The sermon in church this morning was all about suffering. A timely subject given recent news about my Mum’s health. Sometimes even as someone who as been a believer for decades you need reminders of the basics. ✝️
Microposts
I’m resorting to pen and paper to get a proper overview of all the “tasks” that I have assigned to me. Starting to question if digital task managers create work and black holes of stuff.
David Sparks on his journey To Day One and Back Again. I’ve been on a similar thought cycle recently. I have been a long time sporadic user of Day One, and I’ve journaled for a while in Obsidian as well as pen and paper. But recently I’ve decided it’s back to Day One.
Similarly to David it is about ease and access for me. I am a legacy Plus user which means I have sync across all my devices, I can save photos and other items as and when I feel it’s right to do so. Ultimately, I know that if I am going to journal regularly and it be of any use it needs to be easy for me to do so and Day One presents the least amount of friction.
Removed Twitter from my iPhone last night, not because of the Musk thing but because I can’t take all the culture wars. Talking to my counsellor last night I realised how much of a toll it was taking on my mental health. Not worth it at the moment.
My Arc experiment is over. It broke my long established flow for reading RSS and turned what is normally an enjoyable part of the day into an annoyance.
Matt Bircher: I Don’t Think People Really Want Another Twitter…
I think he’s right, people don’t, but I do think people want a simple way to share little bits of information easily. Whilst I think a lot of people are overreacting to Musk buying Twitter, I do hope it causes a renaissance of the personal blog.
Giving Arc a go as my default browser after reading about it again.
It baffles me that you still can’t make a reminder from an email message in Mail.app. Reminders is becoming very powerful yet still feels crippled by this.
The sad demise of the smartly dressed traveller…
It’s not just the smartly dressed traveller that’s disappeared. I recently saw a film of the streets of London in the late 1930’s, everyone looked smart, well dressed, and respectable. Yesterday a trip to buy some groceries revealed a man in a baby pink tracksuit and a woman wearing pyjamas, bathrobe, and slippers… not all progress is positive.
The iPhone 14 Pro is still massively hard to get hold of. Delivery is not until 8th November, and collection is non-existent.
My copy of Somebody Feed Phil the Book arrived yesterday. Forgot I had ordered it so it was a nice surprise.
I really want to find a widget that can recreate this kind of style on iPadOS.
Finished watching season 2 of Tehran on Apple TV+. I really enjoyed it, definitely one to watch, more and more gripping as the season went on. 📺
You know it’s a long day when I brew a coffee at 16:30… 🥱
I am constantly torn when it comes to Google. I don’t like their data collecting strategy but the design of their products is very attractive and appeals to me which makes me want to use them…
Mid morning coffee in Cheltenham’s newest espresso bar. Tastes as good as it looks. ☕️
Goodbye Your Majesty, and thank you for everything. 😢🇬🇧
I have never known life without the Queen, she was a women of great integrity and dedication. I never met her but I will miss her in a way I can’t quite put into words. May God bless her as she finally gets to rest in His presence.
The new default theme in Obsidian is a big improvement, but I think I still prefer Craft. The only thing missing is some kind of graph view.
New Obsidian theme looks good, but I think I still prefer Craft. I do miss the graph view though, especially the local graph for the relationships with the current file.
I’ve just heard someone use the phrase “minor attracted”. Excuse me but that’s called paedophilia and should never be tried to be legitimised by changing the language.
I’ve really enjoyed this episode of Thoroughly Considered discussing the Sonos Move and the whole Sonos ecosystem. Made me reasses how I’m using mine. Just wish the Mac app wasn’t so horrendous.
It’s Coldplay day!
Moved back to Overcast from Pocket Casts because Overcasts CarPlay app is better…
Saying good bye to this faithful friend after 10 years and thousands of miles. Happy retirement.
Couldn’t help myself…
There are very few celebrities in the world who I would like to meet, but I think Phil Rosentahl is one.
Never really enjoyed women’s football but this final has been good. Come on England! 🏴🧍🏻♀️⚽️
My fan died this morning. Thank the Lord it made it through yesterday’s heat.
Decided to have a very early start for work today to try and avoid having to work during the hottest part of the day. Quite enjoying the fact it’s 9:00 and I’ve already done a good hour and a half of work…