features web browsers, antivirus, messenger, email clients, and more to be installed by default. The list of apps is provided by the government.\nAt first, I thought it was a bad decision from Apple, to allow this to happen. Bending to state laws from a country like Russia doesn’t look good. Who’s next? China? What about smartphone carriers?\nThe headlines are scarier than the reality, though. Users will be able to uninstall those state-sponsored apps. Otherwise, it is easy to imagine many scenarios like the dreaded PC bloatware we had to endure in the nineties from Microsoft’s OEMs. Or even worse, what about state surveillance applications? How will Apple say no to those? Are PCs subject to the same requirements? If not, why?\nOn the flip side, I can see some situations where apps could be suggested that would make sense, like contact tracing apps. It could have made a difference if we had this feature implemented before the pandemic. Another case is to suggest a government sponsored app that gives access to services sponsored by the government (immigration, finance, security, etc.). Finally, what are those apps that will make the list when setting up a new iPhone in Russia? I hope someone will share their experience once the law comes into effect.\nPhoto credits: Steve Harvey on Unsplash\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-21 07:12:48 -0500", "date": "7:12 p.m. on Mar 21, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/03/21/is-bloatware-coming.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F03%2F21%2Fis-bloatware-coming.html" }, { "id": 3306, "type": "post", "title": "Something is Going with the iMac (#apple #imac #applesilicon)", "text": "\nWell, rumours abound, changes to the Apple Store options for the iMac, the demise of the iMac Pro, something is really going on with the iMac line. As Apple is currently in the midst of their transition to a full Apple Silicon future for the Mac, we may find what’s coming next, sooner than later.\nI always loved the iMac because it is the most truthful version of the Mac original vision. I owned a 24” 2005 white iMac, then a 2007 aluminum version before my current 2017 iMac, on which I work on every weekday, for my day time work. I’m really looking forward for Apple to inject a new dose of design language in general, but especially for the iMac. The chin, the bezels, the rounded back all feel quite dated and tired. The ultimate form factor is to get a screen, nothing more. Think of it like a big iPad Pro on a svelte stand. The next design has to be iconic. It should differentiate itself from the current iPad Pro or the ProDisplay XDR. Apple’s industrial design team must enter new territories, they have to put a clear mark on Jony Ive’s era. Everything in Apple’s current Mac product lines look and feel like Jony Ive’s team work. We are due for a new beginning.\nWill this new machine come in April? I feel like Apple should use a more important event like WWDC or one of the fall keynote to release such a landmark product. Current movements on the Apple Store and recent discoveries in Apple’s latest beta software points to a sooner than later release. We shall see very soon, I guess.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-20 12:44:48 -0500", "date": "12:44 p.m. on Mar 20, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/03/20/something-is-going.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F03%2F20%2Fsomething-is-going.html" }, { "id": 3307, "type": "post", "title": "About these Read Later apps or services", "text": "Thought of the day: read later lists are useless for me. I tend to forget about the items I save in them. It was true with Instalaper, Pocket, Safari and now Reeder. I don’t read more because I save things in them. The trick for me is to read it now or else. Simple. The longer I wait to pick an article out of these lists, the less likely I will read it. So, I end up with a mass of unread and expired content. Are you more successful than me?\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-19 19:26:40 -0500", "date": "7:26 p.m. on Mar 19, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/03/19/about-these-read.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F03%2F19%2Fabout-these-read.html" }, { "id": 3308, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Anyone using @Readwiseio here? My trial expired. A few thoughts: their app feels “strange”; like a big “webview”. Workflow not yet clear to me. No Safari Extension support. Not cheap. Seems popular. You’re thoughts?\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-19 06:59:50 -0500", "date": "6:59 p.m. on Mar 19, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/03/19/anyone-using-readwiseio.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F03%2F19%2Fanyone-using-readwiseio.html" }, { "id": 3309, "type": "post", "title": "On the upcoming iPad Pro update (#apple #rumour #ipadpro)", "text": "\nAs reported by MacRumors:\n\u0026ldquo;Apple has tested ‌iPad‌ Pros with a Thunderbolt connector that would make them compatible with additional external monitors, hard drives, and peripherals, plus it brings faster data syncing speeds. Apple\u0026rsquo;s Mac machines have featured Thunderbolt technology for years now, but current ‌iPad Pro‌ and iPad Air models have standard USB-C ports.\u0026rdquo;\nSuch an iPad feature has to come with much improved operating system support for external devices, like external monitors, which is currently very limited under iPadOS 14.4. Expect an iPadOS 14.5 surprise support (something along he line of mouse support with iPadOS 13.4 at around the same time last year) or iPad 15 with profound improvements compared to iPadOS 14 which was limited in new features.\nPersonally, the key for a possible upgrade from my 2018 iPadPro lies in the software, not only the hardware. Also, rumours all points to the 12.9” iPad Pro, what about the 11”? I highly wish that Apple will make the 11”, just a smaller version of the 12.9” version.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-18 05:43:57 -0500", "date": "5:43 p.m. on Mar 18, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/03/18/on-the-upcoming.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F03%2F18%2Fon-the-upcoming.html" }, { "id": 3310, "type": "post", "title": "Dear Justin — You’re So Funny (#apple #intel #ads #advertising)", "text": "\nHonestly, I like these Intel ads with Justin Long. The one with the dongle, at the very end, is priceless. These ads are fun. Not as fun as the “originals”, though, but still. Intel hits the nerves. Intel is playing the Apple playbook, simple as that. It’s an interesting moment, a blip, in the advertising world. Nothing more. Will it make a difference? I doubt it.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-17 19:30:11 -0500", "date": "7:30 p.m. on Mar 17, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/03/17/dear-justin-youre.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F03%2F17%2Fdear-justin-youre.html" }, { "id": 3311, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Want to know what Craft is capable of as a website publishing tool? Take a look. Move around the site, you\u0026rsquo;ll get a better idea of its navigation structure and feature. I love this app.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-17 07:02:00 -0500", "date": "7:02 p.m. on Mar 17, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/03/17/want-to-know.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F03%2F17%2Fwant-to-know.html" }, { "id": 3312, "type": "post", "title": "RIP iMac Pro, HomePod (#apple #imacpro #homepod)", "text": "\nWhat does the iMac Pro and the HomePod, two entirely different products, have in common? It’s not the fact that they are no longer being sold. The iMac Pro and the HomePod were created by Apple when they were caught off guard by market trends. In the case of the iMac Pro, Apple tried to answer pro users who were demanding a replacement to the aging trash can Mac Pro. Apple didn’t read the temperature room correctly. They acted urgently and responded with the wrong answer, the iMac Pro. The right answer would have been to fix the Mac Pro instead by creating another more modern version of the expandable Mac Pro, which they finally did later in 2019. The HomePod was created when Apple (finally) realized the smart speakers market was a thing. Apple misread the room temperature again with a high-end smart speaker which wasn’t that smart but sounded good. In such a market, pricing is everything.\nApple is at its best when they create products they want to use for themselves, just like they did with the iPhone. The Apple Car is such a thing really exists), the AR glasses (if such a thing really exists) are a potential case of such products. The Apple Watch was also built on the same principles of the iPhone: something they really want to use themselves.\nI own two HomePod, paired together and two HomePod mini, placed in two different rooms. I love them all, but I prefer the mini for hard to explain reasons. It is sad to see the HomePro go. It could have played so differently.\nWhat’s the next Apple product to be killed? The iPod touch?\nAfterthought: what is Apple comes out with a new HomePod with an integrated wifi 6 router and maybe some storage, something along the line of the AirPort Extreme a few years ago? A new HomePod mini could also be released with wifi extender built-in. I would buy that in a heartbeat.\nImage credit: Basic Apple Guy. I love this guy’s blog.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-14 07:41:00 -0500", "date": "7:41 p.m. on Mar 14, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/03/14/rip-imac-pro.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F03%2F14%2Frip-imac-pro.html" }, { "id": 3313, "type": "post", "title": "Not one but two newsletters (#news)", "text": "For those who didn’t know, I have two newsletters. One available from Substack available at https://numericcitizien.substack.com on a monthly basis and the other one entirely made with Mailbrew. On every Saturday morning, a newsletter is built using the RSS feeds of my blogs as a source to create a summary of all my publications in the last week. So, take a look at the latest issue of \u0026ldquo;Numeric Citizen Newsletter\u0026rdquo;. There are currently 30 subscribers to this newsletter.\nIf you plan to subscribe to Mailbrew to build your own newsletter, please, do me a favour and consider using the affiliated link to do so.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-13 08:13:45 -0500", "date": "8:13 p.m. on Mar 13, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/03/13/not-one-but.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F03%2F13%2Fnot-one-but.html" }, { "id": 3314, "type": "post", "title": "Guilty of Digital Consumerism (#apps #services #workflow)", "text": "Greg Morris on digital consumerism:\nThe level of consumerism and marketing tricks being used to sell apps and services is growing over time. They all promise to fix that gap in your work life, just like adverts promise to fix the one in your love life, or improve your happiness, or whatever it is. It’s all lies.\nI cannot talk for others, but for me, when I’m jumping on another service or a new app, it’s because it offers a seizable improvement. Going from Notion to Craft is my latest example of such move. I’ll elaborate on this at length in a feature post in the very near future.\nI recently wrote “Are we digital nomads?” My answer is yes. It seems we cannot stay in one place for a very long time, looking for the new, the latest and greatest, all the time. We’re bored. This is what it is. Form takes over function. Or is it? Again, my blogger workflow is full of moving parts and I consider it is an ongoing experiment.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-11 20:08:37 -0500", "date": "8:08 p.m. on Mar 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/03/11/guilty-of-digital.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F03%2F11%2Fguilty-of-digital.html" }, { "id": 3315, "type": "post", "title": "About those WebP images (#google #usertracking #nonstandard)", "text": "WebP image format goal, according to Google:\nWebP is a modern image format that provides superior lossless and lossy compression for images on the web. Using WebP, webmasters and web developers can create smaller, richer images that make the web faster. WebP lossless images are 26% smaller in size compared to PNGs. WebP lossy images are 25-34% smaller than comparable JPEG images at equivalent SSIM quality index.\nI’ve seen more and more WebP images in recent months when I try to download an image from Safari. It’s frustrating. It’s not a standard. Making the web load faster so tracking scripts can run more easily, that the reason behind all those “initiatives” from Google. WebP is a terrible idea. AMP pages was a terrible idea. And FLOC is a terrible idea. Google is full of terrible ideas. Even for searching, Google is bad. Boy, I hate Google.\nI’ve been using WebP Converter recently.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-07 07:18:55 -0500", "date": "7:18 p.m. on Mar 7, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/03/07/about-those-webp.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F03%2F07%2Fabout-those-webp.html" }, { "id": 3316, "type": "post", "title": "HEY World, it's now official! (#hey #heyworld #blogging)", "text": "They flipped the switch to ON. HEY World is LIVE! I\u0026rsquo;m so glad, curious and already excited to use this other channel to share my written content with the world. I\u0026rsquo;m already thinking about my first post on this new platform. Furthermore, I think this addition brings even more value to an already useful service, on which I depend every single day. Recently, I asked: How many websites can a blogger have? Well, as soon as a newcomer doesn’t add too much friction when publishing content, it’s ok to have many. HEY World seems to be such a service. Count me in.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-04 14:49:32 -0500", "date": "2:49 p.m. on Mar 4, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/03/04/hey-world-its.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F03%2F04%2Fhey-world-its.html" }, { "id": 3317, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Anyone here using Mastodon? If yes, why? Should I cross-post from here? Which one should I join? Tell me more. I\u0026rsquo;m not really aquainted with this platform.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-04 07:35:30 -0500", "date": "7:35 p.m. on Mar 4, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/03/04/anyone-here-using.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F03%2F04%2Fanyone-here-using.html" }, { "id": 3318, "type": "post", "title": "On Spoonbill (#twitter #mailbrew)", "text": "\nI recently published a long piece about transforming your Twitter experience by using Twitter lists instead of following a bunch of accounts. As noted in the article, one side effect of this approach is that services that look for your Twitter account’s list of people you follow won’t really work. That’s the case for a new service called “Spoonbill”.\nKeep updated on your friends\u0026rsquo; and family members\u0026rsquo; bios, websites, locations, and names.\nSpoonbill will send you a summary of changes that occurred on Twitter’s bio of people you follow. I wonder if this service can be tweaked to use Twitter’s lists instead. What about Mailbrew, maybe they could come up with a similar feature, which would be really cool.\nIn the meantime, I’m not coming back to following two thousands people.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-04 06:42:00 -0500", "date": "6:42 p.m. on Mar 4, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/03/04/on-spoonbill-twitter.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F03%2F04%2Fon-spoonbill-twitter.html" }, { "id": 3319, "type": "post", "title": "On iCloud Photo Library migration (#keyword)", "text": "\nIn a surprising move, Apple starting today allows people to export their iCloud Photo Library to Google Photos. Why not provide a download to a local computer, outside the Photos app. I can see many use cases for doing so: backup purposes or simply to dump photos in a structure of directories for archiving purposes.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-03 20:12:54 -0500", "date": "8:12 p.m. on Mar 3, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/03/03/on-icloud-photo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F03%2F03%2Fon-icloud-photo.html" }, { "id": 3320, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Calling for @help here @manton : can you point me to a simple guide or instructions sequence for adding a complete h-card to my microb.blog? Thanks a lot!\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-02 07:44:00 -0500", "date": "7:44 p.m. on Mar 2, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/03/02/calling-for-help.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F03%2F02%2Fcalling-for-help.html" }, { "id": 3321, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After spending so many hours trying to understand the requirements to set up my online presence to support the IndieWeb movement\u0026hellip; I\u0026rsquo;m close to just giving up. I fail to get the whole picture and none of the sites that I look at has a complete explanation that corresponds to my use case. Gosh. I\u0026rsquo;ll put this aside for a while and eventually come back to this. Maybe.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-02 07:19:17 -0500", "date": "7:19 p.m. on Mar 2, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/03/02/after-spending-so.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F03%2F02%2Fafter-spending-so.html" }, { "id": 3322, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I often read the word “Quill” in here but never really paid too much attention, until now. Quill allows for posting content to your blog from a simple web page. You knew that, already, right? Not me. Sorry for the interruption, normal programming to return in 3, 2, 1. Thank you.\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-01 20:25:00 -0500", "date": "8:25 p.m. on Mar 1, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/03/01/i-often-read.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F03%2F01%2Fi-often-read.html" }, { "id": 3323, "type": "post", "title": "Bye Bye Weather Line (#weather #weatherapps #iOS #iosdev)", "text": "\nBreaking news from 9To5Mac, but official announcement here:\nIn recent months, we were approached by a buyer. They saw the uniqueness of Weather Line and the strong foundation we’ve built. While we aren’t able to provide further details on their future plans for the app, we hope you can understand, and will look forward to it.\nI’m kind of in shock right now. I recently posted an article about my “go-to” weather applications. Weather Line wasn’t part of the line up, but I did have it installed on my iPhone, and I’m currently a paying subscriber. Too bad to see the application go. But, why? The same happened to Spend Stack recently.\nWhat’s going on? How many developers invoked paid subscription model as being the only road to sustainability? Does it work or not? Is this the start of a new trend? There is something going on here.\nWhen, as users, invest money and time in using applications or service, the last thing we want is to see our beloved apps go like this. I’m currently heavily investing in Craft (coming from Notion). What if the same happens to Craft?\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-01 16:53:29 -0500", "date": "4:53 p.m. on Mar 1, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/03/01/bye-bye-weather.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F03%2F01%2Fbye-bye-weather.html" }, { "id": 3324, "type": "post", "title": "Dear Google, this time you win (#google #YouTube)", "text": "\nThis shouldn’t be this way. Thanks to the numerous ads, my YouTube experience was a calculated nightmare. As my usage grew in the last few weeks because of my daytime job, my time on YouTube felt light a nightmare with no end. I decided to put an end to all this by subscribing to YouTube Premium. I feel in full contradiction to my values.\nYouTube Premium so much better. But it shouldn’t be this way. Yet, it is. I feel that I’m sleeping with the enemy. Tell me that it is ok, will you?\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-01 13:49:29 -0500", "date": "1:49 p.m. on Mar 1, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/03/01/dear-google-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F03%2F01%2Fdear-google-this.html" }, { "id": 3325, "type": "post", "title": "The state of non-optimized apps on my M1-Mac mini (#m1chip #applesilicon #universal)", "text": "\nHere is the current state of yet to be updated apps to fully support Apple Silicon Macs. It’s been close to six months now and yet, those apps aren’t yet universal. Surprising to see things like 1Password 7 still not there yet. Notion, an Electron-based app, not surprising. The Mac client for HEY hasn’t been updated for a while. Many of those apps are subscription-based, a model toward development sustainability. Can we say they are failing to meet their obligations, now?\n", "dateiso": "2021-03-01 06:49:26 -0500", "date": "6:49 p.m. on Mar 1, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/03/01/the-state-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F03%2F01%2Fthe-state-of.html" }, { "id": 3326, "type": "post", "title": "Apple’s impressive traction (#apple #ios14 #ipados14)", "text": "Two very telling graphs from Apple’s development portal:\nA few takeouts. First, iOS 13 is close to become a bad souvenir. Second, people keeping their iPad longer, it is reflected in the percentage of people still using devices with iPadOS prior to version 13.\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-28 19:51:50 -0500", "date": "7:51 p.m. on Feb 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/28/apples-impressive-traction.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F28%2Fapples-impressive-traction.html" }, { "id": 3327, "type": "post", "title": "Quick Poll on Writing During the Pandemic (#blogger #writer #poll)", "text": "Today, I would like to do a quick poll among my blogger / writer friends here on Micro.blog. How did the pandemic influence your writing habits? Do you write more? Less? What could be the reasons behind the change of habit?\nTo help you out and start the thread, I’ll answer to my own poll. The pandemic brought me closer to be what we call “a writer”. I write a lot more. I do put more efforts into each piece. I use more tools to help me. My research goes deeper. I have many pieces in the works, all the time. I spend around 5-10 hours for writing each week.\nNow, why do I write more? Because there is less noise in my life in general, thanks to the restrictions (no travels, curfew, work from home: no commute). This “silence” created a pool of free time. My creativity took over. So, I write. And I love it.\nTell me your story? Let’s discuss.\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-28 07:24:01 -0500", "date": "7:24 p.m. on Feb 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/28/quick-poll-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F28%2Fquick-poll-on.html" }, { "id": 3328, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is what I call a VERY productive Saturday.: three articles published (on Medium, on Numeric Citizen I/O, and on my Numeric Citizen Blog) and a monthly newsletter went out! 😎 Time for a break. 🏃Oh, and thank you for reading my stuff! 🙏🏻\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-27 10:12:13 -0500", "date": "10:12 p.m. on Feb 27, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/27/this-is-what.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F27%2Fthis-is-what.html" }, { "id": 3329, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For those who likes newsletters, I\u0026rsquo;ve got one too! It\u0026rsquo;a about Apple, photography, privacy and climate change, in that order! https://numericcitizen.substack.com/p/2021-02\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-27 08:41:19 -0500", "date": "8:41 p.m. on Feb 27, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/27/for-those-who.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F27%2Ffor-those-who.html" }, { "id": 3330, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "[@Gaby](https://micro.blog/Gaby) I get a morning email digest from Mailbrew with my Twitter timeline and funnel YouTube and Reddit into RSS. The social apps are filled with recommendations and features designed to keep you “engaged”. But there’s always an actual bottom to my unread emails and RSS feeds.\nThroughout the day, the only types of apps I “just check” are email, RSS, and my Micro.blog client. Micro.blog gets a pass because it seems to be filled with genuinely good people that post things that make me happy — at least that’s what I see in my timeline. :)\nThis setup gives me more time to read my read later items, to write, and work on other projects that actually accomplish something.\nMike Rockwell https://micro.blog/mdrockwell/11079723\rHere is a great way to put Mailbrew to work and help us create free time in our busy schedules. ", "dateiso": "2021-02-26 10:24:41 -0500", "date": "10:24 p.m. on Feb 26, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/26/gaby-i-get.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F26%2Fgaby-i-get.html" }, { "id": 3331, "type": "post", "title": "I Tested HEY World! (#hey #heyworld)", "text": "\nToday, I tested HEY World. This is my non-review. It could have worked great, but it’s not ready yet. One could say “Nice try, buddy”.\nI love their response to my test message. One thing stands out from their response, though:\n“For now, HEY World is just an experiment. …\n“Assuming there’s demand, we’ll begin opening it up for more people soon. And then, hopefully, for all HEY for You customers. Personal blogs will finally be as easy as sending an email.”\nIt seems to me that they are on the fence. They already have their tag line. They keep the door wide open. Could it be closer than we think or want to say it?\nNow, what I’d like to see is how many emails like mine they get each day and what are they saying?\nIf they actually turn the switch on, count me in. I’ll find a use of it. For sure.\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-25 18:58:25 -0500", "date": "6:58 p.m. on Feb 25, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/25/i-tested-hey.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F25%2Fi-tested-hey.html" }, { "id": 3332, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Twitter announces paid Super Follows to let you charge for tweets\nMore shit like this and I guess Twitter will be my next one to quit.\nGaby/mL https://gabz.me/2021/02/25/twitter-announces-paid.html\rThe beginning of the end for me and Twitter? ", "dateiso": "2021-02-25 18:49:04 -0500", "date": "6:49 p.m. on Feb 25, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/25/twitter-announces-paid.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F25%2Ftwitter-announces-paid.html" }, { "id": 3333, "type": "post", "title": "Ghost’s Killer Feature (#ghost #blogging)", "text": "\nAfter reading “Ghost on the iPad, a Review” from Tablet Habit, I tried to remember my experience when I tried the service myself. It wasn’t a good one for the thing I wanted to do with it: create a photography-oriented blog.\nIn recent days, it seems that the “Ghost” name is gaining traction in the blogging arena. I have to wonder if Ghost is better at this than what I experienced for photography. I don’t think I’ll try it again, but I think they do have one killer feature that other platforms don’t have: the combination of a blogging platform and a newsletter publishing tool. They really look to be well integrated.\nOne could argue that the difference between blogging or sending a newsletter is small (Think of HEY, World). I could easily agree. But sometimes, the actual implementation of the integration between those two features can make a real difference.\nI’m currently using Substack for my monthly newsletter (Numeric Citizen Introspection Newsletter) and WordPress as well as Micro.blog more my blogging needs. Sometimes, I do wish there would be less friction when I’m publishing my work. A single platform doing all of this in a basic manner would be certainly very enticing.\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-25 18:36:44 -0500", "date": "6:36 p.m. on Feb 25, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/25/ghosts-killer-feature.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F25%2Fghosts-killer-feature.html" }, { "id": 3334, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\rOwning media \u0026gt; streaming services\nMike Rockwell https://mike.rockwell.mx/asides/1006\rOn paper, yes, but how do you cope in a \"streaming-only\" world? ", "dateiso": "2021-02-25 12:10:30 -0500", "date": "12:10 p.m. on Feb 25, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/25/owning-media-streaming.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F25%2Fowning-media-streaming.html" }, { "id": 3335, "type": "post", "title": "How many websites can a blogger have? (#blogger #blogging #bloggerlife)", "text": "\nHow many websites a blogger can have? Good question. I do have (too?) many, each filling their own niche. On that subject, something caught my attention yesterday in the public announcement of HEY’s experiment: “Hello, World!”. Jason Fried explaining why he never had a blog:\n“It was primarily because setting up a personal blog was just too much of a hassle. It felt formal, it required yet another tool, yet another place to write, yet another platform to pay for just one feature. I had to pick a template, I had to think up a name, I had to make the relationship official.”\nSure, setting up a blog can be a hassle. For me, it is some kind of challenge and an exercise in creativity. This brings me to something I want to share with you. I’ve been working on something new in the last few days. I’m very excited about it. I started a “metablog”. Yes, another place to publish content. What is it? Well, it is a blog about blogging.\nLet’s see what Wikipedia has to say about the word “meta”:\nAny subject can be said to have a metatheory, a theoretical consideration of its properties, such as its foundations, methods, form and utility, on a higher level of abstraction. In linguistics, a grammar is considered as being expressed in a metalanguage, language operating on a higher level to describe properties of the plain language (and not itself).\nWhy do I feel the need to create yet another numeric space? Well, I believe in focused channels in general. I wanted a dedicated space for writing about being a blogger, using tools and services to put things together and out to the world. In other words, it is more about the “how” than anything else. I believe people like to get a look behind the curtain. I certainly do. So, I created this space where I’ll post my updates to my blogger workflow, in more detail.\nSo, there you have it: Numeric Citizen I/O. You’ll be able to comment on each individual post (I’m using Commento, a privacy-friendly commenting service.). I dearly encourage you to engage in discussion, ask questions or leave your comments. Thanks for visiting!\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-25 07:02:14 -0500", "date": "7:02 p.m. on Feb 25, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/25/how-many-websites.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F25%2Fhow-many-websites.html" }, { "id": 3336, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Indeed.\nWriting is fun.\nMike Rockwell https://mike.rockwell.mx/asides/999 ", "dateiso": "2021-02-24 20:35:11 -0500", "date": "8:35 p.m. on Feb 24, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/24/indeed-writing-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F24%2Findeed-writing-is.html" }, { "id": 3337, "type": "post", "title": "Happy birthday, Steve. (#apple #stevejobs #remembering)", "text": "\nSteve would have been 66 years old today. Even if I love what Apple has become over the years since he died, I miss him dearly. What a great picture of him. It is nice to see Apple and Tim Cook paying a small tribute each year.\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-24 17:09:00 -0500", "date": "5:09 p.m. on Feb 24, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/24/happy-birthday-steve.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F24%2Fhappy-birthday-steve.html" }, { "id": 3338, "type": "post", "title": "Hey, World (#hey #newsletters)", "text": "\nEach day, it seems there is always something new happening in the world of newsletters. When it’s not someone famous who joins Substack, a company out of nowhere offers a brilliant idea built around supporting newsletters in one way or the other. I’m thinking of Hey in particular.\n“Email is the internet\u0026rsquo;s oldest instant self-publishing platform. Except you have to define a small audience every time you write. But what if you didn\u0026rsquo;t? What if you could just email the web to reach the world? Introducing the HEY World experiment” - Jason Fried from HEY\nYesterday, the company behind the popular HEY email client tentatively announced a new service for their customers. The idea behind is to allow any HEY users to create newsletters and publish them just by sending them to world@hey.com. The service would then post these newsletters on the web, complete with the author’s name. A simple static page, no tracking, no nothing more. I call this: simply brilliant.\nThe service is not currently available, only in some form of alpha-stage for internal use only. They announced it to read the room and see if there is some interest in something like this that could become some soft of hyper-distributed publishing platform.\nI’m personally interested in this kind of service simply because it removes friction in the publishing process. What could be simpler than just writing the newsletter like we do with emails and then hit “send”!? Simply brilliant. For the reader, they can subscribe by email or by using the available RSS feed.\nYou can read the announcement here. I like the simplicity of this implementation. Very clean. Very lean. I’m in love. Too bad this isn’t available — yet.\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-23 17:43:53 -0500", "date": "5:43 p.m. on Feb 23, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/23/hey-world-hey.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F23%2Fhey-world-hey.html" }, { "id": 3339, "type": "post", "title": "What’s next for the iPad Pro? (#apple #ipadpro)", "text": "\n9to5Mac published a nice comparison between the iPad Air and the 2020 iPad Pro. The latter still hold the crown with its 120Hz ProMotion display and LiDAR. Rumours are pointing to an update for the Pro line in March. The question that comes to my mind is: what’s missing from the iPad Pro, from the hardware point of view? I mean, speed, screen, form factor are just close to “perfect”. The main challenge for the iPad line is on the software side. To me, iPadOS 15 and Apple willingness to cross boundaries can’t come soon enough. Better multitasking and external screen support would really help fix long standing issues with the iPad.\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-22 21:25:20 -0500", "date": "9:25 p.m. on Feb 22, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/22/whats-next-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F22%2Fwhats-next-for.html" }, { "id": 3340, "type": "post", "title": "HEY, Hey just got updated (#hey)", "text": "\nMy go-to email client got an update today. Hey version 1.2 brings a few tweaks in the compose mode. In recent weeks, updates are more frequent as they finally delivered support for corporate email. Now, the other thing I’d like to see is a collapsible view in the feed view. I don’t see how pinch-to-zoom can be added without implementing the opposite to bring a collapsed view.\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-22 20:56:34 -0500", "date": "8:56 p.m. on Feb 22, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/22/hey-hey-just.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F22%2Fhey-hey-just.html" }, { "id": 3341, "type": "post", "title": "Crafting something with Craft (#craft #rumours #apple)", "text": "\nIn my quest to better understand the full potential of note taking application « Craft », I’ve come up to something different, a website about Apple’s related rumours. You can hit this link to have a look. You can leave comments, no registration required. Enjoy.\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-21 19:53:47 -0500", "date": "7:53 p.m. on Feb 21, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/21/crafting-something-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F21%2Fcrafting-something-with.html" }, { "id": 3342, "type": "post", "title": "Are we digital nomads? (#blogging #internet)", "text": "\nIn the last few months, on Twitter and on Micro.blog, I’ve been witnessing something that takes the shape of a small phenomenon: people are moving from one place to another in the digital space. Many are writing about their experience of moving from one hosting site to another. Some are leaving WordPress to return to Ghost. Others are proudly putting together their hosting solutions. The same happens in the newsletters hosting space: people are leaving Mailchimp to go to Substack or Revue. People are looking to get better return on their investment both in time and money. Others are simply trying to optimize their blogging workflow. There is a myriad of reasons why people decide to leave a place for another one.\nI find these numeric movements quite fascinating. Are you one of those guys?\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-21 16:33:14 -0500", "date": "4:33 p.m. on Feb 21, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/21/are-we-digital.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F21%2Fare-we-digital.html" }, { "id": 3343, "type": "post", "title": "Learning Blot.im the hard way (#blot #selfhosting)", "text": "\nSo I started another experiment involving Blot.im. For those who don’t know Blot.im, it is a static web site generator that seems popular among the crowd here. On paper, the process of publishing is very simple: you drag and drop files on a specific folder on your computer and they get instantly published on the web. Sound great, right? That’s what I thought.\nMy goal with Blot.im is to do some “meta blogging”; a place where I could write about the tools, services and my blogger workflow. So I registered a new domain with GoDaddy: numericcitizen.io. Then, I opened my Blot.im account and stated experimenting. The initial setup is pretty simple. And then challenges pretty quickly started to emerge.\nFirst, I wanted my new domain to point my Blot.im domain. Tried to follow the Blot.im instructions to make it work but all attempts failed. GoDaddy doesn’t support ALIAS DNS records as Blot.im ask me to create. I asked for help from Blot.im support. Still a work in progress.\nSecond, I chose to use Git as the “client” to push content on the service because I don’t want to use Dropbox, a service I despise. By using Git, I need a Git client on my Mac. I’m tentatively settled on Nova. So far so good. After cloning the Git repo from Blot.im to my local machine, I can then use Ulysses to write my posts and push them with Nova. The workflow is very geeky: create .MD file in Ulysses, “commit” within Nova then hit “push” to publish. Not as seamless as I would like. But here another issue: inserting images with a Markdown file is not as easy as it seems. Again, trying to figure out instructions on Blot.im site doesn’t work. The other thing is that if you drop an image within a folder, it will trigger Blot.im to create its own blog post, something that I don’t want. Not cool. Again, I’m asking support to help me here with this supposedly trivial task.\nThird, I would like to use Github as the source of truth. Setting up a new repo is simple and cloning it to my local machine too. But, now, how do I make Blot.im to use the Github repo as the source of content? Again, trying to figure out Blot.im instructions but failing to make it work. Still trying to figure that out.\nFourth, tweaking the visual appearance is not as easy as I would have liked. There is a theme editor and I still need to be pretty knowledgeable in HTML and CSS. I did fork one of the theme to make it mine and started to do some tweak but it is a painful trial-and-error process.\nAll in all, I’m far from positive about Blot.im right now. I spent way too much time on these issues. I’m not sure where this is all going. If you are using Blot.im, please, do me a favour and chime in!\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-21 08:13:35 -0500", "date": "8:13 p.m. on Feb 21, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/21/learning-blotim-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F21%2Flearning-blotim-the.html" }, { "id": 3344, "type": "post", "title": "Testing, testing, 1.2.3. (#webmention #indieweb #openweb)", "text": "\nI’m still new to the Indieweb world. Today, I’m learning about webmentions. I like the idea of linking reactions back to the origin. So, after enabling a plugin on my main blog, I’m trying to link back to one of my recent post and see what happens. One day, I wrote “The Journey is the Reward”. I don’t post personal things very often. Thanks for your feedback.\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-20 08:28:13 -0500", "date": "8:28 p.m. on Feb 20, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/20/testing-testing-webmention.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F20%2Ftesting-testing-webmention.html" }, { "id": 3345, "type": "post", "title": "Love and hate (#microblog)", "text": "\nI’m in love with Micro.blog. It’s simple, not too busy. Based on open web standards. But today, I’m a bit frustrated with the bad sad of being too simple. My most important grievance is the lack of design flexibility. Built-in themes are too basics and unappealing. You have to be a HTML and CSS expert to try to figure out how to make simple tweaks. This frustration is behind my recent desire to look elsewhere for hosting the whole thing. I’m willing to invest quite a bit of my time to gin control of the appearance of my online presence. I’m patient. The guys behind Micro.blog are working on the next features and I hope they will address some of my complaints.\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-19 07:09:15 -0500", "date": "7:09 p.m. on Feb 19, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/19/love-and-hate.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F19%2Flove-and-hate.html" }, { "id": 3346, "type": "post", "title": "Looking behind the scene. (#blogging #Hugo #html #git #github)", "text": "\nIt all started with the idea of tweaking my micro.blog visual theme. I don’t like it, but this is the best that I could find from the included themes. After reading for a while and seeing people writing about their blogger workflow, I found out that Micro.blog is using Hugo, a static website generator. Then I started to learn about Hugo by searching for introduction videos on YouTube. Then, I learned about Hugo themes and how they are constructed, and at the center of how a website is displayed. Since static websites need a place to be stored, GIT and Github came into the picture. So, I started to read about GIT and Github. Git and Hugo both can be installed on my Mac mini to locally create content and generate a microblog from that. It a great experimentation place to learn and dig a bit deeper. Github is also a place to find new Hugo-based visual themes. Then I learned that I can import one of those themes on my machine so can change the visual appearance of my local Hugo microblog. Then, came the idea of publishing this content on the web, on Github, for free. To close the loop, services are available to take Github content and generate a static website, again using Hugo, behind a domain name of my choice. Then came the question: why do I need Microblog then? I could own the whole widget! It’s not that simple.\nAll this because I’m not satisfied with my current Micro.blog visual appearance. The next step is to dig within Micro.blog custom templates and see how I can update them. I’ll have to refresh my memory about HTML and learn a bit of CSS. The latter seems a bit an arid subject. Oh well.\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-18 07:22:15 -0500", "date": "7:22 p.m. on Feb 18, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/18/looking-behind-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F18%2Flooking-behind-the.html" }, { "id": 3347, "type": "post", "title": "Dear Micro.blog, where do you plan to go next? (#microblogging #microblog)", "text": "Thought of the day for @manton and @jean: there is something that could be improved regarding micro.blog: opening up the evolution and improvement roadmap of the platform. I do appreciate when a service do put out their roadmaps so the community get a better look at where things will be going in the future. Mailbrew, Plausible and Craft are very vocal about their future plans, you just have to find the place where they talk about it.\nSo, where is Micro.blog heading? In particular, how do you plan to expand on themes support and customizability? Why the web editor doesn\u0026rsquo;t allow support for Grammarly? Do you plan an opt-in option to see how many followers a user have? Those are just a few questions that I have regarding Micro.blog future plans. Thanks in advance.\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-17 07:17:46 -0500", "date": "7:17 p.m. on Feb 17, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/17/dear-microblog-where.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F17%2Fdear-microblog-where.html" }, { "id": 3348, "type": "post", "title": "Welcome back to the Mac computer club @mattbirchler (#apple #macbookair #applesilicon)", "text": "\nAs much as you can like to work on the iPad, there are edge cases where the iPad falls short. Since I got an Apple Silicon powered Mac, and thanks to many nifty Mac utilities, I rediscovered what it really means to be productive and efficient on a computer platform. This blog post by Matt Birchler is an example of an edge case being better served by a traditional yet powerful computer.\nOn the subject of small and focused Mac productivity utilities, The list of application purchases I made since moving to this Mac mini is pretty long. Here it goes, in no particular order.\nHazeOver Unclutter Keysmith Bartender 4 DefaultFolder Hush StopTheMaddness Alfred Hazel CheatSheet PopClip Downie Permute SafariMarkdownLinker There is something those utilities have in common: in one way or another, they augment the macOS experience. Such things are not quite possible, yet, on the iPad.\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-17 07:03:22 -0500", "date": "7:03 p.m. on Feb 17, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/17/welcome-back-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F17%2Fwelcome-back-to.html" }, { "id": 3349, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hey @jack! Let\u0026rsquo;s start a discussion.😊 I\u0026rsquo;m looking at your sites, your work and the tools and services you use. I\u0026rsquo;m very curious about how it all fit together. I\u0026rsquo;m curious about this Hugo thing, Github as a storage service and content editors and how they all talk to each other. Maybe others would be interested to discuss their options and workflow too. Chime in!\nLet\u0026rsquo;s start like this: I started to look closely at Hugo and now I do have a better idea of this engine. What is less clear is this. Suppose I\u0026rsquo;m running an instance of Hugo on my M1-based Mac mini. Where does Github fit? Why I would use it?\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-16 07:47:38 -0500", "date": "7:47 p.m. on Feb 16, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/16/hey-jack-lets.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F16%2Fhey-jack-lets.html" }, { "id": 3350, "type": "post", "title": "This could be my next... (#iphone #apple #rumors)", "text": "\nAs reported by MacRumors, the next major revision of the iPhone looks promising for me:\n\u0026ldquo;Weinbach claims that the always-on display will look like a \u0026ldquo;toned down Lock screen,\u0026rdquo; where the clock and battery charge are always visible, and past notifications are shown through \u0026ldquo;a bar and icons.\u0026rdquo; When users receive a notification, the notification will \u0026ldquo;pop up normally except that the screen will not entirely light up.\u0026rdquo; Instead, \u0026ldquo;it will display it just like you\u0026rsquo;re used to right now, except dimmed down and only temporarily,\u0026rdquo; according to the leaker.\u0026rdquo;\nAn always-on display is on top of my wish list. How would Apple take advantage of this, at iOS level, is more interesting. Then comes the return of the Touch-ID. I would love to see go in the power button. A smaller notch? What notch?\nAs shown above, 9to5Mac ran a poll where more than 7000 people chose what feature are the most interesting to them. The return of Touch ID was #1 request at the time of casting my vote. Does COVID-19 have something to do with it?\nLast year I skipped iPhone 12. This year, with iPhone 13, things could be different.\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-15 21:15:18 -0500", "date": "9:15 p.m. on Feb 15, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/15/this-could-be.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F15%2Fthis-could-be.html" }, { "id": 3351, "type": "post", "title": "Two simple yet really useful tricks using HomePod mini (#apple #homepodmini #ios144)", "text": "\nHere are two simple but very useful tricks using an iPhone with a U1 chip, iOS 14.4 and an HomePod mini.\nTrick #1: set a timer with Siri on your HomePod mini to, let’s say, 10 minutes. Then, bring your iPhone close to the HomePod mini, the iPhone will show how much time is left on the timer (make sure the iPhone screen is on).\nTrick #2: let’s say music is playing on your HomePod mini, and that you want to, silently, see what’s playing. Again, bring your iPhone close to the HomePod mini, the iPhone will show the currently playing title.\nWhat a great example of: the whole is bigger than the sum of its parts. This is Apple at it’s best.\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-14 19:50:19 -0500", "date": "7:50 p.m. on Feb 14, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/14/two-simple-yet.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F14%2Ftwo-simple-yet.html" }, { "id": 3352, "type": "post", "title": "Bye Bye Spend Stack - I barely knew you (#apps)", "text": "\nIt is a bit of a sad day: I decided to delete the excellent expense tracking app Spend Stack from my devices and revert to using a simple Numbers spreadsheet to track my subscriptions. Why did I delete this app?\nFirst, the developer sold the app to somebody else. Since last September, no more updates. Second, there is no clear roadmap announcements by the new owner. Nothing. I can’t rely on ephemeral applications even for simple things.\nSadly, this is something that happens all the time these days. Some developers are building great stuff but on the wrong business model. Others are just finding new priorities in their life which have side effects on their personal development projects.\nI’m back to Apple’s Numbers and a simple spreadsheet. Sometimes, the best is still in the most basic form and function.\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-14 15:10:25 -0500", "date": "3:10 p.m. on Feb 14, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/14/bye-bye-spend.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F14%2Fbye-bye-spend.html" }, { "id": 3353, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Quick question to @jack : Is “baty.net” a micro.blog? If so, what’s your theme?\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-14 09:20:04 -0500", "date": "9:20 p.m. on Feb 14, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/14/quick-question-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F14%2Fquick-question-to.html" }, { "id": 3354, "type": "post", "title": "Who remember Motorola 68000 Assembly? I do. (#apple #history #macintosh)", "text": "I dug out my ancient Inside Macintosh reference books from storage. Remember when Apple’s developer documentation came as paper books? Volumes I-III on the original Mac APIs, IV on Mac Plus, V on color Macs, and the truly massive volume VI on System 7. 📚\nDavid Sinclair https://dejus.com/2020/12/21/0927/\rI did some 68000 assembly using my 512Ke Mac back in the days. Can't remember what was the development environment, though. And I remember these Inside Apple Macintosh books so well. That was a lot of stuff to learn. Time flies. ", "dateiso": "2021-02-14 08:36:45 -0500", "date": "8:36 p.m. on Feb 14, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/14/who-remember-motorola.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F14%2Fwho-remember-motorola.html" }, { "id": 3355, "type": "post", "title": "Looking for Micro.blog friends (#microblog #socialnetwork)", "text": "\nYes, the title says it all: I’m looking for new friends to follow on Micro.blog. After my big Twitter cleanup, the noise in my numeric life has dramatically decreased. I feel zen and I think this is what Micro.blog is all about: a zen place to meet virtual friends sharing the same passions.\nSo, I’m looking for friend suggestions. Let’s call this “the community-fed referrals day!”. To help you make such referrals, please do remember about my passions: Apple, photography, privacy protection and climate change.\nThis brings me to something that I’d like to see improved about Micro.blog: discoverability. When looking to discover new people to follow, we do see a posts count on each user profile, but we don’t know « how recent » the last post is. We know about stale accounts on Twitter, I don’t want to follow stale accounts here. Next, I’d like to see some kind of « behind the scene » analysis of how someone could be interesting for me. I do understand that this is entering a dangerous territory of « algorithm fed reality ». I guess it is har to strike a balance in that respect. Finally, the categories are lacking a bit of breath. Where is “Tech” or “Privacy” or “Climate”?\nSo, I’m waiting for your referrals. Thanks for taking some of your time to do so. 🙂\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-14 08:17:56 -0500", "date": "8:17 p.m. on Feb 14, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/14/looking-for-microblog.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F14%2Flooking-for-microblog.html" }, { "id": 3356, "type": "post", "title": "What happened to my Twitter usage? (#twitter)", "text": "\nI don’t know what happened to my Twitter usage. It fell off the cliff recently. Since I’ve completed my Twitter experience transformation as fully documented here, I barely open Twitter once a day. Do I miss it? Nope. Why? Probably because I’m getting a distant view by using Mailbrew which draws the most relevant tweets for me on a daily basis.\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-13 08:56:52 -0500", "date": "8:56 p.m. on Feb 13, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/13/what-happened-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F13%2Fwhat-happened-to.html" }, { "id": 3357, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As far as I’m concerned, PopClip is part of macOS.\nJack Baty https://micro.baty.net/2021/02/13/as-far-as.html\rI think he meant that PopClip should be part of macOS! Instant buy for me! ", "dateiso": "2021-02-13 07:33:25 -0500", "date": "7:33 p.m. on Feb 13, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/13/as-far-as.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F13%2Fas-far-as.html" }, { "id": 3358, "type": "post", "title": "On Apple’s rumoured VR headset (#apple #rumours)", "text": "\nHere is a simple one: Apple, please, no.\nI don’t get the idea of such product. The audience for this seems to be too small for Apple. I do understand that Apple research in VR can have broader ramifications, but to build such a limited appeal product for the mass, I don’t get it.\nI think Apple’s interests has much more potential in augmented reality products, services or features. Their work is already bearing fruit with AirPods spatial audio and transparency mode. These are much more appealing to the mass than a VR headset.\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-12 07:01:42 -0500", "date": "7:01 p.m. on Feb 12, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/12/on-apples-rumoured.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F12%2Fon-apples-rumoured.html" }, { "id": 3359, "type": "post", "title": "Mapping Apple’s mapping efforts (#apple #maps)", "text": "\nApple Maps is so much better than it was when it first launched back in 2012. It’s my go-to apps when in comes to finding my way. I never use Google Maps. Over the years, Apple upped its game. Recently, Apple added the detailed mapping and the look around feature for Canada, and it made such a big difference. But how much different? Well, look no further than Justino Beirne’s latest essay: “WHY DOESN’T “LOOK AROUND” COVER MORE AREAS?”. It is a massive piece of work detailing Apple’s every advances regarding its mapping efforts. I wonder if anyone at Apple ever looked at his work. It’s just mind blowing how much details and analysis goes into this essay.\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-11 07:26:06 -0500", "date": "7:26 p.m. on Feb 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/11/mapping-apples-mapping.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F11%2Fmapping-apples-mapping.html" }, { "id": 3360, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": " Writing, like so many creative acts, is hard. Sitting there, staring, mad at yourself, mad at the material because it doesn’t seem good enough and you don’t seem good enough. (Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy) Greg Morris https://gr36.com/5152-2/ I know this feeling really really well. ", "dateiso": "2021-02-09 13:08:00 -0500", "date": "1:08 p.m. on Feb 9, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/09/writing-like-so.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F09%2Fwriting-like-so.html" }, { "id": 3361, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Woah, I didn\u0026rsquo;t know we could have a test blog on Micro.blog. It\u0026rsquo;s free! Thanks to https://custom.micro.blog, I\u0026rsquo;m starting to learn more about CSS and how MB works to make its magic!\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-09 07:25:28 -0500", "date": "7:25 p.m. on Feb 9, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/09/woah-i-didnt.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F09%2Fwoah-i-didnt.html" }, { "id": 3362, "type": "post", "title": "Giving without asking in return (#bloggerlife #blogging #writing)", "text": "\nGreg Morris recently on his blog about trying hard as a blogger to make something out of all this:\n“I asked, I’m giving, and I am still blogging — now more than ever.”\nStrangely, pure coincidence I guess, I wrote this last week-end “The journey is the Reward” in which I said:\n“It doesn’t really matter if nobody comes and reads my stuff here or there. What matters is the process and the thinking that took place behind my writing. It’s all the small moments where I had to pause, think, read, learn and write. It’s about feeling creative. Alive. The rest is just another tiny drop in the numeric ocean. A few will taste it, and most won’t. That’s the life of a blogger and a writer in a sea of abundance. So, I’ll keep doing it, no matter what.”\nThe journey is really the reward for me.\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-08 17:55:41 -0500", "date": "5:55 p.m. on Feb 8, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/08/giving-without-asking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F08%2Fgiving-without-asking.html" }, { "id": 3363, "type": "post", "title": "The look of desperation (#intel #benchmark #m1chip #apple)", "text": "\nI think Intel could have done better than this in a world without the M1 chip. But the problem is that the M1 chip is among us. Obviously, the carefully selected benchmarks results are published to people who doesn’t know about Apple. It’s an issue of perception manipulation. Apple is only getting started. Intel is freaking out and look desperate. 2021 will make matters even worse.\nAnother one with a look of desperation: Facebook because of iOS 14.4 tracking exposure to the users.\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-08 07:02:45 -0500", "date": "7:02 p.m. on Feb 8, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/08/the-look-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F08%2Fthe-look-of.html" }, { "id": 3364, "type": "post", "title": "The iPad legitimacy (#apple #iPad #computer)", "text": "\nMatt Birchler is writing yet another post about the iPad. The last paragraph (emphasis is mine):\n“We live in a world where we’re surrounded by computers. People have a home computer, a work computer, a phone, a watch, a smart TV, and smart speakers. Hell, even the iPad’s harshest critics often have one that they use for watching video and playing games. The iPad is the only device in that list that some people mandate has feature parity with another item on that list.”\nThat is so true. I never thought about it this way. Why do we need to constantly compare the iPad to other computing devices to find its legitimacy? For me, the iPad is one of the best computing device of all time. There is nothing like it, it is singular.\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-06 15:56:58 -0500", "date": "3:56 p.m. on Feb 6, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/06/the-ipad-legitimacy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F06%2Fthe-ipad-legitimacy.html" }, { "id": 3365, "type": "post", "title": "It’s Rosetta 2’s fault (#apple #rosetta2 #bigsur)", "text": "\nAccording to a recent small survey by AppleInsider, 53% of apps are running natively on M1-powered Macs. What about the remaining 47%? Well:\n“Without native support, they\u0026rsquo;re run in Rosetta 2 emulation. That may conceivably turn out to mean that they run faster than they did on old Intel hardware, but it\u0026rsquo;s not why you\u0026rsquo;ve bought an Apple Silicon Mac.”\nOne of the problem is that Apple’s Rosetta 2 is too good at running non-native apps. It’s so good that they can run faster than on an Intel-powered Mac.\nA lot of things are on developer’s shoulders. There are enthusiastic developers and then there are the lazy one. The former rush to add M1 support for their apps even if the performance gain is negligible. The latter either doesn’t care, think it’s good enough or they don’t have full control of the software stack they use to build their apps. Think about the Electron framework. It does support the M1-powered Macs. Developers need to upgrade their apps to take advantage of the latest Apple technologies. An example if the email client for HEY. The last update came in September of last year.\nAs someone who use both, native and non-native apps, on my M1-powered Mac mini, I don’t see much difference, most of the time. Apps like Lightroom CC or Pixelmator Pro do show a big improvement in many operations. But for the rest? Again, Rosetta 2 is doing a marvellous job and the whole experience on Big Sur with M1 is really good.\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-06 13:47:59 -0500", "date": "1:47 p.m. on Feb 6, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/06/its-rosetta-s.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F06%2Fits-rosetta-s.html" }, { "id": 3366, "type": "post", "title": "On the Lack of Safari’s extensions support (#apple #safariextension #browserextension)", "text": "\nIt’s becoming quite frustrating to see Apple’s Safari not being supported for browser extensions. Safari is now reportedly supporting standard web extensions but with an Apple twist making it cumbersome for developers to add support. Apple being Apple, I think it is related to the requirement of having to download an application in order to be able to expose an extension to Safari’s engine. Thanks to privacy protection, Apple is forcing the game here, but this has real consequences.\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-05 08:44:00 -0500", "date": "8:44 p.m. on Feb 5, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/05/on-the-lack.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F05%2Fon-the-lack.html" }, { "id": 3367, "type": "post", "title": "Apps cannot be installed errors (#appstore #apple #bug)", "text": "\nSince running macOS Big Sur, I quite often get these “Unable to Download App” error when trying to update my apps on my M1-based Mac mini. I need to try a few times or even reboot the machine in order to fix this issue. The app is being downloaded, but the installation phase is failing at the very end. Version 11.2 of Big Sur didn’t fix the issue. And it’s not related to an app being open or in use.\nIs anyone getting these too? It’s kind of annoying.\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-05 06:55:38 -0500", "date": "6:55 p.m. on Feb 5, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/05/apps-cannot-be.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F05%2Fapps-cannot-be.html" }, { "id": 3368, "type": "post", "title": "Desktop vs Laptop vs Mobile vs Tablet (#blog #bloggerlife #analytics)", "text": "Here is something absolutely fascinating and surprising to me. According to my main blog’s visitors statistics, thanks to my recent switch to Plausible, over the last thirty days, the distribution of devices type used to visit my blog puts the tablet far behind the desktop, the laptop and the smartphone. One would think the tablet form factor to be much more popular.\nThe iPad is massively popular. I’m still in love with this form factor after all these years. These numbers doesn’t jive.\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-04 21:29:06 -0500", "date": "9:29 p.m. on Feb 4, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/04/desktop-vs-laptop.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F04%2Fdesktop-vs-laptop.html" }, { "id": 3369, "type": "post", "title": "Apple’s macOS Big Sur updates on the path of iOS updates? (#apple #macos #bigsur)", "text": "\nAfter the release yesterday of macOS Big Sur 11.2, Apple today released the first beta of macOS Big Sur 11.3. It does look like macOS is following the trails of iOS with updates that brings many small features, improvements and tweaks. We’re not used to that, as before Big Sur, macOS updates used to be mostly about bug fixes. I’m happy to see Apple change course for macOS, if this update is any indication.\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-02 21:37:28 -0500", "date": "9:37 p.m. on Feb 2, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/02/apples-macos-big.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F02%2Fapples-macos-big.html" }, { "id": 3370, "type": "post", "title": "And here goes beta 1 of iOS 14.5 (#apple #ios14.5)", "text": "\niOS 14.5 beta 1 is out today with a slew of new features and small tweaks. Unlocking your iPhone while wearing a face mask, thanks to your Apple Watch, falls in the category of “finally” moments. In the tweaks category, the Apple logo of an iPad booting up iPadOS “finally” follows the device’s orientation. Updates to Apple Card too to support shared cards. Now, if only this could come to Canada!\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-01 20:01:10 -0500", "date": "8:01 p.m. on Feb 1, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/01/and-here-goes.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F01%2Fand-here-goes.html" }, { "id": 3371, "type": "post", "title": "Our secret? Optimizing workflows (#blogger #writer #tools)", "text": "\nI like to see other people talk about their own writing or blogging workflows. Here’s an interesting tidbit from Greg Morris about using Apple’s Shortcut to publish to WordPress:\n“Shortcuts is a really robust way to publish to WordPress and not have to use the WordPress app or third-party app.”\nApple’s Shortcuts are also an important part of my blogger workflow. Since I’m using Ulysses, which supports publishing directly to WordPress, I don’t need a shortcut for that. But for many other small things, it is a valuable tool in my arsenal. Shortcuts are an interesting technology within the iOS and iPadOS ecosystem.\n", "dateiso": "2021-02-01 13:24:21 -0500", "date": "1:24 p.m. on Feb 1, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/02/01/our-secret-optimizing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F02%2F01%2Four-secret-optimizing.html" }, { "id": 3372, "type": "post", "title": "Design is how it works (#apple #design #ux #ui)", "text": " From John Gruber’s Apple report card:\n\u0026ldquo;I’m reminded of all the UI and interaction designs and changes in iOS and MacOS that are just bad. There’s a real sense that _ Apple’s current HI team, under Alan Dye, is a “design is what it looks like” group, not a “design is how it works” group_. Exhibit A: What MacOS 11 Big Sur has done to document proxy icons. Arguably it looks better to hide them. (I disagree, but I can see the counterargument.) Inarguably, they work far worse now — harder to use for people who use them, and much harder to discover for people who don’t yet know about them.\u0026rdquo;\nGruber often has an effective way of putting out his take on Apple’s issues. If you look and use macOS Big Sur for a while, you should get a feel that only the visual parts were redesigned, not the way it works in response to the user behaviour. Big difference.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-31 20:09:00 -0500", "date": "8:09 p.m. on Jan 31, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/31/design-is-how.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F31%2Fdesign-is-how.html" }, { "id": 3373, "type": "post", "title": "Apple in 2020 (#review #apple #appletv)", "text": "\nReally insightful score card report from Six Colors. Take out for me: Apple TV is the new 2013 Mac Pro.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-30 20:50:48 -0500", "date": "8:50 p.m. on Jan 30, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/30/apple-in-review.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F30%2Fapple-in-review.html" }, { "id": 3374, "type": "post", "title": "What the hell is going on with Flickr? (#Flickr #photography)", "text": "\nThis morning I got the most recent update to the venerable photo sharing service: Flickr. The only addition to this update, support for iOS 14 widgets. Finally! It’s quite a change from the usual “Bug fixes and improvements.”. Even if I’m no longer actively using Flickr, I was happy to see that widgets were finally supported. So, I frantically updated the apps to have a look at the possibilities. What a let down. Sure, all three sizes are supported, but we cannot change any widget settings! How about being able to set the source for pictures or even stats or anything! Nope. I call this pathetic.\nNo wonder why I left Flickr and services like Unsplash took over the world. Over the years and during its tumultuous history, Flickr was a series of promises left without real and deep actions to transform the platform. They brag about having two million groups. It takes just a few minutes to see that a vast majority of these groups are ghost towns. And don’t get me started with the general design of the app and the website.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-30 09:24:17 -0500", "date": "9:24 p.m. on Jan 30, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/30/what-the-hell.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F30%2Fwhat-the-hell.html" }, { "id": 3375, "type": "post", "title": "Today is about data privacy (#privacy #dataprivacy #privacyprotection #apple)", "text": "\nToday, January 28th, is data privacy day. I didn’t know that. Now I know, thanks to Mr. Phillip Schiller. I paid a visit to Apple’s privacy web page. What I found is a super nicely designed page with highlights of Apple’s ecosystem privacy focused features. To me, Apple’s privacy stance is a product, not a feature.\n“Privacy is a fundamental human right. At Apple, it’s also one of our core values. Your devices are important to so many parts of your life. What you share from those experiences, and who you share it with, should be up to you. We design Apple products to protect your privacy and give you control over your information. It’s not always easy. But that’s the kind of innovation we believe in.” — Apple\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-28 07:11:22 -0500", "date": "7:11 p.m. on Jan 28, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/28/today-is-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F28%2Ftoday-is-about.html" }, { "id": 3376, "type": "post", "title": "I could play with this forever (#snowflakegenerator)", "text": "\nPlease, do yourself a favour and go to this website, a snowflake generator. If you like winter, it will make you smile a bit.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-27 19:52:30 -0500", "date": "7:52 p.m. on Jan 27, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/27/i-could-play.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F27%2Fi-could-play.html" }, { "id": 3377, "type": "post", "title": "What is worst than Facebook? (#privacy #privacyprotection)", "text": "\nApple made mandatory privacy protection “nutrition” labels on its App Store. One guy refuses to update its apps since then: Google. Maybe they are even worst than Facebook if such a thing is even possible. Was Google caught by surprise? Highly impossible. They had many months to prepare for that. When your business model highly depends on sucking all users data, it’s hard to escape suspicion.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-27 07:22:00 -0500", "date": "7:22 p.m. on Jan 27, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/27/what-is-worst.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F27%2Fwhat-is-worst.html" }, { "id": 3378, "type": "post", "title": "On Tweetbot 6 update (@tweetbot #update #subscription)", "text": "\nReally nice update (and unexpected) to my preferred Twitter client. Tweetbot version 6 received a refreshed design, full support for Twitter APIs v2 and cleans up unsupported features with latest APIs. Tweetbot startup is much faster than Twitter’s client and exposes a few features that aren’t available otherwise. Design-wise, Tweetbot contains a lot of nice touches throughout the app. Compared to that, Twitter’s own client feels uninspired.\nLike a growing number of apps recently introduced or updated, Tweetbot 6 now is subscription-based. I expect a few angry users but I’m not one of them. I find the pricing quite reasonable. I chose to go with the yearly subscription at 50% price reduction, a no brainer to me.\nTweetbot has recently returned as my go to Twitter client during my recent Twitter reset and I’m very happy with it.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-26 20:12:53 -0500", "date": "8:12 p.m. on Jan 26, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/26/on-tweetbot-update.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F26%2Fon-tweetbot-update.html" }, { "id": 3379, "type": "post", "title": "Being robbed, again (#stealing #robbing) ", "text": "\nSomeone stoled my most recent article. I hate when this happens. I guess my article was good enough for this guy to bother.\nThis morning, I got a pingback on WordPress for an article being published elsewhere as shown below.\nSomeone copied my latest article “The Ultimate Twitter Tips and Tricks for Mastering Your Twitter Experience”. By doing so, he forgot to remove one of the URL pointing back to another previously published article, “My Review of Mailbrew: a Powerful and Time-Saving Internet Information Aggregator”, I was notified via a pingback. I paid a visit to the “publisher” and sure enough, 90% of my article was reproduced. The guy removed the screenshots but left the captions (weird). The title was modified too. The conclusion was removed. Here is what I wrote to the “published”:\nI also posted the same thing on the comment section but comments being moderate, I don’t think the guy will republish them. I will see what happens. This is the second time this happens to me.\nMeanwhile, The Startup magazine on Medium accepted my article submission. More than 750K followers can see it from the magazine homepage. 😃\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-26 07:22:34 -0500", "date": "7:22 p.m. on Jan 26, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/26/being-robbed-again.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F26%2Fbeing-robbed-again.html" }, { "id": 3380, "type": "post", "title": "The challenges with online speech and publishing (#socialnetworks #socialmedia #platforms)", "text": "\nA recent article by Benedict Evans exposes how hard it is to “fix” social networks.\n“The internet and then social platforms break a lot of our definitions of different kinds of speech, and yet somehow Facebook / Google / Twitter are supposed to recreate that whole 200-year tapestry of implicit structures and consensus, and answer all of those questions, from office parks in the San Francisco Bay Area, for both the USA and Myanmar, right now. We want them to Fix It, but we don\u0026rsquo;t actually know what that means.”\nI often think about issues that platforms like Facebook brings to our society. I don’t pretend to have any solution. I can’t quite define what Facebook is actually from a societal point of view. That being said, a lack of definition and understanding cannot prevent me to wish for things to be done differently. And I have one simple wish.\nI want the eradication of algorithm-based feeds. I want them to be regulated, prohibited even. At the very least, it should be an opt-in “feature”. I want the return of chronological feeds. No tweaks, no tricks, nothing more. Nothing less. I want all people to have a look at the same reality. Two people having the exact same followers and following the same guys should give the same timeline. Period.\nWithout hyper-manipulated feeds, we have to wonder about the usefulness of all gathered data about us and our behaviours. Maybe ads targeting doesn’t make as much sense in tact hypothetical context.\nIf two people don’t see the same thing, it’s because the choice was made by an individual wishing to control his or her exposure, not by a corporation’s algorithm or an arbitrary group of people.\nThat’s my wish. Let’s try it and see if things change for the better.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-24 16:02:00 -0500", "date": "4:02 p.m. on Jan 24, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/24/the-challenges-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F24%2Fthe-challenges-with.html" }, { "id": 3381, "type": "post", "title": "If true… (#apple #timcook #theclown) ", "text": "\n… I want to scream, I want to puke. Not Tim Cook’s best gift.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-24 15:55:56 -0500", "date": "3:55 p.m. on Jan 24, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/24/if-true-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F24%2Fif-true-apple.html" }, { "id": 3382, "type": "post", "title": "That one was hard (#blogging #writing #article) ", "text": "\nI just published one of my most difficult to write article in a long time. It is about transforming your Twitter experience to make it more focused, enjoyable, tailored to your personal interests. I’ve been working on it for the last few months. Along the way of writing this long piece, my Twitter experience was profoundly changed. I’m pretty happy with the end results. If you’re on Twitter, consider giving a look to this guide. Hope you’ll like it.\n“The Ultimate Twitter Tips and Tricks for Mastering Your Twitter Experience”\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-24 09:48:23 -0500", "date": "9:48 p.m. on Jan 24, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/24/that-one-was.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F24%2Fthat-one-was.html" }, { "id": 3383, "type": "post", "title": "@numericcitizen on Clubhouse (#clubhouse) ", "text": "\nI’m always curious to try new things, especially in the numeric world. In the case of Clubhouse, I don\u0026rsquo;t know if it’s a good idea. I’m curious to try it out, anyway. I wonder how it will compare to Twitter’s Spaces, currently in limited beta. Now, waiting for an invite.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-22 20:25:48 -0500", "date": "8:25 p.m. on Jan 22, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/22/numericcitizen-on-clubhouse.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F22%2Fnumericcitizen-on-clubhouse.html" }, { "id": 3384, "type": "post", "title": "Dear bloggers, let’s not forget about the link posts (#blogging #writing) ", "text": "\nIn “A Love Letter to the Link Post”, CJ Chilvers lament the lost of link posts from the blogosphere. Link posts marked the debut of so many websites raison d’être back in the nineties:\n“At that time, they weren’t even called blogs. You’d simply update the front page of your website every day with a few interesting links you discovered since the day before.”\nI love link posts. I follow many bloggers just to have a peek at their discoveries and comments about them. A big portion of my monthly Numeric Citizen Introspection newsletter is built around sharing a curated content of links that I find interesting. They generally fit within the boundaries of my deep interests. Link posts within newsletters = 🥰\nIn summary := Link posts \u0026gt; comments on a social network.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-21 07:02:02 -0500", "date": "7:02 p.m. on Jan 21, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/21/dear-bloggers-lets.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F21%2Fdear-bloggers-lets.html" }, { "id": 3385, "type": "post", "title": "My daytime job reality (#IT #computerscience #tech) ", "text": "\nFirst, do me a favour, watch this YouTube video (less than 8 minutes of your time), then come back. You probably know that I’m working in IT as my official day jobs. I’ve been working on a project in the last 18 months to assist and direct one of our customer to implement a disaster recovery plan. This is not a trivial thing, generally speaking. In that particular case, it was an exercise of extreme frustration all along. If you did watch this YouTube video, this is me, the expert. So spot on. No wonder IT projects can’t be finished on time with so many bozos around the table.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-19 20:02:27 -0500", "date": "8:02 p.m. on Jan 19, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/19/my-daytime-job.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F19%2Fmy-daytime-job.html" }, { "id": 3386, "type": "post", "title": "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication (#apple #airpodsmax) ", "text": "\niFixit completed their usual teardown of one of Apple’s latest product. This time, the AirPods Max were taken apart. This thing is so complicated! No wonder why we pay $550 for. It is fascinating to see how such a device from the outside is so complicated in the inside. This makes me think of the Apple Pencil exterior beauty but interior complexity. I still love mine, even if I’m not an audiophile. 🤓\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-19 19:44:37 -0500", "date": "7:44 p.m. on Jan 19, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/19/simplicity-is-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F19%2Fsimplicity-is-the.html" }, { "id": 3387, "type": "post", "title": "Another Massive Update to @CraftDocsApp (#craft #writer #writing #blogging #tools) ", "text": "\nWhat a pleasant surprise today: a big update to Craft was released. Version 1.2.2 brings a lot of improvements on the table. This release should have been numbered version 1.3, not 1.2.2! All platforms (iPad and macOS) received attention and improvements. One of the most important thing for me being the addition of direct export to Ulysses, DayOne, OmniFocus among others. We could already export in TextBundle or PDF and Word but these exports options, I feel my data can freely move out of the platform. My blogger workflow is simplified.\nI’m still working on my review of Craft by the way. It takes longer than I would have liked. Stay tuned.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-18 19:38:44 -0500", "date": "7:38 p.m. on Jan 18, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/18/another-massive-update.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F18%2Fanother-massive-update.html" }, { "id": 3388, "type": "post", "title": "Apple is Undoing the MacBook Pro (#apple #macbookpro #rumours) ", "text": "\nBye bye dear TouchBar. Hello MagSafe power connector. Here’s some more ports. Rumours are pointing toward the same thing. Apple will revert many of its controversial decision of the last five years. Many will be pleased. Function is winning over form. I think Apple is following the trend they started with the 2019 Mac Pro which essentially erasing five years of non sense with the 2013 Mac Pro. Apple is fully back to the Mac. And down on earth, with all of us.\nClearly, actual creatives and professionals disagree with Apple’s soul-searching because if all of these rumors come to fruition, Apple will be returning to what was already considered the MacBook Pro’s zenith. Coupled with Apple Silicon and Apple could experience Mac growth that it ceded to PC laptops during these past years of stumbling. — Raymond Wong for Input magazine\nSomething we won’t get, though: a touch screen. We can’t have it all, right?\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-17 20:02:17 -0500", "date": "8:02 p.m. on Jan 17, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/17/apple-is-undoing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F17%2Fapple-is-undoing.html" }, { "id": 3389, "type": "post", "title": "Improving my Apple Watch Heartbeat Readings (#applewatch)", "text": "\nSince getting my Apple Series 6 last fall (see my review here), my heart readings aren’t working as expected. I’m not alone who is experiencing this problem (just google it!). During a workout, heartbeats readings are not available for the first 5 to 10 minutes into the workout. On a 30-minute workout, it can make a big difference.\nI think I found a way to greatly improve the heartbeats readings. Simply by wearing my Apple Watch as shown on the picture above. I must say that it is not perfect. As shown below, I do get a few minutes of lost readings, though, but not as much as before. The problem could be related to the presence on some fur on my front arm. Also, always making sure the Apple Watch band is tied close enough to the wrist is a must.\nAre you experiencing the same issue? Let me know if you permanently fixed it.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-17 16:29:00 -0500", "date": "4:29 p.m. on Jan 17, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/17/improving-my-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F17%2Fimproving-my-apple.html" }, { "id": 3390, "type": "post", "title": "The Insurmountable Problem for Intel (#intel #apple #applesilicon)", "text": "\nLet’s start with a quote from Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger (as reported by The Oregonian)\n\u0026ldquo;We have to deliver better products to the PC ecosystem than any possible thing that a lifestyle company in Cupertino. We have to be that good, in the future.\u0026rdquo;\nThe fundamental problem with Intel is that they will never make the whole widget (the products) like Apple does. That\u0026rsquo;s the key for insanely great products. Intel\u0026rsquo;s CPU are small enablers at best. The vertical integration of the whole stack (hardware, OS, apps, services) makes what Apple is all about. There is no way for Intel to emulate that by cooperating with hundreds of OEMs.\nSorry, Pat, nice try.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-16 19:43:00 -0500", "date": "7:43 p.m. on Jan 16, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/16/the-insurmountable-problem.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F16%2Fthe-insurmountable-problem.html" }, { "id": 3391, "type": "post", "title": "Telegram a Signal to iMessage, Please (#messaging #privacy #apple #parler #signal #telegram) ", "text": "\nDHH on Twitter seems happy that the messaging app, Signal, finally has its moment. I don’t really know about Signal, but I do know about another one, Telegram. Now that Parler is out of this world, I’m wondering if people prefer Signal over Telegram. Is Signal more secure than Telegram? According to this website, Telegram, is apparently not as secure as its maker pretends it is.\nNow, I’m wonder how these movements between messaging platforms would be affected if Apple decided to make iMessage cross-platform: on iOS, on macOS, on the web and on Android. Maybe this year the dynamic is different enough for Apple to make the move? Are they afraid that people will leave the iPhone if iMessage is available on Android? What is more sticky for the Apple ecosystem: the Music app or iMessage? In my opinion, iMessage is much more powerful than Music for keeping people inside Apple’s walled garden.\nReminder, you can find me on Telegram here.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-16 07:57:15 -0500", "date": "7:57 p.m. on Jan 16, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/16/telegram-a-signal.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F16%2Ftelegram-a-signal.html" }, { "id": 3392, "type": "post", "title": "Persistent Rumours about Upcoming MacBook Pro Redesign (#apple #macbookpro #m1chip #applesilicon)", "text": "\nThe latest report from MacRumors about Apple’s upcoming MacBook Pro redesign is quite interesting and intriguing.\nFirst, the removal of the TouchBar and the return of the MagSafe technology is utterly surprising. If this is the case, Apple would be undoing five years of design decisions. A side effect of the TouchBar removal would be a more competitive pricing of the MacBook Pro line.\nSecond, the rumour about Apple opting for an all-out flat edge design makes me think the new MacBook Pro would be similar to two iPad Pro linked together with a hinge. Obviously, the screen parts would be thinner than the lower body of the MacBook Pro. Intriguing.\nNow, if these rumours materialize, to me, it would mean that the current 13” MacBook Pro would be no longer necessary with a 14” model in its place. If that’s the case, the 13” MacBook Pro was only a transition and temporary move from Apple.\nWe are at the beginning of another exciting year for Apple.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-15 07:23:00 -0500", "date": "7:23 p.m. on Jan 15, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/15/persistent-rumours-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F15%2Fpersistent-rumours-about.html" }, { "id": 3393, "type": "post", "title": "Apple’s Big Moments (#apple #m1chip #intel #transitions) ", "text": "\nI like this quote from Ken Segall:\n\u0026ldquo;In 2005, Apple moved to Intel to gain equality. In 2020, it’s moved away from Intel to gain superiority.\u0026rdquo;\nI remember so well when Apple announced their move in 2005. It is a privilege to have witnessed all these big Apple’s moments. Many interesting thoughts about these transformative transitions in this article. Must read.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-14 06:50:20 -0500", "date": "6:50 p.m. on Jan 14, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/14/apples-big-moments.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F14%2Fapples-big-moments.html" }, { "id": 3394, "type": "post", "title": "Mailbrew is getter better and better (#mailbrew #newsletters) ", "text": "\nMailbrew received a big update this week. The change log is pretty extensive. The most important change is that the home page and the whole user experience for that matter is now more about reading your digests than the brews edit view. I like this change a lot. Digests are presented in the order they were received. You can go from one issue to another easily for a specific brew. You can also select a specific brew to see associated digests. The reading experience is better overall compared to HEY’s Feed view. The only missing thing is a “save clip” option.\nBeside links to external content, within a digest, when it is appropriate, there is a button for entering a reader view. In this view, a minimalist browser will let the reader immerse himself to limit distractions. It reminds me of the Safari reader view. There is always the save button available to put aside an article in case you don’t have time to read it at the moment. Mailbrew provides a separate list for those saved items.\nThere are a ton of other small change and improvements. Sharing our brews is easier. Sharing a digest also is closer at hand. All in all, this is a solid update to an already excellent service. You can read my initial review of Mailbrew here. If you want to subscribe, please do me a favour and use this link.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-13 07:18:13 -0500", "date": "7:18 p.m. on Jan 13, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/13/mailbrew-is-getter.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F13%2Fmailbrew-is-getter.html" }, { "id": 3395, "type": "post", "title": "Optimizing my blogger workflow (#writing #tools #workflow) ", "text": "\nThis is a test with (redacted) currently in alpha, which introduces support for posting to Micro.blog. I’m a big user of (redacted). This new feature alone could significantly enhance and simplified my blogger workflow. I\u0026rsquo;ve been waiting for this feature for a long time. When the update is ready, on iPad or the Mac, it means that I’ll be able to start the initial writing in Craft, then export to (redacted) using the TextBundle format, finish the editing in (redacted), then publish to Micro.blog. On the Mac, the same sequence applies, rendering MarsEdit unnecessary. How cool is that? Optimizing my workflow is very satisfying. 😎👨🏻‍💻\n_This is a first post with (redacted), things could break. _\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-12 21:41:53 -0500", "date": "9:41 p.m. on Jan 12, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/12/optimizing-my-blogger.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F12%2Foptimizing-my-blogger.html" }, { "id": 3396, "type": "post", "title": "A fix is coming (#apple #M1macmini #bluetooth)", "text": " At long last, relief is in sight. My M1 Mac mini is not able to keep a stable Bluetooth connection with Apple’s Magic Keyboard and Magic Mouse. It’s very frustrating. While waiting for a permanent fix, I’m using a USB PC mouse, and I keep my Magic Keyboard connected via a USB-C to lightning cable connected on my LG Ultra Fine 4K monitor. What a messy experience for such a small performance wonder.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-12 11:36:08 -0500", "date": "11:36 p.m. on Jan 12, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/12/a-fix-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F12%2Fa-fix-is.html" }, { "id": 3397, "type": "post", "title": "Mac sales booming but the best is yet to come (#apple #m1mac #applesilicon)", "text": " Thanks to the small wonder, the M1 chip and the Apple silicon transition, Mac sales are booming. According to a recent IDC report, Mac sales are up by nearly 30% compared to the same period, a year ago. Apple\u0026rsquo;s market share increased globally by 1%, which is quite impressive for Apple.\nMy take: I have the feeling that we ain\u0026rsquo;t see nothing yet. As the work-from-home trend continues, with the rest of the MacBook Pro line still to transition to the M1 chip, a long-awaited redesiged iMac, 2021 could be a monster year for the Mac and Apple. And beyong 2021 and the pandemic? Ask Horace Dediu.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-12 09:58:05 -0500", "date": "9:58 p.m. on Jan 12, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/12/mac-sales-booming.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F12%2Fmac-sales-booming.html" }, { "id": 3398, "type": "post", "title": "Programming, mathematics and brain activities (#research #computers #computerscience)", "text": " What does it take to be a hood programmer? Or better yet, what does it take to like programming hence writing or reading algorithms? Math? Language? Arts? A combination? When I started in computer science at the University, my friends thought that I was good at maths. It wasn\u0026rsquo;t the case. Before deciding which field I would like to study, I was afraid of computer science, thinking myself that we had to be really good with mathematics. My experience shows that it is not the case. I\u0026rsquo;m average at maths but good at programming and in computer science in general. Is it surprising? According to this article, no. In fact, computer programming isn\u0026rsquo;t the same thing as doing maths from a brain activity perspective. It is more like something very demanding where a totally different part of the brain is solicited. Fascinating. It may (or may not) explain why you can be good in computer science but not as good in mathematics. Who knows.\nBy having a better understanding of what parts of the brain are solicited, we may find common ground with other disciplines. It is really hard to attract people in computer science and knowing what it takes from a brain perspective could help direct efforts of recruiting the right people who will like to read and write algorythms but are not good at maths!\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-11 18:47:20 -0500", "date": "6:47 p.m. on Jan 11, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/11/programming-mathematics-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F11%2Fprogramming-mathematics-and.html" }, { "id": 3399, "type": "post", "title": "Ten Reasons to love RSS feeds (#rss #openstandard)", "text": " Alan Ralph, in a blog post, exposes ten reasons why he loves RSS feeds. I agree on all accounts. When I look closer, it all comes down to: control. Control is something we don\u0026rsquo;t have these days on social networks and social media. We live in a numeric world full of algorithmically-generated feeds and content. We lose control of our feeds. George Orwell was right.\nRSS feed, a simple and open standard, is the key, within an RSS reader, of a more open and user-centered and mostly ads-free Internet. RSS feeds are important.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-10 20:09:38 -0500", "date": "8:09 p.m. on Jan 10, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/10/ten-reasons-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F10%2Ften-reasons-to.html" }, { "id": 3400, "type": "post", "title": "On the original iPhone, back in 2007 (#apple #iPhone #blackberry)", "text": " Thirteen years already. Gosh, time flies. Steve Jobs announces the iPhone. One of his best presentation. I remember it so well. At that time, I was a huge user (and fan) of the Blackberry. After using a RIM two-way pager for a while, I upgraded to Blackberry with a bigger screen with a monochrome display. But, with the iPhone, I knew, deep within me, this would be a real game-changer. My feelings were the same as with the launch of the Macintosh. What I didn\u0026rsquo;t know, though, was how profound and long-lasting the iPhone-effect would be on the rest of the tech world. We still feel its effect these days. I had to wait until the iPhone 3GS, in 2009, to get my hands on one for my personal use. I was still using a Blackberry for the office. Yep, I had two smartphones with me all the time.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-10 09:01:37 -0500", "date": "9:01 p.m. on Jan 10, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/10/on-the-original.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F10%2Fon-the-original.html" }, { "id": 3401, "type": "post", "title": "How to turn me off big time (#signin #services #facebooklogin)", "text": " What\u0026rsquo;s out for 2021? These \u0026ldquo;Connect with Facebook\u0026rdquo; screen. Please, stop doing that. It\u0026rsquo;s 2021. If a service, in order to create a new account, offers a \u0026ldquo;Connect with Facebook\u0026rdquo;, it is a no go for me, no mather if alternatives are provided. Facebook is like cancer. Period.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-09 21:53:59 -0500", "date": "9:53 p.m. on Jan 9, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/09/how-to-turn.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F09%2Fhow-to-turn.html" }, { "id": 3402, "type": "post", "title": "Unsplash is growing fast — and I like it even more! (@unsplash #photography)", "text": " Unsplash started the year 2021 with a bang; they are introducing a visual search feature. How cool is that! Use cases for this feature are aplenty. Imagine you come across a great picture on Unsplash and would like to see if there are any more variants of it. Here comes the new visual search feature. Here is another one that could be a game-changer. Suppose you happen to find a picture online that is tied by a very restrictive license. Copy this image URL and paste it in the visual search of Unsplash to see if there are any similar pictures. Voilà! As the Unsplash library doubles every year, the probability of finding an alternative image increases. Lastly, the visual search feature helps you determine if a specific image on the way comes from Unsplash. It is useful to find the creator of the image when no credits are given.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-08 12:08:24 -0500", "date": "12:08 p.m. on Jan 8, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/08/unsplash-is-growing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F08%2Funsplash-is-growing.html" }, { "id": 3403, "type": "post", "title": "Next week - back to a \"normal\" day job (#blogging #writing #personalnews)", "text": " Next week marks the end of a three-week vacation. I\u0026rsquo;m lucky. Three weeks where I forgot about my work and became a full-time blogger, writer, content creator. Time flies. There is a need for normality, I guess, and this means returning to work.\nExpect a less frequent publishing schedule. Don\u0026rsquo;t worry; I won\u0026rsquo;t go very far, thanks to our new confinement and curfew starting this very Saturday. Oh well.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-07 17:21:57 -0500", "date": "5:21 p.m. on Jan 7, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/07/next-week-back.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F07%2Fnext-week-back.html" }, { "id": 3404, "type": "post", "title": "About My Friday Notes on @Medium (#writing #blogging #medium)", "text": "Today, I decided to remove my Friday Notes stories from Medium paywall. In other words, you can read them without paying a penny to Medium. They can be found here, in my Numeric Citizen Tidbits Newsletter. Please, if you like \u0026rsquo;em, give \u0026rsquo;em some hands claps! Thanks.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-07 12:21:27 -0500", "date": "12:21 p.m. on Jan 7, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/07/about-my-friday.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F07%2Fabout-my-friday.html" }, { "id": 3405, "type": "post", "title": "Use case for multi-user support on iPad (#apple #ipadOS #iPad)", "text": " In his predictions for iPad in 2021, iPadInsight puts multi-user support on top of its list for iPadOS 15 without mentionning a real use case beyond the obvious. Let me explain.