I’ve been going without a case on my iPhone X for a while now. I love a caseless phone. However, I felt I needed to baby it too much so I did a 180 and ordered a Lifeproof FRĒ. I thought it would be nice to play more fast and loose with the phone, and the Lifeproof is supposed to be all sorts of tough. And it’s waterproof to boot.
Why It’s Okay to Throw Your Children’s Art Away - The Atlantic:
Nostalgia for youth is probably inevitable. It’s certainly not the vice of any one generation alone, although it can become characteristic of an age. But saving your children’s art stretches the goodwill of even the most powerful nostalgia.
I wanted to scream “Noooo!” but then I read the article and came around—a little. I say we split the difference:
2019 will be my seventh year using a Hobonichi Techo.
The Techo is great for planning, doodling, scheduling, and journaling. It uses Tomoe River paper, which is magically thin yet still usable with just about any writing tool. There are many fun covers available, but I love the size and the feel of the bare notebook so I’ve never used one.
I’ve noticed that the Techo has become my default notebook for nearly everything.
I wonder how much time I’ve spent worrying about my various blogs. So much time, is how much.
Should I include short posts on the main timeline? Should I always use titles? Is it too cluttered if there’s a sidebar with recent posts and whatnot? Serif or no? Static HTML is cool, but I wonder if I should just make things easy and use WordPress.
It’s endless!
All of this is fun to think about, but I’ve sort of stopped worrying about the shape of things around here.
Why the Future of Data Storage is (Still) Magnetic Tape – IEEE Spectrum:
To begin with, tape storage is more energy efficient: Once all the data has been recorded, a tape cartridge simply sits quietly in a slot in a robotic library and doesn’t consume any power at all. Tape is also exceedingly reliable, with error rates that are four to five orders of magnitude lower than those of hard drives.
Has there been a “Think Piece” written yet about all this? Odds are it’ll be called something click-baitey like the title of this post. I checked Medium but didn’t see one. Anyway, if you hear of one, please don’t let me know because I’d like very much to avoid reading it.
As I was reviewing my growing list of software subscriptions, I remembered Setapp. I’ve been subscribed to Setapp since launch. I like the idea of “Netflix but for apps”. Access to a large and growing list of useful apps for ten bucks a month is pretty great.
But is it worth it to me? Let’s see.
Apps I regularly use
Forklift Marked Ulysses BusyCal Renamer CleanMyMac iStat Menus Permute TaskPaper Sip Flume Squash Timing Apps I occasionally or might use
Rian van der Merwe:
But in listening to it front to back several times, and not giving myself the option to skip whenever I got a little bored, I discovered depth and meaning in the songs I didn’t feel when I first listened to it. You see, songs take time. They take time to write, they take time to arrange, they take time to produce and record and mix and master.
Martyn Chamberlin:
On the whole, the cons of a static file generator seem less tangible than the pros
This is a topic I’m a little obsessed with. I struggle with static-vs-CMS on a regular basis. Martyn makes good points, but also a few that make less sense to me. Each of his points favoring static site generators are spot on, although just saying they’re “geekier” would be enough. No need to blame it on ego.
Curiota is a free, simple note-taking app by Zengobi, maker of the wonderful Curio. Curiota is one of those apps that sneaks up on you. I started using only as a sort of capture tool for Curio projects, but I’ve been tossing all kinds of things in it, simply because it’s so easy and pleasurable to do so.
Here’s the blog post announcing Curiota version 3
It’s fun to try new things. I experience a strong fear of missing out when it comes to gear and software, so I try almost everything. What if that other thing is better? I should try it!
The New Thing is always fun and interesting, and it some cases I decide that I no longer need the Old Thing and go all in.
Then it happens. I stumble over some missing feature or unanticipated side effect so decide to fall back to the thing I know.
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