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WALL-E

A sketch of WALL-E decorating a Christmas Tree. Created with Linea Sketch.

"To improve the experience for our customers outside of the U.S., and especially in Europe, we recently added a data outpost in Amsterdam. The shorter distance between users and their data means increased speed, and speed is a feature!" #hey #email 🍜 New in HEY: Faster speeds for customers worldwide — 37signals https://updates.37signals.com/post/new-in-hey-faster-speeds

Commander One as a Finder Replacement

The Mac Finder is fine for casual users, but if your use cases involve a lot of file management to handle photography or videography related tasks, heavy downloading, web publishing or other more advanced tasks, you'd be well served to look for a replacement. Commander One by Electronic Teams, Inc. Is a serviceable option. It has a dual pane interface, with each pane featuring unlimited tabs. There are three view options per pane: details, list and icons. The Commander One features list is long: • Easily toggle hidden files • Customizable fonts and colors • Bookmark favorite file locations •...

Festivitas

“Festivitas brings the holiday spirit to your Mac with festive lights for the dock and menu bar 🎄” "Festivitas automatically adds festive lights to your menu bar and dock upon launch and you can tweak their appearance to match your preferences ✨" - nothing to add here. As written on my blog, it just makes me smile.www.festivitas.app/

Downtown Lights

I spent the evening downtown with friends. We ate dinner at the Ocmulgee Brewpub and walked to enjoy the Christmas lights.

Sweetwater Lager

This lager is from a brewery right here in Georgia. I love the simple but eye-catching can design. I'm considering a section/page on my site to collect photos of products with cool designs, graphics, or typography. It would be nice to have them handy whenever I need creative inspiration.

R.I.P. Miho Nakayama 😭

Daily Smile for December 6, 2024

This YouTube video popped up in the "suggested" today. Which I found odd because I rarely listen to Coldplay; not that I don't like them, I just don't consciously choose a Coldplay song typically.  Anyway, this video really made my heart warm today. Maybe it will make yours warm too. [YouTube Video]

Drawing Gloves

I recently purchased an XP-Pen Artist Glove (not an affiliate link) on Amazon for $7. After using the glove for a few weeks, I wish I had bought one sooner. I love it! In this post, I share some benefits of using a drawing glove and why you might consider getting one.There are several advantages to using a drawing glove.  Reduces friction between hand and tablet.Drawing gloves help when drawing curves and dynamic lines by reducing the friction between your hand and the surface of your tablet. This is most noticeable on bigger screens when making longer strokes, but I...

Cloud Storage Management Apps

The longer you use a computer, the more access to resources you accumulate. I'm old, so I have more accounts than I know what to do with. When it comes to cloud storage, I have access to Google Drive, One Drive, Box and Dropbox, although I only pay for Google Drive. I once signed up an entire middle school's faculty to Dropbox with my referral link, so I have a large sized free tier. I got 50GB from Box so long ago that I no longer remember how. OneDrive is provided by my job. Each of these providers, along with...

The Grinch

A drawing of Dr. Suess' The Grinch created with Linea Sketch.

"Perplexity _really_ understands complex questions." #perplexity #ai #search 🍜 Perplexity: Pros and Cons – Nitin Khanna https://www.nitinkhanna.com/perplexity-pros-and-cons/

prevailing wind

I've used ICM here to suggest the continuous passing of previous winds which have already had a powerful say in the shape of this hawthorn tree.

Royal TSX for Remote Management

In my day job, I provide IT support at a small private university. Because I have a good boss, the computer I use as a daily driver is an M3 iMac. Most of the users I support are using Windows 10 and 11, however. Microsoft doesn't make a version of server tools for ARM processor-based computers. This means that I am unable to use a VM to run Windows apps like Active Directory Users and Computers or SCCM. On my Mac, I can use browser-based tools like InTune and Entra, but for other apps, I rely on a remote connection...

Coffee Run

I drove past this little coffee van the other morning and decided I need to stop and give them a try. Delightful! I really appreciate when little businesses really sweat the details. It shows, and it definitely makes me want to come back. Austin, Tx. Leica M10-P + Thypoch 28mm ƒ/1.4 Simera

Happy Anniversary!