\nDo we ask multi-user support on iPad because it is something we take for granted on \u0026ldquo;traditional\u0026rdquo; computers? Or is because there is a real use case for that feature, beyond the classroom or the conference room? Does the multi-user support solve the problem of your friend borrowing your iPad while keeping him or her from seeing your stuff?\nEnabling multi-user support on the iPad has profound implications. How would the instant-on, instant-use experience be impacted by having multi-user enabled? Is the security enclave capable of holding more than one user FaceID? How iCloud Drive data be handled if users both have their data in icloud, the same way as on macOS? What about apps collections being different from one user to the other, how the iPad homescreen change upon logoff-logon? How fast? What kind of pressure does this feature put on the iPad system memory? Would this feature enabled on the Pro line only?\nFor me, the iPad is a personal device, just like the iPhone. Apple likes it this way, for their bottom line. That\u0026rsquo;s my guess.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-07 10:20:41 -0500", "date": "10:20 p.m. on Jan 7, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/07/use-case-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F07%2Fuse-case-for.html" }, { "id": 3406, "type": "post", "title": "Another wild Microsoft rumour about Outlook (#microsoft #rumours #outlook #office365)", "text": " Here is another wild one: Microsoft is reportedly working on making Outlook a progressive web application for all platforms. Progressive web application isn\u0026rsquo;t new and Microsoft already makes a version of Outlook in this format. What is new is that it would replace all native versions of the Outlook client: no more are native versions of Outlook for Windows or the Mac.\nI’m not sure if this is good or bad news. I’m always wary about cross-platform tech. There is always something lost in translation. The other question that comes to my mind, why is Microsoft moving way from native applications in its ecosystem?\nYet, not all is lost, a good side effect of this move would be to reduce memory consumption on the client. As use can see in this tweet, the native version of Outlook can use large chunk of your computer memory.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-06 13:54:05 -0500", "date": "1:54 p.m. on Jan 6, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/06/another-wild-microsoft.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F06%2Fanother-wild-microsoft.html" }, { "id": 3407, "type": "post", "title": "The port-less iPhone is coming (#apple #iPhone #rumours)", "text": " With patents like this, we can see clearly into Apple’s vision for the future of the iPhone. Apple is committed to remove the Lightning port from its iPhone line. I don\u0026rsquo;t expect them to go through USB-C. This is Apple. By adding more ways to charge without contacts, Apple removes the friction points off the user experience in a world of port-less iPhone.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-06 10:33:32 -0500", "date": "10:33 p.m. on Jan 6, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/06/the-portless-iphone.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F06%2Fthe-portless-iphone.html" }, { "id": 3408, "type": "post", "title": " About this rumoured big Windows visual overhaul (#microsoft #windows)", "text": " If only Microsoft could finish the job started with Windows 7. Windows 10 user interface is a bunch of previously used visual elements that Microsoft doesn\u0026rsquo;t care to clean up. For example, consider the computer settings area. On the surface, the iconography speaks the recent visual langague defined by Microsoft. But, as you try to go deeper to change a less frequently used setting, you\u0026rsquo;re back to a pre-Windows 10 era. I don\u0026rsquo;t believe Microsoft will do this \u0026ldquo;major\u0026rdquo; refresh as recently reported by Windows Central, not in a way they refused to do in the last ten years, anyway.\nAs a side note, colour me Apple fanboy if you want, but many pundits will grumble when Apple is actually refreshing the user interface like they did with macOS Big Sur (or iOS 7, remember?). At least, it is either consistently clean or consistently ugly, depending of your aestheticism tastes. You won\u0026rsquo;t as easily find a macOS Yosemite visual asset in macOS Big Sur or even macOS Catalina. Inconsistencies do exist in macOS but they are usually limited to very specific visual tweaks (like to trafic lights placements).\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-05 15:52:49 -0500", "date": "3:52 p.m. on Jan 5, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/05/about-this-rumoured.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F05%2Fabout-this-rumoured.html" }, { "id": 3409, "type": "post", "title": "Wordpress.com: six years already (@wordpress #blogger #bloggerlife)", "text": " I got this notification in the Wordpress.app this morning. Six years already. Over the years, I became a paying subcriber of their Business plan. Automattic offers great support when you need it. But in the least year or so, I noticed a change in the way they do business with us, paying members. There are a lot of reminders about additional services available to us. which aren\u0026rsquo;t free, by the way. They keep advertising their ExactMetrics service that I don\u0026rsquo;t need with tricks that I don\u0026rsquo;t appreciate as shown in the second screen shot above. Recently, they started to advertise WordPress courses on the main admin page on WordPress.com. I really don\u0026rsquo;t like the trend. And this story by Alan Ralph doesn\u0026rsquo;t help either.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-05 13:31:15 -0500", "date": "1:31 p.m. on Jan 5, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/05/wordpresscom-six-years.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F05%2Fwordpresscom-six-years.html" }, { "id": 3410, "type": "post", "title": "Thoughts on Flash and the iPad (#apple #iPad #adobeflash)", "text": " I want to pick from this blog post from Initial Charge. I remember a small story when the iPad came out in 2010. After a few days of playing with it, I went to the office to show it to a few of my coworkers when I got my iPad. After a few minutes of demonstration, I got two remarks. One was about the lack of a USB port. The second was about the lack of support for Flash-enabled websites. On that one complaint, I remember arguing about the simple fact that moving your mouse cursor around would trigger some flash-based animations like making a button bigger or showing up a menu on many websites. There was no such thing as a “mouseover” event on the iPad, so those websites that were dependant on this would break the interaction experience. At this very moment, I thought Adobe Flash was doomed. More than ten years to get rid of this crasp. That was long.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-05 13:11:22 -0500", "date": "1:11 p.m. on Jan 5, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/05/thoughts-on-flash.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F05%2Fthoughts-on-flash.html" }, { "id": 3411, "type": "post", "title": "Don't forget about RSS feeds (#blogger #rss)", "text": " Paolo Amoroso writes on his blog:\nBack in the early days of blogging, the tech press bashed RSS out of existence as it was supposedly too complex for ordinary users. To the point new bloggers don't even know what RSS is, some recent blogging platforms don't support RSS, and the blogs of new startups sometimes don't provide RSS feeds. It\u0026rsquo;s a shame in a world where open standards are on the way out. RSS feeds are another important part of Podcasts, another open standard where big tech would like to monetize, i.e. make it proprietary.\nAmoroso continues: The readers who subscribe to your RSS feed always see all of your posts. No matter what Google, Facebook, or Twitter decide.\nA long time ago I decided my blogs feeds would push the complete content of the articles. As I don\u0026rsquo;t have ads on my blogs, I don\u0026rsquo;t really care if the readers consume the content from the RSS feed only. RSS feeds are conduits who escape any algorithm-based feeds. It\u0026rsquo;s the most direct connexion between a blogger and their readers.\nFor the best part, Amaroso nails it: They are the readers you want. The superfans who share your work. They may be bloggers themselves and link to your posts from theirs, or enable other opportunities such as guest blogging or podcast interviews. Those few RSS subscribers are much more engaged and valuable than the many who don\u0026rsquo;t even click links on social media.\nIf you know how to use RSS, you\u0026rsquo;re my best friend, you are more then welcome.\nYou can find my main blog feed here. For my micro blog, the feed is here. Hope you enjoy.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-04 14:26:55 -0500", "date": "2:26 p.m. on Jan 4, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/04/dont-forget-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F04%2Fdont-forget-about.html" }, { "id": 3412, "type": "post", "title": "A new kind of goal for me - writer engagement (#writing #blogger #bloggerlife)", "text": " Writing is an important part of my life. It\u0026rsquo;s all about feeling creative, thinking, taking a pause of everything else. As a blogger, I like when people stop by and take the time to read my blog articles and then response with a comment. It doesn\u0026rsquo;t happen as often as I would like. I would say, one percent of my visitors will do it.\nFor 2021, I decided to set a new goal for myself: stopping by, taking the time to drop a meaningful comment on a blog post or an article from someone else. I call this goal writer engagement. Some platforms are easier to interact with than others. I like both Medium and Substack for this. Responding to an article or a newsletter is just a few clicks away.\nSo, today, I dropped two comments. One comment to a post from MG Siegler about writing more often on medium. The other comment about a way to consider the iPhone 12 Pro Max as a tool for photography, from a too technical point of view.\nSo, will you drop a comment today? Feel free to engage too and maybe start a conversation, why not!\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-04 12:12:41 -0500", "date": "12:12 p.m. on Jan 4, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/04/a-new-kind.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F04%2Fa-new-kind.html" }, { "id": 3413, "type": "post", "title": "Why I didn’t write a personal year in review for 2020 (#blogger #bloggerlife #writing)", "text": " The year 2020 came to an end without me posting my personal year in review. You might wonder why. I read many reviews in the last few days. Most of them are delightful to read as they contain gems about personal lessons learned, personal discoveries, etc. To write those reviews, you have to be prepared for that particular intention to write about it later. Without notes, it\u0026rsquo;s nearly impossible and takes too much time to prepare. It also would be too easy to miss essential tidbits.\nWhat about 2021? Good news, for 2021, I want to be ready. Now it\u0026rsquo;s the best time to get organized. All year long, I\u0026rsquo;ll be using the excellent notes taking application called Craft. I already started to put things down. The picture at the top of this post is a glimpse at my journaling space structure, where personal notes will be confined all year long. I\u0026rsquo;ll use a monthly section for each domain or theme I want to touch on in this future year in review. I\u0026rsquo;ll see where it goes.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-04 08:52:07 -0500", "date": "8:52 p.m. on Jan 4, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/04/why-i-didnt.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F04%2Fwhy-i-didnt.html" }, { "id": 3414, "type": "post", "title": "Pinboard, Pocket, Raindrop, Instapaper, Notion? Which tools is best for you? (#blogger #bloggertools #writers)", "text": " Alan Ralph on Why I Use Pinboard As My Reading List\nI’ve mentioned before that I use Pinboard for bookmarking webpages of interest so that I can refer to them later. I realize this might seem like an odd choice, given that there are more obvious candidates such as Pocket or Instapaper, so I’ve decided to summarize my reasoning I could add other apps and services like Raindrop (which I tried) or even Notion (which I love) as places to save bookmarks. It\u0026rsquo;s tempting to use more focused tools to fill a very specific part of a workflow. At the end of the day, it\u0026rsquo;s a matter of preference or workflow optimization (you can read about my recent workflow update).\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-04 08:21:07 -0500", "date": "8:21 p.m. on Jan 4, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/04/pinboard-pocket-raindrop.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F04%2Fpinboard-pocket-raindrop.html" }, { "id": 3415, "type": "post", "title": "I'm afraid your maths are right, @brentsimmons (#covid19 #vaccination #usa)", "text": " Brent Simmons trying to determine where the US should get back to normal. After some maths, he asks:\n“(Is any of my math wrong? There’s no point in being overly-precise here — but please tell me if I’ve made some error that changes things significantly.)” I\u0026rsquo;m afraid his maths are right, even if they aren\u0026rsquo;t precise. Things could change, though, after Biden is officially in his Office. Even though, change of government takes a lot of time in the US.\nI said it in the past: COVID-19 shows how weak the US is as a country to fight this non military war.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-03 13:36:32 -0500", "date": "1:36 p.m. on Jan 3, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/03/im-afraid-your.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F03%2Fim-afraid-your.html" }, { "id": 3416, "type": "post", "title": "So many questions lefts unanswered (#apple #iCloud #death #legacy)", "text": " In What to do about Apple devices and iCloud content when the owner dies from AppleInsider, there are so many unanswered questions. For example, are the requirements from Apple different from one country to another? Something critical when someone dies, having access to his or her smartphone with a PIN. Without it, the challenge is close to impossible to meet. That is one of the many requirements explained in A Guide for Preparing to Leave Your Numeric Legacy.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-03 13:28:15 -0500", "date": "1:28 p.m. on Jan 3, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/03/so-many-questions.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F03%2Fso-many-questions.html" }, { "id": 3417, "type": "post", "title": "Bluetooth issues is killing the M1 Mac mini wonder (#apple #applesilicon #m1ship)", "text": " Two times today, I had to restart my M1 Mac mini because of the bluetooth devices being unresponsive. macOS 11.1 came out late in December without a fix to this issue. My hope is that this can be fixed via a firmware update from Apple. I\u0026rsquo;m not alone. No fix in sight. Very frustrating. 🤬\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-02 09:47:12 -0500", "date": "9:47 p.m. on Jan 2, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/02/bluetooth-issues-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F02%2Fbluetooth-issues-is.html" }, { "id": 3418, "type": "post", "title": "Grading Apple's response to COVID-19 (#apple #covid19)", "text": "From Basic Apple Guy\u0026rsquo;s top 5 of 2020:\n“I appreciated the stewardship Apple has taken this year in balancing their product interests while also supporting the fight to respond to COVID-19.” Two things. First, Apple\u0026rsquo;s response to COVID-19 was and continue to be faultless. Some governments should take notes. Second, the closing-reopening-closing dance of their physical stores didn\u0026rsquo;t impact their bottom line, not in a significant way, apparently. In a way, Apple is not only making and selling products, they are the product, it\u0026rsquo;s not only how they look, it\u0026rsquo;s how they work.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-02 09:02:14 -0500", "date": "9:02 p.m. on Jan 2, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/02/grading-apples-response.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F02%2Fgrading-apples-response.html" }, { "id": 3419, "type": "post", "title": "Microsoft + ARM: Why it took so long? (#microsoft #arm #surface #intel)", "text": " About Microsoft being Years Late to a Party They Tried to Start on iPadInsight:\n“According to a recent Bloomberg report, Microsoft is finally getting into the custom silicon business. It looks like they are starting down this road primarily to aid their cloud and server business, but it’s hard to believe they wouldn’t have future plans to bring these new ARM-based chips to their Surface Pro X and other future models, replacing Qualcomm’s SQ1 and 2 processors.“ and\n“The $10,000 question is, why did Microsoft wait this long? Why did they bother messing around with Qualcomm to produce ARM chips for the Surface Pro X only to get mediocre results from a chip that still isn’t fine tuned to both the hardware and Windows 10? Those results were completely and totally predictable. They took the easy way out and the Surface Pro X, while a really slick looking device, isn’t going anywhere because of it. Who wants to pay more and still have to make compromises in both performance and compatibility?” Maybe Microsoft didn’t want to piss off Intel?\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-02 08:32:34 -0500", "date": "8:32 p.m. on Jan 2, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/02/microsoft-arm-why.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F02%2Fmicrosoft-arm-why.html" }, { "id": 3420, "type": "post", "title": "Documenting our numeric life (#journaling #tools)", "text": " Basic Apple Guy on DayOne, a popular journaling app:\n“My current journaling habit is to make one entry per day, typically at night. However, I may add multiple timestamps to the entry throughout the day to capture a specific occurrence or thought. This daily journal is currently on a 2,668-day streak, with 4,325 total entries, and 3,297 photos.” A streak of 2,668-day to capture thoughts, events, etc., manually? Consider me impressed. I used to write my thoughts too in DayOne, but eventually I stopped as I couldn\u0026rsquo;t keep up because of all my writing projects. Yet, I found a way to keep using DayOne, by automatically documenting my numeric life. I wrote a piece about it in 2018 that is still absolutely valid today: \u0026ldquo;Documenting my Numeric Life\u0026rdquo;. I\u0026rsquo;m using IFTTT as the engine to push updates into my many journals, inside DayOne. Works like a charm.\n", "dateiso": "2021-01-02 08:26:32 -0500", "date": "8:26 p.m. on Jan 2, 2021", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2021/01/02/documenting-our-numeric.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2021%2F01%2F02%2Fdocumenting-our-numeric.html" }, { "id": 3421, "type": "post", "title": "The Substack \"clique\"? (#substack #writers #newsletters)", "text": " Is Substack the Media Future We Want?\n“on Substack, the most successful newsletters are almost always written by people who have already cultivated an audience at traditional publications or built up a following elsewhere.” and\nSubstack is a natural fit for the influencer, the pundit, the personality, and the political contrarian. Starting from scratch on Substack is quite a challenge. From the graph shown above, this is the curve of my subscribers count. It plateaued. The new reader feature coupled with the discovery tab didn\u0026rsquo;t move the needle at all. We have to wonder if Substack is just a clique in disguise.\nYou can read my past newsletters by visiting my Substack page. Be sure to subscribe, it\u0026rsquo;s free!\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-31 09:46:32 -0500", "date": "9:46 p.m. on Dec 31, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/31/the-substack-clique.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F31%2Fthe-substack-clique.html" }, { "id": 3422, "type": "post", "title": "Not the best way to build brand loyalty, @LGUS (#smarttv #airplay2)", "text": " According to an article from MacRumors, LG is rolling out a software update to its 2018 Smart TVs to enable AirPlay 2 and HomeKit support. I personally own a 2016 model and I don’t expect to receive such update anytime soon. As a software-only solution, I don’t see why they couldn’t make it happen for 2016 models too. When you think about Apple supporting iPhone models dating back to 2015 with iOS 14, we have to wonder who’s playing programmed obsolescence here. As someone who’s looking to upgrade its 2016 LG Smart TV to a 2020 model, which will support HDR, Dolby Atmos, AirPlay 2, HomeKit and have a 120 Hz refresh rate, I don’t appreciate LG approach to brand loyalty building.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-30 08:47:44 -0500", "date": "8:47 p.m. on Dec 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/30/not-the-best.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F30%2Fnot-the-best.html" }, { "id": 3423, "type": "post", "title": "I don't care about the Apple Car (#apple #applecar #rumours)", "text": " According to Goldman Sachs, Apple doesn\u0026rsquo;t care about the car itself. I don\u0026rsquo;t care either. I\u0026rsquo;m fed up of these rumours. M.G. Siegler is fed up too according to a recent Medium article. Period. Enough. A car is the least personal product Apple could ever make. Apple\u0026rsquo;s products are about exhencing experience, life.\nI can see Apple investing in in-car experience and selling it to cars manufacturers. But wait, there is a big gotcha: cars manufacturers doesn\u0026rsquo;t care about the user experience. Maybe Tesla, but that\u0026rsquo;s it. I cannot see them coming in drove to Apple to add the \u0026ldquo;Apple Experience\u0026rdquo; as an option anytime soon.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-29 15:44:58 -0500", "date": "3:44 p.m. on Dec 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/29/i-dont-care.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F29%2Fi-dont-care.html" }, { "id": 3424, "type": "post", "title": "Thinking of closing my Google Analytics account − who knew (#googleanalytics #privacy @mailbrew @plausiblehq)", "text": " Mailbrew shared a blog post about the services they use internally for their needs. As a die hard fan of Mailbrew (see my profile here), it’s interesting to see what SaaS they use for their internal use. Especially interesting to me, Plausible, a privacy-friendly analytics. I’m currently using Google Analytics which is free but, you know, it’s Google and it’s too complex for my needs. On the eve of a new year, it would be a nice time to start fresh in that regards. I\u0026rsquo;m currently testing the service as I write this! I never thought closing my Google analytics account could be a thing. Every new year is the occasion to do things differently, don\u0026rsquo;t you think?\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-29 13:58:20 -0500", "date": "1:58 p.m. on Dec 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/29/thinking-of-closing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F29%2Fthinking-of-closing.html" }, { "id": 3425, "type": "post", "title": "A visual reference to the iPod in iOS 14.3? (#apple #ipodclassic #applehistory)", "text": " Someone on Twitter thinks iOS 14.3 mediaplayer control is a nod to the iPod Classic. I think this redesign was introduced in iOS 14.2. Up until now, it didn’t came to my mind the design was similar to the iPod Classic. Nonetheless, it a step up compared to the previous version both in design and features. As Gruber puts it, it’s probably the best way to layout music controls on a small screen.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-29 13:43:17 -0500", "date": "1:43 p.m. on Dec 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/29/a-visual-reference.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F29%2Fa-visual-reference.html" }, { "id": 3426, "type": "post", "title": "The original iMac — best of them all? (#apple #iMac #history)", "text": " When the original iMac came out, in 1998, a first tangible and public sign of Steve Jobs return at Apple, I was perplexed yet intrigued. It was so unique compared to everything else, just like for the original Mac, in 1984. There was a retro look to this machine that was seducing to me, especially when looking at it right in front of it. I never owned the iMac G3 and any of the following designs. I came back to the Mac in 2005 after a 10 years pause. This concludes the long series of “20 Macs for 2020” from SixColors.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-29 12:25:51 -0500", "date": "12:25 p.m. on Dec 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/29/the-original-imac.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F29%2Fthe-original-imac.html" }, { "id": 3427, "type": "post", "title": "Thoughts on my first contact with Disney+ on Apple TV (#appletv #disneyplus #streaming)", "text": " Yesterday I had my first real experience with the Disney+ streaming service on my Apple TV 4K. In a word: wow! I wanted to see the latest movie from Pixal: Soul. I decided to try Disney+ for the occasion. It\u0026rsquo;s the best streaming experience I ever had. From the mandatory signup process to browsing content and watching movies, I\u0026rsquo;m sold. Rightfully, Apple named the Disney+ Apple TV app the best of 2020. Not only Disney knows how to create great movies, they also know how to create great user experience for the Apple TV. Apple should take some notes here. Google, with its crappy YouTube app should just start over. Now the 9$ a month question: will I keep the Disney+ subscription?\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-28 10:50:08 -0500", "date": "10:50 p.m. on Dec 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/28/thoughts-on-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F28%2Fthoughts-on-my.html" }, { "id": 3428, "type": "post", "title": "On Apple Fitness+ Launches (#apple #services #fitnetsplus)", "text": " Benjamin Mayo on Apple Fitness+ Launches\n“They did a good job with this. It’s not a deeply technical proposition but sometimes simple ideas and good execution are all you need. Fitness+ is high quality and well produced workout videos overlaid with live metrics readouts from a connected Watch. Straightforward, technologically trivial, but effective.” I started to use the service since day one. For now, I\u0026rsquo;m doing treadmill workouts ranging from 10 min to 30 min. I like the whole thing so far. The next thing I\u0026rsquo;d like to try is the dance workouts.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-27 09:04:02 -0500", "date": "9:04 p.m. on Dec 27, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/27/on-apple-fitness.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F27%2Fon-apple-fitness.html" }, { "id": 3429, "type": "post", "title": "Was this lab setup real? (#apple)", "text": " In 2020, we started to get a better peek at Apple\u0026rsquo;s labs, at least, this is what Apple wanted us to believe. My question: was this setup a real lab or was it entirely made up? I tend to think they were real. If that\u0026rsquo;s the case, in this particular image, can you spot a very old Macintosh?\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-27 08:38:36 -0500", "date": "8:38 p.m. on Dec 27, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/27/was-this-lab.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F27%2Fwas-this-lab.html" }, { "id": 3430, "type": "post", "title": "Best wishes to all my followers and readers", "text": " Original image from Unsplash, the wishes are from me. LOL. Done with Adobe Spark Post.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-24 15:31:53 -0500", "date": "3:31 p.m. on Dec 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/24/best-wishes-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F24%2Fbest-wishes-to.html" }, { "id": 3431, "type": "post", "title": "I don’t buy commercial Christmas cards. (#adobe #sparkpost #creativity)", "text": " Every year, a few days before Christmas, I spend some time to create all my own and original Christmas cards for my beloved ones. It’s a pretty simple process involving two different apps. One is Unsplash and the other is Adobe Spark Post. I usually start by browsing Unsplash for finding the right photo for inspiration. Once I settle on one picture, I download it and launch Adobe Spark to create the initial montage. I make sure to reserve some space for the best wishes text. This year, I’ll do things a bit differently as my cards will be digital-only. I’ll send them via iMessage. Some people would prefer to have a printed version, but 2020 being\u0026hellip; well\u0026hellip; 2020, I’ll go ahead with a digital version only.\nI’m a big fan of Adobe Spark Post. For some reason, I don’t see a lot of noise around it on the web. I use it for many other things than creating Christmas cards, as the picture above can show. You can read my review of Adobe Spark Post here on my main blog.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-24 11:08:51 -0500", "date": "11:08 p.m. on Dec 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/24/i-dont-buy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F24%2Fi-dont-buy.html" }, { "id": 3432, "type": "post", "title": "Learning by example can be addictive (#photography #adobe #lightroomCC)", "text": " After installing Lightroom CC on my M1 Mac mini, I spent some time with the Discovery feature. It\u0026rsquo;s a place where you can see other photographer\u0026rsquo;s photo edits. I find it fascinating and very helpful in learning how artists decide to process their photos. There are probably as many ways to edit a photo as there are photographers. The discovery feature has been introduced this year and can be very addictive. Be aware.\nYou can one of my many edit session by hitting this link.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-23 15:42:33 -0500", "date": "3:42 p.m. on Dec 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/23/learning-by-example.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F23%2Flearning-by-example.html" }, { "id": 3433, "type": "post", "title": "ProRaw and the Gradual Gradation of Grays – On my @Om (#photography #iphone12promax #proraw #apple)", "text": " ProRaw and the Gradual Gradation of Grays – On my Om:\nWhen reviewing these images on a big iMac Pro screen, I was gob-smacked by the details that were visible to the naked eye. I was able to get my shades of black and whiter whites from the files. The gradual gradation of grays is part of my editing process, and I didn’t need to do anything much to achieve that. You can feel the fog dancing among the trees. You can feel the sunshine trying to fight its way through the damp. Man, I wish I had an iPhone 12 Pro Max, right now. From this article, my favourite pictures are the ones with trees, proudly standing. And yes, black \u0026amp; white is often my favourite way to look at a scene. The pictures above are mine.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-22 13:05:14 -0500", "date": "1:05 p.m. on Dec 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/22/proraw-and-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F22%2Fproraw-and-the.html" }, { "id": 3434, "type": "post", "title": "Tempted by Vimeo, again. (#vimeo #YouTube #experiment)", "text": " I have too many projects on my plate to complete and experiments that I want to try. Today, I\u0026rsquo;m thinking about subscribing to Vimeo, again. I used to have an active account where I would publish photo processing session recordings with voice over. These sessions are still available by the way (one example here). I stopped doing those because they were time consuming to create and publish.\nSubscribing to Vimeo\u0026rsquo;s first paying tier is not cheap. I know what you\u0026rsquo;re thinking, why not use YouTube which is free!? First, I don\u0026rsquo;t like YouTube and the business model behind it. I don\u0026rsquo;t like to depend on Google for my stuff. Vimeo is better in my opinion as a video content platform, for what I want to do. I prefer their embedded video player compared to YouTube\u0026rsquo;s. I don\u0026rsquo;t want ads on my feed and on my content. For all these reasons, Vimeo \u0026gt; YouTube.\nMy Vimeo page: https://vimeo.com/numericcitizen\nNow you know. 😎\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-22 09:55:25 -0500", "date": "9:55 p.m. on Dec 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/22/tempted-by-vimeo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F22%2Ftempted-by-vimeo.html" }, { "id": 3435, "type": "post", "title": "My current Applications folder on my M1 Mac, what is yours? (#apple #m1chip #applesilicon)", "text": " I\u0026rsquo;m mostly done with the re-installation of all my most used and mandatory apps on my Mac mini. To give you an idea of my apps collection, here is a screenshot of my applications folder. Most are universal apps or Apple Silicon only.\nI\u0026rsquo;m curious, what is yours?\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-21 17:32:12 -0500", "date": "5:32 p.m. on Dec 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/21/my-current-applications.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F21%2Fmy-current-applications.html" }, { "id": 3436, "type": "post", "title": "I'm less and less using my Intel-based iMac. And that's ok. (#m1chip #applesilicon #apple)", "text": " As more and more applications get the universal binary treatment to support M1 Macs, my iMac usage outside of my daytime job has decreased significantly. The list of apps that I cannot use on my M1 Mac mini is shrinking every week. It’s a good sign. Things are moving faster than I initially thought. Yesterday, I decided to let go the weird idea of not installing Intel-only applications on my M1 Mac mini, and everything is really working just fine.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-21 11:35:54 -0500", "date": "11:35 p.m. on Dec 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/21/im-less-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F21%2Fim-less-and.html" }, { "id": 3437, "type": "post", "title": "What do you use as a shortcut menu utility on macOS? (#apple #macOS)", "text": " I\u0026rsquo;m currently writing a piece about the tools and services I use to help me be more efficient in my blogger workflow. Currently looking at Shortcut Bar - Instant Access on the Mac App Store. I had this utility in my list that I never bought but the features are exactly what I would like to get. Is there any alternatives to this utility? It\u0026rsquo;s a bit on the expansive side and is not yet updated for M1 Macs and Big Sur look and feel.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-21 10:59:34 -0500", "date": "10:59 p.m. on Dec 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/21/what-do-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F21%2Fwhat-do-you.html" }, { "id": 3438, "type": "post", "title": "My still pristine M1 Mac mini is a thing of the past 😔 (#apple #m1chip #macmini #rosetta2)", "text": " Can you believe it, up until today, I was still resisting the installation of any non-native applications on my M1-based Mac mini. I refrained myself from letting in any Rosetta-dependant apps to run. I shouldn\u0026rsquo;t have made a big story about this non-issue, but it\u0026rsquo;s was more psychological than anything else.\nThe list of non-native apps is small, but it started to negatively affect my ability to complete specific tasks. These apps waiting in line were: SafariMarkdownLinker (Safari Extension), Grammarly (Safari Extension), Adobe Creative Cloud installer (required to install the native version of Lightroom CC), 1Password.\nToday, I finally let it go and went ahead with installing these remaining pieces of my application landscape. I feel good, and everything is working just fine, as expected.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-20 15:36:30 -0500", "date": "3:36 p.m. on Dec 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/20/my-still-pristine.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F20%2Fmy-still-pristine.html" }, { "id": 3439, "type": "post", "title": "A few thoughts on Twitter's Space feature (#twitter #experience #audio)", "text": " Today, unexpectedly and for the first timr, I had a chance to experience Twitter\u0026rsquo;s Space. It\u0026rsquo;s a virtual room of twitter users who can speak to each other. When there is an open space, a small icon appear at the top of your timeline among twitter fleets. Tapping on it allows you to enter the space. By default your mic is disabled. You have to request permission first in order to be able to speak. There is a speaker who controls people\u0026rsquo;s requests to speak. People who are listener can react using emojis. It\u0026rsquo;s pretty interesting, much more interesting than audio tweets in fact.\nI spent maybe ten minutes chatting with the space owner about things like COVID-19, confinement in Christmas time and how to use Twitter space. Others in the room were just listeners. It was pretty cool. I can see myself using this instead of doing a podcast for example. It\u0026rsquo;s easier to setup up, doesn\u0026rsquo;t require a distribution platform to maintain. I could setup a space to talk about Apple, photography, privacy or climate change. Can\u0026rsquo;t wait to try it out with my followers, once the feature officially rollout.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-19 14:26:57 -0500", "date": "2:26 p.m. on Dec 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/19/a-few-thoughts.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F19%2Fa-few-thoughts.html" }, { "id": 3440, "type": "post", "title": "Where does our data go when we die? (#digitallife #death #legacy)", "text": " What happens with your numeric assets when you die? I mean, think of your online presence: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. Where all that stuff ends up a few years after you die? That’s the type of question “Where Does Our Data Go When We Die?” tries to answer. It’s something that I find interesting and a big challenge, something that I wrote about in my piece titled “A Guide for Preparing to Leave Your Numeric Legacy”. Long read yet very important subject.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-19 11:28:24 -0500", "date": "11:28 p.m. on Dec 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/19/where-does-our.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F19%2Fwhere-does-our.html" }, { "id": 3441, "type": "post", "title": "On Apple's ProRAW: extending the range of possibilities (#apple #proraw #photography)", "text": " From \u0026ldquo;ProRAW Is Here!\u0026rdquo; By Austin Mann:\nI suggest turning on ProRAW when you are shooting in extreme conditions of any kinds (extremely low light, extremely high dynamic range with super bright highlights and dark shadows, mixed light temperatures, and so on). Also, use ProRAW if you plan on enlarging the images (on screen or in print). ProRAW is about extending the possible scenarios where you can take great looking pictures. Just like in traditional photography gear, adding different lenses allow for more possibilities. It\u0026rsquo;s incredible how far iPhone photography has come since 2007. I\u0026rsquo;ll have to wait for fall of 2021 before being able to take advantage of all this as I\u0026rsquo;m not planning to upgrade to the iPhone 12 Pro. If all goes well, I should be able to bring a shinny iPhone 13 (or whatever name they give for next\u0026rsquo;s year iPhone) with me on my next trip to Europe, on October of 2021.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-19 11:11:28 -0500", "date": "11:11 p.m. on Dec 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/19/on-apples-proraw.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F19%2Fon-apples-proraw.html" }, { "id": 3442, "type": "post", "title": "Time for something. Again. (#me #avatar)", "text": " Introducing my new avatar for 2021. It was made by hyxcreations, available on Fivrr. I wanted something along the lines of this one. I\u0026rsquo;m very happy of the end results. It is a blend of the previous avatar and the other one I use for @numericcitizen, my official Twitter account.\nExpect a slow rollout over the next few weeks. ☺️\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-18 15:18:21 -0500", "date": "3:18 p.m. on Dec 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/18/time-for-something.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F18%2Ftime-for-something.html" }, { "id": 3443, "type": "post", "title": "The shear power of Apple on its install base (#apple #ecosystem #installbase #iPadOS #iOS)", "text": " Is this new? I mean the format in which Apple is presenting the current iOS and iPadOS usage? The last time I paid attention to this, Apple was using a pie chart. I prefer this level of details. A few thoughts about these numbers are in order.\nFirst, iPhone users are quicker to update their devices compared to iPad users. Second, Apple makes a clear distinction between devices recently introduced (in the last four years) from the rest. In both categories, the numbers shows that a vast majority of users adopt the latest release of the operating system. Third, even though people keeps their device longer than before, Apple keep supporting older devices (older than four years). All of this helps keeping the adoption rate at very high levels. Kudos to Apple.\nThese numbers also tell another story: Apple’s shear power over its install base is impressive. Apple has the ability to move it in new directions pretty quickly as users are quick to embrace new features, either by buying new devices or by updating their current ones because they are still supported by Apple. Will 2021 bring a different tone to this story with iOS 15? Maybe, maybe not.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-17 13:36:49 -0500", "date": "1:36 p.m. on Dec 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/17/the-shear-power.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F17%2Fthe-shear-power.html" }, { "id": 3444, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I love those App Clip codes. So approachable. Artful. So Apple.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-16 21:28:43 -0500", "date": "9:28 p.m. on Dec 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/16/i-love-those.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F16%2Fi-love-those.html" }, { "id": 3445, "type": "post", "title": "The big problem with Sign in with Apple (#apple #security)", "text": " Here is an issue that I ran into yesterday with \u0026ldquo;Sign in with Apple\u0026rdquo;. I suspect I\u0026rsquo;m not alone in that situation.\nThe excellent website building tool, Universe, came out with an update that introduces Sign-in with Apple. After updating the application on my iPad, I launch the app. I\u0026rsquo;m welcomed with a sign-in screen. The Sign-in with Apple option is prominently displayed. I tap on it. I\u0026rsquo;m then presented with the typical panel to decide if I expose my real email address and my real name. Now the troubles begin.\nI\u0026rsquo;m already a user of Universe, which email did I use to create my initial account? I can\u0026rsquo;t remember. What if I choose the wrong one? I try one of my email address that I decided to reveal. Hit sign-in; after a few seconds of working progress, I\u0026rsquo;m met with welcome screen for new users. Duh. I\u0026rsquo;m trying to get back, to no avail.\nThis issue reveals a big flaw in Sign in with Apple: when you are already a user of a service, switching to the more secure sign-in option makes it hard to associate this login to your existing account. I ran into the same issue with most of the services where I tried to make the switch. I suspect this is hindering the adoption of an otherwise secure upgrade to traditional authentication service. Too bad.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-16 07:43:19 -0500", "date": "7:43 p.m. on Dec 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/16/the-big-problem.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F16%2Fthe-big-problem.html" }, { "id": 3446, "type": "post", "title": "My first contact with Apple’s Fitness+ 😍 (#apple #fitnessplus #service)", "text": " Yesterday Apple launched their latest service offering: Fitness+. I gave it a try, and I fell in love. The first step was to update all my supported devices: the iPhone, my Apple Watch and my Apple TV. After spending a few minutes glancing at the different type of workouts, I elected to do a twenty minutes treadmill workout using my iPhone and my AirPods Pro. For this session, Jamie-Ray was my coach. As you can see, I think I made pretty well. I liked everything about the experience, from onboarding to the actual workout session with on-screen feedbacks and the finale. The music choice was good too! After my session, I gave a look at the Apple TV Fitness application. Upon launching the app, you have to select the Apple Watch associated with the person who will interact with the service. One note, if your Apple Watch name is too long, spacing on the screen won’t allow you to easily see which Apple Watch is which; you’ll have to wait so see the text to scroll, it’s a bit of an annoyance. I checked a few workout previews and sure enough, the video quality is exceptional on the Apple TV 4K.\nAll in all, this is a great start for Fitness+. It’s probably the best example of the whole being larger than the sum of its part. The combination of great devices, great content, great user experience, impeccable execution are the ingredients and enablers for the best experience. Bravo Apple.\nOh, I’ll try to exercise five to six days a week.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-15 17:11:26 -0500", "date": "5:11 p.m. on Dec 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/15/my-first-contact.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F15%2Fmy-first-contact.html" }, { "id": 3447, "type": "post", "title": "Thanks, Apple (#apple #privacy #privacyprotection)", "text": " Thanks to all the teams at Apple for putting this App privacy feature together. Just like food labels, application labels were long overdue. Apple is far from perfect, I wrote about that a few weeks ago, but at the very least they do move the needle quite a bit. Bravo.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-15 10:46:25 -0500", "date": "10:46 p.m. on Dec 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/14/thanks-apple-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F14%2Fthanks-apple-apple.html" }, { "id": 3448, "type": "post", "title": "What happens when an M1 Mac starts up? Fascinating. (#apple #m1chip #applesilicon)", "text": " What happens when an M1 Mac starts up? – The Eclectic Light Company:\nYou can learn a great deal from the unified log entries of a system startup, and that for an M1 Mac is even more fascinating for the insights it gives into the hardware in the M1 system-on-a-chip (SoC). These were obtained from an M1 MacBook Pro with 8 CPU cores and 8 GPU cores running macOS 11.0.1 fairly clean, and in full Secure Boot. I always liked low level stuff in computers. I learned 6502 assembly language (if we can call this a \u0026ldquo;language\u0026rdquo;) when I was a teenager. If you\u0026rsquo;re into these type of things, it is a fascinating short read that opens the door to what is going on in your M1 Mac.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-14 20:01:30 -0500", "date": "8:01 p.m. on Dec 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/14/what-happens-when.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F14%2Fwhat-happens-when.html" }, { "id": 3449, "type": "post", "title": "The unexpected good side effect of COVID19 on me as a blogger (#writing #blogging #blog)", "text": " Who knew COVID-19 would have a very positive side effect on me. It started on March 13th of 2020, and it\u0026rsquo;s still going on nearly uninterrupted. What is it? I have more time than ever to focus on my writing and publishing activities. Why?\nAs I\u0026rsquo;m working from home from mi-March of this year, I no longer have to commute. I save countless hours per week just because of this. On top of that, consider many activities on the weekend that no longer can take place because of the on-and-off restrictions in place.\nI never wrote or published as much stuff in the last nine months as in the last year or so. I have a lot of projects in my head, small and more significant. I did spend quite a lot as I no longer travelling on software, services, work-from-home equipment. I also have more time for reading than before, it makes a difference.\nCOVID-19 is transformative at the society level but also a personal level. There are things that I don\u0026rsquo;t want to return when COVID-19 is no longer among us. Time is a precious resource, once you have it, you don\u0026rsquo;t want to mess with it.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-14 13:14:13 -0500", "date": "1:14 p.m. on Dec 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/14/the-unexpected-good.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F14%2Fthe-unexpected-good.html" }, { "id": 3450, "type": "post", "title": "Remember de Macintosh Quadra 700? (#apple #vintage #Mac #Macintosh)", "text": " Working from home at 25MHz: You could do worse than a Quadra 700 (even in 2020) | Ars Technica:\nThe '040 was a substantial upgrade over the '030 that had previously been used by Apple. It featured 1.2 million transistors, over four times as many as its predecessor. This processor increased the L1 cache size by a factor of eight to 4096 bytes, and it was the first 68k processor to have an on-board floating-point unit (FPU). While not without its drawbacks, the '040 processor was an obvious candidate for Apple's next line of premium workstations at the time. And this line would become known as “Quadra,” starting with the Quadra 700 and 900 models in late 1991. In 1990-1991, I was working for an Apple authorized dealer. I remember the Quadra line, in particular, the 700. It was the most popular machine among desktop publisher. It was fast. I liked its vertical and boxy look. It was different. What is interesting is the description of the Motorola 68040 processor. Compare this to the Apple Silicon, it\u0026rsquo;s simply unbelievable. The M1 chip comes from an alien world.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-14 08:31:59 -0500", "date": "8:31 p.m. on Dec 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/14/remember-de-macintosh.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F14%2Fremember-de-macintosh.html" }, { "id": 3451, "type": "post", "title": "Uniformity across diversity (#youtubers #YouTube #design)", "text": " Recently I spent more time than usual on YouTube for different reasons: to look at AirPods Max first impressions, to learn more about Synology DSM 7.0 beta, etc. After a while, it\u0026rsquo;s easy to see a trend that bugs me: design uniformity across the board. See the previous image gathers a few popular YouTubers channel content pages. They all look about the same or at least designed by the same designer. On top of that, there seems to be a trend where the weider you look, the better. When did that trend start?\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-14 07:37:55 -0500", "date": "7:37 p.m. on Dec 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/14/uniformity-across-diversity.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F14%2Funiformity-across-diversity.html" }, { "id": 3452, "type": "post", "title": "When no new features was a feature (#Apple #macOS #snowleopard #2009)", "text": " Published by BasicAppleGuy, a short survey of his experience with MacOS Snow Leopard, back in 2009. I remember Steve Jobs talking about this release of MacOS as a pause in new features introduction in order to build the foundations for the next decade of MacOS (now spelled macOS). In fact, I would argue that, no new flashy feature was a new feature in itself. Something Apple could do these days. Their operating systems are muc more complex and feature rich, Apple is not standing still either. I cannot see them doing this.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-13 12:39:08 -0500", "date": "12:39 p.m. on Dec 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/13/when-no-new.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F13%2Fwhen-no-new.html" }, { "id": 3453, "type": "post", "title": "The Apple Health Index (#apple #finance #marketplace #products #expectations)", "text": " For a while, I used to maintain a table of measures related to Apple that were in four categories: Finance, Products, Expectations, Market Landscape. Each attributes had his own ponderation. I wold give a scope from 0 to 10 on each of them. A formula would calculate something call the Health Index. I would revisit this table four times a year. It was obviously totally subjective but it was fun to do. Today, their score would be 9.140 out of 10. Not bad.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-13 11:21:36 -0500", "date": "11:21 p.m. on Dec 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/13/the-apple-health.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F13%2Fthe-apple-health.html" }, { "id": 3454, "type": "post", "title": "It's time to call out @iphoneincanada (#tracking #ads)", "text": " Wait for the previous gif to load and animate. What the fusk is wrong with the owners of iPhone in Canada website? This animated gif shows how wrong the web can become. There are 21 trackers on this website. The more trackers, the more ads, the less content there is. What a pity. For this reason, I don\u0026rsquo;t visit their website, I only subscribe to their RSS feed and Safari notifications. They should know that at some point, they cross the inflexion point where too much is like not enough.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-13 09:54:35 -0500", "date": "9:54 p.m. on Dec 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/13/its-time-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F13%2Fits-time-to.html" }, { "id": 3455, "type": "post", "title": "Here is a throwback... (#Apple #iOS6 #iPad)", "text": " During my digital assets cleanup this weekend as I\u0026rsquo;m preparing a move to Synology, I came across this screenshot of my iPad running iOS 6. Looking carefully to this image, it\u0026rsquo;s fascinating to see all the things we lost since then. First, many of those apps no longer exist. Second, design.\nEnjoy in all its glory.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-13 09:08:31 -0500", "date": "9:08 p.m. on Dec 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/13/here-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F13%2Fhere-is-a.html" }, { "id": 3456, "type": "post", "title": "Did you know... ? (#apple #iOS #tips)", "text": " When you get an update from the App Store stating a size of, let\u0026rsquo;s say 179.4 MB, this doesn\u0026rsquo;t represent the actual amount of data that will be downloaded. In fact, depending of your device, the size will be much smaller. If you want to see this in action, turn on Low Data Mode. Then, go to the App Store and download an application update and look at the actual size of the download in the alert box. Tadam!\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-13 08:48:08 -0500", "date": "8:48 p.m. on Dec 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/13/did-you-know.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F13%2Fdid-you-know.html" }, { "id": 3457, "type": "post", "title": "A broken Apple timeline (#apple #history #myarchives)", "text": "I use to keep a time of all the news and announcements emanating from Apple, Cupertino. It was fun but time-consuming. I failed to find a good use of it, so I stopped updating it. Maybe I should have continued, as a blogger, it could have been really useful. ", "dateiso": "2020-12-12 18:00:51 -0500", "date": "6:00 p.m. on Dec 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/12/a-broken-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F12%2Fa-broken-apple.html" }, { "id": 3458, "type": "post", "title": "Detailed Apple Maps comes to Canada 🇨🇦🗺! (#apple #applemaps)", "text": "At long last, Apple’s detailed maps is now available for Canada! Not only we get more details in maps and better driving directions, we also get guides and the look around which is, in my opinion, way better designed than Google’s street view. I wasn’t expected them but they are certainly nice bonuses! Detailed maps were first introduced in iOS 13, more than a year ago.\nNow, if only we can get rid of COVID-19, I may start to use Maps more frequently. 😔\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-12 10:34:32 -0500", "date": "10:34 p.m. on Dec 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/12/detailed-apple-maps.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F12%2Fdetailed-apple-maps.html" }, { "id": 3459, "type": "post", "title": "The end of the “hackintosh” era? 🥷🏻 (#apple #applesilicon #m1chip)", "text": "Ernie Smith writing on Tedium about the hackintosh necessity in a world with the M1 chip for the Mac:\n”I hope, now that Apple has a chip architecture that doesn’t get in the way, it ramps up its industrial design … and more importantly, it reads the reviews and iterates more thoughtfully and consistently.”\nThat’s exactly what I’m hoping too. The iMac and the MacBook design in general were highly influenced by the thermal pressure the Intel chip was imposing. The next iMac design revision will certainly take advantage of the Apple Silicon low thermal dissipation and put Apple in a more creative mode when it comes to imagining what a desktop computer should be.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-12 09:35:47 -0500", "date": "9:35 p.m. on Dec 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/12/the-end-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F12%2Fthe-end-of.html" }, { "id": 3460, "type": "post", "title": "Too bad @AppleNews, this could have been fun 😔 (#applenews #blogger #bloggerlife #writer)", "text": "Now it’s official, Apple is no longer accepting blogs on their news platform, Apple News. I got my rejection mail today (read about my original submission). I understand Apple News as being a\u0026hellip; news platform, yet I think Apple is missing an opportunity here. Why? One word: Substack. Another word: Medium. Apple could have done to the written space what they did for the audio world with podcasts. Apple could have created a special place on Apple News for individual writers, not only bloggers per se. This would have been a message of inclusion, diversity and openess. Instead, Apple is again sending a message about begin a walled garden, exclusion, elitism. Too bad.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-12 09:12:56 -0500", "date": "9:12 p.m. on Dec 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/12/too-bad-applenews.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F12%2Ftoo-bad-applenews.html" }, { "id": 3461, "type": "post", "title": "Where are you all? 🤔 👀 (#blogger #bloggerlife)", "text": "Fridays are always slow, it seems. Are people simply taking time off social networks, blogs, etc.? Maybe. In any case, I want to send a \u0026ldquo;have a nice week-end\u0026rdquo; to my dear readers and followers. 👈🏻 I do have a lot on my plate for this week-end: writing, writing, writing. And some time off too.\nPhoto credit: Jonas Jacobsson / Unsplash.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-11 15:56:11 -0500", "date": "3:56 p.m. on Dec 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/11/where-are-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F11%2Fwhere-are-you.html" }, { "id": 3462, "type": "post", "title": "What came before the diagram (#blogging #tips)", "text": "I use Apple’s Notes app to jot some ideas, all the time. When the concept is clear in my head, I go ahead and select my tool for the next phase. In this case, it was Apple’s Keynote which proves to provide a quite capable environment for diagramming. The subject: how I process information that eventually will enable me to write blog posts. More details here.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-10 21:57:41 -0500", "date": "9:57 p.m. on Dec 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/10/what-came-before.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F10%2Fwhat-came-before.html" }, { "id": 3463, "type": "post", "title": "Dear Adobe... (#adobe #lightroom #creativecloud)", "text": "Wanted to give a try to Lightroom CC on my new and still pure Mac mini (no Rosetta installed). Guess what? The creative cloud installer needs Rosetta as it is not yet native. I know, it\u0026rsquo;s no big deal, it will be fine. If that wasn\u0026rsquo;t enough, Adobe installers put a lot of things on your system that I don\u0026rsquo;t like. Then, I remembered about \u0026ldquo;Suspicious Package\u0026rdquo; utility which inspect an installer and show what it is actually doing. But, again, this software has yet to come in a universal binary. It will be hard to resist longer. ", "dateiso": "2020-12-09 21:31:25 -0500", "date": "9:31 p.m. on Dec 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/09/dear-adobe-adobe.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F09%2Fdear-adobe-adobe.html" }, { "id": 3464, "type": "post", "title": "I'll take the blue ones, no, the white ones, no, the black ones (#apple #airpodsmax)", "text": "The AirPods Max is exactly the kind of product that needs a visit to the Apple Store before making a final buying decision. Photos don\u0026rsquo;t always do justice to Apple\u0026rsquo;s colour choices and textures. The weight of the AirPods Max are also an important factor to consider if you plan to wear them for long period of time. In other words, I\u0026rsquo;ll wait to buy one of these, if at all. Demand will ease, production will catch up and eventually we\u0026rsquo;ll be able to return to Apple Stores, like we used to, a not so long time ago. ", "dateiso": "2020-12-09 20:57:03 -0500", "date": "8:57 p.m. on Dec 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/09/ill-take-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F09%2Fill-take-the.html" }, { "id": 3465, "type": "post", "title": "Remembering Desk Accessories (#apple #macosbigsur #iosapps)", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m currently trying a few iOS or iPadOS apps on my M1 Mac mini. I came across the Castro Podcast player for with I pay a subscription. Castro doesn\u0026rsquo;t support the iPad, yet, which is a bummer. On Big Sur, the application looks like what we used to have on very old versions of MacOS: Desk Accessories. Depending of your age, you\u0026rsquo;ll know what I\u0026rsquo;m talking about. I kind of like the use of small apps like this. ", "dateiso": "2020-12-09 16:29:55 -0500", "date": "4:29 p.m. on Dec 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/09/remembering-desk-accessories.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F09%2Fremembering-desk-accessories.html" }, { "id": 3466, "type": "post", "title": "A Substack reader, really? (#substack #mailbrew #hey #newsletters)", "text": "From Chris Best, Substack CEO: “Something that we think about a lot is readers tell us, ‘Hey, I’m subscribed to six different Substacks now, and I want to read them all, and it sucks that they’re in my email inbox along with all my other stuff,’\u0026quot; 😳🤦🏻‍♂️\nA reader app from Substack would certainly be a good idea. I’m already on the private beta. I wonder if Mr. Best knows about Mailbrew? Or Hey? While waiting for such a reader app, Mailbrew is certainly capable of doing just that: consolidating newsletters in one place. Read my review of Mailbrew on my blog. https://linktr.ee/numericcitizen\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-09 08:26:07 -0500", "date": "8:26 p.m. on Dec 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/09/a-substack-reader.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F09%2Fa-substack-reader.html" }, { "id": 3467, "type": "post", "title": "We’ll certainly take speed gains we can possibly get (#adobe #lightroom #photography #m1chip)", "text": "Adobe Lightroom 4.1 is now available with native M1 support. We didn’t see a lot of comments about the speed increase beside Apple’s during their “One More Thing” special event. Adobe’s software on the Mac is not always the best in class in regards to pure performance. So, this release for the M1 chip will hopefully bring a meaningful increase in performance. I didn’t test it yet on my M1 Mac mini as I’m still slowly installing my stuff, one app at a time. I’ll certainly report on that subject later in the month. Stay tuned.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-08 21:44:44 -0500", "date": "9:44 p.m. on Dec 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/08/well-certainly-take.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F08%2Fwell-certainly-take.html" }, { "id": 3468, "type": "post", "title": "Someone had to do it! 😍 (#apple #airpodsmax)", "text": "There is a maximum of 25 combinaisons available. Someone on MacRumors forums posted an image of them all. To get a different color, you\u0026rsquo;ll have to lay more money on the table. Anyway, I expect Apple will sell a boat load of these in the coming months. Are you planning of buying the new AirPods Max?\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-08 19:28:45 -0500", "date": "7:28 p.m. on Dec 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/08/someone-had-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F08%2Fsomeone-had-to.html" }, { "id": 3469, "type": "post", "title": "Oh I love their retro look! 😍 (#apple #airpodsmax #design)", "text": "Many were expecting an update to the aging and expansive Apple TV 4K. Instead, we got a brand new retro-looking and expensive AirPods Max. I can see people already calling out how absurd it is, and the lack of charger or any cables, bla bla bla. Put that aside and enjoy their lovely retro look. Oh, and since their ear cushion can be replaced, I guess they don\u0026rsquo;t have to match the colour of the over-ear \u0026ldquo;cups\u0026rdquo;, right?\u0026hellip; Lots of possibilities here. Shipping dates are already slipping in 2021\u0026hellip; expect to see them everywhere next summer, when covid is behind us (most of it) and people can return to a simili normal life.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-08 12:43:32 -0500", "date": "12:43 p.m. on Dec 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/08/oh-i-love.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F08%2Foh-i-love.html" }, { "id": 3470, "type": "post", "title": "How Synology NAS can improve my blogger workflow (#synology #nas #storage #blogger #tools)", "text": "As an IT guy, looking at what Synology has in store for 2021 makes me pretty excited. I wrote about that yesterday but I took a deeper look at what is coming in DSM 7.0, their NAS operating system. I didn’t pay too much attention to their photo management software that comes with a Synology NAS, but that might change. In my blogger workflow, there is something I can optimize is the use of a photo management to store all my screen shots, stock photos, visual assets, etc. Synology Photos could be the tool I was looking for for a long time. I don’t want to use Apple’s Photos application as I don’t really like to see screenshots intermixed with family pictures. If Synology Photos is as solid as it looks, if their mobile application is much improved to their current version, I’ll certainly give it a serious try. On top of that, this photo feature also enable remote access to the photo library. Very interesting.\nI’ve been shopping around for a home NAS for a long time and only made the plunge this year. After much thinking and reading, I settled on Synology because I saw a mature company offering mature products with a solid reputation. Again, DSM 7.0 brings a lot of new features and improvements which makes me feel happy about my choice of going with them. Can’t wait to try what’s new.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-08 07:40:11 -0500", "date": "7:40 p.m. on Dec 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/08/how-synology-nas.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F08%2Fhow-synology-nas.html" }, { "id": 3471, "type": "post", "title": "1.0 vs 14.0 - So different, yet similar (#apple #iOS #iPhone)", "text": "Jordan Singer on Twitter posted this picture showing the iPhone with iPhoneOS 1.0 side by side with an iPhone 12 running iOS 14.0. The original iPhone home screen design was durable and endured the test of time. Some people will find it depressing to see so little changes but I do think it is a sign of an initial good design. iOS 14 brought the most significant upgrade, even more profound than the iOS 7 disaster.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-07 20:57:15 -0500", "date": "8:57 p.m. on Dec 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/07/vs-so-different.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F07%2Fvs-so-different.html" }, { "id": 3472, "type": "post", "title": "Massive update coming to Synology NAS users 😍 (#synology #dsm #update #nas)", "text": "I’ve been using a Synology DS720+ NAS for a few months now and boy do I like it! On my blogger to do list is a review of this device. The breath of features never stop to impress me. I’m a big fan. I use it for archiving, space reclamation on my Mac and much more. It’s fast and reliable as I had a chance to test the repair feature after losing a hard drive (yes, already!). It worked flawlessly.\nThis week, Synology will make DSM 7.0 available for beta testers, the braves. Looking at the announcement web page, it looks like a massive update. Refreshed screens, more cloud integration, admin rights delegation and added feature like Active Insight will certainly be exciting additions. One question: I think Synology is about to add a subscription for this, which I’m not sure I’ll pay for, depending of its usefulness in its final form. We’ll see.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-07 12:32:01 -0500", "date": "12:32 p.m. on Dec 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/07/massive-update-coming.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F07%2Fmassive-update-coming.html" }, { "id": 3473, "type": "post", "title": "Here is a stressful user experience (#apple #iphone #ux #ui #design)", "text": "See that UI of the iPhone when you receive a call while being on another with someone else? Pretty confusing, right? You stress out to understand what to do while hoping you’ll have enough time to not miss the call. it is a stressful user experience. Why is Apple not giving any attention to this very specific UI is beyond me. They made notable change in iOS 14 with the notification-like interface for incoming calls, which was more than welcomed.\nThe way I came over this challenge is to concentrate on the icon labels instead of the icon itself. It does help a lot in my case.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-07 12:15:33 -0500", "date": "12:15 p.m. on Dec 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/07/here-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F07%2Fhere-is-a.html" }, { "id": 3474, "type": "post", "title": "Of course they do! Duh (#apple #applesilicon #m1chip #macpro #imacpro)", "text": "An article today by the infamous Bloomberg news site reports that Apple is working on much more powerful Apple Silicon chips for higher end machines like the Mac Pro and the iMac. We all know 2020 was in fact the entry point for next year\u0026rsquo;s act two of this transition. From what we can read in the article, Apple could make high-end PC obsolete from a RAW power perspective with as many as 32 cores. Does anybody wonder if Intel has good sleep these days?\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-07 11:14:45 -0500", "date": "11:14 p.m. on Dec 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/07/of-course-they.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F07%2Fof-course-they.html" }, { "id": 3475, "type": "post", "title": "Apple's Sidecar to the rescue (#apple #macos #sidecar)", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m currently using an iMac with a 23.7” LG UltraFine 4K external monitor (read my review here). With the M1 Mac mini coming today, this setup will have to change. The LG screen will transit to the Mac mini and I\u0026rsquo;ll lose the pleasure of the second screen working environment. Using the macOS virtual desktop feature is nice but not always the best solution when working on many different things at once. This is where Apple\u0026rsquo;s Sidecar comes into play. Prior to this, I rarely used Sidecar, but not anymore. I\u0026rsquo;ll use it with the Mac mini or the iMac, depending of the current work session. As a bonus, I get to use a “soft\u0026quot; Touch Bar at the bottom of the display, which is cool because I love the Touch Bar.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-07 08:20:42 -0500", "date": "8:20 p.m. on Dec 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/07/apples-sidecar-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F07%2Fapples-sidecar-to.html" }, { "id": 3476, "type": "post", "title": "The modern business card? (#blogger #writer)", "text": "Over the last two years, I expanded my online presence. Maybe a bit too much; it’s hard to keep up. I came across something interesting recently: Linktr.ee. According to their website, the purpose of the service is to “Connect audiences to all of your content with just one link”. It’s exactly a case of “you don’t know you need it until you see it!”. Building the mini-website is quick and easy. There are enough layout options to make your page look like your own. I opted for the paying tier which enables more design choices and better analytics. Hope you like it and pay a visit to learn the breath of my online presence. I think of it as some form of a modern business card.\nI started to replace my links to the following one which makes things simpler in places like my Twitter profile page. Check it out: https://linktr.ee/numericcitizen\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-06 15:05:56 -0500", "date": "3:05 p.m. on Dec 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/06/the-modern-business.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F06%2Fthe-modern-business.html" }, { "id": 3477, "type": "post", "title": "The Unifi Dream Machine gets a major update! (@ubnt #udm #update)", "text": "My home router got an update this week, version 1.8.3. I\u0026rsquo;ve been running the Unifi Dream Machine since spring without any issues. This update was long in the works and highly expected. Among the changes, a redesigned and simplified controller dashboard with real-time statistics which are really helpful. The device management UI also received a redesign. Some of the previously available information has been removed or moved around. CPU, Memory consumption and internal temperature are higher than before (around +10%-30%), though. Overall, its\u0026rsquo;a solid update. Oh, and it is running an 4 cores ARM processor.\nRemember, this router replaced an aging Apple AirPort Extreme. If you are still looking for a great home router, please, do yourself a favor and buy this one. This post is not sponsored.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-05 13:08:38 -0500", "date": "1:08 p.m. on Dec 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/05/the-unifi-dream.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F05%2Fthe-unifi-dream.html" }, { "id": 3478, "type": "post", "title": "Getting ready for the M1 Mac mini (#apple #applesilicon #m1macmini #m1chip)", "text": "How do you get ready for an M1 Mac mini when you\u0026rsquo;re a power user of a 2017 21.5\u0026quot; Intel-based iMac? First, I know the M1 Mac mini speed will make the iMac seem slow in comparison. That, I\u0026rsquo;m ready. I\u0026rsquo;ll keep my iMac for a while as my gateway to my legacy software and apps for my work. Second, upon the first boot of the Mac mini, I\u0026rsquo;ll set it up as a brand new machine. No Time Machine restore. I can\u0026rsquo;t remember the last time I started fresh on a new Mac. I\u0026rsquo;ll depend on Apple\u0026rsquo;s iCloud to bring back all my stuff on my 1 TB SSD drive. Then, I\u0026rsquo;ll meticulously pick which app will make the cut for installation on this shiny and speedy machine. I\u0026rsquo;m building a list of universal apps I want to install on it, but I\u0026rsquo;ll also need the help of the excellent website, \u0026ldquo;Is Apple Silicon Ready?\u0026rdquo;. Only \u0026ldquo;Universal\u0026rdquo; apps will be allowed on it. Even if Rosetta 2 is a technical marvel, I don\u0026rsquo;t want it to contaminate my Mac. I want the pure M1 Mac experience. Oh, one last thing, if an application’s icon is not good enough, I can search for a better one of places like https://macosicons.com/ and https://www.macosicongallery.com/ or Michael Flarup’s excellent icons pack.\nAccording to Deliveries, my M1 Mac mini will arrive this Monday.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-05 07:53:45 -0500", "date": "7:53 p.m. on Dec 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/05/getting-ready-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F05%2Fgetting-ready-for.html" }, { "id": 3479, "type": "post", "title": "Using Twitter Fleet, why not! (#twitter #creativity)", "text": "As you know, Twitter came out with « Fleets », its clone of Snapshat’s Stories. People don’t really like it. Or do they? My timeline is constantly filled with my followers posting fleets. I guess some do like them. I decided to give it a serious try. I think they add another dimension to Twitter that I happen to find interesting for highlighting purposes. It’s simple to use, just enough design flexibility. There are is one drawback: they only show up on the iPhone (not the iPad or the web), which I find strange and somewhat arbitrary.\nFollowing are screenshots of my experiment. Let’s see where it goes from here.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-04 12:38:15 -0500", "date": "12:38 p.m. on Dec 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/04/using-twitter-fleet.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F04%2Fusing-twitter-fleet.html" }, { "id": 3480, "type": "post", "title": "Let's meet! Here is a free idea for calendaring app makers (talking to you guys! @macguitar @flexibits)", "text": "Let\u0026rsquo;s play a game. One of your customer calls you and ask for a meeting (virtual or in person). Before answering this request, you have to look at your calendar to see your free/busy time. It\u0026rsquo;s a time consuming and error prone process. What if your favorite calendaring app could generate a map of your weekly schedule with all sensible information masked out, like in the following example (made with Fantastical). This could be sent as a PDF file to the customer, would save a lot of time. It\u0026rsquo;s surprising that, to my knowledge, no calendaring app offer this option. I would pay to get this.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-03 17:14:30 -0500", "date": "5:14 p.m. on Dec 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/03/lets-meet-here.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F03%2Flets-meet-here.html" }, { "id": 3481, "type": "post", "title": "Oh I love that one from @gruber (#apple #applesilicon #m1chip)", "text": "Gruber publishes a piece today about how hard it can be for some people to accept that Apple is yet again did the unthinkable.\nThis one is simply priceless: “Intel and AMD have learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make decent PC chips. Apple hasn’t just magically figured this out. They’re not going to just walk in.”\nIt’s a liberal transposition of a famous quote on how Apple, a PC guy, just can’t walk in and make a great phone. With the M1 chip, yes, Apple just walked in and did it. Again.\nMany pundits were quick to jump the gun on software compatibility issues, the translation layer called Rosetta, the meager 8 GB of RAM, the lack of ports, etc. As proven by the numerous independent reviews, none of these “issues” are affecting the value of what Apple just did.\nIt will take a few years before Intel and their friends finally realize what just happened in late 2020 and recover from it. Years.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-03 08:16:24 -0500", "date": "8:16 p.m. on Dec 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/03/oh-i-love.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F03%2Foh-i-love.html" }, { "id": 3482, "type": "post", "title": "Dear Microsoft... (#microsoft #privacy #privacyprotection #surveillance #office365)", "text": "Following this statement from Microsoft, here is one question for you, Microsoft: why haven\u0026rsquo;t they thought, at the very beginning, that this Office 365 feature wasn\u0026rsquo;t a good idea to begin with? Here is another question: Who do you think you are to devise a “Microsoft Productivity Score”? “a tool that helps organizations measure and manage the adoption of Microsoft 365” — Microsoft\nThere is a difference in semantic here: measuring adoption vs measuring productivity score. What is \u0026ldquo;being productive\u0026rdquo; anyway? The road to hell is paved with good intentions, as they say.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-02 17:31:47 -0500", "date": "5:31 p.m. on Dec 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/02/dear-microsoft-microsoft.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F02%2Fdear-microsoft-microsoft.html" }, { "id": 3483, "type": "post", "title": "What is holding back the hardware, again? (#apple #iphone #ios)", "text": "“…until there are some changes with either iOS, the iPhone or both, bigger isn’t really better. It’s just bigger.” — James Rogers writing for iPad Insight about the iPhone 12 Pro Max. Things like picture-in-picture is a step in the right direction on the iPhone. The situation is obviously better on the iPad, yet there are still many low hanging fruits.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-02 10:48:32 -0500", "date": "10:48 p.m. on Dec 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/02/what-is-holding.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F02%2Fwhat-is-holding.html" }, { "id": 3484, "type": "post", "title": "I'm already afraid (#apple #m1macmini #applesilicon #intel #imac)", "text": "Just saw that tweet today. It\u0026rsquo;s too late. I\u0026rsquo;ll be installing my new M1 Mac mini along the side of my 2017 iMac. Thwy will be both in direct competition. I\u0026rsquo;m afraid that I\u0026rsquo;ll find my beloved iMac too slow. I\u0026rsquo;m not there yet. I\u0026rsquo;m still waiting for my new thing to get delivered. I’m getting myself mentally ready for the shock. I\u0026rsquo;ll have to keep my iMac for a while for my daytime job.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-02 09:33:50 -0500", "date": "9:33 p.m. on Dec 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/02/im-already-afraid.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F02%2Fim-already-afraid.html" }, { "id": 3485, "type": "post", "title": "About those iOS Apps screenshot on the App Store (#apple #appstore #iosdev)", "text": "I hate those screenshots montage. They lack emphasis on the application itself, the product. They waste precious space. At the very least, why not put a video showing the application in action. People don\u0026rsquo;t like to read long application description page. Is it Apple\u0026rsquo;s fault. Probably. Not sure. Apple is not enforcing their own rules on these screenshots.\nThis post was triggered by another Matt Birchler post.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-02 09:11:28 -0500", "date": "9:11 p.m. on Dec 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/02/about-those-ios.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F02%2Fabout-those-ios.html" }, { "id": 3486, "type": "post", "title": "Don’t touch this screen (yet!) (#apple #mac #macos)", "text": "Steve Jobs once downplayed flash memory based MP3 players when the iPod was just beginning its ascension. We know what came after the iPod with a small drive. The iPod nano, an MP3 player using flash memory. If you see a stylus, they blew it. The iPad eventually came with support for a stylus\u0026hellip; oops, a pencil. What came after that? Support for a mouse with iPadOS 13.4. See the trend? Are you getting it?\nNow, about the Mac. Sure Apple could have used this historic moment to a add touch screen to the M1 MacBook. It didn’t happen. I, myself, was one of them, thinking it was about to happen as exposed in this blog post. My short experience with macOS Big Sur updated design screams out loud that we are far closer to a touch supported Mac than Apple is willing to admit.\nI don’t know when, but it will come, in a perfectly chosen moment by Apple. Apple likes to move forward, one step at a time. The next window of opportunity is next year with a redesigned MacBook body. This year’s was about the internals while keeping familiarities: performance, battery life and transition. Next year is about redefining the way we look at the MacBook and enhance the way we always knew how to interact with it. The Big Sur update this year is just the first step toward a touch friendly operating system. In a typical Apple way, they will have thoroughly thought about all this and we will be amazed about why it wasn’t done this way before. Next year has the potential to be exciting.\nThis blog post by Matt Birchler triggered this one you just read. 👀😎\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-01 20:10:19 -0500", "date": "8:10 p.m. on Dec 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/01/dont-touch-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F01%2Fdont-touch-this.html" }, { "id": 3487, "type": "post", "title": "The Mac mini renaissance? (#apple #applesilicon #m1chip #macmini)", "text": "I don’t know if this is because I’m eagerly waiting for mine, I’m in a distortion of reality, but the Mac mini seems on the verge of a major regain of popularity. Sales of the little box are booming in Japan and now AWS is offering an Intel version as an EC2 instance\u0026hellip; while waiting for the real deal, a M1-based version. The latter brings renewed interest in a platform a lot of pundits were considering dead a few years ago, thanks to Apple’s apparent lack of interest.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-01 13:40:20 -0500", "date": "1:40 p.m. on Dec 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/01/the-mac-mini.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F01%2Fthe-mac-mini.html" }, { "id": 3488, "type": "post", "title": "Apple’s Reminders is so underrated (#apple #ios #ipados)", "text": "How many To Do apps are available on the App Store? A lot. They all have a different take on how we should create, manage and check our To Do. The best one maybe just in front of your eyes, on your iPhone and iPad: Apple’s Reminders. Here is why for me it does the job quite well.\nI’ve been using OmniFocus and Things in the past, but after Apple redesigned Reminders in iOS 13, I came back to using it. Besides supporting basic things like URL, images and notes, you can group To Do lists in folders, lists can be shared with others, Shortcuts are supported, it synchronizes seamlessly across my devices.\nApple’s Reminders is one of the app at the center of my blogger workflow to help me process information and publish content online.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-01 09:02:48 -0500", "date": "9:02 p.m. on Dec 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/01/apples-reminders-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F01%2Fapples-reminders-is.html" }, { "id": 3489, "type": "post", "title": "Why getting a Mac Pro can still make sense (#apple #macpro #applesilicon #mac)", "text": "In light of all the raving reviews about the M1-based Macs, you might wonder why someone would still need and buy an Intel-based Mac Pro? For many reasons. First, some high-demanding pro software might not be compatible on M1 Macs. Second, if you run software who takes advantage of multiple cores, the Mac Pro with its Xeon processor is hard to beat. Example of this is VMware Fusion. Other use cases demand the most powerful CPU you can get, and they come in the Mac Pro, for now. Third, the Mac Pro is still the most expandable Mac out there. I\u0026rsquo;m one of those contemplating the Mac Pro for my SDDCbox project, but I must say that my priorities shifted a bit. I\u0026rsquo;m a few days away from receiving a M1 Mac mini. It will keep me busy until the beginning of 2021.\n", "dateiso": "2020-12-01 07:15:45 -0500", "date": "7:15 p.m. on Dec 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/12/01/why-getting-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F12%2F01%2Fwhy-getting-a.html" }, { "id": 3490, "type": "post", "title": "Did Apple just killed the Mac resale value? Oh yes. (#apple #applesilicon #intel #mac)", "text": "The M1-based Macs ramifications are far reaching as we are still pondering about their impact on the future. Reading this tweet from Parker Ortilani, we have to wonder if Apple, with its M1 chip introduction, just killed the resale value of any Intel-based Macs. Credits: Tables from the author. Simple answer: YES.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-30 17:43:45 -0500", "date": "5:43 p.m. on Nov 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/30/did-apple-just.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F30%2Fdid-apple-just.html" }, { "id": 3491, "type": "post", "title": "AppleOne - Expired or Tired? (#apple #appleone #subscriptions)", "text": "My AppleOne signup went weird when it was announced by Apple. I was billed for some of the individual services as well as the bundle. I\u0026rsquo;ve been looking for credits since then, which are still yet to come. I think it will be a mess to fix unless Apple gets their act together before then. Now, it looks like my subscription has ended and I cannot renew it. Something bad is really happening. I\u0026rsquo;m not alone feeling the pain, according to MacRumors.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-30 12:52:27 -0500", "date": "12:52 p.m. on Nov 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/30/appleone-expired-or.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F30%2Fappleone-expired-or.html" }, { "id": 3492, "type": "post", "title": "Building his ideas and pushing boundaries on the way (#apple #iosdev #developer #designer @jsngr)", "text": "A few weeks ago, I wrote about the TestFlight App Store and how cool it was. The guy behind it, Jordan Singer, is also on Substack. I’m already a big fan of his work.\nAs a former indie iOS developer (2009-2013), I find it interesting to see other people’s ideas, work and initiatives. This guy is on a roll and tests some App Store review process boundaries, which is more than needed these days. I wish him success with Airport.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-30 07:04:09 -0500", "date": "7:04 p.m. on Nov 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/30/building-his-ideas.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F30%2Fbuilding-his-ideas.html" }, { "id": 3493, "type": "post", "title": "Apple is no longer doomed. Intel is. (#apple #intel #applesilicon)", "text": "Who is winning between Apple’s M1 chip and Intel’s Tiger Lake chip? Well, if benchmarks are to be believed, Apple is winning, by a wide margin. The results are pretty worrisome for Intel which seems incapable to go beyond a 10 nm process. Intel will become the emblematic image of inefficient processors for years to come. Dell, HP et al. should be worried too because they are in the exact same position Apple was just before their M1 announcement. The only thing now favouriting the Wintel world is the need for Windows for a vast majority of users.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-29 17:26:18 -0500", "date": "5:26 p.m. on Nov 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/29/apple-is-no.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F29%2Fapple-is-no.html" }, { "id": 3494, "type": "post", "title": "Shortcuts to frustration (#apple #shortcuts #ios #ipados)", "text": "Let’s put it straight: Apple’s Shortcuts are the weirdest, most cumbersome and utterly frustrating thing to build, test and eventually use. I cannot count how many hours I spent trying to understand their intricacies and most useful use cases. As much as I want to get empowered by them, it often ends in frustration. Here is why.\nYou cannot disable old shortcuts that are no longer used but that you want to keep as a reference. There is no way to export them in a clean and readable PDF format. There is a lack of some form of runtime debugging tools. The editor doesn’t scale beyond a few dozens instructions. There is no way to write shortcuts in a text editor à la AppleScript. Share sheets bad design and organization make shortcuts invocation a trial and error experience. As your shortcuts collection grows, it hard to remember which shortcut does what in what context and what is required to launch it. And the list goes on and on. Documentation within the Shortcuts editor is lacking, very limited. A big part of the story is dependant on the willingness of developers to support them. It’s so frustrating to see an app lacking any form of exposure to the shortcut engine.\nMake no mistake, I like the idea of automation on the iPad or iPhone. I’m happy to see Apple improving on them with each release of their operating systems. But, there is so much left to cover.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-29 15:17:57 -0500", "date": "3:17 p.m. on Nov 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/29/shortcuts-to-frustration.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F29%2Fshortcuts-to-frustration.html" }, { "id": 3495, "type": "post", "title": "On using Lightroom on a Mac (#apple #adobe #applesilicon)", "text": "Let\u0026rsquo;s set the tone: Adobe software, Lightroom in particular, is not a very efficient piece of software to use on the Mac\u0026hellip; even on a higher-end configuration. Recent updates in the last year or so tried to improve things a little bit, but there is still a long way to go. It\u0026rsquo;s not clear why Lightroom Classic is so bad. Is it because it is a multi-platform software? Probably. If so, we pay the price at every single use.\nDoes the M1 chip in a Mac can change the game? Well, yes and no. The following YouTube video compares Lightroom Classic running on an Intel-based MacBook Pro to an M1-based MacBook Pro. With Rosetta 2 translation layer running to support the non-optimized version of Lightroom Classic, we could think the experience would be awful. In fact, not only it isn\u0026rsquo;t, the M1-based Mac makes the experience a bit better. Who would have thought.\nNow, Adobe is working on a native or universal version of Lightroom for the M1 chip. Note that I\u0026rsquo;m referring to Lightroom CC here, the cloud version of Lightroom, not the Classic version. Depending of who you are and what is your relation to photo processing, it may be a good or a bad news. Nonetheless, the prospect of a universal of Lightroom CC is certainly exciting. Will Adobe take advantage of the GPU cores or the ML cores of the M1 chip? I highly doubt it. If the iPad version of Lightroom CC is any indication, though, not all is lost. We\u0026rsquo;ll see.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-29 09:50:09 -0500", "date": "9:50 p.m. on Nov 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/29/on-using-lightroom.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F29%2Fon-using-lightroom.html" }, { "id": 3496, "type": "post", "title": "Selling a piece of my Apply history (#apple #imac #2007 #elcapitan)", "text": "Today I sold my oldest Mac in the house: a 24 inches 2007 iMac running El Capitan. When I look at this computer, I see many similarities with the current iPad Pro design: round bezels, boxy frame. I hope Apple will return to this design, albeit in a refreshing way, for their upcoming M1-based iMac.\nNow, waiting for my M1-based Mac mini. 24 days before adding another piece to my long story with Apple products.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-28 14:04:22 -0500", "date": "2:04 p.m. on Nov 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/28/selling-a-piece.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F28%2Fselling-a-piece.html" }, { "id": 3497, "type": "post", "title": "A must have utility for Mac: HazeOver. (#apple #mac #utility #minireview)", "text": "Just bought a Mac utility: HazeOver! How come I didn\u0026rsquo;t know about this one?? What is it? It\u0026rsquo;s a small utility which helps bring better focus to the active application on your Mac. It does this by dimming the out-of-focus application windows. It works with multiple displays. If you prefer to work in Light mode over Apple\u0026rsquo;s Dark Mode, it will make things a lot easier on your eyes. Think of it as a visual compromise. Makes Big Sur even better. Highly recommended.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-28 11:53:41 -0500", "date": "11:53 p.m. on Nov 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/28/a-must-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F28%2Fa-must-have.html" }, { "id": 3498, "type": "post", "title": "The M1 chip never cease to amaze (#apple #applesilicon #m1chip #tech #amdryzen)", "text": "Another excellent Twitter thread about the M1 chip. This time, it is a comparison with the AMD Ryzen. From a thermal design power, the M1 chip is simply unique and unmatched. On a per-core basis, top of the line AMD Ryzen chip and Apple\u0026rsquo;s M1 chip are of equal performance. On top of that, the M1 chip is much more than a standard CPU. Oh, and it is only the beginning. Who thought 2020 was such a bad year.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-27 16:45:42 -0500", "date": "4:45 p.m. on Nov 27, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/27/the-m-chip.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F27%2Fthe-m-chip.html" }, { "id": 3499, "type": "post", "title": "The future of widgets on iOS (#apple #ios #ipados #widgets)", "text": "There is a lot to like from this short video showing vivo’s OrigiOS in action. Expandable widgets, user-adjusted widget size, dynamic content, super clean animations, a few touches of skeuomorphism where it counts, dynamic icons, immediate feedback on touch, all those things which are lacking on iOS home screen could see the light if Apple choose to. Widgets 1.0 were long to come for us, iPhone and iPad users, but here they are. Yet, there is still so much untapped potential.\nWhat are your thoughts?\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-27 16:32:57 -0500", "date": "4:32 p.m. on Nov 27, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/27/163257.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F27%2F163257.html" }, { "id": 3500, "type": "post", "title": "The future of the iPad, according to an M1 chip (#apple #ipadpro #applesilicon #mac #m1mac #ipados)", "text": "In a blog post \u0026ldquo;Your Move, iPad\u0026rdquo;, by Becky Hansmeyer, the author asks \u0026ldquo;So if raw power isn’t enough, and new display tech isn’t enough, where does the iPad go from here? Will it be abandoned once more, lagging behind the Mac in terms of innovation, or will Apple continue to debut its latest tech in this form factor?\u0026rdquo;\nIn light of the massively successful M1-powered Macs, what can we infer for the future of the iPad Pro?\nApple doesn\u0026rsquo;t need to add touchscreen to their MacBook line if they unleash the iPad with a much more complete iPadOS experience. I think Apple missed the occasion with iPadOS 14 by not adding a more flexible widgets experience, by refusing to improve external display support and by not revisiting the multitasking interaction model. See? It\u0026rsquo;s not only a matter of adding 5G wireless support or LiDAR or a second USB-C port. These will only be as good as the software will allow them to be useful. The just begun new era for Mac with the M1 chip combined with Apple\u0026rsquo;s tight software integration should give us answers on why the iPad Pro future lies in the software.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-27 08:14:35 -0500", "date": "8:14 p.m. on Nov 27, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/27/the-future-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F27%2Fthe-future-of.html" }, { "id": 3501, "type": "post", "title": "A fascinating Twitter thread about Apple Silicon Wizardry (#apple #applesilicon)", "text": "Here is a super fascinating Twitter thread that I reproduce here. Find the original tweets here. It\u0026rsquo;s is about Apple Silicon wizardry. For techy people only!\n\u0026ldquo;In case you were wondering: Apple\u0026rsquo;s replacement for Intel processors turns out to work really, really well. Some otherwise skeptical techies are calling it \u0026ldquo;black magic\u0026rdquo;. It runs Intel code extraordinarily well. The basic reason is that Arm and Intel architectures have converged. Yes, the instruction sets are different, but the underlying architectural issues have become very similar. The biggest hurdle was \u0026ldquo;memory-ordering\u0026rdquo;, the order in which two CPUs see modifications in memory by each other. It\u0026rsquo;s the biggest problem affecting Microsoft\u0026rsquo;s emulation of x86 on their Arm-based \u0026ldquo;Surface\u0026rdquo; laptops. So Apple simply cheated. They added Intel\u0026rsquo;s memory-ordering to their CPU. When running translated x86 code, they switch the mode of the CPU to conform to Intel\u0026rsquo;s memory ordering. With underlying architectural issues ironed out, running x86 code simply means translating those instructions to the Arm equivalent. This is very efficient and results in code that often runs at the same speed. Sometimes there isn\u0026rsquo;t a direct equivalent, so the translation results in slightly slower code, but benchmarks show x86 being consistently at least 70% of the speed. In any case, a surprising number of popular apps already run on it. Apple seeded developer systems a few months back, allowing people to get their code ready. Normally, that wouldn\u0026rsquo;t have been enough time. When you recompile code for a new architecture, it usually breaks. But as I said above: Arm and Intel architectures have converged enough that code is much less likely to break, making recompiling easier. Apple has made surprising choices. They\u0026rsquo;ve optimized JavaScript, with special JavaScript-specific instructions, double sized L1 caches, and probably other tricks I don\u0026rsquo;t know of. Thus, as you browse the web, their new laptop will seem faster and last longer on battery, because JavaScript, even though other benchmarks show it roughly the same speed as Intel/AMD. The older MacBook Air had a dual core CPU that ran at 3.8 GHz, but when in low-power mode, 1.2 GHz. Switching between fast and slow modes is how it conserves power for mobile. But it\u0026rsquo;s ultimately inefficient. The Intel CPU is designed to run at 5 GHz. Downclocking to 1 GHz saves power \u0026ndash; but not as much as if you\u0026rsquo;d designed the processor to run at 1 GHz to begin with. Apple\u0026rsquo;s strategy is to use two processors: one designed to run fast above 3 GHz, and the other to run slow below 2 GHz. Apple calls this their \u0026ldquo;performance\u0026rdquo; and \u0026ldquo;efficiency\u0026rdquo; processors. Each optimized to be their best at their goal. When they need to conserve power, they turn off the \u0026ldquo;performance\u0026rdquo; processors and run code on their \u0026ldquo;efficiency\u0026rdquo; processors. They have 4x performance processors (twice that of their older Macs) plus 4x efficiency processors. All 8 can be active. When doing something that can use 8 processors, such as compiling code, it goes real REAL fast. 8 processors vs. 2 processors in their old notebooks make a difference. A big part of this story is that Intel is about 3 years behind on Moore\u0026rsquo;s Law. Apple Silicon uses the latest 5nm tech from TMSC, while Intel uses the older 10nm/7nm generation. Much of Intel\u0026rsquo;s product line uses the even older 14nm/10nm generation. None of this is actual \u0026ldquo;black magic\u0026rdquo;. It\u0026rsquo;s all pretty understandable. It\u0026rsquo;s just all the various things have been executed really well, leading to a combined result that is a great leap forward. Another \u0026ldquo;magic\u0026rdquo; trick is how their \u0026ldquo;Swift\u0026rdquo; programming language uses \u0026ldquo;reference counting\u0026rdquo; instead of the \u0026ldquo;garbage collection\u0026rdquo; in Android. They did something in their CPU to double the speed of reference counting. \u0026hellip;even when translating x86 code, all that reference counting overhead (already more efficient than garbage collection) gets dropped in half. Yet another weird performance enhance to add to all the others.