When everything becomes a performance, nothing is truly real. Not even our lives. Is it so unacceptable that we simply be ourselves?
Cheri’s rant is justified. We should be, and behave like, people lest you lose value. Not brands. Not products.
Given that micro.blog was down most of the day today, I got a feel of how a timeline with just the original posts, no replies, would look like. And to be frank, I don’t think I like it that way. The timeline’s lively only with all the interactions in there 💬🙂
Smartphones are turning back into dumbphones. We’ve to fight back! To squeeze little extra battery out of phones, Android device vendors listed below (with their bad vendor score) cripple apps and make them useless.
Fights developers have to fight. Sigh!
Watching the sun set into the expanse of an ocean is a great time to ruminate — it’s therapeutic.
I am still in a vacation mood, enough that I may skip drafting the weekly digest this week. However, I look forward to the summaries from others to catch up on what I might have missed 😊
A cup of evening tea as the waves come gliding along the shore - the soothing sound, the serenity.
It is for reasons like this that I never keep my SmartTV connected to internet. It doesn’t matter which brand the TV is (I own a Sony), I just don’t trust these guys to be cognizant enough of the importance of the data — and importance of collecting less of it. Stay dumb.
Came across this wonderful, little app MorningPages. It looks like a simple, no bells and whistles personal journaling app. There’s no account creation, no server component. What you write stays, on your device - of course with an optional iCloud sync for cross device access.
“When you remove meaningless words, the power of your words goes up.” - Seth Godin
I know I should live by these words. But it is difficult - a “really” while I write and “actually” while I speak do poke their head often. I am now more aware of the aspect, though.
GitHub Free now includes unlimited private repositories. For the first time, developers can use GitHub for private projects with up to three collaborators per repository for free.
Aha! Time to rethink if I should continue to pay, given MS owns it.