Purchased a few new-to-me audio goodies over on Bandcamp including Somebody by Stefan Bohacek and FLOW by Mr Jennings.
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Purchased Under Tangled Silence by Djrum at Simon Collison’s suggestion. I suggest you consider doing the same (that is, follow Simon’s advice on all music).
Jeremy Keith just publishes
Jeremy Keith, in his interview on Manuel Moreale’s People & Blogs series: I never write down those things bouncing around in my head. I know I probably should. But then if I’m…
TIL that when people said they read a book they sometimes mean they listened to a book. Ok, it wasn’t today that I learned this but I am hearing it a lot more often.
After over 8 years my Logitech MX Master 2S had a button jam. It was a fantastic mouse and I’m very happy with the life it had. So I immediately purchased the 3S which is better in a number of ways; USB-C, better buttons, better wheel.
The Logi Options+ application, which Logitech provides to configure the mouse, is pretty nice but I’m having issues with it. For example, App Expose sometimes works sometimes doesn’t when mapped to one of the thumb buttons. Hide Others, a keyboard shortcut on the Mac I use liberally, is also a little flaky via the new mouse.
Does anyone else have these issues? Does anyone have a solution for not using Logi Options+ at all but configuring the mouse with some much less bulky?
Andy Adams on photographer’s websites
Andy Adams: For some reason, years ago, we all agreed to spend most of our online time looking at photography on a canvas smaller than a cocktail napkin. It’s awful when you…
My appearance on The PublishPress Podcast
My thanks to Steve Burge for inviting me on to The PublishPress Podcast. In this episode we chat about NerdPress, blogging, Hubbub, Hubbub's Save This feature, social media, and the importance for…
The vibe coding litmus test
Unsure of what vibe coding is? See Simon Willison's explanation of a term recently coined by Andrej Karpathy on X. It is a buzzword that is lighting the world in fire it…
Spring is for unsubscribing
A few times over the last several decades I've unsubscribed from every social media account, RSS feed, newsletter, YouTube channel, etc. and started with a clean slate. My goal was, as I…
Diversions #9: The garlic of March
The sun has returned! I mean, it has always been there. Relatively speaking in the same place it was over the last few months. But the Earth's tilt is such that as…
Gus Mueller on Apple and AI
Gus Mueller argues that Apple needs to support developers running LLMs locally on the Mac, rather than simply try to catch up on their own. There isn't one specific quote that I…
My personal OneDrive has seemingly gone off the rails. It reported that I had deleted thousands of files when I hadn’t. I’m also seeing many duplicated files for no known reason. Stranger still, my 2021 blog post about resetting OneDrive was my most popular post last week. Coincidence?
Diversions #8: Icy gin film
It has been a long, cold, mostly icy winter. I'm not sure if age makes this feeling more acute, but the data seem to show that this winter has been colder than…
Does my blog need to support ActivityPub?
I have my reservations about whether or not blogs (specifically my blog) should federate content via ActivityPub. Isn't RSS enough?
Finally watched Perfect Days. Still swooning.
What software should be
It used to be, that I was the first person in line to download new software. I'd sign up for beta access, email developers for early looks at what they were working…
The cherry tomato technique
As you all know, I'm a big fan of a the Pomodoro Technique. Recently, while catching up on my backlog of Jack Cheng's excellent Sunday series, I came across a snippet in…
Thinking about my use of color film
(The following is a very quick mind dump. Unedited. Raw.) I prefer black and white over color film for most of my photographic work. I do shoot color film. I mostly like…
Naz Hamid on social networking
Naz Hamid writes about how we should all keep social networks in their place; as methods of distribution rather than longterm means of connection or publication. He also contrasts that to how…
“Stop calling it work” – Cedric Raguenaud
Cedric Raguenaud argues that.. "When we label our photographic pursuits as “work,” we unconsciously impose constraints and expectations that belong in the professional world. Suddenly, we feel pressured to maintain visibility, chase…
How I hide all but the active window on macOS
My default web browser is set to Switcheroo – a custom-made macOS app by Zhenyi Tan (with some feedback and guidance from me). Whenever I click on a link a modal of…
On the need to disrupt the structure of a blog
Chris Armstrong, advocating for a digital garden over a blog structure: A blog structure places the highest emphasis on ‘what’s new’… but what’s new has had the least scrutiny and little authority….
Pixelfed is about to have a moment
This morning I checked in on Pixelfed, the ActivityPub-powered Instagram alternative. I had created a profile on an instance in 2021 and I check in from time-to-time to see how it is…
Making social choices
Every person and organization has to make their own decisions about which social platforms they will have an account on, publish their content to, engage with, and support (with use or contributions…
After purchasing the new MacBook Pro with a matte display (and loving it), this weekend I converted all of my devices to matte using screen protectors.
TIL about the iOS Camera app’s QuickTake video feature.
How I use Anybox
Update (October 2026): I now use Rinku, my free, open source to-do app for links. It carries forward the approach behind Nilai and Unmark, with a local Markdown library. Update October 2025:…
TIL what a digital mending circle is.
What, you ask, is a digital mending circle? A virtual co-working session for the kinds of oft-neglected maintenance tasks that accrue around our digital lives. Instead of darning socks and patching jeans, we update personal websites, delete unused accounts, work on side projects, or even just catch up on email.
Oh I need this.
I feel like computer hardware (processing units, graphics/neural processors, memory, storage) has gotten mind bending fast while at the same time the software we run day-to-day has gotten noticeably poorer.
I often think “what if the software engineers of the early days were to develop software today?” You know, the men and women that had to find a way to use every single bit and byte to their advantage. The engineers that created games using systems less powerful than the processor in my AirPods. The designers that made low resolution displays display smooth type. The audio experts that somehow got single speakers to make aliens come alive.
Give those people our modern tools, gigabytes of memory, and processors that handle billions of calculations every nanosecond – I’d bet that they could make modern software sing.
I had no idea Anthony Bourdain had a Reddit account. I’ve only just recently begun to be able to start watching / reading his work again. /via Mia Quagliarello via Rolling Stone.