I love articles that show the tools of choice for designers and artists like this one from Jonny Ive. Some of the items are a little unrelatable but still fascinating to look at.

Decided to give the Fastmail app a go on my iPhone instead of using mail. We’ll see how I get on.

I made a mistake and read the comments. Never. Read. The. Comments.

Enjoyed watching Mr Gregory Porter at the Jazz Festival tonight. Wonderful music. 🎵

I enjoyed David Sparks’ calendar tricks webinar about getting the most from a digital calendar. I’ve tried some of his tips in the past but I think it might be time to have another look at them.

Love this project by Max Braun to bring an iSight back to life. I bought a Logitech stream cam as it was the nicest high quality webcam I could find. If only they still made the iSight.

In Atomic Habits author James Clear states:

The greater the obstacle—that is, the more difficult the habit—the more friction there is between you and your desired end state. This is why it is crucial to make your habits so easy that you’ll do them even when you don’t feel like it. If you can make your good habits more convenient, you’ll be more likely to follow through on them.

Reducing friction is a concept I’m very familiar in my work as a designer, but for some reason it’s something that I forget in my day to day life. So I’m trying a little experiment with my blogging. I’m going to test a few different ways of posting and then whichever has the least friction thus enabling me to post more regularly then that’s what I’m going to go with.

Giving Ulysses another go to see if I should keep the subscription or not.

Happy Easter!

“He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.” ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭28:6‬ ‭NIVUK‬‬

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… 😑

Wordle 235 5/6

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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.