@cjkonecnik Interesting post! Very detailed. Good to see another bullet journaler using the system. I've found that embracing the analogue to be a much missed relief after soo long away.

@JohnPhilpin Ha! Nah, that wouldn't make for a great reading experience, however I'll post a comparison here :). Thanks for the idea.

@antonzuiker definitely. I honestly think we have all fallen pray to technology and how it should serve us not the other way around.

@gerwitz if you've not read digital minimalsim, I highly recommend it.

@Miraz the good old days of WP

@MitchWagner Huh, you’re correct, it doesn’t work on there either....that is weird. I might take a look into that to see what I could be doing that...maybe it’s because the tumblr I am syndicating to isn’t my primary site? Just really weird.

I’m reposting there for the same reason, although I have to say that I am reconsidering based on the fact that this is not really what Tumblr is good for. Tumblr is all about finding stuff, reposting and sharing...and it’s mainly a visual place (at least that is what has worked for me in the past. The stuff that I post on my Micro.blog doesn’t really belong there.

@duckrowing yeah I hear you there, but it has to be one of the best payoffs in a television series as it took years to all come together and had a ton of layers and characters built onto it to lead to that moment.

@Munish thanks! A bit of both actually. Depends on how much time I have around me and what the weather is doing.

Not professional, just trying to get my architectural drawings to get better and better and try new things as I develop my style for my other site.

@MitchWagner Hhmm, seems to work perfectly for me. Everything is replicated. The best way to see the issue that native Micro.blog posting was having is on something like this post: kaa-pow.tumblr.com/post/6177...

No idea if it’s my theme that is causing the problem, or something that needs to be tweaked on the Micro.blog side? @manton has anyone else run into something like this?

@MitchWagner So I noticed an error in the way Micro.blog was publishing to tumblr (for some reason the full HTML is published). IFTTT doesn’t do that, and I’d bothered Manton enough last week that I thought I’d just deal with it myself.

@duckrowing we'd have not had one of the greatest twists in any story ever. Worked out perfectly I'd say.

@adamprocter both actually. Started off in real life, then we had to go and so I took a photo to complete it later.

@jimdab You can yes. How easy depends on your site back end. So for example I post on my Micro.blog site, and it ends up on my Wordpress.com and Tumblr sites. I used to send it to my Twitter account as well, but I’ve decided against that. You can send your posts from your Micro.blog account directly or use something like IFTTT (which I use).

@manton Speed is one of my favourite features. Its great to have this back again (not that it was gone for very long).

@jimdab pipe in the RSS feed from that blog...not at that it matters really, your Micro.blog will hopefully be your only place on the web and then syndicate that feed outwards. You should definitely make the plunge. Its liberating.

@jeroensangers Looks pretty interesting. Does anyone have any other option for a single html file style notebook like Tiddlywiki, but not Tiddlywiki which doesn’t really work for me for several reasons - I wouldn’t mind something pretty streamlined and minimal...

@stefp ah I see. Mac or Windows only at the moment I guess.

@stefp never heard of it. It does however seem to answer a lot of my questions. the premium versions seem inline with what I would call fair...so far I like it. The thing is I don't understand the app? Is it a multi-platform app or a website? The site doesn't really say much.

@sarcassem @burk thanks! As always I’m starting micro and hoping to build this muscle into a daily start to my day (or something to doodle while on a call ;)

@Munish yup, only it gets a few things better (mainly on the inter-linking side of things), but yeah once you dive into the world of online outliners there is a TON of options out there. I’m sure there is a suitable one. I used to love tiddlywiki but it seems to have morphed into something else recently... and I would need to dive into redesigning the hell out of it because it’s too noisy

@jack For now I am going to keep my thoughts and notes in Drafts and then wait for Roam and Conor to both mature a little more before I even consider sending money their way.

@manton sounds pretty simple. Will drop them a line :). Thanks!

@stefp See when it clicked I thought it was brilliant, but then I had a look at the creator and was totally not on board.

@stefp seriously? Tell me where I can sell mine off, because honestly while I like a lot about it, there is much more I don’t like about it and I’m certainly not in the market for paying $15/month for that ‘privalege’.

