Any suggestions on a name for my new programming blog? I’m setting one up just to catch notes and findings as I work. Nothing language specific, trying to keep it general so I switch between languages.
Now seems as good a time as any to not only reboot the blogging habit, but also a number of other little things that have slipped by in the last few months.
I just pasted some text into Grammarly’s app and it couldn’t find a thing wrong with it. Not a damn thing.
Listening to Banquet from Bloc Party’s Silent Alarm album. One of those albums that is perfect from start to finish. 🎵
As great as it is to be on holiday and having a change of scenery, there’s always the familiar comfort of getting home after a holiday.
Spotted this overgrown shed playing golf with Ethan today at Hidden Lake.
I love this time of year when Comic-Con is on. You get a bumper load of trailers for what’s coming on the small and big screen in the next 12 months. So much great stuff to look forward too.
Great to see Francesco Molinari winning the Open. Truly well deserved. 🏌️♂️🇮🇹
Back to Feedbin and the web
For the last few weeks, I’ve been using the lire app on iOS for reading through my RSS subscriptions.
There’s a number of great little features in lire, but the pull to a different RSS client didn’t last long. In the last few days, I’ve deleted the app and started using Feedbin again on iOS. As a client, Feedbin has everything I need and it doesn’t need to have space on my home screen in order to access it. Just a bookmark in my browser is enough to find it.
In the last couple of days I also noticed an article that was doing the rounds about the state of RSS apps on the macOS platform. Before I was using the lire app, I was still using Feedbin in my browser to read my RSS subscriptions when working through the day. A pinned tab in the browser is enough for my needs.
There’s only two cases where I’ll use a native app.
- When the app’s core functionality isn’t available on the web like a text editor or source code control.
- When I prefer to use a native app over a web based app for cases like email and chat.
Native apps do offer a number of great benefits over web based apps, but in most cases I prefer the flexibility of web based apps. Easy to access for users on multiple platforms and easy for the app’s developers to maintain.
So it’s back to using Feedbin on the web again, but more importantly back to using another web app again.
As much as I would love to see Tiger Woods win another major, I think it’s going to be Jordan Spieth lifting the Claret Jug this afternoon. 🏌️♂️