Family guy and web developer
It’s the first day of the school summer holidays here in Scotland.
In previous years I would have dropped Drew off at nursery and then dropped Ethan off at the golf. This year though Drew is at school, as he no longer goes to nursery, and Ethan is still resting after fracturing his foot last week.
All I can say is thank goodness for golf and Fortnite. It’s the only two things that will keep them occupied for the next week until our family holiday kicks in.
It’s been a frustrating couple of days getting my laptop into some kind of order. I can’t get the following things to work:
The list was longer yesterday but I managed to resolve a bunch of issues with a single action. These remaining items have been vexing me since.
The Micro.blog issue is out of my hands and has been reported, but the Tower and Spark issues are things I expect to just work, but I can’t explain why they don’t.
It begs the question, have I lost my tech touch?
Update: Turns out I had a keychain issue that required me to reboot my laptop to get everything working again. Thanks to @manton and Tower support for pointing me in the right direction. 👍
Anyone have any recommendations on a Jekyll theme that would serve a similar purpose as an About.me page?
I’m looking for something like a portfolio site, but more of an emphasis on who I am, what I’m working on and where people can find me.
Vivo also achieved another technological feat. Unlike Apple, it managed to incorporate a fingerprint scanner into the screen itself. The reader sits directly below the glass, and you can can just rest your finger on the front of the phone near the bottom to unlock it, with no need for a dedicated home button or fingerprint reader anywhere else on the device that would have reduced display size.
— A new smartphone found a novel way to make the entire front of the phone one giant screen
Sure, a slide-out camera is nice, but I’m pretty sure we’ll see both the camera and the fingerprint scanner sitting behind the display in the near future. Just a question of who’ll get there first.
Sometimes I struggle with the whole being online thing. The last few days has been one of those times. I skipped my usual weekly digest as a result.
Still wrestling with it.
Took a few attempts but just managed to get GitLab’s CI and automated deployment working for a Rails app. Now to apply it to my other projects. 🙌
The Micro.blog site is the only place where I can compose a reply and see what I’m replying too at the same time.
I wish more Micro.blog clients did this for replies.
Mini standards by Nicholas Bate.
Because it always starts with the little things.
I’ve been trialling Things on my iPhone and iPad for the last few weeks. This morning though, I deleted the app from both devices.
It is a great task manager and it does do lots of things (sorry 🤭) really well, I just can’t get on board with a dedicated task manager app anymore.
I’ve been bullet journalling now for well over a year and I find it a much more effective way of managing my day to day work.
Also I tend to write a lot of software, so I’ve been sticking with task management tools that tie in with my software development process. This means using issue tracking on GitLab or GitHub and using Trello for bigger client projects.
I think it’s fair to say that I’m well and truly done with task management apps.
WhenWorks is a new appoinments app that allows you to define when people can book appointments with you.
Setup is a breeze. Just install the app on your iPhone to create your free WhenWorks account, and you’ll immediately have a web page where guests can book appointments with you online.
Love the fact that it simplifies what was a somewhat tricky process to begin with. Scheduling meetings an appointments can be a pain.
WhenWorks is available from the app store.