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New favourite apps
Play for YouTube videos, HiCoffee for caffeine tracking, and honourable mentions; Debit & Credit, Callsheet, updated Les Mills, GoodLinks.
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Panic’s ‘SLOWBIZ’ with Playdate
I’ve been inspired by this session by Cabel Sasser on his company Panic, and developing the Playdate. As everything was falling apart, this quote from his kid got me: “You’re gonna find a way to fix this. You’ve been working on this for so many years and
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The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Some may consider The Lottery as a story that is, very old, very famous, and very stark, in both senses of the word—bare and severe. The Lottery is short, with and ending that tightens like a cobra. It’s over before you can try stop it. It is without
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Bird or owl?
Maria Konnikova is writing about ‘Moral Mornings’. I remember reading about Early Birds and Night Owls with their circadian rhythms and chronotypes in Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker. As an introvert I’ve always appreciated late nights for their stillness and quiet. However, living as a working and married
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Your two favourite apps
Dan is asking about favourite apps. My two favourite apps at the moment are iA Writer, and right now I’m really enjoying Threads. iA Writer has long been a favourite app for writing anything in plain text; from blog posts to CVs, website copy, and more. It’s an
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App defaults
I'm not that different to Manu or Carl, but it's fun to share nonetheless. Updated: 2024-07-01 * Mail Client: Mail * Mail Server: iCloud (FastMail and Google in the past) * Notes: Things 3, Notes or paper * To-Do: Things 3, Reminders or paper * Photo Shooting: Camera * Photo Management: Photos
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Valuable, many times over
Dan is having issues with his phone carriers, spending 4 hours on the phone to fix an issue: The whole process was evidence of a lack of thought and care for the customer. They simply didn’t care enough. It’s possible to build great user experiences, it just takes
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Alarms
Dan has reminded me that we don’t need alarms. We really shouldn’t have alarms. Instead of trying my hardest to go to sleep, then ambitiously trying my hardest to wake up because I want to do things; Dan has reminded me to wake, when I wake. Comparing wishfully
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MagSafe Duo
This little charger was a small bit of novelty fun. I enjoyed it while it lasted, but I can see why it was discontinued. New Apple accessories no longer use a Lightning cable. However, from the price, charging speed, and fragility of the hinge, to the embarrassingly ill-fitting iPhone 13
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Secure phones
I've read a few stories over the past week about China banning iPhones in Government roles. Naïvely, I thought it might be to do with surveillance from the US, but John Gruber's inside baseball interpolation makes it clear: How much of it is nationalism — the CCP
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Steve Jobs Archive
I grow little of the food I eat, and of the little I do grow I did not breed or perfect the seeds. I do not make any of my own clothing. I speak a language I did not invent or refine. I did not discover the mathematics I use.
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Jony Ive and his watch for HODINKEE
It’s always nice to see the designer and the design. You see the context to their creation, intentions, inspirations, the way they use their design. I’ll never get bored of the Ikepod, Apple Watch comparison. Marc Newson is a great designer. Link: https://www.hodinkee.com/magazine/jony-ive-apple