There are options I didn’t take because they felt wrong. They were mere options but no chances. I also have chances but are they the right ones for me, or someone I think I could or would want to be? I need to make decisions, but I’m not really good with these kinds of decisions.
Maybe background services are possible with Mac App Store apps after all? I need to study the documentation. Seems like XPC Services are allowed. That would be perfect!
We have some really nice mail carriers in our area! Other parcel services are just ridiculously rude and careless. A smile and a nice greeting get you a long way, they should ride along for one day with our standard mail guy and girl.
I‘m not in the Mac App Store game so far… one question I have at the moment is whether it’s possible to have an app that runs a background process all the time, like a Launch Daemon. I have the feeling would be only possible outside the App Store.
I started barking at people in the grocery store. If they are unable to put their stupid masks over their noses, they should at least be intelligent enough to keep the #$@&%*! away from me. Those people are the worst and I let them know from now on.
Why, yes I went into another side project. No, YOU bought yet another domain before anything else. (I might need an intervention)
I really don’t like it when services just charge your credit card for subscription renewal without giving you a heads up. They just count on you forgetting to cancel their service. Looking at you, 1Password! I thought they were better.
One of the things to do I was looking forward to the most this year, was going to a Nada Surf concert again after a few years of absence. Now it’s been shifted from back in April to when I’m on vacation in September. I wouldn’t go there in this situation, I don’t know whether such events are allowed again by then and I don’t even think they are allowed to travel to Europe at all, since people from the US are not allowed to enter any country here due to their terrifying infection rates. I’m sure it will be moved again to next year, I hope 🤞 I hope there will be nice clubs and event locations around by then and I hope I will be able to buy these tickets again, because Nada Surf is still one of my favorite bands!
Currently reading: How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens 📚
140.000 people die because of his pathologic idiocracy, but he has nothing else to do then whining about Twitter trends always being negative about him. No really… this country has no other issues to solve right now.
Ok… I’m an Alfred convert now. A little overwhelmed by all the possibilities, but pretty pleased so far. I had the hope I could cancel my TextExpander subscription, but the snippet support is not as good and creating workflows for similar results is too complicated.
Went down a rabbit hole in a SwiftUI underground project at work. Still amazes me how fast basic UI is fully up and running. Not so amazing is how it plays together with even mildly complex model layers. I guess it’s finally time to get into Combine to unleash the full potential
… they are beginning to piece together the story of a virus unlike any known before.
– We Thought It Was Just a Respiratory Virus | UC San Francisco
Very interesting overview and really well explained. (via @dave)
Is there a MarsEdit plugin or something that helps to quickly share a Link and title with some highlighted text for Firefox?
🤔 Release Notes mention to test 13.6 beta for exposure notification framework updates. Maybe it will get to iOS 14 beta after 13.6 got released 🤔
Still no exposure notification api available in beta 3. Maybe it won’t be enabled at all during the betas? Would be a shame… I want to build my app for iOS 14 but I can’t test it on my device because I would loose the Covid-19 tracking.
I‘m simply shocked, shocked! about how people behave in public. This Corona thing isn’t over! Numbers are slowly rising in some areas again after a couple of weeks of calming down. Is it really that hard to wear a freaking facemask? Why? WHY does nobody even care? I really can’t grasp why people have such a big problem with it. It just makes NO sense whatsoever. Why is it so hard to at least try to keep modest distance? After todays short trip to the zoo I‘m more convinced then ever that this whole situation will get back to us. There’s no other possibility with that much ignorance and stupidity out there.
At this point, my Discover Weekly playlist on Spotify is complete and utter garbage and it doesn‘t seem to improve anymore. Glad I still have the Release Radar which does not seem to be infected by the children’s music I have to listen to 😉 (I tried to trick Spotify the last couple of weeks, but at the moment I don‘t think a family account would help anymore)
After a very, veeeery long travel and almost 4 weeks being stuck in customs, my @gluon shirt finally arrived 👍🏻
(This is definitely the last time for me to order anything from the US 😉)
I got pointed to Obsidian today. I never heard of it. This is amazing! It matches a lot of Roam’s features, yet it is totally open. It’s just Markdown files in folders, which you could also edit in any other editor. It supports plugins and has a bunch of styles. I’m really liking it so far. I just started to check out Roam and I can see some benefits of this style of note taking, but I’m really concerned about the pricing, at least for my personal usage. Obsidian is free for personal use, but you can send money their way to support and it seems to have a nice community around it. On first sight, it looks to me like a better Roam (at least for my taste).
Thursdays at 10am I have a regular Meeting. I dialed in today, but nobody else showed up. It’s Wednesday…. 4 months at home and days don’t matter anymore.
I just had another look at the manual for MailMate (as you do) and found some nifty hidden preferences and lots of crazy stuff in there. This app is ridiculously awesome.
One thing I urgently need to do during vacation is decluttering and organizing my digital life again. I can’t keep up with all the newest shiny tools all the time. A handful of note taking apps, text files, some ToDos here, some on paper, some in OmniFocus, writing blog posts in this app and in that app, having a copy here but not there, different mail apps… it’s a mess. I lost control of this stuff over time. I think it’s part of why I can’t concentrate at times.
I was hoping for Micropub support in the next Ulysses update… seems like I have to wait. Subscription will renew soon and I’m still not sure I want to keep it.