A speculative piece but interesting. I tend to think any update this year will be minor (up to and including a revised keyboard).
The MacBook Pro we’ve all been waiting for might not launch this year – BGR
When are new MacBook Pros expected? From what I’ve read, not at WWDC (only a cheaper one there). I’m planning to upgrade mine this year but want to hold off until the next gen comes out.
Waiting in the Middle School cafeteria while our 9 year old goes through advanced testing. It’s as quiet as a library in here.
iPod Family Portrait (-1)
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On the left is the disk-based 20GB model, on the right is the memory-based 30GB model. My iPod Shuffle (USB stick) isn’t pictured. The Music folder on my MBP is only 1.5GB (it has copies of my faves, but I do stream a fair amount as well). In terms of capacity these are still viable.
In which I discuss Twitter, Flickr, Facebook and Micro.blog options: My social media conversion
My social media conversion status
- I no longer use the web UI or Tweetbot
- My profile now only contains a link to my site's About page
- I've unfollowed most people/companies here and instead have the ones I most care about hooked into Feedbin.
- I think I'll stop cross-posting soon and stopped posting directly several weeks ago
- I've asked several companies to make their important tweets available via RSS feeds. We'll see.
- I no longer post anything to FB
- I left most groups including the Mac Power User's Podcast group. If they ever switch to a more traditional forum system I'd be interested.
- ...but I still have to check the app periodically since the schools and HOA communicate over FB and a few family members post news as well
- I've stopped posting here
- If there was an ability to cross post out of the box I might do that selectively but I am not willing to put any effort into it
- I've un-followed many accounts but still check in periodically
Flickr
- I used to be a heavy user. If they restore it as a viable social media option with a photography slant I'd be interested.
Last but not least Micro.blog
- I'm on the cross-posting plan as some of the limitations of their hosting and apps remain a significant issue for me - I'm hosting my own Wordpress site
- That said, I'm quite happy with the community. I'll lose contact with a number of folks as part of the transition from the other platforms but I'm focusing here for social type interactions. It's worth it.
- Very happy that Manton no longer sees the world as flat (i.e. square photos bias)
I had forgotten how good Torchy’s Tacos breakfast tacos are. Hard to beat price too at $4 including coffee. If there is one near you I recommend trying it out. (TX, OK, CO locations). Ours opens at 7am.
Being lazy now: watching Real Madrid vs Bayern and the rain falling outside. ⚽️ 📺 ☔️
We have many comfy chairs & sofas in our house. But my son loves to nestle on the floor between the sofa, Fishman guitar amp, Keter toolbox of electronic parts and the desk in my study. I vaguely recall thinking laying on the floor was comfortable.
@macgenie @RosemaryOrchard @kitt Just had a chance to catch up on the two Micro Monday casts. The format is great and I enjoyed learning about you.
I thought this could be of interest to fellow Micro.blog’ers.
Seems inevitable that a nation-state will take out a chunk of the Internet at a time that suits them. There probably isn’t even a “launch” protocol for that switch, unlike ICBMs. A rogue could trigger it.
Suspicious event hijacks Amazon traffic for 2 hours, steals cryptocurrency
XCode project status: Source Control->Discard All Changes 🙃
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.
Since 1942, Some Things Never Change
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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.