Now this is what I call fun coffee packaging! ☕️

This mornings brew…

The photo shows a bag of Kawa coffee placed on a kitchen counter. The bag is orange and labeled with "Kawa," indicating it contains Colombian Perla Negra coffee beans. In the background, there is a white coffee machine and an electric kettle. In the foreground, coffee beans are placed on a white paper filter resting on a digital scale, which displays a reading of "0.00."

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.

It’s all excuses

I have this weird stumbling block with my blog. I want to blog, when I do it I enjoy it and when I get into a good rhythm posting regularly I enjoy it even more. I should then be doing it regularly, and in fact I want to do it regularly, but I have this weird block. I’m a designer. I don’t like using things out the box and prefer to have my own design on my own website, so when I don’t have one it becomes a blocker and I don’t want to invest time in blogging until it’s design is my own.

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That this happens on Apple’s own devices is crazy…

Siri's response to the question "What time is the apple event tonight". It says you can find out on the Apple website instead of giving me the information.

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.

Desktop calm - A Mac desktop showing widgets with some data blurred out

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.

A package wrapped in brown paper with green string sits on a felt desk mat next to a brown travellers notebook and an orange pen in a leather pen loop.

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.

Take a moment

Life is odd. Sometimes it seems to just pass us by, each day sliding into the next, the week begins and ends before we’ve even had time to catch our breath. At other times the days are slow and packed with things, little moments that create memories or that build up to make a week to remember. Lately life seems to be passing by at a great rate of knots, it whizzes by in a string of meetings, groceries, tv shows, and sleep.

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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.