The wife and I celebrated our 28th wedding anniversary last month. Her gift to me was to pick out a pen and ink that I wanted. I ordered for my first time from Goldspot and they just came yesterday (with some Black Friday extras). Woohoo! I present my new Esterbrook Estie with medium nib, push button piston filler, in Funky Lake blue. I also got a bottle of Ferris Wheel Press "Edwards Gardens" ink. However, I inked the Estie with Troublemaker Inks "Simoun"; which is a great sheening ink. The FWP ink is a shimmering one and I didn't want...

Fallen Leaves

Background of fallen leaves. I think it's time to rake my yard 🙂

Snow Miser

Snow Miser from the Rankin/Bass-produced 1974 stop-motion animated Christmas special The Year Without a Santa Claus.

coast 2611

This is the view from where I park to take Gwynnik for a walk on the cliffs. This was a showery day - one had passed by earlier, and another was on the way. The sea was like glass in the distance, but it was about to get a bit shaken up.

• 👾 Added the ability to add a custom domain even when you're not subscribed yet. Nothing like just trying it out ✌️ • 🧹 The post preview screen will no longer try and load the Kudos count if it's enabled. You'll still see the placeholder button though.

• 🐛 Fixed an issue that didn't apply the correct selected blog page width in the post previews. Thanks Bear!

Polaroid Film

Stocking up on Polaroid film for the holiday.

"Liminal Spaces is a wallpaper set created while playing with different shapes, textures, patterns, and perspectives. Each wallpaper is a collage of varying design and pattern cutouts that give some semblance of space and perspective while remaining simultaneously ambiguous." #wallpaper 🍜 LIMINAL Spaces Wallpaper — Basic Apple Guy https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/liminal-spaces

Happy I got my new passport through. Took 3 weeks to make its way to England, and then it took them 24 hours to turn it around and boom, sent to me. Super fast.

Using shoutouts.page to embed a link to my workshops

Maybe this would be a great time to share more buildinpublic or experiment with how this works. This morning, I added a footer to the booklet about testing for developers Writebook from 37 Signals, and I used the that are using https://shoutouts.page for this. Here is how it looks like on the main website https://booklet.goodenoughtesting.com I created a small snippet on shoutouts.page by Vincent Ritter  I chose this because, once included, any changes to the text or image will automatically update everywhere it's embedded Here is how it looks like to create the shoutout: I then embedded this to two...

Remote Helper for Mac

Remote Helper for Mac is the companion for the iOS app, Remote Mouse and Keyboard. When used together, your iOS device can control a Mac, a PC, an Apple TV or an iPad. The features include: • Control the cursor on a Mac and serve as a virtual mouse to select, double click or right click any element • Enter text on a Mac from the iOS keyboard • Media controls - mute, pause, volume up, volume down, next track, previous track. Works in multiple apps • View your computer screen on your phone • Issue system commands from your...

LITTLE SNITCH

Little Snitch is my premium (as paid) software for macOS firewalling. I have been a customer since release v3, now years later we've just reached the 6th version. Here's a small review on the AppAddict. Those are its icons, as of 3 December 2024. This is the mounted DMG of the app on the 11 december 2020.-- source: https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html 

migrations

“This map by Esri Deutschland GmbH shows five species who travel great distances to winter or breed.  Data: Movebank”

From Zero on rotation

A few weeks ago I got my first pair of real over the ears headphones. Nothing fancy but  oh man.... my music listening experience got so much better. I used to use Apple's earbuds for a few years now while those are great for podcasts... music just sounds flat.  And I just wanted to mention that the 'From Zero' album is sooooo goood. 

Switched To Expanded Posts

After testing a few different layouts, I've decided to make expanded posts the default view on all my blogs. The full text for the last five posts is shown. Earlier posts are displayed as summaries in the archive, which is searchable. It's a minor change but makes for a better browsing experience by reducing clicks. 

Heat Miser

Illustration of Heat Miser, a character from the Rankin/Bass 1974 children's television special The Year Without a Santa Claus. Heat Miser was voiced by George S. Irving.