\u0026rdquo;\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-27 07:05:44 -0500", "date": "7:05 p.m. on Nov 27, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/27/a-fascinating-twitter.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F27%2Fa-fascinating-twitter.html" }, { "id": 3502, "type": "post", "title": "Overwhelming reactions — When Apple makes history, again (#apple #applesilicon #m1chip #mac)", "text": "After Apple announced their M1-based Macs and people started to get their hands on them, reactions were enthusiatic and unanimous. At one point, I wanted to create an archive page that would have gathered the most interesting reactions, but it was too late and overwelming. Well, someone else did it. Here is a great blog post: “Apple Silicon M1: Black. Magic. Fuckery” gathering reactions to these new machines from Apple. There are many gems in there. Check it out! I really have the feeling that Apple is making history, again.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-26 07:25:53 -0500", "date": "7:25 p.m. on Nov 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/26/overwhelming-reactions-when.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F26%2Foverwhelming-reactions-when.html" }, { "id": 3503, "type": "post", "title": "Apple's worst ad in years? (#apple #applead #advertising #christmas)", "text": "Apple this year is back with a long and\u0026hellip; weird (?) Christmas ad. I must say that\u0026rsquo;s a quite different and ordinary one compared to previous years. It\u0026rsquo;s no longer about touching hearts but just having fun and selling you something. This doesn\u0026rsquo;t reasonate as much with me as it used to. Contrary to previous years, Apple is focusing on one product, the HomePod mini. Again, I prefer when they don\u0026rsquo;t try to sell us something this way. There is plenty of other companies who do just that. Please, Apple, no.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-25 12:43:29 -0500", "date": "12:43 p.m. on Nov 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/25/apples-worst-ad.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F25%2Fapples-worst-ad.html" }, { "id": 3504, "type": "post", "title": "Mac nano (#apple #applesilicon #m1macs #macmini)", "text": "Following my read of this article published by Macworld, the propect of a Mac nano looks more than possible. It is inevitable. Apple’s focus this year was on the internals but I expect them to switch to the outside on the next iterative evolution of the Mac mini. Besides physical compatibility reasons, a much smaller Mac mini, close to the size of an Apple TV for example could be in store. One possible constrain is the number of ports Apple will have to squeeze on the back. If they keep the same number of ports, the newly redesigned Mac mini could be something in-between the current one and the Apple TV. We’ll see. Meanwhile, I’ll patiently wait for my own M1-based Mac mini to arrive in 28 days. Its external size won’t matter much to me.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-25 07:30:24 -0500", "date": "7:30 p.m. on Nov 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/25/mac-nano-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F25%2Fmac-nano-apple.html" }, { "id": 3505, "type": "post", "title": "Better recovery options (#apple #applesilicon #m1macs)", "text": "According to an article published by SixColors, M1-based Macs offer a much different and improved boot and recovery options. Looking at the picture below, and I noticed the same while testing Big Sur, the icon for the boot disk is one showing an old mechanical HDD, not an electronic SSD. Was Apple feeling nostalgic when they designed this icon?\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-25 06:57:39 -0500", "date": "6:57 p.m. on Nov 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/25/better-recovery-options.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F25%2Fbetter-recovery-options.html" }, { "id": 3506, "type": "post", "title": "How ironic (#apple #ios14 #widgets #android @notionhq)", "text": "Read on Twitter today: \u0026ldquo;Notion widgets are only for iOS 14 for now. We\u0026rsquo;ll get there, Android 😓 Our mobile team is heads down on offline mode right now, but we learned a lot during development that we can use for an Android widget down the road. Thanks for your patience in the meantime 🙏\u0026rdquo; - Notion.\nWidgets came to Android in 2008-2009. What am I missing here? How ironic is this? A lot if you ask me. I\u0026rsquo;m not calling out Notion, far from it. My observation is all about the fact that, despite Android having widgets for so many years, they were probably not as good, well designed and useful as there are now on iOS 14.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-24 19:18:04 -0500", "date": "7:18 p.m. on Nov 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/24/how-ironic-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F24%2Fhow-ironic-apple.html" }, { "id": 3507, "type": "post", "title": "Saving at least 2 Billions a year (#apple #applesilicon #intel #m1chip)", "text": "A lot has been written on Apple switch to their own processors already. But one side of the story is still lacking some insight. Apple is probably saving a lot of money by putting their own Apple silicon in each Mac they sell. According to this Medium article, Apple could save at least $2 billion a year with just three entry level MacBook sporting the M1 chip. We can only try to approximate the amount of money Apple is no longer paying to Intel. We can also start wondering the amount of money Apple has directly invested in developing the M1 chip and how fast they wil recoup their investments. My gut feeling says that it will be fast.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-24 07:06:02 -0500", "date": "7:06 p.m. on Nov 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/24/saving-at-least.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F24%2Fsaving-at-least.html" }, { "id": 3508, "type": "post", "title": "My prediction for next year's MacBook (#apple #macbook #applesilicon #m1chip)", "text": "Here is a simple theory. This year\u0026rsquo;s MacBook didn\u0026rsquo;t bring an upgrade to the FaceTime HD camera, and unanimously, people is complaining. But what if this lack of attention to the very specific feature from Apple is part of a bigger plan for next year\u0026rsquo;s MacBook? Here is my guess.\nApple is targeting next year for the real deal: the full redesign of the MacBook line to be announced around WWDC 2021. Part of this plan would include much better FaceTime HD camera assembly that would include Face ID, a highly expected feature for M1-based machines. Offered in sizes of 12\u0026quot;, 14\u0026quot; and 16\u0026quot; with an impossibly thin screen bezel, Apple wanting to keep the size of these machines the smallest possible as the power sipping CPU can handle smaller batteries yet providing long battery life. I would expect the M1x chip as the more powerful M2 one would go to the iMac, iMac Pro. The new MacBook, to be named MacBook X, will will mark the first year of the Apple silicon transition.\nUntil then, keep enjoying your Apple Silicon Mac, version 1.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-24 06:54:54 -0500", "date": "6:54 p.m. on Nov 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/24/my-prediction-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F24%2Fmy-prediction-for.html" }, { "id": 3509, "type": "post", "title": "A fascinating possibility coming to the Mac, next year (#apple #applesilicon #m1macs)", "text": "On Substack, I recently stumble on an interesting article from https://apple.substack.com: when Apple introduces a new round of Macs next year, what if they keep previous generation around but at a lower price point?\nIt\u0026rsquo;s a highly possible scenario considering how Apple under Tim Cook operates. The iPhone models multiplication, same is happening with the watch\u0026hellip;. next, the Mac? Probably. Is this a good thing? For their bottom line probably, yes, but for the customers? Yes and no.. yes, it makes the brand more accessible but it makes the buying experience a little bit more complicated than it should be with fewer models available. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-23 20:02:17 -0500", "date": "8:02 p.m. on Nov 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/23/a-fascinating-possibility.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F23%2Fa-fascinating-possibility.html" }, { "id": 3510, "type": "post", "title": "Which is faster, then? (#apple #applesilicon #m1macs)", "text": "Following of new round of benchmarks from MacRumors, my take outs are: 16 GB is (much) better than 8 GB from a speed point of view (well, duh!), the Mac mini is the best most of the time with a few exception (slower than MBP on SSD write speed is one such exemple, hard to explain). Adobe Lightroom Classic doesn\u0026rsquo;t take advantage of the RAM difference, which is not surprising to me (thanks to multiplatforms Adobe\u0026rsquo;s software) You can get all the details from MacRumors website: here and here. Graph from MacRumors.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-23 19:07:07 -0500", "date": "7:07 p.m. on Nov 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/23/which-is-faster.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F23%2Fwhich-is-faster.html" }, { "id": 3511, "type": "post", "title": "Apple is not what it used to be (#apple #analysis)", "text": "Someone on Twitter shared this YouTube video in which the guy tries to explain why and how Apple is not what it used to be. In a few words: now, they actively compete with others. It\u0026rsquo;s a massive difference where before they seemed to act alone without caring about the surrounding competitive landscape. Highly recommended.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-23 12:58:31 -0500", "date": "12:58 p.m. on Nov 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/23/apple-is-not.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F23%2Fapple-is-not.html" }, { "id": 3512, "type": "post", "title": "He should go work for Apple (@michaelsteeber #apple #applestore #appleretail)", "text": "Have you seen this short YouTube video on the Apple Store holiday shopping experience? Take a moment because it is a masterpiece of execution in visual quality, content and execution in general. 9To5Mac published an article about it and I thought they were referring to Apple’s material. It took me quite a while to get it: the author of this clip is Michael Steeber, a well known Apple enthusiast and writer for 9To5Mac. His focus is directed to Apple retail in general but from a design point of view most of the time. I like what this guy is doing, I’m a bit jaleaous of his talent, and he should work for Apple already. Congrats!\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-22 10:38:24 -0500", "date": "10:38 p.m. on Nov 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/22/he-should-go.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F22%2Fhe-should-go.html" }, { "id": 3513, "type": "post", "title": "Publishing on Apple News, soon? (#apple #applenews #publishing #writing)", "text": "After months of silence, I\u0026rsquo;m finally getting some response from Apple regarding my submission to publish on Apple News. I can\u0026rsquo;t remember when I first submitted my Numeric Citizen Blog for publication on the Apple News platform. In a unexpected twist, they got in touch with me and asked to fill a questionnaire, which I promptly did. They are putting a new review process in place. I also updated my selection of articles submitted for review to use more recent ones. We\u0026rsquo;ll see how fast they respond and if they open the gate!\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-22 09:06:24 -0500", "date": "9:06 p.m. on Nov 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/22/publishing-on-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F22%2Fpublishing-on-apple.html" }, { "id": 3514, "type": "post", "title": "The list is growing (#apple #macosbigsur #iOS14 #iPadOS14 #M1Chip)", "text": "Surprisingly, the list of iOS 14 and iPad OS 14 apps that are made available or updated to work better on the M1-Based Mac is growing. Here is my current list: Newsify, Ferrite, Luma Fusion, Castro, Buffer, Opener, Apollo Reddit Client, Darkroom, Darknoise. The thing that I should do now and glance my current iPad apps and mark those that I want on the Mac too.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-21 14:58:38 -0500", "date": "2:58 p.m. on Nov 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/21/the-list-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F21%2Fthe-list-is.html" }, { "id": 3515, "type": "post", "title": "Is It Apple Silicon Ready? (#apple #applesilicon #m1chip #macOSBigSur)", "text": "It took a while but here is the first and most comprehensive list of application compatibility with Apple\u0026rsquo;s M1 Macs. You can search and sort the list easily and use the category filter too to locate application in the list. Well done. Design or photography applications compatibility level is high but productivity isn’t, which is not surprising. Most of my apps are already universal binaries. https://isapplesiliconready.com\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-21 07:44:28 -0500", "date": "7:44 p.m. on Nov 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/21/is-it-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F21%2Fis-it-apple.html" }, { "id": 3516, "type": "post", "title": "The era of customization comes to the iPhone (#apple #ios14 #widgets)", "text": "Seeing this level of high interest in iPhone homescreen customization holding on since the launch of iOS 14 tells me that people really want to make their device more personal. Is it too far fetched to imagine Apple bringing system level customization a basic feature of iOS? I don’t think so. Maybe in iOS 15. Image from idownloadblog.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-20 19:41:31 -0500", "date": "7:41 p.m. on Nov 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/20/the-era-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F20%2Fthe-era-of.html" }, { "id": 3517, "type": "post", "title": "For Icons lovers (#macos #ios #apple #design #ui #ux #visualarts)", "text": "I’m a user of Timing for Mac, and recently the app got updated in order to support macOS Big Sur. The update brings a fresh and entirely new app icon to better fit the visual style of Big Sur, and I love it 😍. The icon has been designed by Matthew Skiles. Looking on his Twitter profile, I discovered two interesting web sites: https://www.macosicongallery.com/ and https://www.iosicongallery.com/. These are catalogs of the best icons for macOS and iOS of well known apps. Check them out. These sites made me realize how much we lost in design quality over the years, great icons are hard to come by these days.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-20 06:56:37 -0500", "date": "6:56 p.m. on Nov 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/20/for-icons-lovers.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F20%2Ffor-icons-lovers.html" }, { "id": 3518, "type": "post", "title": "It’s overwhelming and unanimous (#apple #applem1 #applesiliconmacs #m1chip)", "text": "Following Apple\u0026rsquo;s \u0026ldquo;One More Thing\u0026rdquo; event, I wanted to gather positives reactions to Apple\u0026rsquo;s M1-Based machines. It\u0026rsquo;s simply overwhelming. I just can\u0026rsquo;t keep up. It\u0026rsquo;s all over the place. I can only imagine Apple\u0026rsquo;s marketing department current putting a press release doing just that.\n\u0026ldquo;I can’t remember the last time reviews for an Apple product were so universally positive, especially considering these are machines that look the same as the previous-gen. Apple simply excelled themselves with the ARM transition.” — Benjamin Mayo\nIt\u0026rsquo;s not only overwhelming but unanimous. What a great time to see history being made.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-19 11:52:27 -0500", "date": "11:52 p.m. on Nov 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/19/its-overwhelming-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F19%2Fits-overwhelming-and.html" }, { "id": 3519, "type": "post", "title": "Is 8 GB of RAM enough? (#apple #macbookair #applesilicon #M1chip ) 🤔", "text": "Many are asking if they should go with a 16 GB RAM configuration for their new M1-based MacBook Air. Some others think Apple should have made a 32 GB of RAM configuration for the 13” MacBook Pro. According to this informal benchmarking video, 8 GB seems enough for most people. During his tests, the user opened many different apps and documents in Excel, tabs in Chrome, Photoshop and the MacBook Air stayed cool and never ever started to fall on its knees. At no time the idle CPU metric went down below 60%. The fan-less computer never got hot. Why? Three letters: SoC.\nThe M1 chip gathers many different components close together on the same chip so they don\u0026rsquo;t have to go through the PCI bus to move data around. I think it plays a big role in Apple Silicon Macs efficiency. We can no longer compare the RAM configuration of an Apple Mac with a Wintel machine, just like we cannot compare a 12 GB of RAM Android phone to a 6 GB of RAM iPhone. It\u0026rsquo;s just two different worlds.\nYet, I ordered a 16 GB Mac mini. 😳\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-19 07:27:47 -0500", "date": "7:27 p.m. on Nov 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/19/is-gb-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F19%2Fis-gb-of.html" }, { "id": 3520, "type": "post", "title": "The Rosetta 2 tax (#apple #m1chip #applesilicon)", "text": "One of the best take on Apple’s new M1-based Mac is from TechCrunch. What I learned in this review is, thanks to Apple’s Rosetta 2, the cost of running an un-optimized app on these machines: 26% performance hit. The more interesting thing is the fascinating fact that, even with this hit, apps can still run faster than on Intel-based Mac counterparts.\nI can’t remember the last time I didn’t mind paying taxes.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-18 20:45:36 -0500", "date": "8:45 p.m. on Nov 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/18/the-rosetta-tax.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F18%2Fthe-rosetta-tax.html" }, { "id": 3521, "type": "post", "title": "Pixelmator Pro 2.0 — A Small Wonder (@pixelmator #applesilicon #m1chip #universalapp)", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve said it before, Pixelmator Pro is one of the best app in the Apple ecosystem for three reasons. First, the Pixelmator team is always fast to take advantage of Apple\u0026rsquo;s latest software and hardware technologies. Second, it\u0026rsquo;s a real native app, designed and built for the Mac. Third, Pixelmator Pro is close to how Apple\u0026rsquo;s own apps should be designed. Make no mistake, I love Apple\u0026rsquo;s iWork. Pixelmator feels familiar and Apple-ish, something that I like. They probably read the HIG documentation dozen of times. Congrats to them.\nOh, and look at this “What\u0026rsquo;s new\u0026quot; welcome page when you first launch the app after upgrading to version 2.0. Look familiar to you? Can’t wait to install this on my upcoming Mac mini.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-18 12:55:00 -0500", "date": "12:55 p.m. on Nov 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/18/pixelmator-pro-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F18%2Fpixelmator-pro-a.html" }, { "id": 3522, "type": "post", "title": "Microsoft already feeling the heat (#microsoft #apple #m1chip #applesilicon)", "text": "Carefully look at this add by Microsoft bellow. The phrasing of this ad clearly shows the roots of the company making the product. “Pen supported” is one example. Why not write something like “Touch interface” or “Touch screen”. The word \u0026ldquo;supported” sounds wrong and makes me feel Microsoft is not fully confident about the real nature of this computing environment. The other thing is the removable SSD option. That\u0026rsquo;s typical geeky-PC-world-thing. Do we really care in a world of cloud-based storage being an extension of our devices? Really bad ad.\nClearly, Microsoft is already feeling the heat and is on the defensive. It\u0026rsquo;s only getting started. Others will follow.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-18 07:33:18 -0500", "date": "7:33 p.m. on Nov 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/18/microsoft-already-feeling.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F18%2Fmicrosoft-already-feeling.html" }, { "id": 3523, "type": "post", "title": "If Rev(Y-1) \u003c 1M$ Then Comm=15% otherwise Comm=30% (#iosdev #apple #developers)", "text": "Big news today by Apple. It\u0026rsquo;s a step in a (new | right) direction. Some are already applauding the move, others are vehemently calling it a tactical one. Apple will never satisfy everybody, except when launching their new M1-Based Macs. Apple can change when they feel the pressure, just like any big corporations. They\u0026rsquo;re not different on that front. We tend to forget this.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-18 07:17:28 -0500", "date": "7:17 p.m. on Nov 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/18/if-revy-m.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F18%2Fif-revy-m.html" }, { "id": 3524, "type": "post", "title": "11.1. Beta. Already. (#macosbigsur #apple #beta)", "text": "Apple is on a roll with the release to developers of [version 11.1 of macOS Big Sur](11.1. Beta. Already. (#macosbigsur #apple #beta)). My hope for this update is for Apple to tweak the UI a bit and make it faster on Intel MacBook Pro. (Notifications, low contrast, etc.). The other thing, I hope it will be ready by the time I\u0026rsquo;m getting my Mac mini (mid-December).\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-17 13:30:45 -0500", "date": "1:30 p.m. on Nov 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/17/beta-already-macosbigsur.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F17%2Fbeta-already-macosbigsur.html" }, { "id": 3525, "type": "post", "title": "About this crappy FaceTime Camera. (#apple #m1chip #macbook #facetimecamera)", "text": "“We really considered giving these machines 10 out of 10 review scores, but this camera is bad enough to keep that from happening, especially on a pro laptop that costs more than the Air.” - The Verge\n“Unfortunately, that similarity extends to the webcam, which is still 720p resolution and still terrible. Apple has tried to borrow some of its real-time image processing from the ‌iPhone‌ to try to spruce up the image — and I do find that it does a better job evenly lighting my face — but mostly what I notice is that it looks bad (only now it\u0026rsquo;s a more processed version of bad).” - The Verge\nHere is a real comparison. It\u0026rsquo;s less crappy but it is not good.\nTake that, Apple. It was a near perfect moment.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-17 10:25:58 -0500", "date": "10:25 p.m. on Nov 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/17/about-this-crappy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F17%2Fabout-this-crappy.html" }, { "id": 3526, "type": "post", "title": "Dear M1 Macs reviewers… (#M1chip #applesilicon #mac #review).", "text": "Here is what I\u0026rsquo;m hoping to see from reviewers of the M1-based Macs today. How fast is the machine booting? Is wake from sleep that much better? When you start a non-optimized app, how does Rosetta 2 kicks in? How long does it take? What happens when you start the same app a second time after a while? Was Rosetta kick out and has to relaunch? How is window resizing doing, we know that was never really fast on Intel-based machines. How is scrolling speed in Photos? Can you really feel the difference on an optimized app compared to their Intel counterpart? Does installing 11.0.1 update was faster than on previous macOS release on Intel? Is the Mac mini the fastest among the three? Does GPU intensive tasks are really that much faster? What about SSD speed for reads and writes compared to an Intel Mac? is it much improved? Is macOS Big Sur buggier than on Intel? Is 8 GB of RAM enough or 16 GB is really a must? Have you tried Pixelmator Pro, how fast is it now?\nHoping for a few answers today.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-17 07:55:31 -0500", "date": "7:55 p.m. on Nov 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/17/dear-m-macs.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F17%2Fdear-m-macs.html" }, { "id": 3527, "type": "post", "title": "Podcasting (#podcasting #blogging #writer #blogger)", "text": "My podcast adventure was too short (The Numeric Citizen Podcast). I prefer written words over audio. I prefer photography over video. There is something about moving content that I find difficult to grasp, as a creator. I\u0026rsquo;m may be too old for podcasts creation or YouTube, I don\u0026rsquo;t know. I loved creating those episodes (in French), though, using Ferrite.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-16 20:04:18 -0500", "date": "8:04 p.m. on Nov 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/16/podcasting-podcasting-blogging.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F16%2Fpodcasting-podcasting-blogging.html" }, { "id": 3528, "type": "post", "title": "While waiting for \"real\" benchmarks... (#m1chip #applesilicon #mac #apple)", "text": "These “behind the scenes\u0026quot; benchmarks of the M1 GPU are again impressive to say the least. Is the Mac bound to become a gaming machine?\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-16 09:20:04 -0500", "date": "9:20 p.m. on Nov 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/16/while-waiting-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F16%2Fwhile-waiting-for.html" }, { "id": 3529, "type": "post", "title": "My Growing List of Universal Apps (#m1chip #apple #macos #macosbigsur #macmini) ", "text": "Here is the list of apps that I use and that are ready for my upcoming M1-based Mac mini. The list is growing almost on a daily basis. I didn’t expect it would go that fast. The prospect of much faster Macs could trigger an even faster adoption by developers. Apple’s bet is paying off.\nU = Universal. U-C = Universal, Catalyst-based port from iPadOS. U-S = Universal SwiftUI based app, C = Non universal but compatible.\nMy wish is to install Universal apps only as I don’t want to trigger Rosetta 2.\n[U] Omnigraffle [U] Pixelmator Pro [U] Affinity Photo [U-C] Universe [U] Transmit [U] Little Snitch [U-S] Aviary [U] Darkroom [U] Apple’s iWork [U] Apple’s iMovie [U] NewsExplorer [U-C] Twitter [U] Screens [U] Ulysses [U] Things [U] Fantastical [U] AirBuddy [U] CleanShot [U] Reeder 5 [C] iStats Menu [C] DayOne [C] Carbon Copy Cloner [C] Timing ", "dateiso": "2020-11-16 08:07:46 -0500", "date": "8:07 p.m. on Nov 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/16/my-growing-list.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F16%2Fmy-growing-list.html" }, { "id": 3530, "type": "post", "title": "It will be (much) faster (#apple #macmini #imac #m1chip)", "text": "Comparing the performance of a 2017 iMac to a M1-based Mac mini, based on Geekbench numbers. Sometimes, a picture, oops, a graph is worth a thousand words.\nMy current experiment of macOS Big Sur on a 2017 MacBook Pro is not very impressive. I can feel the difference compared to Catalina.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-15 16:59:14 -0500", "date": "4:59 p.m. on Nov 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/15/it-will-be.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F15%2Fit-will-be.html" }, { "id": 3531, "type": "post", "title": "Here is why Microsoft should start to worry (#microsoft #surfacego #macbookair #apple #m1chip) ", "text": "In light of Apple\u0026rsquo;s recent products introduction, consider the recently introduced Microsoft Surface Go. A Windows laptop that starts with 4 GB of RAM, 64 GB SSD, 12.4” touch screen using the Intel Core i5 which will get you 13 hours on battery for 550$. If you want a 8 GB of RAM, 256 GB SSD, the price goes up to 899$, but you keep the same lame CPU.\nNow, compare this to the new MacBook Air (a much more powerful laptop) for 899$ (education pricing), same amount of RAM and SSD, 5 hours more of battery life, a much better non-touch display.\nHow is Microsoft supposed to compete against Apple in this market now?\nThey simply can’t, and they should start to worry.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-15 09:09:00 -0500", "date": "9:09 p.m. on Nov 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/15/here-is-why.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F15%2Fhere-is-why.html" }, { "id": 3532, "type": "post", "title": "What's wrong with Medium's stats…? (@medium #writing #bloggerlife) 🤔", "text": "What\u0026rsquo;s wrong with Medium’s “reading time\u0026quot; stat? Here, this story “Thoughts on ‘One More Thing’ - The Ultimate Mac Transition”, got 34 views so far, 12 reads, 2 two responses, 4 fans, 53 claps but the total reading time is 50 seconds? What\u0026rsquo;s wrong with that? 12 reads x 11 min estimated reading time = 132 minutes. Someone wrote: “very informative talk”! Did this guy really read my story or he is trying to get some attention? 🤨\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-15 07:16:51 -0500", "date": "7:16 p.m. on Nov 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/15/whats-wrong-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F15%2Fwhats-wrong-with.html" }, { "id": 3533, "type": "post", "title": "Exposure Notification and battery life (#apple #covid19)", "text": "Why is exposure notification taking so much battery power? Do you experience the same thing? I’m running on iOS 14.3b1 but it was the same behaviour under previous iOS releases. I’ve been monitoring this for a while. I don’t want to turn that off. Oh, and by the way,amI alone who doesn’t find very intuitive these graphics?\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-14 17:46:45 -0500", "date": "5:46 p.m. on Nov 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/14/exposure-notification-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F14%2Fexposure-notification-and.html" }, { "id": 3534, "type": "post", "title": "The list is growing... (#apple #universalapps @elemanssoftware)", "text": "My favorite RSS reader News Explorer (read my review here), is already supporting macOS Big Sur, M1-based Macs. The updated News Explorer UI on Big Sur is much cleaner in general. I’m on the list to test the iOS 14 friendly version, adding support for Widgets and I can\u0026rsquo;t wait to see their implementation.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-14 12:20:25 -0500", "date": "12:20 p.m. on Nov 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/14/the-list-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F14%2Fthe-list-is.html" }, { "id": 3535, "type": "post", "title": "Big. (#apple #bigsur #macos #macosbigsur #update)", "text": "Big Sur update is certainly big. Full of goodies and the enabler for the next decade of excitement for the Mac.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-14 10:12:45 -0500", "date": "10:12 p.m. on Nov 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/14/big-apple-bigsur.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F14%2Fbig-apple-bigsur.html" }, { "id": 3536, "type": "post", "title": "Massive Big Sur Review (#macos #bigsur #macosbigsur #apple #review)", "text": "Ars Technica put together a massive review of Apple’s macOS Big Sur. It is quite impressive. It’s exactly the kind of review that I’m looking for. Visuals and internal architectural features are exposed, explained but rarely justified, only when it serves a purpose of contextualizing the matter. Kudos for the author: Andrew Cunningham\nNow, I’m so anxious to get this thing running on my upcoming Mac mini. Big Sur is not only a refresh of the user interface but also an important sum of things under the hood that is being upgraded and modernized.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-13 22:08:49 -0500", "date": "10:08 p.m. on Nov 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/13/massive-big-sur.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F13%2Fmassive-big-sur.html" }, { "id": 3537, "type": "post", "title": "On Big Sur - Maybe I was wrong (#apple #macosbigsur #widgets #design) ", "text": "Maybe I\u0026rsquo;m wrong with my perception of the disaster Apple created with the introduction of widgets in combination with notifications center (read my comment here on micro.blog). After reading the excellent MacStories.net review of Big Sur, I finally saw the combination in action. Notifications are see big improvements and look closer to what we get on iOS.\nStill, Apple lost the opportunity to make widgets available in their own space, something like what we used to have, the Dashboard. It\u0026rsquo;s ridiculous to confine widgets in such a small space, considering modern screen sizes. Oh, and I hope the interaction feels much more fluid on M1-based machines because the last time checked on a 2017 MacBook Pro, with Big Sur beta 10, it was super laggy\nPicture credits: from MacStories’ review of Big Sur.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-13 12:00:21 -0500", "date": "12:00 p.m. on Nov 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/13/on-big-sur.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F13%2Fon-big-sur.html" }, { "id": 3538, "type": "post", "title": "One Computer, Three form factors (#apple #macbookair #macbookpro #macmini)", "text": "“The new M1-based MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and Mac Mini are best thought of not as three different computers, but rather three different manifestations of the same computer.”\nAstute observation by @Gruber in his commentary post on “One More Thing\u0026quot; event. People are trying to figure out why there is so few differences between the three Macs Apple announced this week. Sometimes, the answer is simple.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-12 13:26:00 -0500", "date": "1:26 p.m. on Nov 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/12/one-computer-three.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F12%2Fone-computer-three.html" }, { "id": 3539, "type": "post", "title": "PC Gimmicky features rarely used (#windows #windowslaptop #microsoftsurface)", "text": "PC laptops introduced pencil support, touch screen, screen-based touchpads, et. al. because these are the only things they could do to try to stay on top in a commoditized technology platform. I will take in a heartbeat 3X or 5X performance gain and 6 more hours of battery life over the gimmicky features. This is one of the many reasons I\u0026rsquo;m so upbeat with the M1-based Macs.\nPhoto credit: Alexander Andrews on Unsplash.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-12 09:14:24 -0500", "date": "9:14 p.m. on Nov 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/12/pc-gimmicky-features.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F12%2Fpc-gimmicky-features.html" }, { "id": 3540, "type": "post", "title": "When the low-end beats the high-end... (#apple #macbookair #M1processor)", "text": "Twitter is ablaze since yesterday when first benchmarks of the MacBook Air were published. They show the M1-based and fan-less Mac to surpass the top of the line iMac! It’s impressive if not mind-blowing!\nNow here is a simple theory: native apps will certainly perform really well but non-native apps will run under the Rosetta layer, which happens to consume CPU cycles. This performance room being consumed by Rosetta, the actual performance of a non native app will probably fall down to a more reasonable level.\nImpressive nonetheless.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-12 07:12:49 -0500", "date": "7:12 p.m. on Nov 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/12/when-the-lowend.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F12%2Fwhen-the-lowend.html" }, { "id": 3541, "type": "post", "title": "Hourra, Ulysses ! (#macosbigsur #writingtools #blogger @ulyssesapp)", "text": "My go to app for blogging, Ulysses, is now ready for macOS Big Sur. Yeah! I’m doing my part, as I’m going to order this M1-based Mac mini today so I can run Big Sur on its own machine and experience the future now. And that icon is lovely, not too iOS-ified, enough Big Sur-ified to feel at home! Ulysses 21, Pt. 2 - Ulysses Blog\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-12 07:00:52 -0500", "date": "7:00 p.m. on Nov 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/12/hourra-ulysses-macosbigsur.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F12%2Fhourra-ulysses-macosbigsur.html" }, { "id": 3542, "type": "post", "title": "Another experiment: Mac mini (#apple #macmini #m1processor #macosbigsur)", "text": "Recently published benchmarks of the upcoming M1-based Macs are impressive enough for me to take a deep breath and make a decision. A week ago, I didn’t think of this as a possibility. But here we are.\nI’m going to make the plunge into the world of Apple Silicon-based Mac, Big Sur and universal apps. It’s the beginning of a new era, and I want to be part of it, experience it. I’m not waiting for the reviews next week.\nI’ll get a Mac mini equipped with 16 GB of RAM and a 1 TD SSD. Expected delivery date is mi-December at the earliest, just in time for Christmas holidays. I never owned a Mac mini, BTW.\nI’ll use my 4K LG display that is currently plugged into my iMac. I’ll be testing universal apps as they come out. Applications like Adobe Lightroom CC, Omnigraffle and Pixelmator Photo will certainly take advantage of the M1 processor.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-11 21:59:37 -0500", "date": "9:59 p.m. on Nov 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/11/another-experiment-mac.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F11%2Fanother-experiment-mac.html" }, { "id": 3543, "type": "post", "title": "Tim Cook's Apple: not perfect but utterly impressive (#apple #timcook #2020)", "text": "I recently wrote and published a very critical view of Tim Cook\u0026rsquo;s Apple. It\u0026rsquo;s not pretty, but it is my honest take. Now, looking at Apple\u0026rsquo;s strategy execution for 2020 which is close to an end, I must confess that I\u0026rsquo;m really impressed. Apple delivered. On all fronts. There are a lot of unknowns, for sure. Yet, I have the felling that Apple set the stage for its next phase of growth for the next decade.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-11 16:01:00 -0500", "date": "4:01 p.m. on Nov 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/11/tim-cooks-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F11%2Ftim-cooks-apple.html" }, { "id": 3544, "type": "post", "title": "On M1 based Macs Unified Memory Architecture (#apple #mac #m1processor)", "text": "Here is the thing: the new M1-based Macs use the new \u0026ldquo;unified memory architecture” that is at the center of our iPhones and iPads. If you plan to buy one of these shinny new Mac, my recommendation would be to go with 16 GB of RAM, not 8 GB. Why? Consider this: Rosetta 2 is a new emulation software layer that will consume memory, something that is not present on Intel-based machines. On top of that, memory will be consume for video processing. My guess is: the biggest monitoring, the higher the resolution, the more memory will be consumed. What’s left for the applications? Even if SSD is fast on reads and writes, application launches are fast, nothing equals the speed of RAM. I\u0026rsquo;m afraid 8 GB of RAM is the new meager 5 GB iCloud storage tier for M1-based Mac. We\u0026rsquo;ll see with the upcoming reviews and benchmarks.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-11 10:52:24 -0500", "date": "10:52 p.m. on Nov 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/11/on-mbased-macs.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F11%2Fon-mbased-macs.html" }, { "id": 3545, "type": "post", "title": "Intel: shit. (#appleevent #m1processor #apple #intel)", "text": "The graph put together by Anandtech is a wakeup call for Intel and the Wintel world, for that matter. These trajectories are incredible, impressive for Apple, worrisome for Intel. We are on the verge of a major shift in the portable landscape. Apple seems unstoppable.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-11 07:37:55 -0500", "date": "7:37 p.m. on Nov 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/11/intel-shit-appleevent.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F11%2Fintel-shit-appleevent.html" }, { "id": 3546, "type": "post", "title": "Lingering Questions… (#appleevent #apple #mac #macbook)", "text": "Why no clock-speed information about the M1 processor? How are iOS-based apps be presented on the Mac App Store? Why so little difference between a MacBook Air configurations, CPU-wise, RAM-rise compared to MacBook Pro? What “virtualization technology support\u0026quot; actually means for normal users and tech enthusiasts? Why not bring back the 12\u0026quot; form-factor, an ideal candidate for power-efficient M1 processor? Will there be updates to Intel-based iMac Pro and Mac Pro? Why no 32 GB RAM configuration option for the MacBook Pro? What kind of performance levels should we expect to reach for non-Metal optimized graphic apps? Why does Apple can\u0026rsquo;t understand the need for an updated FaceTime camera in 2020?\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-10 20:53:55 -0500", "date": "8:53 p.m. on Nov 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/10/lingering-questions-appleevent.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F10%2Flingering-questions-appleevent.html" }, { "id": 3547, "type": "post", "title": "What's missing? A lot. 😳 (#appleevent #apple #applesilicon #mac #macbook) ", "text": "No touch screen. No pencil support. No 5G or 5G wireless option. No high-quality FaceTime camera. No Face ID No redesign, no slim bezels. No 12\u0026quot; MacBook. No clock speed specs. No eGPU support. Fewer ports options. Third-party native software support still to come.\nAm I missing something?\nThat\u0026rsquo;s the new Apple MacBook using Apple\u0026rsquo;s M1 silicon ship.\nStill excited?\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-10 20:19:46 -0500", "date": "8:19 p.m. on Nov 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/10/whats-missing-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F10%2Fwhats-missing-a.html" }, { "id": 3548, "type": "post", "title": "History repeats itself (#appleevent #apple #applesilicon #mac)", "text": "From rewatching Steve Jobs announcing Apple\u0026rsquo;s transition to Intel processors, here are a few interesting observations, just in time for tomorrow’s #AppleEvent.\nSteve Jobs reminds the crowd of transitions in Mac history: 68K to PowerPC, OS 9 to OS 10 then introduces the third transition: going to Intel. Each time, he uses the expression “to set Apple for the next 10 years\u0026quot;. It\u0026rsquo;s all about the CPU roadmap’s ability to enable the Apple\u0026rsquo;s vision. Also, even at that time, power consumption was an issue. He also repeatedly mention great updates still coming to the PowerPC-based Macs.\nCan\u0026rsquo;t wait for tomorrow’s version of the very same playbook.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-09 20:05:13 -0500", "date": "8:05 p.m. on Nov 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/09/history-repeats-itself.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F09%2Fhistory-repeats-itself.html" }, { "id": 3549, "type": "post", "title": "Honest iPhone 12 Pro review. (#apple #iphone12pro #review @basicappleguy)", "text": "I love those balanced review, even partial, of the iPhone 12 Pro. They feel credible, and I tend give them high credence. We should get more of these these days of highly nuanced upgrades offered by Apple, year after year. Photo by the article author.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-09 15:10:48 -0500", "date": "3:10 p.m. on Nov 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/09/honest-iphone-pro.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F09%2Fhonest-iphone-pro.html" }, { "id": 3550, "type": "post", "title": "When Software Holds Back the Hardware (#apple #iphone12promax #ios14)", "text": "This quote from the Wall Street Journal\u0026rsquo;s review of the iPhone 12 Pro Max is priceless as ti summarize one of the biggest issue, in my opinion, about Apple’s current state of its software in general:\n“It is crazy to me, however, that Apple hasn\u0026rsquo;t enabled us to do more on a phone that is practically iPad-size. Why can\u0026rsquo;t I view my inbox on the top half of the screen and my calendar on the bottom, like Samsung allows with its Multi-Window mode? Why does the tiny iPhone Mini allow the same number of rows of home-page app icons and widgets as the iPhone Giant? Why can\u0026rsquo;t I use an Apple Pencil to take notes on the notebook-size device?”\nThese are all valid questions. Even before the iPhone 12 Pro Max, these questions were valid. Software, like for the iPad, is holding back the iPhone. Is it a ressources issue being spread too thin? Is it something about product differentiation? I hope the answer is the former, not the latter.\nPhoto: The Verge.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-09 11:32:39 -0500", "date": "11:32 p.m. on Nov 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/09/when-software-holds.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F09%2Fwhen-software-holds.html" }, { "id": 3551, "type": "post", "title": "Deception waiting to happen? (#appleevent #apple #applesilicon #mac)", "text": "I have a feeling that we are in for some deception tomorrow at the “One More Thing” keynote. Is this a natural mental process, some sort of auto-regulation of my own expectations, currently happening so I can be pleasantly surprised, tomorrow?\nYet, reading my Twitter feed today and people are expecting 15 hours of battery life while beating current Mac equivalent performance. And then what? The Apple Silicon story is more about the unification of software platforms at Apple than enabling endless hardware innovations on the Mac.\nChange my mind.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-09 08:13:22 -0500", "date": "8:13 p.m. on Nov 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/09/deception-waiting-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F09%2Fdeception-waiting-to.html" }, { "id": 3552, "type": "post", "title": "Another iPhone 12 “Virtual” Experience by @MichaelSteeber (#apple #iphone12 #experienceapple)", "text": "After spending sometime with the virtual experience from Apple, I found out another one by the well known @MichaelSteeber that is built with Adobe’s XD. The experience is quite similar, and I’m still not able to find a fully satisfactory combinaison of the iPhone, the MagSafe case and the wallet. Really, the iPhone 12 is not for me.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-08 08:17:03 -0500", "date": "8:17 p.m. on Nov 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/08/another-iphone-virtual.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F08%2Fanother-iphone-virtual.html" }, { "id": 3553, "type": "post", "title": "My iPhone 12 « Virtual » Experience (#apple #iphone12 #experienceapple)", "text": "Apple launched a webpage to experience the selection and visualization of different MagSafe cases and wallets for the iPhone 12. I played with it for fun from my iPad Pro. It’s an interesting way to try different combinaisons of iPhone, cases and wallet in a world where going to a real store to do the same is challenging.\nThis year’s iPhone and cases prove to be hardly satisfactory, though. The colours options are not really in line to my tastes. After spending a while, I found two probable configurations that I would buy if I was on the market for such things. Because of bad reviews of the wallet, I would skip this one as I would fear losing my three most important cards. I hope Apple will fix the issues with next year’s round of the products.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-08 08:05:54 -0500", "date": "8:05 p.m. on Nov 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/08/my-iphone-virtual.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F08%2Fmy-iphone-virtual.html" }, { "id": 3554, "type": "post", "title": "I can breath. (#bidenharis2020) 😀🇨🇦", "text": "Well, I can breath a little bit better now that this clown is on the way out. Good riddance. As a Canadian, I\u0026rsquo;m so happy to see this clown go. If there was a way to start fixing 2020, it would be it. Yeah, I know, he won\u0026rsquo;t concede victory, he probably won\u0026rsquo;t do a concession speech. Who cares.. we knew all that, already. Now, let\u0026rsquo;s hope Americans start to unite a little bit and fix their shit, because, it\u0026rsquo;s pretty ugly out there.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-07 12:54:27 -0500", "date": "12:54 p.m. on Nov 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/07/i-can-breath.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F07%2Fi-can-breath.html" }, { "id": 3555, "type": "post", "title": "The transition iPhone (#apple #iphone12 #iphonepro)", "text": "A recent tweet from @LeaksApplePro made me think about the significance of the iPhone 12 in the grand scheme of things.\nApple is about to remove the last port on the iPhone, so they are training us with the MagSafe. Next year’s version will fix many of the issue we’re facing today. 5G may not be ready, but next year it will be much better. LiDAR is fascinating, but next year we will depend on it. We tend to forget about the notch, next year it will be Apple who will forget it by putting it to rest.\nWe’re still in the middle of the pandemic. We’re not out of the woods. We’ll continue to work from home for a long time. Trips are not really a thing right now. But, in the fall of 2021, can we hope that most of this will be behind us and return to normal life? It would help a lot to enjoy the portless iPhone 13 or whatever stupid name they will name it. Right now, I’m a bit tired of not being able to go out and use the cameras to build my visual memories.\nThe iPhone 12 is the transition iPhone that will lead us to a better world, a year from now. I hope.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-07 08:20:10 -0500", "date": "8:20 p.m. on Nov 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/07/the-transition-iphone.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F07%2Fthe-transition-iphone.html" }, { "id": 3556, "type": "post", "title": "The battle of the leakers... (#apple #leaks @jon_prosser @onleaks @maxwinebach @appltrack) 🗣", "text": "On Twitter, a battle of the leakers is taking place is taking place nearly every day. It’s fun to read the claims and counter-claims of who had it right, who had it wrong, who stole from who, who lied, who’s fake, who’s real. There is even a website who tracks their “performance”.\nYou know what? We shouldn’t care. They all have something in common: they more or less depend on highly questionable ethic and look more and more like a bunch of losers. There, I said it.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-07 07:43:00 -0500", "date": "7:43 p.m. on Nov 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/07/the-battle-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F07%2Fthe-battle-of.html" }, { "id": 3557, "type": "post", "title": "The screen computer. (#apple #imac #mockup)", "text": "I want this to be the next iMac, running an ARM-based CPU. That’s what a computer should look like: a screen. On a stand. Nothing more. We\u0026rsquo;re close to this. Consider the iPad. We are already there. I don\u0026rsquo;t expect such a computer to be revealed next week, though. We will have to wait a bit more.\nMockup credit and more available here: https://svetapple.sk/english/imac-2021-exclusive-renders-from-svetapple-sk/\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-06 17:52:33 -0500", "date": "5:52 p.m. on Nov 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/06/the-screen-computer.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F06%2Fthe-screen-computer.html" }, { "id": 3558, "type": "post", "title": "On the Mac pivotal moment (#apple #appleevent #applesilicon #mac)", "text": "The Mac has gone through many transitions in the past and I was there for each of them. From the Motorola CPU, to the PowerPC and the Intel processors, Apple’s execution was almost flawless.\nAt the upcoming Apple Event, Apple will unveil their highly anticipated Apple Silicon Macs. When thinking about what Apple could do for this pivotal moment for the Mac, there is two possible roads Apple can take in regards to the general design of these machines.\nFirst, Apple could choose to do the same they did when they switched to Intel processors back in 2005. Apple kept the same designs. There are a few advantages to this approach. By going the conservative way, Apple sends a \u0026ldquo;don’t worry, this is a Mac, everything will work just fine” message. This would probably helps keep the confidence level about the expected compatibility of these machines with current software. But there is one big drawback from a marketing standpoint: Apple chose to switch to its own CPU in order to enable new things on the Mac that wasn\u0026rsquo;t possible before. I\u0026rsquo;m not sure that keeping the same external design of the Mac is the best way to do it; it would be too conservative.\nThe second approach, the one that I prefer, would be for Apple to introduce a refreshed and modernized design. This could take the form of new materials, new textures, new tones. Screen bezels could be dramatically reduced in order to bring the machine down in size. On top of that, better FaceTime camera with 4K resolution, always-on Siri could also make their debuts. If battery life can show major improvements, Apple would have a winner here. Such a move by Apple would help mark the turning point for the Mac, a new era, just like they did in 2012 when they introduced the unibody design. The Mac is in need of such refresh and this is the right time to do it.\nIf Apple is really aiming to produce 2.5 million Apple Silicon MacBooks by February 2021, there has to be something special besides a powerful and power efficient A14X CPU. Let\u0026rsquo;s see which strategy Apple decided to chose.\nSide note: it is fascinating to see that the PC never went through these transitions like the Mac did. It is something unique in the technology world. No other company ever did this, that many times. Now, we might wonder if this Apple Silicon transition will spark a similar move in the Wintel world. Why? Because Intel is no longer a synonym of real platform evolution, ARM-based design is.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-06 08:12:45 -0500", "date": "8:12 p.m. on Nov 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/06/on-the-mac.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F06%2Fon-the-mac.html" }, { "id": 3559, "type": "post", "title": "On Apple Watch “unique” requirement (#applewatch #iphone #apple) ⌚️", "text": "In the last few weeks, I repeatedly got a simple question regarding the Apple Watch: does it require an iPhone? One person expected to \u0026ldquo;pair” the watch with an iPad. The other is an Android user. These questions tell me something interesting. One, the Apple Watch is gaining traction among non-Apple users. Two, the quicker Apple can remove the iPhone requirement to get an Apple Watch, the better it will be for their bottom line. This could be something as important as the iTunes for Windows was back in the days.\nPhoto credit: Brina Blum on Unsplash.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-05 11:57:11 -0500", "date": "11:57 p.m. on Nov 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/05/on-apple-watch.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F05%2Fon-apple-watch.html" }, { "id": 3560, "type": "post", "title": "About those \"one more things\"... (#appleevent #onemorething #history)", "text": "On the eve of another \u0026ldquo;one more thing” moment, please read this interesting article on Medium. The author spent time to review all previous cases of “one more thing\u0026rdquo; announcements. They were not all game changers but the following ones were turning points: MacBook Air reveal, Apple Watch. Can\u0026rsquo;t wait for the next one as I expect it will be another game changer moment for the Mac.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-05 07:26:52 -0500", "date": "7:26 p.m. on Nov 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/05/about-those-one.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F05%2Fabout-those-one.html" }, { "id": 3561, "type": "post", "title": "How old are they? (#apple #macosbigsur)", "text": "Here’s a quick and unrelated question: how old, on average, are people who love the design language of macOS Big Sur? Seriously, my bet goes to a much younger crowd than those who prefer macOS Catalina. Why? People who grew up with the iPhone and iPadOS has a much different design reference frame that those who grew up with macOS. The latter group seems to see Big sur as some sort of iPadification of macOS.\nYou’re thoughts?\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-04 20:50:12 -0500", "date": "8:50 p.m. on Nov 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/04/how-old-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F04%2Fhow-old-are.html" }, { "id": 3562, "type": "post", "title": "Updating my Apple purchase plans (#appleevent #apple #macpro #onemorething)", "text": "As it becomes clearer what Apple won\u0026rsquo;t announce next week, an update to their Mac Pro, my purchasing plans needs to be updated accordingly. It makes no sense for me to go with an Apple Silicon Mac in the near future as I need Vmware Fusion to run Windows virtual machines in my SDDCbox project. Only an Intel-based Mac Pro can do it for me as we speak. Still, I can\u0026rsquo;t wait for next week\u0026rsquo;s announcements.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-04 13:26:09 -0500", "date": "1:26 p.m. on Nov 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/04/updating-my-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F04%2Fupdating-my-apple.html" }, { "id": 3563, "type": "post", "title": "Please, come to Canada (#apple #iphoneupgradeprogram #iphone)", "text": "I wish the iPhone Upgrade Program would come to Canada. I\u0026rsquo;m not holding my breath, though. I think carriers here wouldn\u0026rsquo;t let it happen because they know they suck at selling their shit, and this would greatly affect their bottom line. In any case, if it does come to Canada, I would upgrade my iPhone every year, for sure.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-04 13:11:50 -0500", "date": "1:11 p.m. on Nov 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/04/please-come-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F04%2Fplease-come-to.html" }, { "id": 3564, "type": "post", "title": "Pray. (#vote2020 #electionnight)", "text": "I rarely if ever post political stuff here. As a Canadian, my sincere hope is that the American people make the furst step in order to put an end to this endless nightmare.\nOn a side note: I’m using  News to follow election night. So far, I like what Apple is doing here. Results are quick to be reflected on the maps, which can be drilled down up to the state level.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-03 20:09:41 -0500", "date": "8:09 p.m. on Nov 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/03/pray-vote-electionnight.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F03%2Fpray-vote-electionnight.html" }, { "id": 3565, "type": "post", "title": "Facebook is bad at everything. Period. (#facebook #privacyprotection #design #privacy)", "text": "Interesting post from @Gruber about Facebook application design. The lack of support for basic things like dark mode, more than a year after its introduction is a simple example, but very telling about something: Facebook doesn\u0026rsquo;t give a shit about those things. They don\u0026rsquo;t give a shit about privacy protection either. They don\u0026rsquo;t give a shit about democracy. They are are bad at design. They are bad at everything. And their growth is slowly declining which is a bit of fresh air to know.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-03 08:21:12 -0500", "date": "8:21 p.m. on Nov 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/03/facebook-is-bad.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F03%2Ffacebook-is-bad.html" }, { "id": 3566, "type": "post", "title": "Widget Radar (#widgets #ios14 #weatherapps @rjonesy)", "text": "Another wonderful and really useful widget is finally available for iOS 14 and iPadOS 14: a precipitation radar. I\u0026rsquo;m a big fan of MyRadar but the app wasn\u0026rsquo;t yet updated to support widgets. Widget Radar, which is free by the way, is simple and minimalist yet effective. It is proudly sitting on my homes creen now, on the weather page.\nSide note: Weatherline is another useful weather app, but it doesn\u0026rsquo;t allow the placement of the radar image as a widget, yet.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-03 06:52:47 -0500", "date": "6:52 p.m. on Nov 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/03/widget-radar-widgets.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F03%2Fwidget-radar-widgets.html" }, { "id": 3567, "type": "post", "title": "Mac Pro mini (#apple #rumours #macpro)", "text": "Surprising rumors by Bloomberg about Apple working on a new Mac Pro, about half the size of the current model:\n“Apple engineers are currently developing a new Mac Pro that looks like the current design at about half the size. It’s unclear if that Mac will replace the current Mac Pro or if it’s an additional model.”\nAs someone who is seriously contemplating to buy a Mac Pro, this information makes me pause a bit. My use case is for virtualization software which requires an Intel chip for running Windows versions in virtual machines. Windows on ARM is not on the horizon. I will enjoy an Intel Mac Pro for quite some time.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-02 20:27:22 -0500", "date": "8:27 p.m. on Nov 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/02/mac-pro-mini.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F02%2Fmac-pro-mini.html" }, { "id": 3568, "type": "post", "title": "The \"real\" One More Thing... (#appleevent #apple #macosbigsur #macbook #onemorething)", "text": "There is a difference between what I expect and what are the things that I would really like to see. Here is a short list for this last Apple Event of 2020.\nI hope for an Apple Silicon Mac with a full physical redesign of the Mac it is replacing. The re-introduction of the 12\u0026quot; MacBook with a refreshed design language, something that would be start of something new for all the upcoming MacBook updates in the future. I want Apple to mark the beginning of a new era for the Mac, not something in the form of continuity. I want Apple to turn the page and move beyond the Jony Ive\u0026rsquo;s era. Let\u0026rsquo;s start fresh, be forward thinking. Go past Microsoft\u0026rsquo;s Surface. Oh, this brings me to another wish: Touch support on macOS Big Sur and Apple Silicon Mac. Signs are pointing to this. That would be the real kicker of this year. Please, Apple, make it so. Impress me.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-02 13:35:01 -0500", "date": "1:35 p.m. on Nov 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/02/the-real-one.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F02%2Fthe-real-one.html" }, { "id": 3569, "type": "post", "title": "One More Thing. (#appleevent #mac #applesilicon #macosbigsur)", "text": "Big surprise today, it came early, Apple sent their invites for a November 10th Apple event. Rumours were pointing to November 17th date. Happy the wait will be shorter than anticipated.\nI love this tag line; it was used at many occasions by Steve Jobs to show something that could be a game changer or of high significance.\nThis early invite adds credence to those who think macOS Big Sur 11.0 is already being put on unreleased new Macs. Expect 11.0.1 to follow pretty quickly.\nHere is what\u0026rsquo;s on the menu for this last Apple event of 2020.\nmacOS 11.0 \u0026ldquo;Big Sur\u0026rdquo; make its official debuts (100%) Universal apps running simultaneously on iOS, iPadOS and macOS are now supported (100%) First round of Apple Silicon Macs are release: MacBook or MacBook Pro (100%) Side announcements of updated configurations for 21.5” iMac and 27” iMac Pro still on Intel (70%) Apple TV refresh using Apple Silicon and new game controller (40%) Can\u0026rsquo;t wait for next week.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-02 12:47:51 -0500", "date": "12:47 p.m. on Nov 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/02/one-more-thing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F02%2Fone-more-thing.html" }, { "id": 3570, "type": "post", "title": "Troubling rumours about the Mac (#apple #mac #imac #applesilicon)", "text": "According to AppleTrack.org, there is a shortage of many different Mac models. Some shipping dates are slipping into December. It the case for the 21.5” iMac and iMac Pro. Troubling.\nWhen Apple announced they were transitioning their Macs to use the new Apple Silicon, they also said they would keep updating current Intel-based models for a while. I don\u0026rsquo;t know this will translate in reality. If the iMac Pro is being updated this month, it could be for an updated configuration with an Intel CPU, not an Apple Silicon. The case of the 21.5” iMac is more interesting, tough. The 27” iMac was updated recently but not the 21.5. I\u0026rsquo;m not sure it is the first prime candidate for the Apple Silicon. I\u0026rsquo;m thinking more about the MacBook or the MacBook Pro which would highly benefit from the Apple Silicon.\nIt\u0026rsquo;s interesting to note that the Mac Pro is still in stock. This could signal that it won\u0026rsquo;t get updated this fall. The Mac Pro wasn\u0026rsquo;t updated since its release in 2019. As I\u0026rsquo;m looking to get one for my SDDCbox project, I\u0026rsquo;d would love to see a refreshed configuration in time for me to consider and pickup.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-02 07:10:07 -0500", "date": "7:10 p.m. on Nov 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/02/troubling-rumours-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F02%2Ftroubling-rumours-about.html" }, { "id": 3571, "type": "post", "title": "On iStat Menus 6.5 (#macosbigsur @bjango)", "text": "One of my favorite macOS utilities, iStat Menus, just received an update to version 6.5 which adds support for macOS Big Sur. I know, yesterday I wrote that I was done with Big Sur\u0026hellip; but it was for testing\u0026hellip; I still have time in front of me to convince me this is the best release of macOS Apple has ever done.\niStat Menus will be ready when I\u0026rsquo;m doing the switch to this Mac Pro for my SDDCbox project. It will play an important role in giving me insights on the CPU and SSD access. For now, there are a lot of tweaks which will make this utility even better. Even their release notes is art!\nThere seems to be less and less high-quality apps and utilities like this these days\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-02 06:45:54 -0500", "date": "6:45 p.m. on Nov 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/02/on-istat-menus.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F02%2Fon-istat-menus.html" }, { "id": 3572, "type": "post", "title": "I’m done with macOS Big Sur (#apple #macos #macosbigsur)", "text": "Since the beginning of September I’ve been testing macOS Big Sur. I\u0026rsquo;m still undecided about how I like or hate this release. I\u0026rsquo;m unable to get over the way Apple messed up the notifications center with widgets. Clearly, it is a regression. There was no good reasons to merge them on the same space. Widgets should have gone in their own area, taking full advantage of the big screen. I just don\u0026rsquo;t understand it.\nI\u0026rsquo;ll reuse this 1 TB SSD USB-C drive for something else: put my SDDCbox project virtual machines on it.\n", "dateiso": "2020-11-01 11:11:49 -0500", "date": "11:11 p.m. on Nov 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/11/01/im-done-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F11%2F01%2Fim-done-with.html" }, { "id": 3573, "type": "post", "title": "Release Candidate (#iosdev #apple #iOS)", "text": "Ladies and gentlemen, this is the end of an era. Apple is leaving behind the term “Golden Master” in order to adopt “Release Candidate” to refer to a version of its operating system sent to its developers that will probably be released to the general public. An an IT guy, I’m used to the term “release candidate”, “golden master” was such an Apple-only thing. I’m glad they make this change as it reflects the state of a release.\nPhoto credits: Photo by Tirza van Dijk on Unsplash\n[twitter.com/_inside/s...](https://twitter.com/_inside/status/1322288679604363264?s=21) ", "dateiso": "2020-10-31 07:39:06 -0500", "date": "7:39 p.m. on Oct 31, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/31/release-candidate-iosdev.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F31%2Frelease-candidate-iosdev.html" }, { "id": 3574, "type": "post", "title": "Edge cases (#iphone12 #iphone12pro #photography #apple)", "text": "I’m an iPhone 11 Pro owner. Photography-centered reviews are interesting to me because they tend to compare this year’s iPhone with last year’s. MacRumors published such a comparison. Judging from it, if I could summarize the iPhone 12 Pro photographic advances, it would be like this. The iPhone 12 Pro improvements are mostly about edge cases because in normal situations, improvements are much more subtle. The addition of Night Mode on the Ultra wide camera is part of features uniformisation across cameras which is welcomed, though.\nPhoto credits: from MacRumors article. ", "dateiso": "2020-10-31 07:24:05 -0500", "date": "7:24 p.m. on Oct 31, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/31/edge-cases-iphone.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F31%2Fedge-cases-iphone.html" }, { "id": 3575, "type": "post", "title": "Measuring my success (#blogger #writer #newsletter)", "text": "As a blogger and a content-creator, how can I measure my success? Well, it’s not an easy one to answer. Each blogger could have its own way at looking at this. Personally, I could pay attention to my blogs visitors statistics, but there is one thing that I keep an eye on these days. I recently started publishing a free monthly newsletter on Substack. The membership is increasing, but what I'm looking for is easy: following a new issue of my newsletter, how many are unsubscribing? None, so far. To me, it’s some form of success.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-30 16:22:40 -0500", "date": "4:22 p.m. on Oct 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/30/measuring-my-success.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F30%2Fmeasuring-my-success.html" }, { "id": 3576, "type": "post", "title": "It's a deal! (#apple #appleone #applemusic #fitnessplus)", "text": "Sometimes in your life you come across some deals that you cannot refuse. Apple One is one of them. As a Canadian, by subscribing, on top of Apple News+, 2 TB iCloud storage and Apple Music, I’m getting Fitness+ and Apple Arcade and… to my surprise, now I have 4 TB of iCloud storage. How good is that? Can’t wait to try Fitness+ and maybe help me go through these enduring times this coming winter while getting in a better shape?\nNow, what comes next Apple One? Apple //? ", "dateiso": "2020-10-30 11:41:54 -0500", "date": "11:41 p.m. on Oct 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/30/its-a-deal.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F30%2Fits-a-deal.html" }, { "id": 3577, "type": "post", "title": "Optimized for Mac (#apple #applesilicon #ios #ipados)", "text": "Here is one of the most fascinating part of upcoming Apple Silicon Macs: the implicit support for iPhone and iPad apps on the Mac (as long as the developers care to update their apps, obviously). I wonder how massive this change will be. How will it change the third-party applications landscape on the Mac? How will it influence the pricing of both iOS/iPadOS apps and macOS apps? We tend to take for granted that software on the Mac is always more expensive compared to their iPad counterpart… The next year sure will be interesting to watch for Mac lovers like me.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-30 06:36:38 -0500", "date": "6:36 p.m. on Oct 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/30/optimized-for-mac.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F30%2Foptimized-for-mac.html" }, { "id": 3578, "type": "post", "title": "Fascinating times (#apple #microsoft #google #amazon)", "text": "Here is a fascinating chart: brand value calculated by Interbrand. Apple is on top again this year. They have been there since 2012. What I find interesting is the first row is occupied by companies reflecting our new way of life as we depend on smartphones (Apple, Samsung), online shopping (Amazon) and the cloud (Microsoft). What about Google you might ask? Well, first, as we don’t like to pay for online stuff, we prefer to be the product of advertisers. Second, we stopped using bookmarks a long time ago, we prefer the Google search field.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-30 06:19:37 -0500", "date": "6:19 p.m. on Oct 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/30/fascinating-times-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F30%2Ffascinating-times-apple.html" }, { "id": 3579, "type": "post", "title": "We’re humans — Tim Cook (#apple #timcook)", "text": "“Work can’t solve for all the things we’re missing right now, but a shared sense of purpose goes a long way. A belief that we can do more together than we can alone, that people of good will, driven by creativity and passion and that certain itch of a big idea, can still do things that help other people in our own small way to teach, to learn, to create, or just to relax at a time like this. Even as the things we make require us to operate at the very cutting edge of technology, in materials, products, and ideas that didn’t exist just a few years ago, this year has forced us to face plainly the things that make us human — disease, resilience, and hope.” — Tim Cook\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-30 05:57:34 -0500", "date": "5:57 p.m. on Oct 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/30/were-humans-tim.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F30%2Fwere-humans-tim.html" }, { "id": 3580, "type": "post", "title": "Apple is doom! (#apple #iphone #mac #ipad)", "text": "Poor Apple, iPhone sales are 20% down compared to last year’s quarter. Look, people, it's 2020 and we are in the middle of a pandemic. Stores are closing, opening, then closing again. Yet, Apple is able to pull it off big time. Thanks to the Mac, iPad and services, Apple is able to come out with a great quarter! That’s what is interesting: when one product line is performing poorly, others take the lead. September quarter is going to be a monster one as the iPhone 12 and Apple Silicon Macs sales takes over the stage. ", "dateiso": "2020-10-29 19:17:27 -0500", "date": "7:17 p.m. on Oct 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/29/apple-is-doom.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F29%2Fapple-is-doom.html" }, { "id": 3581, "type": "post", "title": "Apple's Clips is Underated (#apple #clips)", "text": "Apple this week updated their strange application, Clips, to version 3.0. Clips looks like a technology demonstration to me. I hear it is popular among the young crowd. Maybe. I’ve played with the new version a bit and really like the new design which is cleaner and more enjoyable to use. After playing with, boy this app is power hungry; my iPhone 11 Pro get’s very hot! Still an interesting ting to play with. ", "dateiso": "2020-10-29 16:56:07 -0500", "date": "4:56 p.m. on Oct 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/29/apples-clips-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F29%2Fapples-clips-is.html" }, { "id": 3582, "type": "post", "title": "On Apple Search (#apple #siri #search @parkerortolani)", "text": "Here is an interesting design concept of a possible Apple Search service. What I find interesting is the use of the Siri branding. I don’t know if Apple would use it or simply call the service: Apple Search. I would prefer the latter as Siri is not known to sound like “good” more like “good enough” or “behind the reste of the crowd”. ", "dateiso": "2020-10-29 14:50:24 -0500", "date": "2:50 p.m. on Oct 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/29/on-apple-search.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F29%2Fon-apple-search.html" }, { "id": 3583, "type": "post", "title": "11.0.1 beta, really? (#apple #macos #macosbigsur)", "text": "This curve ball wasn\u0026rsquo;t expected: Apple comes up with beta 1 of macOS Big Sur 11.0.1. Why? Why now? Does this mean 11.0 GM is really around the corner and will ship soon on new Macs, including the first Apple Silicon ones? Why do I keep thinking Big Sur (based on Beta 10) was far from ready? Something is clear to me, I\u0026rsquo;m not upgrading my iMac anytime soon, but I understand that my upcoming Mac Pro could come pre-installed with it.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-29 06:24:49 -0500", "date": "6:24 p.m. on Oct 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/29/beta-really-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F29%2Fbeta-really-apple.html" }, { "id": 3584, "type": "post", "title": "Third edition is out! (#newsletter #blogger #writing #apple)", "text": "After much writing and compositing, the third edition of the Numeric Citizen Introspection newsletter is out! I\u0026rsquo;m quite happy with the end results. It\u0026rsquo;s getting better with each release. It\u0026rsquo;s still free. Can\u0026rsquo;t wait to build the next edition!\nPlease, read, share and like! 👈🏻 🙏🏻\nComments are welcomed!\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-28 18:28:40 -0500", "date": "6:28 p.m. on Oct 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/28/third-edition-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F28%2Fthird-edition-is.html" }, { "id": 3585, "type": "post", "title": "That was fast! (#apple #ios14 #ios13)", "text": "I’m always impressed by the turn over speed of major new releases of iOS. iOS 14 adoption rate is already surpassing iOS 13 after less than six weeks of availability. Wow.\nApple’s iPhone ecosystem is running at blazing speed to adopt new technologies. There is nothing like that in tech. Even if people are keeping their old iPhone longer, by supporting old devices, Apple can set the bar for new privacy features and make them available to a vast portion of the users. This is something we rarely talk about.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-28 06:55:56 -0500", "date": "6:55 p.m. on Oct 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/28/that-was-fast.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F28%2Fthat-was-fast.html" }, { "id": 3586, "type": "post", "title": "Twisted dialogue (#apple #iphone12 #environment @mattbirchler)", "text": "Matt Birchler in a funny post hightlights how twisted Apple’s stance can be when it comes to pushing their agenda: in this cas, the protection of the environment.\nI think it is a mandatory thing to openly challenge something Apple does even if you like their products as much as we possible can. I did it in my long article “The Rotten Side of Tim Cook’s Apple“ and l’ll continue to do it.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-28 06:03:00 -0500", "date": "6:03 p.m. on Oct 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/28/twisted-dialogue-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F28%2Ftwisted-dialogue-apple.html" }, { "id": 3587, "type": "post", "title": "Basic Apple Guy but gorgeous! (#apple #blog #discovery @basicappleguy)", "text": "Thanks to an article from John Gruber\u0026rsquo;s website, Daring Fireball, I discovered a new Apple-centric blog yesterday: Basic Apple Guy. After spending a few minutes on it exploring the content, I kind of fell in love with it and and started to wish it was mine. I\u0026rsquo;m impressed by the simplicity and the content quality. RSS feed already added to my collection.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-27 10:22:52 -0500", "date": "10:22 p.m. on Oct 27, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/27/basic-apple-guy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F27%2Fbasic-apple-guy.html" }, { "id": 3588, "type": "post", "title": "It's all about the story, right? (#apple #mac #applesilicon)", "text": "Here is what I\u0026rsquo;ll be looking for at the Apple Silicon Macs introduction: the story they will tell for their introduction. Remember when Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone or the iPod? There was a story to hit so people could understand the \u0026ldquo;why\u0026rsquo;s\u0026rdquo;. Now, in the age of smartphones, what is the relevancy for Apple Silicon Macs? Why now? What pain points do they address? Can\u0026rsquo;t wait for November. Photo credits.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-27 06:00:35 -0500", "date": "6:00 p.m. on Oct 27, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/27/its-all-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F27%2Fits-all-about.html" }, { "id": 3589, "type": "post", "title": "I kind of like what I’m seeing (#myblog #blogger #bloggerlife)", "text": "This is my Micro.blog.\nUsing the popular Newsify RSS feed reader, I used my own feeds to see how it would look through it. I was pleasantly surprised by the end results. It’s been a while since I found the best way for me to post on Micro.blog. All posts have a title, hashtags, a picture and use at least 280 characters so the boundary where a title becomes available. Without it, Micro.blog cross-posts the whole text on Twitter which I don’t want to happen; I prefer a summary titled.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-26 20:43:40 -0500", "date": "8:43 p.m. on Oct 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/26/i-kind-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F26%2Fi-kind-of.html" }, { "id": 3590, "type": "post", "title": "Everyone has their price (#apple #google #privacy #privacyprotection)", "text": "According to the New York Time regarding the antitrust lawsuit in the works, Google is paying between 8 to 12 billions $ a year to be the default search engine on iOS. That is a lot of money, but apparently, that\u0026rsquo;s the price to pay for Apple to bend over their privacy stance.\nIf there is one reason why Apple should get out of this deal and build their own search tech or buy DuckDuckGo altogether: put the walk behind the talk.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-26 18:11:46 -0500", "date": "6:11 p.m. on Oct 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/26/everyone-has-their.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F26%2Feveryone-has-their.html" }, { "id": 3591, "type": "post", "title": "The master in action (#stevejobs #ipod #apple #history)", "text": "This short clip showing Steve Jobs introduce the iPod is a pure joy to re-watch. It is 9m 11sec of presentation mastery. The way he set the stage, draw attention to pain points, show the \u0026ldquo;solution” is perfect. This is how you do it. This clip should go in tech and marketing history books.\nNow, let\u0026rsquo;s try to imagine how he would do it for the introduction of the first Apple Silicon Mac in a few weeks.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-26 06:34:58 -0500", "date": "6:34 p.m. on Oct 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/26/the-master-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F26%2Fthe-master-in.html" }, { "id": 3592, "type": "post", "title": "The more I read... (#iPhone12 #iphone12pro #apple)", "text": "The more I read comments on Twitter about the iPhone 12, the more I\u0026rsquo;m happy to skip this upgrade cycle: wireless network performance (spotty), battery life (highly hit by 5G usage), finger prints magnet (Pro edges), mildly controversial colours (not as unanimous as last year\u0026rsquo;s colours), weak cameras upgrade (from the 11 Pro), MagSafe design and performance (too weak magnets). I\u0026rsquo;ll be waiting for the iPhone 13 patiently.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-25 19:07:33 -0500", "date": "7:07 p.m. on Oct 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/25/the-more-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F25%2Fthe-more-i.html" }, { "id": 3593, "type": "post", "title": "iPhone heritage (#apple #design #iphone #iphone12)", "text": "_“Enduring design doesn’t need constant reinterpretation. It needs tweaking, polishing, and subtle improvement” _— Om Malik\nGreat take by Om Malik on the the significance of timeless design in “Why great design is timeless”. As I wrote in my previous post, to me, the iPhone 5 was the best Apple design before the iPhone 12. Om Malik refers to the iPhone 4 as being an example of timeless design that was later only tweaked, refined and polished in following iPhone iterations. I find it a bit surprising as the iPhone 4 metallic edges never really came back after the iPhone 4S.\nLooking back at the iPhone design genealogy, we can infer six major groups of iPhone design language: the original iPhone up to the iPhone 3GS is group #1, the iPhone 4 and 4S is group #2, the iPhone 5, 5S and SE is group #3, the iPhone 6 and 6S is group #4, the group #5 encompasses the iPhone 7 up to the iPhone 11 including the SE 2. Finally, group #6 is the iPhone 12. I expect Apple to iterate within that group for at least another year.\nThe iterative polishing, refining process of Apple is in full glory since the iPhone 7. The latter is heavily based on the iPhone 5 heritage. The iPhone 12 is heavily inspired by the iPhone 5 era and the group #5 of designs.\nIf Apple plays their card well, next year\u0026rsquo;s iPhone could surpass this year\u0026rsquo;s line up by fixing the Pro glossy edges, removing the notch (it won\u0026rsquo;t happen), thinner bezels and less controversial colours selection, just to name a few attributes.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-25 08:21:44 -0500", "date": "8:21 p.m. on Oct 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/25/iphone-heritage-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F25%2Fiphone-heritage-apple.html" }, { "id": 3594, "type": "post", "title": "Apple did it again. (#iphone12 #apple #design)", "text": "In my opinion, this year\u0026rsquo;s black iPhone 12 is now their best design of all time, surpassing their previously best design, the black iPhone 5. It took them 8 years. I can\u0026rsquo;t wait to see that in person, for now, this tweet by Brian MacDuff is enough to convince me. Blacks are deep blacks, the edges mat finish is way better than on the Pro models. What could come next to beat this? A notch-less design. Maybe next year or in 8 years. Who knows. Picture from Mr. MacDuff.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-25 07:09:32 -0500", "date": "7:09 p.m. on Oct 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/25/apple-did-it.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F25%2Fapple-did-it.html" }, { "id": 3595, "type": "post", "title": "Staying home... (#iphone12 #apple #applestore)", "text": "For as far that I can remember, I won’t go to an Apple Store to see the new iPhone this year. Thank\u0026rsquo;s to\u0026hellip; well.. you know, it\u0026rsquo;s 2020. Twitter threads like this one I\u0026rsquo;m sure is not doing justice to the look and feel of these new devices.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-24 08:26:51 -0500", "date": "8:26 p.m. on Oct 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/24/staying-home-iphone.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F24%2Fstaying-home-iphone.html" }, { "id": 3596, "type": "post", "title": "Exposure notification (#iphone #apple #google #covid19 #pandemic)", "text": "I recently got this notification on my iPhone. I didn’t know the exposure feature would keep the user informed about its “behind-the-scene” work. Interesting.\nI wonder how Apple will remove that from iOS in a post-pandemic world. Will they keep it and make it usable for other types of highly contagious deceases? My feeling is that they will generalize it and keep there.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-24 08:19:33 -0500", "date": "8:19 p.m. on Oct 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/24/exposure-notification-iphone.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F24%2Fexposure-notification-iphone.html" }, { "id": 3597, "type": "post", "title": "They're here. (#iphone12 #iphone12pro #apple)", "text": "I don\u0026rsquo;t remember seeing Apple posting photos of behind-the-scenes workers working at distribution centers to make it all possible and magic for the first day of availability of a new iPhone. It\u0026rsquo;s an interesting move. We tend to forget how massive the required logistic is needed for these roll outs to happen smoothly, year after year. This year is special, the pandemic is certainly increasing the difficulty level quite a bit for Apple. We\u0026rsquo;ll see how Apple\u0026rsquo;s bottom line is affected, later this year.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-23 05:58:56 -0500", "date": "5:58 p.m. on Oct 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/23/theyre-here-iphone.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F23%2Ftheyre-here-iphone.html" }, { "id": 3598, "type": "post", "title": "On 2021 iPad Pro (#ipadpro #apple) ", "text": "Is it a question of a few more months before the iPad Pro line distance itself from the 2020 iPad Air. This will put the 2021 iPad Pro in a league of its own. Features like mini-led display, faster A-series processor\u0026hellip; but what else? More system memory at 8 GB? Bigger screen? Wifi 6? 5G option? daringfireball.net\nThe 2020 iPad Air\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-22 19:33:48 -0500", "date": "7:33 p.m. on Oct 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/22/on-ipad-pro.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F22%2Fon-ipad-pro.html" }, { "id": 3599, "type": "post", "title": "Jony Ive working with Airbnb. Who knew. (#jonyive #apple #lovefrom #airbnb #design #UI)", "text": "In a surprising move, Airbnb has a new partnership with Apple\u0026rsquo;s former designer chief, Jony Ive. As much as I like this guy’s work, something quite surprising struck me: Airbnb doesn\u0026rsquo;t sell any form of hardware. The last time I check, Jony Ive’s reputation is not about crafting the best user interface designs in the world, far from it. Who remember the switch to iOS 7? I do. Jony Ive was quite instrumental in the design of iOS 7 and it was a disaster. We are still paying the price today. It will be interesting to watch what comes from this partnership. Press release here.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-22 06:03:14 -0500", "date": "6:03 p.m. on Oct 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/22/jony-ive-working.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F22%2Fjony-ive-working.html" }, { "id": 3600, "type": "post", "title": "SDDCbox project - update #2 (#macpro #apple #vmware #vmwarefusion)", "text": "My possible future Mac Pro configuration is taking shape. It all started here btw. Reading carefully the spec sheet, the base configuration sets the memory clock speed at 2666 MHz while the 12 cores CPU configuration is at 2933 MHz. Considering my use case, virtualization with VMware Fusion, I\u0026rsquo;ll take any non-GPU improvements possible. Speaking of GPU, I\u0026rsquo;m not sure about the performance difference between the base GPU card, a AMD Radeon Pro 580X, and the more powerful AMD Radeon Pro W5500X. I\u0026rsquo;ll probably keep the entry-level one saving memory for a bigger SSD. Maybe.\nI\u0026rsquo;m not close yet to make the plunge and I\u0026rsquo;ll have to wait for November announcements as configuration updates, price changes or something else could greatly affect my buying decision. Stay tuned for update #3.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-22 05:52:58 -0500", "date": "5:52 p.m. on Oct 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/22/sddcbox-project-update.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F22%2Fsddcbox-project-update.html" }, { "id": 3601, "type": "post", "title": "RIP. Remote.app (#apple #appletv #appstore)", "text": "Great story about the start of the Apple TV remote app that was removed today from the App Store. Reason? Duplicate functionality with iOS Control Center. Time to move on I guess. I love those stories from the inside. Can\u0026rsquo;t get enough of them.\nPhoto credit: @badashproducts on Unsplash.\ntwitter.com/accannis/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-21 17:53:28 -0500", "date": "5:53 p.m. on Oct 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/21/rip-remoteapp-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F21%2Frip-remoteapp-apple.html" }, { "id": 3602, "type": "post", "title": "Waiting for iPhone 13. (iphone12 #iphone12pro #apple)", "text": "Thanks to iPhone 12, I can\u0026rsquo;t wait for the iPhone 13. The MagSafe is cool but is not perfect. 5G is nice but comes with a spotty coverage and puts a lot of pressure on battery life. The iPhone 12 Pro is a powerful monster but with fingerprint magnets and fragile glossy edges. Bezels are thinner and thinner but this big notch is still there. I’m skipping this year’s iPhone 12 and anxiously waiting for iPhone 13. Or whatever name they call it. Maybe just: iPhone Pro?\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-21 06:13:02 -0500", "date": "6:13 p.m. on Oct 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/21/waiting-for-iphone.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F21%2Fwaiting-for-iphone.html" }, { "id": 3603, "type": "post", "title": "This is a drill (#iphone12 #apple #magsafe)", "text": "With the iPhone 12 and MagSafe, is Apple training us for a port-less iPhone 13? I think so. The removable of the Lightning port and skipping USB-C would be so Apple, an act of courage I guess. If they do remove all the ports from the iPhone, how do we deal with CarPlay? What about developers who use testing and development devices which requires the fastest transfer speed possible? Is there something in the works at Apple that would mitigates these challenges for the users? Another type of adaptor? Or maybe Apple is just waiting for a more drastic iPhone redesign (no notch?) to bend themselves to USB-C?\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-21 05:49:13 -0500", "date": "5:49 p.m. on Oct 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/21/this-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F21%2Fthis-is-a.html" }, { "id": 3604, "type": "post", "title": "Stairway to “heaven”? (#apple #iphone12 #iphone12pro)", "text": "Tim Cook once said that all products Apple sell can fit on a table. Well, depending of the table size, maybe. But, you will have to remove products variants from the equation, though. Look at the iPhone product line. Now, think about how it will look next year.\ntwitter.com/asymco/st\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-20 19:20:56 -0500", "date": "7:20 p.m. on Oct 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/20/stairway-to-heaven.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F20%2Fstairway-to-heaven.html" }, { "id": 3605, "type": "post", "title": "These edges... (#iphonex #iphone12 #iphone12pro)", "text": "As much as I like what the iPhone 12 brings to the table in general\u0026hellip; edges got my attention. Up until now, I didn’t really like rounded edges since the iPhone 6. I much prefer the square edge on the iPhone 12\u0026hellip; but not on the Pro models\u0026hellip; they are way too much polished and are probably finger prints magnets.\nI want a Pro iPhone with the matte version of the non-Pro iPhone edges.\ntwitter.com/msfslm/st\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-19 20:16:02 -0500", "date": "8:16 p.m. on Oct 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/19/these-edges-iphonex.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F19%2Fthese-edges-iphonex.html" }, { "id": 3606, "type": "post", "title": "Stucked on the phone (#magsafe #iphone12 #apple #design #UX)", "text": "When I first saw the MagSafe snapping into the iPhone, I asked myself: how about taking the iPhone away? Is it hard? Is it gentle? Do we need two hands to separate them? Now listen to the video segment from a guy asking a few troubling questions\u0026hellip; should we worry or just wait for the iPhone 12 to ship and see how the whole thing actually works?\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-19 06:52:37 -0500", "date": "6:52 p.m. on Oct 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/19/stucked-on-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F19%2Fstucked-on-the.html" }, { "id": 3607, "type": "post", "title": "A14: from the iPhone to the Mac (#apple #A14 #applesilicon)", "text": "I love those feature highlights. Apple started to use them recently (September of last year?). If you look closely at the A14 feature highlights, I wonder what features aren’t required in a Mac? There is so many things that make sense on an iPhone, like everything related to ML. But, on a Mac? I’m not so sure. And, what features should be added to the A14 that doesn’t make sense on an iPhone? Increase high-performance CPU cores? And then what? What features are Mac specific that aren’t already handled by the T2 chip?\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-18 15:54:24 -0500", "date": "3:54 p.m. on Oct 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/18/a-from-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F18%2Fa-from-the.html" }, { "id": 3608, "type": "post", "title": "The 5G Enabler (#iPhone12 #apple #5G)", "text": "Last year, the iPhone 11 lacked 5G networks support. Apple was doomed. This year, the iPhone 12 does support 5G networks. Now the operators are doomed because of spotty coverage. There is something bad to look for if you want to get clicks.\nI think 5G is more marketing than anything else at this point. The iPhone 12 will be the enabler of 5G network. People will demand it (even if their use cases don\u0026rsquo;t require it). This will in turn force operators to accelerate their deployment.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-18 15:24:24 -0500", "date": "3:24 p.m. on Oct 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/18/the-g-enabler.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F18%2Fthe-g-enabler.html" }, { "id": 3609, "type": "post", "title": "A wild dream (#apple #macpro #vmware #virtualization #lab)", "text": "I’ve been thinking of something really wild recently, for me at least: replacing my 2017 21.5 inches iMac with a Mac Pro. Here is why.\nI work in IT (information technologies) as a data center related technology architect. Server virtualization, storage area networks, networking technologies are at the center of my professional universe. In the coming months, I’ll have to invest in self-training and experimentations a lot around VMware-related products and services. How can I do that efficiently while working from home? Here comes the Mac Pro idea.\nIn order to be able to run many virtual machines, a powerful physical computer is required: lots of memory, powerful CPU (more than 6 cores) and fast storage. My current iMac doesn’t meet these basic requirements (it is maxed out at 32 GB of RAM and it has a relatively modest CPU). A Mac Pro with the following specs would easily meet the challenge: at least 128 GB of fast memory, 8 cores CPU, builtin SSD and expandability.\nVirtualization will required VMware Fusion Pro running on top of macOS. Then, the sky is the limit as I can then install ESXi hypervisor which will allow me to branch into more complex setup. This type of environment do require a lot of memory (a typical VM is about 4-16 GB each) and multi-cores CPU. Installing ESXi directly on the Mac Pro is not an option as I will need to have macOS running for all other tasks (I’m not even sure if it is att all possible).\nHow do I get there? Well, I’m still thinking about how I’ll buy that machine and get the additional RAM (I won’t go with Apple’s because $$$). Stay tuned.\nTechnical datasheet can be found on Apple’s website, right here in PDF format. I don’t want to switch to a Windows machine BTW, I’m too much invested in Apple’s ecosystem for that to happen.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-18 08:48:38 -0500", "date": "8:48 p.m. on Oct 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/18/a-wild-dream.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F18%2Fa-wild-dream.html" }, { "id": 3610, "type": "post", "title": "A follow up to @mattbirchler on why opting for Newsletters instead of a blog? (#blogger #blogging #writing #substack)", "text": "In a recent blog post, the well known blogger and content creator, Matt Birchler, wants to understand why so many people are opting for emails (newsletters) over the web. I want to give my perspective on each of his questions.\nWhat about writing in a newsletter is more enjoyable than writing for a blog?\nMy Numeric Citizen Introspection newsletter is a monthly one. I start writing the next issue at the beginning of each month. I hit “Publish and send” at the very end of each month. It gives me four weeks to nurture its content. When the end of the month approaches, the newsletter content is mostly complete and I like how it evolved from the beginning. It is a satisfying process. Then, I take a pause and look forward to start the next one. I like the regular beat of all this process. I wouldn’t do a weekly newsletter, though, as it requires much more time to do.\nAre newsletter audiences more engaged than blog subscribers?