I’m far from being a coffee snob, but I am a sucker for beautiful, functional everyday objects, and I fell hard for the Fellow Stagg EKG Electric Kettle.Fellow Stagg EKG electric kettle Counter space is precious, and I avoid things that need to be left out. The Stagg, though, is nice enough to justify the space. It sits there looking more like a sculpture than an appliance. I love that it uses actual, physical, switches and knobs.

Riccardo Mori: After two weeks with the 11‐inch MacBook Air, one thing is crystal clear to me: this is the best version of ‘Thin & Light’ Apple has ever made. I agree. The 11-inch MacBook Air is the best computer I’ve ever used.

I remain infatuated with TiddlyWiki. There’s a certain genius in its design that has captured my imagination. As an experiment, I started a new wiki and published it at rudimentarylathe.org. I’m easily distracted by shiny new things, so I spent a few days learning my way around TiddlyWiki by posting notes and miscellaneous snippets there. What I’m finding is that TiddlyWiki is changing how I think about writing online. I don’t yet understand why, but I suspect it’s about being able to just throw things at it without feeling like I’m “publishing”.

Mike Johnston on shopping, The Online Photographer: I wonder if people ever start shopping for one thing and then shop themselves into something entirely different, and then find themselves placidly regarding the lovely thing they just bought while it slowly dawns on them that it’s perfect except for one thing, which is that it isn’t at all what they need. And that whatever they needed, they still need. I’m not saying that’s ever happened to me, but I could see it.

I thought I’d try a 60%, split layout keyboard, so I ordered an Ultimate Hacking Keyboard TL;DR I’m not keeping it. Ultimate Hacking Keyboard The split layout isn’t for me. It feels like one more thing to adjust and I’m not sold on the ergonomic advantages. I’ve been using a Happy Hacking Keyboard for a while and I love it. I’m not even sure why I tried anything else.

From Josh Rottenberg’s interview with the Coens, Los Angeles Times: …the more fundamental thing is that [Netflix are] the people who are stepping up and spending money on movies that aren’t Marvel comic movies or big action franchise movies and that type of thing, which is pretty much the business of the studios now. We can’t argue with that.

It’s a good time of year for buying and starting new notebooks. “The Moleskine Artist” is a reminder to not let things get ridiculous. (via Notebook Stories)

Kate Moran and Kim Flaherty, NN/g: In our Life Online research project, we investigated the real-life context in which users perform everyday digital tasks. Throughout multiple field studies and diary studies, we observed a recurring theme: digital “noise” is used to fill the “silent” moments in people’s lives both literally and figuratively: I try not to do this, but I do it all the time in all sorts of ways, and I don’t even like noise.

A nice feature of wikis is backlinks. A good wiki will keep track of which pages link back to a given page. TiddlyWiki does this, but does not display them by default. I set out to add them and it was way more difficult than I expected. I’m new to TiddlyWiki but, after a lot of trial and error, I figured it out. I took notes on the wiki, naturally. Adding Backlinks to TiddlyWiki

I’m having so much fun with my TiddlyWiki wiki that I’ve given it its own domain, rudimentarylathe.org. I’ve been squatting on that domain since I first saw “Galaxy Quest”

I remain fascinated by wikis in general and TiddlyWiki in particular. At Fusionary we use Confluence and Gitlab wikis. I’ve had a number of false starts over the years with TiddlyWiki, but a recent realization has helped me take a serious run at it. (Cue sound of several pieces clicking together) TiddlyWiki is very much like Tinderbox, but in a browser. They both… Manage a collection of notes Can automatically collect notes based on various criteria Allow for different visualizations Offer flexible searching options Contain their own macro language Allow for custom metadata for individual notes While they certainly don’t offer a 1-to-1 set of features, realizing the similarities has given me an idea for how I can use TiddlyWiki for more than just an occasional experiment.

The IPTC Metadata Standard defines the “Title” attribute like this: A shorthand reference for the digital image. Title provides a short human readable name which can be a text and/or numeric reference. It is not the same as Headline. Enter a short verbal and human readable name for the image, this may be the file name And here’s the definition of “Headline”: A brief synopsis of the caption.