Steve Jobs said this in 2011:
No ads. We build products that we want for ourselves, too, and we just don’t want ads.
Then, we have a new rumor, that Apple is thinking about showing ads in Maps.
My reaction? No ads. You build products that you and I want for ourselves, too, and we just don’t want ads.
Continuing 3378:
If you visit the front page of my blog, you’ll notice that I organize posts by day, inspired by the daily notes feature from Roam Research.
I typically enjoy this wall of text style more than having separate posts highlighted individually (perhaps that’s why I like threading on Mastodon).
The issue is that WordPress lacks a similar feature, but I would love to have threading on my blog too. My Zettelkasten can stack connected notes, which aligns with this concept.
Maybe I should create something that allows me to link posts together, with backlink support.
Previously:
I sometimes think we might need different ways to share ideas instead of long articles—it’s important to mention that I’m talking about ideas, not stories.
Looking at how I read, I see that I usually skim content instead of reading it all at once. Then, I go back to the interesting parts later. If you think this is like Incremental reading, then you’re correct.
I’m not sure what might happen if I started using formats closer to the raw idea then heavily edited posts.
After today’s post on disabling the wake on lid open, I got a comment from smarthieef on how we can switch off this behavior for the keyboard too, so we can only turn on the MacBook using the Touch ID button, making the keyboard cleaning process way easier.
- Press and hold the left Control and Command buttons with right Shift button for a total of 7 seconds.
- Without releasing them, press the Power button and hold together for an additional 7 seconds until your laptop shuts down. The login screen may flash for a second so don’t prematurely release the keys until the machine is off.
- For your next startup, your Mac can only be powered on by using the Power button or closing and opening the lid.
I tested this on a 16-inch M1 MacBook Pro, and it works indeed. It is also a one-time thing, so on the next boot, it resets this behavior to the default one, so we can get the best of both worlds.
Update: I tested this on an M3 MacBook Air too, and it didn’t work.
I just realized that the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress does Fediverse replies inline too. Pretty nice!
I’m just playing around with Muse for Mac, and I just found this picture in their macOS version announcement post.
I love this analogy. Every idea we execute should have some form of artifact at the end: a blog post, a Zettelkasten note, a presentation, an email, etc.
I’ll use this distinction between the different apps that I use for idea development.
Previously:
CES: We made a tablet that you can fold up like paper.
Me: Ohh cool, when can I buy it?
CES: What do you mean? 🤨
Wow, my new “Edit in MarsEdit” button and the corresponding shortcut are such a quality-of-life improvement in my blogging workflow.
I always forgot that I have a global shortcut for microposting using MarsEdit. Although I’m not sure about what defaults it is using for the new post.
Looks like 37signals is building a new editor called House (MD). The code is already available in the Writebook project which I haven’t tried yet.
This new editor is based on Markdown, which I like, since their current Trix editor is WYSIWYG, although it works pretty well in my experience.
Nice, I can have a custom Bluesky handle using my own domain. Updated the links on my blog to @zsolt.decoding.io.
Mandy Brown on ending your day:
Here’s a small trick that worked for me over the dozen years I led remote teams: at the end of your working day, shut down every app on your machine. Yes, all of them. Stash your tabs somewhere if you must, but close them all down. The only exception that may be made is for a simple note-taking app—the kind that lacks any kind of notifications. Then, spend ten or perhaps fifteen minutes reflecting on your day, whether in said note-taking app or, even better, on paper. This needn’t be anything formal or structured, just jot a few things down—maybe short phrases, maybe just some key words. The only hard rule is to do your best to keep any sense of judgement out. Then, in the morning, when you open up your machine, there should be nothing yelling at you—no unread badges, no cluster of notifications calling for your attention.
This is the best shutdown routine you can do.
The new version of the ActivityPub WordPress plugin lets me reply to comments coming from Mastodon and federate them back as standard replies. I just wanted to install an instance this morning to have a profile that I can use to reply to incoming comments, but this one is way better.
Again, you can follow me on Mastodon by searching for my profile (zsbenke@decoding.io) from your instance.
I guess I love them both now.
It is more than funny (and sad) that Electron apps are so bloated now that they can’t even offer a proper universal binary. You have to pick the CPU family on download.
Follow-up on Apple and journaling:
I like the Journal app, even if it’s barebones as all 1.0 apps usually are. Since I mostly use default Apple apps, the recommendation feature works well for me.
It is a good base for more advanced features in the future (I guess we see nothing new until the next WWDC).
I’m going to keep Everlog around as an archive though.
Interesting to see how people are using Org mode for journaling.
This is app uses text views to convert the text back to Org mode syntax: kind of a two way street implementation of having a UITextView with a controller which parses and creates rich-text ↔ plain-text.
Follow-up on Setting up Type as a quick capture interface for my TaskPaper journal:
After using this setup for a few days, I just removed my running lists. I still like the idea, but I’m heavily invested time in my TaskPaper journal now, and I’m in the habit of using it, too, so I’ll directly capture there as before.
Running lists isn’t my thing.
Follow-up on Liked “MailMate”:
I just bought MailMate a couple of minutes ago. It turns out I love to use plain-text email for writing and reading. It’s just way easier to edit my emails in MacVim than to fuck around with the Mail.app compose window.
The Things integration is also pretty cool. I can get the complete plain-text email in the to-do note, which is way more excellent than the jumbled text-fest I had previously parsed by the Things mail service forwarded from Mail.
I’m still developing my workflow around the rule-based smart mailboxes, which are pretty powerful.
I’ll write more about this app in the future.
So, I should be able to move the MarsEdit micropost window around now and attach pictures to a post right there.
I’m just testing if I can ping another post from MarsEdit using Webmentions.
This is the not-so-poor men’s version of backlinks.
Update: looks like it worked!
MailMate is an IMAP email client for macOS featuring extensive keyboard control, Markdown integrated email composition, advanced search conditions and drill-down search links[…]
Sometimes, I wonder if I should try to use MailMate instead of Mail.app (at least for some specific tasks). It’s an app made for nerds.
I think it’s even have MacVim integration, and still makes emails available in the filesystem instead of closing them away for Spotlight only.
Should I publish longer articles as one big post, or break them up into 2-3 pieces?
This thread is a good example for what we call interoperability.
I’m not sure what happened but I rarely listen to any podcast these days.
Sometimes I pick up an episode of something GTD or productivity-related when I’m doing chores around the house, but I stopped listening to the “6 hours-long episode of a couple of guys talking about Apple” style podcasts (except Mac Power Users).
I would love to use TaskPaper for something, but all my note-taking and task management needs are covered by other apps.
But I still love the idea and minimalistic UI of TaskPaper.
The first Apple event I haven’t watched live in 16 years was today’s one because you know… we were sleeping in Europe.
I love Apple Shortcuts, but there is no other important Apple software on the Mac which is buggy as this one.
And don’t get me started on the constant sync conflicts.
My Micro.blog integration was broken since April. 😳
It’s a good thing that they have account logs. Otherwise, I wouldn’t figure out that my feed was too big.