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Now ☀️19 °C - 🌡️3 °C - 🌧️44%

1. A rather nice morning of a Spring day, then becoming cloudy for the rest of the day.  2. My wife is talking about new ideas for the main bathroom remodeling. It's hard to concentrate. 😆 3. It's a YouTube recording weekend: what's up with Micro.blog, edition 2024-04. 4. I'm testing the latest Craft beta, version 2.8. It will be a good release. This app keeps getting better and better.  5. I'm writing less on Micro.blog, that's because I'm writing more on Scribbles. 6. My iPad listing on eBay got 15 views, 3 watchers, no bid. It's looking bad. Are...
April 27th, 2024

Numeric Citizen Blips 📡✨

MyApplications - An App for App Lovers

For the avid app collector there are a few tools available to help catalog and curate the assortment of programs that accumulate over time. You can use Apple's built in system report to get comprehensive information but it's rather dense and not illustrated. You can use an app like Apparency, but then you are limited to a single app at the time. MyApplications, available in the app store for 99 cents, serves as both a database and a launcher for your computer. The MyApplications general interface includes a count of the number of apps you have installed, 414 in my...
April 27th, 2024

App Addict

Preparing for the Unthinkable: A Brief Guide to Digital Legacy Planning

As you may remember I have gone through this process in February, and in March I've refined my strategy right before the implant. Today I read this Preparing for the Unthinkable: A Brief Guide to Digital Legacy Planning and could not agree more on the importance of the subject. We are going to die at some point in life. So it's better to help our family and relatives with the mundane burdens associated to our life. I don't know if there's something I'll want to add more on the topic, but I heartily recommend you to take a moment and think...
April 27th, 2024

Nicola's scribbles

I’m not sure what to write - this is so personal

I’m with my family. My parents and my brother with his family. Mozzie is with me. We are currently in Strathmere, New Jersey. The beach house we are staying in is a connection through a connection through a connection. A weekend gift to my parents from the owners. This is my first time traveling since 2021. It is good to put Harrisburg behind me for a couple of days, Mozzie and I will be here all day tomorrow, returning late Sunday night. Something I am struggling with in my head at the moment is, well, I don’t really know what....
April 27th, 2024

Coffee with Aaron

Week Notes 003

🗓️ // 042024-042624 April is zooming on by and I’m still trying to wrap my head around how we’re almost at the end of the month. I toyed around with the idea of doing Monthly highlights but I’m trying to avoid over committing to things, even if it’s just with myself… so that immediately went out of the window.  • Joined the omg.lol ecosphere, which inspired me to also join Mastodon. Still finding my footing, people to follow, etc. I think getting used to this will take some time. For now, (some of) my posts will probably just get cross-posted...
April 27th, 2024

Notes by JCProbably

I Just Hopped to Bunny.net

Last night, a wild hare took hold of me, and I decided to leap from Cloudflare to bunny.net for my runtimeterror.dev blog's DNS and CDN. I've been cozy in the burrow of Cloudflare's offering for years, nibbling on their services that go beyond DNS and CDN, like Cloudflare Tunnels for serving internal resources externally and Cloudflare Workers and Crowdsec Bouncers as a sort of distributed fail2ban setup. So while I thought I might burrow into Bunny on a spare domain, I didn't really intend to hop providers for the main blog. Yet bunny.net whiskered its way into my favor surprisingly...
April 26th, 2024

Scribbles 'n Bits

Granny's Recipes

I have a new blog alert. It's not something I think many folks will be interested in, but I wanted to share it nonetheless. My great-grandmother hand wrote a recipe book a few decades ago. I've had a digital copy for a few years that I've wanted to type out to preserve. I decided to create a new blog to encourage me to work through transcribing all of these recipes over the next few months. I've already done about 1/4 of them. I'm hoping that I'll also find some motivation to try some of these recipes, but there are some...
April 26th, 2024

Brandon's Journal

About This Site

Sometime in the 70's or 80's, my great-grandmother sat down and handwrote nine recipe books for each of her grandchildren. Inside was a collection of recipes handed down by our family and friends. The idea was for the recipe book to encourage her grandchildren to cook and continue to add to the cookbook.  I first discovered the cookbook following my grandmother's death. She had ended up with a copy that belonged to my uncle. Sadly, my grandmother was a huge smoker and despite all my attempts to salvage the book, the damage had been done. I scanned each page before...
April 26th, 2024

Granny’s Recipes

Zombie

Content warning for horror topics, death and the like. I read a lot of zombie stories. (Actually, I read quite a lot of horror, and have a definite preference for post-apocalyptic maybe dystopia, of which many zombie stories are in the same kind of neighbourhood.) In common with a lot of other horror, the zombies are rarely the point and their origin is often incidental. I did read one recently that had s slightly different germ, and that made me think of all the different ways I've seen writers enlighten the living dead. Not identifying particular works, lest these count...
April 26th, 2024