\nI’m not sure about this one in general. For me, it is too early to tell. My gut feeling is that people are more or less engaged the same way as they are with blogs. I’d like to be wrong, though, and have people engage more with newsletters.\nAs a reader, do you prefer reading in your email app to an RSS app (or just the web in general)?\nI use Substack to build and send my newsletters. Each of them are also available via an RSS feed. Depending of the client used, the reading experience can be enjoyable on both type of clients. Personally, I do subscribe to Hey and reading newsletters with their client is really nice and provides a nice clipping feature which is very handy.\nDo you not miss things like link posts and “going viral” which are much harder, if impossible to do with emails?\nLink posts can be done in newsletters and they won’t go viral for sure. But, I’m not really looking for this kind of fame to be honest.\nIs it easier to get people to sign up for a paid subscription compared to the web?\nI’m still building this stuff and my newsletter is free for now. I get new subscribers regularly but not as much as I would like. I guess I still have to get the word out and be more “famous”.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-17 14:07:17 -0500", "date": "2:07 p.m. on Oct 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/17/a-follow-up.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F17%2Fa-follow-up.html" }, { "id": 3611, "type": "post", "title": "A simple wish (@ulyssesapp @microdotblog #writing #blogging #tools)", "text": "You know what I would like that would be really really cool and useful for me and probably for many others? I’d like to see Ulysses add support for Micro.blog as a publishing destination (Ghost, Medium and WordPress are already supported). That would be really nice. 👌🏻I kind of like Micro.blog native app for the iPad but it’s not a writing tool in my opinion. My fingers are crossed. Please, share this post if you think you would benefict from this as a writer and Ulysses user.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-17 13:41:58 -0500", "date": "1:41 p.m. on Oct 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/17/a-simple-wish.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F17%2Fa-simple-wish.html" }, { "id": 3612, "type": "post", "title": "Look who’s in town (#rssreader #rss #reading @reederapp)", "text": "The venerable RSS reader app « Reeder » turned to version 5 yesterday. I don’t know how I missed that one. Maybe because I moved from Reeder to News Explorer. I pay a lot of respect to the developer of Reeder. I’ve been using it for a long time. I wanted to have a look at version 5 so I bought it. Here is why.\nWidgets. News Explorer hasn’t been updated to support them yet. Reeder now does. I love them. Read Later. Sending URLs to Reeder Read later is interesting and provides a better experience than in Safari Read Later. Tracking my own RSS feed for quality control. Oh and Shortcuts are also supported, something News Explorer don’t.\nI think I’ll have to update my blogger workflow. 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-17 10:02:19 -0500", "date": "10:02 p.m. on Oct 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/17/look-whos-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F17%2Flook-whos-in.html" }, { "id": 3613, "type": "post", "title": "Is this called “Evolution” or “Modernism\"? (#apple #ios7 #UI #design)", "text": "An image is worth a thousand words. We are still paying the price of this shift in design, every single day, for every single interaction we have with our iPhone\u0026hellip; who asked for that? Why? Will we return to normalcy? I’ll never forget the “before” it was so shitty. Never.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-16 15:16:58 -0500", "date": "3:16 p.m. on Oct 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/16/is-this-called.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F16%2Fis-this-called.html" }, { "id": 3614, "type": "post", "title": "Software is art (@airbuddyapp, #macOS)", "text": "If you have a Mac, many battery-powered Apple devices, you need AirBuddy. Version has been in the works for a very long time and it is a major update. I’m so anxious to get my AirBuddy updated!\nWe don\u0026rsquo;t get to see this level of craft on computers these days. This reminds me how dire the macOS native application landscape has become over the years. With macOS Big, Catalyst, Apple Silicon Macs and universal binaries, one can hope for a brighter future.\nAm I alone who think the AirBuddy logo is upside down?\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-16 05:44:00 -0500", "date": "5:44 p.m. on Oct 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/16/software-is-art.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F16%2Fsoftware-is-art.html" }, { "id": 3615, "type": "post", "title": "Is there a pattern? (#apple #airpower #magsafeduo)", "text": "With the (re)introduction of the MagSafe for iPhone, Apple is trying to redo their AirPower introduction of 2017. On paper and on video, MagSafe looks cool, MagSafe Duo seems even better (more useful, transportability), but no word on availability and pricing, just like with the initial AirPower announcement. Is there something Apple didn\u0026rsquo;t learn here? Whatever happens, it is on my wishlist even if I\u0026rsquo;m not going to upgrade to the iPhone 12 this year.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-15 11:58:59 -0500", "date": "11:58 p.m. on Oct 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/15/is-there-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F15%2Fis-there-a.html" }, { "id": 3616, "type": "post", "title": "Secured. (@medium, #blogger, #blog)", "text": "A word about my other home: Medium, which I love. Following their latest update, they now offers publishers to secure their own domain name as well as allows better customization of publisher’s profiles. This is mine).\nIm still pondering how I\u0026rsquo;ll make use of Medium’s new love for bloggers.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-15 06:27:21 -0500", "date": "6:27 p.m. on Oct 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/15/secured-medium-blogger.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F15%2Fsecured-medium-blogger.html" }, { "id": 3617, "type": "post", "title": "I’ve been robbed by... @duggu24 (#bloggerlife #blogger)", "text": "For the first time in my numeric life (at least, from what I’m aware of), one of my article has been robbed by another guy. After discovering it, I asked for immediate removal but without success. So, today, I’m calling him out.\nThe robbed article is the one about upgrading from an Apple Watch Series 4 to Series 6 published on my main blog on October 3 of 2020 and on Medium. You can see the stolen article there. This article was then pushed on this fake Twitter account with 1628 followers. This Twitter account is apparently owned or operated by this guy, the thieve who is following four people and has only one follower (poor guy).\nThis hosting website seems to enjoy quite a bit of traffic. Good for him. All his articles is stolen stuff without any mention of the source. He must be proud of himself, I wonder if his parents are, though?\nThe main take out: I’m must be a good writer after all so people are starting to notice and copy my stuff.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-14 07:19:55 -0500", "date": "7:19 p.m. on Oct 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/14/ive-been-robbed.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F14%2Five-been-robbed.html" }, { "id": 3618, "type": "post", "title": "I won't upgrade to the iPhone 12 Pro (#iphone12pro #appleevent #apple)", "text": "As great looking and powerful the shinny new iPhone 12 Pro might be, I\u0026rsquo;ll skip the upgrade this year. Sure, I tend to skip a few generations but there is one unexpected reason not to do so and another one more obvious. First, the problem is because of the current pandemic, I cannot see when I\u0026rsquo;ll return traveling around the world. Traveling is the best photography opportunity for me. Without travel, working from home all the time, there is no need to get the latest smartphone technology. Second, 5G networks maybe powerful, but the coverage is spotty at best. I prefer to wait a year for this coverage to increase before making the jump on the new iPhone.\nLast year I upgraded from an iPhone 7 to an iPhone 11 Pro and I was delighted.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-14 05:56:34 -0500", "date": "5:56 p.m. on Oct 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/14/i-wont-upgrade.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F14%2Fi-wont-upgrade.html" }, { "id": 3619, "type": "post", "title": "It Just Works™ ", "text": "Yesterday, just like mostly everyday since March 13th of 2020, I went for a long walk with my wife. Both of us had their AirProds Pro with us. I had the idea to try the audio sharing feature of iOS 14 (introduced in iOS 13 if I\u0026rsquo;m not mistaken). We both put our AirPods in and I selected a playlist. Then, using the media playback UI, I selected the audio sharing option, waited for my wife\u0026rsquo;s AirPods to show up, after tapping this pair, she then had to accept my invitation and voilà! We both had music in our ears! It’s a great case of “It Just Works”, something that we see less and less often these days, I guess.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-13 06:13:04 -0500", "date": "6:13 p.m. on Oct 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/13/it-just-works.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F13%2Fit-just-works.html" }, { "id": 3620, "type": "post", "title": "On newsletters rising popularity #blogger #blogging #writing #writers", "text": "The rising popularity of paid newsletters is good news for many reasons. First, it\u0026rsquo;s a signal that people are willing to pay for great content without ads all around it. Second, some people value the direct relationship feeling with the writer compared to a traditional website. Third, the popularity of independent writing is rising which is giving back control to the writers.\nIn a recent article by Nick Heer on Pixel Envy, the author writes:\nYet, despite all of these clear advantages, I still find it difficult to think of my email inbox as somewhere I will go to find something enjoyable to read.\nI find newsletters a wonderful medium that cut the noise from social networks. The reading experience can further be improved with a great email client like Basecamp\u0026rsquo;s Hey which provides a specific reading mode for newsletters call The Feed. You can read my review of this email client here.\nRead more comments from Mr. Heer in his blog post. I started a newsletter a few weeks ago. For now and the foreseeable future, it will be free. I have to prove myself that I can meet the deadline every month with quality content. I\u0026rsquo;ll see how it goes.\nPhoto by Brett Jordan on Unsplash\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-12 15:48:38 -0500", "date": "3:48 p.m. on Oct 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/12/on-newsletters-rising.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F12%2Fon-newsletters-rising.html" }, { "id": 3621, "type": "post", "title": "The web in 2020.", "text": "Please, have a look at this ten seconds GIF to appreciate how bad the web experience is in 2020. This is the “iPhone in Canada” website. I won\u0026rsquo;t include the hyperlink in this post. There are 30 trackers in this web page according the Apple\u0026rsquo;s Safari. Thirty. This is just one example of so many more that illustrates what happens when you no longer care about the actual end-users.\nI accidentally clicked on a link to this website and then I remembered why I stopped reading it a long time ago.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-12 10:18:23 -0500", "date": "10:18 p.m. on Oct 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/12/the-web-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F12%2Fthe-web-in.html" }, { "id": 3622, "type": "post", "title": "Third-party Apple Watch Faces - Yes but no", "text": "Here is a super interesting article from David Shayer on Tidbits about why there may never be third-party Apple Watch Faces. According to this software engineer who worked on the first two releases of watchOS, there may be four reasons why Apple probably won’t make a watch face store: battery life, buggy code, Apple’s image, copyright worries. Besides many interesting insights on watchOS development and testing, the reason that caught my attention is about Apple desire to control their image.\nWhat is the killer app of the Apple Watch? The watch face, duh! Apple is an image control freak and I don’t think they want a watch face store full of crappy and bad taste designs to show up on users’ Apple Watch. They lost control of the App Store, they don’t want the same story to happen with the watch. And I agree with this position. But there could be some sort of compromise, though. As pointed out by Matt Birchler in his commentary post to Tidbits article:\n“CarPlay is a great example of how Apple could do this right with watch faces: only allow a certain number of companies to make custom watch faces. have them sign additional agreements and have them go through tougher reviews. Maybe there are literally 10 companies who are able to make watch faces. Maybe Apple can reject a watch face simply because they don’t like how it looks.”\nMy guess is that Apple will look to add more watch faces through collaborative work, just like they did in watchOS 7 with the Artist watch face.\nPhoto by Daniel Korpai — Unsplasg\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-11 09:00:00 -0500", "date": "9:00 p.m. on Oct 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/11/thirdparty-apple-watch.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F11%2Fthirdparty-apple-watch.html" }, { "id": 3623, "type": "post", "title": "Thanks Apple, you’ll make me like November", "text": "Bloomberg, via Mark Gurman, is reporting that Apple will hold another event in November for Apple Silicon Macs. Besides my comments yesterday on the opportunity for Apple to present redesigned Macs, having a separate event is a no brainer to me. This is a major transition for Apple and they certainly wants to get the message loud and clear.\nIf rumors are sound, Apple still have some time ahead to polish the upcoming macOS Big Sur release. As it is today, it is not ready for prime time. It may be the equivalent of the iOS 13 buggy release of this year. Even if Apple announces Macs in November, they could be ready to ship only in December, who knows, giving Apple even more time. Anyhow, I’m not is a rush to upgrade to Big Sur. Apps will have to follow the new look and feel and I’ll wait for them to be updated first. The list is long.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-11 07:32:06 -0500", "date": "7:32 p.m. on Oct 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/11/thanks-apple-youll.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F11%2Fthanks-apple-youll.html" }, { "id": 3624, "type": "post", "title": "On the upcoming Apple Silicon Macs", "text": "While many pundits still wonder which Mac Apple will start transitioning the platform to their shiny and speedy silicon, my attention is on something else. I’m wondering if Apple will take this opportunity to introduce redesigned machines. Let’s say they start with the MacBook Pro, could they use this occasion to reimagine the laptop? What about the iMac which is way overdue for a redesign?\nThere are two avenues for Apple. One in which they opt for continuity. The other is to make a bold statement and turn the page on the Intel-based era. If prefer the latter as I’d like to see what it looks like after the era of Jony Ive. It’s a golden opportinity IMHO. Besides my preference, Tim Cook’s Apple is conservative and they will probably opt for the former approach.\nWhat do you think?\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-10 14:18:45 -0500", "date": "2:18 p.m. on Oct 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/10/on-the-upcoming.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F10%2Fon-the-upcoming.html" }, { "id": 3625, "type": "post", "title": "Deliveries 9.0 - Does it deliver?", "text": "Here are a few quick comments on Deliveries 9.0 that came out recently. Deliveries 9 helped me track my Apple Watch Series 6 (read me review here).\nAs you know, Junecloud, the maker of Deliveries, switched to a subscription model with this release. I don’t really like this model but what can I do? Their pricing is fair and they give to previously paid users a six months break.\nVersion 9 brings refined visuals and more details tracking history among other things. The importation workflow has been updated and simplified too. Once delivered, package tracking can be archived forever. iOS 13’s dark mode is now supported but iOS 14 widgets aren’t yet. I think Deliveries is the perfect candidate to support widgets and I can’t wait to see what Junecloud will come up with in that regard.\nAll in all, as a long time user of Deliveries, I’m ok with this update albeit the switch to the subcription model. If it get’s more frequent feature additions, I’m ok with it, I guess.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-10 07:30:13 -0500", "date": "7:30 p.m. on Oct 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/10/deliveries-does-it.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F10%2Fdeliveries-does-it.html" }, { "id": 3626, "type": "post", "title": "Ready for a 99$ convenience ", "text": "At 99$ each, the HomePod mini would find a space on my desk for sure. I care more about size than Siri lacking intelligence with the HomePod. Being able to play music while I work without having to use headphones would be an improvement for me.\nwww.macrumors.com/2020/10/0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-09 16:33:31 -0500", "date": "4:33 p.m. on Oct 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/09/ready-for-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F09%2Fready-for-a.html" }, { "id": 3627, "type": "post", "title": "Thanks again, leakers!", "text": "Will there be anything left for Apple to announce next week at the Hi, Speed event? Thanks to leakers on the internet, probably not much. I can\u0026rsquo;t thank them enough for spoiling things, again.\nThere was a time where leaks helped people to adjust their buying decisions, but I feel they no longer fit that purposes. It is more like a search for some kind of fame.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-09 06:25:44 -0500", "date": "6:25 p.m. on Oct 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/09/thanks-again-leakers.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F09%2Fthanks-again-leakers.html" }, { "id": 3628, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What am I doing wrong while doing https://numericcitizen.micro.blog from Safari from iPadOS 14? @help\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-08 19:53:22 -0500", "date": "7:53 p.m. on Oct 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/08/what-am-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F08%2Fwhat-am-i.html" }, { "id": 3629, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Is the *.micro.blog certificate expired? @help Issue with RSS and website browsing\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-08 12:29:17 -0500", "date": "12:29 p.m. on Oct 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/08/is-the-microblog.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F08%2Fis-the-microblog.html" }, { "id": 3630, "type": "post", "title": "Oh. my. god. ", "text": "What iOS 14 widgets could have been. Much more interesting interaction model which looks to be more “direct manipulation-oriented”. Will we have to wait for iOS 15 or even iOS 16 before seeing something like this? That is something Apple could have done\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-07 13:56:41 -0500", "date": "1:56 p.m. on Oct 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/07/oh-my-god.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F07%2Foh-my-god.html" }, { "id": 3631, "type": "post", "title": "How well will it age? ", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m keeping that one mockup to see how well it will age when Apple releases the new iPhone lineup next week. I like the dark blue color. But what is missing from these mockups is the edge of the devices. The iPhone 4 and later the iPhone 5 squarish design were one of the best Apple came up with. We\u0026rsquo;ll see how they execute around the same idea with the iPhone 12.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-07 06:29:55 -0500", "date": "6:29 p.m. on Oct 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/07/how-well-will.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F07%2Fhow-well-will.html" }, { "id": 3632, "type": "post", "title": "MMMM everything comes in mini version?", "text": "Rumors are swirling around upcoming products from Apple. What is becoming more persistent is the possibility of an HomePod mini announcement. I\u0026rsquo;m not sure if it is already \u0026ldquo;dead on arrival\u0026rdquo; or if Apple is about to give the smart speaker market a second try. Will it take more than a smaller footprint, better sound quality and lower price? Yep: an ecosystem of apps built on something like \u0026ldquo;siriOS”. There are no signs at all of this\u0026hellip; which would be a massive surprise.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-06 16:02:54 -0500", "date": "4:02 p.m. on Oct 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/06/mmmm-everything-comes.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F06%2Fmmmm-everything-comes.html" }, { "id": 3633, "type": "post", "title": "Is this a sunset or a sunrise? #apple #appleevent", "text": "We should never read too much in Apple\u0026rsquo;s invite graphics. They rarely have anything to do with the content of the event itself except maybe with the iPad with Retina Display invite a few years ago. Remember the finger on the screen?\nBesides the obvious, an iPhone 12 line up announcement, what\u0026rsquo;s in store? AirTags? Updated Apple TV with Apple\u0026rsquo;s own game controller? HomePod mini? Don\u0026rsquo;t expect Apple Silicon Macs until November. I don\u0026rsquo;t expect Apple to talk about these next week. Apple Silicon Macs need their own stage time in their own event.\nFunny is the fact that iOS 14.1 is held back by Apple to fit this event. Probably contains a lot of hints of what is coming down the line.\nThe year 2020 can be an exciting one after all. I guess.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-06 11:51:00 -0500", "date": "11:51 p.m. on Oct 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/06/is-this-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F06%2Fis-this-a.html" }, { "id": 3634, "type": "post", "title": "On Ulysses Latest Release for iPadOS 14", "text": "Using the latest release of Ulysses for iPadOS 14, it is a joy to write on the iPad. Now, what am I writing, you might ask? More than 1700 words to express my current view of iOS 14 widgets: where are we, what’s left and where it could be going. It was supposed to be a 5 min reads\u0026hellip; now I’m at more than 7 min. Oh well. Should be out in the coming days on my main blog at https://numericcitizen.me\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-06 07:15:51 -0500", "date": "7:15 p.m. on Oct 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/06/on-ulysses-latest.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F06%2Fon-ulysses-latest.html" }, { "id": 3635, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Undiscoverable, Essential UI birchtree.meMatt Birchler https://birchtree.me/blog/undiscoverable-essential-ui/\rApple and undiscoverability in their UIs... a never ending issue. ", "dateiso": "2020-10-05 18:27:06 -0500", "date": "6:27 p.m. on Oct 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/05/undiscoverable-essential-ui.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F05%2Fundiscoverable-essential-ui.html" }, { "id": 3636, "type": "post", "title": "HEY, here is an important update! ", "text": "Today is Christmas! Basecamp just released version 1.1 of their email client for HEY which supports WIDGETS among other things! I played with it and I LOVE the way they added the feature. Nicely designed and useful! Congrats to them!\nNow, I have to get back to work on my article on widgets and remove HEY as an app without widgets support!\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-05 16:08:31 -0500", "date": "4:08 p.m. on Oct 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/05/hey-here-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F05%2Fhey-here-is.html" }, { "id": 3637, "type": "post", "title": "Nine years, already.", "text": "I miss him. The world is different. Apple has become something else. He would probably like what it has become without him, probably not all of it but most of it. I don\u0026rsquo;t care what he would have done differently. It\u0026rsquo;s no longer relevant as we need to keep looking forward, something he always did. But I still miss him dearly.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-05 08:13:46 -0500", "date": "8:13 p.m. on Oct 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/05/nine-years-already.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F05%2Fnine-years-already.html" }, { "id": 3638, "type": "post", "title": "From 2018 11” iPad Pro to ... ?", "text": "I have a 2018 11” iPad Pro. Today, I asked myself: what upcoming features or improvements could entice me to upgrade my iPad Pro? I’m still scratching my head.\nFaster? Nope. 😐 Lighter? Not quite. 🤨 More system memory? Mmm not really. Maybe. Maybe not. 🙂 Better screen? Is it even possible? 😬 Longer battery life? Nope. 🙄 Better speakers? Nah. 🥱 Integrated U1 chip? 🤔 A new size? Depends. 😶 Smaller bezels? You like to see first. 😌 Touch ID in power button? On iPhone please. 😉\nWhat’s left? You tell me.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-04 20:26:49 -0500", "date": "8:26 p.m. on Oct 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/04/from-ipad-pro.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F04%2Ffrom-ipad-pro.html" }, { "id": 3639, "type": "post", "title": "One year of iPhone 11 Pro... ", "text": "By curiosity today, I went in the battery health section on my iPhone 11 Pro to find out the current status is 96%. Already. I\u0026rsquo;m a bit surprised by this as I\u0026rsquo;m mostly at home and using my computer or my iPad. How could I loose 4% in a year?\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-03 16:07:25 -0500", "date": "4:07 p.m. on Oct 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/03/one-year-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F03%2Fone-year-of.html" }, { "id": 3640, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m currently testing the beta of the upcoming reimagined Medium mobile app and I love it 🥰. For once, a redesigned experience is not synonymous of going backward. More on this soon.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-03 08:50:45 -0500", "date": "8:50 p.m. on Oct 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/03/im-currently-testing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F03%2Fim-currently-testing.html" }, { "id": 3641, "type": "post", "title": "One major observation on @mattbirchler’s iPadOS full widgets experience", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m thinking way too much about widgets these days, thanks to iOS 14 most prominent new feature. I\u0026rsquo;m still reflecting on the possible reasons why the full widgets experience is not available on iPadOS 14. That being said, @mattbirchler this week came out with an interesting and informative video showing how Apple could possibly enable the full widgets experience. This morning, still thinking about this concept, I realized something: Apple doesn\u0026rsquo;t need to keep the today view support on the iPad in order to enable the full widgets experience.\nI would argue that, in fact, Apple should get rid of the today view that came from the iPhone. One of the reason for this is how bad scrolling the today view works when you have a few widgets stacks; if you don\u0026rsquo;t pay attention on where you put your finger to scroll this view, you actually end up scrolling through the stack itself instead of scrolling the whole view. That\u0026rsquo;s not a good experience. The other reason is the iPad screen canvas makes it easy to rebuild the side view just by using the right widgets. No need to have scrolling.\nI think Apple will eventually come up with an iPad-specific version of the widgets experience but not with the iPadOS 14 releases streak. And that\u0026rsquo;s too bad.\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-02 07:02:36 -0500", "date": "7:02 p.m. on Oct 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/02/one-major-observation.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F02%2Fone-major-observation.html" }, { "id": 3642, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My Numeric Citizen Introspection newsletter is out! Check it out, it\u0026rsquo;s free! Lots of stuff about Apple, photography, privacy and climate change! #newsletter #apple #photography #privacy #climatechange\n", "dateiso": "2020-10-01 06:13:40 -0500", "date": "6:13 p.m. on Oct 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/10/01/my-numeric-citizen.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F10%2F01%2Fmy-numeric-citizen.html" }, { "id": 3643, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here is a free tip to those developers thinking of adding widget support in their apps: widgets are not a great way to display information from high density, high speed info channels like social network feeds (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, etc). You are welcome. #iosdev #apple\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-30 20:59:00 -0500", "date": "8:59 p.m. on Sep 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/30/here-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F30%2Fhere-is-a.html" }, { "id": 3644, "type": "post", "title": "From Apple to Ubiquiti ", "text": "Learned something really cool today. A few weeks ago I published my review of the well known router, the Unify Dream Machine (available here). The context of this review was the fact that this new router was replacing my aging Apple AirPort. One of the reasons why I chose this device was because of its external look and finish as well as its superb management app.\nOne of the founder of Ubiquiti is an ex-Apple employee according to this 9to5Mac article: “an ex-Apple employee went on to found a company that currently sells enterprise networking gear. Robert Pera, the founder of Ubiquiti, Incworked for Apple in the early 2000s as a Wi-Fi engineer.”. Woah. It does explain a few things. This article is well worth your time.\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-30 20:30:21 -0500", "date": "8:30 p.m. on Sep 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/30/from-apple-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F30%2Ffrom-apple-to.html" }, { "id": 3645, "type": "post", "title": "The second edition of my Numeric Citizen Introspection Newsletter is on the launchpad! ", "text": "My upcoming (and free BTW) Numeric Citizen Introspection Newsletter for September is done. I\u0026rsquo;m just waiting for September to conclude before hitting the send button. Crafting newsletters like this is so fun. Meanwhile, why not give a look at the first edition?\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-30 06:33:32 -0500", "date": "6:33 p.m. on Sep 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/30/the-second-edition.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F30%2Fthe-second-edition.html" }, { "id": 3646, "type": "post", "title": "Waiting... waiting... and waiting. ", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s coming. Two days. Thanks to the soon to be updated Deliveries app. I can \u0026ldquo;see\u0026rdquo; where my order is. Can\u0026rsquo;t wait for version 9.0 launching tomorrow and see how much improved the app is. Can\u0026rsquo;t wait for my Apple Watch Series 6, coming this Thursday. Still so far from home, yet it feels so close.\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-29 19:45:30 -0500", "date": "7:45 p.m. on Sep 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/29/waiting-waiting-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F29%2Fwaiting-waiting-and.html" }, { "id": 3647, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I think this is a great move! Everyone (?) can now test this feature. The highlighting feature works across devices which is really useful. Manton Reece\nwe’ve enabled the new bookmark archiving and highlights feature for everyone to try out\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-29 18:36:45 -0500", "date": "6:36 p.m. on Sep 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/29/i-think-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F29%2Fi-think-this.html" }, { "id": 3648, "type": "post", "title": "Micro.blog 2.0 - Testing, 1-2-3, Testing... ", "text": "I really like what I\u0026rsquo;m seeing here on macOS. Only request is the default view of a New Post window should show the Title and Categories by default. On the web, the improvements are massive. I\u0026rsquo;m surprised the Bookmarking feature is available in a new Premium tier only. I want this feature but not the others (podcasting, richer media support). I\u0026rsquo;ll give it a try while it is free and I\u0026rsquo;ll see. On iOS and iPadOS, the workflow of selecting a photo from the library is still broken, otherwise, I love the changes. There seems to be speed improvements too. In other words, it is snappier!\nAll in all, I like where Micro.blog is going with these updates.\nTesting an embedded bookmark here.\nFor the Micro.blog 2.0 launch week, we’ve enabled the new bookmark archiving and highlights feature for everyone to try out. You can upgrade to Micro.blog Premium at any time and also get podcast and video hosting.\nRead: www.manton.org Manton Reece https://www.manton.org/2020/09/29/for-the-microblog.html ", "dateiso": "2020-09-29 16:51:48 -0500", "date": "4:51 p.m. on Sep 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/29/microblog-testing-testing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F29%2Fmicroblog-testing-testing.html" }, { "id": 3649, "type": "post", "title": "Deliveries: what’s in for me?", "text": "I’ve been a long time satisfied user of Deliveries. They are now switching to a subscription model which isn’t a surprise. I do think the pricing is just about right for the type of app. But, looking more closely to what’s new in the upcoming release, I see support for darkmode which is fine but please, don’t try to sell us this upgrade because you support basic OS features that are available for more than a year. Those should be a given. You may disagree.\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-29 11:51:43 -0500", "date": "11:51 p.m. on Sep 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/29/deliveries-whats-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F29%2Fdeliveries-whats-in.html" }, { "id": 3650, "type": "post", "title": "Here is a free idea for iOS 14 widget developers", "text": "Who can remember the Pinball Construction Set? If you do, or you are well documented or you are probably as old as me. Now, consider iOS 14 and the widgets feature: how long before someone comes up with something like a “Widgets Construction Set” for iOS? What I\u0026rsquo;m seeing now isn\u0026rsquo;t close enough to my taste.\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-29 10:37:43 -0500", "date": "10:37 p.m. on Sep 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/29/here-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F29%2Fhere-is-a.html" }, { "id": 3651, "type": "post", "title": "Lost in a see of content", "text": "There is way more content online than we can humanly consume. There, I said it. I’m myself part of the problem, as a content creator too, albeit in a very small tiny fashion. To make things worse, I consider myself a writer. It’s not helping as less and less people are reading these days.\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-28 11:46:00 -0500", "date": "11:46 p.m. on Sep 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/28/lost-in-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F28%2Flost-in-a.html" }, { "id": 3652, "type": "post", "title": "On iOS 14 Widgets: So much untapped potential", "text": "We have to realize that we are only at the early stage of widgets support for iOS 14. There is a lot of untapped potential and frustrating design choices. Widgetsmith is having a moment right now but looks like a work-in-progress to me. It is a great idea but it can be tricky to configure and is not fully intuitive. There is so many more data sources the developer could add. And tell me how I would pay to get weather data in Widgetsmith while I can get it all for free with other apps. The added value of Widgetsmith lies in its configurability, not the fact that you can add weather as a source.\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-27 08:07:19 -0500", "date": "8:07 p.m. on Sep 27, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/27/on-ios-widgets.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F27%2Fon-ios-widgets.html" }, { "id": 3653, "type": "post", "title": "ok, the widgets experience on the iPad is crippled, so what? ", "text": "When iPadOS 14 beta came out, we were all quick to notice how crippled the widgets experience was compared to iOS 14. So we got frustrated. I’m still unable to get over it. Apple is holding back the iPad. Again.\nIn the last few days, I tried to understand the possible reasons behind this. To my surprise, it’s not easy and there could be many explanations to why the iPad widgets experience is limited to the Today view. More to come in a blog post this week.\nMeanwhile, you are more than welcome to share your thoughts! I’m curious.\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-26 17:00:35 -0500", "date": "5:00 p.m. on Sep 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/26/ok-the-widgets.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F26%2Fok-the-widgets.html" }, { "id": 3654, "type": "post", "title": "Apple’s Upcoming Products #apple #iphone12 #airtags", "text": "To get a bird’s eye view of the current Apple’s rumours landscape, check out my daily \u0026ldquo;Apple’s Upcoming Products\u0026rdquo; newsletter with all the well known leakers in one place. There is still a lot going on for the rest of 2020 and beyond. Subscribe, it’s free and time saving. You’ll thank me later. It’s the best way to spoil any upcoming Apple events. Trust me.\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-24 19:20:02 -0500", "date": "7:20 p.m. on Sep 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/24/apples-upcoming-products.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F24%2Fapples-upcoming-products.html" }, { "id": 3655, "type": "post", "title": "A message to attention seekers", "text": "Here is something for attention seekers: GTFU. I don’t understand. What do you expect from me by liking 10 photos in a row on my 500px profile page. The same goes for this case (see screen shot) of someone clapping for all my stories on my Medium page. Do you have something to sell? Probably, but I don\u0026rsquo;t care. You are making noise all around the web, just because you seek my attention.\nSoftware has never been more powerful. The web is a big tracking machine, yet websites can\u0026rsquo;t figure out a way to recognize such behaviors in order to stop them. Baffling.\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-24 05:53:57 -0500", "date": "5:53 p.m. on Sep 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/24/a-message-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F24%2Fa-message-to.html" }, { "id": 3656, "type": "post", "title": "Apple’s best general purpose apps... ", "text": "I wrote about that a long time ago but here it is again: Apple’s iWork suite is probably the best expression of Apple software these days. This week, the venerable suite got updated to take advantage of iOS 14’s latest features (scribble, new import photo library, etc.). Keynote got an outline mode! 😍\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-23 06:58:42 -0500", "date": "6:58 p.m. on Sep 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/23/apples-best-general.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F23%2Fapples-best-general.html" }, { "id": 3657, "type": "post", "title": "On increasing COVID-19 cases... ", "text": "Quick question: when you say “oh my, COVID-19 cases are on the rise!” and you get the following response “well, sure, they do more testing!!”. Is this a valid response? If not, what is the counter argument?\nI have the feeling there is something wrong with this statement but I cannot put the finger on it. Ideas?\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-20 11:56:11 -0500", "date": "11:56 p.m. on Sep 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/20/on-increasing-covid.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F20%2Fon-increasing-covid.html" }, { "id": 3658, "type": "post", "title": "The Rotten Side of Tim Cook's Apple.", "text": "Apple, the everlasting success story has been in troubled water in recent years. From faulty or badly designed products to tense relationships with its developers, more than ever Apple is showing its rotten side, attracting regulators\u0026rsquo; attention. The family picture is not pretty.\nlink.medium.com/tcLmxS16V\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-20 07:37:43 -0500", "date": "7:37 p.m. on Sep 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/20/the-rotten-side.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F20%2Fthe-rotten-side.html" }, { "id": 3659, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How to you edit a post on MB in order to add a picture? @help\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-19 16:47:31 -0500", "date": "4:47 p.m. on Sep 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/19/how-to-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F19%2Fhow-to-you.html" }, { "id": 3660, "type": "post", "title": "On iOS 14 Widgets - My Observations \u0026 Experience so far", "text": "Carefully designed and thought out widgets are still scarce. Many developers show a lack of understanding of a widget’s purposes. Every single day, I\u0026#8217;m baffled by the lack of flexibility on iPadOS. It\u0026#8217;s a crime or a lack of courage, you tell me 🤦🏻‍♂️. From an end-user perspective, managing widgets can be a frustrating experience. Apple can do better here. For example: in the screenshot below, users should be able to add a widget on an existing stack. Doing so on the home screen can mess your carefully designed arrangement pretty badly which will take careful manipulations to fix. Also, It\u0026#8217;s hard to remember when there is a widgets stack instead of a single widget just looking at the home screen. On the iPad, scroll down the widgets will often trigger scrolling within the widgets stack instead which is frustrating. I don\u0026#8217;t miss the interactive version of widgets of pre-iOS 14. I have way too many home screen pages. What is the maximum, by the way? 🤔 I tend to forget about the old iOS Today View. It\u0026#8217;s the best place to Four-by-four widgets like news. In general, this is a great version 2.0 of widgets implementation. Looking forward for improved behaviors. I have found and adopted a few great widgets: Widgetsmith as a lot of potential, Lumy is really nice, Numerico (still in beta testing phase) is really useful Google analytics app, Pedometer is a nice one too, WaterMinder a must for me, Weather Line the best design in this category, Buddywatch a wonderful and useful app for watch face lovers like me, Streaks.\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-19 15:23:00 -0500", "date": "3:23 p.m. on Sep 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/19/ios-widgets-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F19%2Fios-widgets-my.html" }, { "id": 3661, "type": "post", "title": "I'm never satisfied. Why?", "text": "Are you like me and never satisfied with your Apple Watch face arrangement? Why is it so? Why is it so hard to come up with a watch face configuration that totally fit my needs and my taste? iOS 14 helped me solve part of my problem, but it isn\u0026rsquo;t enough. watchOS doesn\u0026rsquo;t help either as it allows for even more flexibility. A third-party application named “Buddywatch” is super cool, yet doesn\u0026rsquo;t fix the problem.\nNow, thanks to widgets support in iOS 14, I\u0026rsquo;m even less satisfied with my iPhone home screen arrangement. I think it\u0026rsquo;s worse than on my Apple Watch. Widgets, when I find one that is perfectly designed and really useful, lack some flexibility. I never had so much different pages on my home screen. What the hell is happening? Technology should remove the burden on us, not the opposite.\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-19 11:11:58 -0500", "date": "11:11 p.m. on Sep 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/19/im-never-satisfied.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F19%2Fim-never-satisfied.html" }, { "id": 3662, "type": "post", "title": "Can Apple pundits see the reality as it is? ", "text": "I’m working on something that Apple fanboys won’t like at all: a cornerstone piece of more than 4000 words about my personal view of Apple’s less glorious facets. Many Apple pundits will disagree. I don’t care. I worked hard on this one in the last few weeks and my undistorted field perception is finally about to come out. Wait for it. 👨🏻‍💻\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-19 07:47:28 -0500", "date": "7:47 p.m. on Sep 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/19/can-apple-pundits.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F19%2Fcan-apple-pundits.html" }, { "id": 3663, "type": "post", "title": "No trackers on Apple.com. Really?", "text": "After installing Safari 14 on macOS Catalina, I went on Apple.com to see what trackers would be reported. Unsurprisingly, Apple doesn’t use any trackers. Now, the big question: do you believe Apple doesn\u0026rsquo;t track its main website usage?\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-19 06:39:34 -0500", "date": "6:39 p.m. on Sep 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/19/no-trackers-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F19%2Fno-trackers-on.html" }, { "id": 3664, "type": "post", "title": "On Developer’s Questionable Choices with iOS 14 Widgets Design", "text": "There is something fundamentally wrong with the way iOS 14 widgets are being implemented by many developers. Here is a simple example. The popular Reddit client, Apollo, introduced widgets support, see the following picture. Now, how can a widget with two posts can be useful if you are following many subreddits with dozens of new posts each day? What is the point in doing that?\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-16 20:27:00 -0500", "date": "8:27 p.m. on Sep 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/16/on-developers-questionable.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F16%2Fon-developers-questionable.html" }, { "id": 3665, "type": "post", "title": "Thanks for spoiling today's #AppleEvent ", "text": "A message to all official and less official Apple leakers. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for spoiling today\u0026#8217;s Apple event. Without you, I don\u0026#8217;t know if I could have taken today’s announcements. You made a big difference, you showed to the world how indispensable you are. Apple must be proud of you guys, think about it. Special thanks to @LeaksApplePro, @jon_prosser, @Jioriku, @markgurman. ", "dateiso": "2020-09-15 09:19:00 -0500", "date": "9:19 p.m. on Sep 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/15/a-message-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F15%2Fa-message-to.html" }, { "id": 3666, "type": "post", "title": "Who's in charge of saying \"no, this is shit\"?", "text": "Look, look closely at this leadership page from Apple. Now, ask yourself, who is directing the product directions part? Who says “no, we won\u0026rsquo;t do that!” or “come back when it is done!” or “Yes, that\u0026rsquo;s the direction we will go!”? It used to be Jony Ive and before, Steve Jobs. But, now? How is it possible that someone in charge of “products design” is not on the leadership page? For a company like Apple, it is deeply troubling.\ndaringfireball.net/2020/09/a\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-14 19:32:24 -0500", "date": "7:32 p.m. on Sep 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/14/whos-in-charge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F14%2Fwhos-in-charge.html" }, { "id": 3667, "type": "post", "title": "I'm falling in love, again. ", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m falling back in love with Tweetbot 🥰. For a reason that I don\u0026rsquo;t remember, I was no longer using since a while ago. I think it was related to the fact that the official Twitter client was getting all the new features while Tweetbot couldn\u0026rsquo;t keep up (thanks to highly guarded APIs by Twitter. I\u0026rsquo;m kind of frustrated by the non-chronological timeline. It\u0026rsquo;s exhausting. I want to focus on a clean UI providing me a clear view on my timeline. That is all.\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-14 18:56:26 -0500", "date": "6:56 p.m. on Sep 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/14/im-falling-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F14%2Fim-falling-in.html" }, { "id": 3668, "type": "post", "title": "Warning: doom and gloom ahead. #AppleEvent ", "text": "On the eve of #AppleEvent tomorrow, I can see a lot of deception on the horizon. The tag line is clear: it\u0026rsquo;s about time, or the watch. It\u0026rsquo;s not about the iPhone. It\u0026rsquo;s not about the Mac. It\u0026rsquo;s not about the Apple Silicon. It\u0026rsquo;s about the iPad and the watch. A weird combinaison if you ask me. These updated iPad should be launched with a press release IMHO but Apple needs some stuff to fill the event schedule I guess.\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-14 06:57:01 -0500", "date": "6:57 p.m. on Sep 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/14/warning-doom-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F14%2Fwarning-doom-and.html" }, { "id": 3669, "type": "post", "title": "For what reason do we pay Apple for? ", "text": "Man I still miss him. Steve Jobs had a way of making his point so damn clear. You could disagree with him, but I least you knew what he was trying to say. No bullshit. Plain and simple. Boom. twitter.com/robcorean\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-13 16:57:23 -0500", "date": "4:57 p.m. on Sep 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/13/for-what-reason.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F13%2Ffor-what-reason.html" }, { "id": 3670, "type": "post", "title": "Thought of the day for bloggers and written content creators", "text": "Competing against Google’s YouTube, Facebook, Instagram et al. In order to grab users attention is impossible, even with great content to a certain degree. Coupled with the general trend towards more visual content instead of written words, It’s hard to build things like newletters or even simple blog with a reasonable readership. I guess this is the numeric world we must accept to live in. Your thoughts?\nnumericcitizen.substack.com\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-13 11:26:17 -0500", "date": "11:26 p.m. on Sep 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/13/thought-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F13%2Fthought-of-the.html" }, { "id": 3671, "type": "post", "title": "From Overcast to Castro — Quick Observations", "text": "Re-discovering Castro podcast player 🎧. Much better than Apple’s Podcast app 👍🏻. Better design than Overcast 👌🏻. Super nice Watch app 😍. Impressive Shortcuts support. 👨🏻‍💻 No iPad version, though 😕. Looking forward for iOS 14 widgets support and maybe a universal version with support for all platforms (is this even in the cards? 🧐). Proudly supporting the developer by being a yearly subscriber now.\ncastro.fm\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-12 13:12:04 -0500", "date": "1:12 p.m. on Sep 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/12/from-overcast-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F12%2Ffrom-overcast-to.html" }, { "id": 3672, "type": "post", "title": "Apple Card, Apple Cash in Canada soon? ", "text": "Can’t wait for this to come over here, in Canada 🇨🇦. One question though: would this mean Apple Cash would also come with it? They both look tied together for cash backs. Am I right? I don’t expect this to come out on next week apple event, but eventually in 2020 - 2021 timeframe.\nappleterm.com/2020/09/1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-11 19:39:08 -0500", "date": "7:39 p.m. on Sep 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/11/apple-card-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F11%2Fapple-card-apple.html" }, { "id": 3673, "type": "post", "title": "Stupid 5G Marketing", "text": "Saw that picture of a guy paying an VR game on a Rogers website to promote 5G networks in Canada. How stupid is this marketing!? What are they thinking when they \u0026ldquo;design\u0026rsquo; their marketing campaign? You tell me.\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-11 19:15:04 -0500", "date": "7:15 p.m. on Sep 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/11/stupid-g-marketing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F11%2Fstupid-g-marketing.html" }, { "id": 3674, "type": "post", "title": "After Tim Cook", "text": "Having discussions about what comes next after Tim Cook is only a good thing. There is nothing to worry about this. That being said, I can see someone like Greg Joswiak to take over. I\u0026rsquo;m a bit tired of people in the ops field to lead Apple.\nappleinsider.com/articles/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-11 09:17:28 -0500", "date": "9:17 p.m. on Sep 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/11/after-tim-cook.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F11%2Fafter-tim-cook.html" }, { "id": 3675, "type": "post", "title": "On IFTTT Pro", "text": "IFTTT Pro. I’ve been a long time user of this service. I decided to subscribe @ 2.99$ per month. Started to play with the new features. I\u0026rsquo;m still not sure how I will take advantage of the multi-steps applet capabilities. Maybe something like: following a new blog post, create a DayOne entry AND create a Buffer “In case you missed it\u0026quot; AND \u0026hellip; then what?\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-11 07:29:13 -0500", "date": "7:29 p.m. on Sep 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/11/on-ifttt-pro.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F11%2Fon-ifttt-pro.html" }, { "id": 3676, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sad but true in a sense. #climatechange\ntwitter.com/pjux/stat\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-09 19:11:29 -0500", "date": "7:11 p.m. on Sep 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/09/sad-but-true.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F09%2Fsad-but-true.html" }, { "id": 3677, "type": "post", "title": "Not too fast, people, not too fast", "text": "Following the #AppleEvent announcement yesterday, I saw many comments about a possible schedule of events this fall. Many of them are putting the release of the Apple Silicon Mac in October.\nThere is no way this is going to happen that early. macOS Big Sur is still at Beta 3. Developers are hard at work adding support for widgets and other iOS 14 stuff. I would expect iOS 14 to be released at the end of September. iOS 14.1 will come out in beta at the beginning of October in order to support the new iPhone shipping later in October.\nNow back to the Mac. I expect Big Sur to be released at the very end of October if not November. The actual Apple Silicon Mac will probably be announced at a different moment than the iPhone. Apple doesn\u0026rsquo;t like to mixed up things in their keynote. The actual shipping date could be at the very end of the year, just in time to catch the ramp up of the A14X production rumored to be starting in Q4.\nIn summary: Apple Silicon Mac to be released late in 2020.\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-09 06:14:18 -0500", "date": "6:14 p.m. on Sep 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/09/not-too-fast.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F09%2Fnot-too-fast.html" }, { "id": 3678, "type": "post", "title": "A short beta cycle for iOS 14", "text": "Following @Gruber hypothetical September schedule: Tuesday 15 September: Event. Friday 18 September: Preorders start. Monday-Tuesday 21-22. September: Reviews drop — Apple Watch on one day, iPad Air on the other. Thursday 24 September: New OSes released via Software Update. Friday 25 September: Products ship to customers and stores.\nMy guess is that we will get beta 8 this week followed by GM next week. Even if there is another beta after that (beta 9), this would be the shortest beta cycle for any major iOS release. daringfireball.net/2020/09/a\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-09 06:01:05 -0500", "date": "6:01 p.m. on Sep 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/09/a-short-beta.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F09%2Fa-short-beta.html" }, { "id": 3679, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How much more powerful an Apple Silicon ship will be in an iMac which is never running on batteries\u0026hellip;? It will be interesting to compare the internals of these upcoming machines to their Intel counterparts.\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-08 21:30:20 -0500", "date": "9:30 p.m. on Sep 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/08/how-much-more.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F08%2Fhow-much-more.html" }, { "id": 3680, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple is “over teasing” AR. #appleevent twitter.com/flyosity/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-08 16:48:08 -0500", "date": "4:48 p.m. on Sep 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/08/apple-is-over.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F08%2Fapple-is-over.html" }, { "id": 3681, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Welcome to Twitter, @gregjoz. #applevent #apple twitter.com/gregjoz/s\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-08 11:01:15 -0500", "date": "11:01 p.m. on Sep 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/08/welcome-to-twitter.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F08%2Fwelcome-to-twitter.html" }, { "id": 3682, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Time to record current Apple Watch website before Series 6.\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-07 19:50:43 -0500", "date": "7:50 p.m. on Sep 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/07/time-to-record.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F07%2Ftime-to-record.html" }, { "id": 3683, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Looks like something is happening tomorrow after all. But, let’s face it, a press release for an updated Apple Watch should tell us to lower our expectations.\ntwitter.com/jon_pross\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-07 19:00:28 -0500", "date": "7:00 p.m. on Sep 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/07/looks-like-something.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F07%2Flooks-like-something.html" }, { "id": 3684, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I second that. Instagram is going down the drain. Fast. Thank you Facebook.\ntwitter.com/morrick/s\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-07 18:47:49 -0500", "date": "6:47 p.m. on Sep 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/07/i-second-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F07%2Fi-second-that.html" }, { "id": 3685, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "You cannot trust the human race. #covid19\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-07 17:13:06 -0500", "date": "5:13 p.m. on Sep 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/07/you-cannot-trust.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F07%2Fyou-cannot-trust.html" }, { "id": 3686, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "iPadOS 14 beta 7 homescreen experience with widgets is quite buggy.\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-07 15:52:28 -0500", "date": "3:52 p.m. on Sep 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/07/ipados-beta-homescreen.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F07%2Fipados-beta-homescreen.html" }, { "id": 3687, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "While I\u0026rsquo;m already preparing for released of the second Numeric Citizen Introspection Newsletter, slated for the first week of October, I\u0026rsquo;m pleased with the visitors and subscribers numbers. Thanks to you all! #newsletter #blogger numericcitizen.substack.com\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-07 10:44:01 -0500", "date": "10:44 p.m. on Sep 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/07/while-im-already.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F07%2Fwhile-im-already.html" }, { "id": 3688, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Updated many of my photo albums on my Adobe Portfolio. numericcitizen.myportfolio.com\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-07 07:58:42 -0500", "date": "7:58 p.m. on Sep 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/07/updated-many-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F07%2Fupdated-many-of.html" }, { "id": 3689, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dear Flipboard users, did you know that I publish my stuff there too? flipboard.com\nNumeric Citizen\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-06 09:58:44 -0500", "date": "9:58 p.m. on Sep 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/06/dear-flipboard-users.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F06%2Fdear-flipboard-users.html" }, { "id": 3690, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Really? 🤔\ntwitter.com/jon_pross\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-06 09:47:26 -0500", "date": "9:47 p.m. on Sep 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/06/really-httpstwittercomjonprosserstatuss.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F06%2Freally-httpstwittercomjonprosserstatuss.html" }, { "id": 3691, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When you get the hang of it, Notion is very powerful and can be what you want it to be.\ntwitter.com/mattbirch\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-06 09:38:08 -0500", "date": "9:38 p.m. on Sep 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/06/when-you-get.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F06%2Fwhen-you-get.html" }, { "id": 3692, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just in case you missed it, I started a newsletter touching subjects like Apple, photography, privacy protection and climate change. You could be surprised to see how often these are interrelated. It\u0026rsquo;s free. #newsletter #blog numericcitizen.substack.com\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-06 06:46:02 -0500", "date": "6:46 p.m. on Sep 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/06/just-in-case.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F06%2Fjust-in-case.html" }, { "id": 3693, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Have you ever carefully looked at Apple Leadership page? Tell me what’s wrong. Nah, I’m going to tell you: who in charge of Design? Is it a bit weird that, following Jony Ive departure, Apple leadership page is still missing someone for the design side? I think so.\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-05 16:56:33 -0500", "date": "4:56 p.m. on Sep 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/05/have-you-ever.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F05%2Fhave-you-ever.html" }, { "id": 3694, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I would pay a lot of money for this kind of table.\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-05 15:51:37 -0500", "date": "3:51 p.m. on Sep 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/05/i-would-pay.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F05%2Fi-would-pay.html" }, { "id": 3695, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sure EPIC is suffering real harm\u0026hellip; because of its own wrong doing. Duh.\ntwitter.com/appleinsi\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-05 07:58:39 -0500", "date": "7:58 p.m. on Sep 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/05/sure-epic-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F05%2Fsure-epic-is.html" }, { "id": 3696, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "There you have it. #newsletter #blog #writing #blogger Hoping for a long series.\nhttps://numericcitizen.substack.com/p/numeric-citizens-introspection-newsletter\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-05 07:23:02 -0500", "date": "7:23 p.m. on Sep 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/05/there-you-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F05%2Fthere-you-have.html" }, { "id": 3697, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After much thinking, I think I’l go ahead with Stratechery newsletter (was competing against Techpinions and Benedict Evans Newsletter). Why? it comes with Dithering podcast with @Gruber. #newsletter #tech #podcast\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-04 18:26:32 -0500", "date": "6:26 p.m. on Sep 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/04/after-much-thinking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F04%2Fafter-much-thinking.html" }, { "id": 3698, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is my Twitter family. I wonder what my Micro.blog family would look like.\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-04 15:47:15 -0500", "date": "3:47 p.m. on Sep 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/04/this-is-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F04%2Fthis-is-my.html" }, { "id": 3699, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is what Apple could and should have done!\ntestflight.apple.com/join/04jM\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-04 08:54:33 -0500", "date": "8:54 p.m. on Sep 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/04/this-is-what.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F04%2Fthis-is-what.html" }, { "id": 3700, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "And we\u0026rsquo;re ready for launch, tomorrow! All systems are ready! Weather is a go too! Don\u0026rsquo;t miss the officiel launch of my newsletter and subscribe NOW! It\u0026rsquo;s exciting! #newsletter #writing #blogging #blog #apple #photography #privacy #climatechange numericcitizen.substack.com\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-04 06:17:47 -0500", "date": "6:17 p.m. on Sep 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/04/and-were-ready.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F04%2Fand-were-ready.html" }, { "id": 3701, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It came to my mind that preparing and sending my first newsletter is like putting a message in a bottle and dropping it in the sea. #writing #writer #blogging #blog Picture from Javardh from Unsplash. numericcitizen.substack.com\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-03 12:04:26 -0500", "date": "12:04 p.m. on Sep 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/03/it-came-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F03%2Fit-came-to.html" }, { "id": 3702, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Is Apple bending towards Facebook? Not a good day for privacy protection. 😒\ntwitter.com/9to5mac/s\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-03 11:51:20 -0500", "date": "11:51 p.m. on Sep 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/03/is-apple-bending.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F03%2Fis-apple-bending.html" }, { "id": 3703, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m close to finishing up my first newsletter on Substack. I\u0026rsquo;m quite happy of the end results for a first try. Can\u0026rsquo;t wait to share to my subscribers this week-end! It\u0026rsquo;s time to get in the train, ladies and gentlemen! numericcitizen.substack.com\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-03 06:03:55 -0500", "date": "6:03 p.m. on Sep 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/03/im-close-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F03%2Fim-close-to.html" }, { "id": 3704, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Funny for sure. But, tell me who uses GarageBand for serious Podcasts editing? What tools are they using? Apple’s Logic Pro X? Too bad you need to be a sound engineer to take advantage of it.\ntwitter.com/gregorymc\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-02 20:06:42 -0500", "date": "8:06 p.m. on Sep 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/02/funny-for-sure.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F02%2Ffunny-for-sure.html" }, { "id": 3705, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finding my newsletter purposes. #blogging #blog #newsletter #writing\nhttps://numericcitizen.substack.com/\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-02 07:18:38 -0500", "date": "7:18 p.m. on Sep 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/02/finding-my-newsletter.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F02%2Ffinding-my-newsletter.html" }, { "id": 3706, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "watchOS 7 beta 7 but no iOS 14 beta 7\u0026hellip; 🤨🤔 maybe tomorrow then after iOS 13.7 released today (that’s a lot of ‘7!)\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-01 17:26:05 -0500", "date": "5:26 p.m. on Sep 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/01/watchos-beta-but.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F01%2Fwatchos-beta-but.html" }, { "id": 3707, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m building something new. Again. Can\u0026rsquo;t wait to share the final results and the start of something new. Why not give a look at the beginnings. #newsletter #blogging #blogger numericcitizen.substack.com\n", "dateiso": "2020-09-01 06:15:01 -0500", "date": "6:15 p.m. on Sep 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/09/01/im-building-something.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F09%2F01%2Fim-building-something.html" }, { "id": 3708, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A few words about my online presence and how it is related to finding my upcoming newsletter niche. #blogging #blog #writing #newsletter\nhttps://numericcitizen.substack.com/p/my-online-presence\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-31 20:13:47 -0500", "date": "8:13 p.m. on Aug 31, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/31/a-few-words.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F31%2Fa-few-words.html" }, { "id": 3709, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thought of the day: I think that blogs and newsletters are more than ever critical conduits for crafted content in a world of AI-generated feeds. #writing #newsletters #blogging #blog\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-31 07:31:43 -0500", "date": "7:31 p.m. on Aug 31, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/31/thought-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F31%2Fthought-of-the.html" }, { "id": 3710, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Substack is getting competition from Medium. And I like it. #blogging #blogger #writing #tools #platforms #newsletters\nhttps://numericcitizen.substack.com/p/competition-from-medium\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-31 07:28:19 -0500", "date": "7:28 p.m. on Aug 31, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/31/substack-is-getting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F31%2Fsubstack-is-getting.html" }, { "id": 3711, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Not bad. Or is it? medium.com/numeric-c\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-30 21:14:10 -0500", "date": "9:14 p.m. on Aug 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/30/not-bad-or.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F30%2Fnot-bad-or.html" }, { "id": 3712, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m already feeling the pressure. 😰\nhttps://numericcitizen.substack.com/p/already-feeling-the-pressure\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-30 18:46:23 -0500", "date": "6:46 p.m. on Aug 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/30/im-already-feeling.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F30%2Fim-already-feeling.html" }, { "id": 3713, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Where is the folder name? Dear @Apple, why is it so hard? #ios14beta6\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-30 18:05:55 -0500", "date": "6:05 p.m. on Aug 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/30/where-is-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F30%2Fwhere-is-the.html" }, { "id": 3714, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Reflecting on the purpose of my new experiment with Substack.\nhttps://numericcitizen.substack.com/p/a-newsletter-about-what\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-30 09:53:33 -0500", "date": "9:53 p.m. on Aug 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/30/reflecting-on-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F30%2Freflecting-on-the.html" }, { "id": 3715, "type": "post", "title": "Quick comparison of writing platforms based on my experience of putting something online. You might be surprise!", "text": "Here is an interesting observation based on my experience with four popular writing platforms: WordPress, Micro.blog, Medium and Substack. If I could place the efforts of putting an article online on a scale for each of them, this is what it would look like: from high to low.\nWordPress (10) \u0026gt; Medium (7) \u0026gt; Substack (4) \u0026gt; Micro.blog (1).\nYour results may vary.\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-29 11:35:57 -0500", "date": "11:35 p.m. on Aug 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/29/quick-comparison-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F29%2Fquick-comparison-of.html" }, { "id": 3716, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Why Substack? My answer.\nhttps://numericcitizen.substack.com/p/this-is-an-experiment\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-29 10:51:37 -0500", "date": "10:51 p.m. on Aug 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/29/why-substack-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F29%2Fwhy-substack-my.html" }, { "id": 3717, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Another experiment just got started. Will see where it goes.\nhttps://numericcitizen.substack.com/p/coming-soon\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-29 09:37:22 -0500", "date": "9:37 p.m. on Aug 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/29/another-experiment-just.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F29%2Fanother-experiment-just.html" }, { "id": 3718, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m still on the fence with Substack. It is free to start. I don’t know if I’ll be duplicating efforts that I already put in WordPress, Micro.blog and Medium. Writers discovery is limited if I understand it well. This is a web-only publishing experience. #blogging #writing\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-29 08:34:39 -0500", "date": "8:34 p.m. on Aug 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/29/im-still-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F29%2Fim-still-on.html" }, { "id": 3719, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here is a side-effect of using @HEY. I no longer use (or rarely use) Apple’s Mail. When an email provider forwards an email to HEY, it is not marked as read (a few offers this option which help keep unread count lower).\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-29 08:15:42 -0500", "date": "8:15 p.m. on Aug 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/29/here-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F29%2Fhere-is-a.html" }, { "id": 3720, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On the fall of Macs resale value: how much does four years of shitty butterfly keyboards is responsible for the fall?\nmjtsai.com/blog/2020\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-28 07:24:08 -0500", "date": "7:24 p.m. on Aug 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/28/on-the-fall.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F28%2Fon-the-fall.html" }, { "id": 3721, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Steve Ballmer\u0026rsquo;s reaction to the launch of the iPhone. LOL. Same applies to car companies reactions to Tesla. We all know how this will probably end up. twitter.com/sawyermer\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-28 06:46:02 -0500", "date": "6:46 p.m. on Aug 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/28/steve-ballmers-reaction.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F28%2Fsteve-ballmers-reaction.html" }, { "id": 3722, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Forgot to put the evidence for my previous post. Here it is.\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-27 18:54:35 -0500", "date": "6:54 p.m. on Aug 27, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/27/forgot-to-put.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F27%2Fforgot-to-put.html" }, { "id": 3723, "type": "post", "title": "The Social Dilemma by Center for Humane Technology", "text": "I can’t wait to watch this, even if I know it will be a troubling portrait of our modern society. While waiting for it, here is something even more troubling. The email I got announcing this new short film to be shown on Netflix does contain a tracking pixel, according to Hey. How curious this is. 🧐\nFrom Center for Humane Technology. youtu.be/uaaC57tcc\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-27 18:44:58 -0500", "date": "6:44 p.m. on Aug 27, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/27/the-social-dilemma.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F27%2Fthe-social-dilemma.html" }, { "id": 3724, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple Search. That’s quite intriguing. Recent Apple behavior and changes hint that it\u0026rsquo;s planning to launch its own search engine to compete with Google • Aug 27, 2020 • Apple Terminal\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-27 06:47:02 -0500", "date": "6:47 p.m. on Aug 27, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/27/apple-search-thats.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F27%2Fapple-search-thats.html" }, { "id": 3725, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "An image is worth a thousand words. I find it surprising that UI simplification came to this simple conclusion. There has to be more creative way to simplify without looking so basic. Right? #UI #apple #UIdesign #design twitter.com/iconwerk/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-27 06:07:01 -0500", "date": "6:07 p.m. on Aug 27, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/27/an-image-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F27%2Fan-image-is.html" }, { "id": 3726, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thinking of becoming a paying subscriber to very notable newsletters. Hard to choose from Benedict Evans, Stratechery and Techpinions newsletters. All good content, interesting and very different subjects from different angles. Any advice?\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-26 19:21:15 -0500", "date": "7:21 p.m. on Aug 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/26/thinking-of-becoming.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F26%2Fthinking-of-becoming.html" }, { "id": 3727, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Why do I think this year’s Apple Watch Series 6 will be a minor upgrade? 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-26 11:24:27 -0500", "date": "11:24 p.m. on Aug 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/26/why-do-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F26%2Fwhy-do-i.html" }, { "id": 3728, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The Siri App suggestions widget in iPadOS 14 beta 6 is not very intelligent. On the following screenshot, suggested apps can be found on the Dock. No added value here, redundant. Filling feedback report now. 👨🏻‍💻 #ipados14beta6\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-26 11:12:04 -0500", "date": "11:12 p.m. on Aug 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/26/the-siri-app.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F26%2Fthe-siri-app.html" }, { "id": 3729, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "To all #iosdev: it is not because you can add support for widgets to your app that you should add widgets support. #ios14\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-26 07:20:44 -0500", "date": "7:20 p.m. on Aug 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/26/to-all-iosdev.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F26%2Fto-all-iosdev.html" }, { "id": 3730, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Master piece from Ben Thompson of Stratechery looking at ways of rethinking the App Store. Because of this article quality, I’m considering becoming a subscriber. Rethinking the App Store – Stratechery by Ben Thompson\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-26 07:08:09 -0500", "date": "7:08 p.m. on Aug 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/26/master-piece-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F26%2Fmaster-piece-from.html" }, { "id": 3731, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On iPadOS 14 beta 6: did you know that you can now interact with iPadOS while Siri is on screen instead of being a modal thing? Not working on iOS 14 beta 6. Now, if they could add full widgets support on iPadOS.\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-26 06:21:17 -0500", "date": "6:21 p.m. on Aug 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/26/on-ipados-beta.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F26%2Fon-ipados-beta.html" }, { "id": 3732, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s coming. #fall\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-24 21:23:05 -0500", "date": "9:23 p.m. on Aug 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/24/its-coming-fall.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F24%2Fits-coming-fall.html" }, { "id": 3733, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "WTF is this ad, Apple? Am I to old to appreciate this 38 sec eternity? youtu.be\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-24 20:22:59 -0500", "date": "8:22 p.m. on Aug 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/24/wtf-is-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F24%2Fwtf-is-this.html" }, { "id": 3734, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Yes, I do remember Windows 95 launch. Windows on top of DOS.\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-24 19:49:03 -0500", "date": "7:49 p.m. on Aug 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/24/yes-i-do.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F24%2Fyes-i-do.html" }, { "id": 3735, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I suspect the iPod is used in many non-consumer scenarios AND is being an introduction to iDevice for very yound people. twitter.com\nMaybe this is why Apple added the iPod to it’s Apple Music PR blurb.\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-24 17:55:07 -0500", "date": "5:55 p.m. on Aug 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/24/i-suspect-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F24%2Fi-suspect-the.html" }, { "id": 3736, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m starting a new article about the rotten side of Apple. Tell me: what do you think is rotten about Apple thse days?. I do have many things on my mind but I want your input. Thanks. #apple\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-24 16:29:31 -0500", "date": "4:29 p.m. on Aug 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/24/im-starting-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F24%2Fim-starting-a.html" }, { "id": 3737, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m not sure what to think of this. The rumours are indeed true! Apple Marina Bay Sands, the first Apple store in the world that floats on the water, is opening soon in Singapore. #AppleMarinaBaySands #architecture twitter.com/javanng/s\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-24 16:27:36 -0500", "date": "4:27 p.m. on Aug 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/24/im-not-sure.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F24%2Fim-not-sure.html" }, { "id": 3738, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m flabbergasted to see soooo many new To Do or expanse tracking apps coming in crowded app categories.\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-24 09:41:29 -0500", "date": "9:41 p.m. on Aug 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/24/im-flabbergasted-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F24%2Fim-flabbergasted-to.html" }, { "id": 3739, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I wish we could see more collaborative work among bloggers, just like in the podcasts sphere. Why is it not common or is it? #blogging #blogger #bloggerlife #writing #collaboration\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-24 09:38:56 -0500", "date": "9:38 p.m. on Aug 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/24/i-wish-we.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F24%2Fi-wish-we.html" }, { "id": 3740, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Is this the week where weekly beta releases from Apple will begin? My guess is yes if previous years are any indication. We generally get up to beta 8 or 9 before GM in second half of September. The cadence must increase. #iosbeta #apple\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-24 08:11:16 -0500", "date": "8:11 p.m. on Aug 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/24/is-this-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F24%2Fis-this-the.html" }, { "id": 3741, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Interesting trend indeed. For each movement, their is a counter-movement. For AI generated feeds movement, there will be a slow-feed, user-selected feed content movement. And I like it. The Rise of Slow Feeds\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-24 08:05:36 -0500", "date": "8:05 p.m. on Aug 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/24/interesting-trend-indeed.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F24%2Finteresting-trend-indeed.html" }, { "id": 3742, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What’s a computer?\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-23 10:53:48 -0500", "date": "10:53 p.m. on Aug 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/23/whats-a-computer.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F23%2Fwhats-a-computer.html" }, { "id": 3743, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“We have to let go of this notion that for Apple to win, everyone else has to lose.”. Interesting article. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers » Six Colours\nWe have to let go of this notion that for Apple to win, everyone else has to lose.\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-23 09:57:51 -0500", "date": "9:57 p.m. on Aug 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/23/we-have-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F23%2Fwe-have-to.html" }, { "id": 3744, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What a downgrade. Dull just like the president’s wife. twitter.com\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-23 08:10:09 -0500", "date": "8:10 p.m. on Aug 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/23/what-a-downgrade.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F23%2Fwhat-a-downgrade.html" }, { "id": 3745, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Remember Apple inviting professionals to learn about their workflow so they could use that input to reimagine the Mac Pro? What if Apple asked developers to a round table discussion to get input to reinvent the App Store? #iosdev #apple #apple\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-22 09:01:15 -0500", "date": "9:01 p.m. on Aug 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/22/remember-apple-inviting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F22%2Fremember-apple-inviting.html" }, { "id": 3746, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wow. Supposedly photos of cancelled AirPower internals leak online. I didn\u0026rsquo;t know this device could be that complex. It his real? www.macrumors.com/2020/08/2\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-21 11:58:57 -0500", "date": "11:58 p.m. on Aug 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/21/wow-supposedly-photos.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F21%2Fwow-supposedly-photos.html" }, { "id": 3747, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I want to be paid or get credits on my account to answer questions of potential buyers about things I bought on @Amazon. Who do you think I am?\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-20 18:17:53 -0500", "date": "6:17 p.m. on Aug 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/20/i-want-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F20%2Fi-want-to.html" }, { "id": 3748, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The Mac is in no way a game platform. Should we give a shit if EPIC is kick out of Apple\u0026rsquo;s ecosystem? Is the vast majority of serious gamers moved to consoles anyway AND PCs? I mean, seriously, we are talking about fraction of % here, aren’t we?\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-20 15:50:47 -0500", "date": "3:50 p.m. on Aug 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/20/the-mac-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F20%2Fthe-mac-is.html" }, { "id": 3749, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The harder it is to find a \u0026ldquo;real macOS apps\u0026rdquo; developer, the more Electron is tempting. Right? If so, it is troubling.\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-20 15:27:43 -0500", "date": "3:27 p.m. on Aug 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/20/the-harder-it.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F20%2Fthe-harder-it.html" }, { "id": 3750, "type": "post", "title": "BREAKING: Adobe Lightroom CC 5.4 Users - Data Loss", "text": "Major issue affecting Adobe Lightroom CC users at version 5.4: the cloud-based photo procesing software. Users affected by the bug lost portion or all their photo library (I\u0026rsquo;m not one of those, thanks god!). According to an Adobe statement: We know that some customers have photos and presets that are not recoverable. We sincerely apologize to any customers who have been affected by this issue.\nOuch. In other words: Adobe says: fuck you. That\u0026rsquo;s the price of cloud-based storage services (on top of the monthly payment). No service is immute to this. We should be pressuring companies like Adobe, Apple, etc. to stop this non-sense. https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/20/adobe-lightroom-ios-update-photos-deleted\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-20 13:33:26 -0500", "date": "1:33 p.m. on Aug 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/20/breaking-adobe-lightroom.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F20%2Fbreaking-adobe-lightroom.html" }, { "id": 3751, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Now you have a clear idea why I\u0026rsquo;m not yet about macOS 11 Big Sur. These iOS style alerts in Big Sur are great. twitter.com/gruber/st\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-19 19:25:15 -0500", "date": "7:25 p.m. on Aug 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/19/now-you-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F19%2Fnow-you-have.html" }, { "id": 3752, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m still not sure that I like macOS 11 Big Sur, after all. Is it too much iOS? Is it too different from the past? Those menus and dialog box are just strange. Is macOS a misfit in the Apple landscape? I cannot put my finger on it. #macosbigsur #apple\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-19 18:28:53 -0500", "date": "6:28 p.m. on Aug 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/19/im-still-not.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F19%2Fim-still-not.html" }, { "id": 3753, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Super interesting read. Careful explanation of where things come from and why it has to change. #appstore #apple App stores, trust and anti-trust — Benedict Evans\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-18 20:59:45 -0500", "date": "8:59 p.m. on Aug 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/18/super-interesting-read.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F18%2Fsuper-interesting-read.html" }, { "id": 3754, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Great summary of pain points for developers on Apple’s platform. Twitter thread here: twitter.com/depth42/s\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-18 06:56:41 -0500", "date": "6:56 p.m. on Aug 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/18/great-summary-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F18%2Fgreat-summary-of.html" }, { "id": 3755, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“Google Play is living proof that an app store can justify taking 30% even when alternative app distribution options are available.” — Benjamin Mayo bzamayo.com/epic-mono\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-18 06:22:50 -0500", "date": "6:22 p.m. on Aug 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/18/google-play-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F18%2Fgoogle-play-is.html" }, { "id": 3756, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "EPIC: Don’t mess with Apple. They can play hardball too. They don’t like this public shit. You should have known better. ipadinsight.com\nJust When I Thought I Was Out, Apple and Epic Pull Me Back In\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-17 21:04:00 -0500", "date": "9:04 p.m. on Aug 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/17/epic-dont-mess.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F17%2Fepic-dont-mess.html" }, { "id": 3757, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The lack of a per-picture sync status in iOS 14 is baffling. #ios14 #apple\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-17 15:43:44 -0500", "date": "3:43 p.m. on Aug 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/17/the-lack-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F17%2Fthe-lack-of.html" }, { "id": 3758, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’d like to find a cool use of Charty, especially with the upcoming support of iOS 14 widgets. apps.apple.com/ca/app/ch\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-17 09:48:15 -0500", "date": "9:48 p.m. on Aug 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/17/id-like-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F17%2Fid-like-to.html" }, { "id": 3759, "type": "post", "title": "iOS 14 Widgets Support Slowly Coming", "text": "Widgets support is starting to tickle in on iOS 14 beta. I like what I’m seeing so far. Widgets will transform the way I use my iPhone and my iPad to a lesser degree. One of the best feature is the ability to stack them. This allow for theme-based stacks on a theme-based home screen page. Can’t wait for more of my apps to be updated.\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-17 09:20:44 -0500", "date": "9:20 p.m. on Aug 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/17/ios-widgets-support.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F17%2Fios-widgets-support.html" }, { "id": 3760, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I love Telegram. I’m not a big user of it but when I do, I find it well executed and feature rich. You can follow my publications here: t.me/numericci\u0026hellip; www.macrumors.com\nTelegram Messaging App Gains End-to-End Encrypted Video Calling\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-17 08:19:50 -0500", "date": "8:19 p.m. on Aug 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/17/i-love-telegram.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F17%2Fi-love-telegram.html" }, { "id": 3761, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I vote for this. Will Apple notice?\nlink.medium.com/wv57jyYs0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-16 15:42:33 -0500", "date": "3:42 p.m. on Aug 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/16/i-vote-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F16%2Fi-vote-for.html" }, { "id": 3762, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It’s pretty much how I see the American society, if I put it mildly. twitter.com/thefarmer\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-16 15:27:34 -0500", "date": "3:27 p.m. on Aug 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/16/its-pretty-much.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F16%2Fits-pretty-much.html" }, { "id": 3763, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Please, Apple, Think Different, again. Great article. 5ish.org/p/apple-p\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-16 10:13:25 -0500", "date": "10:13 p.m. on Aug 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/16/please-apple-think.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F16%2Fplease-apple-think.html" }, { "id": 3764, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Something I should show to all my friends on Facebook who doesn’t care about privacy\u0026hellip;\ntwitter.com/snowden/s\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-16 08:18:16 -0500", "date": "8:18 p.m. on Aug 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/16/something-i-should.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F16%2Fsomething-i-should.html" }, { "id": 3765, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Screw them all. Period. I’m serious. Daring Fireball: ‘Screw Apple, Screw Google, and Screw Epic Games’\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-16 08:15:26 -0500", "date": "8:15 p.m. on Aug 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/16/screw-them-all.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F16%2Fscrew-them-all.html" }, { "id": 3766, "type": "post", "title": "On EPIC PR Stunt - Because this is exactly that!", "text": "On Apple vs The World: I’m all in for Apple to change its App Store rules, whatever it could mean, and reduce its cuts, etc. But @gruber post is dead on, Epic move this week is pure PR stunt. Plain and simple. EPIC can’t be selective and hit only Apple. They have to hit them all on the basis of their suposedly principles.\ndaringfireball.net/linked/20\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-15 08:56:02 -0500", "date": "8:56 p.m. on Aug 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/15/on-epic-pr.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F15%2Fon-epic-pr.html" }, { "id": 3767, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "You thoughts on Substack as a publishing platform for bloggers? #blog #blogging #blogger Substack\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-14 12:11:28 -0500", "date": "12:11 p.m. on Aug 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/14/you-thoughts-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F14%2Fyou-thoughts-on.html" }, { "id": 3768, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If Epic doesn’t play the same game with Sony and all the other online stores, they are making fools of themselve. If you fight for principles, do it diligently.\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-14 07:42:36 -0500", "date": "7:42 p.m. on Aug 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/14/if-epic-doesnt.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F14%2Fif-epic-doesnt.html" }, { "id": 3769, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "There seems to be a consensus about the need for the App Store to change. Ok. Tell me how? Oh, and stop asking for a lower cut from Apple. What kind of more profound change should come to the App Store rules?\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-14 07:21:04 -0500", "date": "7:21 p.m. on Aug 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/14/there-seems-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F14%2Fthere-seems-to.html" }, { "id": 3770, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is ugliness in preparation. I’m on the side of Epic. www.manton.org/2020/08/1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-13 16:14:06 -0500", "date": "4:14 p.m. on Aug 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/13/this-is-ugliness.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F13%2Fthis-is-ugliness.html" }, { "id": 3771, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "That’s what teachers are for. 🧡 twitter.com\nphilip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) Tweeted: This is extremely wholesome t.co/AmC4I1ZOb\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-13 16:12:02 -0500", "date": "4:12 p.m. on Aug 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/13/thats-what-teachers.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F13%2Fthats-what-teachers.html" }, { "id": 3772, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hoping that Apple will take the opportunity to revise their iCloud storage tiers and bring then in line with 2020 expectations. www.macrumors.com\nApple to Launch Bundled Subscription Services Called \u0026lsquo;Apple One\u0026rsquo;\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-13 06:17:39 -0500", "date": "6:17 p.m. on Aug 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/13/hoping-that-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F13%2Fhoping-that-apple.html" }, { "id": 3773, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple Watch Series 6 launched via press release in first half of September? Really? No way. Well, there is nothing normal about 2020, so, why not.\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-12 18:49:05 -0500", "date": "6:49 p.m. on Aug 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/12/apple-watch-series.