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Matthew Lang

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Clearing the home screen

Spurred by this post on digital minimalism, I’ve decided to do a little clearing of the decks on my iPhone.

Gone are some Twitter clients, a few news apps and a 2FA app.

I’ve replaced the Twitter clients with the web interface on Safari, and I’m glad to see that I can now log into multiple Twitter accounts. I’m still not a big fan of Twitter, but accessing it on Safari is handy.

The news apps were never really used, and I can also read the news on Safari.

I’ve been meaning to move to 1Password’s two-factor authentication for accounts for some time, but I’ve been simply putting it off.

The home screen is starting to look a little more sane again.

I wish there was an option in iOS to see folders of apps in a two by two grid as an initial default over the three by three grid. It would be easier to see apps on the screen, and would let people make more focused app folders.

Watching the Paisley GC juniors playing in the Scottish Junior Team Championship at Kilmarnock Barassie today.

They have excellent course conditions today, but playing off the longer white tees has been challenging.

Yip, e-sport stadiums are now a thing

Philadelphia Fusion, the city’s Overwatch League team, are having an e-sports complex built that will become the team’s home ground. Effectively, their home stadium.

But an arguably even more important milestone happened earlier in the week — and it took place across the street. On Wednesday, the Philadelphia Fusion — the city’s OWL team — held a groundbreaking ceremony for Fusion Arena, a $50 million e-sports complex that will eventually become the team’s home ground.

After the Overwatch League grand finals, the league prepares to finally go global

Who would have thought e-sports would reach the heights where team’s are having statiums built?

The vacuum of leadership

It’s not very often that I link to Twitter, but this tweet about teen leaders and how they’re making themselves heard is spot on.

Apparently I need to state the obvious: teen leaders have emerged because of a total vacuum of courage or actual leadership amongst “adults” in power. It’s not because they’re good at social media 🙄

Amy Westervelt on Twitter

I love those few weeks leaving the summer when we start hitting the range, and you still have clear nights like this.