Matthew Lang

Spent the afternoon getting the garden into order today. There’s something to be said for a little bit of grafting.

Started using Aloe Bud to remind myself to take breaks through the day.

Particularly important for me as I tend to forget to get up and move about for a bit, which doesn’t do my back any favours.

I’m pretty much all in with Firefox these days as my main browser. I’m using it for both browsing and work and I’m also using it on my iPad and iPhone.

Speed isn’t the major driver behind this decision. I just prefer the extensibility of Firefox as well as it’s test pilot betas.

After a couple of weeks of heads down work for a client, I decided last night to find some solace in some simple work and clean up the @penmuse website.

I’ve removed the fixed sidebar and opted for a centred two-column design that keeps the site simple to use.

Ethan and my dad all set for the Junior/Senior Open at Paisley GC today.

Looking forward to seeing their score when we catch up with them for dinner.

Another great view from the top of the braes.

I wonder if all those people that said, “I want to build the next Facebook” are still behind that aim.

Views aren’t bad up here.

Bear just keeps getting better and better.

Just seen Infinity War. Loved it!

This morning, the European Space Agency unveiled a new, highly detailed sky map of the Milky Way Galaxy that showcases the brightness and positions of nearly 1.7 billion stars. It’s the most comprehensive catalog of stars to date, and it includes precise details about many of the stars’ distances, movements, and colors as well. With the map’s release, astronomers are hoping to use this information to learn more about the structure of our galactic home and how it first formed billions of years ago.

— New galactic map shows the positions and brightness of 1.7 billion stars by The Verge

The numbers are just mind boggling, precise positions of over 1 billion stars.

The 360 degrees view of what the Gaia spacecraft mapped is worth clicking through for.

Nicholas Bate’s daily protocol is the killer app that I suspect many are looking for.

Great to see a company like FastMail use the GDPR rules as a way to protect all their customers and not just those in the EU.

I never thought anything like this could happen in Toronto.

Another week, another weekly plan.

First, there are rumours of Black Ops 4 ditching the single-player mode and now the Battlefield and COD franchises are jumping on the battle royale bandwagon. I think I’ll pass on any more games from these franchises in the future.

Curtis McHale has some constraints for a better workflow.

I would love to make use of the micro-casting plan on Micro.blog, but I’d be too concerned about speaking clearly. Public speaking isn’t one of my strong points.

I love this idea of picking the best three shots from a day-trip or an event.

So, I’m going to do what I can to temper my happy shutter finger the next time. I’m going to pretend that I only have three shots available to me. Three shots to tell the story I’m trying to tell and help me remember the three most important moments.

— Three Shots by Patrick Rhone

I must admit though, I would be hard-pressed to pick my favourite three. I may have to extend it to four or five, but definitetly no more than seven.

Micro.blog has added another great way of creating content, a micro-casting app.

Micro.blog now supports hosting short-form podcasts, also known as microcasts, with a companion iPhone app called Wavelength for recording, editing, and publishing episodes.

I don’t know that I’ll ever start my own podcast. To have the option to create microcasts from a single app and have the platform to host it is a great feature for Micro.blog.

Micro.blog is growing and now with apps for photo-stories and microcasts, the platform is offering a one stop shop for those who want to consolidate a few different services into one.

With no hard launch date for The Last of Us 2, God of War, might just be the game that can fill the gap before Joel and Ellie return. 🎮

The Expanse is back for season 3. I loved reading this series, but the television series does a great job of telling the story as well. 📺

View from the desk.

Getting through some work while Ethan plays at Troon Links in a friendly match against Glasgow with the rest of the Renfrewshire boys.

Still not happy with layout of PenMuse. I’m thinking of moving to a fixed-width container as opposed to a full-width container.

Started using collections in Jekyll. Pretty powerful stuff.