Mr. Robot is a masterpiece.
2019.12.25.
2019.12.13.
Liked “Joan Cornellà on Twitter: “… ““.
2019.12.11.
Actually @jack, you know what? Go and invent another protocol, but make sure it can’t be used to edit posts.
Bookmarked “How John Gruber, Raconteur, Uses OmniOutliner“.
Jack Dorsey plans to fund a small group of developers to came up with an open and decentralized standard for social media that Twitter would support. Like we don’t have that already used by almost all federated social networks…
I disabled Gutenberg yesterday.
At first, it does look great, but after switching off the visual editor, it becomes a simple textarea. There isn’t even an insert media button, so I reverted everything to the old one. It should be supported for another 3 years, so I’m fine for a while.
Liked “NetNewsWire“.
NetNewsWire looks so nice on iOS. I can’t wait to try it out!
The Decade the Internet Lost Its Joy:
By 2010, personal blogs were thriving, Tumblr was still in its prime, and meme-makers were revolutionizing with form. Snapchat was created in 2011 and Vine, the beloved six-second video app, was born in 2012. People still spent time posting to forums, reading daily entries on sites like FML, and watching Shiba Inus grow up on 24-hour puppy cams. On February 26, 2015—a day that now feels like an iconic marker of the decade — millions of people on the internet argued about whether a dress was blue or gold, and watched live video of two llamas on the lam in suburban Arizona. Sites like Gawker, the Awl, Rookie, the Hairpin, and Deadspin still existed. Until they didn’t. One by one, they were destroyed by an increasingly unsustainable media ecosystem built for the wealthy.
Completely unrelated post from 2004 about lurkers and social media (social media meaning blogs at that time):
Taking it one step further, maybe the ‘magic numbers’ we see in networks of humans relate these meshing concepts to our mental capacity to juggle social data.
- 12 being the average capacity to track nodes in a totally meshed network
- 50 being the average capacity to track nodes in an optimally meshed network
- 150 being the average capacity to track nodes in a sub-optimally meshed network.
- above 150 being the sparsely meshed social network where anonymity and getting lost becomes possible.
If we relate this to blogs and Clay Shirky’s power law, teenage diaries blogs are possibly primarily on the 12/total meshing levels, professional content blogs are probably all in the 50 to 150 ranges, with distinct stability levels (my blog went from 0 to 12 inbound blogs then stabilized, then grew to just over fifty inbound blogs and stabilized again.) Above 150 people are more sparsely connected and start looking for beacons or leaders to orient themselves socially. This is the range where the broadcasting type blogs are, the A-listers.
I cried inside a little when I read teenage diaries. Yes, we used to have that. They were weird looking blogs rumbling about random crap, but it was creative and fun.
Why don’t we have things like that on the web anymore?
Read “Lurking, Twitter, The Commons, and Private Posts“.
Within this setting, since roughly late 2016, I’ve been posting almost all of what I read online or in books, magazines, or newspapers on my own website. These read posts include some context and are often simply composed of the title of the article, the author, the outlet, a summary/synopsis/or first paragraph or two to remind me what the piece was about, and occasionally a comment or two or ten I had on the piece.
2019.12.10.
I know Apple has the new Pro Display XDR, but there is still a place for another 27-inch display which is made for developers. I have an LG UltraFine 4K connected to my iMac and I love it, but the design is so un-Apple.
2019.12.09.
2019.12.08.
Dave Winer made a video about how he blogs which is very unique. Basically he edits an OPML file that gets synced to scripting.com—it also looks like an outline. I like how quickly he can change anything on his blog.
I made a lot of adjustments to my blog to use IndieWeb technologies, so in essence: I can reply, like or repost tweets, receive mentions as comments here, and update my status, all from Decoding.
This is really cool, since I can keep everything under my control, but I can participate in social services.
Bookmarked “About – Bridgy“.