@manton there goes that experiment. It’s something I was using in Feedbin (for other Instagram feeds) so thought I would see if I could bring it into my Micro.blog,...I guess not? I don’t control the details of that feed, just change the username really....

@artkavanagh I keep meaning to...but then I just think this is too much effort and have basically moved to Pages for that sort of thing.

@jthingelstad @donavanwatts and crucially it only keeps getting better. Testing the new beta there is inter-note linking which is an awesome feature to build your own Zettelkasten - you know if that's also a thing you want to use it for. So good.

@donnydavis huh, I never tried this. That would be awese for more complex posts.

@jack great great post and mimics all that I am going through at the moment. Totally agree about the Roam Research dev, he really does come across as a total tool and I'd bet that the Twitter account is his direct input. Never heard of the Org Roam. I've decided to go all in with Drafts (inter-note linking is coming)... leaving back linking as the only other major hurdle..

@gerwitz yeah its an odd decision but it kinda makes sense for mb itself as you feed RSS feeds into mb itself. If it didnt do that then it would spam the timeline...

@gerwitz as i understand it (and honestly I still dont fully understand it), but mb will first check your main feed. If it finds that item then it won't fire an update or cross post to the category RSS feed. I think there might be a work around but still waiting to hear back...

@danielpunkass Yeah, its pretty simple, extend the background colour of the keyboard all the way. No line between them. Then the icons are the same colour as the text in the keyboard. Simple, but seems like an extension of the keyboard itself. Natural fit.

@danielpunkass that looks excellent. My only suggestion is to do away with the gradient of the clue. I wish more devs (including Apple) would adopt the same design for this space as that found in iA Writer (including the icons). Honestly, apart from that, nailed it.

@jack Yeah on the iPad the little help menu doesn't appear (which is very frustrating for a new user like myself). Also copying blocks between notes doesn't work, but I found a handy work around, copy and paste the block in the same page, then you can paste that block anywhere you want).

@hartlco also was thinking, are you going to give the option to hide the titles in the menu bar?

@hartlco I don't think you should do away with the menu on the bottom as it does offer some good stuff (likes and share button). You could hide the three dots and tapping the post brings up the menu (similar to the Tweetbot app).

@grayareas No probs! I think its an important conversation to have. My hope being that MB grows to great success in the coming years, and like many areas that are purposely different, I think this would only bolster that reality.

@grayareas on the one hand, at least I know exactly where they stand on a number of subjects (whether I like it or not), unlike say Facebook. On the other hand, their approach is somewhat aggressive, which I don't particularly like. These tech companies wield the powers of small nations. I don't like how many nations are run, so I make decisions as to who I want to support and who I do not.

@manton That’s great news about reaching out to Linode, would definitely love to be part of a greener Micro.blog and even make sure it’s clearly advertised on my own site.

Sadly AWS are one of the worst offenders in this area (the least transparent, with the least clear ambitions).

@fgtech That is a shame that they don’t really care, but not surprising tbh. By and large most traditional servers are run in a dirty manner.

@manton Considering the lower power overhead that Micro.blog will likely have (not sure how many servers you have running, 2-3, 4-5?) but you could review the general amount of power they consume over a year and then see how many customers would need to pay say $5 to allow you to offset that load? It could be an optional thing and honestly then it’s definitely something that you can certainly make into a moral point. Micro.blog generally takes the moral high ground, add another one maybe?

@manton I see this as a clear opportunity. This is not a Linode issue, rather this is a Micro.blog issue as you choose Linode. Being an indie platform that is also powering its infrastructure (no matter how small it is right now) from renewable sources is still a very positive message - clearly the rest (except those powered by Google) don’t give a monkeys, so this is a clear gap.

You don’t have to be running on renewables from day one, rather there might be different things that you can implement that take you in that general direction. Ask Linode, how they power your servers, maybe they have options available?

@bix Actually, I said the previous Asia thing flippantly - turns out it might be correct, in Korea. Could it be a service name change?

@manton @simonwoods and if you want to know how the story really ends you’ll need to get the comics (Miyazaki only animated half of the full story)...

