Just discovered that ChatGPT is the easiest way of converting images from webp to png.

Guess who did some training this morning on influencing others…

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Screenshot of a list titled “Notes created on this day,” featuring clickable blue links to various topics primarily focused on influence and self-promotion at work. Topics include emotional intelligence, key influencing skills, building relationships, self-promotion, the IPAR method, organisational intelligence, and the role of UX research in product design.

I started using properties in Obsidian and it seems to be causing serious lag issues. Not sure what’s going on with it.

Went to London at the end of last week for the London Coffee Festival. Made a trip to Borough Market for the first time as well. Monday morning arrived and it’s nice to be on my own and not around people.

My work issue headset broke so I started to use my AirPods when on calls. I find myself forgetting that I have them in long after a call has finished and only realising when I go to scratch my ear. Starting to think they are one of Apple’s best products.

Accessibility, colours, and web aim lead to strange combinations… what web aim says is more accessible seems harder to read. It has me wondering which is true scientifically and how important intuition is in design vs what the data says.

A screen shot showing two blocks. The top has black text on pink and the bottom has white text on pink.

I could spend all day reading Maggie Appleton’s delightful website. It’s such a pleasure to wander around in. I think it’s the kind of website I aspire to.

Google is effectively killing off early Nest thermostats, that’s not great consumer wise, but I’ve never understood the need for them anyway. If your house is well insulated it’s cheaper and more efficient to set a temperature and let your thermostat regulate when to heat or not.

Just over a year ago my iPad Pro died. I replaced it with a new one but debated getting a new Mac instead. I wish I’d bought the Mac.

Playing with Perplexities Mac app I asked it what the weather was. It knew where I lived and gave it to me in a nice card. I asked Siri and for some reason it gave me the weather in Texas…