Life is about tradeoffs. When we know what to say no to, and we know why, we can say yes with comfort and confidence to the things that matter. To the things that last.
In conversation with one of my favourite authors Austin Kleon, Ryan Holiday finished a post with this quote. They were discussing the choices between work, family, and scene, but I the sentence above can be applied to a lot of things.
What about this for an Apple lineup? MacBook, MacBook Studio, and MacBook Pro with iPad, iPad Studio, and iPad Pro. When you consider it alongside iMac, Mac mini, Mac Studio, and Mac Pro it kind of makes sense…
Spent the evening watching the football and adding link posts to my blog. Still some refinement to do but should be able to go live with them by the end of the week.
It’s world book day today, how did I forget!? To celebrate, what’s the book that’s like a blanket on a cold day and you keep returning to over and over? 📚
Opened this beautiful coffee this morning ☕️
Not quite sure why, but each day I’m chipping away at my Obsidian interface to get rid of some of the janky electron feel. It’s getting there, the focus of the last couple of days has been the right sidebar.
It’s both palindrome and ambigram day today. 22022022. Very cool…
My Obsidian has never looked more Mac like.
Face ID really needs to be able to work when it’s raining without the need to take my glasses off.
Also finding myself intrigued by Mastodon having never really given it much thought before.
Spent the morning playing with a ClassicPress install… made some good theme progress. Still not sure it’s the way forward for me, but it’s a step up from the last version of WordPress I used.
I’ve rediscovered Stickies on macOS recently. Anyone know of a more modern version? The collapsed state it not very friendly.
Wordle made its move to the New York Times website and I’ve lost all my stats. I thought that wasn’t meant to happen…
Today was a hard Wordle day, turns out some words are 5 letters in America but 6 in the UK… 😑
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Having a real crises of blogging at the moment. Backed myself into a corner by using Jekyll on my long blog so considering moving away from that. Thinking about using Micro.blog all in, but for link sharing I want tags…
This week has been a battle. All I’ve wanted to do is sit on the sofa and read, maybe with a bit of writing as well. It’s a feeling I’ve never experienced before, but despite that I managed to push on and remain productive for work.
Tried using Obsidian to manage my work tasks for a tighter integration of their associated notes. A worth while experiment but I’m moving tasks back to Things with Hook based links instead.
Finished reading: The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien 📚
WhatsApp now works with the Focus mode feature of Apple devices. Time to give it a proper go since I can now let messages through from particular people who don’t use iMessage.
Today is Holocaust Memorial Day. We must never forget what happened to over 6 million Jews, and we must never let it happen again. With antisemitism on the rise, especially in Europe, it’s just as important to remember now as it has ever been. 🇮🇱
Was caught between the answer and another word for the third guess. Went the wrong way…
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Anyone remember Yojimbo? Didn’t realise it was still being updated although it looks a bit long in the tooth now.
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Brain’s a bit slow this morning.
In trying to reduce the number of subscriptions I’m paying for I tried to go back to using the built in calendars instead of Fantastical. This morning my Mac was refusing to connect to my work calendar but Fantastical was fine. Guess I’m keeping that subscription for now.
What a win for Forest today. Nothing like beating your local rivals! 🥳🥳⚽️
Had the day off today. Nice to go have some coffee and food in Birmingham for a change of scene. Excellent Greek place for lunch which was a bit of a pick and hope. Turned out well.
Dinner out tonight. Ramen with some sashimi on the side. Full to bursting now. 🍜 🍣
Last year I moved my blog to Jekyll, but I’m considering moving “back” to WordPress in the form of ClassicPress. Anyone got any experience with using ClassicPress with the likes of Ulysses?
Twitter tells me I’ve been a member for 15 years today. Sheesh. That also means I’ve been blogging for a similar amount of time, my guess is 16 or 17 years.
No you sat waiting for a file to publish without realising you hadn’t clicked ok. Thought it was taking a long time 🤦🏻♂️