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F12%2Fapple-watch-series.html" }, { "id": 3774, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Reflecting on my Twitter presence. Increasing my Twitter followers count is so hard. Even being retweeted to 38K Twitter users won’t move the needle. People come but leave. Is Twitter still a thing? I wonder. #blogger #blogging\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-10 17:45:26 -0500", "date": "5:45 p.m. on Aug 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/10/reflecting-on-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F10%2Freflecting-on-my.html" }, { "id": 3775, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sadly, I think we’re not done yet with 2020.\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-10 17:31:38 -0500", "date": "5:31 p.m. on Aug 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/10/sadly-i-think.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F10%2Fsadly-i-think.html" }, { "id": 3776, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I decided to turn that off under iPadOS 14. It’s the consequence of not having the full widgets experience like on the iPhone.\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-10 17:22:45 -0500", "date": "5:22 p.m. on Aug 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/10/i-decided-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F10%2Fi-decided-to.html" }, { "id": 3777, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here is an app idea: how about an app allowing bloggers to easily create « link posts » which would allow for easy insertion of links and text quotes and the blogger’s own comments. I would pay for that one. I’m currently using Linky but it is very limited (single quote).\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-08 12:34:06 -0500", "date": "12:34 p.m. on Aug 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/08/here-is-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F08%2Fhere-is-an.html" }, { "id": 3778, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Interesting take by @gruber on Apple’s position regarding Microsoft’s xCloud. My take: it’s about control AND money. The former makes it easier to get the latter. daringfireball.net/2020/08/a\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-08 09:09:31 -0500", "date": "9:09 p.m. on Aug 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/08/interesting-take-by.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F08%2Finteresting-take-by.html" }, { "id": 3779, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wondering something about a possible incursion of the nano-texture glass on a future iPad Pro. Would this be compatible with the use of the Apple Pencil? I wish it will be.\nwww.apple.com/imac/\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-08 08:33:36 -0500", "date": "8:33 p.m. on Aug 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/08/wondering-something-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F08%2Fwondering-something-about.html" }, { "id": 3780, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wishing for similar performance improvements when Apple Silicon hits the iMac line. Coupled with the rumoured redesign, the first since 2012, I’m already salivating. #apple #imac2021 #applesilicon\ntwitter.com/9to5mac/s\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-08 08:29:20 -0500", "date": "8:29 p.m. on Aug 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/08/wishing-for-similar.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F08%2Fwishing-for-similar.html" }, { "id": 3781, "type": "post", "title": "Great take from @drbarnard on Apple’s App Store issues", "text": "Here is a great take on Apple’s App Store issues by @drbarnard. To me, the key is for Apple to change its mindset from working too hard on the lock-in to working on the experience quality (tweet #10 in the thread) and let the users decide.\ntwitter.com/drbarnard\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-08 08:05:09 -0500", "date": "8:05 p.m. on Aug 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/08/great-take-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F08%2Fgreat-take-from.html" }, { "id": 3782, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If you are not on iOS 14 beta 4, hold off and wait for Beta 5. I do experience the same issues exposed in this Twitter thread. Very buggy release. It reminds me of iOS 13 betas. #ios14beta4 #apple\ntwitter.com/marcoarme\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-08 07:55:03 -0500", "date": "7:55 p.m. on Aug 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/08/if-you-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F08%2Fif-you-are.html" }, { "id": 3783, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Did you know Apple has a Telegram channel? They didn’t post on it since Nov. 2018.\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-07 09:18:41 -0500", "date": "9:18 p.m. on Aug 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/07/did-you-know.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F07%2Fdid-you-know.html" }, { "id": 3784, "type": "post", "title": "On Apple's latest iMac update", "text": "Great reviews on the latest iMac update. As a serious amateur photographer, the thing that stands out to me is the new nano glass option. At 500$ it is not cheap but reviewers are liking it a lot. Could this option eventually come to the iPad Pro? Or the iPhone? I would pay a premium for this on the iPad Pro.\nNow, why the 21.5” iMac has not been updated is a mystery to me. I currently own a max-out 2017 21.5” iMac. The size of this machine is better for me, but I would prefer a 24”. Could this mean the lower size iMac will be the first desktop to receive the Apple Silicon treatment as well a the long overdue redesign? I think so.\nwww.macrumors.com/review/20\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-07 07:43:31 -0500", "date": "7:43 p.m. on Aug 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/07/on-apples-latest.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F07%2Fon-apples-latest.html" }, { "id": 3785, "type": "post", "title": "How Long Apple can stand like this? ", "text": "On Apple\u0026rsquo;s stance on its App Store policies.\nDevelopers are complaining. The tech press is complaining. Governments are complaining. Now Microsoft is complaining. And Facebook too.\nGoogle? Are users complaining? I don\u0026rsquo;t see that. Does it make a big difference for Apple?\nHow long Apple can stand like this?\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-07 07:25:56 -0500", "date": "7:25 p.m. on Aug 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/07/how-long-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F07%2Fhow-long-apple.html" }, { "id": 3786, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Am I surprised? Nope. Actually, yes, I thought meeting time would have increased much more.\ntwitter.com/chrisroha\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-06 20:52:47 -0500", "date": "8:52 p.m. on Aug 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/06/am-i-surprised.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F06%2Fam-i-surprised.html" }, { "id": 3787, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dear Apple, you are (again) painting yourself in another form of thermal cornor. Back off while you can. I know, saving your face ain’t easy. #apple #appstore\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-06 20:47:54 -0500", "date": "8:47 p.m. on Aug 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/06/dear-apple-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F06%2Fdear-apple-you.html" }, { "id": 3788, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As I see it, Twitter could easily differentiates itself from Facebook by actually acting on wrong content and locking their owner out of their account. Something Facebook is not doing. twitter.com/craigsilv\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-06 16:57:39 -0500", "date": "4:57 p.m. on Aug 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/06/as-i-see.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F06%2Fas-i-see.html" }, { "id": 3789, "type": "post", "title": "On iOS 14 Design Considerations", "text": "Dear iOS developers: be careful when considering widget design and content. Space on my iPhone screen is more constrained than ever with iOS 14. Here is a bad example: showing the three most recent tweets from my twitter timeline is useless as I\u0026#8217;m following many hundreds persons. Be more creative than this. ", "dateiso": "2020-08-06 05:28:44 -0500", "date": "5:28 p.m. on Aug 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/06/on-ios-design.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F06%2Fon-ios-design.html" }, { "id": 3790, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "iOS 14 Beta 4 is crap. There I said it.\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-05 11:57:21 -0500", "date": "11:57 p.m. on Aug 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/05/ios-beta-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F05%2Fios-beta-is.html" }, { "id": 3791, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Was he too dogmatic? Stubborn? 🤔 twitter.com/stroughto\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-04 20:49:49 -0500", "date": "8:49 p.m. on Aug 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/04/was-he-too.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F04%2Fwas-he-too.html" }, { "id": 3792, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Five gone, one to go. #apple\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-04 20:47:19 -0500", "date": "8:47 p.m. on Aug 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/04/five-gone-one.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F04%2Ffive-gone-one.html" }, { "id": 3793, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Interesting question. 🤔\ntwitter.com/benedicte\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-04 20:32:13 -0500", "date": "8:32 p.m. on Aug 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/04/213213.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F04%2F213213.html" }, { "id": 3794, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple is really not done with Intel in the Mac. It is clear to me that Apple Silicon will find its way in lower end machines first, certainly portable ones with today’s announcements.\nwww.apple.com/newsroom/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-04 19:51:06 -0500", "date": "7:51 p.m. on Aug 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/04/apple-is-really.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F04%2Fapple-is-really.html" }, { "id": 3795, "type": "post", "title": "On Phil Schiller (departure) of Apple", "text": "Aside from the iMac updates coming out of Apple today, here is another (more important) news: Phil Schiller is now an Apple Fellow. That was not expected. People come and go. Mr. Schiller as done a lot for Apple. Time to (slowly) move on. I don\u0026#8217;t like Greg “Joz” Jozwiak. ", "dateiso": "2020-08-04 18:33:00 -0500", "date": "6:33 p.m. on Aug 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/04/on-phil-schiller.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F04%2Fon-phil-schiller.html" }, { "id": 3796, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple certainly gained a lot of ground in the tablet market during the pandemic. But according to these numbers, the increase was even better for other players in the field.\n9to5mac.com/2020/08/0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-03 18:50:44 -0500", "date": "6:50 p.m. on Aug 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/03/apple-certainly-gained.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F03%2Fapple-certainly-gained.html" }, { "id": 3797, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I wish I could schedule a post on Micro.blog.\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-03 17:14:21 -0500", "date": "5:14 p.m. on Aug 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/03/i-wish-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F03%2Fi-wish-i.html" }, { "id": 3798, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If Apple allowed side-loading of apps on iOS:\nwould they still require the ability to use a kill switch? how would this affect their ability to build the right binary for the right platform architecture at installation time? what else would Apple would have to give up? ", "dateiso": "2020-08-03 09:22:06 -0500", "date": "9:22 p.m. on Aug 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/03/if-apple-allowed.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F03%2Fif-apple-allowed.html" }, { "id": 3799, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Feels like summer. #mbaug That’s the camp fire in the foreground and the (near full) moon up there behind the clouds. #iphone11pro\n", "dateiso": "2020-08-02 16:52:51 -0500", "date": "4:52 p.m. on Aug 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/08/02/feels-like-summer.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F08%2F02%2Ffeels-like-summer.html" }, { "id": 3800, "type": "post", "title": "When I wanted to work for Apple... ", "text": "Here is a short story. In 1985, I was working for an authorized Apple dealer in my home town. I was an Apple zealot (surprise?) and I wanted to work for them. So, I created my (short) resume and sent it (by mail) to Apple’s headquarters. A few months later, I got a polite response: Thanks, but no thanks. I was eighteen.\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-31 14:26:26 -0500", "date": "2:26 p.m. on Jul 31, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/31/when-i-wanted.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F31%2Fwhen-i-wanted.html" }, { "id": 3801, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hoping to help you forget about all the ugly things right now. Enjoy.\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-31 12:03:37 -0500", "date": "12:03 p.m. on Jul 31, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/31/hoping-to-help.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F31%2Fhoping-to-help.html" }, { "id": 3802, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "+1. Very sad seeing Apple acting like this. Maybe Apple seeling great products, they are telling lies too. Can we have it both ways? #apple twitter.com/timsweene\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-30 19:45:24 -0500", "date": "7:45 p.m. on Jul 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/30/very-sad-seeing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F30%2Fvery-sad-seeing.html" }, { "id": 3803, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple is doomed. I mean, really doomed this time. Or not. Q3FY20\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-30 15:36:23 -0500", "date": "3:36 p.m. on Jul 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/30/apple-is-doomed.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F30%2Fapple-is-doomed.html" }, { "id": 3804, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After 10 seconds of watching this iPhone 12 concept video I had enough. 🤦🏻‍♂️ youtu.be\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-29 21:13:21 -0500", "date": "9:13 p.m. on Jul 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/29/after-seconds-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F29%2Fafter-seconds-of.html" }, { "id": 3805, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Woah, that is a prime example of impressive architecture for a store. One question: where a the customers? #coronaviruseffect Apple Central World opens Friday in Thailand - Apple\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-29 19:39:37 -0500", "date": "7:39 p.m. on Jul 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/29/woah-that-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F29%2Fwoah-that-is.html" }, { "id": 3806, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What Steve Jobs would have said\u0026hellip; ?\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-29 17:59:33 -0500", "date": "5:59 p.m. on Jul 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/29/what-steve-jobs.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F29%2Fwhat-steve-jobs.html" }, { "id": 3807, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Do you think Apple has plans already in place to allow for third-party payment systems on the App Store, just in case they are being forced to add these?\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-29 17:28:03 -0500", "date": "5:28 p.m. on Jul 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/29/do-you-think.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F29%2Fdo-you-think.html" }, { "id": 3808, "type": "post", "title": "Apple had an easy day overall", "text": "Is it me or Apple had a pretty easy day today? Seems all the attention went to Google, Facebook and Amazon. My guess is that it reflects a fact: Apple is not in a monopolistic position like the other three. www.cnbc.com\nLive: Big Tech testifies: Bezos promises action if investigation reveals misuse of seller data\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-29 16:52:19 -0500", "date": "4:52 p.m. on Jul 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/29/apple-had-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F29%2Fapple-had-an.html" }, { "id": 3809, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Let’s see if Tim Cook is also a good politician. #apple #testimony #appstore\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-29 05:50:44 -0500", "date": "5:50 p.m. on Jul 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/29/lets-see-if.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F29%2Flets-see-if.html" }, { "id": 3810, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m getting there. Where? No idea. Entirely random city design and building. That is what playing is all about. #townscraper\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-24 13:16:35 -0500", "date": "1:16 p.m. on Jul 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/24/im-getting-there.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F24%2Fim-getting-there.html" }, { "id": 3811, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A byproduct of the coronavirus pandemic: traveling apps like Flighty won\u0026rsquo;t get my renewal this year. Sad for the developer. Really nice app. See you next year, maybe.\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-24 12:55:09 -0500", "date": "12:55 p.m. on Jul 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/24/a-byproduct-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F24%2Fa-byproduct-of.html" }, { "id": 3812, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Highly doubtful that Apple already has the date set for the September Keynote in current context. Even more for October event. Take this with a grain of salt. \u0026lsquo;iPhone 12\u0026rsquo; event Sept. 8 with \u0026lsquo;Apple Glass\u0026rsquo; \u0026amp; Apple Silicon Mac reveal on Oct. 27, says leaker - Appleinsider\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-24 11:24:55 -0500", "date": "11:24 p.m. on Jul 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/24/highly-doubtful-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F24%2Fhighly-doubtful-that.html" }, { "id": 3813, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Is this really surprising? It’s not. Apple saw the virus coming - Philip Elmer‑DeWitt\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-24 11:21:26 -0500", "date": "11:21 p.m. on Jul 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/24/is-this-really.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F24%2Fis-this-really.html" }, { "id": 3814, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here is a bunch of Apple inconsistencies in design. On macOS Big Sur: you can add a widget by clicking on it, but not on iOS. Still on Big Sur, notifications are stacked on top of the widgets space on the right while on iOS they get their own space. Explain this to me, Apple.\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-24 09:15:41 -0500", "date": "9:15 p.m. on Jul 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/24/here-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F24%2Fhere-is-a.html" }, { "id": 3815, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "To me, it is becoming clear every day that, it’s the virus who will bring down this clown in chief, stars are slowly aligning. apple.news\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-24 07:15:05 -0500", "date": "7:15 p.m. on Jul 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/24/to-me-it.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F24%2Fto-me-it.html" }, { "id": 3816, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Interesting summary on Apple\u0026rsquo;s move to its own silicone for the Mac product line in light of recent Intel announcement of delays affecting 7nm chips. twitter.com/neilcybar\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-24 06:05:01 -0500", "date": "6:05 p.m. on Jul 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/24/interesting-summary-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F24%2Finteresting-summary-on.html" }, { "id": 3817, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If anyone had doubts on why Apple is transitioning to its own silicon for the Mac: Intel is (again) delaying it\u0026rsquo;s 7nm chips to\u0026hellip; 2022 or 2023. www.tomshardware.com/news/inte\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-24 06:00:06 -0500", "date": "6:00 p.m. on Jul 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/24/if-anyone-had.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F24%2Fif-anyone-had.html" }, { "id": 3818, "type": "post", "title": "After 14 major iOS release... and yet... ", "text": "Everybody is talking about Apple Music new icon since Beta 3 but, think about this: after 14 versions of iOS, and here we are: the “More” “button” lingering bad design. How many times I try to hit this and I bring the detail view of the app instead. Frustrating.\nLet me be clear: wrong place, too small, text overlapping, not a real button.\nCome on, Apple!\nMy suggestion: add a “Details” button accessible when sliding the table cell to the left (the same gesture that reveals a Delete button).\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-23 12:07:50 -0500", "date": "12:07 p.m. on Jul 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/23/after-major-ios.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F23%2Fafter-major-ios.html" }, { "id": 3819, "type": "post", "title": "On Widgets Management Interfaces on iPhone ", "text": "Very valid complaint from Dieter Bohn of The Verge on Apple’s implementation of widgets management on iPhone. Two different user interfaces for basically the same objective. I prefer the look of the new design, but I understand the previous one is still there for compability purposes.\niOS 14 Beta 3 brings back the « Edit » button at the (very inconvenient place) bottom of the list. Hitting the button brings you back unexpectedly to the top of the widgets list. Going back down the list and you’ll find a “Customize” button. Really? Also, tapping and holding on old widgets doesn’t invoke edit mode. Not very consistent. I should probably fill a feedback report and send it to Apple.\nI do think this is a transitional design. Transitions are rarely pleasant.\ntwitter.com/backlon/s\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-23 12:00:40 -0500", "date": "12:00 p.m. on Jul 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/23/on-widgets-management.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F23%2Fon-widgets-management.html" }, { "id": 3820, "type": "post", "title": "The race for the bottom of everything", "text": "On Apple\u0026rsquo;s 30% cut. Again.\nWe all know where this all goes. Yesterday it was a deal. Today, 30% is way too much. So, let’s fight and try to force Apple to set the cut to 20%. No, 15%. That is way better, right? A few years down the road, a well known developer comes out and complain about 15% being way too much of a cut. Poor guy. Let\u0026rsquo;s start a fight and bring that down. Apple respond and set it to 10% because they are forced to. And the story continues.\nLet\u0026rsquo;s face the reality. We don\u0026rsquo;t like to pay for something. We want it all. We know the price of everything but the value of nothing. How do you think China came to be so powerful? How do you think Amazon or Costco is sucking air from small local businesses in our communities? Why do you think our life is full of shitty ads are everywhere? Why do you think we are the product of Google, Facebook? Because we don\u0026rsquo;t like to pay for something, anything. We want it all free.\nThere is a pattern. There is a race for the bottom of everything. And I don\u0026rsquo;t agree in Brent’s views on what would happen if Apple lowers their demand from developers. I certainly don\u0026rsquo;t believe developers would lower the price of their apps.\nRemember what capitalism is all about?\nChange my mind.\ninessential.com/2020/07/2\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-23 06:35:28 -0500", "date": "6:35 p.m. on Jul 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/23/the-race-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F23%2Fthe-race-for.html" }, { "id": 3821, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It is easy to forget what it was before the App Store and now complain about the 30% cut by Apple.\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-22 20:06:15 -0500", "date": "8:06 p.m. on Jul 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/22/it-is-easy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F22%2Fit-is-easy.html" }, { "id": 3822, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "13th iPhone Photography Awards winners are out! Some incredible pictures in there. Congrats to the winders. My prefered one is the waterfall in B\u0026amp;W. #photography #ippawards IPPAWARDS - iPhone Photography Awards - Celebrating the creativity of the iPhone users since 2007\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-22 19:37:32 -0500", "date": "7:37 p.m. on Jul 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/22/th-iphone-photography.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F22%2Fth-iphone-photography.html" }, { "id": 3823, "type": "post", "title": "The iPad still held back with iPadOS 14", "text": "iPadOS 15 concept imagined by Parker Ortolani certainly looks interesting. I\u0026rsquo;m not sure about some ideas put forward but it certainly shows how the iPad is still held back with iPadOS 14. The lack of flexibility in widgets placement is, put mildly, baffling. I love those widgets on my iPhone but the lack of space forces us to create tons of pages. And the problem will only get worst this fall after developers start adding widget support in their apps. It will be crazy. #iPadOS14 #apple\nwww.behance.net/gallery/1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-22 05:55:03 -0500", "date": "5:55 p.m. on Jul 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/22/the-ipad-still.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F22%2Fthe-ipad-still.html" }, { "id": 3824, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If blog post from Readdle’s is any indication, expect a LOT of widgets to be available when iOS 14 launch this fall. In fact, more widgets will be available than any number of home screen pages can accommodate. #ios14 readdle.com/blog/ios1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-22 05:45:00 -0500", "date": "5:45 p.m. on Jul 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/22/if-blog-post.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F22%2Fif-blog-post.html" }, { "id": 3825, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple is already setting the table for the iPhone 12 lack of charger in the box. You may not like this decision but this is clever marketing. www.apple.com/environme\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-21 20:03:53 -0500", "date": "8:03 p.m. on Jul 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/21/apple-is-already.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F21%2Fapple-is-already.html" }, { "id": 3826, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I love this game. Spent a few hours building this unknown city. 😍 #townscraper\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-21 19:23:01 -0500", "date": "7:23 p.m. on Jul 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/21/i-love-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F21%2Fi-love-this.html" }, { "id": 3827, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Beta 3 will be like a fresh coat of paint.\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-21 18:40:36 -0500", "date": "6:40 p.m. on Jul 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/21/beta-will-be.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F21%2Fbeta-will-be.html" }, { "id": 3828, "type": "post", "title": "Smartphones going forward and Zoom going backward", "text": "Modern smartphones replaced most if not all specialized tools like camera, microphone, etc. Zoom wanting to sell dedicated screens for meetings would be going backward and\u0026hellip; really, who want\u0026rsquo;s to buy a 27\u0026quot; monitor just for Zoom meetings? daringfireball.net/linked/20\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-21 15:42:18 -0500", "date": "3:42 p.m. on Jul 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/21/smartphones-going-forward.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F21%2Fsmartphones-going-forward.html" }, { "id": 3829, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Can’t wait for beta 3. Tomorrow. #ios14\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-20 21:07:13 -0500", "date": "9:07 p.m. on Jul 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/20/cant-wait-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F20%2Fcant-wait-for.html" }, { "id": 3830, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Is TestFlight for iOS 14 widgets available yet?\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-19 15:02:34 -0500", "date": "3:02 p.m. on Jul 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/19/is-testflight-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F19%2Fis-testflight-for.html" }, { "id": 3831, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When Apple was advertising their value for businesses, in a world where working from home wasn’t really a thing. twitter.com/vanlancke\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-19 14:58:35 -0500", "date": "2:58 p.m. on Jul 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/19/when-apple-was.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F19%2Fwhen-apple-was.html" }, { "id": 3832, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Well said. That is why I love Apple so much.\ntwitter.com/stevesi/s\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-19 14:03:25 -0500", "date": "2:03 p.m. on Jul 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/19/well-said-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F19%2Fwell-said-that.html" }, { "id": 3833, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My first experiment with an ND1000 filter. Quite happy with the results. Classic subject for this. Next up? Cloudy skies.\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-19 10:51:21 -0500", "date": "10:51 p.m. on Jul 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/19/my-first-experiment.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F19%2Fmy-first-experiment.html" }, { "id": 3834, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Interesting comparison between macOS Catalina \u0026amp; Big Sur system sounds. You don’t change something like this often. That is something new in Big Sur. I didn’t play long enough with Big Sur to notice. Apple did the same with iOS 7. www.youtube.com/channel/U\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-19 10:45:28 -0500", "date": "10:45 p.m. on Jul 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/19/interesting-comparison-between.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F19%2Finteresting-comparison-between.html" }, { "id": 3835, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Fascinating how the Trump administration did exactly the opposite in order to tackle this pandemic crisis. Inside Trump’s Failure: The Rush to Abandon Leadership Role on the Virus - The New York Times\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-19 10:30:37 -0500", "date": "10:30 p.m. on Jul 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/19/fascinating-how-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F19%2Ffascinating-how-the.html" }, { "id": 3836, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I love the new plug-ins for Micro.blog, but does it put itself on the same path as WordPress? 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-17 08:32:46 -0500", "date": "8:32 p.m. on Jul 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/17/i-love-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F17%2Fi-love-the.html" }, { "id": 3837, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This blog post on Apple’s latest betas pretty much sums it up for me. More to come in my own blog post about my own experience.\n500ish.com/double-ta\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-15 17:16:51 -0500", "date": "5:16 p.m. on Jul 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/15/this-blog-post.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F15%2Fthis-blog-post.html" }, { "id": 3838, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "More than 1500 words to talk about going all in with Apple\u0026rsquo;s latest betas on my main devices. Your experience may vary but mine if mostly very good so far. Don\u0026rsquo;t do that at home, please.\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-13 06:04:58 -0500", "date": "6:04 p.m. on Jul 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/13/more-than-words.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F13%2Fmore-than-words.html" }, { "id": 3839, "type": "post", "title": "Ten years ago — Antennagate", "text": "Ten years ago today: Antennagate. Remember? It was an intense episode in Apple’s history. I didn’t own an iPhone 4. At that time, I was using my 3GS. I upgrade to the iPhone 4S in 2011. Time certainly flies.\nwww.cultofmac.com/492086/to\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-12 19:57:25 -0500", "date": "7:57 p.m. on Jul 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/12/ten-years-ago.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F12%2Ften-years-ago.html" }, { "id": 3840, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here is a brilliant idea. My hope is for Apple to notice. twitter.com\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-12 13:41:36 -0500", "date": "1:41 p.m. on Jul 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/12/here-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F12%2Fhere-is-a.html" }, { "id": 3841, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Because of newly introduced folders support in iOS 14 Shortcuts, I made a spring cleanup. Now I’m down to what I actually need and use. #ios14 #apple\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-11 11:04:40 -0500", "date": "11:04 p.m. on Jul 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/11/because-of-newly.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F11%2Fbecause-of-newly.html" }, { "id": 3842, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "With iPadOS 14, Apple mades a lot of improvements to the Calendar app which makes me reconsider the use of Readdle’s Calendar alternative. The reason is mainly because of the new Sidebar. Decision, decision, decision. #iPadOS14\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-11 08:29:28 -0500", "date": "8:29 p.m. on Jul 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/11/with-ipados-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F11%2Fwith-ipados-apple.html" }, { "id": 3843, "type": "post", "title": "Viticci on iPadOS 14 - when iPadOS is Influenced by macOS #iPadOS14", "text": "Good insights by Federico Viticci of MacStories about iPadOS 14. One theme stands out: with iPadOS 14, Apple is no longer taking it’s inspiration from the iPhone but from macOS to push the iPad in its very distinct path.\nExhibit A: the Sidebar in applications like Music, Photos, Files. Exhibit B: the redesigned Search bar.\nStill to be improved, though: multitasking. Next year.\nwww.macstories.net/stories/t\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-11 08:22:26 -0500", "date": "8:22 p.m. on Jul 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/11/viticci-on-ipados.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F11%2Fviticci-on-ipados.html" }, { "id": 3844, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When I talk about this virus to my kids, my recurring message is the fact that this is not like the flu, far from it.\nwww.theguardian.com/world/202\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-11 08:02:21 -0500", "date": "8:02 p.m. on Jul 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/11/when-i-talk.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F11%2Fwhen-i-talk.html" }, { "id": 3845, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Something fascinating and disturbing about COVID-19 and the US: everything that makes the US what they are is making them weak against this virus. #livefreeordie #againstthefed\nwww.nytimes.com/2020/07/0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-11 07:59:17 -0500", "date": "7:59 p.m. on Jul 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/11/something-fascinating-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F11%2Fsomething-fascinating-and.html" }, { "id": 3846, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dear Apple, please, oh please, allow us to move around our many screens in this view. Thank you.\nA friend. #apple #ipados #ios14 #ios14beta\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-10 13:24:34 -0500", "date": "1:24 p.m. on Jul 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/10/dear-apple-please.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F10%2Fdear-apple-please.html" }, { "id": 3847, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Welcome to iOS 14 beta 2. 👨🏻‍💻🤷🏻‍♂️ But I love it. Very stable on iPad. 😎 #apple #ipados14\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-09 17:55:16 -0500", "date": "5:55 p.m. on Jul 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/09/welcome-to-ios.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F09%2Fwelcome-to-ios.html" }, { "id": 3848, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Woah, that was fast. iOS 14 now entering public beta phase. Apple must feel really confident. So am I. Installing on 11” iPad Pro. www.macrumors.com/2020/07/0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-09 13:05:14 -0500", "date": "1:05 p.m. on Jul 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/09/woah-that-was.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F09%2Fwoah-that-was.html" }, { "id": 3849, "type": "post", "title": "On Apple's iOS 14, Widgets and Considering Bigger iPhone", "text": "One of the unexpected side effect of Apple introducing widgets in iOS 14 is that I\u0026rsquo;m reconsidering my stance against big iPhone like iPhone 11 Pro Max.. when widgets invade our landscape this fall, we may find the iPhone 11 screen too small for all of them.\nIf Apple was willing to add the same flexibility to the iPad it would be another matter, though.\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-09 12:13:25 -0500", "date": "12:13 p.m. on Jul 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/09/on-apples-ios.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F09%2Fon-apples-ios.html" }, { "id": 3850, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Already? VMware Fusion Tech Preview now supports macOS Big Sur. twitter.com/vmwarefus\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-09 06:26:35 -0500", "date": "6:26 p.m. on Jul 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/09/already-vmware-fusion.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F09%2Falready-vmware-fusion.html" }, { "id": 3851, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If you think not wearing a face mask is a free ride, think again. More than $ 330 Billions deficit for Canada because of the pandemic.\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-08 13:14:49 -0500", "date": "1:14 p.m. on Jul 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/08/if-you-think.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F08%2Fif-you-think.html" }, { "id": 3852, "type": "post", "title": "« Don’t assume discreet GPU always offer better performance » #apple #applesilicon ", "text": "I’m one of those who was thinking discreet GPU would provide much better performance. When watching Apple’s transition to Apple Silicon, I asked myself about discreet GPU options in future Macs. This article goes on to report that not only integrated GPU (thanks to SoC) will be faster, it could be easier to support and help Apple reduce costs. Apple never offered discreet GPU in iPad Pro. Why would it be different with Apple Silicon-based Mac? Will future Mac support external GPU? Probably but performance gain will be marginal.\nARM Mac graphics performance could beat discrete GPUs - 9to5Mac\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-08 12:00:45 -0500", "date": "12:00 p.m. on Jul 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/08/dont-assume-discreet.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F08%2Fdont-assume-discreet.html" }, { "id": 3853, "type": "post", "title": "A Visual Comparison of Catalina \u0026 Big Sur - Who Wins? #apple #macOS11", "text": "Excellent visual comparison between macOS Catalina and Big Sur (see link below). Here are a few observations:\nBig Sur design is a step back in clrity in many areas. Ex.: Icons and segmented controls in top portion of windows. More padding around items lists. I\u0026rsquo;m not sure why. I prefer Catalina\u0026rsquo;s version. Dark Mode is slightly better looking in Big Sur. Battery panel in Settings is horrible. Gone are popup alerts at the top of windows, they now look to be centered within window content and movable. Catalina is better. Menu bar is translucide. Catalina is better too. Safari is much better looking in Big Sur. Notes is much improved in Big Sur. Big Sur icons shapre are much more uniform. Advantage to Big Sur here. Big Sur Side Bars in many apps like Maps is better looking too. Who wins? Well, the jury is still out.\nwww.andrewdenty.com/blog/2020\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-08 06:28:51 -0500", "date": "6:28 p.m. on Jul 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/08/a-visual-comparison.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F08%2Fa-visual-comparison.html" }, { "id": 3854, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "iOS 14 is a massive update in regards to privacy protection. I love that! #apple #ios14 #privacy twitter.com/kuba_sude\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-08 06:12:25 -0500", "date": "6:12 p.m. on Jul 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/08/ios-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F08%2Fios-is-a.html" }, { "id": 3855, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Who prefering the original AirPod case size but the features of the Pro models? Me. Daring Fireball: AirPods Versus AirPods Pro\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-07 20:17:34 -0500", "date": "8:17 p.m. on Jul 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/07/who-prefering-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F07%2Fwho-prefering-the.html" }, { "id": 3856, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Oh boy, as much as iOS 14 beta 1 is rock solid, I cannot say the same thing about Big Sur. I\u0026rsquo;m kind of liking its new visual look… kind of. It will grow on me over time, like many things Apple is doing. #apple #ios14beta1 #macosbigsur\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-07 10:54:41 -0500", "date": "10:54 p.m. on Jul 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/07/oh-boy-as.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F07%2Foh-boy-as.html" }, { "id": 3857, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I like Michael Flarup balanced take on Apple’s redesign of macOS Big Sur and what this could mean from now on. Coming from this guy, it could mean a lot. #apple #macosbigsur The Comeback of Fun in Visual Design\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-06 21:34:07 -0500", "date": "9:34 p.m. on Jul 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/06/i-like-michael.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F06%2Fi-like-michael.html" }, { "id": 3858, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "With iOS 14, expect a massive amount of widgets being released. More than enough. All developers are competing to get your iPhone home screen space. #apple #ios14\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-05 16:46:29 -0500", "date": "4:46 p.m. on Jul 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/05/with-ios-expect.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F05%2Fwith-ios-expect.html" }, { "id": 3859, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Preparing for iOS 14: If an iOS Shortcut has only one action in it, what is the point then? Deleting a massive amount of Shortcuts. #apple #ios14beta1 #ios14\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-05 10:24:06 -0500", "date": "10:24 p.m. on Jul 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/05/preparing-for-ios.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F05%2Fpreparing-for-ios.html" }, { "id": 3860, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The next steps in testing Apple’s new stuff is to install macOS Big Sur on an external drive connected to my 2017 iMac. Next, following reactions and comments on beta 2 later this week, I may jump on iPadOS 14 for my iPad.\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-05 09:50:28 -0500", "date": "9:50 p.m. on Jul 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/05/the-next-steps.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F05%2Fthe-next-steps.html" }, { "id": 3861, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Brent Simmons’ enthusiasm about the Mac is refreshing because part of Mac ecosystem health depends on guys like him, not just Apple’s willingness to keep the Mac around. inessential.com\nI Had Been Worried About the Mac\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-05 09:42:02 -0500", "date": "9:42 p.m. on Jul 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/05/brent-simmons-enthusiasm.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F05%2Fbrent-simmons-enthusiasm.html" }, { "id": 3862, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Application visual design is such a fascinating field. Marco Arment is certainly one of the best app developer but this redesign of Overcast by Paul Sahner is quite an improvement. A fresh look at Overcast\u0026rsquo;s Now Playing Screen — Paul Sahner\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-05 09:28:13 -0500", "date": "9:28 p.m. on Jul 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/05/application-visual-design.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F05%2Fapplication-visual-design.html" }, { "id": 3863, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For the next two months. Life is good to me, even in 2020. #bloggerlife #blogger\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-05 08:43:25 -0500", "date": "8:43 p.m. on Jul 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/05/for-the-next.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F05%2Ffor-the-next.html" }, { "id": 3864, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Does this mean that we won’t get the top-of-the-window alerts anymore? That’s kind of sad actually, a step back in usability for the sake of visual consistency across platforms? mjtsai.com\nBig Sur’s Narrow Alerts\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-04 13:45:36 -0500", "date": "1:45 p.m. on Jul 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/04/does-this-mean.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F04%2Fdoes-this-mean.html" }, { "id": 3865, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Some commonality with my previous post\u0026hellip; worth reading. What changes might be coming to new Mac hardware? – Six Colors\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-04 08:30:14 -0500", "date": "8:30 p.m. on Jul 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/04/some-commonality-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F04%2Fsome-commonality-with.html" }, { "id": 3866, "type": "post", "title": "Which Mac will go first to ARM? My take. #apple #armmac #applesilicon ", "text": "Which Mac will transition first to Apple Silicon? Will Apple start with the desktop or the portables? That is the question. I would say, the desktop, but\u0026hellip;\nOn the first Mac to be converted to ARM: my bet goes on the Mac mini, a lower volume, utility orientated machine for the Mac enthusiasts. Next, the iMac redesign where any perf discrepancies with the MacBook is more easily explanable (desktop versus laptop, you know). But\u0026hellip;\n\u0026hellip;my confidence level in this theory will be negatively impacted by the actual release of a rumoured redesigned iMac but with an Intel processor instead. Rumors are circulating about a published benchmark with a 10 cores Intel CPU in a new iMac design. If Apple did release this machine, it would send a clear message: they will continue to support Intel machines for a long time. But\u0026hellip;\n\u0026hellip;launching an iMac redesign with an Apple Silicon inside would make a much better marketing story: something like a powerful Apple Silicon powering a brand new design with unique features (fan-less design, FaceID, or even\u0026hellip; touch input support?). But\u0026hellip;\n\u0026hellip;I concede the fact that price/watt ratio is much more useful and lends much more practical advantages on a portable product than on the desktop where space and energy are less constrained which puts some doubts on my take.\nFinally, about the Mac Pro conversion to ARM. My gut feeling is that it will be the last to be converted\u0026hellip; with A16 CPU? Who knows.\nPS: I would expect Apple to re-introduce their illuminated logo on the MacBook. A sign of Apple’s enthusiast returning to the Mac.\nDaring Fireball: On Ming-Chi Kuo\u0026rsquo;s Report of a 24-Inch ARM iMac\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-04 08:05:38 -0500", "date": "8:05 p.m. on Jul 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/04/which-mac-will.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F04%2Fwhich-mac-will.html" }, { "id": 3867, "type": "post", "title": "Poor advertisers... thanks to Apple’s iOS 14.", "text": "They are the ones who will suffer the most from Apple’s iOS 14. Good for them. If they want to show ads, the burden of finding new ways is on them, not on Apple’s shoulders or on ours. In other words: fuck them. European advertisers critical of iOS 14 warning users about ad tracking - Appleinsider\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-03 08:03:58 -0500", "date": "8:03 p.m. on Jul 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/03/poor-advertisers-thanks.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F03%2Fpoor-advertisers-thanks.html" }, { "id": 3868, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How much memory the video subsystem of an ARM-based Mac will have?\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-02 19:12:56 -0500", "date": "7:12 p.m. on Jul 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/02/how-much-memory.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F02%2Fhow-much-memory.html" }, { "id": 3869, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Tweak improvement suggestion for @manton : on a MB website, if there are replies to a blog post, show a little icon next to the post date. Possible?\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-02 15:18:11 -0500", "date": "3:18 p.m. on Jul 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/02/tweak-improvement-suggestion.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F02%2Ftweak-improvement-suggestion.html" }, { "id": 3870, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Very interesting but improbable theories\u0026hellip;. twitter.com/stroughto\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-02 15:12:36 -0500", "date": "3:12 p.m. on Jul 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/02/very-interesting-but.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F02%2Fvery-interesting-but.html" }, { "id": 3871, "type": "post", "title": "Widgets \u0026 iPadOS - Apple is in a “bad design choice” corner ", "text": "I’ve been thinking a lot about the limited support of widgets in iPadOS 14. While waiting for an answer from Craig Federighi (see previous posts), I think I know why. The way Apple introduced widgets in iPadOS 13 kind of put themselves in a “bad design choice” corner.\nTake an iPad with iPadOS 13 in landscape orientation with widgets showing on the left, now look what happens when rotating the iPad in portrait mode. See? Imagine widgets all over the home screen. How could the iPad handle this orientation change gracefully? You tell me.\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-01 15:14:42 -0500", "date": "3:14 p.m. on Jul 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/01/widgets-ipados-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F01%2Fwidgets-ipados-apple.html" }, { "id": 3872, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "With iOS 14 Beta 1, I don’t see any announced feature that won’t make it in the final GM release. This is good. 👌🏻\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-01 15:04:12 -0500", "date": "3:04 p.m. on Jul 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/01/with-ios-beta.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F01%2Fwith-ios-beta.html" }, { "id": 3873, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m so impressed by the stability of iOS 14 b1.\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-01 13:49:01 -0500", "date": "1:49 p.m. on Jul 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/01/im-so-impressed.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F01%2Fim-so-impressed.html" }, { "id": 3874, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My first email to Apple’s top lieutenant: Craig Federighi. Yep, I did it, following my recent blog post. Now, waiting for a possible answer.🤞🏻 numericcitizen.me/2020/07/0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-01 10:58:00 -0500", "date": "10:58 p.m. on Jul 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/01/my-first-email.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F01%2Fmy-first-email.html" }, { "id": 3875, "type": "post", "title": "A bizarre upcoming fall schedule for Apple? #iphone12 #ios14 ", "text": "If iPhone 12 launch is effectively delayed by a few weeks or months, could Apple decide to release iOS 14 for currently shipping devices while we wait for iPhone 12? It would be a first for Apple, but I certainly hope so. #iphone12 9to5mac.com/2020/07/0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-07-01 06:31:39 -0500", "date": "6:31 p.m. on Jul 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/07/01/a-bizarre-upcoming.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F07%2F01%2Fa-bizarre-upcoming.html" }, { "id": 3876, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Great comments about iOS 14 from Benjamin Mayo. “Widgets on the home screen are just perfect.” bzamayo.com/ios14-fir\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-30 10:49:57 -0500", "date": "10:49 p.m. on Jun 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/30/great-comments-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F30%2Fgreat-comments-about.html" }, { "id": 3877, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Marques Brownlee interviews Craig Federighi. As @Gruber points out, the killer question: why no calculator on iPad.\nNow, why iPadOS 14 doesn\u0026rsquo;t allow \u0026ldquo;free” placement of widgets would have been a much better killer question IMHO. www.youtube.com/watch\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-30 06:21:40 -0500", "date": "6:21 p.m. on Jun 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/30/marques-brownlee-interviews.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F30%2Fmarques-brownlee-interviews.html" }, { "id": 3878, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Fascinating move by The NewYork Times leaving Apple News. They want to control their customers, get more data, etc.\nNow, compare this to the \u0026ldquo;old\u0026rdquo; Microsoft. Same to me.\nWinning strategies: be on as many platforms as possible or die, i.e. the “new\u0026quot; Microsoft. cc @stevesi\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-29 13:41:56 -0500", "date": "1:41 p.m. on Jun 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/29/fascinating-move-by.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F29%2Ffascinating-move-by.html" }, { "id": 3879, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Interesting tidbits here about iPhone apps running on macOS 11. How many devs will \u0026ldquo;port\u0026rdquo; their iPhone app to Mac remains to be seen. Can\u0026rsquo;t wait for the future. twitter.com/_inside/s\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-29 06:17:42 -0500", "date": "6:17 p.m. on Jun 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/29/interesting-tidbits-here.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F29%2Finteresting-tidbits-here.html" }, { "id": 3880, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple is always about moving forward, even if it means rewriting its own software countless times or breaking things. We pay them, as customers, to make these choices. #apple sixcolors.com/link/2020\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-29 06:13:46 -0500", "date": "6:13 p.m. on Jun 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/29/apple-is-always.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F29%2Fapple-is-always.html" }, { "id": 3881, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Simple and eayto implement idea. birchtree.me\niOS 14 Could Make Changing Your Wallpaper Much Easier\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-28 21:41:50 -0500", "date": "9:41 p.m. on Jun 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/28/simple-and-eayto.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F28%2Fsimple-and-eayto.html" }, { "id": 3882, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m no longer an indie developer but looking at SwiftUI videos from WWDC is really interesting. What a cool technology.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-28 19:09:24 -0500", "date": "7:09 p.m. on Jun 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/28/im-no-longer.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F28%2Fim-no-longer.html" }, { "id": 3883, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Does the maturing of SwiftUI is an enabler for an iPad version of Xcode? This version of Xcode would be leaving behind ObjC and “legacy” stuff and create SwiftUI-only apps, is it a reasonable thinking? #wwdc #wwdc20 #wwdc2020 #apple #ios #ipados\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-28 13:38:46 -0500", "date": "1:38 p.m. on Jun 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/28/does-the-maturing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F28%2Fdoes-the-maturing.html" }, { "id": 3884, "type": "post", "title": "On Siri updated design #wwdc #wwdc20 #wwdc2020 #ios14 ", "text": "I like the new Siri design but I don\u0026rsquo;t like it after all. The animated sphere placement feels wrong as it leave space on top of it on which we cannot interact. Siri answers and feedbacks onscreen position feel very inconsistent. Sometimes it will appear at the top with another smaller banner at the bottom. Sometimes only a banner at the top.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-28 12:16:10 -0500", "date": "12:16 p.m. on Jun 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/28/on-siri-updated.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F28%2Fon-siri-updated.html" }, { "id": 3885, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Putting the final touches to my WWDC20 conference comments and review. More than 3000 words. Hope you like to read. #wwdc #wwdc20 #wwdc2020\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-28 10:31:00 -0500", "date": "10:31 p.m. on Jun 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/28/putting-the-final.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F28%2Fputting-the-final.html" }, { "id": 3886, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Found my testing device for iOS 14.0. An iPhone 8. So far, sooooo good. 😀Surprisingly stable. Familiarity and newness in one package. #apple #wwdc #wwdc20 #wwdc2020\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-26 15:34:28 -0500", "date": "3:34 p.m. on Jun 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/26/found-my-testing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F26%2Ffound-my-testing.html" }, { "id": 3887, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is what Apple could or should have put online with the watch face sharing ability in iOS 14 and watchOS 7. Really cool initiative. #wwdc #wwdc20 #wwdc2020 twitter.com\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-26 11:31:59 -0500", "date": "11:31 p.m. on Jun 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/26/this-is-what.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F26%2Fthis-is-what.html" }, { "id": 3888, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "No more Microsoft physical stores. End of an (short, insignificant) era. #microsoft #microsoftstores\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-26 11:26:07 -0500", "date": "11:26 p.m. on Jun 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/26/no-more-microsoft.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F26%2Fno-more-microsoft.html" }, { "id": 3889, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Those on iOS 14, question: is there any issues with syncing in Notes edited on iOS 14, still ok in iOS 13? Same for Reminders or iMessage? #wwdc #wwdc20 #wwdc2020\nNothing in that regard in the release notes.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-26 07:02:54 -0500", "date": "7:02 p.m. on Jun 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/26/those-on-ios.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F26%2Fthose-on-ios.html" }, { "id": 3890, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I told you that @mailbrew + HEY was a killer combination. Clips. 👊🏻😎👨🏻‍💻\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-25 20:03:05 -0500", "date": "8:03 p.m. on Jun 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/25/i-told-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F25%2Fi-told-you.html" }, { "id": 3891, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My thought of the day: We’ll never see iPad in size larger than 12.9 inches because larger devices like this could be an ARM Mac with large screen AND touch support. #wwdc #wwdc20 #wwdc2020 #apple\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-25 16:04:49 -0500", "date": "4:04 p.m. on Jun 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/25/my-thought-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F25%2Fmy-thought-of.html" }, { "id": 3892, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m fed up of Apple bragging about its 2 millions apps in the App Store. I fuckin don’t care because we all know the vast majority is pure crap or of very low value.\nThere, I said it. #wwdc #wwdc20 #wwdc2020\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-25 15:44:28 -0500", "date": "3:44 p.m. on Jun 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/25/im-fed-up.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F25%2Fim-fed-up.html" }, { "id": 3893, "type": "post", "title": "iOS 14 Widgets and Anxiety #wwdc #wwdc20 #wwdc2020 ", "text": "Following the reveal of widgets support on iOS 14, I’m feeling anxiety over how I\u0026rsquo;will \u0026ldquo;design\u0026rdquo; my home screens coming this fall. The same kind of feeling related to my Apple Watch watch face design, btw.\nWhat role will play the App Library? Will I reduce my reliance on folders for organizing my apps and add more pages that I can hide as needed? How many pages reserved for widgets only will I create and for which use case?\nDecision, decision, decision.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-24 11:39:38 -0500", "date": "11:39 p.m. on Jun 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/24/ios-widgets-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F24%2Fios-widgets-and.html" }, { "id": 3894, "type": "post", "title": "The Secret Feature of Upcoming ARM-Based Mac #wwdc #wwdc20 #wwdc2020 #apple ", "text": "Wild dream of the day: what if a silent yet unannounced feature of the ARM-based Mac is touch support? Looking at one of the WWDC session video called “Adopt the new look of macOS Big Sur”, spacing of many UI elements certainly feels in preparation of touch support introduction. Plus, iPhone apps running unmodified on these machines would feel at home with touch support.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-24 11:32:28 -0500", "date": "11:32 p.m. on Jun 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/24/the-secret-feature.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F24%2Fthe-secret-feature.html" }, { "id": 3895, "type": "post", "title": "On macOS Big Fur surprising visual and design attributes #wwdc #wwdc20 ", "text": "Taken out of one of @gruber recent post. In red: the Cancel button looks like being disabled. Very bad. The menu bar transparency, why? Is Apple trying to make us forget about this distinctive UI element? In yellow: the window title being no longer at the center, to make room for buttons (that look less and less like buttons)\u0026hellip;\nIn green: a depth effect with surrounding shadow, thumbs up. General look of the refresh popup dialog, very iOS is refreshing on the Mac.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-23 21:43:49 -0500", "date": "9:43 p.m. on Jun 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/23/on-macos-big.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F23%2Fon-macos-big.html" }, { "id": 3896, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For those wondering\u0026hellip; I’m still trying to wrap my head around the start of the WWDC20 week, started by this exceptional opening keynote. So far, the best words for describing my feelings are “a near perfect balancing act”. #apple #wwdc20 #wwdc2020 #wwdc\nStay tuned for more.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-23 20:29:43 -0500", "date": "8:29 p.m. on Jun 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/23/for-those-wondering.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F23%2Ffor-those-wondering.html" }, { "id": 3897, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Is Jony Ive in the room? Asking for a friend. #wwdc #wwdc20 #wwdc2020 #apple\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-22 10:58:30 -0500", "date": "10:58 p.m. on Jun 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/22/is-jony-ive.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F22%2Fis-jony-ive.html" }, { "id": 3898, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What a timing\u0026hellip;. HEY #wwdc #wwdc20 #wwdc2020 #apple Apple, HEY, and the path forward\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-22 09:21:45 -0500", "date": "9:21 p.m. on Jun 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/22/what-a-timing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F22%2Fwhat-a-timing.html" }, { "id": 3899, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "More then ever it seems tech pundits and tech savvy people are asking for real, meaningful and transformative changes by Apple. Will they deliver? #wwdc #wwdc20 #wwdc2020\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-22 08:46:11 -0500", "date": "8:46 p.m. on Jun 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/22/more-then-ever.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F22%2Fmore-then-ever.html" }, { "id": 3900, "type": "post", "title": "Apple moving to ARM: another game changer move in the works #wwdc #wwdc20 #apple", "text": "Today, it will be interesting to see how Apple is positioning its move from Intel to ARM.\nTo me, one thing is clear: this could be another game changer move. Apple has proven many times in the past that you don\u0026rsquo;t need to own a market (PC sales) to create new inflection points on its trajectory. Remember when Apple legitimize the use of the USB ports in its original iMac? Now, they could legitimize the use of ARM on traditional computers.\nIf I was Intel, I would be scared.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-22 06:36:47 -0500", "date": "6:36 p.m. on Jun 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/22/apple-moving-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F22%2Fapple-moving-to.html" }, { "id": 3901, "type": "post", "title": "When Brent Simmons speaks, Apple should listen #wwdc20 #wwdc2020 #wwdc ", "text": "From Brent Simmons:\nThe best part of the App Store, years ago, from this developer’s point of view, was that it was easy to charge money for an app. No need to set up a system — just choose the price, and Apple takes care of everything. So easy!\nAnd\nfor many developers, the very best thing about the App Store — the thing that actually helped their business — is gone.\nAnd this\nI can’t reconcile in my mind the tension between Apple as the think different company, the pirates, the rebels, the company at the intersection of tech and liberal arts — and Apple the company that runs this legalistic, nitpicky, greedy, inhuman, happy-face Kafka App Store.\nAnd finally this\nIf I could distribute my iOS app outside of the App Store, I would. I’d switch in a heartbeat. Even though it’s free and money isn’t my issue. It would make my work as an app maker easier.\nOuch. Coming this guy, it means a lot.\nWWDC20 already has a special feel to it, even before the start\u0026hellip; not only because it is digital only, but also because I feel (many) developers are simpky fed up with the Apple way.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-21 20:14:12 -0500", "date": "8:14 p.m. on Jun 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/21/when-brent-simmons.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F21%2Fwhen-brent-simmons.html" }, { "id": 3902, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This week gonna be very busy with #WWDC20. Check out the carefully crafted newsletter \u0026ldquo;Apple\u0026rsquo;s Upcomings\u0026rdquo; and subscribe to stay in the loop. Summary sent every day @ 7:00PM. Thanks to Mailbrew. 👈🏻👌🏻🙏🏻 share.mailbrew.com/apple_obs\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-21 19:32:08 -0500", "date": "7:32 p.m. on Jun 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/21/this-week-gonna.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F21%2Fthis-week-gonna.html" }, { "id": 3903, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Oopsy, Apple! You Download the App and it Doesn\u0026rsquo;t Work\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-21 17:10:36 -0500", "date": "5:10 p.m. on Jun 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/21/oopsy-apple-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F21%2Foopsy-apple-you.html" }, { "id": 3904, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If Apple starts the transition from Intel to ARM with lowest volume Mac, I would have expected they do it starting with the Mac mini. Kuo confirms ARM at WWDC: 13.3-inch MacBook Pro and new 24-inch iMac will be the first ARM Macs, released as soon as Q4 - 9to5Mac\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-21 15:03:11 -0500", "date": "3:03 p.m. on Jun 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/21/if-apple-starts.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F21%2Fif-apple-starts.html" }, { "id": 3905, "type": "post", "title": "Apple's passive-aggressive attitude... #wwdc ", "text": "Apple\u0026rsquo;s ARM-based Macs (aggressive) transition plans\u0026hellip; these rumours seems to point to a much more aggressive transition than I was expecting\u0026hellip; Apple must know a few things that we don’t which could explain such an expedited transition. #wwdc2020 #wwdc www.macrumors.com/2020/06/2\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-21 11:40:04 -0500", "date": "11:40 p.m. on Jun 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/21/apples-passiveaggressive-attitude.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F21%2Fapples-passiveaggressive-attitude.html" }, { "id": 3906, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dear Apple AirPort Extreme users, watch this space for something that could change your tech life forever. numericcitizen.me\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-21 09:49:54 -0500", "date": "9:49 p.m. on Jun 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/21/dear-apple-airport.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F21%2Fdear-apple-airport.html" }, { "id": 3907, "type": "post", "title": "Hey, HEY \u0026 Apple - Settle down already! #apple #appstore #hey ", "text": "I’m not very optimistic on the outcome of the “HEY vs Apple” battle. Both, in their own ways, are arrogant, blinkered and calling out each other. Each will lose their face with a concession, even if it’s small. Big egos against each other here.\nMeanwhile, potential users on iOS will suffer from the lack of much needed app updates. This could be a deal breaker for many users like me. HEY is losing, Apple is losing, users are losing.\nWhat a mess. ☹️\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-20 08:45:02 -0500", "date": "8:45 p.m. on Jun 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/20/hey-hey-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F20%2Fhey-hey-apple.html" }, { "id": 3908, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The previous tweeted quote about Basecamp/HEY founders attitude was a clip from a newsletter that I have created and that I’m receiving each day. The quote is not from Mailbrew themselves but from Benedict Evans. I should have been more precise.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-20 08:28:44 -0500", "date": "8:28 p.m. on Jun 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/20/the-previous-tweeted.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F20%2Fthe-previous-tweeted.html" }, { "id": 3909, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "About HEY/Basecamp founders. Found on the Internet. 😳\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-20 08:08:57 -0500", "date": "8:08 p.m. on Jun 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/20/about-heybasecamp-founders.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F20%2Fabout-heybasecamp-founders.html" }, { "id": 3910, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "We didn’t get an iOS 13.6 beta this week\u0026hellip; final release next week?\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-20 08:02:54 -0500", "date": "8:02 p.m. on Jun 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/20/we-didnt-get.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F20%2Fwe-didnt-get.html" }, { "id": 3911, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Oops. You Download the App and it Doesn\u0026rsquo;t Work\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-19 18:15:20 -0500", "date": "6:15 p.m. on Jun 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/19/oops-you-download.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F19%2Foops-you-download.html" }, { "id": 3912, "type": "post", "title": "HEY, Micro.blog and web standards", "text": "It is fun to compare HEY and Micro.blog. They both depend on open web standards on the backend. HEY depends on SMTP while Micro.blog depends on HTTPS/HTML. HEY wants to re-invent the end-user experience while Micro.blog provides a pretty much generic end-user experience. By turning the end-user experience upside down, HEY doesn\u0026rsquo;t rely on IMAP. This is where some people turns their back to HEY (there may be other reasons, though).\nWhy Micro.blog. Why Hey.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-19 15:31:55 -0500", "date": "3:31 p.m. on Jun 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/19/hey-microblog-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F19%2Fhey-microblog-and.html" }, { "id": 3913, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Some (not many) interesting ideas for iOS 14 here. www.behance.net\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-19 08:20:17 -0500", "date": "8:20 p.m. on Jun 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/19/some-not-many.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F19%2Fsome-not-many.html" }, { "id": 3914, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Can’t wait for Apple to make iOS 13 look outdated next week. #wwdc #wwdc2020\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-19 07:44:52 -0500", "date": "7:44 p.m. on Jun 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/19/cant-wait-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F19%2Fcant-wait-for.html" }, { "id": 3915, "type": "post", "title": "HEY, what’s next? @DHH #apple #appstore", "text": "Now, as a potential customer of HEY!, what I want to hear or read from @DHH is: what’s next? How are they tackling the problem in order to comply? Will they comply? I want to support their new platform AND their cause, but from a user standpoint, they have to put out a plan and communicate it ASAP.\nMy 14 days trial will end on July 1st. I want to know before making a 99$ commitment.\nHey, you’re turn now.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-19 07:23:07 -0500", "date": "7:23 p.m. on Jun 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/19/hey-whats-next.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F19%2Fhey-whats-next.html" }, { "id": 3916, "type": "post", "title": "Hey Apple, you are in deep sh** #wwdc #wwdc2020 #appstore #iosdev ", "text": "As an Apple observer for more than four decades (yep!), I rarely seen such a public relation mess like the one this week, a week before WWDC. Apple messed up big time with the worst possible timing by alienating their developers. On top of that, their definition of apps that doesn’t work upon startup is already being smashed by so many counter-examples. This is a complete mess and I don’t know how Apple will get out of this shit. If goes far beyond the 30% commission.\n**This is not the Apple that I want to see, promote and embrace. **\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-19 07:02:38 -0500", "date": "7:02 p.m. on Jun 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/19/hey-apple-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F19%2Fhey-apple-you.html" }, { "id": 3917, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "‪“30% is way too high!!!”. Why? On what basis this is too high? What is “not too high”? And on what basis? Is it because you have no choice that you find it too high? #apple #apps #appstore #AppStoreAntitrust ‬\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-18 16:20:24 -0500", "date": "4:20 p.m. on Jun 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/18/is-way-too.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F18%2Fis-way-too.html" }, { "id": 3918, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Looks like Apple\u0026rsquo;s “free run\u0026quot; is about to come to an end. #apps #appstore #2020\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-18 15:53:40 -0500", "date": "3:53 p.m. on Jun 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/18/looks-like-apples.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F18%2Flooks-like-apples.html" }, { "id": 3919, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Woah. So. Nice. twitter.com/andrewapr\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-18 14:29:36 -0500", "date": "2:29 p.m. on Jun 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/18/woah-so-nice.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F18%2Fwoah-so-nice.html" }, { "id": 3920, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "First day with Hey. Love it so far. A bit disorienting at first. Old habits don\u0026rsquo;t die easily. Forwarded five email accounts. A few email source already screened out. A few clips created from Mailbrew\u0026rsquo;s Newsletter that I receive. A few tags too. Stay tuned for more comments. #hey\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-18 11:15:36 -0500", "date": "11:15 p.m. on Jun 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/18/first-day-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F18%2Ffirst-day-with.html" }, { "id": 3921, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Bravo. How many takes the time to “clean up” gathered online accounts? Privacy protection has many many facets. m.signalvnoise.com/celebrati\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-18 10:33:19 -0500", "date": "10:33 p.m. on Jun 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/18/bravo-how-many.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F18%2Fbravo-how-many.html" }, { "id": 3922, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thanks to a good samaritan, I’m now on HEY! So far so good. Strait forward onboarding. Very approahable in general. Enabled 2FA and email forwarding. Stay tuned for a more complete review sometime in the near future. 😎👨🏻‍💻\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-17 20:22:03 -0500", "date": "8:22 p.m. on Jun 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/17/thanks-to-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F17%2Fthanks-to-a.html" }, { "id": 3923, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Waiting for Hey.com invite is killing me. That is all.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-17 15:13:55 -0500", "date": "3:13 p.m. on Jun 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/17/waiting-for-heycom.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F17%2Fwaiting-for-heycom.html" }, { "id": 3924, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "THIS. twitter.com/dhh/statu\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-17 09:45:33 -0500", "date": "9:45 p.m. on Jun 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/17/thishttpstwittercomdhhstatuss.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F17%2Fthishttpstwittercomdhhstatuss.html" }, { "id": 3925, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When I explained to my 17 years old boy how Hey.com is trying to re-invent email service and how cool some features are, he was un-impressed. Young generations don’t use email at all. He has 14K emails in his inbox. 😳🤦🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-17 06:30:44 -0500", "date": "6:30 p.m. on Jun 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/17/when-i-explained.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F17%2Fwhen-i-explained.html" }, { "id": 3926, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I think hey.com could work wonderfully with Mailbrew\u0026hellip; If only I had an Invite for Hey\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-16 21:20:46 -0500", "date": "9:20 p.m. on Jun 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/16/i-think-heycom.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F16%2Fi-think-heycom.html" }, { "id": 3927, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If @Mailbrew can fix the newsletters, If people and the company behind Basecamp can fix emails with key.com, can they try to fix the Calender next? Fingers crossed.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-16 20:20:44 -0500", "date": "8:20 p.m. on Jun 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/16/if-people-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F16%2Fif-people-and.html" }, { "id": 3928, "type": "post", "title": "Hey, and Apple - must read thread by @dhh ", "text": "Here is a MUST READ thread by @dhh about Apple messing around the launch of Hey, a new and innovative email service. I wish Hey gets though this. I support their fight because Apple is fucking arrogant here\u0026hellip; I want Apple to open up\u0026hellip; or else. Please, share.\ntwitter.com/dhh/statu\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-16 17:01:25 -0500", "date": "5:01 p.m. on Jun 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/16/hey-and-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F16%2Fhey-and-apple.html" }, { "id": 3929, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Question of the day: how much of the Apple\u0026rsquo;s features scheduled for this fall has been influenced with COVID-19? In other words, did Apple decide to do some features shuffle in order to have more \u0026ldquo;work-from-home\u0026rdquo; friendly features? #wwdc #wwdc2020 #apple #iosdev\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-16 13:32:56 -0500", "date": "1:32 p.m. on Jun 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/16/question-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F16%2Fquestion-of-the.html" }, { "id": 3930, "type": "post", "title": "When Fantastical shows Apple what they should do with Calender", "text": "Fantastical latest update (v3.1) could be the thing that bring me back to it: integrated support for nearly all major video conferencing applications. As a big user of Webex, Teams, Zoom, this could be really useful for me. apps.apple.com/ca/app/fa\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-16 12:26:31 -0500", "date": "12:26 p.m. on Jun 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/16/when-fantastical-shows.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F16%2Fwhen-fantastical-shows.html" }, { "id": 3931, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Oh this is so cool\u0026hellip; for photography beginners who want to learn how to use Lightroom\u0026hellip; new in release 5.3 of Lightroom: sharing your edits to the world! lightroom.app.link\nThe following edit from the Lightroom community has been shared with you: Broken Glass and Butterflies\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-15 19:31:18 -0500", "date": "7:31 p.m. on Jun 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/15/oh-this-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F15%2Foh-this-is.html" }, { "id": 3932, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "There is a lot to like and love in the latest release of Adobe Lightroom for iPad. Played with is for a while and I like it a lot! #adobe #lightroom\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-15 19:23:36 -0500", "date": "7:23 p.m. on Jun 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/15/there-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F15%2Fthere-is-a.html" }, { "id": 3933, "type": "post", "title": "On Apple, education and healthcare ", "text": "At the very beginning of Apple, their leadership was young and they cared about education. Apple became popular in the edu market simply because they built their products around it. They succeeded.\nNow, Apple leadership is getting older and they now care about healthcare. The story repeats itself as they build many products and features around that. Will success follow? It certainly looks like it. How Apple becomes the operating system for health - Philip Elmer‑DeWitt\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-14 21:51:36 -0500", "date": "9:51 p.m. on Jun 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/14/on-apple-education.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F14%2Fon-apple-education.html" }, { "id": 3934, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Interesting predictions on what could happen in the Mac world in the coming years. I want to bookmark this article and come back to it following the WWDC conference. #macOS #apple bs_labs: Re-engine, Not Re-imagine\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-14 21:41:19 -0500", "date": "9:41 p.m. on Jun 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/14/interesting-predictions-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F14%2Finteresting-predictions-on.html" }, { "id": 3935, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Well, I’m glad you asked! twitter.com\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-14 18:08:35 -0500", "date": "6:08 p.m. on Jun 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/14/well-im-glad.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F14%2Fwell-im-glad.html" }, { "id": 3936, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m already in love with it. Alleged iPhone 12 Molds and CAD Images Show New iPad Pro-Style Design - MacRumors\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-14 15:55:59 -0500", "date": "3:55 p.m. on Jun 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/14/im-already-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F14%2Fim-already-in.html" }, { "id": 3937, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I do have a good feeling with Hey, a new email service based on my experiments with Basecamp. twitter.com\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-13 09:41:20 -0500", "date": "9:41 p.m. on Jun 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/13/i-do-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F13%2Fi-do-have.html" }, { "id": 3938, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I hope the redesign of the iMac will be ugly as hell so I don’t get tempted to replace my 2017 21.5 iMac. 😂😂😂 iMac Redesign 2020 - Chin or no Chin - MacRumors Forums\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-13 09:33:21 -0500", "date": "9:33 p.m. on Jun 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/13/i-hope-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F13%2Fi-hope-the.html" }, { "id": 3939, "type": "post", "title": "So, what’s up with Automattic and Tumblr? 🤨🤔🧐 ", "text": "Question of the day: what’s up with Automattic and Tumblr? 🤨🤔🧐 This question came up to my mind this morning as I reblogged a post from someone I follow on Wordpress. The reblog action was popularized by Tumblr if I’m not mistaken. Since Automattic bought Tumblr for a few pennies, I was just wondering.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-13 09:30:25 -0500", "date": "9:30 p.m. on Jun 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/13/so-whats-up.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F13%2Fso-whats-up.html" }, { "id": 3940, "type": "post", "title": "On software quality slowly going down... my take. ", "text": "Interesting piece (see link below) about software quality going down in a world where hardware quality is culminating to levels never seen before. Here are a few of my thoughts on this subject.\nFirst, I think the law of entropy is much more active in software than in hardware. We are actually witnessing the slow disorganization of software (both in features \u0026amp; code), hence the quality goes down with it.\nSecond, we are also witnessing the (good and bad) consequences of unsustainable complexity of a growing software ecosystem. The good is the added value of combining things together in order to make the whole greater than the sum of its part. Apple is good at this. The bad is the difficulty to make it all work.\nThird, take the Finder in macOS. How many revisions has been done on this essential piece of software and by how many generations and teams of developers? How one company make sure, from one generation to the other, the knowledge about how the Finder is coded doesn\u0026rsquo;t get diluted? I see this as an important challenge.\nFinally, the marriage of hardware with software, the complete integration of the stack that Apple is able to achieve because they nearly own all the pieces pose big challenges. There are so many combinaisons to test and optimize. I can see many bugs falling between the cracks.\nI\u0026rsquo;m not excusing Apple for the fact that their software quality is going down. They must slowdown and consolidate their software assets. In a maturing world, I would expect they do just that.\nBrilliant Hardware in the Valley of the Software Slump\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-13 08:29:26 -0500", "date": "8:29 p.m. on Jun 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/13/on-software-quality.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F13%2Fon-software-quality.html" }, { "id": 3941, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "You see, we are all fine. Jony Ive not working at Apple.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-12 12:15:39 -0500", "date": "12:15 p.m. on Jun 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/12/you-see-we.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F12%2Fyou-see-we.html" }, { "id": 3942, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thought of the day: thanks to COVID-19, this year’s online-only #WWDC conference will be the only one I can attend just for the fun of it and because I’m an Apple “fanboy”. You could say it’s like a dream coming true.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-12 07:07:59 -0500", "date": "7:07 p.m. on Jun 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/12/thought-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F12%2Fthought-of-the.html" }, { "id": 3943, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I feel deception about Apple announcing a live stream for the keynote. I hope the experience won’t feel too “weird”, “awkward” without anybody in the room. #wwdc #wwdc2020\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-11 16:14:30 -0500", "date": "4:14 p.m. on Jun 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/11/i-feel-deception.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F11%2Fi-feel-deception.html" }, { "id": 3944, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Been playing with this guy for 12 hours now… I’m\u0026hellip; ecstatic. Expect a full review soon. @ubnt twitter.com/ubnt/stat\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-11 06:06:48 -0500", "date": "6:06 p.m. on Jun 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/11/been-playing-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F11%2Fbeen-playing-with.html" }, { "id": 3945, "type": "post", "title": "BREAKING NEWS #2: Now iTunes U is being dismantled. ", "text": "iTunes U is the next victim after iBooks Author. I\u0026rsquo;m not sure Apple\u0026rsquo;s Classroom and Schoolwork are fully replacing iTunes U’s features set. Let\u0026rsquo;s wait and see.\nAlso, this change of direction from Apple creates a big opportunity for Google which is already well established.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-10 14:30:26 -0500", "date": "2:30 p.m. on Jun 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/10/breaking-news-now.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F10%2Fbreaking-news-now.html" }, { "id": 3946, "type": "post", "title": "BREAKING NEWS: iBooks Author is dead. ", "text": "Now it\u0026rsquo;s official, Apple iBooks Author is being retired. Upcoming update to Pages will be able to import Books from iBooks Author. It is a sad day for many content creators, I\u0026rsquo;m sure, me included.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-10 12:34:03 -0500", "date": "12:34 p.m. on Jun 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/10/breaking-news-ibooks.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F10%2Fbreaking-news-ibooks.html" }, { "id": 3947, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Great take by @gruber on rumoured ARM-based Macs. Still a lot of lingering questions though but this is exactly what makes this so interesting. Daring Fireball: On Apple Announcing the ARM Mac Transition at WWDC This Month\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-09 18:27:01 -0500", "date": "6:27 p.m. on Jun 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/09/great-take-by.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F09%2Fgreat-take-by.html" }, { "id": 3948, "type": "post", "title": "I changing my mind. Again. ", "text": "Well, maybe I’ll keep buying traditional computers after all. 🤓 This iMac mockup by MacRumors is a bit dumb, but we get the idea, right? This iMac would be the quintessential of desktop, all-in-one design Apple has ever made. New iMac With \u0026lsquo;iPad Pro Design Language\u0026rsquo; and Thin Bezels Reportedly Coming at WWDC - MacRumors\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-09 11:12:24 -0500", "date": "11:12 p.m. on Jun 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/09/i-changing-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F09%2Fi-changing-my.html" }, { "id": 3949, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As iPad is getting more and more powerful (in hardware and software), I wonder if I will ever buy a new Mac in the future. Many are probably in the same situation which is interesting in light of possible switch to ARM-based Mac by Apple.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-09 06:18:04 -0500", "date": "6:18 p.m. on Jun 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/09/as-ipad-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F09%2Fas-ipad-is.html" }, { "id": 3950, "type": "post", "title": "We have a go for ARM in Macs it seems ", "text": "Seems like ARM-based Macs is a go for this year’s WWDC. The news comes from a source that I don’t like (remember the “Big Hack Story”?) so I’m not sharing the link. In summary: a bit faster CPU, much faster on graphics, ML processing unit, low power hence cooler system, new design enabler. Long transition time expected. Unknown is how are third-parties will transition their apps. Will a DEV kit be made available.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-09 05:58:39 -0500", "date": "5:58 p.m. on Jun 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/09/we-have-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F09%2Fwe-have-a.html" }, { "id": 3951, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Great new webpage on Apple’s website: iPhone + Apple Watch, better together. Love the design and animations while you scroll down. Try it. iPhone + Apple Watch - Apple\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-09 05:48:46 -0500", "date": "5:48 p.m. on Jun 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/09/great-new-webpage.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F09%2Fgreat-new-webpage.html" }, { "id": 3952, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Remember iOS 7 redesign reveal in 2013? One of the most impactful change Apple introduced from which Apple is still trying to recover from. #wwdc #apple #iosdev twitter.com/marcoarme\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-08 11:21:48 -0500", "date": "11:21 p.m. on Jun 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/08/remember-ios-redesign.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F08%2Fremember-ios-redesign.html" }, { "id": 3953, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today, I read on a website that Polarr is a good alternative to Snapseed. Well, truth to be told: it is far from being the case. Polarr is not free. Very hard to replace special effects like Grunge. #photography #photoapps #applications\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-07 12:25:36 -0500", "date": "12:25 p.m. on Jun 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/07/today-i-read.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F07%2Ftoday-i-read.html" }, { "id": 3954, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Does American police forces capable of not falling into extremes? They beat people for no reasons or they dance with people to get sympathy back. Do your fucking job of protecting people.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-06 17:07:03 -0500", "date": "5:07 p.m. on Jun 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/06/does-american-police.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F06%2Fdoes-american-police.html" }, { "id": 3955, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "By refusing to build an iPad version of their app, Instagram makes a big mistake. I think serious content creators would love to use bigger devices. But Facebook just doesn’t care.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-06 16:49:00 -0500", "date": "4:49 p.m. on Jun 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/06/by-refusing-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F06%2Fby-refusing-to.html" }, { "id": 3956, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It takes time to build a meaningful presence on Instagram. Https://www.instagram.com/theperfectimperfctions\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-06 16:39:55 -0500", "date": "4:39 p.m. on Jun 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/06/it-takes-time.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F06%2Fit-takes-time.html" }, { "id": 3957, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Interesting to see Apple opening up a bit more beyond Swift on GitHub. **Password Manager Resources. ** #apple #iosdev #developers github.com/apple/pas\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-05 14:16:41 -0500", "date": "2:16 p.m. on Jun 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/05/interesting-to-see.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F05%2Finteresting-to-see.html" }, { "id": 3958, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is the Apple that I love. Thanks, Mr @Tim_Cook. www.apple.com/speaking-\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-04 10:00:33 -0500", "date": "10:00 p.m. on Jun 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/04/this-is-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F04%2Fthis-is-the.html" }, { "id": 3959, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In a world full of subscriptions, this app not only looks great but could prove to be useful. Outgoings apps.apple.com\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-03 06:15:00 -0500", "date": "6:15 p.m. on Jun 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/03/in-a-world.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F03%2Fin-a-world.html" }, { "id": 3960, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m not in the market for bookmarking apps but this one certainly looks really nice, well designed and focused. Readit apps.apple.com\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-03 06:09:45 -0500", "date": "6:09 p.m. on Jun 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/03/im-not-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F03%2Fim-not-in.html" }, { "id": 3961, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So much work in front of all of us. m.signalvnoise.com\nOn current events\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-03 06:02:32 -0500", "date": "6:02 p.m. on Jun 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/03/so-much-work.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F03%2Fso-much-work.html" }, { "id": 3962, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On smartphones sales numbers declining because of COVID-19: everyone were hit. Apple much less than others. #apple #iphone #sales\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-02 06:22:56 -0500", "date": "6:22 p.m. on Jun 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/02/on-smartphones-sales.