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Started some seedlings I've been spending a decent amount of time on a free word game (coming soon) and the redesign of my website. But that doesn't mean I haven't collected a cacophony of links for y'all. Jason Lee on The Nine Club – I find myself being pulled more and more into the world of skate. This…
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I celebrated right along with Andy when Waxy.org turned 10 and I'm still here cheering him on as Waxy.org turns 20. Andy Baio: Ten years ago, I wrote a roundup of my favorite posts from my first decade of blogging, and I thought I’d do the same thing for 2012-2021. If you missed them the first time around, I hope…
👉 Andreas Jennische @ndreas: Remember micro.blog is better the more you comment on other peoples posts.
DuckDuckGo: So today we’re excited to announce the beta launch of DuckDuckGo for Mac, with DuckDuckGo for Windows coming soon. Like our mobile app, DuckDuckGo for Mac is an all-in-one privacy solution for everyday browsing with no complicated settings, just a seamless private experience. Plus, we’re excited to share some new features we think you’ll love. This browser…
Mike Lapidakis: Last summer, Apple announced that as part of their iCloud+ service expansion, a new feature named Hide My Email was launching. The feature received little fanfare and was mainly swept up in the plethora of other news from WWDC. After using it for nearly a year, I think we’ve done it a bit of a disservice. Even though I pay…
The tulips are on their way. I've been very busy at work lately. Going through a software conversion there that will keep me busy well into summer. And, of course, Stripe Transfer is doing well. Here are some links, I hope you enjoy them. Goosh – A Google terminal. Nanoglyph – An email newsletter – though I subscribe…
Christopher Parsons: The Shortcut is pretty simple: when I run it, it maximizes the brightness of my iOS device and opens the Glass app. If you download the Shortcut it’s pretty easy to modify it to instead open a different application (e.g., Instagram, 500px, Flickr, etc). It’s definitely improved my experiences using the app and helped me to…
I updated Good Migrations's website with new testimonials and a downloadable PDF that provides a rough timeline for transferring accounts on Stripe. When customers are in a time crunch, they generally ask you two questions; how long will this take? how much does it cost? We offer free estimates for Stripe Transfer since we cannot say precisely how…
Terry Nguyen, for Vox: One can even argue that we are witnessing the video essay’s golden era. Run times are longer than ever, while more and more creators are producing long-form videos. The growth of “creator economy” crowdfunding tools, especially during the pandemic, has allowed video essayists to take longer breaks between uploads while retaining their production quality. Did I mention…
https://youtu.be/TzmvE1Eq9HY Last night's Twitch stream is now available on YouTube w/ chapters.
Julia Evans: So here are a few examples of small personal programming projects I’ve done. I’m not going to talk about “learning projects” where my goal was to learn something specific because I’ve already written a billion blog posts about that. I've written countless tidbits of code to solve personal problems. Some of them end up becoming real…
An LED light on a frozen pond I had a much longer list of links that I was going to share but I slowly pruned that list down to just a few. I've been very focused on gobbling up as much photography as I can lately. As spring breaks I'm very much looking forward to getting back out…
Tumblr: As of today, you can set up ad-free browsing on your personal desktop computer, from anywhere in the world, and then enjoy the same effervescent Tumblr you know and love (yes, including mobile) without the interruption of ads. Scroll away. $4.99 a month If I was a daily Tumblr user, or if I powered my website or…
After transferring tens of thousands of subscriptions in my side gig, Good Migrations – which is a service that helps individuals and businesses transfer their Stripe subscriptions from one Stripe account to another – I've come across three main reasons this service is needed. Going through an acquisition Moving to a new country Consolidating subscription services While there…
Recorded on February 18, 2022 Join me as I scan some photos and chat about starting things and finishing things. Are you dealing with the same thing? Write a comment! (Audio clip unfound. I'll try to restore this file in the future.)
Penelope, January 2022 This week I feel like I'm at war with my photo library. I'm attempting to move files around, verify back ups, and generally do a clean up – and at every step I feel like the photo library is winning. I continue to wish this were easier. Onto the links! MapOut – This app looks…
Tom MacWright: There just aren’t as many active blogs as there were in the past. I think this has amplified the benefits of blogging: you can make more of an impact and create more of an identity with a blog than you can with Twitter or any siloed social network. I was just having this discussion with someone….
No, this doesn't have anything to do with blockchain. Joel Spolsky writing about Block Protocol: As a result of the non-standardization of blocks, our end-users suffer. If someone is using my blog engine, they can only use those blocks that I had time to implement. Those blocks may be pretty basic or incomplete. Users might want to use…
All this hubbub around Spotify and podcasts reminded me to try out their app to see if they've improved since last year. They haven't. It is still a terrible app to watch/listen to podcasts.
For context, you may want to read my post from early January I am quitting social media. There were two main actions I took when I decided to pull the plug on social media. First, I unsubscribed from all accounts in every platform. RSS feeds deleted. Twitter follows razed. Instagram follows flushed. YouTube subscriptions obliterated. All without any…
Never play Wordle before coffee.
I’m planning to write about how leaving social media has benefitted me, what I’ve done with that time, and further steps I’d like to take.
I'm looking forward to using the updated Apple Music app in macOS 12.2. I'll likely update today.