Another good day for Ethan on the golf course.
He won the Junior County Champion of Champions this afternoon at Paisley Golf Club.
Closing off the golf season with a couple of trophies, well done big yin!
I used the word “huzzah” without thinking during stand-up this morning. I think I might just go with it and use it more often.
Turn your phone into a dumb phone.
I love this, and I will definitely try some aspects of it. However, I can’t say if I’ll go the whole way and do everything in this video. If you prefer to read, there’s also a web page with instructions.
I replaced the plastic castors on my Ikea office chair with rollerblade-style castors. The difference is like night and day, and the new castors are better for our new wooden flooring in the office. My only gripe is that the office isn’t long enough to see how fast my chair can go!
Procreate is taking a stand on AI
Procreate’s stand on AI should be applauded.
We’re here for the humans. We’re not chasing a technology that is a moral threat to our greatest jewel: human creativity. In this technological rush, this might make us an exception or seem at risk of being left behind. But we see this road less travelled as the more exciting and fruitful one for our community.
I’m glad to see that companies like Procreate still recognise the danger of AI in their products. AI has it’s uses, but it doesn’t need to be everywhere.
Over the next few weeks, I’m going to break out of my comfort zone and build a new Rails application using the latest Rails 7.2 release, which uses a dev container for the development environment. I’m also going to look at using the Zed text editor instead of VS Code.
Just finished watching The Marvels on Disney+. Thoroughly enjoyed it! A refreshing change from the MCU I thought. 🍿
Hat-tip to Jamie Thingelstad for his blog. I’ve been reviewing it over the last couple of days, and he’s done so much with it. There’s so much here that I would like to do on my own blog.
I finally feel like I’m starting to turn a corner with this lurgy thing. I’ll make sure I rest up over the weekend, hoping that by next week, it will be completely gone.
I migrated a few more images from my old blog to the Micro.blog, so my photos page looks better. I also added a now page and uses page.
Michael Wade reminds us about keeping a “Not Doing List”.
Common “Not Doing” projects involve physical exercise, connecting with old friends, volunteering for good causes, and writing thank you notes.
I miss Twitter’s lists feature when I’m on Micro.blog, Instagram, and Threads. On Twitter, I had lists for a handful of topics that I looked at daily, such as the NFL, notebooks, people, and web development. It was nice to scroll through related content and change to something else.
Defaulting to Firefox as my browser again. I have noticed there’s better integration with the 1Password extension than there was in Safari. I always found 1Password’s extension inconsistent in Safari, and it usually took a while to appear and populate any form.
After a nightmare week in the Lang household, we were relieved to end on a high note with Ethan winning the Junior Club Championship at Fereneze Golf Club. Well done Ethan!
Big yin all set for today’s Junior Club Championship at Fereneze Golf Club. Weather is looking good and a lot better than last years downpour.
I came across this link on Hacker News this morning. Is this simply a switch to focus on the process instead of the outcome? I don’t know, but I do like the idea of changing goals to quests.
Also, on Hacker News, hat-tip to this comment.
Skipping next year's Techo
I’m almost entirely sure that I won’t be buying a Techo for next year.
This year’s Techo is mainly blank. Despite many attempts at using it daily, it’s mostly just been gathering dust on my desk, with only a dozen pages filled in at best. Last year’s Techo was also the same, largely blank. In fact, I remember binning last year’s Techo around November time after believing there was no point in holding onto a largely blank planner for the year.
This is just one of a few things I used to do but don’t anymore. Reading and sketching were two things I did almost daily a couple of years ago. I haven’t finished a book in a long time or sketched for nearly a year.
I would like to say it’s frustrating, and I would love to kickstart doing these things again. However, I look back at how long it’s been not doing them and decide it’s probably not worth starting if I’m just going to stop again.
I switched out the default keycaps on my Nuphy Air75 for the Maya Imprint keycaps I ordered with the keyboard. Love this keyboard!