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F02%2Fon-smartphones-sales.html" }, { "id": 3963, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Lives matter. Period.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-01 20:28:44 -0500", "date": "8:28 p.m. on Jun 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/01/lives-matter-period.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F01%2Flives-matter-period.html" }, { "id": 3964, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This guy can read? Really? Who knew.\ntwitter.com/mboorstei\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-01 20:27:08 -0500", "date": "8:27 p.m. on Jun 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/01/this-guy-can.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F01%2Fthis-guy-can.html" }, { "id": 3965, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m not in the market for a new to do manager but man this one looks good! Much cleaner and delightful design than Trello. 😮😍\ntwitter.com/thetaskap\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-01 16:40:04 -0500", "date": "4:40 p.m. on Jun 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/01/im-not-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F01%2Fim-not-in.html" }, { "id": 3966, "type": "post", "title": "Expectations Too High for #WWDC? Probably... ", "text": "In my recently published wish list for WWDC 2020, I think I under-stated how anxious I am about the \u0026ldquo;virtual keynote\u0026rdquo;.\nI wish for something closer to a movie than a keynote. Not too much on the info-pub side, something entertaining while being informative and enticing. I want to see Tim Cook at the main character, Craig Federighi in a supporting role. Don\u0026rsquo;t be too “general public”, be geeky as hell. Impress me, delight me. Show me the future, now!\nMy expectations are (too?) high for WWDC 2020. I know.\n", "dateiso": "2020-06-01 14:52:07 -0500", "date": "2:52 p.m. on Jun 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/06/01/expectations-too-high.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F06%2F01%2Fexpectations-too-high.html" }, { "id": 3967, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I wish we could send messages to Siri from within iMessage. “What is the weather for tomorrow?”. Wouldn\u0026rsquo;t it be cool?\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-30 19:44:03 -0500", "date": "7:44 p.m. on May 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/30/i-wish-we.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F30%2Fi-wish-we.html" }, { "id": 3968, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This looks like summer to me.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-30 16:51:07 -0500", "date": "4:51 p.m. on May 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/30/this-looks-like.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F30%2Fthis-looks-like.html" }, { "id": 3969, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Ok, guys, iOS 13.5 stability and quality is a downgrade compared to 13.4 for me. For the second time this week, after waking up, my iPhone is hot and and battery charging is capped at 80%. I have to reset my iPhone to fix the issue. Not good. #ios135 #applebugs #apple\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-30 12:36:25 -0500", "date": "12:36 p.m. on May 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/30/ok-guys-ios.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F30%2Fok-guys-ios.html" }, { "id": 3970, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The sad state of affairs with iTunes U and iBooks Author. Where is Apple? That is sad to see Apple leave these critical markets to Google. Making the Grade: COVID-19 allowed Google Classroom to shine, while iTunes U hasn\u0026rsquo;t been updated in years - 9to5Mac\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-30 08:26:36 -0500", "date": "8:26 p.m. on May 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/30/the-sad-state.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F30%2Fthe-sad-state.html" }, { "id": 3971, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Plot. Plan. Strategize. Organize. Mobilize. #georgesfloyd\nI like that.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-30 07:33:20 -0500", "date": "7:33 p.m. on May 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/30/plot-plan-strategize.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F30%2Fplot-plan-strategize.html" }, { "id": 3972, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Ubiquiti Unifi Dream Machine it will be. This is not an ad. #notgoogle #notamazon #fuckmasssurveillance\ntwitter.com/ubnt/stat\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-29 18:52:37 -0500", "date": "6:52 p.m. on May 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/29/ubiquiti-unifi-dream.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F29%2Fubiquiti-unifi-dream.html" }, { "id": 3973, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve always been fascinated by the US society as far back as I can remember. And as far as I can remember, my relationship has always been of « love \u0026amp; hate » type. These days, it is more on the « hate » side, sadly.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-29 17:52:37 -0500", "date": "5:52 p.m. on May 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/29/ive-always-been.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F29%2Five-always-been.html" }, { "id": 3974, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Is it me of Trump is getting worse and worse by the day\u0026hellip; trying to bring the country in fire with him when he will lose this coming November\u0026hellip;?\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-29 07:20:03 -0500", "date": "7:20 p.m. on May 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/29/is-it-me.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F29%2Fis-it-me.html" }, { "id": 3975, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ll take the black one. Thank you. More Photos and Video of Apple\u0026rsquo;s Redesigned Leather Loop Watch Band Surface - MacRumors\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-28 12:55:18 -0500", "date": "12:55 p.m. on May 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/28/ill-take-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F28%2Fill-take-the.html" }, { "id": 3976, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Please, Apple, do something about this in iOS 14. Thank you. #ipados #ios #apple ", "dateiso": "2020-05-28 12:04:25 -0500", "date": "12:04 p.m. on May 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/28/please-apple-do.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F28%2Fplease-apple-do.html" }, { "id": 3977, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I see too way many springboard reboots or even iPad reboots under iPadOS 13.4 and 13.5. What is going on here, Apple?\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-28 06:37:11 -0500", "date": "6:37 p.m. on May 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/28/i-see-too.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F28%2Fi-see-too.html" }, { "id": 3978, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "While working within Adobe Photoshop for iPad. 😩😳Lost part of my work session. After restarting the app. Had to remove it from iPad and re-install. iPad has more than 170 GB of free space. 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-28 06:31:55 -0500", "date": "6:31 p.m. on May 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/28/while-working-within.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F28%2Fwhile-working-within.html" }, { "id": 3979, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m trying Photoshop for iPad to see how it could replace Snapseed. Not an easy thing to do. To achieve comparable results It would require much more work. ☹️\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-27 20:17:52 -0500", "date": "8:17 p.m. on May 27, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/27/im-trying-photoshop.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F27%2Fim-trying-photoshop.html" }, { "id": 3980, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How is login with Fido, an Apple-backed standard complementing or competing against Sign in with Apple? Not clear to me. loginwithfido.com\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-27 15:57:38 -0500", "date": "3:57 p.m. on May 27, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/27/how-is-login.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F27%2Fhow-is-login.html" }, { "id": 3981, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently participating in VMware Empower virtual conference. Wondering if this format is any indication of what Apple will use for its WWDC conference coming in June. Currently listening to the keynote from CEO, seems being at home.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-27 10:12:21 -0500", "date": "10:12 p.m. on May 27, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/27/currently-participating-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F27%2Fcurrently-participating-in.html" }, { "id": 3982, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Poor little boy\u0026hellip; [Update: Trump responds] Twitter puts a fake news tag on Trump tweets for the first time - 9to5Mac\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-27 07:32:14 -0500", "date": "7:32 p.m. on May 27, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/27/poor-little-boy.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F27%2Fpoor-little-boy.html" }, { "id": 3983, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Trying to learn to use Photoshop for iPad. Even a simplified version of this venerable app is hard to master. 😞\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-26 19:13:58 -0500", "date": "7:13 p.m. on May 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/26/trying-to-learn.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F26%2Ftrying-to-learn.html" }, { "id": 3984, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "iOS widgets concept\u0026hellip; Who is digging? I\u0026rsquo;m not sure. dribbble.com/shots/115\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-26 12:46:01 -0500", "date": "12:46 p.m. on May 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/26/ios-widgets-concept.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F26%2Fios-widgets-concept.html" }, { "id": 3985, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If you care about privacy protection, this is suicidal. Plain and simple. And unethical. www.macrumors.com\nJailbreak Tool \u0026lsquo;unc0ver\u0026rsquo; 5.0 Released with iOS 13.5 Compatibility\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-25 21:08:19 -0500", "date": "9:08 p.m. on May 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/25/if-you-care.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F25%2Fif-you-care.html" }, { "id": 3986, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Really? Good news. Just skip USB-C ang go wireless only! This is my next. 👀Rumor: \u0026lsquo;iPhone 12\u0026rsquo; to integrate Lightning instead of USB-C, port-less iPhone coming in 2021 - Appleinsider\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-25 19:23:50 -0500", "date": "7:23 p.m. on May 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/25/really-good-news.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F25%2Freally-good-news.html" }, { "id": 3987, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Is this a movie? twitter.com/SpaceX/st\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-25 16:37:52 -0500", "date": "4:37 p.m. on May 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/25/is-this-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F25%2Fis-this-a.html" }, { "id": 3988, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Oh. my. god. 😍 Hyperdeck.io twitter.com/terhechte\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-25 16:31:27 -0500", "date": "4:31 p.m. on May 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/25/oh-my-god.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F25%2Foh-my-god.html" }, { "id": 3989, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ve been working on my own version of a wish list for WWDC\u0026hellip; there is so many things yet to be done by Apple in so many spheres in their ecosystem\u0026hellip;\nWhat do you want the most from Apple this year from a software standpoint? #wwdc #wwdc2020 #apple\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-25 11:24:47 -0500", "date": "11:24 p.m. on May 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/25/ive-been-working.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F25%2Five-been-working.html" }, { "id": 3990, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today, I saw someone enter a phone booth to make a phone call. 😳\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-24 15:39:36 -0500", "date": "3:39 p.m. on May 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/24/today-i-saw.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F24%2Ftoday-i-saw.html" }, { "id": 3991, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In case you missed it: it’s still a good idea to read my review of Universe, a website creation service. The more I use it, the more I love it! #blogger #blog #photography numericcitizen.me\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-24 13:33:40 -0500", "date": "1:33 p.m. on May 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/24/in-case-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F24%2Fin-case-you.html" }, { "id": 3992, "type": "post", "title": "Absurdities ", "text": "This is the absurdities of our economic system. This coronavirus crisis is going to cause a big reset. Daring Fireball: Hertz Files for Bankruptcy, Somehow Accumulated $17 Billion in Debt\nHow in the world does it make sense for a company in a low-margin, long-established business with financials like this to rack up $17 billion in debt? When times were good this amount of debt would consume decades of Hertz’s profits. This is bananas.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-24 12:58:03 -0500", "date": "12:58 p.m. on May 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/24/absurdities.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F24%2Fabsurdities.html" }, { "id": 3993, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My gosh: Instagram is such a massive mess in UX/UI. It is a great story on how numeric entropy took over the whole space. The fact that it has such a wide spread user base is baffling.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-24 09:45:00 -0500", "date": "9:45 p.m. on May 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/24/my-gosh-instagram.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F24%2Fmy-gosh-instagram.html" }, { "id": 3994, "type": "post", "title": "Replacing an aging AirPort Extreme with... ", "text": "Slowly looking for a replacement for my aging AirPort Extreme router. For me, the physical look is as important as well as the application to manage it. Ubiquity looks really nice, very Apple’ish. App review not too bad but not exceptional either. Still confused for what to do.\nOne thing for sure: not going the Google way or the Amazon (eero) way.\nIt’s so sad that Apple exited this market\u0026hellip; 😞 only to enter the « smart speaker »\u0026hellip; 🤦🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-23 15:49:40 -0500", "date": "3:49 p.m. on May 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/23/replacing-an-aging.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F23%2Freplacing-an-aging.html" }, { "id": 3995, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I rarely post pictures here. Taking a quick break from bike ride. Great weather; dry, sunchine, windy. Loving every seconds of it. 🚲😷\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-23 13:56:52 -0500", "date": "1:56 p.m. on May 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/23/i-rarely-post.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F23%2Fi-rarely-post.html" }, { "id": 3996, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "While Apple is focusing on mobile, they leave a lot critical things beind\u0026hellip; education market is the other one. Sad.\ntwitter.com/steipete/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-23 10:24:57 -0500", "date": "10:24 p.m. on May 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/23/while-apple-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F23%2Fwhile-apple-is.html" }, { "id": 3997, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Exposure notifications are not yet available here in Canada. Our Prime Minister did mention yesterday the government is looking into recommending specific apps based on this kind of technology. Fingers crossed 🤞🏻\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-23 10:21:58 -0500", "date": "10:21 p.m. on May 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/23/exposure-notifications-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F23%2Fexposure-notifications-are.html" }, { "id": 3998, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Time to start writing my own wish list for WWDC2020. #wwdc2020 #wwdc #apple\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-23 09:14:03 -0500", "date": "9:14 p.m. on May 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/23/time-to-start.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F23%2Ftime-to-start.html" }, { "id": 3999, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Each time I’m looking at a video comparison of Lightroom against Capture One, I’m wondering if it would be a good idea to switch\u0026hellip; but I do like many of the other apps that comes with the Adobe Photography plan like Spark, Adobe Portfolio. 🤨 #photography #adobe\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-23 08:33:40 -0500", "date": "8:33 p.m. on May 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/23/each-time-im.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F23%2Feach-time-im.html" }, { "id": 4000, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Questions regarding RSS feeds analytics. How do you track how many people are subscribing to your RSS feeds (hosted on WordPress)? #blogger #bloggerlife\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-22 15:48:49 -0500", "date": "3:48 p.m. on May 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/22/questions-regarding-rss.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F22%2Fquestions-regarding-rss.html" }, { "id": 4001, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Very cool ad, indeed. #apple #airpods #advertising youtu.be/yyNtm0LZi\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-22 15:10:07 -0500", "date": "3:10 p.m. on May 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/22/very-cool-ad.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F22%2Fvery-cool-ad.html" }, { "id": 4002, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Ok, this one is for geeky people. So funny. twitter.com/scottreuw\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-22 15:06:43 -0500", "date": "3:06 p.m. on May 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/22/ok-this-one.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F22%2Fok-this-one.html" }, { "id": 4003, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Friendly reminder of my Mailbrew public profile. Feel free to subscribe to my newsletter. app.mailbrew.com/apple_obs\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-22 10:05:09 -0500", "date": "10:05 p.m. on May 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/22/friendly-reminder-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F22%2Ffriendly-reminder-of.html" }, { "id": 4004, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I can believe we will have to endure another year of stupid, useless, out of proportion rumours about Apple’s Glasses. 🤦🏻‍♂️ #apple #glasses #rumours #stopitalready\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-21 19:54:14 -0500", "date": "7:54 p.m. on May 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/21/i-can-believe.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F21%2Fi-can-believe.html" }, { "id": 4005, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Is it me of every single Google apps look like a web page? www.macrumors.com/2020/05/2\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-21 09:42:10 -0500", "date": "9:42 p.m. on May 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/21/is-it-me.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F21%2Fis-it-me.html" }, { "id": 4006, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Woah, great web design here. If only Apple Card was available in Canada. 🙏🏻 Apple Card - Apple\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-20 20:57:49 -0500", "date": "8:57 p.m. on May 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/20/woah-great-web.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F20%2Fwoah-great-web.html" }, { "id": 4007, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Is 500px trying to be more like Viewbug or GuruShots? It surely looks like it. I’m not sure I like it. 🤔🧐🤨 #photography #photographer\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-20 17:53:10 -0500", "date": "5:53 p.m. on May 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/20/is-px-trying.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F20%2Fis-px-trying.html" }, { "id": 4008, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Microsoft Office Fluid looks nice and refreshing. www.theverge.com/2020/5/19\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-20 06:02:51 -0500", "date": "6:02 p.m. on May 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/20/microsoft-office-fluid.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F20%2Fmicrosoft-office-fluid.html" }, { "id": 4009, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Oh, another nice update. Stay tuned on why.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-19 20:12:55 -0500", "date": "8:12 p.m. on May 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/19/oh-another-nice.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F19%2Foh-another-nice.html" }, { "id": 4010, "type": "post", "title": "Notion is now (mostly) free! ", "text": "Oh, one interesting update today on the App Store: Notion now free and a new personal pro tier introduced on which I’ll be upgraded. Cool. Many other new things included in this update, like 2x speed increase for app launch. 👀\nMy review of Notion here 👉🏻👉🏻 numericcitizen.me/2020/04/1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-19 19:00:07 -0500", "date": "7:00 p.m. on May 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/19/notion-is-now.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F19%2Fnotion-is-now.html" }, { "id": 4011, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When leakers gain at the expense and lost of others\u0026hellip;. and presents this as being as proud as those teams working their life on this\u0026hellip; I just don’t support this. www.macrumors.com\n\u0026lsquo;Apple Glass\u0026rsquo; Rumored to Start at $499, Support Prescription Lenses, and More\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-19 16:45:41 -0500", "date": "4:45 p.m. on May 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/19/when-leakers-gain.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F19%2Fwhen-leakers-gain.html" }, { "id": 4012, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Can\u0026rsquo;t wait for iOS 13.5. I love these .X updates. Wishing for a few bug fixes on iPadOS related to keyboard handling and share sheet shadow frames\u0026hellip; #ios135 #apple\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-18 17:52:15 -0500", "date": "5:52 p.m. on May 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/18/cant-wait-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F18%2Fcant-wait-for.html" }, { "id": 4013, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If rumored iPhone 12 Pro specs are real, this year could mark a change for me: upgrading even after upgrading to 11 Pro last year instead of skipping a few generations. #apple #iphone12pro\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-18 14:06:06 -0500", "date": "2:06 p.m. on May 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/18/if-rumored-iphone.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F18%2Fif-rumored-iphone.html" }, { "id": 4014, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Interesting poll on 9to5Mac on the Magic Keyboard draining the iPad Pro battery. I\u0026rsquo;m one of those who think it makes a difference, faster battery draining.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-18 08:18:35 -0500", "date": "8:18 p.m. on May 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/18/interesting-poll-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F18%2Finteresting-poll-on.html" }, { "id": 4015, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Happy to learn that my last article got selected for distribution on Medium. Great way to get compensated for my work. 😊😎\nlink.medium.com/kZjWOeSmz\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-17 14:49:22 -0500", "date": "2:49 p.m. on May 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/17/happy-to-learn.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F17%2Fhappy-to-learn.html" }, { "id": 4016, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Don’t know why but my websites trafic is way down today, is everybody outside taking advantage of eased confinement rules all around the world? 🤔🧐🤨🤷🏻‍♂️\nWhatever the reason, stay safe.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-17 11:47:30 -0500", "date": "11:47 p.m. on May 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/17/dont-know-why.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F17%2Fdont-know-why.html" }, { "id": 4017, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Ethical question: I produce a weekly newsletter with my content powered by Mailchimp. I want to move to Mailbrew and so informed my subscribers to make the switch. But my subscribers are not updating. Is it ok to make the switch for them?\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-17 08:14:45 -0500", "date": "8:14 p.m. on May 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/17/ethical-question-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F17%2Fethical-question-i.html" }, { "id": 4018, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m testing something really intriguing, different, unexpected. Built #onuniverse. the-perfect-imperfections-series.onuniverse.com\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-17 07:02:42 -0500", "date": "7:02 p.m. on May 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/17/im-testing-something.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F17%2Fim-testing-something.html" }, { "id": 4019, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In case you didn’t know, I’m on Telegram: t.me/numericci\u0026hellip; Get all the latest updates from my main blog.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-16 21:11:06 -0500", "date": "9:11 p.m. on May 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/16/in-case-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F16%2Fin-case-you.html" }, { "id": 4020, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Can’t wait to try, oops, to test this! We Want YOU to Test Ulysses 20 - Ulysses Blog\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-16 20:13:39 -0500", "date": "8:13 p.m. on May 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/16/cant-wait-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F16%2Fcant-wait-to.html" }, { "id": 4021, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Pretty old one but I still love it.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-16 17:45:21 -0500", "date": "5:45 p.m. on May 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/16/pretty-old-one.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F16%2Fpretty-old-one.html" }, { "id": 4022, "type": "post", "title": "Steve Jobs on building tech people want to buy", "text": "Still true in 2020. twitter.com\nJon Erlichman (@JonErlichman) Tweeted: Steve Jobs in 2006 on why it’s tough to make tech products people want:\n“A lot of companies do things because it’s technically possible. But in the end, nobody cares. Nobody wants to buy them.” t.co/BAScyzcaR\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-16 17:42:51 -0500", "date": "5:42 p.m. on May 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/16/steve-jobs-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F16%2Fsteve-jobs-on.html" }, { "id": 4023, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "iMessage for Business. FaceTime for Business. Full integration with the calender, iMessage and Mail. Welcome to the COVID19 world, Apple.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-16 15:53:39 -0500", "date": "3:53 p.m. on May 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/16/imessage-for-business.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F16%2Fimessage-for-business.html" }, { "id": 4024, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "When publishing a new article on Medium, the wait to see if it will be selected for wider distribution is unbearable. It feels like Russian roulette. ", "dateiso": "2020-05-16 14:35:03 -0500", "date": "2:35 p.m. on May 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/16/when-publishing-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F16%2Fwhen-publishing-a.html" }, { "id": 4025, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "That is all.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-15 21:23:40 -0500", "date": "9:23 p.m. on May 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/15/that-is-all.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F15%2Fthat-is-all.html" }, { "id": 4026, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Seeing Facebook buying Giphy in order to integrate it into Instagram says a lot about how downhill Instagram is going. So sad. I'm still in search of the good old days of this platform but on other services.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-15 11:15:54 -0500", "date": "11:15 p.m. on May 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/15/seeing-facebook-buying.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F15%2Fseeing-facebook-buying.html" }, { "id": 4027, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Went on the AppleInsider this morning. First time I see the updated design. I'm not sure I like the result. Why? Too much ads. RSS feed to the rescue.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-15 08:11:55 -0500", "date": "8:11 p.m. on May 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/15/went-on-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F15%2Fwent-on-the.html" }, { "id": 4028, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today, I’m putting the final touches to something very special. I’m very happy with the end results. I can’t wait to share it with the world. Warning: not exactly the most happy piece of writing but something offering some relief in the current crisis. Stay tuned.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-15 06:51:12 -0500", "date": "6:51 p.m. on May 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/15/today-im-putting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F15%2Ftoday-im-putting.html" }, { "id": 4029, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Seeing people go is always sad. Micro.blog for me is helping me strike a balance between lightweight blogging and more heavy duty stuff on my main blog with WordPress. Unmooring from Micro.blog – Alan Ralph\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-15 06:45:28 -0500", "date": "6:45 p.m. on May 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/15/seeing-people-go.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F15%2Fseeing-people-go.html" }, { "id": 4030, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Woah, 1Password you are being needy! Always freaky. ", "dateiso": "2020-05-14 14:03:24 -0500", "date": "2:03 p.m. on May 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/14/woah-password-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F14%2Fwoah-password-you.html" }, { "id": 4031, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A rare photo of Steve Jobs. Still missing him. [twitter.com/shellen/s...]\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-14 14:00:33 -0500", "date": "2:00 p.m. on May 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/14/a-rare-photo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F14%2Fa-rare-photo.html" }, { "id": 4032, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I would love to see @markgurman response to [@gruber](https://micro.blog/gruber) comments. But, I don’t really count on it because it never happens. Somehow, I think next year’s products are more impacted than this year. [daringfireball.net]\n\u003e Bloomberg Publishes Clickbait in Break From Rivals\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-14 07:01:16 -0500", "date": "7:01 p.m. on May 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/14/i-would-love.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F14%2Fi-would-love.html" }, { "id": 4033, "type": "post", "title": "Apple thinks we are eternal", "text": "Death is an everyday subject these days. How is Apple helping people in dealing with people's death? For example, what happens to Apple's Family Sharing if the family organizer passed away? If you use iTunes Family Sharing, special attention must be paid to the « Family Organizer » role. If he or she dies, there is no way to give this role to another member of the iTunes Family. Have you ever wondered what happens if you want to close an Apple ID account of a diseased person? What if you don't even know how to access it?\nSearching for the word « death » on Apple’s support site doesn’t bring any information related to tackling the death of someone. Apple's support to help users deal with death is abysmal.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-14 06:05:09 -0500", "date": "6:05 p.m. on May 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/14/apple-thinks-we.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F14%2Fapple-thinks-we.html" }, { "id": 4034, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How long before 8GB or more of memory in iPad Pro? #apple #ipadpro\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-13 17:18:04 -0500", "date": "5:18 p.m. on May 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/13/how-long-before.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F13%2Fhow-long-before.html" }, { "id": 4035, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Interesting comparison of the current iPhone notch and the rumoured iPhone 12’s. Wonder how Apple will use the space. [twitter.com]\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-13 06:58:13 -0500", "date": "6:58 p.m. on May 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/13/interesting-comparison-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F13%2Finteresting-comparison-of.html" }, { "id": 4036, "type": "post", "title": "iPhone SE performance and Android... really?", "text": "Should we care? I mean, general performance of a smartphone is crucial for a great user experience but... compared to Android, really? for the vast majority of people, do they care, besides the entry price? [Daring Fireball: Let’s Check In on the State of iPhone and Android CPU Performance]\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-12 19:06:49 -0500", "date": "7:06 p.m. on May 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/12/iphone-se-performance.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F12%2Fiphone-se-performance.html" }, { "id": 4037, "type": "post", "title": "Coronavirus and Apple’s products", "text": "One of the thing that will get my attention about Apple in the coming months and years: how the coronavirus will impact features and designs of Apple’s products, both in hardware and software.\nThe obvious example is the FaceTime camera on Mac computers. The second obvious example is FaceTime application in general, not to compete against Zoom or others, but to make it more useful and bringing more value to human visual communications.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-12 07:17:35 -0500", "date": "7:17 p.m. on May 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/12/coronavirus-and-apples.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F12%2Fcoronavirus-and-apples.html" }, { "id": 4038, "type": "post", "title": "Feeling nostalgic today", "text": "Very telling chart of past disruptions in the photography world. I don't want to look too nostalgic but seeing how fast the smartphone is taking over the photography world is a bit sad. ", "dateiso": "2020-05-12 06:08:28 -0500", "date": "6:08 p.m. on May 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/12/feeling-nostalgic-today.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F12%2Ffeeling-nostalgic-today.html" }, { "id": 4039, "type": "post", "title": "Something is different about Unsplash", "text": "There is something different about my beloved photo sharing service, Unsplash. I'm not sure if it's for the better. It's hard for me to put a finger on it but there is something different. ", "dateiso": "2020-05-11 18:18:28 -0500", "date": "6:18 p.m. on May 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/11/something-is-different.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F11%2Fsomething-is-different.html" }, { "id": 4040, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m kind of tired of all this. #covid19 #coronavirus\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-10 19:13:33 -0500", "date": "7:13 p.m. on May 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/10/im-kind-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F10%2Fim-kind-of.html" }, { "id": 4041, "type": "post", "title": "COVID-19 by the Numbers", "text": "Great post. My sister is a nurse working with seniors. She got COVID-19. She ok now. But she knows how bad the situation is. We're not done yet, ladies and gentlemen. COVID-19 by the Numbers\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-10 11:17:15 -0500", "date": "11:17 p.m. on May 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/10/covid-by-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F10%2Fcovid-by-the.html" }, { "id": 4042, "type": "post", "title": "Magic Keyboard: Apple’s Laptop Conversion Kit – His Dork Materials", "text": "The Magic Keyboard makes us want more from iPadOS: real and complete external monitor support. Magic Keyboard: Apple’s Laptop Conversion Kit – His Dork Materials:\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-10 11:11:21 -0500", "date": "11:11 p.m. on May 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/10/magic-keyboard-apples.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F10%2Fmagic-keyboard-apples.html" }, { "id": 4043, "type": "post", "title": "Finally - Subscribed to 1Password", "text": "After much hesitation, I finally subscribed to 1Password personal plan. I've been a long time user of this password manager. I don't mind having to subscribe to this service. Security is paramount these days.\nThis decision is part of a personal project that I'm working on. A long blog post will follow in the coming weeks.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-10 07:29:44 -0500", "date": "7:29 p.m. on May 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/10/finally-subscribed-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F10%2Ffinally-subscribed-to.html" }, { "id": 4044, "type": "post", "title": "Stopping mass surveillance", "text": "I’ve been working from home since March, 13th. My employer is fully supporting remote work by monitoring the output of my work, not the input. Stop mass surveillance by reporting when you disagree with the policy. If no change, just quit.\nEmployee-surveillance software is not welcome to integrate with Basecamp m.signalvnoise.com/employee-\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-09 17:43:14 -0500", "date": "5:43 p.m. on May 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/09/stopping-mass-surveillance.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F09%2Fstopping-mass-surveillance.html" }, { "id": 4045, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Never being satisfied with the look of something. I just switched to a new visual theme on my Micro.blog. I think it’s better now. Your thoughts?\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-09 16:45:08 -0500", "date": "4:45 p.m. on May 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/09/never-being-satisfied.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F09%2Fnever-being-satisfied.html" }, { "id": 4046, "type": "post", "title": "Noto - A Wonderful app", "text": "Please, help me find a use case for this wonderfully designed note taking application. As an avid user of Notion, I don't see much use for Noto, but is looks so great! Noto · Noto:\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-09 15:09:45 -0500", "date": "3:09 p.m. on May 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/09/noto-a-wonderful.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F09%2Fnoto-a-wonderful.html" }, { "id": 4047, "type": "post", "title": "On the lack of Flash support on the iPhone", "text": "I remember arguing with a guy on supporting flash challenges like transposing « hovering » events with the mouse pointer. How on earth someone could « hover » with their fingers on the screen for content to change accordingly? That wasn’t possible obviously.\nNow, look at the iPad with the just introduced pointer support. It’s exactly that, hovering on buttons make the pointer morph into the button’s shape. Fascinating.\nVintage 2007 Claim Chowder: Josh Quittner Returned His iPhone daringfireball.net/linked/20\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-09 09:45:38 -0500", "date": "9:45 p.m. on May 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/09/on-the-lack.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F09%2Fon-the-lack.html" }, { "id": 4048, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Probably the best utility for iOS.\nCheck this system activity and data monitor app for iOS! apps.apple.com/app/id970\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-09 07:34:08 -0500", "date": "7:34 p.m. on May 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/09/probably-the-best.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F09%2Fprobably-the-best.html" }, { "id": 4049, "type": "post", "title": "Apple Books for Authors - what about iBooks Author?", "text": "You know what I'd like to see from Apple? An update to their aging iBooks Author application on macOS. This is what I'd like to see. Last update was in 2018.... come on. Apple Books for Authors:\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-08 16:16:08 -0500", "date": "4:16 p.m. on May 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/08/apple-books-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F08%2Fapple-books-for.html" }, { "id": 4050, "type": "post", "title": "New: Apple Store Online", "text": "One of the thing that I like about Apple: web design. Clean. Simple. This store front is new and only in the US, for now. Apple Store Online - Apple\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-08 06:56:57 -0500", "date": "6:56 p.m. on May 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/08/new-apple-store.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F08%2Fnew-apple-store.html" }, { "id": 4051, "type": "post", "title": "Day #4 of my Ghost experiment", "text": "Ghost.org has been under attack in the last few days, prompting them to force a password reset. It leaves a sour taste. I'm currently writing down my thoughts and findings. Expect a blog post in the coming days. Spoiler alert: it's not good.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-08 06:16:56 -0500", "date": "6:16 p.m. on May 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/08/day-of-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F08%2Fday-of-my.html" }, { "id": 4052, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A 299$ piece of art.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-07 19:30:29 -0500", "date": "7:30 p.m. on May 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/07/a-piece-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F07%2Fa-piece-of.html" }, { "id": 4053, "type": "post", "title": "'X-ray teardown' of iPad Pro Magic Keyboard illustrates complex engineering", "text": "iPad Pro Magic Keyboard: This piece of equipment, simple on the outside, a marvel of engineering on the inside. So cool. 'X-ray teardown' of iPad Pro Magic Keyboard illustrates complex engineering:\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-07 15:08:07 -0500", "date": "3:08 p.m. on May 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/07/xray-teardown-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F07%2Fxray-teardown-of.html" }, { "id": 4054, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Another great looking application that I would use if I wasn’t using Notion. twitter.com\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-07 07:44:50 -0500", "date": "7:44 p.m. on May 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/07/another-great-looking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F07%2Fanother-great-looking.html" }, { "id": 4055, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This little utility looks great. Simple design. Very focused use case: bookmarking websites. But for me, Notion is filling this need. Abyss Saves URLs for Later from iPhone, iPad and Mac • Beautiful Pixels\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-06 21:30:05 -0500", "date": "9:30 p.m. on May 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/06/this-little-utility.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F06%2Fthis-little-utility.html" }, { "id": 4056, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Why there is no visualizer in Apple's Music Player or apps like @Cosmicast? Would be so cool.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-06 14:22:29 -0500", "date": "2:22 p.m. on May 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/06/why-there-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F06%2Fwhy-there-is.html" }, { "id": 4057, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I never made it to the WWDC conference. This year, being a virtual-only event, I wonder what a paid developer account would get me compared to general public. #iosdev #appledeveloppers #apple\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-06 13:35:57 -0500", "date": "1:35 p.m. on May 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/06/i-never-made.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F06%2Fi-never-made.html" }, { "id": 4058, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Another vision of the future of computing my friends. I like it too. Apple has not the monopoly of truth here. #microsoft #surfacego #surfacetablet\n[twitter.com/ow/status...](https://twitter.com/ow/status/1258020277763674112?s=21)\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-06 11:28:00 -0500", "date": "11:28 p.m. on May 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/06/another-vision-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F06%2Fanother-vision-of.html" }, { "id": 4059, "type": "post", "title": "When macOS behave like Windows", "text": "I had to reboot my iMac this morning to fix weird issues (no sound in FaceTime calls, iCloud sync not going anywhere, etc.) And now this, after reboot. WTF. iCloud-based services can be scary. How am I supposed to fix this now. Don't tell me I have to turn off iCloud Photo Library and turn it back on. Please. ", "dateiso": "2020-05-06 06:52:37 -0500", "date": "6:52 p.m. on May 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/06/when-macos-behave.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F06%2Fwhen-macos-behave.html" }, { "id": 4060, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day #3 of my Ghost experiment. I already know that I won't go ahead with this. The lack of iOS native app is a deal breaker. No free tier. Simple to setup but Micro.blog is too. I applaud the open source nature of Ghost though. But I think it is not for me.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-06 06:02:16 -0500", "date": "6:02 p.m. on May 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/06/day-of-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F06%2Fday-of-my.html" }, { "id": 4061, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Really nice visual. ", "dateiso": "2020-05-06 05:59:04 -0500", "date": "5:59 p.m. on May 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/06/really-nice-visual.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F06%2Freally-nice-visual.html" }, { "id": 4062, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So true. Sad. Frustrating.\nWashington Post Poll: ‘Americans Widely Oppose Reopening Most Businesses, Despite Easing of Restrictions in Some States’ daringfireball.net/linked/20\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-05 20:40:44 -0500", "date": "8:40 p.m. on May 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/05/so-true-sad.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F05%2Fso-true-sad.html" }, { "id": 4063, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Some people are freaking out about Apple + Google exposure notifications system. Are they freaking out about Facebook, for just being Facebook too? Asking for a friend. #privacy #masssurveillance\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-05 20:22:32 -0500", "date": "8:22 p.m. on May 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/05/some-people-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F05%2Fsome-people-are.html" }, { "id": 4064, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "WWDC2020 is starting on June 22th or @ iOS 14 beta 2. #wwdc2020 @wwdc20 @apple\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-05 12:38:03 -0500", "date": "12:38 p.m. on May 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/05/wwdc-is-starting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F05%2Fwwdc-is-starting.html" }, { "id": 4065, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here we go. WWDC2020. All virtual. Open to ALL developers. Two weeks later than usual. 2020 is definitely a special year. #wwdc2020 #apple #wwdc\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-05 11:58:56 -0500", "date": "11:58 p.m. on May 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/05/here-we-go.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F05%2Fhere-we-go.html" }, { "id": 4066, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My Ghost experiment is to try to find a better solution to replace this. So far, I don't see the plus value of switching, even if Ghost general experience is positive.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-05 06:19:31 -0500", "date": "6:19 p.m. on May 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/05/my-ghost-experiment.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F05%2Fmy-ghost-experiment.html" }, { "id": 4067, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day #2 of my Ghost experiment. Where is the Media library? How can I re-use a previously uploaded picture in a new blog post? Another thought: the quality of the service's visual themes library contributes to its attractiveness. I found a very simple yet beautiful theme. 😎\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-05 05:52:11 -0500", "date": "5:52 p.m. on May 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/05/day-of-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F05%2Fday-of-my.html" }, { "id": 4068, "type": "post", "title": "Finally.", "text": "A well deserved **finally**. Bye bye butterfly keyboard.\nhttps://www.macrumors.com/2020/05/04/rip-butterfly-keyboard/\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-04 12:52:40 -0500", "date": "12:52 p.m. on May 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/04/finally.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F04%2Ffinally.html" }, { "id": 4069, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Each time I see an update to the Tumblr.app poping up in the App Store, I wonder if this is the update many were waiting for since the acquisition of Tumblr by Automattic\u0026hellip; #tumblr #automattic #wordpress\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-04 11:56:13 -0500", "date": "11:56 p.m. on May 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/04/each-time-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F04%2Feach-time-i.html" }, { "id": 4070, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Day #1 of my Ghost experiment. Simple CMS. Well designed. A bit desoriented at first, coming from WordPress. No iOS / iPadOS app. Not good. macOS app not really native. Relies on Zapier for basic cross-posting stuff. ", "dateiso": "2020-05-04 06:40:57 -0500", "date": "6:40 p.m. on May 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/04/day-of-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F04%2Fday-of-my.html" }, { "id": 4071, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Nothing more to add.\nApple CEO Tim Cook Delivers Virtual Commencement Address to Ohio State University Graduates www.macrumors.com/2020/05/0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-03 21:09:16 -0500", "date": "9:09 p.m. on May 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/03/nothing-more-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F03%2Fnothing-more-to.html" }, { "id": 4072, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just finished consolidating all my blogger workflow updates on a single page. You can find it here: [numericcitizen.me/about/how...](https://numericcitizen.me/about/how-is-it-done/)\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-03 09:29:11 -0500", "date": "9:29 p.m. on May 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/03/102911.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F03%2F102911.html" }, { "id": 4073, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Contemplating Ghost as an alternative to what I’m currently using and … this critical vulnerability impacting all of their services is not very a good first contact.\n[status.ghost.org](https://status.ghost.org)\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-03 07:39:30 -0500", "date": "7:39 p.m. on May 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/03/contemplating-ghost-as.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F03%2Fcontemplating-ghost-as.html" }, { "id": 4074, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My blogger workflow just got updated. [numericcitizen.me/2020/05/0...](https://numericcitizen.me/2020/05/02/my-updated-blogger-workflow-as-of-2020-05/)\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-02 19:21:20 -0500", "date": "7:21 p.m. on May 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/02/my-blogger-workflow.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F02%2Fmy-blogger-workflow.html" }, { "id": 4075, "type": "post", "title": "Remember those waiting lines in the seventies?", "text": "When I go for a walk my mostly empty city, thanks to the long lasting confinement, I see many lines in front of different grocery stores. These are unfamiliar scenes for us.\nIt reminds me of when I was a young child. It was at the height of the cold war. At that time, medias were portraying communism as the bad guys. I cannot count how many times I saw in the news, scenes from USSR of people waiting in front of grocery stores to get a few vegetables and bread. It was in the seventies. And we were kind of laughing at them and their failed society. And here we are. Different cause for sure but mostly same effects.\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-02 07:21:52 -0500", "date": "7:21 p.m. on May 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/02/remember-those-waiting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F02%2Fremember-those-waiting.html" }, { "id": 4076, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Berlin, July of 1945. Devastation. These remastered movies are always poignant.\nyoutu.be/R5i9k7s9X\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-05-02 06:48:48 -0500", "date": "6:48 p.m. on May 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/02/berlin-july-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F02%2Fberlin-july-of.html" }, { "id": 4077, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As the confinement end is not near yet, some improvements are needed in my home office. First thing, getting a better chair. Done today. Next up, lighting. Still waiting for my delivery of Elgato’s Key Light to arrive.. still no delivery date… ", "dateiso": "2020-05-01 14:18:34 -0500", "date": "2:18 p.m. on May 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/01/as-the-confinement.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F01%2Fas-the-confinement.html" }, { "id": 4078, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Is Apple subsidizing iPhone SE pricing with services revenues from some sort of expected services consumption by its owner? ", "dateiso": "2020-05-01 06:44:23 -0500", "date": "6:44 p.m. on May 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/01/is-apple-subsidizing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F01%2Fis-apple-subsidizing.html" }, { "id": 4079, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Liking this a lot. But, I upgraded to the iPhone 11 Pro last fall. I’ll probably wait next year. ", "dateiso": "2020-05-01 06:37:42 -0500", "date": "6:37 p.m. on May 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/01/liking-this-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F01%2Fliking-this-a.html" }, { "id": 4080, "type": "post", "title": "You don't have to love the iPad", "text": "Thought of the day, from Francisco Tolmasky on Twitter: The frustrating thing about the iPad is that I constantly feel that I need to be buying into a philosophy\nWell said. For me, it doesn’t represent an issue. I love to buy into this philosophy because it is different, delightful. His tweet, one is a series is interesting. But, one the following ones, things get just wrong:\nPropping iPad up at a *good* angle? Pay $350 for a cover that prevents you from using it like a book anymore.\nI don’t get it. Remove the iPad from its keyboard and voilà! Simple. And this:\nthe iPad is now a worse tablet with the Magic Keyboard. It kind of sucks for typing in bed compared to the software keyboard, and it’s unusable for reading since it doesn’t flip around like a true cover.\nWhat? Can someone explain him that he can remove the iPad from the keyboard when he goes to bed at night? This thread just feel “trolly\". The iPad is obviously not for him but he doesn’t know it yet. ", "dateiso": "2020-05-01 06:29:13 -0500", "date": "6:29 p.m. on May 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/05/01/you-dont-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F05%2F01%2Fyou-dont-have.html" }, { "id": 4081, "type": "post", "title": "Is Apple doomed now?", "text": "Well, at first glance, Apple’s financial numbers are pretty solid, considering the current situation. Services and wearables are shining. The future is uncertain. Apple didn’t provide any guidance which is expected I guess. It could have been much worst as experts and pundits were expecting lower numbers. ", "dateiso": "2020-04-30 19:59:51 -0500", "date": "7:59 p.m. on Apr 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/30/is-apple-doomed.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F30%2Fis-apple-doomed.html" }, { "id": 4082, "type": "post", "title": "Let's try this again!", "text": "Well, cross-posting from MB to WP with IFTTT is a no go. Now, testing a much cleaner solution, a WP plugin which allow a better control over what is imported and how it is inserted into WP. I’m currently testing the whole process as I write this. Posts are inserted in Draft mode so I can release them as I wish. If it works as expected, I’ll be able to keep my main blog in sync with very specific content that I put here with minimal efforts.\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-30 16:05:11 -0500", "date": "4:05 p.m. on Apr 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/30/lets-try-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F30%2Flets-try-this.html" }, { "id": 4083, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Well, cross-posting from Micro.blog to WordPress via IFTTT doesn’t work. IFTTT is having issues creating the post as draft. I don’t know why. On top of that, I’m afraid of creating a loop as my posts on WordPress are automatically cross-posted to Micro.blog. 😅\n(xpost)\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-30 09:28:20 -0500", "date": "9:28 p.m. on Apr 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/30/well-crossposting-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F30%2Fwell-crossposting-from.html" }, { "id": 4084, "type": "post", "title": "Starting a small experiment", "text": "Up until now, I didn’t want to have my posts on **Micro.blog** to show up on my main blog on **WordPress**. But since I’m posting ten times more here than on my main blog, I have a feeling my readers are missing a lot. So, starting today, I’s starting a small experiment. Some of my posts here will be cross-posted to my main blog with the help of IFTTT. I’ll see where this goes.\nI’m sill undecided on the cross-post format: full content replication or just linked-post.\n(xpost)\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-30 07:56:43 -0500", "date": "7:56 p.m. on Apr 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/30/starting-a-small.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F30%2Fstarting-a-small.html" }, { "id": 4085, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One quick question: is it possible to cross-post from Micro.blog to my WordPress blog?\n[Update: I think I have to use IFTTT, something that I already use a lot. ]\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-30 07:34:54 -0500", "date": "7:34 p.m. on Apr 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/30/one-quick-question.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F30%2Fone-quick-question.html" }, { "id": 4086, "type": "post", "title": "Still far from fully recovered from Google's search algorithm changes of last November ", "text": "Last day of April. Time to look back at this month's stats. It was a great month for my main blog visitors but still far away of full recovery of the big Google search crash of last November. I wonder if I will every recover from it, despite all my efforts to write fewer but longer and higher quality posts. On a brighter side, I’m faring much much better on Medium. (xpost)\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-30 06:10:16 -0500", "date": "6:10 p.m. on Apr 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/30/still-far-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F30%2Fstill-far-from.html" }, { "id": 4087, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "See what happens when you start using the things that you make. #apple #facetime\nAnother iOS 13.5 Beta Tweak: An Option to Disable ‘Automatic Prominence’ for the Current Speaker’s Tile in Group FaceTime daringfireball.net/linked/20\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-29 20:16:04 -0500", "date": "8:16 p.m. on Apr 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/29/see-what-happens.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F29%2Fsee-what-happens.html" }, { "id": 4088, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As documented in my blog post: on why FaceTime is losing, The upcoming iOS 13.5 release will address one of the major complain about Group FaceTime: variable prominence. The upcoming release will allow users to disable this feature allow for fixed tile size. #apple #facetime ", "dateiso": "2020-04-29 16:29:43 -0500", "date": "4:29 p.m. on Apr 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/29/as-documented-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F29%2Fas-documented-in.html" }, { "id": 4089, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "That is my feeling too. #apple #ipadpro #magickeyboard\nMagic Keyboard: Apple’s Laptop Conversion Kit – His Dork Materials hisdorkmaterials.com/magic-key\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-29 06:58:21 -0500", "date": "6:58 p.m. on Apr 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/29/that-is-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F29%2Fthat-is-my.html" }, { "id": 4090, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The Internet in 2020. Can you see the problem? I don’t know what they think when they “design” these web sites but… and what you don’t see is a giant popup pushed on you taking over the only portion of actual information. GTFO of these sites, fast. ", "dateiso": "2020-04-29 06:46:03 -0500", "date": "6:46 p.m. on Apr 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/29/the-internet-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F29%2Fthe-internet-in.html" }, { "id": 4091, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Remember when we used to write « this year is the year of Linux »? 🤔\nWith the Magic Keyboard, 2020 is the year when iPad is a real laptop replacement. 😳🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-28 20:27:21 -0500", "date": "8:27 p.m. on Apr 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/28/remember-when-we.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F28%2Fremember-when-we.html" }, { "id": 4092, "type": "post", "title": "Just Made an Unexpected Discovery", "text": "Oh. My. God. 😳😍 How on earth I wasn’t aware about this great utility for macOS: CleanShot X? Fully featured, cleanly designed, with a lot of use cases for me. A cross between Apple’s builtin screen capture and Screencast. Instant buy.\nSide note: I never bought that many apps since the beginning of the great confinement. Second side note: it isn’t an ad. 🤷🏻‍♂️ CleanShot X for Mac\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-28 19:26:36 -0500", "date": "7:26 p.m. on Apr 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/28/just-made-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F28%2Fjust-made-an.html" }, { "id": 4093, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A great summary of Ulysses version 19 release by MacStories. As a blogger, I’m loving Ulysses more and more. 😃 Ulysses 19 Brings iPad Cursor Support, External Folders, Material Sheets, and More - MacStories\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-28 16:52:22 -0500", "date": "4:52 p.m. on Apr 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/28/a-great-summary.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F28%2Fa-great-summary.html" }, { "id": 4094, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Speaking of iPadOS 13.4 with pointer support\u0026hellip; my favourite writing app Ulysses just received an update. Using the trackpad to swipe left and right to show or hide panes is brilliant. 🥰\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-28 06:38:13 -0500", "date": "6:38 p.m. on Apr 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/28/speaking-of-ipados.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F28%2Fspeaking-of-ipados.html" }, { "id": 4095, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Using LumaFusion with the Magic Keyboard is really cool but I can’t wait for the updated version that takes advantage of the trackpad. Oh and editing 4K videos on an iPad Pro is incredibly fast! 🙃\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-28 06:30:38 -0500", "date": "6:30 p.m. on Apr 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/28/using-lumafusion-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F28%2Fusing-lumafusion-with.html" }, { "id": 4096, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The Magic Keyboard makes me want a bigger iPad. But at the same time I know I would miss the smaller size. Oh well.\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-27 21:01:01 -0500", "date": "9:01 p.m. on Apr 27, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/27/the-magic-keyboard.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F27%2Fthe-magic-keyboard.html" }, { "id": 4097, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So spot on. This is the beauty of the iPad. #apple #ipadpro #magickeyboard\nJason Snell Reviews the 12.9-Inch iPad Magic Keyboard daringfireball.net/linked/20\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-27 20:43:58 -0500", "date": "8:43 p.m. on Apr 27, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/27/so-spot-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F27%2Fso-spot-on.html" }, { "id": 4098, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m getting good numbers on @Medium as an indie writer. But as much as I like it so far, I’m not sure they always do a great job of selecting which theme or channel a story is being pushed over. Do they look at the categories the author selects?\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-27 16:28:00 -0500", "date": "4:28 p.m. on Apr 27, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/27/im-getting-good.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F27%2Fim-getting-good.html" }, { "id": 4099, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One more month to perfect iOS 14 then.\ntwitter.com/9to5mac/s\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-27 07:00:46 -0500", "date": "7:00 p.m. on Apr 27, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/27/one-more-month.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F27%2Fone-more-month.html" }, { "id": 4100, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "To FaceTime users, did your usage of it increased because of your confinement? If not, why? What are your pain points with FaceTime as it is today? Working on a blog post about this. Thanks. ", "dateiso": "2020-04-26 11:51:22 -0500", "date": "11:51 p.m. on Apr 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/26/to-facetime-users.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F26%2Fto-facetime-users.html" }, { "id": 4101, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Question of the day: have you ever wondered why FaceTime settings are not located in iCloud settings? Working on a special blog post related to FaceTime.\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-26 08:01:28 -0500", "date": "8:01 p.m. on Apr 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/26/question-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F26%2Fquestion-of-the.html" }, { "id": 4102, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is why I chose “transformative accessory” in my blog post reviewing the Magic Keyboard for the iPad Pro. Happy to see it is seen that way by others too.\nMagic Keyboard for iPad Pro review: Living the dream sixcolors.com/post/2020\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-25 11:52:49 -0500", "date": "11:52 p.m. on Apr 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/25/this-is-why.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F25%2Fthis-is-why.html" }, { "id": 4103, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Interesting “study” posted on BirchTree blog. From my personal experience, since iPadOS 13.4: using a mouse or a trackpad and a keyboard certainly drains more power than using the iPad alone. birchtree.me\nDoes the Magic Keyboard Kill iPad Battery? (or: Another Boring Chart)\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-25 08:51:25 -0500", "date": "8:51 p.m. on Apr 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/25/interesting-study-posted.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F25%2Finteresting-study-posted.html" }, { "id": 4104, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Interesting. When an application is not multithreading but scales by adding instances, using an Hypervisor like VMware ESXi helps make it look like “multithreaded” on one computer. twitter.com\nA condemnation of every programmer who faced multi-threaded programming and said OMG\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-25 08:45:19 -0500", "date": "8:45 p.m. on Apr 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/25/interesting-when-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F25%2Finteresting-when-an.html" }, { "id": 4105, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The transition from Intel-based Mac to ARM-Based machines will be the most interesting thing happening technologically, marketing-wise in the world of Apple since a long time. [Making macOS run well on ARM processors isn’t the hard part - The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/24/21233661/macos-arm-processor-transition-apps-developers-catalyst-wwdc)\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-25 08:31:16 -0500", "date": "8:31 p.m. on Apr 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/25/the-transition-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F25%2Fthe-transition-from.html" }, { "id": 4106, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m working on a very special blog post. Not ready yet to share any details except this: I’m slowly transitionning to 2FA for my most critical numeric services. Using Authy.\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-24 15:48:33 -0500", "date": "3:48 p.m. on Apr 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/24/im-working-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F24%2Fim-working-on.html" }, { "id": 4107, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Five years. Already. I’m still delighted by this product. Currently on Series 4 and looking forward for Series 6. #applewatch twitter.com/imranchau\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-24 15:45:57 -0500", "date": "3:45 p.m. on Apr 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/24/five-years-already.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F24%2Ffive-years-already.html" }, { "id": 4108, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This tweet is aging very well my friends.\ntwitter.com/alexmuenc\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-24 14:28:13 -0500", "date": "2:28 p.m. on Apr 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/24/this-tweet-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F24%2Fthis-tweet-is.html" }, { "id": 4109, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My upcoming review of the **Apple’s Magic Keyboard** for the iPad Pro is a little bit shy of 2000 words. Who knew. Coming out shortly. ", "dateiso": "2020-04-24 09:55:37 -0500", "date": "9:55 p.m. on Apr 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/24/my-upcoming-review.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F24%2Fmy-upcoming-review.html" }, { "id": 4110, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Every update to Notion app is welcomed. Welcome to release 1.5.\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-23 20:44:55 -0500", "date": "8:44 p.m. on Apr 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/23/every-update-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F23%2Fevery-update-to.html" }, { "id": 4111, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "No. Nothing is good about this iOS 14 mockup. Exhibit A: complication for iPhone doesn’t make sense. Stop it. Exhibit B: redesign of the receive call screen has to consider thumbs-based operations. [www.youtube.com/embed/NpX...](https://www.youtube.com/embed/NpXc_PtCRO0)\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-23 09:24:40 -0500", "date": "9:24 p.m. on Apr 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/23/no-nothing-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F23%2Fno-nothing-is.html" }, { "id": 4112, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "👉🏻 Nice exposure and validation for @gruber review of the 2020 iPhone SE. 😉\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-23 08:12:51 -0500", "date": "8:12 p.m. on Apr 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/23/nice-exposure-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F23%2Fnice-exposure-and.html" }, { "id": 4113, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On the iPhone 11 being the new iPhone XR:\nPeople are keeping their phone longer While a maturing market, new iPhone are gaining traction quickly [www.ped30.com/2020/04/2...](https://www.ped30.com/2020/04/22/cirp-iphone-11-boomers/)\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-22 08:49:12 -0500", "date": "8:49 p.m. on Apr 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/22/on-the-iphone.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F22%2Fon-the-iphone.html" }, { "id": 4114, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This picture of a woman working from home is so fascinating. There is a lot to observe here. Source: CNN. ", "dateiso": "2020-04-22 06:49:43 -0500", "date": "6:49 p.m. on Apr 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/22/this-picture-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F22%2Fthis-picture-of.html" }, { "id": 4115, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My first micro.blog post from\u0026hellip; 🤫 I’m delighed. Probably one of the best keyboard ever designed by Apple.\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-21 20:17:47 -0500", "date": "8:17 p.m. on Apr 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/21/my-first-microblog.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F21%2Fmy-first-microblog.html" }, { "id": 4116, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple: let’s help us practice and iron out details before the big show… WWDC. ", "dateiso": "2020-04-21 11:59:03 -0500", "date": "11:59 p.m. on Apr 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/21/apple-lets-help.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F21%2Fapple-lets-help.html" }, { "id": 4117, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Great (and surprising) exposure to @Gruber ’s review of the Magic Keyboard… great review overall but the first paragraphs were not exactly what’s Apple ordered (if I may use that expression). [twitter.com/pschiller...](https://twitter.com/pschiller/status/1252426100237451265) ", "dateiso": "2020-04-21 11:27:01 -0500", "date": "11:27 p.m. on Apr 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/21/great-and-surprising.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F21%2Fgreat-and-surprising.html" }, { "id": 4118, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Before returning to Apple’s Reminders, I was a big fan of Things for its design quality. I’m happy to see this update taking advantage of Apple’s recent technologies. Things 3 for iPad updated with extensive support for trackpad - 9to5Mac\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-20 19:18:36 -0500", "date": "7:18 p.m. on Apr 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/20/before-returning-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F20%2Fbefore-returning-to.html" }, { "id": 4119, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Woah, I love this iPad Pro + Magic Keyboard ad. Surprisingly, for a Pro setup, there is nothing Pro in the ad. #apple #ipadpro #magickeyboard [www.youtube.com/watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnZeDt2c8Yo)\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-20 15:31:45 -0500", "date": "3:31 p.m. on Apr 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/20/woah-i-love.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F20%2Fwoah-i-love.html" }, { "id": 4120, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Big update to Ferrite today. Version 2.5 introduces something that should be made at the operating system level: presentation mode where user interactions are explicitly shown on the screen. With iOS screen recording on, this makes great learning videos.\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-20 12:31:25 -0500", "date": "12:31 p.m. on Apr 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/20/big-update-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F20%2Fbig-update-to.html" }, { "id": 4121, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The iPad Pro coupled to the Magic Keyboard weight as much as a real laptop. Well, you asked for it and now here it is, stop complaining the iPad cannot replace a laptop. It can now. #whocares #ipadpro #magickeyboard\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-20 12:05:54 -0500", "date": "12:05 p.m. on Apr 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/20/the-ipad-pro.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F20%2Fthe-ipad-pro.html" }, { "id": 4122, "type": "post", "title": "iPadOS 14 + Xcode + ARM-Base MacBook 12\" coming?", "text": "First, this: twitter.com/jon_pross\u0026hellip;\nXcode is rumored to be coming to iPad via iPadOS 14.\nThen, this: twitter.com/l0vetodre\u0026hellip;\nThe latter tweet explicitly mentions an ARM-based MacBook 12\u0026quot; is coming.\nAre you getting it?\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-20 06:26:42 -0500", "date": "6:26 p.m. on Apr 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/20/ipados-xcode-armbase.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F20%2Fipados-xcode-armbase.html" }, { "id": 4123, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This cool graphic showing the evolution of the iPhone greatly complements my own.\nFascinating to see the multiplication of models over time.\ntwitter.com/imicsun/s\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-19 13:52:14 -0500", "date": "1:52 p.m. on Apr 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/19/this-cool-graphic.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F19%2Fthis-cool-graphic.html" }, { "id": 4124, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The satisfying moment where you hit \u0026ldquo;Publish\u0026rdquo; after so many hours of hard work.😊\nHoping you like my review of Notion.\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-19 12:59:49 -0500", "date": "12:59 p.m. on Apr 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/19/the-satisfying-moment.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F19%2Fthe-satisfying-moment.html" }, { "id": 4125, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Again, as I shared yesterday, the following data visualization site (https://rt.live/) is great. But, one question as it seems to be based on coronavirus testing only, how much results are skewed knowing for fact that testing is lacking in many places, especially in the US? https://rt.live/\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-19 08:21:21 -0500", "date": "8:21 p.m. on Apr 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/19/again-as-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F19%2Fagain-as-i.html" }, { "id": 4126, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "We aren\u0026rsquo;t out of the woods in the US and neither in Canada. 2020 is going down the drain. Fast. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/arc\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-19 08:11:40 -0500", "date": "8:11 p.m. on Apr 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/19/we-arent-out.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F19%2Fwe-arent-out.html" }, { "id": 4127, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I don\u0026rsquo;t have any insight information from Apple but my gut feeling from following Apple for more than 40 years\u0026hellip; no USB-C port ever on the iPhone.\ntwitter.com/jon_pross\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-19 07:47:42 -0500", "date": "7:47 p.m. on Apr 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/19/i-dont-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F19%2Fi-dont-have.html" }, { "id": 4128, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Woah. After placing my order for the Magic Keyboard on the first few hours of availability, the shipping date was 14 days. Now only 5 days. Under promise, over deliver. 😎\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-18 18:44:20 -0500", "date": "6:44 p.m. on Apr 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/18/woah-after-placing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F18%2Fwoah-after-placing.html" }, { "id": 4129, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Data visualization can be fascinating, especially during this coronavirus crisis. rt.live\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-18 17:20:45 -0500", "date": "5:20 p.m. on Apr 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/18/data-visualization-can.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F18%2Fdata-visualization-can.html" }, { "id": 4130, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In the following image, how do you call this graph style and what application can generate them? Very curious about this.\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-18 13:53:39 -0500", "date": "1:53 p.m. on Apr 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/18/in-the-following.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F18%2Fin-the-following.html" }, { "id": 4131, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Gyroscope app looks so great, since its beginning. But looking at reviews and being subscription based makes me pause. apps.apple.com\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-18 13:15:12 -0500", "date": "1:15 p.m. on Apr 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/18/gyroscope-app-looks.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F18%2Fgyroscope-app-looks.html" }, { "id": 4132, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "👉🏻 Don\u0026rsquo;t forget that you can stream music from your Apple Watch to your AirPods. Very handy when your wife is gone with to do errands with your iPhone. 😳\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-18 11:53:01 -0500", "date": "11:53 p.m. on Apr 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/18/dont-forget-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F18%2Fdont-forget-that.html" }, { "id": 4133, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Pretty happy with the near final draft of my review of Notion. More than 1900 words to explain how this service is helping me be better at blogging. Stay tuned.\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-18 08:58:33 -0500", "date": "8:58 p.m. on Apr 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/18/pretty-happy-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F18%2Fpretty-happy-with.html" }, { "id": 4134, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If you pay attention, there are already a few quick iPad Pro Magic Keyboard reviews floating around the Internet\u0026hellip; 😳\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-18 07:49:34 -0500", "date": "7:49 p.m. on Apr 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/18/if-you-pay.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F18%2Fif-you-pay.html" }, { "id": 4135, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "We will never know but I wonder how Apple under Steve Jobs would have done. 🤔 Tim Cook tapped for California governor’s business recovery task force during pandemic - 9to5Mac\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-17 17:06:55 -0500", "date": "5:06 p.m. on Apr 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/17/we-will-never.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F17%2Fwe-will-never.html" }, { "id": 4136, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Testing MarsEdit 4.4a2\u0026hellip; just having the categories shown on the right of my post being edited is enough to be an instant buy for me. Even in alpha.\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-17 16:00:20 -0500", "date": "4:00 p.m. on Apr 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/17/testing-marsedit-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F17%2Ftesting-marsedit-a.html" }, { "id": 4137, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Remember Apple’s Mail Drop? Nice reminder of its existence this morning for sending two large files. Nice. 😁\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-17 10:46:26 -0500", "date": "10:46 p.m. on Apr 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/17/remember-apples-mail.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F17%2Fremember-apples-mail.html" }, { "id": 4138, "type": "post", "title": "On iPhone 12 Pro Max Design Leaks - woah #iphone12 #leaks ", "text": "Major design mockup of the iPhone 12 Pro Max. All based on CAD files in the wild. These guys 3D printed it so they could get a feeling of the device in their hands. The boxy design seems to be really nice to handle. Looking forward for more details. And the bezels will be much smaller too, making it a real full screen device. youtu.be/ZUXwDpGyl\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-17 06:22:39 -0500", "date": "6:22 p.m. on Apr 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/17/on-iphone-pro.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F17%2Fon-iphone-pro.html" }, { "id": 4139, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "But, first, was it even scheduled for 2020? Delaying an unreleased products is something these days\u0026hellip; 🤦🏻‍♂️ twitter.com/macrumors\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-16 14:01:37 -0500", "date": "2:01 p.m. on Apr 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/16/but-first-was.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F16%2Fbut-first-was.html" }, { "id": 4140, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Can’t wait to write the sequel to this blog post. Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro ordered today. Should be at my door\u0026hellip; in\u0026hellip; 14 days. 😳🤷🏻‍♂️numericcitizen.me\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-15 19:47:03 -0500", "date": "7:47 p.m. on Apr 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/15/cant-wait-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F15%2Fcant-wait-to.html" }, { "id": 4141, "type": "post", "title": "Apple, you are playing with words. #iphoneSE", "text": "Thanks Apple but this is not an iPhone SE. Ask every previous iPhone SE owners and they will confirm. To call it an iPhone SE, you have to change one thing: its size. You are playing with words here. it is an iPhone 9 (looking at this is enough to be convinced). My guess is that we will never see the return of the previous iPhone SE screen size.\nBTW, I never ever liked this iPhone SE naming. It is utterly ugly. I cannot come over this one.\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-15 14:41:17 -0500", "date": "2:41 p.m. on Apr 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/15/apple-you-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F15%2Fapple-you-are.html" }, { "id": 4142, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "With each new product launch, there is something new to look for on Apple\u0026rsquo;s product website from a design perspective. I kind of like this one. #iphoneSE #apple www.apple.com/iphone-se\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-15 14:30:47 -0500", "date": "2:30 p.m. on Apr 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/15/with-each-new.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F15%2Fwith-each-new.html" }, { "id": 4143, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If this was the real iPhone 12 design\u0026hellip; man I would love this! A mix of iPhone 5, iPad Pro and iPhone X. twitter.com/PhoneDesi\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-15 14:22:45 -0500", "date": "2:22 p.m. on Apr 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/15/if-this-was.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F15%2Fif-this-was.html" }, { "id": 4144, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This will be a long 14 days.\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-15 10:46:19 -0500", "date": "10:46 p.m. on Apr 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/15/this-will-be.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F15%2Fthis-will-be.html" }, { "id": 4145, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Some very jaw-dropping pictures here. 👀 Sony World Photography Awards: Year\u0026rsquo;s best photographs revealed - CNN Style\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-15 06:45:37 -0500", "date": "6:45 p.m. on Apr 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/15/some-very-jawdropping.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F15%2Fsome-very-jawdropping.html" }, { "id": 4146, "type": "post", "title": "How to switch to “Sign in with Apple” with an existing account? ", "text": "Here is something that bugs me with “Sign in with Apple” or with services that are supporting this feature.\nThe easy and fun part is when you sign up as a new user of a service supporting “Sign in with Apple”. But what if I’m an already signed up user for many years then I want to switch to “Sign in with Apple” without creating a new account? Some service are providing a way to link an Apple ID in order to enable “Sign in with Apple”. But it is the minority. WordPress.com is such an example.\nAm I missing something?\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-15 06:40:41 -0500", "date": "6:40 p.m. on Apr 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/15/how-to-switch.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F15%2Fhow-to-switch.html" }, { "id": 4147, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I hope their predictions become reality and sooner the better. I don’t like open-space offices. Period. How coronavirus could change your office space - Vox\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-14 20:16:04 -0500", "date": "8:16 p.m. on Apr 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/14/i-hope-their.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F14%2Fi-hope-their.html" }, { "id": 4148, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If emails are still a thing for you, well, why not subscribe to my Newsletter! 😁Sent once a week, every Saturday, at 8AM, just in time start your week-end. You bring the coffee. #blogger #blogging app.mailbrew.com/apple_obs\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-14 12:22:40 -0500", "date": "12:22 p.m. on Apr 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/14/if-emails-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F14%2Fif-emails-are.html" }, { "id": 4149, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After the black iPhone 7, the black iPhone 5 was the best iPhone design of all time. Can\u0026rsquo;t wait to see the iPhone 12. #iphone #apple #iphone12 arstechnica.com\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-13 13:56:45 -0500", "date": "1:56 p.m. on Apr 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/13/after-the-black.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F13%2Fafter-the-black.html" }, { "id": 4150, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Super interesting article on \u0026ldquo;forced experiments” because of COVID19. Can\u0026rsquo;t wait to see what stick. www.ben-evans.com/benedicte\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-13 13:55:17 -0500", "date": "1:55 p.m. on Apr 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/13/super-interesting-article.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F13%2Fsuper-interesting-article.html" }, { "id": 4151, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As a blogger, making money is not one of my goal, but when I do make some money, it feels really great and encouraging. The following story published on my blog and on Medium is having a lot of traction. I mean, a lot. link.medium.com/E1ERVC1tE\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-13 08:15:37 -0500", "date": "8:15 p.m. on Apr 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/13/as-a-blogger.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F13%2Fas-a-blogger.html" }, { "id": 4152, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Part of something very special to be published tomorrow. Stay tuned. #me\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-12 20:42:33 -0500", "date": "8:42 p.m. on Apr 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/12/part-of-something.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F12%2Fpart-of-something.html" }, { "id": 4153, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Walked for more than two hours in my city’s empty streets. Took many pictures. Stay tuned.\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-12 16:56:10 -0500", "date": "4:56 p.m. on Apr 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/12/walked-for-more.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F12%2Fwalked-for-more.html" }, { "id": 4154, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "At long last\u0026hellip; what is the plan, dear clown in chief? #covid19 #coronavirus twitter.com/CNNSotu/s\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-12 16:54:52 -0500", "date": "4:54 p.m. on Apr 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/12/at-long-last.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F12%2Fat-long-last.html" }, { "id": 4155, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today at Apple. At home. Cool. www.apple.com/today/fea\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-12 09:23:30 -0500", "date": "9:23 p.m. on Apr 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/12/today-at-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F12%2Ftoday-at-apple.html" }, { "id": 4156, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Testing SquareSpace. 👀\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-11 19:34:24 -0500", "date": "7:34 p.m. on Apr 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/11/testing-squarespace.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F11%2Ftesting-squarespace.html" }, { "id": 4157, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "These are the reasons that I don’t read CNN while on a traditional computer. Same goes for www.imore.com or www.macworld.com as these are simply tracking monsters.\nThe Bullshit Web pxlnv.com/blog/bull\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-11 12:02:19 -0500", "date": "12:02 p.m. on Apr 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/11/these-are-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F11%2Fthese-are-the.html" }, { "id": 4158, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Maybe he was talking to a group of 4 years old? twitter.com\nRT @JoyceWhiteVance\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-11 08:12:36 -0500", "date": "8:12 p.m. on Apr 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/11/maybe-he-was.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F11%2Fmaybe-he-was.html" }, { "id": 4159, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The next thing we need from Apple to do (after putting more decent FaceTime cameras in their computers) is to implement screen sharing on iOS devices. Would be much easier to help others while in confinement. 🙏🏻🤦🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-10 15:11:15 -0500", "date": "3:11 p.m. on Apr 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/10/the-next-thing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F10%2Fthe-next-thing.html" }, { "id": 4160, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What a very touching, moving and pertinent ad from Apple today. 🥰 Maybe this confinement makes me too sensitive. 😢 #apple #ads #marketing #coronavirus #creativity\nyoutu.be/Kl1NW7h7l\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-10 15:00:17 -0500", "date": "3:00 p.m. on Apr 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/10/what-a-very.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F10%2Fwhat-a-very.html" }, { "id": 4161, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Bravo. Apple and Google partner on COVID-19 contact tracing technology - Apple\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-10 12:25:13 -0500", "date": "12:25 p.m. on Apr 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/10/bravo-apple-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F10%2Fbravo-apple-and.html" }, { "id": 4162, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Economy is crashing because people are buying only essentiel things. 😳\nMmmm. 🤔\nThink about it for a second.\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-10 06:49:57 -0500", "date": "6:49 p.m. on Apr 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/10/economy-is-crashing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F10%2Feconomy-is-crashing.html" }, { "id": 4163, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Next years laptops theme? Better webcams. I\u0026rsquo;m pointing at you Apple. #apple #macbook www.macsparky.com/blog/2020\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-10 06:41:18 -0500", "date": "6:41 p.m. on Apr 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/10/next-years-laptops.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F10%2Fnext-years-laptops.html" }, { "id": 4164, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In case you missed it: My review of Mailbrew: numericcitizen.me\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-09 12:12:51 -0500", "date": "12:12 p.m. on Apr 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/09/in-case-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F09%2Fin-case-you.html" }, { "id": 4165, "type": "post", "title": "A game changer Apple Watch app: Watchsmith. ", "text": "Very promising new Apple Watch app: Watchsmith. I can see this coming to watchOS in some form or another in the future. There is a lot of potential here while waiting for custom watch faces from Apple. Subscription-based price a bit steep but I understand it must ensure sustainable development. We\u0026rsquo;ll see where it goes from here.\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-09 06:42:07 -0500", "date": "6:42 p.m. on Apr 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/09/a-game-changer.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F09%2Fa-game-changer.html" }, { "id": 4166, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "These stories about Apple’s internal IT group makes me think about The Phoenix Project. I’m not sure I’d like to work there.\nmjtsai.com/blog/2020\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-08 20:20:04 -0500", "date": "8:20 p.m. on Apr 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/08/these-stories-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F08%2Fthese-stories-about.html" }, { "id": 4167, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Woah. ⌚️👀 twitter.com/iryantldr\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-08 09:47:27 -0500", "date": "9:47 p.m. on Apr 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/08/woah-httpstwittercomiryantldrstatuss.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F08%2Fwoah-httpstwittercomiryantldrstatuss.html" }, { "id": 4168, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Welcome to the future, now. 