@crossingthethreshold yeah, that isn’t great tbh, but at least all your notes are all there. I would have preferred the other model of paying something up front, which allows me to use the app with updates for a year forward. If I want new features then that is another purchase. Keeps the pressure on the developer to you know develop and make the app better while I can choose if I want to pay for the latest features or continue using the app. I am much much more in favour of the Sketch.app model of doing things. Not sure why more devs don’t do it that way?

@tones nice! Definitely tell us what you think

@cdevroe yeah I've tried paper based systems as well. Having it as a bare bones digital service might work for me.

@MrKapowski Ughh. Soo annoying right. Sooo sooo annoying.

@crossingthethreshold There is a separate action for that. There is one that does simple posts, and another with the titles in there.

@twweaver seems like we both have very similar views on this one :)

@rnv pens. Definitely pens.

@twweaver Awesome! Will be good to share notes, once we've both got some milage on the app.

@twweaver I’m in the middle of writing something much larger about this, but definitely a companion app. It shines in a way that iA Writer would struggle with. iA writer is for focus and long form. Drafts is for collecting thoughts, posting to Micro.blog and working on drafts.

@cm You read my mind :). So as soon as I had made up my mind I dropped Greg an email, he came back with this:

The best way to do that, if you need separate files, is to configure a custom action which writes a draft to file in the format and location you desire, then use the “Select > Operations” options in the draft list to select drafts, and use the “Run Action” operation option to run that action on all the selected drafts. You can tap and hold “Select” to select all drafts in the list.

Will need to do all that and will share when I have made something.

Workspaces are incredible. They let my thoughts focus. I’ll post some things about this pretty soon.

@cm Yes, that is the perfect way to describe it, so deep.

@macgenie @joelmearig just going through the backlog of Micro Monday episodes (not really been exactly up to date because, you know Corona), but loved the tip about recording a minute to 1.5 min chunks to allow better editing. Solid tip. Can't say I get how Wavelength works for editing, will give it a look.

@canion thanks! He loved the process and had to listen to the episode straight away.

@Gabz I feel a lot of what you are discussing here. Same thought process. I'd like something nice, that sounds decent.

@manton Classic stages during unlocking :)

@hartlco it would be a mega achievement. The fact of the matter is that Apple needs to lead the way on this. They don\t even have a web inspector, to ask them to jump to Xcode is probably one step too far...having said that, I imagine that this is something that is being worked on. The limitation isn't the hardware, its the software...

@chet I've been recording the kids for a while just havent really done it consistently ans never published it. Definitely made me think more about this.

@chet awesome achievement!

@ChrisJWilson The newsletter thing is new over there. Previously $30/month for a blog seemed steep. With that for a certain number it's a little better, but not by much. It's aimed at a certain level of user really.

@crossingthethreshold See for me I was being unfair to Buttondown. I wanted to use it in a way it wasn’t meant to be used. If you want to send an email with the most basic of text formatting (bold, italics and headings, maybe section breaks) and links and you are good. Don’t try to do anything else really. For that it is truly magical. Sadly for my newsletter I wanted more...not much more but a little more. I ended up getting a bunch of other things that I don’t even need in Mailerlite but hey, it’s been good for the last 1.5 years.

@jpayne ha, yeah drives my wife nuts....buts she’s now come around to the correct way of saying it ;)

@mjdescy yeah get another set of instructions, dude messed up behind his ears :). You can see the hair above his ears in the last video :)

@pratik Honestly i wouldnt pay it any attention. If you are feeling blue and writing about it on your own site us good for you, then you should do it. If peeps on Micro.blog dont like it they can mute you, unfollow you or move on.

@purisubzi welcome aboard. Things are nice and slow here which is perfect.

@sarcassem so great. The only limitation that I have honestly not been able to modify to my liking is the table of contents and there are some parts of the footer that I wish were a little more customisable, but other than that soooo, soo great.

@frostedechoes honestly I had no idea how powerful this thing is and I’ve not even run it through some of it’s more advanced features. Really excellent app.

@crossingthethreshold so yeah I did move over to Mailer Lite. It’s been 95% there. I raised a support ticket which was acknowledged but never resolved. Then there was the issue that their website isn’t 100% on the iPad and so there are some issues. Button down is best for very simple text based email only. You can control some elements like bold, italics, and headings - apart from that I would really lower my expectations :). I think that if you are only really interested in sending out text, it’s a great option. What’s the problems you are running against?

