I need to stop reading the comments on political things.
I’ve had the app Soro on my iPhone/iPad for ages so I could use shortcuts to play stuff on my Sonos. Discovered last week that it’s also on the Mac and now I can’t stop finding ways to use it! Brilliant app.
Found myself installing Evernote to play with again yesterday. The one thing I’ve always liked about it is how easy it is to get stuff into.
Decided to carry out an experiment. One todo app for work and a different one for my personal stuff. Todoist for work as it integrates better with Microsoft 365 and Things for all my personal stuff. Let’s see how it goes.
Tuesday, February 28, 2023 โ
Instruction from the doctor: Lose weight your cholesterol is too high. Nothing like a statement like that to make you feel worse about yourself.
A terrible thing has happened. I’ve run out of coffee beans and there’s no time to go buy some before my first meeting of the dayโฆ
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 โ
Currently reading: The Innovators by Walter Isaacson ๐๐ง
Tuesday, February 21, 2023 โ
Absolutely love this. I’ll be saving this to return to many times. Go and read Lessons of Design.
Saturday, February 11, 2023 โ
May finally have got it workingโฆ sometimes it takes a vent post to make you reset and look for a different way.
Saturday, February 11, 2023 โ
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.
Adding tags
Saturday, February 11, 2023
This post was written when this blog was based on Jekyll before I moved back to Wordpress. I have kept it as part of the history of this blog. It’s taken me a long time with lots of googling and trial & error, but I finally have tags working on this site. Out of the box Jekyll provides a tagging function. You can define tags at the start of blog posts along with the other data you wish to add, but annoyingly Jekyll doesn’t automatically provide archive pages.
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.
Saturday, February 4, 2023 โ
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.
Hobbies, blogs, writing, iPads, and Macs
Saturday, February 4, 2023
For the last few years 99% of my personal computing has been handled on the iPad Pro. For the most part it was ok. Sometimes I would need to jump through some hoops to do things and occasionally I would fall back on my work Mac. The only item that has suffered in that time has been my ability to work on my personal website. I tried several times to build workflows in shortcuts to enable me to do what I wanted, but most of the time they were buggy or didn’t quite work how I needed them too.
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.
Wednesday, February 1, 2023 โ
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 โstreamโ 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.