UXCampBrighton 2024
Some shots I took while attending UXCampBrighton 2024 this year. As always my fav barcamp-style conference.
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I took my camera to UXCampBrighton this weekend, with the intention of shooting some portraits for anyone who wanted one for whatever reason. Here's what I ended up with - thanks to all folks who kindly let me make a portrait with them!
Now ☀️21 °C - 🌡️9 °C - 🌧️60%
1. I just finished creating a Keyboard Maestro macro to automate the initial creation of this post. A few weeks from now, I should have recouped the time I invested in creating this macro. 2. There is this Apple ID lockout (link) going on since a few days: people are logged out of their Apple device and cannot use their Apple ID without necessitating a password reset. I'm afraid this could happen to me or my wife. Having to log out and log back in on all my devices wouldn't be cool. It's a reminder how critical this login is....
Backup Status - Check Up On Your Time Machine
If you don't understand the need for computer backups, then you probably haven't been using a computer very long. If you are using a Mac, there really isn't an excuse for not buying a cheap drive like this one (2TB for $69) and configuring Time Machine. It's dead simple following these instructions. Once configured, all you have to do is plug in your drive and let it run - most of the time. Every so often there is a system glitch that requires a little troubleshooting. Unless you make it a habit to go in and check your settings though,...
Remind Me Faster
“Quick-entry for Reminders” Remind Me Faster makes it quick and easy to set reminders in Apple's task manager on iOS and iPadOS. Although I often use Siri for this, when I don't, Remind Me Faster is my go-to. It resides right on my home screen and is much handier than wrestling with Apple's clunky Reminders app interface. BTW version 5 is in testflight now and might come to macOS as well 🤞. App Store
Nicola uses
Just a quick note to say that I've updated my /Uses page here on Scribble.
Online services reliability
We rely on a lot of online services these days. Instant messaging, email, social networking or simply a bank account. So if one of the online services we use goes down, we could face a number of problems. Our credit card might not work, our grandma won't be able to reach us on WhatsApp, or we won't be able to access our email with the code we need to confirm our account. The internet is great, but it would be wise to have a plan B in case one service goes down for a while.
RE: What to do with a draft once you outgrow it
“I have this idea, this notion, of what my blog's narrative is and I'm trying to continue that narrative in a consistent way. But yesterday I realized that maybe I no longer want to continue that narrative!” Meadow touches on something I've struggled with for years. I don't want to use the word branding, but the niche or as Meadow says the narrative of my blog seems to be always shifting. What got me through the day today isn't the same as a year ago, and that can create mixed emotions when you look over a blog. I had to...
Tigers Jaw & Joyce Manor – Constant Headache
I've been listening Constant Headache a lot. No album, just a song. It's not a quite a cover, but a collaboration of the original artist, Joyce Manor, and Tigers Jaw. The new version of song is a little less raw sounding than the original: cleaner vocal delivery, the arrangement is tighter and more driving, and overall all more polished production. While the original is great, I think I like this version more. Bandcamp | elsewhere
EchoFeed
EchoFeed, where have you been all my life? EchoFeed a useful little service that takes RSS feeds and sends them out to other services like social media. Pretty neat but we’ve had things like that in the past, right? Well finally I can post a picture on Flickr and have it sent to social media with a decent sized image, as an image and not just a link preview. I wrote to the developer for this feature and he graciously implemented it super quick and I have to say I love it.
Custom Import Paths In Go
One of the craziest ideas I had recently was to move all my code from Github to a self-hosted SCM system. The impetus for this was to have import paths with a custom domain name for all my Go packages, rather than have all them start with `github.com/lmika/(something)`. Fortunately, this proved to be unnecessary, as Go does allow one to customise the import path of packages hosted elsewhere. This area of the docs has all the details, but here's the process in short. Lets say you have a package hosted in Github at `github.com/example/mypkg` and you want to use the...
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...
Homebrew
“The Missing Package Manager for macOS (or Linux) Homebrew installs the stuff you need that Apple (or your Linux system) didn't.” Homebrew is not a single application that you just install and use, but a package manager for installing great stuff you didn't know existed or needed. Too many to list here, but highly recommended to have closer look and do a little research. brew.sh/
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
📡✨ Loud
For some reasons, when I'm writing long reports on Fridays, I often listen to loud music.
Dedication
To each of my grandchildren: Denise, Chuck, Marty, Chris, Mike, Mitch, Teresa, Sharon, Karen. Each one was always honest in telling me their dislikes as well as their favorites. This helped me choose the best recipes when they came to visit as well as for this book. Grandchildren's Blessing: “God is great. God is good. Let us thank him for this food. Amen”
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...
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...
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...
ESR Kickstand Wireless Power
Ik was op zoek naar een nieuwe power bank. Lang heeft dat niet geduurd. Een review van de Wirecutter was één van de eerste links van mijn Kagi Search. De ESR HaloLock Kickstand MagSafe Battery Pack kwam er als beste uit. OK dan. Amazon.com doen we hier niet (dat is kei-ver jom!) maar amazon.de zeker wel. Een paar klikken later zat het in een winkelmandje en drie dagen later had ik 'm in huis. FFWDJa, dat werkt. Top.
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...
Hazel
“Automated Organization for Your Mac.” Most of the things Hazel does you can do with Keyboard Maestro or folder actions in combination with Apple Script or Automator as well. But folder and file-based automation I always tackle with Hazel first. It's so convenient and powerful to do so. Love it. www.noodlesoft.com
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...
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:...
Snekris
Gisteren nog eens gaan kijken naar de laatste Playdate spelletjes en ja hoor, er sprong er eentje tussenuit: Snekris of de officiële website. Het bestaat ook voor iOS maar waarom zou je dat proberen wanneer je een Playdate hebt. 🤪 Hopsa! Nieuw spel van 't moment!
Fletcher started yesterday with a fever but ended it with a wagon ride
Fever broke around lunch and he was great afterwards.
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....
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
Keyboard Maestro
“Automate applications or web sites, text or images, simple or complex, on command or scheduled. You can automate virtually anything.” Keyboard Maestro is the SAK for macOS automation. Something you cannot or you don't want to do with Shortcuts? Keyboard Maestro can definitely help. www.keyboardmaestro.com/
First Weight Milestone Achieved
I'm back on track and have lost my first 10 lbs! I'm so happy since it's on the path to getting rid of pre-diabetes. I need another 10 or so and I hope to be in the clear 🙏🏽 Then the next goal would be too get rid of my back pain. That will take the ability to train physically a bit, which I need to do well after my (endo) surgery is done. Baby steps to be that bad-ass biotch 😆
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...
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....
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.
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...
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...
Liberation Day
🙏 Today (25 April) in Italy we celebrate the liberation from Nazi fascism in the Second World War. It's the perfect day to remember all the young men (allied forces and Italian partisans) who died for the freedom of our country.
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...
