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.

Tiling options green traffic light.

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…

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.