I think my brain is done for the day. Couldn’t find a way to create a subdomain on Hover, even a cursory google didn’t uncover the mystery.
How FoodNoms' New App Icon Boosted Download Conversion Rate by 10%
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
I really like blog posts that give a behind the scenes for design changes. I’ve just written an internal post for my work on the reasoning I’ve made changes to a key part of our user experience. This is an interesting look at the effect of a new icon design for Foodnoms has increased downloads. I wish more developers and designers would be this transparent about their work. It’s great evidence that shows how important the users are in our design considerations.
Stanford researchers find Mastodon has a massive child abuse material problem
Tuesday, July 25, 2023
This is a rather concerning piece of research. I hadn't considered this angle of decentralised social media services. One thing that the large corps have is resources and urgency to tackle things like this.
Blogging is still a journey
Friday, July 21, 2023
When I started this site, I was just a 19-year-old looking to have fun on the internet. After all the twists and turns, I’ve come back around to a very similar place. Now, I’m a 31-year-old who’s still looking to have fun on the internet, share my thoughts and experiences, and make friends. That’s what this blog is for, and I’m really happy with where it’s landed. Devon Dundee posting about his journey with his blog tells a similar tale to the story of my blog.
Very tempted by the public betas for iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS this year…
It still baffles me that in both Outlook and Apple Mail there is no built in button to create a task from an email…
Multi-layered calendars
Thursday, July 20, 2023
This is a fascinating read that presents the idea that calendars should be multi layered. We tend to think of calendars as 2D grids with mutually exclusive blocks of time, but as this example shows, not all events automatically cancel each other out. Depending on their characteristics, they can be layered on top of each other. This means we manage time in three, not two, dimensions. Think of a meeting you need to travel to.
Back on Wordpress
Wednesday, July 19, 2023
Back on Wordpress. It’s been a few years and many attempts to revitalise my blog, but I’ve decided to move back to Wordpress. The ease of posting from any device using apps has trumped everything else. Things will be a bit rough over the next few days and weeks as I get old posts back but stay tuned for more.
This mornings coffee is brought to you by the ends of two different bags… I call it frankenfilter… ☕️
My use of Threads has dropped dramatically this week, it’s become really clear that all I want is them to enable Activity Pub so that I can follow a few friends from Micro.blog or Mastodon.
As much as it pains me to say this. Bard is proving to be better for me than ChatGTP lately and it’s all because of one thing. It looks at the internet.
A night of natural wine tasting with these two 🍷
I love seeing behind the scenes look at new logos for things that have been around a while. Really like the new Thunderbird logo.
Creative process in three words or less
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
Just saw a a post on Threads from Figma… describe your creative process in three words or less. My attempt: Steal, splice, iterate. Maybe I should elaborate? Steal: Be inspired. Steal ideas from others, but also from your past. At the start, or even in the middle of, a project I tend to ask myself two questions. Have I solved a similar problem in the past and has someone else solved it?
Starting to think I want a smaller bag for than my back pack. Want one that’s comfortable to wear, can fit my iPad Pro 11 inch and a general assortment of “stuff” like inhaler, phone, and keys… any recommendations out there?
Plus these two that are going to a local coffee shop for them to cup.
I’ve got some seriously good coffees in the house at the moment… the red bourbon is especially 😚👌🏻 ☕️
Threads is intriguing but feels like the wild west. Mastodon has the best apps but discovery of people is really hard. Micro.blog is comfortable, like sitting in the lounge of an old pub. The problem is there are people I want to follow on all of the networks but I can’t do it from one app.
In all honesty I would like an app with the polish of Ivory to follow people from, keep up with the timeline in, and post to my own self hosted blog that looks and is structured exactly how I want it to be. I feel like that is a possibility but one that is always slightly out of reach.
Now that Apple has done interactive widgets. I want them to bring back interactive notifications on the Mac.
I hate DNS.