September 26, 2008. Last hope of Fall. 📷 🌺
Tried out one of my longed for features on the ⌚️ today: it works perfectly for controlling my music when I take a 🚿. Siri and even the touch screen. ✔️
@burk I wonder if it would be useful or interesting to have a page with a list of emoji’s used on micro.blog sorted by frequency of use?
Started going over to the dark side… Mojave install on my MBP in progress…
@cygnoir @macgenie Loved the interview! Haslted has such an engaging personality and I am forever a fan of libraries and librarians.
Normally I use watch faces with quite a bit of data/complications. But these motion-based faces are about to change my mind. I keep raising my watch just to watch it.
N.B. Static screenshots just don’t do this justice.
My new ⌚️ is possessed or something. Both times I tried to set it up it was in left hand mode. I told it I’d download apps later. When I try manually the same 4 apps worked on both pairings and all else failed. Now an hour later it seems to be downloading every possible app…
I really like my new Series 4 Apple Watch. But it came with some setup frustrations. The biggest is I can’t install apps on it. Clicking install just results in a never ending progress circle. Rebooting my devices doesn’t help. And Apple’s Watch support site won’t connect 😩
There have been a couple of high profile posts from users leaving micro.blog. I had given this serious consideration a few months ago. I wanted to document for myself the key factors in my decision. It’s posted if you’re interested. Why I’m (Still) using Micro.blog
My Micro Monday is @johnjohnston. Thoughtful, teacher, Scotland — what’s not to like?
Some things on my shelf.
Why I’m (Still) using Micro.blog
There have been some posts recently from a few respected micro.blog users about leaving the service. The concerns they’ve expressed are certainly valid and I’ve previously raised nearly all of them to Manton myself. I too gave serious consideration to leaving a few months ago so I thought I’d summarize for my own future reference some of the factors that influenced my decision to remain. To be clear this is not a post meant to disagree with anyone. We can see the same issues and come to different conclusions.
- The number one reason is the excellent ratio of interesting people and posts to noise and hostility [footnote title=...]For this stage in its growth I feel micro.blog has reasonable tools for managing noise and hostility in my timeline and is working to maintain community[/footnote]
- Early on I switched from using micro.blog hosting to self-hosting Wordpress on my droplet so I solidly own my content [footnote title=...]Partly because I do want to truly own my own content and don't see Github pages as viable and partly because early on the apps lacked sufficient features[/footnote]
- I am an iOS user so supported apps do actually exist [footnote title=...]I can fall back on Wordpress on the rare occasion that's necessary. I don’t trust the 3rd party apps, so far, because I prefer a settled workflow.[/footnote]
- The backend service and apps are evolving in a direction that generally feels right to me
- I hope in some way my presence can help micro.blog evolve and become a useful service for a significant number of people. I’m getting more out of it than I’m putting in. [footnote title=...]I don’t think the service should try to be for everyone or every need. There’s nothing wrong with serving a useful niche at scale.[/footnote]
In case you missed this: as of September 21st by Federal law you can now request freezes to your credit at all 3 national credit bureaus in the US. Freezing and unfreezing is free. Link is to the FTC and includes some Q&A on the details.
Got great news today. I ordered my ⌚️:35 after the store opened with an earliest delivery of Oct 2 (Tuesday of next week). Today I got a notice from UPS the ⌚️ is in Kentucky and will be delivered tomorrow. Nicely under promised by Apple. Pretty excited to upgrade from series 0.
Keeping up with the games. Texas is doing better than I expected. 🏈 📺
Nearly 11” of rain with more expected today. A good excuse to plant myself on the sofa and watch college football 🏈 🌧
We have rain. Lots of it. 5.5” in a couple hours in fact. Can’t even blame it on a hurricane. It’s a bad situation for a lot of people especially since it is supposed to rain for the next two days (hopefully not as much!). Our forecast said “up to an inch of rain”. Over achievers
ICYMI: The Japanese Hayabusa 2 probe has just deployed a pair of landers to the surface of the asteroid Ryuugu. Soon it will touch down itself and bring a sample of Ryugu back to Earth. It’s an awesome accomplishment! 💫 🌚 ☄️ 🚀
Winning 🥇: Looking out the window at the coffee shop and the clerk at the FedEx store next door came out front. She started doing stair step exercises using the curb and these concrete parking lot stops. Making the most of her day.
I ordered my Series 4 watch 35 minutes after the store opened. It has now shipped and is said to arrive next Thursday. So I’ll spend the next few days being envious and seeking to learn from those that receive theirs today. ⌚️
Cappuccino, VPN and a Signature Field Notes at my local coffee shop. Great start to a rainy day. 📷 ☔️
My small Field Notes are consumable. I’m using the larger Signature books for longer term notes. Not wanting to deface the lovely thing I put colored dots to indicate content.
Ten years ago today
Sep 1, 2008
Apple Watch folk: I’m a week or so from getting my new Apple Watch and one of the upgrades for me is the ability to track sleep. If you’re using an app for that which one do you like?
If you want Shortcuts involving weather the Carrot app is hard to beat. It’s already had 2 updates adding more Shortcuts integration (as well as watch complications). The developer said today that weather data will be available in a dictionary soon as well. 🌧