Replying to @ttscoff:
Almost there with around 2.7%. https://indiewebify.me/validate-h-card/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdecoding.io
2019.12.07.
I hate iPhone cases but I’m going to get a leather one from Apple. I just dropped my phone on the floor and it landed on top. I was lucky, it survived it without any damage, but I got scared for a second.
Replying to @zsbenke:
Also, I should be able to reply to my own tweet.
I’m sorry for spamming, but I’m trying to integrate Bridgy with WordPress. This should be the last test post.
2019.12.06.
I have comments and webmentions again on my blog. It feels nice.
While almost everybody is moving mindlessly into the cloud, I try to move out of it more and more and store a lot of my stuff locally (some of it are not even synced). I’m very conservative about my privacy lately. Although I use iCloud when I can, for 3rd-party syncing services, I prefer the ones where I can host them on my own server. I still use some services which store my data on their own servers (like YNAB), but I’m trying to get rid of them quickly.
One week ago I started running my own WebDAV server for OmniFocus and DEVONthink. There is an easy-to-follow tutorial from Bytemark that explains how to set up a couple of Docker containers with an automatic reverse proxy and SSL renewal service using Traefik.
I bought a cheap $5 server on Digital Ocean which is located in Frankfurt, that’s way closer to me (I live in Hungary) than OmniGroup’s sync service which is located in the US, I assume in Seattle.
When I switched to OmniFocus from Things, one thing I missed from Things was the instant and invisible syncing that they offer. Cultured Code really nailed that one: you can change anything in your Things database and it instantly shows up on your other devices, even in the background. OmniFocus’s sync was always slower for me, but shortening the distance between the server and the client looks like boosts the performance in a very big way. Using my own sync server located in the EU, I’m getting almost the same speed in OmniFocus as Things has. The good thing is that my data is now hosted on my own server.
DEVONthink also getting some speed increase compared to iCloud, but it’s not that big of a difference as with OmniFocus.
2019.12.04.
Let’s try posting something from MarsEdit.
After months of work, I’m switching back from Jekyll to WordPress. I’m just tired of regenerating my website every time I want to post something to it.
The best: I can use MarsEdit again!
2019.11.12.
Mesmerizing Translucent Waves from 19th Century Paintings
What separates Aivazovsky’s seascape paintings from others is his ability to replicate both the intensity and motion as well as the translucency and texture. His energetic waves and calm ripples are equally effective.
That glow! I have no idea how you can create an effect like that on a simple painting.
2019.11.06.
2019.10.31.
After playing around with the idea for a while, I'll switch from OmniFocus to the new Reminders app, because I'm curious how well it works as a simple GTD app. I still envy the deeper Siri/Shortcuts and iOS integration.
2019.09.21.
I've just started playing around with Shortcuts in iOS 13.
This thing is gonna be huge! ?
2019.09.09.
Just a quick tip for LaunchBar and Apple Music users.
2019.09.08.
Thinking about investments
I started to research a couple of money-related topics, like investment, frugality or how can I make a passive income. I see the following patterns emerging:
It’s very important to think about investments in the long term. I can’t get a 50% profit in a day, it’s more likely that my funds will get a 5-10% percent increase in 25-50 years. If you’re making millions on stocks or something, it’s very likely that you had luck or it’s your job that you do all-day. For me, it’s more appealing when people take their time, research and understand their investments. I like this related Warren Buffett quote:
Never invest in a business you cannot understand.
I have to reconsider my relationship with money. It’s important to think about every purchase as an investment. Every asset/tool I buy has to have a job.
There is a need to stop the urge to buy new stuff constantly. If I always chase after new things, then I’ll miss the ones I already have. I want to invest more time into rediscovering what I have and sharpening my existing tools.
I have to make a habit of checking YNAB Trends on a weekly basis. It gives me the statistics required to know where my money went, so I can adjust my budget, but more importantly, I can reflect on how well my purchases serve me.