😳😂😂😂 twitter.com\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-08 07:25:59 -0500", "date": "7:25 p.m. on Apr 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/08/welcome-to-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F08%2Fwelcome-to-the.html" }, { "id": 4169, "type": "post", "title": "Another potential iPadOS game changer: introducing the iPad Main Menu. ", "text": "I think I just saw the future of iPadOS. Please, if you are an avid iPad user, take a moment to take a look at a potential feature that could be the next big game changer after the mouse support introduced with iPadOS 13.4. The following website perfectly illustrates a potential new system wide feature: iPad Main Menu. Dear Apple, please, oh please, consider this for iPadOS 14. 🙏🏻🥺\nwww.ipadmenu.study\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-07 18:53:39 -0500", "date": "6:53 p.m. on Apr 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/07/another-potential-ipados.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F07%2Fanother-potential-ipados.html" }, { "id": 4170, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Competition will heat up in the Mail business apparently\u0026hellip; This: hey.com That: 9to5mac.com/2020/04/0\u0026hellip; 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-07 12:48:43 -0500", "date": "12:48 p.m. on Apr 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/07/competition-will-heat.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F07%2Fcompetition-will-heat.html" }, { "id": 4171, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Oh. My. God. I’ll have to look ar this much more closely. My impressions are coming very soon. twitter.com\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-07 11:33:38 -0500", "date": "11:33 p.m. on Apr 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/07/oh-my-god.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F07%2Foh-my-god.html" }, { "id": 4172, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If you want to get a glimpse of the rumoured widgets design for iOS 14, look no further than the currently shipping iOS 13\u0026rsquo;s Control Center. I can see Apple’s desire to present a coherent look with this design. #apple #ipados14 #ios14\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-07 06:01:56 -0500", "date": "6:01 p.m. on Apr 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/07/if-you-want.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F07%2Fif-you-want.html" }, { "id": 4173, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Interesting ideas over there. One question: could Apple limit use of widgets to the iPad? Concept imagines what home screen widgets could look like with iOS 14 - 9to5Mac\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-06 21:35:20 -0500", "date": "9:35 p.m. on Apr 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/06/interesting-ideas-over.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F06%2Finteresting-ideas-over.html" }, { "id": 4174, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Exactly my feelings with my own blog. 🤷🏻‍♂️#blogger #blogging #blog aows.co\nNever be satisfied with your work\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-06 20:56:55 -0500", "date": "8:56 p.m. on Apr 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/06/exactly-my-feelings.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F06%2Fexactly-my-feelings.html" }, { "id": 4175, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m hoping someone at Apple is noticing this brilliant idea. To me it does look like a good solution for a fundamental problem on iPadOS: discoverability. Bravo. 👍🏻👌🏻 #apple #ipados\ntwitter.com/agiletort\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-06 19:52:28 -0500", "date": "7:52 p.m. on Apr 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/06/im-hoping-someone.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F06%2Fim-hoping-someone.html" }, { "id": 4176, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Fun to read past post\u0026hellip; knowing a complete re-write is coming up. Very soon. numericcitizen.me\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-06 19:12:28 -0500", "date": "7:12 p.m. on Apr 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/06/fun-to-read.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F06%2Ffun-to-read.html" }, { "id": 4177, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "There are so many great photos. This pandemic is a great opportunity to freeze images of our empty cities. I wish I could do the same. iPhone 11 Pro camera meets an empty London - 9to5Mac\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-06 17:36:59 -0500", "date": "5:36 p.m. on Apr 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/06/there-are-so.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F06%2Fthere-are-so.html" }, { "id": 4178, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wonderful shot. 😍 twitter.com/thamkhaim\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-05 18:15:22 -0500", "date": "6:15 p.m. on Apr 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/05/wonderful-shot-httpstwittercomthamkhaimengstatuss.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F05%2Fwonderful-shot-httpstwittercomthamkhaimengstatuss.html" }, { "id": 4179, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is not the iPhone 9 launch nor the AirTags announcement. But this is important, relevant, at a time where there is such a deep and troubling lack of leadership. Thank you Mr. Cook. #apple #coronavirus #covid19 twitter.com/tim_cook/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-05 18:03:12 -0500", "date": "6:03 p.m. on Apr 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/05/this-is-not.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F05%2Fthis-is-not.html" }, { "id": 4180, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Great summary of major photo processing software. twitter.com/500px/sta\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-05 16:32:31 -0500", "date": "4:32 p.m. on Apr 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/05/great-summary-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F05%2Fgreat-summary-of.html" }, { "id": 4181, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "People are dumb. 🤷🏻‍♂️ twitter.com/tomwarren\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-05 16:12:45 -0500", "date": "4:12 p.m. on Apr 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/05/people-are-dumb.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F05%2Fpeople-are-dumb.html" }, { "id": 4182, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Working hard to publish a full review of Mailbrew. Can\u0026rsquo;t wait to share this to the world.\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-05 13:10:45 -0500", "date": "1:10 p.m. on Apr 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/05/working-hard-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F05%2Fworking-hard-to.html" }, { "id": 4183, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Buying the Magic Keyboard when available but using the standalone Magic Trackpad meanwhile 🤷🏻‍♂️. [Poll: Are you waiting for the iPad Pro Magic Keyboard or is a standalone trackpad sufficient? - 9to5Mac](9to5mac.com/2020/04/0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-05 11:16:52 -0500", "date": "11:16 p.m. on Apr 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/05/buying-the-magic.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F05%2Fbuying-the-magic.html" }, { "id": 4184, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I applaud this gesture my Bill Gates’ foundation. But, I cannot help but feel uneasy because of “economic only side” of the equation being put forward. Is it all about the economy, all the time? #coronavirus #covid19 twitter.com/damocrat/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-05 10:36:17 -0500", "date": "10:36 p.m. on Apr 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/05/i-applaud-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F05%2Fi-applaud-this.html" }, { "id": 4185, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Probably the best looking and the most accurate dashboard on coronavirus. coronawiki.org\nCoronavirus statistics and information\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-05 10:04:55 -0500", "date": "10:04 p.m. on Apr 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/05/probably-the-best.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F05%2Fprobably-the-best.html" }, { "id": 4186, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What a disaster. Denial and dysfunction plagued U.S. government as coronavirus raged - The Washington Post\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-05 09:29:16 -0500", "date": "9:29 p.m. on Apr 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/05/what-a-disaster.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F05%2Fwhat-a-disaster.html" }, { "id": 4187, "type": "post", "title": "Remember these clicky keyboards? I do.", "text": "These were the best keyboards. I remember their touch, the feeling and\u0026hellip; the clicky sound. twitter.com\nTim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) Tweeted: So I busted out my IBM PC keyboard model M. I wrote ZZT and Unreal Engine 1 on this thing. With apologies to Moore\u0026rsquo;s Law, I gotta say - 1984 was peak keyboard. The code just types out better with these keys. t.co/3j0V3eujq\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-04 19:08:19 -0500", "date": "7:08 p.m. on Apr 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/04/remember-these-clicky.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F04%2Fremember-these-clicky.html" }, { "id": 4188, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Wearing a face mask is now fashionable. #coronaviris #covid19 😔\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-04 17:02:28 -0500", "date": "5:02 p.m. on Apr 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/04/wearing-a-face.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F04%2Fwearing-a-face.html" }, { "id": 4189, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Widgets on the homescreen? Sounds cool. [Leaked iOS 14 screenshot shows new wallpaper settings, beta code reveals Home screen widgets - 9to5Mac](9to5mac.com/2020/04/0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-04 15:36:47 -0500", "date": "3:36 p.m. on Apr 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/04/widgets-on-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F04%2Fwidgets-on-the.html" }, { "id": 4190, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "America can be so arrogant 🚨😤twitter.com\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-04 13:36:57 -0500", "date": "1:36 p.m. on Apr 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/04/america-can-be.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F04%2Famerica-can-be.html" }, { "id": 4191, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I love ❤️ the design of this app. This is a onetime purchase too and there is no need to create an account, something that is far too frequent these days. Sadly, since the pandemic started, I put a pause on my running habits. apps.apple.com\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-04 09:14:19 -0500", "date": "9:14 p.m. on Apr 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/04/i-love-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F04%2Fi-love-the.html" }, { "id": 4192, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m really getting hooked on Mailbrew. app.mailbrew.com\nCheck out my newsletter \u0026ldquo;Numeric Citizen Internet Snapshot\u0026rdquo;\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-03 18:26:03 -0500", "date": "6:26 p.m. on Apr 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/03/im-really-getting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F03%2Fim-really-getting.html" }, { "id": 4193, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m losing memories of how the world was before the coronavirus. Not a good sign. #coronavirus #covid-19 😟\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-03 09:51:48 -0500", "date": "9:51 p.m. on Apr 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/03/im-losing-memories.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F03%2Fim-losing-memories.html" }, { "id": 4194, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For the first time in more than a year, I chose to work with dark mode turned off on my iMac. Just for a change. Maybe the confinement is having a toll on me after all. #coronavirus #covid19\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-03 07:37:44 -0500", "date": "7:37 p.m. on Apr 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/03/for-the-first.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F03%2Ffor-the-first.html" }, { "id": 4195, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "iPhone SE, again, really? I never liked this name. It reminds me of the Mac SE/30. #apple #iphonese twitter.com/SteveMose\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-03 06:21:54 -0500", "date": "6:21 p.m. on Apr 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/03/iphone-se-again.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F03%2Fiphone-se-again.html" }, { "id": 4196, "type": "post", "title": "Is Microsoft missing the Covid-19 wave...?", "text": "While Microsoft was busy trying to build a clone of Slack (MS Teams), they forgot to pay attention to Skype. Having a personal and business edition after all these years makes no sense. But I wouldn’t count Microsoft out yet.\ntwitter.com/tomwarren\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-02 07:29:30 -0500", "date": "7:29 p.m. on Apr 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/02/is-microsoft-missing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F02%2Fis-microsoft-missing.html" }, { "id": 4197, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I guess 2020 is the year where wearing a face mask will no longer be a social stigma. #coronavirus #COVID-19\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-02 06:33:56 -0500", "date": "6:33 p.m. on Apr 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/02/i-guess-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F02%2Fi-guess-is.html" }, { "id": 4198, "type": "post", "title": "I'm always looking to cut the noise. Here is something new. ", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m trying something new. It is always a good idea to cut the noise when looking at the news these days. To help me achieve that, I subscribed to 1 year of @mailbrew service. Here is the fruit of this new beginning. app.mailbrew.com/apple_obs\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-02 06:15:06 -0500", "date": "6:15 p.m. on Apr 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/02/im-always-looking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F02%2Fim-always-looking.html" }, { "id": 4199, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Is Zoom actually a virus? Asking for a friend. 🤔 #zoom\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-01 11:31:11 -0500", "date": "11:31 p.m. on Apr 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/01/is-zoom-actually.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F01%2Fis-zoom-actually.html" }, { "id": 4200, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Very good post by @MacStories on the iPad’ Past, Present, and Future. I never been more enthusiastic about the iPad since iPadOS 13.4. #apple #ipad #ipados www.macstories.net/stories/f\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-01 10:58:26 -0500", "date": "10:58 p.m. on Apr 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/01/very-good-post.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F01%2Fvery-good-post.html" }, { "id": 4201, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My thoughts exactly. This crisis is a general repetition of what is really coming ahead of us. 😔\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-01 10:14:48 -0500", "date": "10:14 p.m. on Apr 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/01/my-thoughts-exactly.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F01%2Fmy-thoughts-exactly.html" }, { "id": 4202, "type": "post", "title": "Sad news from the Omni Group 😟", "text": "I used to be a big fan of OmniFocus from The OmniGroup. After having transited to Things when version 3.0 came out, I\u0026rsquo;m now, I\u0026rsquo;m back with Apple\u0026rsquo;s Reminders. For my business need, I now only use OmniGraffle in order to do technical diagrams. My hope is that layoffs doesn\u0026rsquo;t affect too much this app\u0026rsquo;s future on which I depend.\nReference :inessential.com/2020/03/3\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-04-01 09:49:07 -0500", "date": "9:49 p.m. on Apr 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/04/01/sad-news-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F04%2F01%2Fsad-news-from.html" }, { "id": 4203, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I expect to see many of these photo reporting in the coming weeks, months and maybe years on the effects in our lives the coronavirus crisis has. www.nytimes.com/interacti\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-31 20:24:08 -0500", "date": "8:24 p.m. on Mar 31, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/31/i-expect-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F31%2Fi-expect-to.html" }, { "id": 4204, "type": "post", "title": "It is disgusting.", "text": "We are in a constant state of crisis. One crisis after the other. Is this the new normal? There are so many things that I find revolting right now in the US. It started a few years ago, in 2016. The following twitter thread calling the NYT to do its most basic job is so spot on. Yet, they fail again and again. Just listen to press conferences, one after the other. It is disgusting.\nI\u0026rsquo;m sorry if in recent days I\u0026rsquo;m calling out more things about politics, The Clown in Chief and the US. I should be writing about Apple, photography my dear passions. This is a special time. It requires a special reaction I guess. I just want to return to some form of normality, acceptability. I guess we have to be patient.\nReference: daringfireball.net/linked/20\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-31 20:21:11 -0500", "date": "8:21 p.m. on Mar 31, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/31/it-is-disgusting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F31%2Fit-is-disgusting.html" }, { "id": 4205, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m not sure that I like this. 🤔 [iOS 13.4.5 beta includes new option to share songs from Apple Music on Instagram Stories - 9to5Mac](9to5mac.com/2020/03/3\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-31 16:54:16 -0500", "date": "4:54 p.m. on Mar 31, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/31/im-not-sure.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F31%2Fim-not-sure.html" }, { "id": 4206, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The new templates that come with the latest update of Keynote are 👌🏻 🥰. And the new template chooser is really nice too! Bravo ! #apple #iwork #update\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-31 16:47:24 -0500", "date": "4:47 p.m. on Mar 31, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/31/the-new-templates.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F31%2Fthe-new-templates.html" }, { "id": 4207, "type": "post", "title": "Dark Sky weather app joins Apple ", "text": "As a weather enthusiast, Apple buying Dark Sky is a very good news for at least two reasons. First, the Dark Sky app is not available in Canada. Apple will probably extend the service coverage in future releases. Second, it may signal Apple\u0026rsquo;s intentions to beef up its weather stock apps on all its platforms.\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-31 16:39:18 -0500", "date": "4:39 p.m. on Mar 31, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/31/drak-sky-weather.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F31%2Fdrak-sky-weather.html" }, { "id": 4208, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m dropping it here. #TrumpVirus This is the Clown in Chief at work ladies \u0026amp; gentlemen. twitter.com/donwinslo\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-31 14:19:52 -0500", "date": "2:19 p.m. on Mar 31, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/31/im-dropping-it.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F31%2Fim-dropping-it.html" }, { "id": 4209, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "There are great changes ahead, after the coronavirus, many are happening now.\nwww.axios.com/newslette\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-30 19:46:54 -0500", "date": "7:46 p.m. on Mar 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/30/there-are-great.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F30%2Fthere-are-great.html" }, { "id": 4210, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The Magic Trackpad + iPadOS 13.4: the perfect match, while waiting for the real thing to come next May, the Magic Keyboard with trackpad. #ipados134 #trackpad\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-30 18:44:41 -0500", "date": "6:44 p.m. on Mar 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/30/the-magic-trackpad.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F30%2Fthe-magic-trackpad.html" }, { "id": 4211, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Made by Apple for iPadOS 13.4. I\u0026rsquo;m in love with the iPad. Again. 🥰 #apple #ipados134 (Side notes: much better experience than with the magic mouse. Enabled the click on tap option.).\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-30 15:03:15 -0500", "date": "3:03 p.m. on Mar 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/30/made-by-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F30%2Fmade-by-apple.html" }, { "id": 4212, "type": "post", "title": "When you have to eat your own dog food ", "text": "Now Apple will better understand how their software can be frustrating as hell\u0026hellip;\nApple staffers suffer work-from-home setbacks due to security guidelines, travel bans appleinsider.com/articles/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-30 12:51:26 -0500", "date": "12:51 p.m. on Mar 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/30/when-you-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F30%2Fwhen-you-have.html" }, { "id": 4213, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Can\u0026rsquo;t wait for iWork to be updated with full support of iPadOS 13.4. Today? Please! #apple #ipados134\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-30 12:22:24 -0500", "date": "12:22 p.m. on Mar 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/30/cant-wait-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F30%2Fcant-wait-for.html" }, { "id": 4214, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The iPad with iPadOS 13.4 is taking over my numeric life. #apple #ipados134\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-30 11:29:45 -0500", "date": "11:29 p.m. on Mar 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/30/the-ipad-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F30%2Fthe-ipad-with.html" }, { "id": 4215, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Google is being greedy and stupid for putting a simple feature like background play under their paywal. Oh, and, on iOS, does Premium enable another basic feature like 4K video?\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-30 10:53:06 -0500", "date": "10:53 p.m. on Mar 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/30/google-is-being.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F30%2Fgoogle-is-being.html" }, { "id": 4216, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Patiently waiting for this to arrive\u0026hellip; because, you know\u0026hellip; iPadOS 13.4. #ipados134 #apple #trackpadsupport\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-30 09:59:23 -0500", "date": "9:59 p.m. on Mar 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/30/patiently-waiting-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F30%2Fpatiently-waiting-for.html" }, { "id": 4217, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Must. See. 👨🏻‍💻😳 #coronavirus #covid19 twitter.com/mikaeltha\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-29 20:46:24 -0500", "date": "8:46 p.m. on Mar 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/29/must-see-coronavirus.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F29%2Fmust-see-coronavirus.html" }, { "id": 4218, "type": "post", "title": "This is why I’m so angry 🤬", "text": "The root cause of why I’m so angry at the The Clown in Chief 🤡 and the whole political class in the US. They don’t care about humans except themselves.\nOpinion | Who Will Win the Fight for a Post-Coronavirus America? www.nytimes.com/2020/03/2\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-29 19:09:33 -0500", "date": "7:09 p.m. on Mar 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/29/this-is-why.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F29%2Fthis-is-why.html" }, { "id": 4219, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today, I was thinking about AIDS, which is still a major worldwide issue (one million death per year)😳😔, we have to wonder about our reactions to COVID-19.🤔 #coronavirus #covid19\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-29 18:09:54 -0500", "date": "6:09 p.m. on Mar 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/29/today-i-was.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F29%2Ftoday-i-was.html" }, { "id": 4220, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Spent the last few hours testing Basecamp. This thing is soooo cool.\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-29 14:03:29 -0500", "date": "2:03 p.m. on Mar 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/29/spent-the-last.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F29%2Fspent-the-last.html" }, { "id": 4221, "type": "post", "title": "Too many questions, not enough answers ... ", "text": "Some questions that come up in my mind during this pandemic crisis:\nIs criminality going up or down? Is there less suicides? Where do we put used testing kits and used protective gear trash after use? From where does all the government money for stimulus programs come from? What if coronavirus mutates to a much more deadly virus? Will we ever return to “normality”? And many more\u0026hellip; ", "dateiso": "2020-03-28 20:23:31 -0500", "date": "8:23 p.m. on Mar 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/28/too-many-questions.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F28%2Ftoo-many-questions.html" }, { "id": 4222, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As the iPad Pro is gaining powerful CPU, input devices versatility, what’s left for the ARM-based Mac? #apple #ipad Kuo: Apple to Launch Several Macs With Arm-Based Processors in 2021, USB4 Support Coming to Macs in 2022 - MacRumors\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-28 12:12:13 -0500", "date": "12:12 p.m. on Mar 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/28/as-the-ipad.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F28%2Fas-the-ipad.html" }, { "id": 4223, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I have high hopes on Apple to re-invent the WWDC conference. #iosdev #apple\nChris Lattner Talks Swift, WWDC and More on This Week\u0026rsquo;s ATP Podcast www.macrumors.com/2020/03/2\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-28 12:05:02 -0500", "date": "12:05 p.m. on Mar 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/28/i-have-high.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F28%2Fi-have-high.html" }, { "id": 4224, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Imagine If We Responded To The Climate Emergency In The Same Way We Are Dealing With The Coronavirus Pandemic #coronavirus #covid19 apple.news\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-28 11:57:14 -0500", "date": "11:57 p.m. on Mar 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/28/imagine-if-we.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F28%2Fimagine-if-we.html" }, { "id": 4225, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hey #iosdev, here is a free idea for an app: Unsplash screensaver for the iPad displaying content from Unsplash as a slideshow. Boom.\nI have an old iPad on a stand where this could be a great picture frame.\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-28 10:40:52 -0500", "date": "10:40 p.m. on Mar 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/28/hey-iosdev-here.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F28%2Fhey-iosdev-here.html" }, { "id": 4226, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Should we believe numbers coming from Russia? #covid19 #coronavirus 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-28 09:39:51 -0500", "date": "9:39 p.m. on Mar 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/28/should-we-believe.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F28%2Fshould-we-believe.html" }, { "id": 4227, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One thing that I would like to do is go for a walk downtown Montreal to take pictures of an empty city. But I won’t because of the confinement rules. #coronavirus #covid19\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-28 08:56:36 -0500", "date": "8:56 p.m. on Mar 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/28/one-thing-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F28%2Fone-thing-that.html" }, { "id": 4228, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Ordered a Magic Trackpad 2 from Apple because\u0026hellip; you know\u0026hellip; iPadOS 13.4. Currently using the mouse but I do feel the trackpad experience will be even more delightful! #ipados134 #apple\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-28 08:47:50 -0500", "date": "8:47 p.m. on Mar 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/28/ordered-a-magic.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F28%2Fordered-a-magic.html" }, { "id": 4229, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is what journalists should have done since this Clown in Chief has been elected. Shame on them. They are being lazy. Period. Daring Fireball: How to Turn Trump’s Daily Virus Misinformation Show Into a Vector for the Truth\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-27 20:40:05 -0500", "date": "8:40 p.m. on Mar 27, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/27/this-is-what.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F27%2Fthis-is-what.html" }, { "id": 4230, "type": "post", "title": "Remember iOS 6 -\u003e iOS 7 Redesign - Never Again", "text": "The last time an Apple operating system went through a redesig, iOS for that matter (iOS 6 -\u0026gt; iOS 7), it didn\u0026rsquo;t go well. We still pay the price of this today.\n\u0026ldquo;The Verifier also outlines some of the features coming to watchOS 7, many of which we\u0026rsquo;ve heard before. watchOS 7 will allegedly include a \u0026ldquo;fresh design,\u0026rdquo; updates to built-in apps, and improvements to Siri, with little other information included.\u0026rdquo; - MacRumors\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-27 13:54:52 -0500", "date": "1:54 p.m. on Mar 27, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/27/remember-ios-ios.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F27%2Fremember-ios-ios.html" }, { "id": 4231, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "By the way, coronavirus crisis is something earth would need for many years, even decades just to fix our mess. #covid19 #coronavirus\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-26 17:22:12 -0500", "date": "5:22 p.m. on Mar 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/26/by-the-way.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F26%2Fby-the-way.html" }, { "id": 4232, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Is it me or using an iPad with a mouse and a keyboard makes the battery drain faster? #ipados #ipados134 #apple\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-26 07:22:08 -0500", "date": "7:22 p.m. on Mar 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/26/is-it-me.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F26%2Fis-it-me.html" }, { "id": 4233, "type": "post", "title": "FaceID on Mac, really?", "text": "If FaceID comes on the Mac and a by-product is to get a better FaceTime camera, then, I\u0026rsquo;m all in. A notch for the iMac is stupid and unecessary though. #apple #faceid #mac #rumours appleinsider.com/articles/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-26 06:12:36 -0500", "date": "6:12 p.m. on Mar 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/26/faceid-on-mac.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F26%2Ffaceid-on-mac.html" }, { "id": 4234, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Working from home, because I do a lot less \u0026ldquo;socializing\u0026rdquo; (no surrounding colleagues) is much more demanding. I\u0026rsquo;m exhausted at the end of each work day. I don\u0026rsquo;t know how long I\u0026rsquo;ll be able to mainting this rythm. You?\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-25 11:02:26 -0500", "date": "11:02 p.m. on Mar 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/25/working-from-home.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F25%2Fworking-from-home.html" }, { "id": 4235, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Woah, just wrote something similar\u0026hellip; taken from my Twitter feed\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-24 19:42:03 -0500", "date": "7:42 p.m. on Mar 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/24/woah-just-wrote.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F24%2Fwoah-just-wrote.html" }, { "id": 4236, "type": "post", "title": "Returning to Facebook because of Coronavirus? (hit the link for my thoughts)", "text": "For the first time in more than a year, I’m considering returning to Facebook. My thoughts and feelings are still the same though. But this coronavirus crisis makes me want to get in touch we people I know. I don’t have much time to spend on this platform. I know I’ll quickly face the things that I couldn’t bear. I know\u0026hellip; but.\nI’m torn away. 😔 #covid19 #coronavirus #deletefacebook\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-24 19:22:08 -0500", "date": "7:22 p.m. on Mar 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/24/returning-to-facebook.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F24%2Freturning-to-facebook.html" }, { "id": 4237, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Dear USA, I wish you good luck. #covid19 #coronavirus\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-24 16:59:37 -0500", "date": "4:59 p.m. on Mar 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/24/dear-usa-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F24%2Fdear-usa-i.html" }, { "id": 4238, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Effect of coronavirus on App Store downloads. Fascinating. #coronavirus #covid19 #appstore\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-24 16:55:42 -0500", "date": "4:55 p.m. on Mar 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/24/effect-of-coronavirus.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F24%2Feffect-of-coronavirus.html" }, { "id": 4239, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Yep. It does happen all the time. #coronavirus #covid19 twitter.com/seanbgone\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-24 10:23:15 -0500", "date": "10:23 p.m. on Mar 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/24/yep-it-does.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F24%2Fyep-it-does.html" }, { "id": 4240, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Mmmm my hope is that Apple doesn\u0026rsquo;t come up with something like this because\u0026hellip; I would\u0026hellip; probably\u0026hellip; upgrade? euh? 9to5mac.com/2020/03/2\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-23 16:16:13 -0500", "date": "4:16 p.m. on Mar 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/23/mmmm-my-hope.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F23%2Fmmmm-my-hope.html" }, { "id": 4241, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finally got an article submission accepted by Medium after the last try. Three previous submissions didn’t get approved. #medium #blogger #bloggerlife\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-23 11:18:44 -0500", "date": "11:18 p.m. on Mar 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/23/finally-got-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F23%2Ffinally-got-an.html" }, { "id": 4242, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My latest blog post was a big effort for me. Notion was at the center of my work all along. I perfected my use of this platform and should be more efficient for my next blog post. #blogger #bloggerlife #bloggertools\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-23 11:10:21 -0500", "date": "11:10 p.m. on Mar 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/23/my-latest-blog.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F23%2Fmy-latest-blog.html" }, { "id": 4243, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Group Facetime, Zoom, Messenger, Whatsapp, etc.: what group conference tool is more popular around you? #coronavirus #poll\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-22 10:38:05 -0500", "date": "10:38 p.m. on Mar 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/22/group-facetime-zoom.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F22%2Fgroup-facetime-zoom.html" }, { "id": 4244, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Putting the final touches to my take on iPadOS 13.4 mouse support and a few other things surroundings Apple’s announcements this week. More than 2000 words coming up! Stay tuned. #apple #ipados134\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-22 09:47:39 -0500", "date": "9:47 p.m. on Mar 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/22/putting-the-final.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F22%2Fputting-the-final.html" }, { "id": 4245, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Interesting read. beckyhansmeyer.com\nThe Great Slowdown\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-22 08:25:44 -0500", "date": "8:25 p.m. on Mar 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/22/interesting-read-beckyhansmeyercom.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F22%2Finteresting-read-beckyhansmeyercom.html" }, { "id": 4246, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Who knows if Apple will re-invent the typical conference like they reinvented the phone in 2007. I would be really surprised if they cancel WWDC altogether. #coronavirus #covid19\nGoogle Cancels I/O Entirely daringfireball.net/linked/20\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-21 20:46:10 -0500", "date": "8:46 p.m. on Mar 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/21/who-knows-if.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F21%2Fwho-knows-if.html" }, { "id": 4247, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Consider me very skeptical of this rumour\u0026hellip; Apple seems to follow an 18 months upgrade cycle for the iPad Pro. New iPad Pro is out, but there\u0026rsquo;s still another one on the way - 9to5Mac\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-21 09:13:34 -0500", "date": "9:13 p.m. on Mar 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/21/consider-me-very.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F21%2Fconsider-me-very.html" }, { "id": 4248, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The Clown in Chief is the devil with a pretty face. #coronavirus\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-20 21:57:51 -0500", "date": "9:57 p.m. on Mar 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/20/the-clown-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F20%2Fthe-clown-in.html" }, { "id": 4249, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If something has to change after COVID-19 it is: electronic payments only.\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-20 17:01:40 -0500", "date": "5:01 p.m. on Mar 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/20/if-something-has.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F20%2Fif-something-has.html" }, { "id": 4250, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Current numbers from Italy are frightening to say the least. 😟 #covid19\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-20 12:22:39 -0500", "date": "12:22 p.m. on Mar 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/20/current-numbers-from.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F20%2Fcurrent-numbers-from.html" }, { "id": 4251, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Each day I’m a bit more disgusted by the American political class and by those voters who doesn’t understand anything in anything\u0026hellip;. #covid19\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-20 11:32:47 -0500", "date": "11:32 p.m. on Mar 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/20/each-day-im.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F20%2Feach-day-im.html" }, { "id": 4252, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sadly, I think there is some truth to this. #covid19 😔\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-20 07:24:57 -0500", "date": "7:24 p.m. on Mar 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/20/sadly-i-think.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F20%2Fsadly-i-think.html" }, { "id": 4253, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m sorry to interrupt but the external keyboard was part of the original concept of the iPad. ☝🏻\nApple finally admits Microsoft was right about tablets www.theverge.com/2020/3/19\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-19 17:26:59 -0500", "date": "5:26 p.m. on Mar 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/19/im-sorry-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F19%2Fim-sorry-to.html" }, { "id": 4254, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The amount and variety of ads on TV that feel « out of place » or « no longer relevant » because of the COVID-19 crisis: vacations, trips, restaurants, etc. #covid19 😔\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-19 17:01:18 -0500", "date": "5:01 p.m. on Mar 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/19/the-amount-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F19%2Fthe-amount-and.html" }, { "id": 4255, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "All those dashboards about COVID-19 progression around the world\u0026hellip; all those news feeds with bad news\u0026hellip; it loos like a bad video game\u0026hellip; wish I could just wake up. 😔 #covid19\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-19 16:41:45 -0500", "date": "4:41 p.m. on Mar 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/19/all-those-dashboards.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F19%2Fall-those-dashboards.html" }, { "id": 4256, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It\u0026rsquo;s been a few days now of intense remote work. Lot\u0026rsquo;s of collab tools usage (Webex, Zoom, MS Teams) for work with many collegues and many are not used to this. Some participant would benefict if they knew about some basic behavioral etiquette while attending virtual meetings. 😩\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-19 16:08:48 -0500", "date": "4:08 p.m. on Mar 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/19/its-been-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F19%2Fits-been-a.html" }, { "id": 4257, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Went for a short walk this afternoon in my neighborhood. I wasn\u0026rsquo;t alone. We we\u0026rsquo;re like walking \u0026ldquo;alive\u0026rdquo; looking to spend time outside, just to change how focus from this crisis. #covid19\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-19 15:11:15 -0500", "date": "3:11 p.m. on Mar 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/19/went-for-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F19%2Fwent-for-a.html" }, { "id": 4258, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is the pure beauty of the iPad. #apple #ipad #ipados\nThe iPad cursor is here, no wait required sixcolors.com/post/2020\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-19 07:22:40 -0500", "date": "7:22 p.m. on Mar 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/19/this-is-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F19%2Fthis-is-the.html" }, { "id": 4259, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "At this rate, with all the improvements coming to the iPad (both in hardware \u0026amp; software), I’m not sure I’ll ever upgrade my 2017 iMac. And my next iPad could be the 12.9 (currently have the 11’’ 2018 iPad Pro). #apple #ipad #ipados\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-19 06:58:47 -0500", "date": "6:58 p.m. on Mar 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/19/at-this-rate.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F19%2Fat-this-rate.html" }, { "id": 4260, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Mail.app in iPadOS 13.4 doesn’t have the redesigned toolbar like on the iOS version? Really? #apple #ipados134 #ios134\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-18 18:53:52 -0500", "date": "6:53 p.m. on Mar 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/18/mailapp-in-ipados.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F18%2Fmailapp-in-ipados.html" }, { "id": 4261, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "These Apple product releases today are some good diversion from the current crisis\u0026hellip; #apple #covid19\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-18 08:23:47 -0500", "date": "8:23 p.m. on Mar 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/18/these-apple-product.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F18%2Fthese-apple-product.html" }, { "id": 4262, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Still to come this week (friday?): updated Apple TV with redesigned Apple TV remote? #apple #appletv\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-18 08:06:33 -0500", "date": "8:06 p.m. on Mar 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/18/still-to-come.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F18%2Fstill-to-come.html" }, { "id": 4263, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The iPad Pro micro website on Apple.com is back to vertical scrolling. Good lord, thank you Apple! But scrolling speed is not smooth on powerful Macs. Oh well. www.apple.com/ipad-pro/\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-18 07:55:19 -0500", "date": "7:55 p.m. on Mar 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/18/the-ipad-pro.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F18%2Fthe-ipad-pro.html" }, { "id": 4264, "type": "post", "title": "COVID-19, Schools and Technology (hit link for more)", "text": "From what I\u0026rsquo;m seeing, the private school of my teenager where iPads are mandatory, don\u0026rsquo;t really take advantage of the possibilities of this technology. Limited remote teaching. No group chat, no nothing. That is a real reality check: the iPad as an enabling teaching device is quite overblown. More on this later.\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-18 06:18:40 -0500", "date": "6:18 p.m. on Mar 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/18/covid-schools-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F18%2Fcovid-schools-and.html" }, { "id": 4265, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple could decide to only release software for the rest of the year as it could be easier to build while working remotely. Just an idea. #apple\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-17 17:49:52 -0500", "date": "5:49 p.m. on Mar 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/17/apple-could-decide.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F17%2Fapple-could-decide.html" }, { "id": 4266, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It is a good thing to take a break from the news. Really. #covid19\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-17 17:35:36 -0500", "date": "5:35 p.m. on Mar 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/17/it-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F17%2Fit-is-a.html" }, { "id": 4267, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I was on the impression that we would get a press release a day from Apple this week. Seems it\u0026rsquo;s not the case after all. Maybe iOS 13.4 tomorrow. We\u0026rsquo;ll see. They could release it without announcing new hardware.\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-17 15:05:43 -0500", "date": "3:05 p.m. on Mar 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/17/i-was-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F17%2Fi-was-on.html" }, { "id": 4268, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Where are americans asking Bloomberg to spend money on the COVID-19 crisis? Oh, he doesn\u0026rsquo;t have any money left after spending that much trying to buy his election. So sad.\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-17 06:27:18 -0500", "date": "6:27 p.m. on Mar 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/17/where-are-americans.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F17%2Fwhere-are-americans.html" }, { "id": 4269, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Show by example. Max ten people. In this press conference, out of SIXTHEEN people, only THREE of them talked to the journalists. Others were standing there like bubble heads figures. WTF! #covid19\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-16 20:48:51 -0500", "date": "8:48 p.m. on Mar 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/16/show-by-example.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F16%2Fshow-by-example.html" }, { "id": 4270, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My sincere and deepest hope is for this crisis to force people reconsider open space offices. It wasn’t a great idea before COVID-19 and certainly won’t be for the foreseeable future. Are we getting it? #covid19\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-16 19:34:21 -0500", "date": "7:34 p.m. on Mar 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/16/my-sincere-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F16%2Fmy-sincere-and.html" }, { "id": 4271, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This COVID-19 crisis will change many many things in our life for a long time. Daring Fireball: Use Both Soap and Hand Sanitizer\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-16 19:17:09 -0500", "date": "7:17 p.m. on Mar 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/16/this-covid-crisis.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F16%2Fthis-covid-crisis.html" }, { "id": 4272, "type": "post", "title": "Get him off Twitter ", "text": "In other words, put the Clown in chief in quarantine.\n‘Isolate him’: Ex-Trump official calls on president to go into ‘verbal quarantine’ during COVID-19 crisis www.rawstory.com/2020/03/i\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-16 09:55:06 -0500", "date": "9:55 p.m. on Mar 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/16/get-him-off.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F16%2Fget-him-off.html" }, { "id": 4273, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On the verge of a week with many possible new Apple product releases, it will take a miracle for them to be noticed. #covid19 #apple 😔\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-15 19:59:36 -0500", "date": "7:59 p.m. on Mar 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/15/on-the-verge.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F15%2Fon-the-verge.html" }, { "id": 4274, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My kids are now discovering the fragility of the economic system and the potential difficulties they will confront in their own personal life. Maybe they will be less picky when being offered a new job.\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-15 14:23:25 -0500", "date": "2:23 p.m. on Mar 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/15/my-kids-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F15%2Fmy-kids-are.html" }, { "id": 4275, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just like for 9/11, I\u0026rsquo;m hooked to my screens. #covid19\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-15 13:26:28 -0500", "date": "1:26 p.m. on Mar 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/15/just-like-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F15%2Fjust-like-for.html" }, { "id": 4276, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Love these shots\u0026hellip; fits current crisis. Photography is about bringing emotion and questions. twitter.com/briscoepa\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-15 12:02:09 -0500", "date": "12:02 p.m. on Mar 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/15/love-these-shots.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F15%2Flove-these-shots.html" }, { "id": 4277, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Blogger\u0026rsquo;s joy: the satisfying moment when you hit \u0026ldquo;Publish\u0026rdquo;. #blogger #bloggerlife numericcitizen.me/2020/03/1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-15 11:33:38 -0500", "date": "11:33 p.m. on Mar 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/15/bloggers-joy-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F15%2Fbloggers-joy-the.html" }, { "id": 4278, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "That is a powerful image. Stay home. #covid19 twitter.com\nDavid J. Schow (@DavidJSchow) Tweeted: t.co/vtOyF8gxm\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-15 10:45:31 -0500", "date": "10:45 p.m. on Mar 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/15/that-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F15%2Fthat-is-a.html" }, { "id": 4279, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This COVID-19 crisis is a reminder of how people can be so dumb. #covid19\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-15 08:46:36 -0500", "date": "8:46 p.m. on Mar 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/15/this-covid-crisis.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F15%2Fthis-covid-crisis.html" }, { "id": 4280, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For as much as I can remember, I’ve always been in a “love \u0026amp; hate relationship” with the US as a society. I’m sad to report that since a few days I’m in the « hate it » phase. 🙁 #covid19 🇨🇦\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-14 18:21:46 -0500", "date": "6:21 p.m. on Mar 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/14/for-as-much.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F14%2Ffor-as-much.html" }, { "id": 4281, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Install poll for bloggers: is the COVID-19 crisis modified your publishing habit? Answer by following link to CrowdSignal poll. Thanks. #covid19 #blogger #bloggerlife poll.fm/10520620\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-14 15:26:49 -0500", "date": "3:26 p.m. on Mar 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/14/install-poll-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F14%2Finstall-poll-for.html" }, { "id": 4282, "type": "post", "title": "COVID-19 and my PhD Friend", "text": "I have a dear friend living in Denver, Co. He has a PhD in human comm. He is brilliant. But, he doesn\u0026rsquo;t understand all the fuss about COVID-19. For him, shutting down everything is over reacting. I tried to explain the curve, the pressure on health care system, etc. He thinks the flu is worst and yet we don\u0026rsquo;t shut down the country. I said yes and no.\nWe shouldn\u0026rsquo;t trust current numbers in the US because they are way undervaluated. There is no reason to think the US population will be affected differently than other population in other countries without containment. They will. And it will be much worst becaue there is a lack of major containment as of this writing. The US is a the beginning of the curve. The exponential curve. This will be ugly. Remember: a single day of \u0026ldquo;wait-and-see\u0026rdquo; does make a big dfference and we have the numbers and the experience of other countries to prove it.\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-14 07:56:29 -0500", "date": "7:56 p.m. on Mar 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/14/covid-and-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F14%2Fcovid-and-my.html" }, { "id": 4283, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Great summary of Apple\u0026rsquo;s actions in this COVID-19 crisis. #covid19 #apple twitter.com/reneritch\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-14 07:42:38 -0500", "date": "7:42 p.m. on Mar 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/14/great-summary-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F14%2Fgreat-summary-of.html" }, { "id": 4284, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As a mass transit user, I’m working from home next week. Not obligated but volunteered action. #covid19\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-13 17:44:41 -0500", "date": "5:44 p.m. on Mar 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/13/as-a-mass.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F13%2Fas-a-mass.html" }, { "id": 4285, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "No. #iOS14 9to5mac.com/2020/03/1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-13 13:37:11 -0500", "date": "1:37 p.m. on Mar 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/13/no-ios-httpstomaccomioshomescreenmockups.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F13%2Fno-ios-httpstomaccomioshomescreenmockups.html" }, { "id": 4286, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Working from home today. Like every friday. But this time, it is different. Same for my wife. Schools are closed today too. Unexpectedly. The world is slowly coming to a halt. For survival. #COVID19\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-13 06:06:31 -0500", "date": "6:06 p.m. on Mar 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/13/working-from-home.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F13%2Fworking-from-home.html" }, { "id": 4287, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Very hard to stay focused at work today. Everything seems to stop around me. People discussing about the situation with COVID-19.\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-12 14:05:05 -0500", "date": "2:05 p.m. on Mar 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/12/very-hard-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F12%2Fvery-hard-to.html" }, { "id": 4288, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The speech that should have aired yesterday night. But the clown 🤡 in chief just can’t do this. Read this Twitter thread. #covid19 twitter.com/jeremykon\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-12 11:33:39 -0500", "date": "11:33 p.m. on Mar 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/12/the-speech-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F12%2Fthe-speech-that.html" }, { "id": 4289, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thought of the day: I guess we have to get used to live in a constant state of emergency 🚨 #climatechange #covid19 #economy\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-12 07:33:46 -0500", "date": "7:33 p.m. on Mar 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/12/thought-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F12%2Fthought-of-the.html" }, { "id": 4290, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Yesterday’s night speech by the clown in chief 🤡 will be a turning point for him. Whatch the next few days when maths starts to do its magic the the US. Tick tock tick tock\u0026hellip; ⏰ #covid19\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-12 06:38:48 -0500", "date": "6:38 p.m. on Mar 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/12/yesterdays-night-speech.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F12%2Fyesterdays-night-speech.html" }, { "id": 4291, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "That one is not a short read but I feel obligated to share it. Highly recommended read. The outlook is grime. Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now - Tomas Pueyo - Medium\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-11 19:32:49 -0500", "date": "7:32 p.m. on Mar 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/11/that-one-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F11%2Fthat-one-is.html" }, { "id": 4292, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Really nice ad from Apple: AirPods Pro - Snap #apple #airpodspro\nwww.youtube.com/watch\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-11 11:36:25 -0500", "date": "11:36 p.m. on Mar 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/11/really-nice-ad.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F11%2Freally-nice-ad.html" }, { "id": 4293, "type": "post", "title": "On watchOS 7 and shareable watch face - an edge case example (hit link for the details)", "text": "What if a watch face uses a complication from a third-party app that the other user don’t have installed? How would this situation be handled? Highly probable edge case IMHO.\nwatchOS 7 to include new \u0026lsquo;International\u0026rsquo; Apple Watch face with multiple country flags - 9to5Mac 9to5mac.com/2020/03/1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-11 11:16:16 -0500", "date": "11:16 p.m. on Mar 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/11/on-watchos-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F11%2Fon-watchos-and.html" }, { "id": 4294, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The ugly and sad state of online \u0026ldquo;news\u0026rdquo; websites. Every single day of my online life, I\u0026rsquo;m exposed to what is described in this article. It doesn\u0026rsquo;t get better, far from it. I\u0026rsquo;m not the target for these websites, obviously. www.cjr.org/first_per\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-11 06:18:08 -0500", "date": "6:18 p.m. on Mar 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/11/the-ugly-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F11%2Fthe-ugly-and.html" }, { "id": 4295, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Not sure about this one. The wording is to the effect that it will be a separate page with a list view, not a full new mode.\niOS 14 to include new homescreen list view option with Siri suggestions and more - 9to5Mac 9to5mac.com/2020/03/1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-10 16:19:35 -0500", "date": "4:19 p.m. on Mar 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/10/not-sure-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F10%2Fnot-sure-about.html" }, { "id": 4296, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What? 😳🤔🧐 I’m not sure how I feel about that one. #apple #ios14\niOS 14: Major accessibility features, Alipay Apple Pay, wallpaper app integration, more - 9to5Mac 9to5mac.com/2020/03/1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-10 16:15:33 -0500", "date": "4:15 p.m. on Mar 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/10/what-im-not.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F10%2Fwhat-im-not.html" }, { "id": 4297, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Numbers, we need real numbers to help us govern actions. Simple.\nlink.medium.com/4iWWjYg1J\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-10 07:47:28 -0500", "date": "7:47 p.m. on Mar 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/10/numbers-we-need.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F10%2Fnumbers-we-need.html" }, { "id": 4298, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m not a gamer at all but when I see something that I like, I want it now! Still in development. Can\u0026rsquo;t wait to see more of this! 🥰 twitter.com/osksta/st\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-10 06:26:08 -0500", "date": "6:26 p.m. on Mar 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/10/im-not-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F10%2Fim-not-a.html" }, { "id": 4299, "type": "post", "title": "iPadOS 14, a mouse and my next iPad purchase (hit link for my take)", "text": "If iPadOS14 actually finish the job of supporting the mouse, I’ll certainly reconsider my choice of iPad the next time I’m on the market for a new device.[Poll: Will mouse cursor support in iPadOS 14 change your Mac vs iPad preference? - 9to5Mac](9to5mac.com/2020/03/0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-09 21:04:49 -0500", "date": "9:04 p.m. on Mar 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/09/ipados-a-mouse.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F09%2Fipados-a-mouse.html" }, { "id": 4300, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I can’t remember the last time Apple’s designers were that clever. I want something like this in iOS 14! 😍 twitter.com/st8rmi/st\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-09 18:48:31 -0500", "date": "6:48 p.m. on Mar 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/09/i-cant-remember.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F09%2Fi-cant-remember.html" }, { "id": 4301, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I stand corrected, yes you can rename an album in Apple’s Photos.app. The user have to be in a specific context to get access to the “Edit” button on the top-right portion of the screen.\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-08 12:55:19 -0500", "date": "12:55 p.m. on Mar 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/08/i-stand-corrected.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F08%2Fi-stand-corrected.html" }, { "id": 4302, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How do you rename an album within Apple’s stock Photos.app on iOS? Simple: you can’t. 😳🤦🏻‍♂️ #UX #apple\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-08 12:26:26 -0500", "date": "12:26 p.m. on Mar 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/08/how-do-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F08%2Fhow-do-you.html" }, { "id": 4303, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Currently testing Gluon a Micro.blog client. So far I like what I see but there are a few things that I would change right away\u0026hellip; like the size of the photos being displayed in the timeline\u0026hellip; currently way too big\u0026hellip; the lack of character count while writing a post\u0026hellip; just to name a few.\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-08 09:10:21 -0500", "date": "9:10 p.m. on Mar 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/08/currently-testing-gluon.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F08%2Fcurrently-testing-gluon.html" }, { "id": 4304, "type": "post", "title": "Be caution for what you ask for (hit link for my take on macOS with touch support)", "text": "A bit old but since many are still requesting it\u0026hellip; it is much a harder to make macOS touch-friendly than making iPadOS mouse-friendly. Touch support will come to macOS via Catalyst apps and ARM-based Mac. Mark my words. That being said, from what I’m seing from people with Windows-based machines with touch support, very people actually use it on a regular basis if at all. It’s about time for a Mac with a touch interface - Macworld\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-07 20:23:05 -0500", "date": "8:23 p.m. on Mar 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/07/be-caution-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F07%2Fbe-caution-for.html" }, { "id": 4305, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "🙁😔\nExclusive: The Strongest Evidence Yet That America Is Botching Coronavirus Testing www.theatlantic.com/health/ar\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-07 19:54:14 -0500", "date": "7:54 p.m. on Mar 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/07/exclusive-the-strongest.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F07%2Fexclusive-the-strongest.html" }, { "id": 4306, "type": "post", "title": "I wish you good luck with that (COVID-19) - (follow link for my take). ", "text": "Well, let me guess for you: look no further than of your (insert worst adjective here) President.\nExclusive: The Strongest Evidence Yet That America Is Botching Coronavirus Testing www.theatlantic.com/health/ar\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-07 19:32:59 -0500", "date": "7:32 p.m. on Mar 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/07/i-wish-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F07%2Fi-wish-you.html" }, { "id": 4307, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is soooo Montreal. By a great Saturday afternoon while taking a walk with my wife. #shotoniphone\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-07 17:34:02 -0500", "date": "5:34 p.m. on Mar 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/07/this-is-soooo.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F07%2Fthis-is-soooo.html" }, { "id": 4308, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Tomorrow, if all goes according to my plan, or maybe even today, I\u0026rsquo;m going all in with a personal blog post.\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-07 13:22:44 -0500", "date": "1:22 p.m. on Mar 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/07/tomorrow-if-all.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F07%2Ftomorrow-if-all.html" }, { "id": 4309, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If you see this blog post, it is because I\u0026rsquo;m now using Drafts to publish to my Micro.blog. And this is cool. Just wish Ulysses could do the same.\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-07 13:12:00 -0500", "date": "1:12 p.m. on Mar 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/07/if-you-see.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F07%2Fif-you-see.html" }, { "id": 4310, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One of the best shots of the Burning Man event that I have seen. 😍 Burning Man : Photos by Scott London – Scott London\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-07 08:55:38 -0500", "date": "8:55 p.m. on Mar 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/07/one-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F07%2Fone-of-the.html" }, { "id": 4311, "type": "post", "title": "Thanks to Apple for simplifying our numeric life (click link for more details)", "text": "Fascinating analysis by Jason Snell on vanishing ports from 15\u0026quot;/16\u0026quot; MacBook over the years. My take: Thanks to Apple for simplifyng our lives but the transitions are never fun. #apple #macbookpro sixcolors.com/post/2020\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-07 08:28:21 -0500", "date": "8:28 p.m. on Mar 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/07/thanks-to-apple.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F07%2Fthanks-to-apple.html" }, { "id": 4312, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m working on something new. Again. 😎 📷 #photographer #creativity numericcitizen.me/series/th\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-07 07:45:06 -0500", "date": "7:45 p.m. on Mar 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/07/im-working-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F07%2Fim-working-on.html" }, { "id": 4313, "type": "post", "title": "Anxiety over #COVID-19 (follow link for details)", "text": "Are we at a turning point where there will be a before \u0026amp; after world as we know it? I mean, this shit is here to stay among us for a long time\u0026hellip; right? This long streak of economic growth (since 2008) really look to be coming to an end. Young generations will find things, economically speaking, to be harsh from now on and will have to get their shit together when looking for jobs as unemployment will start to be on significant rise\u0026hellip; I’m Gen X, I do know what is it like when future is uncertain from a jobs perspective\u0026hellip; in case you asked. Full employment may be a thing of the past from now on. We’ll see.\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-06 17:43:16 -0500", "date": "5:43 p.m. on Mar 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/06/anxiety-over-covid.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F06%2Fanxiety-over-covid.html" }, { "id": 4314, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just discovered that within WordPress, with Automattic at least, there is a free library of very high quality, royalty-free stock images available at my fingertips. Very cool. I love Unsplash but these are very good too. I\u0026rsquo;m an happy camper.\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-06 16:09:55 -0500", "date": "4:09 p.m. on Mar 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/06/just-discovered-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F06%2Fjust-discovered-that.html" }, { "id": 4315, "type": "post", "title": "Intel: Houston, we have a problem (follow link for the details)", "text": "I’m not a security expert but this “bug” seems quite serious. Macs not affected. AMD no affected. Trust going downhill. 😳🙁\n5 years of Intel CPUs and chipsets have a concerning flaw that’s unfixable arstechnica.com/informati\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-06 12:38:09 -0500", "date": "12:38 p.m. on Mar 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/06/intel-houston-we.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F06%2Fintel-houston-we.html" }, { "id": 4316, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog matter: Question for @manton: on the web interface, why the show title and categories are not shown by default? Should / could be an option.\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-06 10:57:53 -0500", "date": "10:57 p.m. on Mar 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/06/microblog-matter-question.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F06%2Fmicroblog-matter-question.html" }, { "id": 4317, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Photography lovers, your opinion count. #photographers #photography See here: numericcitizen.me/2020/03/0\u0026hellip; Vote then there: poll.fm/10516091\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-06 08:27:58 -0500", "date": "8:27 p.m. on Mar 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/06/photography-lovers-your.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F06%2Fphotography-lovers-your.html" }, { "id": 4318, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m in the last few miles of enduring a very bad cold. Tired. I wonder how is it diffrent than having COVID19. The only thing I didn\u0026rsquo;t have is fever. Working from home for the last three days.\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-06 07:06:41 -0500", "date": "7:06 p.m. on Mar 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/06/im-in-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F06%2Fim-in-the.html" }, { "id": 4319, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m in a local coffee shop. Out of 14 people that I can see using computers, 11 are using MacBook. That is a lot. I always find this to be fascinating. This proportion doesn’t reflect general market shares obviously. Why?\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-05 16:02:17 -0500", "date": "4:02 p.m. on Mar 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/05/im-in-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F05%2Fim-in-a.html" }, { "id": 4320, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hey @Google, I’m calling you out: not supporting picture-in-picture on your YouTube app on iPad in 2020 is simply being evil. You keep giving me reasons, day after day, product after product, service after service to hate your « corporatism ». Fuck you. 🖕🏻🤬 #google\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-05 13:35:28 -0500", "date": "1:35 p.m. on Mar 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/05/hey-google-im.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F05%2Fhey-google-im.html" }, { "id": 4321, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’ll never really understand. I’ll never own bitcoins or this type of s*** twitter.com\nI couldn’t agree me. What a waste of resources.\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-05 12:19:14 -0500", "date": "12:19 p.m. on Mar 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/05/ill-never-really.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F05%2Fill-never-really.html" }, { "id": 4322, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Oops. Not related in any way to #COVID19. Move on.\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-05 11:35:48 -0500", "date": "11:35 p.m. on Mar 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/05/oops-not-related.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F05%2Foops-not-related.html" }, { "id": 4323, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Hard for me to get over someone liking one of my tweet dating back to 2016. 😳\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-05 11:02:15 -0500", "date": "11:02 p.m. on Mar 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/05/hard-for-me.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F05%2Fhard-for-me.html" }, { "id": 4324, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple’s macOS Vista. twitter.com\nYes, another thing to fix for Apple in 2020\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-05 07:34:54 -0500", "date": "7:34 p.m. on Mar 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/05/apples-macos-vista.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F05%2Fapples-macos-vista.html" }, { "id": 4325, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here is a very personal one: getting older is accepting things that are profoundly irritating about how we lose abilities. One example: typing on the on-screen keyboard on my iPhone is getting harder and produce too much typing errors. 😔\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-04 19:15:57 -0500", "date": "7:15 p.m. on Mar 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/04/here-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F04%2Fhere-is-a.html" }, { "id": 4326, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One this I’d like to see in iOS 14: a redesigned Siri conversion view. Make it more like an “iMessage-like” thread with bubbles. Because, right now, I never really liked this text on a fuzzy background. #apple #ios14\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-04 11:13:09 -0500", "date": "11:13 p.m. on Mar 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/04/one-this-id.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F04%2Fone-this-id.html" }, { "id": 4327, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Yesterday I went ahead and decided to spend some time cleaning up my bookmarks in Safari. Most of theme were related to iOS development and marketing (dating back from 2008-2014). The vast majority of them pointing to phased-out websites. #iosdev #apple\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-04 07:15:11 -0500", "date": "7:15 p.m. on Mar 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/04/yesterday-i-went.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F04%2Fyesterday-i-went.html" }, { "id": 4328, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Remember Posterous? I do. Good night, Posterous\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-03 20:51:16 -0500", "date": "8:51 p.m. on Mar 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/03/remember-posterous-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F03%2Fremember-posterous-i.html" }, { "id": 4329, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Oh I can’t to play this classic! So much good memories when I was a kid playing video games in arcades with my pocket money from my parents. Atari announces Missile Command Recharged for Android, iOS - Polygon\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-03 19:42:32 -0500", "date": "7:42 p.m. on Mar 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/03/oh-i-cant.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F03%2Foh-i-cant.html" }, { "id": 4330, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One issue that I don’t see people talking about regarding a possible WWDC2020 cancellation: can Apple charge devs to attend the event if is is “virtual-only”? 🤔🧐 I doubt it. #wwdc #wwdc2020 #apple #iosdev #macdev #tvosdev #watchosdev #ipadosdev\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-03 14:24:54 -0500", "date": "2:24 p.m. on Mar 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/03/one-issue-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F03%2Fone-issue-that.html" }, { "id": 4331, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Google is more than ever a software company so they fix the world with software glasses 🤷🏻‍♂️. I cannot see why Apple cannot do the same for non 3D touch devices 🤔. #googlepixel #google #apple #iPhone twitter.com/backlon/s\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-03 12:18:40 -0500", "date": "12:18 p.m. on Mar 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/03/google-is-more.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F03%2Fgoogle-is-more.html" }, { "id": 4332, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple in 2020 is in a \u0026ldquo;tick\u0026rdquo; year. Next year will be Apple\u0026rsquo;s \u0026ldquo;tock\u0026rdquo; year. #apple #ipados #armmac en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick–tock_model\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-03 08:13:39 -0500", "date": "8:13 p.m. on Mar 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/03/apple-in-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F03%2Fapple-in-is.html" }, { "id": 4333, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thought of the day: If I had to return as an indie iOS developer like I was back in 2009-2013, I would design and build a Micro.blog client. Why? Because none of them right now are satisfactory to me.\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-03 08:10:18 -0500", "date": "8:10 p.m. on Mar 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/03/thought-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F03%2Fthought-of-the.html" }, { "id": 4334, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Adobe apps running on modern hardware\u0026hellip; or another reason to hate Adobe?\nMac Pro review: power, if you can use it www.theverge.com/2020/3/2/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-03 07:18:58 -0500", "date": "7:18 p.m. on Mar 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/03/adobe-apps-running.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F03%2Fadobe-apps-running.html" }, { "id": 4335, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On Apple betting too big on China. Well, I have some news for you: because of our obsession with paying low prices on everything, we pushed every company in the world to depend on China’s cheap labour. We are the ones who depends on China. Think globally, act locally.\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-02 21:59:04 -0500", "date": "9:59 p.m. on Mar 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/02/on-apple-betting.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F02%2Fon-apple-betting.html" }, { "id": 4336, "type": "post", "title": "Apple, WWDC and COVID19", "text": "Apple usually show the way when it’s time to put humans interests above anything else. Apple cannot be far behind. WWDC2020 will (should) be a virtual event this year.\nGoogle, Adobe cancel live segments of upcoming conventions due to coronavirus concerns appleinsider.com/articles/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-02 21:39:40 -0500", "date": "9:39 p.m. on Mar 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/02/apple-wwdc-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F02%2Fapple-wwdc-and.html" }, { "id": 4337, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The thing that I find surprising is the position of eBay. I can’t remember the last time I used this service. Same for people around me. Apple.com is No.4 in U.S. e-commerce market share macdailynews.com/2020/03/0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-02 10:58:15 -0500", "date": "10:58 p.m. on Mar 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/02/the-thing-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F02%2Fthe-thing-that.html" }, { "id": 4338, "type": "post", "title": "On Apple and Default Apps", "text": "I have some doubts that Apple will feel the pressure to up their game with the stock apps because they allow third-party apps to act as default ones. Why? What do they lose in case of status quo? Keeping pressure on them with constructive comments as bloggers has more effects. Why? It comes down to public image management.\nOn Apple Letting Users Switch Default Apps on iOS chambyte.net/on-apple-\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-01 18:39:32 -0500", "date": "6:39 p.m. on Mar 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/01/on-apple-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F01%2Fon-apple-and.html" }, { "id": 4339, "type": "post", "title": "the man in charge ", "text": "With this guy in charge, we have nothing to worry about.\nInside Trump’s frantic attempts to minimize the coronavirus crisis www.washingtonpost.com/politics/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-01 17:41:25 -0500", "date": "5:41 p.m. on Mar 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/01/the-man-in.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F01%2Fthe-man-in.html" }, { "id": 4340, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The sad state of buying software these days. I did pay for Enlight back then. Deleted. Too bad, it was great while it lasted.\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-01 16:05:17 -0500", "date": "4:05 p.m. on Mar 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/01/the-sad-state.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F01%2Fthe-sad-state.html" }, { "id": 4341, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sad news. MacSurfer used to be the default page of my browser before social networks. Sad to see them stop maintaining the website. MacSurfer\u0026rsquo;s Headline News™\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-01 10:46:04 -0500", "date": "10:46 p.m. on Mar 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/01/sad-news-macsurfer.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F01%2Fsad-news-macsurfer.html" }, { "id": 4342, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If rockets science is your thing like it is for me, please do yourself a favour and watch this video. You’ll learn quite a few clever things about how rockets are built. twitter.com/smarterev\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-03-01 10:44:17 -0500", "date": "10:44 p.m. on Mar 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/03/01/if-rockets-science.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F03%2F01%2Fif-rockets-science.html" }, { "id": 4343, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Can you imagine when she will be 20 or 30? Can’t wait. twitter.com/zmaragoud\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-29 11:19:29 -0500", "date": "11:19 p.m. on Feb 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/29/can-you-imagine.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F29%2Fcan-you-imagine.html" }, { "id": 4344, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Processed in Pixelmator Photo on the iPad. Winter. The perfect imperfections?\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-29 10:50:10 -0500", "date": "10:50 p.m. on Feb 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/29/processed-in-pixelmator.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F29%2Fprocessed-in-pixelmator.html" }, { "id": 4345, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A few very interesting tidbits in this interview of Mrs. Powell Jobs.\nLaurene Powell Jobs Is Putting Her Own Dent in the Universe www.nytimes.com/2020/02/2\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-29 09:18:36 -0500", "date": "9:18 p.m. on Feb 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/29/a-few-very.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F29%2Fa-few-very.html" }, { "id": 4346, "type": "post", "title": "On iOS 13’s Share Sheet Design - Better? Worst? ", "text": "The share sheet design in iOS 13: I find it confusing. 🤷🏻‍♂️ It is a step ahead of iOS 12 but yet I’m not satisfied and I don’t know why exactly. The inclusion of Shortcuts is ok but should they have been put in a separate section? Also missing in iOS 13: a way to maximize/minimize popover windows like this one. I understand the need to keep sight of context of invocation. Your take?\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-29 08:25:15 -0500", "date": "8:25 p.m. on Feb 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/29/on-ios-s.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F29%2Fon-ios-s.html" }, { "id": 4347, "type": "post", "title": "Well, yes, thank you to all developers ", "text": "I was an indie developer from 2009 to 2013. I made three apps that got me about $5000 in revenue. I don’t know how much per hour this represents. I loved this time of my life where after a long work day I would sit in front of my Mac to learn Obj-C, Interface Builder, etc. until later in the night. Now, I can really appreciate what it is like to build apps and let the world know about them. Expressing Gratitude to Developers\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-28 20:24:07 -0500", "date": "8:24 p.m. on Feb 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/28/well-yes-thank.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F28%2Fwell-yes-thank.html" }, { "id": 4348, "type": "post", "title": "On Apple, Catalyst and ARM-Based machines... ", "text": "This thread is very interesting (from Steve Troughton-Smith): twitter.com/stroughto\u0026hellip; Reading my piece on Marzipan, now called Catalyst, dating back from March of last year, I think it did age well. 😎 numericcitizen.me/2019/03/0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-28 12:36:00 -0500", "date": "12:36 p.m. on Feb 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/28/on-apple-catalyst.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F28%2Fon-apple-catalyst.html" }, { "id": 4349, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just found out that Unsplash stats page now shows from where the traffic comes from. Cool. @unsplash #photography My profil by the way. unsplash.com@numericcitizen\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-28 11:41:18 -0500", "date": "11:41 p.m. on Feb 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/28/just-found-out.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F28%2Fjust-found-out.html" }, { "id": 4350, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Images can be so powerful. twitter.com/danrather\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-28 09:32:50 -0500", "date": "9:32 p.m. on Feb 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/28/images-can-be.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F28%2Fimages-can-be.html" }, { "id": 4351, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Interesting small new app: Tot from iconfactory. More interesting though: free on Mac. One time purchase on iOS. iCloud sync. See the trick? I like this. Clever. It could have been the other way around too. But I\u0026rsquo;ll stay with my current tools. tot.rocks\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-28 07:38:52 -0500", "date": "7:38 p.m. on Feb 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/28/interesting-small-new.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F28%2Finteresting-small-new.html" }, { "id": 4352, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "People come, people go. That is life. This is how a corporation get\u0026rsquo;s new breath of fresh air. #apple www.bloomberg.com/news/arti\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-28 07:11:48 -0500", "date": "7:11 p.m. on Feb 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/28/people-come-people.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F28%2Fpeople-come-people.html" }, { "id": 4353, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here is a very classic Apple thing. So Apple. When \u0026ldquo;form\u0026rdquo; is taking over everything, even common sense. But, hey, these wheels are great looking, right? twitter.com/MKBHD/sta\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-28 07:08:49 -0500", "date": "7:08 p.m. on Feb 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/28/here-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F28%2Fhere-is-a.html" }, { "id": 4354, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Interesting view about life. I\u0026rsquo;m dropping it here. TGIF. twitter.com/kocienda/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-28 07:05:41 -0500", "date": "7:05 p.m. on Feb 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/28/interesting-view-about.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F28%2Finteresting-view-about.html" }, { "id": 4355, "type": "post", "title": "Apple fixing the iPad Pro with... a redesigned keyboard with a trackpad. Really? ", "text": "It will take much more than a redesigned keyboard for the iPad Pro to make it a viable solution to fully replace a laptop in many business or even personal use cases. It will take fixes to iPadOS: discoverability, multitasking, real mouse pointer, etc. [Report: Apple releasing iPad Pro Smart Keyboard with built-in trackpad this year - 9to5Mac](9to5mac.com/2020/02/2\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-27 20:24:54 -0500", "date": "8:24 p.m. on Feb 27, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/27/apple-fixing-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F27%2Fapple-fixing-the.html" }, { "id": 4356, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If Apple decides to postpone WWDC2020 (because of COVID19], it could mean, for the first time in a while, Apple will ship new features at the same time of their announcement this fall. Just sayin. #apple #iosdev #WWDC #WWDC2020\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-27 13:56:44 -0500", "date": "1:56 p.m. on Feb 27, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/27/if-apple-decides.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F27%2Fif-apple-decides.html" }, { "id": 4357, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The more I experiment with Notion, the more I find it interesting, powerful and useful. This thing can be a personal CMS for any blogger. I should write a blog post about this.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-27 07:35:42 -0500", "date": "7:35 p.m. on Feb 27, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/27/the-more-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F27%2Fthe-more-i.html" }, { "id": 4358, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "From my blogger’s notebook: What the HomePod should have been. #apple #homepod\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-26 20:43:48 -0500", "date": "8:43 p.m. on Feb 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/26/from-my-bloggers.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F26%2Ffrom-my-bloggers.html" }, { "id": 4359, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A bit hold but still relevant. On the pervasive use by Apple of the ellipsis in iOS.\nLess… Is More? Apple’s Inconsistent Ellipsis Icons Inspire User Confusion - TidBITS tidbits.com/2019/08/3\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-26 20:36:10 -0500", "date": "8:36 p.m. on Feb 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/26/a-bit-hold.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F26%2Fa-bit-hold.html" }, { "id": 4360, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thought of the day: for bloggers, it is taboo thing to do to share the blog visitors statistics on social media. #blogger #bloggerlife #blogging\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-26 18:13:17 -0500", "date": "6:13 p.m. on Feb 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/26/thought-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F26%2Fthought-of-the.html" }, { "id": 4361, "type": "post", "title": "On bookmarking apps and services", "text": "Bookmarking apps and services like Pinboard are great but they offer limited features\u0026hellip; (I was a user of Pocket before). For me, I decided to use more versatile tools like Notion.io instead. More complete, deeper learning curve but way more than bookmarking service. (I was evaluating Raindrop.io but stopped because of lack of support of multitasking on iPadOS. I wrote the developer about it. Still didn\u0026rsquo;t get a response). alanralph.co.uk/3721-2/\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-26 16:39:00 -0500", "date": "4:39 p.m. on Feb 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/26/on-bookmarking-apps.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F26%2Fon-bookmarking-apps.html" }, { "id": 4362, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m not on beta this time for iOS / iPadOS. I can’t remember when was the last time my devices were not running a non-beta release. 😳🤔\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-26 15:55:10 -0500", "date": "3:55 p.m. on Feb 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/26/im-not-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F26%2Fim-not-on.html" }, { "id": 4363, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If true, this would put the final nail in the coffin for depending on a computer to do full reset of a device. Just like on the Mac. Can\u0026rsquo;t wait. #apple #ios134 www.macrumors.com/2020/02/2\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-26 14:56:08 -0500", "date": "2:56 p.m. on Feb 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/26/if-true-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F26%2Fif-true-this.html" }, { "id": 4364, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I don’t publish pictures often here on Micro.blog but this one, I kind of like it a lot. This is downtown Montreal, close to my offices. Enjoy. #shotoniphone\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-26 07:40:31 -0500", "date": "7:40 p.m. on Feb 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/26/i-dont-publish.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F26%2Fi-dont-publish.html" }, { "id": 4365, "type": "post", "title": "On macOS Catalina dialog bureaucraty", "text": "Security is not an easy thing to implement without adding layers and burden to the end-users. Same thing goes with added hardware features (like TouchID) which translate in added steps in the setup assistant. They do require setup. Is there a solution to all this? More features, less choices, same bureaucraty? pxlnv.com/blog/cata\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-26 07:27:04 -0500", "date": "7:27 p.m. on Feb 26, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/26/on-macos-catalina.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F26%2Fon-macos-catalina.html" }, { "id": 4366, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just opened Adobe Spark Post to create something and I was greeted with a poll. The first question was how I would feel if Adobe Spark Port was no longer available. 😳😱 That doesn’t bode well for this service.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-25 19:48:19 -0500", "date": "7:48 p.m. on Feb 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/25/just-opened-adobe.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F25%2Fjust-opened-adobe.html" }, { "id": 4367, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Another tool that I’m learning to fully take advantage for my blogger workflow: Linky. Wow. More to come in my next update to my blogger workflow.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-25 11:38:30 -0500", "date": "11:38 p.m. on Feb 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/25/another-tool-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F25%2Fanother-tool-that.html" }, { "id": 4368, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A by-product of switching to News Explorer, a powerful RSS reader, the deletion of these apps from my iPad. RSS FTW! Review available here: numericcitizen.me/2020/02/2\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-25 11:28:20 -0500", "date": "11:28 p.m. on Feb 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/25/a-byproduct-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F25%2Fa-byproduct-of.html" }, { "id": 4369, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How do you tackle your old parents numeric life? A personal story with some hints here. Enjoy. numericcitizen.me/2019/08/0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-25 11:06:23 -0500", "date": "11:06 p.m. on Feb 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/25/how-do-you.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F25%2Fhow-do-you.html" }, { "id": 4370, "type": "post", "title": "A new and interesting concept for iPadOS multitasking", "text": "Another iPadOS multitasking concept appeared on Twitter. First, this is an intersting starting point to redo multitasking on the iPad. Very simple gesture: single tap as it should be. My guess is that developers wouldn\u0026rsquo;t need to update their app in order to support this new model. It does fix the problem of finding the second app to bring in. Second, how the hell do they make these animations? How do we bring this to Apple\u0026rsquo;s attention? twitter.com/Rutherlin\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-25 07:06:32 -0500", "date": "7:06 p.m. on Feb 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/25/a-new-and.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F25%2Fa-new-and.html" }, { "id": 4371, "type": "post", "title": "Desjardins' modern offices in Montreal's olympic stadium tour", "text": "Desjardins, a major financial institution here in Canada, deserving mostly Quebec province and well known for a major data breach they were victim of recently, occupies modern offices near my home. They rented and rearchitected the internal space available in the olympic stadium\u0026rsquo;s main tour. Impressive. See the link here to have a look. design-milk.com/montreals\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-25 06:39:47 -0500", "date": "6:39 p.m. on Feb 25, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/25/desjardins-modern-offices.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F25%2Fdesjardins-modern-offices.html" }, { "id": 4372, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Time flies. Surprising how constant the layout of MacRumors stayed mostly the same over the years.#apple www.macrumors.com\nMacRumors is 20 Years Old Today\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-24 22:20:08 -0500", "date": "10:20 p.m. on Feb 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/24/time-fliessurprising-how.