This is a very interesting read about what’s happening in the Israel-Hamas war. Regardless of whose side you are on, I recommend reading it.
Microposts
Made a few tweaks to my macro blog theme. I think the first step in getting a custom design is the same way I did it with Wordpress many years ago. Start by hacking at an existing theme that’s got a close layout to what I’m after.
I keep finding myself looking at mechanical keyboards… not sure if this is a good thing or not.
Moved my main, or macro blog, to Micro.blog… Now I need to get back in the habit of writing blog posts and learning how to create my own theme. Anyone have any recommendations getting started with Hugo themes?
Absolutely love the design the home page on this personal site. It's giving me the itch to design something this weekend.
Finished reading: Murder on Lake Garda by Tom Hindle 📚
Finished reading: The Hunger of the Gods by John Gwynne 📚
Voted. 🇬🇧
I somehow forgot about Aaron Draplin. His backyard studio is great and his enthusiasm for creating is infectious.
I’d love something like this on the iPad instead of Stage Manager.
I wonder if there will be a more coherent Sports story in iOS 18. The new sports app certainly needs a cleaner narrative around it and how it works with Apple News and Apple TV.
Added a new ink to my collection today. A green for summer.
Now this is what I call fun coffee packaging! ☕️
This mornings brew…
Moved all my notes from Obsidian to Bear yesterday, the constant jankiness of Obsidian made me have another look at Bear. Decided to give it a try and see how it goes.
I generally try to avoid Google services, but they sure are good at making me wish I use them. How well they come together is impressive and I’m starting to really like their visual language.
That this happens on Apple’s own devices is crazy…
Might have already downloaded the Delta emulator for iPhone and found a Pokemon Blue rom to play…
I feel caught in a continual battle of task managers. I like the OS integration of Things and the calendar sync of Todoist.
I wish I could make my iPad Home Screen as calm as my Mac one, but still with the utility. Full colour widgets are too shouty.
Starting the day off with some beautiful coffee in my local coffee shop. They’ve got some stunners from Kawa Coffee on today and I couldn’t resist taking some photos. ☕️
Migrated my Mastodon account to Micro.blog fully. The next few days will be spent pruning my follow list.
Love receiving Travellers notebook packages in the mail.
I was so engrossed in my work that I missed the start of a meeting by ten minutes. Nothing worse than having to send a sheepish apology message when joining.
Made my first little foray into editing the template for my blog. I’m a bit rusty with CSS and HTML but it all started to come back as I adjusted link colours and made a tweak to the spacing on my new bookmarks page.
The bookmarks page is a bit of an experiment as I try out some of the features in Micro.blog premium, although I still need to dig into them a bit.
Finally found some time this morning to add some personal sites to my blog roll. I’ve been wanting to create one for a while so when Manton added it as a feature to Micro.blog it made perfect sense to do it here. The aim is for this to be the first of many small improvements I would like to make.
Is there anyway to block or mute words on Micro.blog?
Tried to use TickTick briefly today. Felt way less intuitive than Todoist does, decided to stick with Todoist and their calendar integration for time blocking. Sometimes new isn’t better.
All I would like is an Obsidian like app that works on iPad and feels like it belongs there.
Came across Swift Mail yesterday, a native macOS app for JMAP email providers and it looks like a Mimestream for Fastmail. It’s a shame I don’t have a Mac that can run it, hopefully they’ll do an iPadOS version as well.