Tried to use my iPhone SE as a mouse this morning for about a minute. Definitely time for a coffee.
I wish Github’s Pull Request filters would persist in between changes.
Attention vs Currency
Is attention no longer a viable form of currency?
We’re told every day as creators online that attention = prosperity. But no one’s attention online lasts long enough for that to be true anymore (if it ever was).
— The Value of Attention by CJ Chilvers
Social media might make you famous for five minutes, maybe even a few times over, but what about the times when people’s attention is elsewhere?
Nicholas Bate has Monday’s covered. Do you?
Mondays can be approached slowly or quickly or even from an oblique angle. But always approach them with coffee, a plan and total lack of fear.
Jagged Thoughts for Jagged Times, 253 by Nicholas Bate
Long shadows up at the golf club today while I was picking up Ethan.
Another great lesson for Drew this morning. Won’t be long until he is beating his brother out on the course!
Twitter's house rules
I can understand the joy on Twitter when a certain account was removed by a member of staff who was leaving.
De-activating an account out of your own personal agenda isn’t playing by Twitter’s rules though, and it certainly wouldn’t be as funny if it was your own account that was deleted.
Once again though it throws into question Twitter’s “house rules” and what constitutes playing by these rules and breaking them.
Hyper terminal emulator, good but not great
A week running Hyper as my terminal has been mostly without incident, but I’ll be switching back to Terminal.
Hyper is a good replacement for Terminal or iTerm but it’s not a great replacement and doesn’t bring anything extra that I didn’t already have.
Also, I would rather rely on scripts and dot files for my terminal configuration rather than relying on Hyper’s plugins.
Finding that Spark’s short and long swipes a pain to use when the actions are different.
Reconfigured each side now to have the same action for both short and long swipes.
Avoids the wrong action being applied and keeps things simple.
The value of silence
There’s value to be had in silence you know.
Late at night. A quiet office. No phone calls. No interruptions. The work can be broken down into small tasks and each task approached with an attention that respects its value. The big picture can be pushed into the distance and scrutinized later. This is the time for craftsmanship.
— The Quiet Times by Michael Wade