Marramgrass

The Cat in the Window

Our apartment is a three-story loft apartment. The first floor is a garage, the second floor is the main living room/kitchen area, and then the top floor is a loft, bathroom, and our bedroom. With our bedroom being at the highest point of the apartment, it tends to be the warmest. Being that we live in the Southeastern United States, that means it's rarely comfortable in there, so I have a portable air conditioner I keep plugged in year-round. The first night after we adopted Jupiter, she spent a good portion of it climbing and playing with the air conditioner...
April 26th, 2024

Brandon's Journal

Now ☀️14 °C - 🌡️-0 °C - 🌧️0%

1. I have to decide what photo gear I'm going to bring next week for my trip. I hesitate to bring the 70-200mm lens has it is a hassle to switch lens on my camera. It will be even more of a hassle now that I need to use an adapter. 2. Today, I'm going to use TimeStory on Mac to build a timeline for one of my clients. It's a great little Mac app that no one talks about. The timeline will be a representation of a technology evolution proposal over the next three to five years. I like...
April 26th, 2024

Numeric Citizen Blips 📡✨

Pathfinder by Cocoatech

Path Finder, an alternative file browser by Cocoatech, has been around as long as Mac OS X. It introduced features later adopted by the Mac Finder such as a tabbed interface and smart sorting (showing folders before files). It offers dual file panes reminiscent of other power browsers, like Norton Commander. Features include: • Breadcrumb navigation • Drop shelf file copying • Root access • Terminal Emulation • Bookmarks • Folder comparison and synchronization • Active process viewer • Graphical ACL • Built in text and hex editors • File compression tools Path Finder is available through Setapp, subscription or...
April 26th, 2024

App Addict

The Simplifications Paid Off

The UCL simplifications have been implemented, and they seem to be largely successful. Ripped out all the streaming types, and changed pipes to simply pass the result of the left command as first argument of the right. "Hello" | echo ", world" --> "Hello, world"This has dramatically improved the use of pipes. Previously, pipes could only be used to connect streams. But now, with pretty much anything flowing through a pipe, that list of commands has extended to pretty much every builtins and user-defined procs. Furthermore, a command no longer needs to know that it's being used in a pipeline:...
April 26th, 2024

Workpad

A video game I am playing, still!

Yes, I am still at it! Rise of the Rōnin on the PlayStation 5 I am currently close to One hundred and ten hours!!! I had some thoughts about the game back at the beginning of April and it was a bag of mixed feelings. I think because in the back of my head, I was comparing it to Ghost of Tsushima and that's a little unfair. Having gotten over my preconceptions, I can't stress enough how much fun this game is. It may be not very clear at times, in terms of the story, but a lot of fun....
April 25th, 2024

[Gabz/mL]

If I Was Wise, LOL

My journal prompt for the day was "Are there any words of wisdom you'd like to pass along?" These are my answers: 1. Save money for retirement. 2. If drinking causes you problems, figure out a way to quit, not cut down. 3. Have a bucket list and cross shit off of it. 4. Be curious. 5. Make sure you like your spouse. 6. Stay in contact with your kids. 7. Buy less stuff, go more places. 8. Practice constructive self criticism 9. Identify your prejudices and do your best to get rid of them. 10. Buy used cars
April 25th, 2024

Living Out Loud

The Tap That Won't Budge

I have wanted to clean and fix a few taps and showers in my home for some time now. I generally let the homely chores pile up and do them one fine day. Procrastination, you say? Nope. That's planned productivity for me. Anyway, back to the taps. After my evening walk yesterday, sweating profusely, I decided it was time to clean all the taps. I started with the one I use a lot. I gathered all the right tools. I ran through the set of steps to carry out for the next few minutes. Thirty minutes later, I was stuck...
April 25th, 2024

Jottings on an Envelope

Now ☀️9 °C - 🌡️-3 °C - 🌧️0%

1. Sunny but a rather cold day expected. I'll take it.  2. I selected 70 photos out of 370 shots from our corporate event of this week. I'm very pleased with the results. Taking photos of humans is not my thing, but I managed to have quite a few good ones in there. I'm happy with this new camera. Now I'm ready to take it with me for my next trip in a week. 3. Expecting Craft 2.8 beta any minutes now. Feeling excited about that one.  4. Also expecting Plausible Analytics support in Scribbles in the next few days....
April 25th, 2024

Numeric Citizen Blips 📡✨

Crossposting

There is now a new blog settings screen called "crossposting" that shows you all of your available feeds, which you can copy and add to Micro.blog, EchoFeed or any other services that digests RSS feeds and then cross posts them.If you have an account with EchoFeed just use the "Add to EchoFeed" button and we'll redirect you over, with the URL pre-filled and checked, and you can finish setting it up on your end on the EchoFeed site. It's super easy.
April 25th, 2024

Scribbles Update Blog

A Once and Future Love?

