Two new tests from Firefox. Colour options look fun but the side view extension could be really useful.
The MDN web docs is becoming a daily visit in my quest to just understand and write plain-old JS instead of jQuery.
Apple’s upcoming privacy changes for Safari are a welcome change for the Internet. With GDPR and changes like this, I think we’ll start to see a better web experience for all.
Also did I see yesterday that Safari will finally get favicons in tabs?
Curious to know if the Ruby on Rails framework and any other frameworks and languages are considering moving away from GitHub.
Wondering now if the Microsoft acquisition of GitHub is just a ploy to keep devs busy on Monday and distracted from the WWDC announcements.
Microsoft to acquire GitHub?
My first impressions of this are nervousness.
I always liked that GitHub were a separate business from Google, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft.
Great to see another Assassin’s Creed game coming out. I really enjoyed Origins. ๐ฎ
Nice use of the lambda symbol as the insignia of the Assassins order as well.
The boys on the ice
A horrific story about the plight of seven boys and young men who stowed away on a ship bound for Quebec, Canada.
With the ship going nowhere, 22-year-old Bernard Reilly - the eldest of the stowaways, who had dreams of making it to Nova Scotia to work on the railways - persuaded James Bryson that it might be worth trying to cross the ice to escape the misery on board the ship.
I'm all in with Micro.blog
I think I’m getting to that stage now where I am all in with Micro.blog.
I’ve been bouncing between platforms over the last few years. Posterous, Square, Jekyll and Ghost. I’ve had issues with them all. Some have a lack of or bad native clients to post from. Others suffer from bad integration with social media platforms. And finally some have hosting issues or just too high hosting costs.
Then Micro.blog came along and made things easier. It’s easy to create an account there, it’s easy to run a blog, it’s easy to share posts with Twitter and Facebook. It’s easy.
The one thing that really sets Micro.blog apart from the restof the blogging solutions I have tried though is the ability to have both a blogging platform and a social media platform rolled into one. I can write short social posts or longer titled posts, and in both cases, I can get replies back to those posts from fellow Micro.bloggers.
It’s taken a while for to get to this stage, but the reality is that I don’t want to maintain multiple blogs for myself. I want to simply write to my blog and Micro.blog allows me to do that.
My working day is often plagued by those little decisions that I never get round to resolving. This morning’s decision is one that I never seem to find the answer to:
Hyphens or underscores for CSS id and class selectors?
I want no screen. I want holographic displays that I can manipulate with my hands and voice.
I’d buy a Windows device if it done that.
Ethan off on his first school trip away from home. A few tears this morning from mum and little brother but he’ll back on Friday and I’m sure he’ll have a great time.
The Expanse is coming to Amazon Prime!
Great timing. I just cancelled my Prime subscription a few months ago.
Nicholas Bate’s Essential Tools of Excellence continues with the fixie. It’s the one bike that everyone should own.
No battle royale mode, a more realistic limited stand mode and playing the game as a female?
Dice are definitely winning me back after the Battlefront II fiasco.
James Mangold is working on a Boba Fett movie?
If Logan is anything to go by (fantastic btw), then we’re surely in for a treat.
I’m finding it increasingly difficult to want to watch the NFL. First, the long-term damage that players suffer and now the NFL owners appeasing Trump.
Han Solo movie was fantastic. Being a Star Wars fan I might be a little biased. But only a little. ๐ฟ
Feels like I’m drowning in the digital landscape these days. I need to simplify my digital footprint.
The never-ending cycle of trying out apps and what I am doing about it
Everytime I try a new app or service out, it feels like I’m simply putting something else on my radar that I need to check.
A couple of weeks ago I installed an app to remind me to keep moving through the day and keep my water intake going. I deleted it this moring in favour of simply adding a few events to my calendar with reminders. Stupidly simple I know, so why didn’t I think of doing this first before wasting my time with another app?
There’s a flurry of apps that focus on one thing and do that thing really well, but the problem with this is that I end up needing an handful of apps each geared towards their own way of meeting my requirements. These single responsibility apps might be good at what they do, but they suck at everything else.
I’ve got a core set of apps that I use daily. These apps can be adapted to handle most of the things that these single responsbility apps do. They might not do them as well or with less eye-candy, but the result is often still the same.
My core apps at the moment are the following:
- Bear - For notes and capturing
- Fantastical - For time management and reminders
- Pocket - For long-term bookmarking and reading list
- Trello - Project management for client work
I should learn to use my core apps for everything I do now and adapt them to what I need them to in the future before installing another app to try out.
Influential media
Posts like Buffer’s “How to Share Posts From the Instagram Feed to Stories” are becoming less about how everyone can use a feature of social media and more about how companies, brands, and organisations can use social media. Buffer’s post even has a section for this.
Gone are the days when social media was all about people who just wanted to share something of themselves. A photograph, a thought, a revelation.
Nowadays social media has been replaced by algorithms that decided what posts you should see and ads. Now there’s going to be a new type of post on Instagram where brands are promoted through influencers.
It’s not about being social now. It’s about influence.
It’s not about people now. It’s about branding and marketing.
If this is what passes for social media these days on Instagram, maybe I am better off not being on Instagram.
Sad to see great Twitter clients being eroded away.
An interesting post about science backed advice for parents who want to bring up well-rounded kids.
There’s already a few of these in place in our home.
I’m increasingly wary of podcasts where the end of episode “picks” by the hosts and guests are the products and services of fellow hosts of the very same podcast. If that’s the extent of the picks for that episode, then I start to wonder where the value is in listening.
Finally after weeks of waiting, these little beauties arrived in the mail.