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F24%2Ftime-fliessurprising-how.html" }, { "id": 4373, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sometimes I feel that I\u0026rsquo;m spending more time testing tools and switching my stuff between them than actually doing useful work with them. Currently testing MarsEdit and Notion. Always looking for better tools and services.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-24 20:54:27 -0500", "date": "8:54 p.m. on Feb 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/24/sometimes-i-feel.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F24%2Fsometimes-i-feel.html" }, { "id": 4374, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;ve always been fascinated by the web service called \u0026ldquo;Notion\u0026rdquo;. Anyone here using this platform? I\u0026rsquo;m wondering if this can be useful for me and how it would fit in my current workflows. Maybe I\u0026rsquo;ll open my account there and see how it goes.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-24 18:48:45 -0500", "date": "6:48 p.m. on Feb 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/24/ive-always-been.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F24%2Five-always-been.html" }, { "id": 4375, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Yeah, Steve Jobs would have been 65 today. I\u0026rsquo;m kind of always asking myself: would Steve like to be remembered like this, every year, directly from the CEO of Apple? Anyways, I miss him a lot. #apple #stevejobs #sjobs twitter.com/tim_cook/\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-24 18:00:58 -0500", "date": "6:00 p.m. on Feb 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/24/yeah-steve-jobs.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F24%2Fyeah-steve-jobs.html" }, { "id": 4376, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Reeder ➡️ News Explorer. numericcitizen.me/2020/02/2\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-24 08:24:45 -0500", "date": "8:24 p.m. on Feb 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/24/reeder-news-explorer.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F24%2Freeder-news-explorer.html" }, { "id": 4377, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Finally finished my review of News Explorer, a great RSS feed reader with many goodies.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-24 07:11:23 -0500", "date": "7:11 p.m. on Feb 24, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/24/finally-finished-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F24%2Ffinally-finished-my.html" }, { "id": 4378, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This leak supposedly showing iOS 14 running on an iPhone and showing the app switcher from the iPad\u0026hellip; seriously, I hope we get to keep the current “card style” which I find better suited for the iPhone form factor and thumb based operations. #apple #ios14 #rumor #leaktwitter.com\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-23 20:32:39 -0500", "date": "8:32 p.m. on Feb 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/23/this-leak-supposedly.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F23%2Fthis-leak-supposedly.html" }, { "id": 4379, "type": "post", "title": "Apple’s iPhone 11 Pro: the perfect companion for urban exploration #urbex #shotoniphone", "text": "Today’s session of urban exploration was the first since I bought the iPhone 11 Pro last fall. As you might expect, going in with such a phone makes a great difference while shooting quick shots in dark places. This device is simply amazing (you can read my lengthy revew here btw).\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-23 13:29:23 -0500", "date": "1:29 p.m. on Feb 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/23/apples-iphone-pro.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F23%2Fapples-iphone-pro.html" }, { "id": 4380, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just (re)discovered Camera+ during my urban exploration session today. How come I didn’t spend more time with this wonderful camera app?🤦🏻‍♂️ I should (and I will) write a review of this app as it will probably find a special place in my photo processing workflow. #photography.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-23 13:11:53 -0500", "date": "1:11 p.m. on Feb 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/23/just-rediscovered-camera.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F23%2Fjust-rediscovered-camera.html" }, { "id": 4381, "type": "post", "title": "First urban exploration session of 2020", "text": "Going to my first urban exploration session of 2020 with two other friends. It\u0026rsquo;s been a long time. The place is not exactly very exciting but who knows what we will discover. We never really know how a session turns out. Stay tuned for a sample later today. #urbex #urbanexploration #photographer\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-23 06:55:04 -0500", "date": "6:55 p.m. on Feb 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/23/first-urban-exploration.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F23%2Ffirst-urban-exploration.html" }, { "id": 4382, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thinking about buying ND filters for my camera. 77mm required. Variable density or discreet ones? 6-10 stops. #photography #gear #nikon\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-22 22:17:34 -0500", "date": "10:17 p.m. on Feb 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/22/thinking-about-buying.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F22%2Fthinking-about-buying.html" }, { "id": 4383, "type": "post", "title": "The future is now", "text": "My wife and I went for a walk today. Great weather. After a while, my wife says her Apple Watch asks permission to connect to my phone. I’m surprised. She didn’t bring her iPhone with her. I turned on hotspot on my iPhone. Just a few moments later, she get a phone call on the watch. She answer and start the conversation. How cool is that?\nI didn’t know the Apple Watch could do this\u0026hellip; It has something to do with the fact that she is in the iCloud Family and this was a call using wifi calling from her cell phone provider through my own iPhone. I’m impressed by all the involved technologies behind this.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-22 17:35:12 -0500", "date": "5:35 p.m. on Feb 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/22/the-future-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F22%2Fthe-future-is.html" }, { "id": 4384, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I don’t know if I’m alone with this behaviour\u0026hellip; are you one of these guys who keep unused (or very rarely used) apps on your devices? Do you keep them “just in case you need them”? I’m trying to change this behaviour and I created a folder called “On the way out”. 😳🤔😂😂\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-22 09:02:25 -0500", "date": "9:02 p.m. on Feb 22, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/22/i-dont-know.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F22%2Fi-dont-know.html" }, { "id": 4385, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Waiting my turn. #shotoniphone\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-21 21:58:18 -0500", "date": "9:58 p.m. on Feb 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/21/waiting-my-turn.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F21%2Fwaiting-my-turn.html" }, { "id": 4386, "type": "post", "title": "Thoughts on Noto - Elegant Note", "text": "Interesting newcomer in the note taking apps landscape: Noto - Elegant Note. Really nice design. Not sure about long term viability (remember Evernote?). Not sure about design scalability with a lot of notes. Another subscription to take care of. Not cheap for a young app. MacStories.net has more to say about it for sure. I\u0026rsquo;ll keep on eye on that one. apps.apple.com/ca/app/no\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-21 17:43:46 -0500", "date": "5:43 p.m. on Feb 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/21/thoughts-on-noto.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F21%2Fthoughts-on-noto.html" }, { "id": 4387, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I almost forgot that I have a Podcast (in french). My last recording goes back to last summer. I didn’t mention it on my blogger workflow. Too insignificant I guess.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-21 16:11:18 -0500", "date": "4:11 p.m. on Feb 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/21/i-almost-forgot.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F21%2Fi-almost-forgot.html" }, { "id": 4388, "type": "post", "title": "Yes but no", "text": "I know this one is fake but if the rumoured iPhone 9, or iPhone SE// or whatever they call it looks like this fake model, I kind of like it\u0026hellip; especially the edges that looks like the one on the iPad Pro. Get rid of the bezels and voilà! But it\u0026rsquo;s not going to happen. #apple #iphone twitter.com/WhatTheBi\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-21 12:41:37 -0500", "date": "12:41 p.m. on Feb 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/21/yes-but-no.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F21%2Fyes-but-no.html" }, { "id": 4389, "type": "post", "title": "On Apple Music app feedbacks ", "text": "One of the things that I don’t like with Apple Music.app is this: the visual feedback that comes with adding or loving a song. Too obstructive, too slow. Reminds me of the volume hud\u0026hellip; that Apple finally got rid of with iOS 13. Oh, and by the way, why burry Add and Love in a sub-menu? Agree? #applemusic #apple #ui #ux #design\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-21 12:10:28 -0500", "date": "12:10 p.m. on Feb 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/21/on-apple-music.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F21%2Fon-apple-music.html" }, { "id": 4390, "type": "post", "title": "Looking to add Google Analytics Widget to my iPad Home Screen - help", "text": "Asking my dear network of friends: I’d like to be able to put a widget of Google analytics on my iPad home screen. Do you know of any iOS apps that can do this? I’ll pay for it if the design is up to my taste. Something along the line of this one (which is no longer being maintained). Thanks. 🙏🏻 apps.apple.com/ca/app/ga\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-21 07:35:10 -0500", "date": "7:35 p.m. on Feb 21, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/21/looking-to-add.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F21%2Flooking-to-add.html" }, { "id": 4391, "type": "post", "title": "Is Microsoft surpassing Apple on the design front? ", "text": "Another prime example of Microsoft great efforts in designing visually appealing UI elements: icons. I love those very much. Can’t get out of my head the simple thought that they are getting better at design than Apple on the desktop OS front? Oh and pay attention to the mail icon design evolution from the very beginning to 2020.\nlink.medium.com/cZ3Azyjnf\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-20 20:43:22 -0500", "date": "8:43 p.m. on Feb 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/20/is-microsoft-surpassing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F20%2Fis-microsoft-surpassing.html" }, { "id": 4392, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Nice summary of opinions about iPad’s ten years anniversary by Mike Rockwell. And I second his own point of view on iPad current state of affair. #apple #ipad #ipados The State of iPad - Initial Charge\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-20 20:27:21 -0500", "date": "8:27 p.m. on Feb 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/20/nice-summary-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F20%2Fnice-summary-of.html" }, { "id": 4393, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Because I\u0026rsquo;m a freak of visitors statistics in general, I just enabled Google Analytics for this micro.blog. Just another way to see if I get any attention (I\u0026rsquo;m not attention freak though!). 😊\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-20 18:48:19 -0500", "date": "6:48 p.m. on Feb 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/20/because-im-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F20%2Fbecause-im-a.html" }, { "id": 4394, "type": "post", "title": "On social networks as debating tools", "text": "You know what? When reading replies on Twitter, I rarely go past 5 replies\u0026hellip; this is usually the point where things are getting either ugly, out of control and not related to the original tweet. This is why I think social networks are not good instruments for debate and discussions.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-20 07:55:04 -0500", "date": "7:55 p.m. on Feb 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/20/on-social-networks.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F20%2Fon-social-networks.html" }, { "id": 4395, "type": "post", "title": "On Apple Allowing Change of Defaults Browser", "text": "I expect Apple to go ahead with this, allowing the users to set a default browser or mail client on iOS. Changing defaults is part of a modern OS and this would be, in my opinion, another step towards the upcoming ARM-based Macs running iPadOS. 9to5mac.com/2020/02/2\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-20 07:06:00 -0500", "date": "7:06 p.m. on Feb 20, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/20/on-apple-allowing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F20%2Fon-apple-allowing.html" }, { "id": 4396, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is the Microsoft that I like. This is what I would love from Apple. The new Office app for iPhone. 😍🥰 #microsoft #apple #office #office365\nlink.medium.com/jeNBwdDId\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-19 20:44:48 -0500", "date": "8:44 p.m. on Feb 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/19/this-is-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F19%2Fthis-is-the.html" }, { "id": 4397, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "So baffling to me that Apple seems unable to fix Mail’s toolbar in iOS 13\u0026hellip; what was the problem again with iOS 12’s version? 🤔🙄 #apple #ios134beta twitter.com/bzamayo/s\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-19 18:48:48 -0500", "date": "6:48 p.m. on Feb 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/19/so-baffling-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F19%2Fso-baffling-to.html" }, { "id": 4398, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On Photoshop turning 30. The last version on which I really spent time was version 3. Other game changer apps? Multiplan. Pagemaker. twitter.com/flargh/st\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-19 18:40:11 -0500", "date": "6:40 p.m. on Feb 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/19/on-photoshop-turning.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F19%2Fon-photoshop-turning.html" }, { "id": 4399, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Oopsy, that is certainly something that Apple doesn’t want to get out. It may be already too late. This could get ugly. 🍿 Apple demands pull of tell-all App Store book over confidentiality issues\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-19 11:19:12 -0500", "date": "11:19 p.m. on Feb 19, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/19/oopsy-that-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F19%2Foopsy-that-is.html" }, { "id": 4400, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Why, oh why? If I was blogging for fame, I would close all this shit right away! So, why am I doing all this? That\u0026rsquo;s the question that\u0026rsquo;s lingering in my head this morning. I guess this is a typital thing to ask myself, dear blogger. #blogger #bloggerlife #blogging\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-18 07:34:28 -0500", "date": "7:34 p.m. on Feb 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/18/why-oh-why.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F18%2Fwhy-oh-why.html" }, { "id": 4401, "type": "post", "title": "Cocooning, really? ", "text": "Are we ready for a new social network? Do we need this? Judging by their website, the nice design of Cocoon certainly looks enticing. But do we need this? It will take a lot of traction to make people leave Facebook or other well established data-ungry players. I certainly hope new players to come in and shake this rotten industry. Judge for yourself. cocoon.com\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-17 07:28:08 -0500", "date": "7:28 p.m. on Feb 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/17/cocooning-really.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F17%2Fcocooning-really.html" }, { "id": 4402, "type": "post", "title": "Things I look for when evaluating an app for my own use", "text": "When evaluating a new app for my own use, the first things I look for are (in no particular order): update frequency, update notes quality, user ratings, multi-platform support (macOS, iOS, iPad support), sync mecanism used, one-time purchase vs subscription based, web service backend. I may elaborate on this subject on a longer blog post in the near future. Currently using this against Raindrop.io apps.apple.com/app/id102\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-16 12:03:00 -0500", "date": "12:03 p.m. on Feb 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/16/things-i-look.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F16%2Fthings-i-look.html" }, { "id": 4403, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "He made my day. #blogger #blogging #bloggerlife #blog twitter.com/mattbirch\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-16 09:42:47 -0500", "date": "9:42 p.m. on Feb 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/16/he-made-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F16%2Fhe-made-my.html" }, { "id": 4404, "type": "post", "title": "On foldable devices... ", "text": "Nobody asked for these phones\u0026hellip; you are trying too hard. To all smartphone companies: fix your software, stop tracking us without our consent, stop selling our data, be transparent with each updates and the “feature” they bring, implement rules against tracking features that comes in most apps these days and end up on your App Stores, etc. . twitter.com/mondoir/s\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-16 09:21:50 -0500", "date": "9:21 p.m. on Feb 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/16/on-foldable-devices.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F16%2Fon-foldable-devices.html" }, { "id": 4405, "type": "post", "title": "On Medium as a platform for bloggers", "text": "For those wonder about using Medium as a publishing platform. Here is a summary for my last four publications. See the difference when a story gets approved? The last three stories were not approved for publication behind their paywall. Not cool. It is a hit or miss and so you don’t want to build too much confidence in the platform to help build any form of sustainable revenue, even small.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-16 09:12:24 -0500", "date": "9:12 p.m. on Feb 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/16/on-medium-as.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F16%2Fon-medium-as.html" }, { "id": 4406, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here is a citation of Galieo. In the age of social medias where it all comes down to opinion sharing and amplification, I find it to be disturbingly on point. twitter.com/proffeynm\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-16 08:13:00 -0500", "date": "8:13 p.m. on Feb 16, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/16/here-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F16%2Fhere-is-a.html" }, { "id": 4407, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Are you tired of those meaningless update notes with app updates? I am. There are rules made by Apple prevent this. But, even Apple isn’t following their own shit. #iosdev #apple twitter.com/khaost/st\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-15 17:07:35 -0500", "date": "5:07 p.m. on Feb 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/15/are-you-tired.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F15%2Fare-you-tired.html" }, { "id": 4408, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Why the fuck opening an RSS feed link on iOS opens up Apple’s News, an app that is so dump that it cannot do anything with it anyways! Fix this Apple for god’s sake! 🤬 #apple #ios #rss\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-15 14:35:23 -0500", "date": "2:35 p.m. on Feb 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/15/why-the-fuck.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F15%2Fwhy-the-fuck.html" }, { "id": 4409, "type": "post", "title": "here is a really dopey idea", "text": "Apple should introduce another type of subscription: pay-per-use. Pricing would be based on the time spent on-screen, down to a second resolution. Pricing would be based on dime fractions, payable on demand, monthly or yearly. Exemple: five minutes of an app usage @ $ 0.00001 would cost 1.08 yearly. That is an extreme example for sure. But you get the idea, right? Don’t throw rocks at me if Apple ever see and then implement this! 🤫🙃\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-15 13:33:22 -0500", "date": "1:33 p.m. on Feb 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/15/here-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F15%2Fhere-is-a.html" }, { "id": 4410, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My take? Everybody is playing hardball here. Ex-Apple chip exec claims Apple trying to ‘suffocate’ new tech after staff poaching - 9to5Mac\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-15 13:01:38 -0500", "date": "1:01 p.m. on Feb 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/15/my-take-everybody.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F15%2Fmy-take-everybody.html" }, { "id": 4411, "type": "post", "title": "Where is the date of publication?", "text": "Here is something that I notice quite often while browsing the web: the lack of a publish date on articles, blog posts, etc. While living in the age of fast content consumption, where content relevance is depleting fast, it seems important, more than ever, to put a publishing date. I know we can sometimes infer the date from the URL but to me it isn\u0026rsquo;t the right way to do it.\nA content creators, If we suspect content we publish will age well, let\u0026rsquo;s put a publishing date on it! If we do think this is ephemeral stuff, a publishing date helps put some context for the content. Makes sense?\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-15 08:37:00 -0500", "date": "8:37 p.m. on Feb 15, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/15/where-is-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F15%2Fwhere-is-the.html" }, { "id": 4412, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I don’t know what it will take to get rid of Facebook\u0026hellip; but regulation is not going to fix the problem. We need to fix ourselves. We Don’t Need Social Media - OneZero\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-14 21:34:49 -0500", "date": "9:34 p.m. on Feb 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/14/i-dont-know.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F14%2Fi-dont-know.html" }, { "id": 4413, "type": "post", "title": "it all comes down to compromise ", "text": "When so many apps are available for a specific task, choosing one can be a nightmare. Recently, my focus was to select a new calendar app following the release of Fantastical update. I finally settled on the one that I use for a few years now: Calendar 5. The same is happening right now with RSS readers. But this time, I’’m switching from the excellent Reeder app to News Explorer. The latter is not perfect but from a functional point of view, it is an improvement. More on this soon.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-14 18:01:26 -0500", "date": "6:01 p.m. on Feb 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/14/it-all-comes.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F14%2Fit-all-comes.html" }, { "id": 4414, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "You cannot have it all it seems in the RSS reader space. Reeder is a great design example but is lacking a few features. News Explorer has more features but is lacking some design nice touches. 🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-14 15:47:12 -0500", "date": "3:47 p.m. on Feb 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/14/you-cannot-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F14%2Fyou-cannot-have.html" }, { "id": 4415, "type": "post", "title": "On Testing News Explorer - Another RSS Reader", "text": "Yesterday I learned about the existence of a different RSS reader named \u0026ldquo;News Explorer\u0026rdquo;. As a long time user of Reeder, I wasn\u0026rsquo;t really interested in trying a different one. But, after playing with the trial version on macOS: I\u0026rsquo;m mostly converted. Stay tuned for more details.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-14 11:17:06 -0500", "date": "11:17 p.m. on Feb 14, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/14/on-testing-news.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F14%2Fon-testing-news.html" }, { "id": 4416, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m still amazed by the quality of the iPhone 11 Pro cameras. A concert hall is a great place to experience it! #shotoniphone #apple\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-13 19:59:49 -0500", "date": "7:59 p.m. on Feb 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/13/im-still-amazed.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F13%2Fim-still-amazed.html" }, { "id": 4417, "type": "post", "title": "When time was on a different scale", "text": "I’m still not finished with Apple’s « For all mankind » TV series. I like it for an unexpected reason: having a peak at the way people were living before the personal computers, smartphones, the Internet. It seems like time was slower so people had time to think. Oh, and they had a private life.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-12 18:26:00 -0500", "date": "6:26 p.m. on Feb 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/12/when-time-was.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F12%2Fwhen-time-was.html" }, { "id": 4418, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sometimes, just sometimes, I would like to go back in time, way before today. Just to see and feel what it was like before our numeric society. I know that I wouldn\u0026rsquo;t have to go very far in time but\u0026hellip; just before any computers existed. This photo is from Havana, Cuba.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-12 12:31:45 -0500", "date": "12:31 p.m. on Feb 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/12/sometimes-just-sometimes.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F12%2Fsometimes-just-sometimes.html" }, { "id": 4419, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Is this Playground for Mac release another hint of an upcoming ARM-based Mac machine coming down the pipeline? My guess: yes. This is what Catalyst is all about. Apple launches Swift Playgrounds app for the Mac, built using Catalyst - 9to5Mac\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-11 22:38:54 -0500", "date": "10:38 p.m. on Feb 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/11/is-this-playground.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F11%2Fis-this-playground.html" }, { "id": 4420, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This Lightroom CC update seems a bit uninteresting on the surface but I’ll give it a close look, we never know. You can see by these update notes what type of customers Adobe wants to please and attract. Stay tuned for more comments. #photographer #adobe #lightroom\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-11 16:51:49 -0500", "date": "4:51 p.m. on Feb 11, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/11/this-lightroom-cc.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F11%2Fthis-lightroom-cc.html" }, { "id": 4421, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This keyboard fiasco is here with us for many many years to come. Can you imagine how bad second hand MacBook price will be after Apple is done replacing them in their product line? They will go downhill for sure. 😱#apple #keyboardfiasco MacSparky\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-10 19:41:08 -0500", "date": "7:41 p.m. on Feb 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/10/this-keyboard-fiasco.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F10%2Fthis-keyboard-fiasco.html" }, { "id": 4422, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Another day, another 15cm of snow here downtown in Montreal, Canada. We have a very well known song here that says \u0026ldquo;My country is not a crounty, it is simply winter\u0026rdquo;. This is the kind of day. Photo processed with Apple\u0026rsquo;s Photos.app on iMac. #montreal #canada #winter #snow\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-10 19:03:57 -0500", "date": "7:03 p.m. on Feb 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/10/another-day-another.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F10%2Fanother-day-another.html" }, { "id": 4423, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I would live to be a fly at Apple headquarters this week. Very damaging to their image. Fully deserved btw. twitter.com/backlon/s\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-10 09:45:13 -0500", "date": "9:45 p.m. on Feb 10, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/10/i-would-live.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F10%2Fi-would-live.html" }, { "id": 4424, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Where are designers gone? #eero #ui #ux\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-09 20:35:00 -0500", "date": "8:35 p.m. on Feb 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/09/where-are-designers.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F09%2Fwhere-are-designers.html" }, { "id": 4425, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Remember Flipboard? Who is using this app / service these days? Is it a ghost town?\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-09 15:38:00 -0500", "date": "3:38 p.m. on Feb 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/09/remember-flipboard-who.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F09%2Fremember-flipboard-who.html" }, { "id": 4426, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m putting the last efforts on something special that I’ll be sharing really soon. I’m kind of proud of the end results. So, if you are a blogger or want to start a new blog, you should pay attention to this space. 👨🏻‍💻☝🏻#blogger #blogging #writers.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-09 15:09:40 -0500", "date": "3:09 p.m. on Feb 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/09/im-putting-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F09%2Fim-putting-the.html" }, { "id": 4427, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m not a film critic but I really enjoyed One upon a time in Hollywood. Why? Because it remindedme about my childhood a lot from many perspectives: TV shows at that time, household product we use to have, cars, “electronics”, etc. Can’t wait for the Oscars night.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-09 10:31:59 -0500", "date": "10:31 p.m. on Feb 9, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/09/im-not-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F09%2Fim-not-a.html" }, { "id": 4428, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I think I need some help understanding these. #1: posting new content on my micro.blog can be cross posted to Twitter (Apple_Observer)? #2: new posts appearing from my main blog (WordPress feed) could be cross posted to ? I’m confused. Any hints? Thanks 🙏🏻\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-08 17:57:33 -0500", "date": "5:57 p.m. on Feb 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/08/i-think-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F08%2Fi-think-i.html" }, { "id": 4429, "type": "post", "title": "To all content creators: RSS feeds as facilitators, use them! ", "text": "My goal as a blogger is to get people read my stuff. RSS feeds are a way to help users access my content. Trying to be protective is counterproductive for me. The idea is to remove friction to the users. If they want to read via Reeder for example, why not! On that note, If a website doesn’t provide an RSS feed, which is sad, I’m let interested to stay in touch. Just sayin. Is RSS Just Giving Your Site Away for Free?\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-08 09:07:55 -0500", "date": "9:07 p.m. on Feb 8, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/08/to-all-content.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F08%2Fto-all-content.html" }, { "id": 4430, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Troubled by the Joker. 🤡\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-07 21:51:40 -0500", "date": "9:51 p.m. on Feb 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/07/troubled-by-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F07%2Ftroubled-by-the.html" }, { "id": 4431, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A snow storm makes up for good photography experimentations. 😃\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-07 17:43:31 -0500", "date": "5:43 p.m. on Feb 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/07/a-snow-storm.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F07%2Fa-snow-storm.html" }, { "id": 4432, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Do you remember webclips with Apple\u0026rsquo;s macOS dashboard? I wish we could do the same and embed a webclip for display in iPadOS widgets. Is this possible to develop an iPad app that does just that? Asking for a friend. #iosdev #apple #ipados\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-07 08:12:14 -0500", "date": "8:12 p.m. on Feb 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/07/do-you-remember.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F07%2Fdo-you-remember.html" }, { "id": 4433, "type": "post", "title": "Imperfection is good! ", "text": "I love this idea of aiming for the imperfections in photography. In the age of hyper processed and over saturated images where they more or less seems to come from the same photographer, imperfect images will give you personality, a visual distinctive look. In praise of imperfect images — aows\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-07 07:44:00 -0500", "date": "7:44 p.m. on Feb 7, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/07/imperfection-is-good.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F07%2Fimperfection-is-good.html" }, { "id": 4434, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "If Apple is serious about AR, they are the best positioned to provide us a clean, uncluttered augmented view of our surroundings with ads and tracking besides what is required to make the AR magic possible. The Coming Supremacy of AR - Allen Pike\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-06 20:46:51 -0500", "date": "8:46 p.m. on Feb 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/06/if-apple-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F06%2Fif-apple-is.html" }, { "id": 4435, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here is a good and possible tweak to iPad multitasking, one that I can imagine Apple implementing. These contextual menus shouldn’t remove gestures though as it provides a great power user feature. #apple #ipad #ipados A Fix for iPad Multitasking - MacStories\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-06 20:35:13 -0500", "date": "8:35 p.m. on Feb 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/06/here-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F06%2Fhere-is-a.html" }, { "id": 4436, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On managing Fonts on iOS. Why is this happening? Lost of my installed fonts because I didn\u0026rsquo;t pay attention to this. There has to be a better way. #apple #ios13 #adobe\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-06 19:40:04 -0500", "date": "7:40 p.m. on Feb 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/06/on-managing-fonts.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F06%2Fon-managing-fonts.html" }, { "id": 4437, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Question to people here on Micro.blog: what are the choices of themes? Are the ones (nine or so) the only one available? Asking for a friend of mine. 😊\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-06 19:29:20 -0500", "date": "7:29 p.m. on Feb 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/06/question-to-people.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F06%2Fquestion-to-people.html" }, { "id": 4438, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Major snow storm coming in the next 24 hours. More than 30 CM of snow. Winds. I like that!\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-06 16:56:12 -0500", "date": "4:56 p.m. on Feb 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/06/major-snow-storm.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F06%2Fmajor-snow-storm.html" }, { "id": 4439, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thought of the day: Photography and passion: two things that belong together more than ever. #photography #photographer aows.co\nPhotography is about passion\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-06 15:29:09 -0500", "date": "3:29 p.m. on Feb 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/06/thought-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F06%2Fthought-of-the.html" }, { "id": 4440, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here is an insider note, from a blogger. Each and every single morning, I spend about 45-60 minutes doing things related to my blog: writing, reading, researching, bookmarking, designing, thinking. Every single day. It’s a passion I guess. #blogger #bloggerlife #writing 👨🏻‍💻😎\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-06 07:33:35 -0500", "date": "7:33 p.m. on Feb 6, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/06/here-is-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F06%2Fhere-is-an.html" }, { "id": 4441, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Is it good for developers or for Apple? Devs prefer to sell two versions (one for iOS, the other for macOS) instead of only one\u0026hellip; right? #iosdev #apple Apple adds ability for developers to sell Mac and iOS apps as a single purchase - 9to5Mac\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-05 22:43:31 -0500", "date": "10:43 p.m. on Feb 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/05/is-it-good.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F05%2Fis-it-good.html" }, { "id": 4442, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Eventually I’ll have to make a decision. Feature wise, design wise: one of them provide a satisfactory solution. None. And I’m not even talking about pricing. ☹️\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-05 21:44:17 -0500", "date": "9:44 p.m. on Feb 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/05/eventually-ill-have.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F05%2Feventually-ill-have.html" }, { "id": 4443, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "From iOS 13.4 beta 1. Amen. Here is a simple question: who thought it was a good idea to redesign the toolbar of Mail.app in iOS 12? Now Apple changed his mind and reverted the redesign introduced in iOS 13. #apple\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-05 20:28:37 -0500", "date": "8:28 p.m. on Feb 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/05/from-ios-beta.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F05%2Ffrom-ios-beta.html" }, { "id": 4444, "type": "post", "title": "Yes, @Gruber can be critical to Apple", "text": "Who said that @gruber can’t have a critical view of Apple? From his report card; Mac: D. Ouch. He doesn’t like the keyboard and macOS Catalina. iPad: D. Cause: software, again. Apple TV: D. Software. Again. I do agree with Catalina security being too strict and the lack of a more “relaxed mode”. daringfireball.net/2020/02/m\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-05 20:20:27 -0500", "date": "8:20 p.m. on Feb 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/05/yes-gruber-can.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F05%2Fyes-gruber-can.html" }, { "id": 4445, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Now that we’ve got beta1 of iOS 13.4… which includes iCloud Folder Sharing, waiting for horror stories of data corruption and data lost to happen. 🍿 I’m not going to be on board for this round of beta cycle. #ios134beta1\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-05 14:22:53 -0500", "date": "2:22 p.m. on Feb 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/05/now-that-weve.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F05%2Fnow-that-weve.html" }, { "id": 4446, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thought of the day: there is too much of everything in America. Way too much. 🤢🤮\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-05 08:30:22 -0500", "date": "8:30 p.m. on Feb 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/05/thought-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F05%2Fthought-of-the.html" }, { "id": 4447, "type": "post", "title": "On paying for software", "text": "There is a lot of push back about software subscriptions these days it seems. But we should remember about past scams with promised updates for paid software that never came. So many examples of \u0026ldquo;significant\u0026rdquo; updates that are merely excuses to charge the user base again. There is no perfect and definitive solutions when it comes to pay for software. It is a matter of trust between the developer and the users or potential customers.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-04 19:39:00 -0500", "date": "7:39 p.m. on Feb 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/04/on-paying-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F04%2Fon-paying-for.html" }, { "id": 4448, "type": "post", "title": "On Gruber on Flexibits on Subscription Pricing", "text": "Well, it sounds like he is trying to justify the new and more expansive subscription model for Flexibits and Fantastical. For me, it does take much more than fancy animations to justify the price they ask. A working Apple Watch would help. Daring Fireball: Federico Viticci\u0026rsquo;s Review of the New Fantastical\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-04 17:45:41 -0500", "date": "5:45 p.m. on Feb 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/04/on-gruber-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F04%2Fon-gruber-on.html" }, { "id": 4449, "type": "post", "title": "Do many things, so,little time", "text": "Here is one of my problems: I don’t have enough time in a day to write about all the things I’d like to post here and on my main blog. So many things I would like to write about. One such thing is about my blogger workflow (what tools do I use and why, what platforms, etc.). 🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-04 12:43:35 -0500", "date": "12:43 p.m. on Feb 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/04/do-many-things.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F04%2Fdo-many-things.html" }, { "id": 4450, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I like this photo more than its technical or subject merit. Taken in Iceland in 2018.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-04 07:31:16 -0500", "date": "7:31 p.m. on Feb 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/04/i-like-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F04%2Fi-like-this.html" }, { "id": 4451, "type": "post", "title": "Learning new things about micro.blog everyday.", "text": "Just found out why for longer posts (\u0026gt; 280 characters) a title field shows up while editing my blog post. Nice touch. One thing though, I\u0026rsquo;d like to have the post categories always shown instead of having to hit the ellipsis button each time. Consider this a feature request. 🙋🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-04 07:25:00 -0500", "date": "7:25 p.m. on Feb 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/04/learning-new-things.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F04%2Flearning-new-things.html" }, { "id": 4452, "type": "post", "title": "iPadOS Upcoming Multitasking Feature Mockup", "text": "This iPadOS multitasking mockup is what Apple should try to do in the next major release. Better yet, I would implement it as a \u0026ldquo;pinch to merge\u0026rdquo; two apps when they are close together. If they are far apart, then tap and hold on one app, tap and slide over the other like on the mockup here is good! #apple #iPadOS twitter.com/orange_ki\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-04 07:16:33 -0500", "date": "7:16 p.m. on Feb 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/04/ipados-upcoming-multitasking.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F04%2Fipados-upcoming-multitasking.html" }, { "id": 4453, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "How is that possible in 2020: an app that looks good, useful, available for both the iPhone and the iPad, that syncs across them and is a one time purchase? Really? No subscription? Instant buy. Spend Stack. 🥰🙏 apps.apple.com/app/spend\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-03 20:39:13 -0500", "date": "8:39 p.m. on Feb 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/03/how-is-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F03%2Fhow-is-that.html" }, { "id": 4454, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On the lost of visual richness of software. Super interesting thread by Louie Mantia. Apple fell in the trap of over simplification in the name of what? You tell me. There has to be a middle ground here. #apple twitter.com/Mantia/st\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-03 19:51:01 -0500", "date": "7:51 p.m. on Feb 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/03/on-the-lost.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F03%2Fon-the-lost.html" }, { "id": 4455, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "After so many months here on micro.blog, I think I found my reason to be here. Never too late to get it! My main blog being for long posts, micro.blog for link posts and random thoughts. Make sense? I feel better now. #blogger #blogging\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-03 19:42:38 -0500", "date": "7:42 p.m. on Feb 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/03/after-so-many.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F03%2Fafter-so-many.html" }, { "id": 4456, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Whatever Apple makes the ugliest watch face on the planet or not is a matter of taste\u0026hellip; but the simple fact the watchOS and Apple doesn\u0026rsquo;t (yet) support a Watch Face store is baffling in 2020. knapsack.news/2020/02/0\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-03 19:36:42 -0500", "date": "7:36 p.m. on Feb 3, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/03/whatever-apple-makes.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F03%2Fwhatever-apple-makes.html" }, { "id": 4457, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Not that I care about the super bowl but why is Apple not using this event for advertising?🤔 Do they have to be the underdog to do so? 🧐 Or is it because they have nothing to get excited about? 🤫😳 #apple #superbowlLIV\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-02 19:56:30 -0500", "date": "7:56 p.m. on Feb 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/02/not-that-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F02%2Fnot-that-i.html" }, { "id": 4458, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Trying to find my style, my signature, my colours. Havana, Cuba. Made with Lightroom + Pixelmator. On iPad Pro. #photography #blacknwhite #sepia\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-02 19:34:07 -0500", "date": "7:34 p.m. on Feb 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/02/trying-to-find.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F02%2Ftrying-to-find.html" }, { "id": 4459, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This weekend I did all the things that I love do most. Being with my family. Writing. Blogging. Doing photo stuff.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-02 18:00:00 -0500", "date": "6:00 p.m. on Feb 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/02/this-weekend-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F02%2Fthis-weekend-i.html" }, { "id": 4460, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Speaking of online photo-sharing services, is Apple entering the space be a good idea? I can see them build an extension to iCloud Photo Library. They are close already with shared albums. A service with no ads, no tracking, great design\u0026hellip; man I would love this. #apple\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-02 14:51:36 -0500", "date": "2:51 p.m. on Feb 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/02/speaking-of-online.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F02%2Fspeaking-of-online.html" }, { "id": 4461, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As good as iPadOS can be to help make the iPad more powerful, more versatile, my wife never really used the widgets on the home screen. And she rarely uses multitasking, because she can’t remember how to use it. 🤷🏻‍♂️ I cannot blame her. Only Apple. #ipados #ipad #apple #UX #UI\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-02 14:20:16 -0500", "date": "2:20 p.m. on Feb 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/02/as-good-as.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F02%2Fas-good-as.html" }, { "id": 4462, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m finally done with my upcoming long blog post about my experience with 500px in my post Flickr world. More than 1700 words to express the goods, the bads and what’s my overall take on this. There is hope but caution is mandatory. #photographer #photography #500px #flickr☝🏻\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-02 10:41:00 -0500", "date": "10:41 p.m. on Feb 2, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/02/im-finally-done.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F02%2Fim-finally-done.html" }, { "id": 4463, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Can you believe it, this is Havana, Cuba.\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-01 12:40:25 -0500", "date": "12:40 p.m. on Feb 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/01/can-you-believe.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F01%2Fcan-you-believe.html" }, { "id": 4464, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Unpopular opinion: I do prefer (in this specific case) the subscription model over the paid model. The plan Adobe offers gives me a lot: multi platforms support, web services, etc. Great value for the money. Photographers, Why Are You Hating on Adobe?\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-01 12:33:29 -0500", "date": "12:33 p.m. on Feb 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/01/unpopular-opinion-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F01%2Funpopular-opinion-i.html" }, { "id": 4465, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "From time to time, I go to my blog and see how it looks. I ask myself if it meets my goals as a blogger sharing about his passions. Today, I did it. And I\u0026rsquo;m quite proud of my work. ☺️ #blogger #bloggerslife #blogging #writing numericcitizen.me\n", "dateiso": "2020-02-01 10:54:40 -0500", "date": "10:54 p.m. on Feb 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/02/01/from-time-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F02%2F01%2Ffrom-time-to.html" }, { "id": 4466, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I have to write something about Apple’s Aperture and their decision to drop it. A dear piece of software left in the dust. A decision that I still cannot understand\u0026hellip; If Apple can do video editing apps, why not photo processing app, something at the center of Apple: photography.\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-31 21:21:49 -0500", "date": "9:21 p.m. on Jan 31, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/01/31/i-have-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F01%2F31%2Fi-have-to.html" }, { "id": 4467, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What a bunch of clowns\u0026hellip; As much as I respect what Microsoft is doing on hardware, software and cloud business, Forbes is again playing the headlines game.\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-31 20:39:59 -0500", "date": "8:39 p.m. on Jan 31, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/01/31/what-a-bunch.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F01%2F31%2Fwhat-a-bunch.html" }, { "id": 4468, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "THIS! Rene’s suggestions would fix iPad multitasking. I often wonder if Apple is really monitoring social media for ideas and inspiration. 🤔 Daring Fireball: Rene Ritchie’s Ideas for iPad Multitasking\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-31 17:08:17 -0500", "date": "5:08 p.m. on Jan 31, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/01/31/this-renes-suggestions.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F01%2F31%2Fthis-renes-suggestions.html" }, { "id": 4469, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "\u0026ldquo;Apple in 2019: The Six Colors report card\u0026rdquo; from SixColors / Jason Snell. I wish I would be on the panel too. 🙋🏻‍♂️🙏🏻\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-31 15:56:49 -0500", "date": "3:56 p.m. on Jan 31, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/01/31/apple-in-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F01%2F31%2Fapple-in-the.html" }, { "id": 4470, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Been like this for more than a year. Flickr is artificially maintained on life. #flickr\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-30 21:10:03 -0500", "date": "9:10 p.m. on Jan 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/01/30/been-like-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F01%2F30%2Fbeen-like-this.html" }, { "id": 4471, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "“LastPass Password Manager Drops Support for Native macOS App”. Really?Now is the time, as customers who love their Macs, to drop LastPass. I’m so grateful to these guys (Agiles, Flexibits, Pixelmator, etc.) who continue to support the Mac. Fuck the rest who doesn’t give a s***.\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-30 17:56:14 -0500", "date": "5:56 p.m. on Jan 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/01/30/lastpass-password-manager.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F01%2F30%2Flastpass-password-manager.html" }, { "id": 4472, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On Fantastical 3: as good this update maybe, not showing schedule conflicts in meeting invite is a major and glaring omission. Also, rich notifications content lacks surroundings view of following meetings. 😩👎🏻\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-30 08:39:46 -0500", "date": "8:39 p.m. on Jan 30, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/01/30/on-fantastical-as.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F01%2F30%2Fon-fantastical-as.html" }, { "id": 4473, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m leaning towards Fantastical 3.0 as so many features are wonderfully designed\u0026hellip; like Widget and general information density. Still playing around\u0026hellip; oh and I used « Sign with Apple » for the first time. Pretty cool.\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-29 20:53:07 -0500", "date": "8:53 p.m. on Jan 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/01/29/im-leaning-towards.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F01%2F29%2Fim-leaning-towards.html" }, { "id": 4474, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Apple Calendar (free), Readdle Calendar 5 (free?) or Fantastical 3 (subscription required, not cheap🤔😩). That is the question. 📅\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-29 13:47:53 -0500", "date": "1:47 p.m. on Jan 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/01/29/apple-calendar-free.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F01%2F29%2Fapple-calendar-free.html" }, { "id": 4475, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Not knowing how many followers I\u0026rsquo;ve got on Micro.blog is killing me. May be I\u0026rsquo;m talking to an empty room.\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-29 07:22:25 -0500", "date": "7:22 p.m. on Jan 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/01/29/not-knowing-how.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F01%2F29%2Fnot-knowing-how.html" }, { "id": 4476, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just deleted my Off-Facebook activity data. Feels much better now. Why the fuck is Facebook Business tool part of apps like Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop Express? #deletefacebook\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-29 07:18:31 -0500", "date": "7:18 p.m. on Jan 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/01/29/just-deleted-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F01%2F29%2Fjust-deleted-my.html" }, { "id": 4477, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One cannot compare the Mac, 20 years ago to the iPad today for building businesses around software. The context is different. At the time of Aldus, Quark \u0026amp; Adobe, software were sold at 999$ a piece\u0026hellip; not 0.99$. #apple daringfireball.net/linked/20\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-29 06:46:16 -0500", "date": "6:46 p.m. on Jan 29, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/01/29/one-cannot-compare.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F01%2F29%2Fone-cannot-compare.html" }, { "id": 4478, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In today’s news: bunch of software updates from Apple, blockbuster financial results and thinking about iOS 13.4 beta that could drop tomorrow. 🤷🏻‍♂️👨🏻‍💻🙂#apple\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-28 19:05:47 -0500", "date": "7:05 p.m. on Jan 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/01/28/in-todays-news.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F01%2F28%2Fin-todays-news.html" }, { "id": 4479, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The iPad at 10: is Apple the worst enemy of the iPad? #apple #iPad\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-28 08:21:44 -0500", "date": "8:21 p.m. on Jan 28, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/01/28/the-ipad-at.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F01%2F28%2Fthe-ipad-at.html" }, { "id": 4480, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "The iPad is 10 years old. Times fly. I was there (not on the picture). After the iPhone, the iPad is the most transformative piece of tech in my numeric life. #apple #ipad #tenyears\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-27 12:43:30 -0500", "date": "12:43 p.m. on Jan 27, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/01/27/the-ipad-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F01%2F27%2Fthe-ipad-is.html" }, { "id": 4481, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Is it possible to find non-subscription based iOS apps in 2020 ? 🤔😩\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-23 21:11:05 -0500", "date": "9:11 p.m. on Jan 23, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/01/23/is-it-possible.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F01%2F23%2Fis-it-possible.html" }, { "id": 4482, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here. Now. Guess where. Not an hockey fan but still cool. 🤷🏻‍♂️👍🏻😎\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-18 20:13:45 -0500", "date": "8:13 p.m. on Jan 18, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/01/18/here-now-guess.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F01%2F18%2Fhere-now-guess.html" }, { "id": 4483, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here is the coolest credit card reader I ever seen and used. All white. Touch screen. Apple Pay ready obviously. A bit bulky though. 😍\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-17 19:05:07 -0500", "date": "7:05 p.m. on Jan 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/01/17/here-is-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F01%2F17%2Fhere-is-the.html" }, { "id": 4484, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Stucked in an airport with no place to sleep. How can I use these chairs to sleep? No way. 🤬😡\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-17 00:47:37 -0500", "date": "12:47 p.m. on Jan 17, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/01/17/stucked-in-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F01%2F17%2Fstucked-in-an.html" }, { "id": 4485, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Going to Dallas, TX for a training. That\u0026rsquo;s Trump country, right? 😑\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-13 06:45:34 -0500", "date": "6:45 p.m. on Jan 13, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/01/13/going-to-dallas.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F01%2F13%2Fgoing-to-dallas.html" }, { "id": 4486, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "As much as I wanted it to work, using multiple accounts from Home.app in the Apple TV app isn’t working, can’t even see others people in the family or invoke the switch accounts popup. 😤😒☹️\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-12 19:32:34 -0500", "date": "7:32 p.m. on Jan 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/01/12/as-much-as.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F01%2F12%2Fas-much-as.html" }, { "id": 4487, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today I did some cleanup in the basement where we used to have a TV room. Found VHS tapes, DVD and CD, all of which we cannot play in any way in our house these days. All the content we do consume now is streamed and rented. What a change a decade can make.\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-12 17:30:00 -0500", "date": "5:30 p.m. on Jan 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/01/12/today-i-did.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F01%2F12%2Ftoday-i-did.html" }, { "id": 4488, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Storm days are always a great moment for me for writing, photo processing, reading, etc. Love these.\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-12 15:31:20 -0500", "date": "3:31 p.m. on Jan 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/01/12/storm-days-are.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F01%2F12%2Fstorm-days-are.html" }, { "id": 4489, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Let me tell you something: the worst part of using both Adobe Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic on the same computer is to manage catalogs when enabling Lightroom Sync in Lightroom Classic. 😖😩 #lightroom #adobe #photographer\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-12 10:42:15 -0500", "date": "10:42 p.m. on Jan 12, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/01/12/let-me-tell.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F01%2F12%2Flet-me-tell.html" }, { "id": 4490, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "World war I started with the murdering of one guy: Franz Archduke. Only one guy. Simple. We never learn, don’t we? #WWIII 😔🙁\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-05 15:37:31 -0500", "date": "3:37 p.m. on Jan 5, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/01/05/world-war-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F01%2F05%2Fworld-war-i.html" }, { "id": 4491, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Please, enjoy this moment of the year where we’re done with Christmas holidays and have not started to ear about Easter. This is the “holidays no man land”. Enjoy. 🙂🤓👍🏻\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-04 20:29:40 -0500", "date": "8:29 p.m. on Jan 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/01/04/please-enjoy-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F01%2F04%2Fplease-enjoy-this.html" }, { "id": 4492, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Spent one day in Havana, Cuba and it was such an unexpected discovery. So many great pictures to process now. Stay tuned for news on this subject in the coming days and weeks. A sample from my iPhone. #shotoniphone #cuba\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-04 15:39:35 -0500", "date": "3:39 p.m. on Jan 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/01/04/spent-one-day.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F01%2F04%2Fspent-one-day.html" }, { "id": 4493, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Here in Montreal, Canada, after touching down on a plane, people are clapping 👏🏻. I’m not aware of any such practice in other places. You?\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-04 14:55:20 -0500", "date": "2:55 p.m. on Jan 4, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/01/04/here-in-montreal.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F01%2F04%2Fhere-in-montreal.html" }, { "id": 4494, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Those fuckin noises that surround us in hotel rooms: drinks fridge, old AC, ceiling fans, other unknown sounds\u0026hellip; can they ever get fixed? 😡🤬\n", "dateiso": "2020-01-01 22:46:18 -0500", "date": "10:46 p.m. on Jan 1, 2020", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2020/01/01/those-fuckin-noises.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2020%2F01%2F01%2Fthose-fuckin-noises.html" }, { "id": 4495, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Don’t look back except if it is to learn from your mistakes. Happy new year and please welcome 2020 together !\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-31 13:08:16 -0500", "date": "1:08 p.m. on Dec 31, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/12/31/dont-look-back.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F12%2F31%2Fdont-look-back.html" }, { "id": 4496, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I wish I had time to write my « Best of {insert whatever you want here} 2019 » blog post. But, being on vacation is a full time thing, you know! 😎🏖#blogger #bloggerlife\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-30 16:25:01 -0500", "date": "4:25 p.m. on Dec 30, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/12/30/i-wish-i.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F12%2F30%2Fi-wish-i.html" }, { "id": 4497, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "From Cuba with love. Slow internet speed. Don’t expect too much in the next few days. #photography #shotoniphone\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-29 12:43:54 -0500", "date": "12:43 p.m. on Dec 29, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/12/29/from-cuba-with.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F12%2F29%2Ffrom-cuba-with.html" }, { "id": 4498, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I just uploaded 7 new photos to my free 500px account (see: 500px.com/numericci\u0026hellip;)\u0026hellip; the amount of interaction and activity these photos generated is quite surprising to me. Nothing like that on Flickr. #photographer #photography is 500px the new Flickr?\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-27 17:40:20 -0500", "date": "5:40 p.m. on Dec 27, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/12/27/i-just-uploaded.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F12%2F27%2Fi-just-uploaded.html" }, { "id": 4499, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "End of the year cleanup: cancelled my Pro Vimeo account. I don\u0026rsquo;t use that anymore as video editing requires way too much time. Cancelled my Pro Flickr account because I\u0026rsquo;m pretty sure I\u0026rsquo;ll stop posting photos there. #photography #flickr #photographer.\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-27 10:03:07 -0500", "date": "10:03 p.m. on Dec 27, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/12/27/end-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F12%2F27%2Fend-of-the.html" }, { "id": 4500, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Thought of the day: What if we cared as much about climate change as we do about the weather. This would change a lot of things. #climate #climatechange\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-26 22:51:50 -0500", "date": "10:51 p.m. on Dec 26, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/12/26/thought-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F12%2F26%2Fthought-of-the.html" }, { "id": 4501, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Remembering that writing here first on Micro.blog, content gets pushed out to Twitter. Maybe I should do this more often. Would help get better interaction instead of just writing on Twitter. It’s like two for the price of one. 🤓👨🏻‍💻\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-26 13:39:43 -0500", "date": "1:39 p.m. on Dec 26, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/12/26/remembering-that-writing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F12%2F26%2Fremembering-that-writing.html" }, { "id": 4502, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Holidays is a great time to write and blog. Don’t you think? #blogger #blogging #writing\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-26 13:31:41 -0500", "date": "1:31 p.m. on Dec 26, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/12/26/holidays-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F12%2F26%2Fholidays-is-a.html" }, { "id": 4503, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Just finished giving much love and attention to my Adobe Portfolio, a possible future home (instead of flickr) for my online photo galleries. Enjoy: numericcitizen.myportfolio.com #photography #photographer\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-25 11:18:23 -0500", "date": "11:18 p.m. on Dec 25, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/12/25/just-finished-giving.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F12%2F25%2Fjust-finished-giving.html" }, { "id": 4504, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My best iPhone pictures of 2019. #shotoniphone\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-24 08:57:26 -0500", "date": "8:57 p.m. on Dec 24, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/12/24/my-best-iphone.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F12%2F24%2Fmy-best-iphone.html" }, { "id": 4505, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Upgraded to macOS Catalina today on my main Mac. A few issues with Apple’s own apps. Photos is one of them. More to come in an upcoming blog post here: ‪numericcitizen.me‬\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-22 17:17:58 -0500", "date": "5:17 p.m. on Dec 22, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/12/22/upgraded-to-macos.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F12%2F22%2Fupgraded-to-macos.html" }, { "id": 4506, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Very tempted to upgrade my 2017 iMac to macOS Catalina. #apple #macOS.\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-22 10:15:11 -0500", "date": "10:15 p.m. on Dec 22, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/12/22/very-tempted-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F12%2F22%2Fvery-tempted-to.html" }, { "id": 4507, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Not everything is created equal: micro blogging will cross-post to Twitter, not the other way around. 😑\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-20 18:29:38 -0500", "date": "6:29 p.m. on Dec 20, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/12/20/not-everything-is.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F12%2F20%2Fnot-everything-is.html" }, { "id": 4508, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Unpopular opinion it seems: I really don’t give a shit about Star Wars. Feeling better now. 😊\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-20 18:28:15 -0500", "date": "6:28 p.m. on Dec 20, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/12/20/unpopular-opinion-it.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F12%2F20%2Funpopular-opinion-it.html" }, { "id": 4509, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "It is a question of point of view.\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-20 17:57:16 -0500", "date": "5:57 p.m. on Dec 20, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/12/20/it-is-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F12%2F20%2Fit-is-a.html" }, { "id": 4510, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Question of the day: how many new native apps were created in 2019 on macOS compared to iOS. 🤔 #apple #macos #iosdev\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-19 06:37:35 -0500", "date": "6:37 p.m. on Dec 19, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/12/19/question-of-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F12%2F19%2Fquestion-of-the.html" }, { "id": 4511, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Today, walking downtown Montreal, from my office to meet one of our client. Sometimes, winter can be beautiful.\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-18 20:39:24 -0500", "date": "8:39 p.m. on Dec 18, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/12/18/today-walking-downtown.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F12%2F18%2Ftoday-walking-downtown.html" }, { "id": 4512, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Helping my (very) old parents living 600 km from me is quite an experience. Exhausting.\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-18 20:35:02 -0500", "date": "8:35 p.m. on Dec 18, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/12/18/helping-my-very.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F12%2F18%2Fhelping-my-very.html" }, { "id": 4513, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "My next trip: Cuba. Can’t wait to visit Havana.\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-18 08:47:00 -0500", "date": "8:47 p.m. on Dec 18, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/12/18/my-next-trip.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F12%2F18%2Fmy-next-trip.html" }, { "id": 4514, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Now that I’m closing my account here on micro.blog I’m starting to get more interactions 🤷🏻‍♂️\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-18 08:35:15 -0500", "date": "8:35 p.m. on Dec 18, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/12/18/now-that-im.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F12%2F18%2Fnow-that-im.html" }, { "id": 4515, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I\u0026rsquo;m contemplating the idea of updating my iMac to macOS Catalina just because of this lack of synchronization between iOS 13 Reminders and macOS Mojave Reminders. #apple #macOSCatalina\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-17 19:04:59 -0500", "date": "7:04 p.m. on Dec 17, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/12/17/im-contemplating-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F12%2F17%2Fim-contemplating-the.html" }, { "id": 4516, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "In search of a better world: I’ve been running beta versions of iOS for most of 2019. Think about it for a second. #apple\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-17 08:53:57 -0500", "date": "8:53 p.m. on Dec 17, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/12/17/in-search-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F12%2F17%2Fin-search-of.html" }, { "id": 4517, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Would be nice to see Tangerine online-only bank team up with Apple to bring Apple Card to Canada 🇨🇦 #apple #applecard\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-17 08:24:41 -0500", "date": "8:24 p.m. on Dec 17, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/12/17/would-be-nice.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F12%2F17%2Fwould-be-nice.html" }, { "id": 4518, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I’m just realizing that we are about to finish a decade and start a new one. 2010-2019.\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-16 08:34:18 -0500", "date": "8:34 p.m. on Dec 16, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/12/16/im-just-realizing.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F12%2F16%2Fim-just-realizing.html" }, { "id": 4519, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I don’t get much traffic to my main blog from here, micro.blog. Why? Are you reading new posts from the blog itself? From RSS?\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-15 18:11:57 -0500", "date": "6:11 p.m. on Dec 15, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/12/15/i-dont-get.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F12%2F15%2Fi-dont-get.html" }, { "id": 4520, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For me, micro.blog was an experiment. It was mostly an extension of my main blog, numericcitizen.me. Now is the time to look forward and see if I should concentrate my efforts. Tell me, what if I go ahead and close my micro.blog?\n", "dateiso": "2019-12-15 18:09:38 -0500", "date": "6:09 p.m. on Dec 15, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/12/15/for-me-microblog.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F12%2F15%2Ffor-me-microblog.html" }, { "id": 4521, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Very important article about the risks related to installing beta software even on a single device. furbo.org\niCloud Clusterfuck\n", "dateiso": "2019-09-04 21:00:06 -0500", "date": "9:00 p.m. on Sep 4, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/09/04/very-important-article.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F09%2F04%2Fvery-important-article.html" }, { "id": 4522, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "You’re take on Jiny Ive leaving Apple?\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-28 20:01:54 -0500", "date": "8:01 p.m. on Jun 28, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/06/28/youre-take-on.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F06%2F28%2Fyoure-take-on.html" }, { "id": 4523, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I should come over here more often\u0026hellip; #micro.blog\n", "dateiso": "2019-06-16 19:26:58 -0500", "date": "7:26 p.m. on Jun 16, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/06/16/i-should-come.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F06%2F16%2Fi-should-come.html" }, { "id": 4524, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "‪Today I helped change the perception that iPhone photos were very bad. This guy was using an iPhone 8 Plus. He was using Live Photos all the time. He learned to lock AE/AF and override exposure. He fell in love with his iPhone again. 😎👍🏻😊‬\n", "dateiso": "2019-05-05 13:12:53 -0500", "date": "1:12 p.m. on May 5, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/05/05/today-i-helped.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F05%2F05%2Ftoday-i-helped.html" }, { "id": 4525, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Question about Marzipan apps: will developers first have to provide iPad version of their apps to make it available on the Mac ?\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-28 15:28:49 -0500", "date": "3:28 p.m. on Apr 28, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/04/28/question-about-marzipan.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F04%2F28%2Fquestion-about-marzipan.html" }, { "id": 4526, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is the weekend for my podcast recording. Started the day without any subject to talk about. After a few minutes of thinking, I’m at 5 subjects. It will be called « méli-mélo » or « melting pot ».\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-27 07:34:34 -0500", "date": "7:34 p.m. on Apr 27, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/04/27/this-is-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F04%2F27%2Fthis-is-the.html" }, { "id": 4527, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Sometimes I wonder if I do what I do (my blog) because I love using the tools (Apple stuff)\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-26 18:01:03 -0500", "date": "6:01 p.m. on Apr 26, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/04/26/sometimes-i-wonder.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F04%2F26%2Fsometimes-i-wonder.html" }, { "id": 4528, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog is nice and clean but iOS clients are behind\u0026hellip;. Twitter. Slow. Way too slow.\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-24 07:14:47 -0500", "date": "7:14 p.m. on Apr 24, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/04/24/microblog-is-nice.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F04%2F24%2Fmicroblog-is-nice.html" }, { "id": 4529, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One day, I’ll replace my 21.5” iMac with the biggest iPad available and keep a smaller iPad for mobility. #ipad #apple\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-24 07:13:14 -0500", "date": "7:13 p.m. on Apr 24, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/04/24/one-day-ill.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F04%2F24%2Fone-day-ill.html" }, { "id": 4530, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Is it me or we don’t hear slowness horror stories as we used to a few years ago about iOS ? #apple #ios\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-23 21:35:10 -0500", "date": "9:35 p.m. on Apr 23, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/04/23/is-it-me.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F04%2F23%2Fis-it-me.html" }, { "id": 4531, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "On Apple Card official launch this summer: should we expect iOS 12.4 or a remote activation with iOS 12.3 shipping in May for refresh of TV.app ? #applecard #apple\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-23 17:13:02 -0500", "date": "5:13 p.m. on Apr 23, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/04/23/on-apple-card.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F04%2F23%2Fon-apple-card.html" }, { "id": 4532, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This year, iOS 13 \u0026amp; macOS 10.15 releases seem bigger than previous year. Is it just an impression or is this looking this way because we are waiting for so long for Apple to do the basics\u0026hellip; so there is pentup demand? Feeling the same? [‪numericcitizen.me‬](Blog) #wwdc2019\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-23 12:56:54 -0500", "date": "12:56 p.m. on Apr 23, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/04/23/this-year-ios.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F04%2F23%2Fthis-year-ios.html" }, { "id": 4533, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "There was this Apple analyst who expressed desire for Apple to launch a TV set (Munster). Well, I’ll be the guy who will ask for Apple to deliver ARM based Macs running iOS with mouse support. The only difference being that I won’t be on conf calls like him.\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-22 18:08:28 -0500", "date": "6:08 p.m. on Apr 22, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/04/22/there-was-this.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F04%2F22%2Fthere-was-this.html" }, { "id": 4534, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Going out for a 10km run. 😳😅\n", "dateiso": "2019-04-07 08:59:08 -0500", "date": "8:59 p.m. on Apr 7, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/04/07/going-out-for.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F04%2F07%2Fgoing-out-for.html" }, { "id": 4535, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Never skip a beat @ Numeric Citizen Blog, sign up for the mailing list: eepurl.com/gjlTqr\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-12 11:21:40 -0500", "date": "11:21 p.m. on Mar 12, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/03/12/never-skip-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F03%2F12%2Fnever-skip-a.html" }, { "id": 4536, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Any specific expectations for upcoming Apple Special event “It’s show time”?\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-11 19:44:33 -0500", "date": "7:44 p.m. on Mar 11, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/03/11/any-specific-expectations.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F03%2F11%2Fany-specific-expectations.html" }, { "id": 4537, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Testing 1 2 3 - 🇳 🇺 🇲 🇪 🇷 🇮 🇨 - 🇨 🇮 🇹 🇮 🇿 🇪 🇳 Discovered unicode. 🤓\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-09 12:14:01 -0500", "date": "12:14 p.m. on Mar 9, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/03/09/testing-discovered-unicode.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F03%2F09%2Ftesting-discovered-unicode.html" }, { "id": 4538, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I will see if there are real Apple enthusiast here on Micro.blog\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-08 11:57:28 -0500", "date": "11:57 p.m. on Mar 8, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/03/08/i-will-see.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F03%2F08%2Fi-will-see.html" }, { "id": 4539, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One of my biggest blog post is coming later today\u0026hellip;. subject: Apple and Marzipan. Who\u0026rsquo;s interested ?\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-08 11:51:38 -0500", "date": "11:51 p.m. on Mar 8, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/03/08/one-of-my.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F03%2F08%2Fone-of-my.html" }, { "id": 4540, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Trying to see how this ceiling photo will perform on Unsplash.\n", "dateiso": "2019-03-02 11:35:08 -0500", "date": "11:35 p.m. on Mar 2, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/03/02/trying-to-see.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F03%2F02%2Ftrying-to-see.html" }, { "id": 4541, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I should try and nominate for Micro Monday too\u0026hellip; 🤔\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-24 20:36:19 -0500", "date": "8:36 p.m. on Feb 24, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/02/24/i-should-try.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F02%2F24%2Fi-should-try.html" }, { "id": 4542, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog profile details are minimalist. We don’t know how many followers we’ve got, who follows who, etc\u0026hellip;. in the age of maximum connections between people, this seems a bit strange at first\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-13 20:03:41 -0500", "date": "8:03 p.m. on Feb 13, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/02/13/microblog-profile-details.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F02%2F13%2Fmicroblog-profile-details.html" }, { "id": 4543, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "That was a pretty big one. 😳❄️\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-13 19:59:25 -0500", "date": "7:59 p.m. on Feb 13, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/02/13/that-was-a.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F02%2F13%2Fthat-was-a.html" }, { "id": 4544, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I kind of like the direction Adobe is taking with Lightroom CC\u0026hellip; working on the latest update\u0026hellip;. testing features for future review. Can see a shared album of mine here. adobe.ly/2N2giqf\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-11 21:36:10 -0500", "date": "9:36 p.m. on Feb 11, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/02/11/i-kind-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F02%2F11%2Fi-kind-of.html" }, { "id": 4545, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "One small critic I would say about Micro.blog is the general speed\u0026hellip; I find it to be quite slow at time on iOS and on the web\u0026hellip; especially when browsing pictures\u0026hellip; anyone have the same feeling ?\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-09 08:48:37 -0500", "date": "8:48 p.m. on Feb 9, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/02/09/one-small-critic.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F02%2F09%2Fone-small-critic.html" }, { "id": 4546, "type": "post", "title": "Categories?", "text": "Just discovered post categories on Micro.blog. I created them and assigned them to each of my posts. I don\u0026rsquo;t know if this will be reflected on the web site though.\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-09 08:09:14 -0500", "date": "8:09 p.m. on Feb 9, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/02/09/categoriesjust-discovered-post.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F02%2F09%2Fcategoriesjust-discovered-post.html" }, { "id": 4547, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Oh my, ambiance on Micro.blog is so much different than on Twitter\u0026hellip; I feel being in a quiet living room\u0026hellip; drinking, listening to music and listening to conversations\u0026hellip; #feelinggood\n", "dateiso": "2019-02-02 19:13:46 -0500", "date": "7:13 p.m. on Feb 2, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/02/02/oh-my-ambiance.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F02%2F02%2Foh-my-ambiance.html" }, { "id": 4548, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I don’t know how many people are following me on Micro.blog\u0026hellip; but to them, I want to say that my presence here is real, not only a cross posting from my main blog @ ‪numericcitizen.me‬ ☝🏻🙂\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-26 10:12:57 -0500", "date": "10:12 p.m. on Jan 26, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/01/26/i-dont-know.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F01%2F26%2Fi-dont-know.html" }, { "id": 4549, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "What are your thoughts regarding Apple\u0026rsquo;s #ShotOniPhone campaign ?\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-23 07:29:46 -0500", "date": "7:29 p.m. on Jan 23, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/01/23/what-are-your.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F01%2F23%2Fwhat-are-your.html" }, { "id": 4550, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Now a proud paying member of Micro Blog. Trying to be part of this endavour.\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-20 09:18:52 -0500", "date": "9:18 p.m. on Jan 20, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/01/20/now-a-proud.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F01%2F20%2Fnow-a-proud.html" }, { "id": 4551, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I really liked the @macgenie \u0026ldquo;Goodbye Facebook\u0026rdquo; letter\u0026hellip; I wrote one too before quitting Facebook myself: numericcitizen.me/2019/01/1\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2019-01-20 09:13:20 -0500", "date": "9:13 p.m. on Jan 20, 2019", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2019/01/20/i-really-liked.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2019%2F01%2F20%2Fi-really-liked.html" }, { "id": 4552, "type": "post", "title": "\u003c\u003cNumeric Citizen\u003e\u003e", "text": "Aperture. Made by Apple. For Apple users. This was the time when they were serious about photography. They could have made a version for the iPad. But they dropped the ball. Adobe came in with their multi-platform solution, neither optimized for Apple\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-22 08:48:41 -0500", "date": "8:48 p.m. on Oct 22, 2018", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2018/10/22/134841.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2018%2F10%2F22%2F134841.html" }, { "id": 4553, "type": "post", "title": "\u003c\u003cNumeric Citizen\u003e\u003e", "text": "As a njmeric citizen, an Apple citizen I might say, there is a very simple way now to get your data from Apple. Follow this guide. Google offers the same. Now it is easier than ever to know what they know about us. Now, the next step will be to help people designate others that should be allowed to get access the data once we pass away.\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-21 10:32:10 -0500", "date": "10:32 p.m. on Oct 21, 2018", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2018/10/21/153210.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2018%2F10%2F21%2F153210.html" }, { "id": 4554, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "That is me. New glasses.\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-20 14:57:30 -0500", "date": "2:57 p.m. on Oct 20, 2018", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2018/10/20/that-is-me.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2018%2F10%2F20%2Fthat-is-me.html" }, { "id": 4555, "type": "post", "title": "\u003c\u003cNumeric Citizen\u003e\u003e", "text": "\u0026laquo;I learn photography with traditional cameras using real films, way before numeric photography. I used to develop my own pictures, in my own darkroom. Black\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-20 08:52:10 -0500", "date": "8:52 p.m. on Oct 20, 2018", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2018/10/20/135210.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2018%2F10%2F20%2F135210.html" }, { "id": 4556, "type": "post", "title": "\u003c\u003cNumeric Citizen\u003e\u003e", "text": "\u0026laquo;There is quite a lot of buzz these days about the possibility of creating our own watch face on the Apple Watch. Currently, this feature is not available to Apple Watch owners but a few clever guys on the internet did experiment with tools to create ones. And the possibilities are endless. And quite exciting too.\nThere is something sterile and compromising about choosing your watch face out of a fixed set of options. While the watchOS faces provide for a high degree of customization, there is something fundamentally different in being able to customize every single detail of the face. I started with a blank slate and was able to make the face look exactly how I wanted it. When displaying one of my creations it is now truly my most personal device ever.\nFrom a blog post by ", "dateiso": "2018-10-19 07:07:14 -0500", "date": "7:07 p.m. on Oct 19, 2018", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2018/10/19/120714.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2018%2F10%2F19%2F120714.html" }, { "id": 4557, "type": "post", "title": "\u003c\u003cNumeric Citizen\u003e\u003e", "text": "Tonight I was watching TV. There was so many ads. One particular ad got my attention. This was an ad about a car. In order to show how cool the car is, how useful it can be to its users, there a scene where the driver uses Siri to send a message to his wife saying he is way home. A flawless experience. We can see Siri animated waves and the audio feedback, something known to a lot of people. But there is something wrong with all this.\nSiri seems the underdog of all virtual assistants. People can’t stop complaining about it and how far behind it is. Yet, advertisers chose Siri over Google Assistant for this ad. If Google is so much better, why advertisers can’t choose Google to convey flawless virtual assistant experience? Is Apple\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-18 08:16:38 -0500", "date": "8:16 p.m. on Oct 18, 2018", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2018/10/18/numeric-citizen.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2018%2F10%2F18%2Fnumeric-citizen.html" }, { "id": 4558, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "For some reason, I’m back at blogging\u0026hellip; this time on wordpress.com. Used to be on Tumblr. Prefer Wordpress by a wide margin.\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-17 06:28:05 -0500", "date": "6:28 p.m. on Oct 17, 2018", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2018/10/17/for-some-reason.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2018%2F10%2F17%2Ffor-some-reason.html" }, { "id": 4559, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "People don’t want other people to look into their private conversations. But they are ok with algorithms scanning all of them. Always. I’d like to educate people about this.\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-14 16:57:02 -0500", "date": "4:57 p.m. on Oct 14, 2018", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2018/10/14/people-dont-want.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2018%2F10%2F14%2Fpeople-dont-want.html" }, { "id": 4560, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "A reminder that writing takes a lot of precious time. birchtree.me/blog/dise\u0026hellip;\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-14 11:09:20 -0500", "date": "11:09 p.m. on Oct 14, 2018", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2018/10/14/a-reminder-that.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2018%2F10%2F14%2Fa-reminder-that.html" }, { "id": 4561, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Let’s hope Micro.blog is not another App.net.\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-13 21:48:19 -0500", "date": "9:48 p.m. on Oct 13, 2018", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2018/10/13/lets-hope-microblog.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2018%2F10%2F13%2Flets-hope-microblog.html" }, { "id": 4562, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Micro.blog is probably the only social media where people welcome you when you start blogging\u0026hellip; 😊\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-13 21:46:23 -0500", "date": "9:46 p.m. on Oct 13, 2018", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2018/10/13/microblog-is-probably.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2018%2F10%2F13%2Fmicroblog-is-probably.html" }, { "id": 4563, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I prefer WordPress over Medium. For sure.\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-13 16:00:13 -0500", "date": "4:00 p.m. on Oct 13, 2018", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2018/10/13/i-prefer-wordpress.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2018%2F10%2F13%2Fi-prefer-wordpress.html" }, { "id": 4564, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I used to be active on @Medium. medium.com/@jfmartin\u0026hellip; Stopped publishing there because of what Medium became\u0026hellip; trying to monetize us instead of rewarding us. Hope this won’t happen here on Micro.blog.\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-13 15:57:26 -0500", "date": "3:57 p.m. on Oct 13, 2018", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2018/10/13/i-used-to.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2018%2F10%2F13%2Fi-used-to.html" }, { "id": 4565, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Having a small issue with IFTTT integration with Micro.blog. Testing their customer support now. 😏👨🏻‍💻 #blogging\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-13 10:40:25 -0500", "date": "10:40 p.m. on Oct 13, 2018", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2018/10/13/having-a-small.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2018%2F10%2F13%2Fhaving-a-small.html" }, { "id": 4566, "type": "post", "title": "The Return of Micro Blogging ?", "text": " This morning I found out the existence of a blogging platform called Micro.blog. Something very special. Very lean. Very light. Without ads. Leaner than WordPress. Yet capable. Close to Twitter but with less clutter. I'm on a 10 days trial period. Tested the web posting interface. Tested the native macOS (light) client. Tested the iPad version too. Now, testing cross-posting from WordPress via an IFTTT applet. I'm loving it so far. Stay tuned for more discoveries about Micro.blog.\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-13 10:21:23 -0500", "date": "10:21 p.m. on Oct 13, 2018", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2018/10/13/the-return-of.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2018%2F10%2F13%2Fthe-return-of.html" }, { "id": 4567, "type": "post", "title": "Going To The (abandoned) Church. ", "text": "\nThese were taken while doing urban exploration with friends downtown Montreal, Canada. Many churches are agonizing here\u0026hellip; some pictures are from an iPhone 7, others from my Nikon D750 processed with HDR technique.\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-13 10:02:21 -0500", "date": "10:02 p.m. on Oct 13, 2018", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2018/10/13/going-to-the.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2018%2F10%2F13%2Fgoing-to-the.html" }, { "id": 4568, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "This is an unedited photo taken with a plain old iPhone 7. Can’t wait to upgrade next year\u0026hellip; another test on Micro.blog but this time from the iPad client. Simple yet great experience.\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-13 09:53:53 -0500", "date": "9:53 p.m. on Oct 13, 2018", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2018/10/13/this-is-an.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2018%2F10%2F13%2Fthis-is-an.html" }, { "id": 4569, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "Testing the native Micro.blog macOS client. Very simple. Very clean. Can add a picture. Here is one from me. I don’ really like to show picture of me but hey, this is for testing purposes.\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-13 09:36:55 -0500", "date": "9:36 p.m. on Oct 13, 2018", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2018/10/13/testing-the-native.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2018%2F10%2F13%2Ftesting-the-native.html" }, { "id": 4570, "type": "post", "title": "", "text": "I don\u0026rsquo;t know how I din\u0026rsquo;t know about Micro.blog for so long\u0026hellip; where was it? Why so few people are talking about it ? Could this be the platform that Twitter or Tumblr should have become over the years ? Could this become my new numeric home ? I have ten days to find out.\n", "dateiso": "2018-10-13 09:10:08 -0500", "date": "9:10 p.m. on Oct 13, 2018", "permalink": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2018/10/13/i-dont-know.html", "timelinelink": "https://micro.blog/conversation.js?format=jsonfeed\u0026url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.numericcitizen.me%2F2018%2F10%2F13%2Fi-dont-know.html" } ]