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. Iโve 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. Itโs a shame I donโt have a Mac that can run it, hopefully theyโll do an iPadOS version as well.
Thursday, February 22, 2024 โ
Theory: Apple is soon going to announce a HomePod with a screen. People will want to see sports scores on that. The new Sports app is for that.
Thursday, February 22, 2024 โ
I’m tempted to reset my iPhone and only install the apps I’m using to see how few apps I can get away with.
Tuesday, February 20, 2024 โ
I would really like to be able to put apps in slide over on my Mac. Having Todoist there would be very helpful when I’m not plugged into my external display.
I finally have a new iPad to replace the one which died in early January. Realised how much I used the old one and my ancient MacBook Pro wasnโt able to handle some things I was doing. Been playing the new Affinity apps and they are very impressive.
I really wish Safari played nicely with all site or web apps. Having to run an app so that links for certain things (Monday.com and Miro) open in a Chromium browser is very annoying.
Saturday, January 27, 2024 โ
New iPad ordered and arriving to my local Apple shop on Tuesday. They had an offer with ยฃ75 off which was a nice bonus!
Apple bringing transcripts for podcasts is very cool. In fact the only thing stopping me from using the built in Podcasts app is the lack of a smart speed feature. I’m so used to having it that when I listen to a podcast without it it sounds really slow.
Thursday, January 25, 2024 โ
This week I’ve made a switch to Todoist, setup the calendar integration with Google and really leaned on their task durations. It’s worked really well for time blocking tasks in-between work meetings.
It doesn’t happen often, but occasionally I read something in the first lines of a post and can’t read the rest of the post because I keep going back to it.
In this case it was the first 4 words. I don’t want a productivity system, I want a creativity system.
Sunday, January 21, 2024
This is a post which Iโve had brewing in the back of my mind since September. This year marks the end of my 3rd decade, September will be my 40th birthday the end of what has turned out to be quite a hard decade. A look in the mirror and I can see how hard it has been. At the start of the year I weighed myself and had a little bit of a shock.
Saturday, January 20, 2024 โ
I always enjoy a birthday list. This one from Jeff Sheldon has a few nice points and a few that made me chuckle.
Thursday, January 18, 2024 โ
Picked up a USB C dock that can handle all the connections I need. I love that I only have one cable to plug into my MacBook Pro now.
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 โ
I want timers on my HomePod to be live activities on my iPhone. That would be a great enhancement.
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 โ
My refusal to use Threads or X is making it much harder to keep up with sports (specifically F1) news. Anyone know of any good blogs I could add to my RSS?