The joy of art is in letting one’s mind free to express itself. I need to remind my sister to let that happen more often.
Thoughts
The ‘Future Book’ Is Here, but It’s Not What We Expected
Physical books today look like physical books of last century. And digital books of today look, feel, and function almost identically to digital books of 10 years ago, when the Kindle launched
A behind the scenes view.
My timeline’s full of charming, festive pictures, full of merriness. Any review post for this week can be filled with just these snippets. They‘re enough to spread the much-needed positivity in the world.
Here’s wishing that happens. Here’s wishing a merry Christmas to all! 🎄
It’s Christmas Eve. And isn’t it a wonderful time to marvel at the life one has? Here’s a new episode of Third-Person Voice.
A tale of two grumpy, old souls. And of forming of one unexpected bond, via one unlikely source. A tale of spreading love.
🗓️ The Weekly Digest [23/12]
🔗 YouTube Conundrum by Nitin
🔗 Quantum Amplitudes via John
🔗 Like-button and Internet via Fiona
🔗 Indieweb and Google by Brad
🔗 (Not) Applying for Jobs by Fiona
🔗 Few more Gems by Sameer
🔗 Serverless by Matt
🔗 Found Negatives by Jack
The Fall and Rise of M. Night Shyamalan →
In one of the first scenes, the nanny enters the house (..) Taking the step over the threshold, almost like a vampire being led into the house for the first time.
Interesting that Apple’s agreed to produce the Shyamalan’s mysteries.
Fog Waves Are The Most Beautiful Thing I Captured After 8 Years Of Experimenting - Bored Panda →
Shooting fog is a study and takes a lot of patience, preparation, and knowledge of the area to catch it as it is very elusive
These are some stunning non-photoshopped pictures.
So Blot still seems to be down. So I have dusted my old Hugo based journal, just to see if things are up - working. I hope it is. I believe it is.
Fog Waves Are The Most Beautiful Thing I Captured After 8 Years Of Experimenting - Bored Panda →
Shooting fog is a study and takes a lot of patience, preparation, and knowledge of the area to catch it as it is very elusive
These are some stunning non-photoshopped pictures.
Advocating for privacy in Australia →
Both the bill itself, and the controversy around the process by which it passed, have damaged the reputation of Australia in the international marketplace
Attempts by law makers to unintentionally kill privacy continue to rise.
Open APIs and the Facebook Trash Fire →
I’m done assuming good faith; I’m done assuming incompetence; I’m done assuming ignorance.
Once on internet, it is better to be crazy cynic towards online services than to mourn later. Facebook has long lost even that privilege.
So we name the moons of other planets - Titan for example - but our moon is just the “moon”. Not sure what that says about us humans. 🤔
It doesn’t matter what is right or wrong, true or false regarding Facebook’s behavior. The constant stream of negative press has to affect overall perception of the service. And even more, the morale of the employees at the org. The fight’s getting ugly.
I, finally, added the links to Third-Person Voice for all the podcast players out there in the about page. So now one can subscribe to the Microcast in the player of his or her choice. Or just grab the feed and follow along the traditional way - whatever suits you.
Another episode of Third-Person Voice is out now.
For them, the walk was supposed to be about finding something that was lost. He, however, had a hidden agenda of his own — that of finding “someone”.
🗓️ The Weekly Digest [16/12]
🔗 On switching to a pixelbook via Colm
🔗 Forgetting habits learned from online platforms by Alan
🔗 On ideal length of podcast via Jeremy
💬 Meta-discussion: Poets, Diversifying Timeline
🔗 Playlist to work to by Phil
I have been on an unplanned official travel for the last week - one full of crazy full day schedules. And boy did it affect my routine. I could hardly follow up on anything I had planned. Plus it‘s left me with so much to do. Travels should be about memories, not missed moments.
I wish there was a way to ignore the limit for Screen Time on iOS at the complete device level, rather than doing for each app. “I want to use my phone, the whole of it, for another 15 minutes dammit, not just this app”. The persistent bugging gets irritating.
I always loved this quote from Terry Pratchett and just came across this gem again today.
If you have enough book space, I don’t want to talk to you.
He was smart not to include a reference to a book shelf in there - makes sure it holds true even in the age of eBooks 🙂
I had missed that David has added a new function to Blot “to step around the issues micro.blog was having with images in Blot’s RSS feeds”. This change should allow using the caching feature without missing images in the timeline. Have updated my post on the issue.
🗓️ The Weekly Digest [09/12]
🔗 CSS suggestions by Josh
🔗 Bob Dylan River by Ron
🔗 Quick story about his mom by Ross
🔗 On Creativity by Annie
12 days of microblogging: linkblogging
Micro.blog adds a Markdown link back to the original post with the web page title. Or if there’s text selected, Micro.blog includes that text as a quote.
Good. But wish it included the Markdown link irrespective of text selection. @manton
While recording the second episode of the microcast, I realised it is difficult to get a consistent tone in my voice across attempts. Every attempt sounded different - and every tone modified the environment the story played out in. It had to be done in single stretch.
Social community that you decide to be part of, matters. And this fact remains true even online. Every time I scroll through the Micro.blog timeline, I realise that the place is full of creators. So each visit inspires me to create more. It matters what you read.
The second episode of Third-Person Voice is out.
He anticipates this to be the best day of his life. He wants to relive this same day repeatedly. She believes she can help him. And help herself.