Pre-ordered Black Pebble Core 2 Duo. Couldn’t help myself. Luckily not convinced with the Core Time 2 looks, if it had looked closer to the Pebble Time 2, I’d had gone with that one.
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A full stream of microposts.
4 hour incident on website IDP. There goes our 99.99 SLA.
📺 Really enjoyed S01 of The Agency with Ana. Also have the soundtrack in repeat. Didn’t know Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch, lots of Hans Zimmer vibes, but different enough.
Ok let’s go.
iMessage is about to loose probably the only 2 users in Costa Rica. For some reason, my messages to my wife intermittently are not delivery from the iPhone. But works perfectly from Mac/iPad. Guessing is something related to email/phone# order, but for the life of me, can’t figure it out.
Ok, now I just have to give Leader Key a try. Geeky video? mentions Quicksilver? Continuous updates?
Blot now supports iCloud as a sync folder. There’s no more friction to posting from Obsidian on iPhone/iPad. Which means that if don’t become a prolific blogger starting today… maybe the tools wasn’t my problem?
Dear me. Selective text on iOS is frustrating. I manage to select a word in one line, but the exact same gesture on the next one selects the whole sentence. Can replicate ad infinitum.
The Opencore experiment worked, but didn’t produce an usable computer. Let’s see if a Linux injection helps.
Very excited about blot.im iCloud client. If it works, i’ll be able to stop using Maestral. But then… if I get a Framework 12in… jeez, being a geek can be exhausting.
Finished reading: The Salvage Crew by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne 📚
Glad I stuck with it at the end. But almost quit a few times. Not sure if the plot holes was from my lack of attention or “suspension of disbelief” requieres to enjoy the ride.
The importance of mind maps and concept maps will increase in the AI/LLM age. It’s getting easier to fill the space between concepts, but the value of spotting insightful connections remains.
Screegle has become an essential tool in my productivity stack. It enables clean, distraction-free sharing of specific application windows during presentations. Previously, it had compatibility issues with Microsoft Teams, but I’m pleased to report that its “off-screen window” approach now works flawlessly with Teams.
Chorus has become my new default AI tool on the Mac. The way in allows to combine multiple models is great.
Breaking through the clouds after takeoff on today’s SJO-FLL flight.
Finished reading: Liminal Thinking by Dave Gray 📚
Kept hearing references to this on the Bookworms podcast. It was really good. Feels strange to say that I’m still digesting it, since it’s such a straightforward read. But it did challenge my beliefs. Recommended.
The Anthropic Economic Index is the start of something. The currently sampling is too small imho, but they need to start somewhere. I see this report becoming an important indicator in a few years.
Curious if Raycat’s Hyper Key can replace my Karabiner setup. Still, great feature to add.
I really appreciate Superhuman. Of course, it just makes a productive cog that is increases shareholder value. But it makes selling my soul an almost enjoyable activity.
Apple Invites is interesting. Will show to my wife to understand if real people™ see value.
Here we go. Testing posting from Obsidian via Shortcuts.
Realized that on the Mac, I don’t want to go somewhere special to post updated. I rather have select some text from my current work setting and post from there. Block some procrastination time in the afternoon to work with Humboldt and Obsidian Shortcut Launcher.
Finished reading: Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang 📚
Read Exhalation a while back, and reread it over the Xmas break. I liked both collections, and probably enjoyed Exhalation a bit more. But Stories and more moments that left staring into the distance in thought. Absolutely recommended.
My goodness. Gemini 2.0 Flash just created an Obsidian Templater in one try that replaced 45min of (failed) attempts from me – and a 20min fluly Shortcuts workaround. We’re so f… but the’ll be a golden age before we are assimilated.
I consider myself an Obsidian super user 🙄, but this readme allowed to get my main vault overview page to a stage I’m really happy with – and with minimal plugins. Emailed the owner a quick thanks.
Back on micro.blog after two years. Micro.one is too good a value to pass up. I understand why the full service needed to be developed before this version existed. But this is closer to what I pledged in kickstarter 8 years ago.
Resetting my iPhone homescreen for new year. Almost there. This Readwise Reeder Url Scheme to link directly to books has been useful.
Decided I’ll stick with daily notes instead of One Big Daily Log file – or whatever you’d like to call it. However. Still thinking of what to do with links.
Seems to be working now. Will be testing this going forward.
My previous assumption that I had the wrong the template for snippets was wrong. For whatever reason, all the comment tags were changes from <!-- to <! --. The great thing about text based systems, the fix was a quick find/replace in Sublime Text
Had messed-up the comments part of my Obsidian Web Clipper Markdown comments section, it was missing the third - dash. As it stands it looks like this:
Only using AI to get a second opinion of website author for when it’s missed, or not included by tags.
Spend afternoon playing with WhisperMemo and Zapier integration. It worked!