Ron Guest

Firing up Xcode for first time in a long time. Let’s see if I can create a Mac app in Swift…

Well this might be encouraging: SmugMug responded to my comments about Flickr (on Twitter, since I cross-post there). At least they’re listening.

Thinking out loud: ‘Cross-posting’ from Sunlit to Flickr could be interesting. Maybe they’d be open to a IndieWeb type Instagram role in collab w/Mirco.blog. Of course it doesn’t matter unless SmugMug revitalizes it first but the more open approach could really help them recover.

The Flickr news had me looking at my account stats there. I joined December 2007 and posted about 1,500 photos since. I stopped posting anything other than a few family photos in 2011. In the ~3.5 years I posted non-snap shots they featured 126 of them in their Explore section.

Flickr was a great combination of photo-enthusiast and social media back in the day. I made more ‘online’ friends on Flickr than all others combined. There were lots of interactions of substance and a wide international reach. Would love to see the social aspect revitalized.

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I recently came across this family-hand-me-down magazine. Thumbing through it I was struck by how little ads have changed in 76 years.

As to why this is a family item, it contains a story about my great grandparents’ neighbor who poisoned his whole family.

2nd step in a possible move from Evernote to Apple’s Notes complete. After creating a Workflow for iOS to create a PDF from a web page and add it to Notes yesterday, I now have a Keyboard Maestro macro to do the same on my Mac. The Workflow was trivial, the macro not so much.

I was happier than usual listening to today’s Timetable. I don’t have the new version yet but its great to learn the changes to photo posting are coming out real soon now. 📷 Thanks @manton.

I feel like we need a campaign to get companies to provide RSS feeds of their posts rather than them relying on Twitter/tweets. I get some important info via these official tweets. Basically they need their own Micro.blogs that cross-post to Twitter if desired.

My car goes faster after a car wash. I’m sure if it. 🚙

What a frightening accident. But listen to the pilot in the ATC recording. She is so calm even when saying things like part of the plane is missing and someone went out the window/hole.

1 Dead After Southwest Airlines Flight From LaGuardia to Dallas Makes Emergency Landing

Today’s “the app matters” lesson: I was offered a free book, To the Edges of the Earth, but it requires using the BookShout app. Every time I open the app to read the book I abandon it. Piss poor typography and annoying “daily progress” complications.

Sunday project: Exporting everything from Evernote and moving the notes into Apple’s Notes.

Manhattan , Poke and steak 🍸 🐟 🥩

A little light reading this morning. I’ve forgotten more than I remember about this.

Technology is scary

Chinese Facial Recognition Recognizes Wanted Man in Crowd of 60,000 - Popular Mechanics

This line of storms is no joke. Also h/t to @radarscope and @rosskimes for helping keep us all safe.

There are several things I’d like to see fixed & improved in Micro.blog. Still waiting 😁 I’m not a podcaster and won’t use that feature. In spite of that I think the release of Wavelength is a good thing for me as it helps make the platform more viable. A win-win. @manton

Elliott Management has nearly 5% of Micro Focus (MFGP) stock now and is pushing the company into private equity hands. Looks like the spin-merge shenanigans just postponed the inevitable. SUSE Linux to be spun out.

Hedge fund Elliott Management wants Micro Focus to go private

Went to the dentist to have a tooth prepped for a crown. Now I’m enjoying the “have a sip of water and watch it run down my chin” effect.

What’s your favorite 8 minute song in your library? 🎶 Mine is Led Zepplin’s Stairway to Heaven.

The premise of Netflix’s series Fastest Car (home built cars racing super cars) wasn’t that interesting to me but heard it was “binge worthy” so checked it out. The show is actually focused on the people more than the cars and it’s fascinating. 📺

Fastest Car

I recently adopted Feedbin to read RSS feeds as well as for reading posts from people/companies I follow on Twitter. That latter feature has been a revelation and showed how messed up Twitter’s “timeline” approach is. The accounts I follow on Twitter fall into a few broad categories: people I know well (family, friends, close colleagues), finance & investing professionals, and news accounts (mostly tech news). The way the Twitter timeline blindly mashes a bunch of completely unrelated posts together was quite jarring to me (though I didn’t realize it until now) and always put me in the “scan through quickly” mode that really hampered any real engagement or absorption of what people were saying.

Using Feedbin each account’s posts are separated. So a couple of times a day I put on my “money hat” and delve into the feeds on finance and investing where I can deep drive right away (browser-based) on anything of interest. The same for my feeds (Twitter and RSS) in the other categories. It probably sounds like such a simple (or obvious?) thing but I really am getting much more out of the info being posted.

Twitter lists could have been used to group categories like this together but the UI would still be very cluttered and there is no integration with RSS feeds. Plus I always found managing the lists so much trouble I never maintained them.

Just saying…

How to leave Facebook and Twitter while staying social | Cult of Mac

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