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Matthew Lang

Family guy and web developer

I’ve been using it almost daily for years, but it still amazes me how flexible and verstile Trello is for managing … stuff. I say “stuff”, because it’s so versatile. You can use it to manage and store lots of things.

Curious about potential Apple Watch releases today.

My Fitbit died a few weeks ago and I’m now wondering if an Apple Watch might be more my thing.

I’ve pushed back on getting an Apple Watch for sometime, but I’ve been slowing coming round to the idea of a smartwatch.

Paisley open doors day

Every year, our home town has an open doors day where many building and places that are usually closed off, are open to the public.

We usually miss this as the boys have something on this day, but this year we had a free day so decided to head into two for a wander.

We enjoyed a wander round the Thomas Coats Memoria Baptist Church where Jennifer spent much of her student life included taking many exams in the halls of the church and graduating from university here.

We wandered through the town to a few more places but we wanted to see Paisley Abbey and the views from the roof as this section is usually closed. The views didn’t disappoint and with the weather being great we managed to get a few great photos as the sun shown through some of the windows.

It’s nice to have a town with centuries of history and be able to walk through those places and experience some of that history.

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I’ve started using Bear to write up features for a product.

Instead of going straight a user story and coding, I’m spending a bit more time writing about the feature, and it’s risks and benefits.

It’s working well so far.

Hobonichi’s ordered for me and Jen. It’s becoming a little tradition this.

The email shake down

I loved this post from the Signal vs Noise blog about trading off tracking people through email for content.

Not everything needs to be tracked. Not everything needs to pay off. It’s perfectly fine to do things because it’s fun, feels good, is interesting, tickles your brain, or just helps someone out.

— [Let’s stop shaking people down for their email addresses] (https://m.signalvnoise.com/lets-stop-shaking-people-down-for-their-email-addresses)