@vincent Honestly suggest you take up journaling. First thing in the morning to capture all the things you want to achieve during the day. One of the last things at night to review what you did right and what you didn’t. All those thoughts are kept on the page rather than rattling in your head....just a thought.

@odd not that different at all :).

@manton might want to check trying to edit long posts in the iOS app. On the phone at least it doesn’t allow you to scroll all the way to bottom say to make the edits you need to make.

@colinwalker sorry to hear that. Really hope it’s the a mild one for you guys. Take care.

@amit So I just checked that on an iPad Pro and that was the character count. Will take a look on a windows machine to see the difference. On an iPhone it’s 68 characters, but the design isn’t really suited for use on a phone (it’s doable but only just).

Maybe also something to look at for the next iteration?

@amit Ah-ha! That is actually excellent. It's super polished. I do have one important suggestion to make however. Seems that the standard character count is 150 characters across. For things to be readable you want this to be limited to between 60-90 characters. Apart from that, excellent font choice (don't add any new ones), perfect options (new, download or publish).

@amit Very, very nice. My use of Blot won’t really make use of this but I can absolutely see the appeal. My only comment would be to add Markdown highlighting, apart from that, perfect.

@manton Rock solid update to the app. The app has always been an excellent companion to the site, now it's even more so.

In fact the only real complaint I have about this app is how the pop over is accidentally triggered when you scroll. What would be better is if there was possibly a larger delay in triggering the popover after scrolling stops maybe?

The other part is adding new content to the timeline could be added automatically when you get to the bottom (rather than having to press another button when you get to the end).

@crossingthethreshold Probably a bit too harsh, considering what we’re all going through, but I had enough this morning. The simplest of things should be keyboard support. Sadly it really feels like a flaky afterthought. I hope they take this aspect more seriously because it is incredible frustrating.

@Gabz snap :) phone buddies

@adders that;s rough man. I mean you pay your taxes, you expect the government to be there for you during the exceptional times.

@odd @simonwoods yeah we have a cream - might move to soap bars rather than liquid, maybe that will help a little. Another reminder that we’re all in this together.

@jack it really is a huge improvement. The issue I'm having is that keyboard support is actually pretty flaky - and Im using an apple keyboard?!

@pratik Yeah we moved to Teams as well at work. It's much better technology for conference calls.

@cdevroe people have far to much on their minds. First comes the shock, then after a while things will settle down and the anxiety begins. Expect interactions then...

@kgfuglsbjerg I found it difficult getting into Meditations, although I think reading it cover to cover is the wrong approach probably. Rather read a chapter over a period of time is probably better :). Hopefully this virus doesn't have as much impact...

@JohnPhilpin not related, but did you see that Steve Wilson has a new song out?

@JohnPhilpin Nice. Honestly I don't see everyone taking it as seriously. Just now there was a bunch of people (11 I counted them) going about doing exercise in the courtyard. It's like guys, go for a walk if you must, fucking stay at home.

@bobschulties Because sometimes humans really don't know what's good further. It takes a while.

@tones Hopefully this will also show that bullshitters are dangerous in positions of power and maybe means the end of them there...

@Gabz so I used this. Sadly if you switch between dark mode and normal it doesn’t work. I’ve since actually changed my home screen even more.

@amongthestones ah man, the spike in Spain today means this is absolutely the right thing to do.

@derekpeden for some maybe you’re right. For the rest of us who can should.

@twweaver Anything from the Viz Signature line is a sure win. I'd go for Vagabond next.

@twweaver read Uzumaki years ago. One of the only books to ever make me feel ill. No movie has ever achieved that. Horror of the highest order.

@paulrobertlloyd Brilliant. Is that something he's done just for this, or is it part of a new show?

@bix ha! I'm with you on that one. @manton it's good that this is now a viable option for those that don't want everything posted.

@manton huh. So this magic is down to Drafts itself. That's some serious coding-fu right there.

@hjalm Thanks! Yeah, it's Micro.blog has been great to allow you to do what you want, although the way in which you do it could be made easier. I'm sure it's on Manton's radar...

