Do you want want blank spaces on your iPhone home screen? Here’s how
Nothing better than getting back to normal. Roads are drivable and schools are back open.
Themeable seasons
One thing I’ve been doing over the last couple of years is switching colours on my blogs and social media profiles according to the seasons.
Technically it’s spring in the UK although with the weather it certainly doesn’t look like it. Never mind, I’m still switching to green to mark the start of spring.
Nicholas Bate offers up some nudges to get you writing.
BBC Studios is adapting Terry Pratchett’s iconic Discworld books for a six-part TV series
I enjoyed the adaptations that were on Sky a few years ago. I’m looking forward to seeing what the BBC do with Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books.
What's in a number?
I’ve been moving over some lists and accounts over to Feedbin. The significant advantage of this is that I don’t need to open Twitter and scroll through my timeline.
It’s the same way in all social media platforms. You’re trying to find that point in the timeline where you left off previously, and you can’t determine what you have already seen. Throw in the different ways in which posts are promoted or injected in your timeline, and it makes for a very confusing experience.
Yesterday I opened up Feedbin at the end of the day and noticed that one of the lists that I have on Twitter had over 50 unread posts on it. Unusual for that particular list, but there was an event on, and so the activity was a bit higher than usual. Rather than pour through each post, I decided to flag the whole list as read.
I weighed up that the amount of posts that were unread wasn’t worth my time to scroll through, even on Feedbin. So I just marked them as all as read.
Seeing the number of unread posts in Feedbin allows me to quickly decided if a list, tag or feed is worth reading. If it’s too high, I can just mark everything as read.
The number of unread items on Feedbin is a small thing, but it’s a great indicator of what I’ve missed. I wish more services and social media platforms would use signs like this rather than trying to sort out your unread items for you magically.
Version control for project management
Did a stupid thing today and deleted a checklist from Trello that I was using. As far as I am aware, there’s no way of undeleting it and also no backup of the Trello board to speak of.
Perhaps it’s not only the source code that’s a valuable asset of a project. The supporting project management material that drives the development should be at least backed up or even under version control as well.
I can’t see me using this at all. I use Pinboard for bookmarking and I’m rarely using any of the Twitter clients these days.