Getting StartedMost of the photographs I share online were taken during a single manic year stretching from the spring of 2014 into the spring of 2015. During this time, my wife and I spent several thousand dollars on prosumer and then pro full frame cameras and lenses (and tripods, and SD cards, and lens filters and camera bags etc.) Whenever there was "good light", and we weren't at work we were somewhere with our cameras looking for the next shot. We took a great class at the community college taught by our town's preeminent photojournalist. Wonder Woman entered a photo...
April 25th, 2024

Living Out Loud

KeyClu a Free App for Aspiring Power Users

Most people realize that one of the secrets to becoming more productive on a Mac is the ability to control the computer and its applications from the keyboard using the shortcuts native to most programs. Most people also realize there is no way in hell they can remember more than a handful of their most used shortcuts without help. That's where KeyClu steps in. Once installed and running, all a user has to do is press the command key twice to bring up a cheat sheet with all the keyboard shortcuts for the app listed on the display. KeyClu is...
April 25th, 2024

App Addict

Find Me If You Want (aka, sitemap)

I'm getting things laid out, thought thru and finalized, as far as my "internet presence" is concerned. While not all encompassing, I wanted to highlight where to find me. This site you are reading on (https://wand3r.net) is my main jam for longer writings pertinent to what's going on in my head (at any given moment). You'll find links here to: • A more in depth profile that includes links not included here • A now page - where I talk about the now • A defaults page - where I talk about what I'm using • A page of the...
April 25th, 2024

not all who wander are lost...

Trail Out

I'm a big fan of racing games, especially the games from the Xbox/Xbox 360 generation. Burnout Revenge, Flatout 2, Test Drive Eve of Destruction are just a few of my favorite racing games that combine fun arcade racing with dramatic crashes and a hint of redneck chaos. A modern successor of this type of gameplay would be Wreckfest, which was created by BugBear, the developers of Flatout. Sadly, outside of Wreckfest, you don't see these types of games being made often. I've wasted quite a bit of money over the years chasing that Burnout high with the likes of Dangerous...
April 24th, 2024

Brandon's Journal

Introducing Categories

Shipped last week, you now have the ability to create categories to your posts with a super simple and slick interface to get started. Categories allows you to add one category per post so that you separate out your content into... well... categories of course. Head on over to the Categories page using the main menu and you'll be presented with a simple input box. Just give it a name and hit enter (or create).Every category you create here will also assign a random, tasteful, accent colour — don't worry, you change this later on. Scribbles will also create a...
April 24th, 2024

Scribbles Update Blog

I'm Tired

So very tired.  Our 10-year-old Boston Terrier, Pippin, developed a nasty honking cough back in October, and that turned out to be caused by a tumor growing at the base of his heart. He got radiation treatment in December and hasn't been coughing since. He had a follow-up CT two weeks ago and that confirmed that the tumor has stopped growing and has been slightly reduced in size (apparently it's a type of slow-growing tumor which means it's also slow to die), but the docs determined that he had some lung inflammation from the radiation. He was prescribed a round...
April 24th, 2024

Scribbles 'n Bits

Now ☀️11 °C - 🌡️-0 °C - 🌧️83%

1. Last day of our annual sales kick off. I'm presenting twice this morning. One 50-minute and another 10-min presentations. It's exhausting. 😑 2. I'll skip this week's edition of the creative newsletter, as I don't have the required time to put it together. 3. I'll miss the May 7th Apple event as I'll be on the cruise ship at that time. I'll watch and read the news when I come back on May 10th, I guess. 4. Speaking of Apple, I'm still stuck with my old iPad. I'll need to lower the price. Again.  5. Have a great day. 
April 24th, 2024

Numeric Citizen Blips 📡✨

Custom Shortcuts by Houdah Software

Custom Shortcuts by Houdah Software is a free application that allows you to assign your own keyboard shortcuts to any menu item in any application. In these days of do-it-yourself progressive web apps, you may have many applications without any native keyboard shortcuts and this small utility is the solution to that problem. Its features include: • Auto-completion to help you navigate menu hierarchies • Making sure you get menu titles exactly right • Checking for ambiguous menu items • Copy & pasting shortcuts between applications If you are a KeyClu user, you'll find that Custom Shortcuts is 100% compatible...
April 24th, 2024

App Addict

🤖 My Android Home Screen (April 2024)

Pixel Fold Unfolded Home Screen I enjoy dark aesthetics. Actually, the phone is always in dark mode. The Dock:• WhatsApp: the hub of communication with friends and family • HEY Email: the Rolex of email • Pocket Casts: best podcast app PERIOD • Todoist: task manager of choice and natural language support is the best • 1Password: the app I trust the most and that's why it holds over 2000 of my passwords.  • The last one changes depending on use. Android attempts to predict what I would use at a point in time and, most times, its predication is...
April 24th, 2024

Unfiltered by MereCivilian

blogging for humans