Absolutely love this. I’ll be saving this to return to many times. Go and read Lessons of Design.

May finally have got it working… sometimes it takes a vent post to make you reset and look for a different way.

No matter what I do, I can never get tags to work in Jekyll. I’ve followed so many tutorials to try and get tag pages to work, but the plugins never do.

First steps playing with Figma today. We’ve been all in on XD for visual design but it seems to be dead and keeps breaking things.

1Password is going to support passkeys. This looks really interesting, might be time to do some passkey research.

Spent a bit more time working on my personal site. I’ve now revived the Jekyll powered blog and plan to keep playing with the site. Need to add a little personality to it but more of the bare bones are there now.

Cameron Moll’s problem solving process is very similar to mine. Start with a basic understanding of the problem, and iterate on the problem and the solution.

I wish Sonos would make a proper Mac app.

Came across these rather beautiful pens this morning.

Since I cam across this post from Om Malik on whether the “stream” as a design paradigm is over it’s been noodling away at the back of my mind. I think, to some extent, I agree with it whilst at the same time disagreeing. Streams are good for one thing: communicating context via time.

I’ve recently discovered the blog of Manuel Moreale and I love the simplicity of the design.

In his post about Blogging, RSS, and Imposture Syndrome Brandon writes,

Then it clicked… the internet I miss didn’t include my mom. It was a bunch of nerds, creating stuff, showing it off, and most of the time doing it for free for others to enjoy.

And I couldn’t agree more. This is exactly the internet I miss as well. It’s what drew me to create my first blog in 2005 and what keep drawing me back now.

First steps of an updated personal site today. It will likely evolve a lot in the coming weeks especially while I work out how micro.blog, mastodon, and the site work together.

Keeping an eye on CodeEdit. Looks promising.

My code editor of choice (Atom) is no more. Anyone got any recommendations?

I miss blog rolls… the first time the personal web was in full swing everyone had blog rolls on their sites. Now very few people have this and it makes finding sites much harder.

Wandering around Oxford today after a few days in London. An end of January mini holiday is actually really nice and refreshing.

Not sure why but I now have a Mastodon account… I think intrigue more than anything is behind it.

Apple has released a new HomePod that looks like they haven’t learnt any lessons from the first one. It’s still $300 and still seems over engineered.

Finding myself drawn more and more towards analog tools lately. Considering buying some writing paper to write some letters to friends I haven’t seen for a while.

Interesting to see Medium starting it’s own Mastodon server. Perhaps trying to shield itself from an eventual collapse as people rediscover their own personal websites.

Currently reading: Diddly Squat: ‘Til The Cows Come Home by Jeremy Clarkson 📚

Considering all my various software subscriptions given some are increasing in price (Fantastical). Any set app users have experience of BusyCal vs. Fantastical?

6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. (‭‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭9‬‬:‭6‬ ‭NIVUK‬‬)

I followed @johnvoorhees@mastodon.macstories.net through Micro.blog and his name is so long it breaks scrolling in the Micro.blog app. @manton is there a way display Mastodon users names rather than handles?