@ciaran So definitely text file only. Definitely not linked to any application (application agnostic, although different apps might interact with the notes in different ways). I'm effectively trying to build out my Zettelkasten. So date stamping titles, inter-note linking, tagging and allowing everything to live in one place.

@ChrisJWilson If I'm reading this move correctly, Merriweather could be Google's answer to Adobe's adoption of Source San Pro (and all the iterations).

@noah What you getting?

@colinwalker It’s interesting because he seems to have the take that you should start regardless of what you have to say. Then again it all depends on what you are trying to achieve and who you want to send your message out to.

@hall possibly yeah. Maybe it’s a simple solve, because it doesn’t seem like he’d made a huge amount of changes in the recent update.

@simonwoods Honestly my view on subscriptions is that the app is ultimately geared towards a smaller group of people that find enough value in that specific product. What I would like to see is these single developers grow enough to support at least 2 guys working on the apps. Two is one. One is none.

@simonwoods I hear you about the entitlement, many on the internet easily forget that they are dealing with people. When I wrote enthusiasm I was actually referring to his enthusiasm for Editorial - it’s clearly there and he wants to do right by the app, it’s just he doesn’t have it in him to support both at the moment in the manner that he would like.

@Gabz nope it creates an RSS feed based on someone’s username

@Gabz it’s not officially supported but it seems to work.

@twweaver nothing official but I was given a hack by Ben from Feedbin that works well for me

@simonwoods see the thing is if I didn’t have the iPad, I couldn’t do my work to the same level. Without the Mac the more difficult projects are on the back burner. Definitely going to be waiting for the new macs to see what’s what

@manton You can tell it was designed by the Icon Factory - they really have a consistent house style. Interesting twist on the pricing model, wonder what the story behind that is.

@colinwalker do you know if you can import the standard export from Micro.blog into Drafts? That would be a start to having your posts in a single location that's not the web.

@Mtt So far I'm only using the default post to Micro.blog, which you can get here: actions.getdrafts.com/a/1Dj

I seriously don't understand what magic is happening here, but posting using this action is faster than ANY other method available. It's near instant and shows up on the site just as fast. This is what's made me pine for more. There has to be more we can do with Drafts and Micro.blog...

@Bruce Aha, you're right. It's not Feb specific. Will try again later this year (maybe in the summer).

@Bruce yeah, like the petulant child he could be sometimes :).

@Bruce I think they’re finding that out the hard way. It’s a real shame they didn’t buy Dropbox.

@simonwoods exactly my thought as well. They can charge a premium because they deliver a better product. I wish iAWriter had better integration - they are on an island with how they choose to add Dropbox support (although hopefully that might change in the future).

@ciaran Ha, good advice. It will be interesting to see what other items I add to this.

@colinwalker the actions to post on Micro.blog is simply the fastest route I have ever experienced in any platform! How is this sorcery even possible? Even the Micro.blog app isn’t this fast.

Actions are overwhelming at the moment, just getting grips with options is a struggle - but in a fun way.

@manton Ah cool, I thought it was another iOS issue. I have a post about the Micro.blog iOS app coming up, but wanted to make sure :).

@manton I'm trying to use iA Writer to share a post to Micro.blog using the official app, but when I use the sharesheet it comes up with null and a whole bunch of gibberish. Is there any way to do this? thanks.

@tones read my mind. Am planning to do the same thing.

@pat I think they are two different mediums really...although with a ton of crossover, made possible by apps like Feedbin (or a few of these other apps I've seen springing up recently).

@pratik not yet...still waiting to hear what’s next.

@seishonagon I know! Those are the rules I guess - and while I was there it was fine. Except when you finally see what you are missing you can’t help but review

@Gabz Its going to be mega hard to beat the Nolan trilogy but I am curious ;)

@kusters I have. Its barely usable. I di have a massive post about going iPad only for the last few month. Its not been great tbh and that is down to the software. Apple really needs to sort it out :).

@paulrobertlloyd Nice. Thanks for that link, will do a deep dive. You are right it has some questionable decisions, borne of the time and place (and certainly not inline with modern thinking), but the elegance of the architecture is undeniable :).

@twweaver Ha, saw this in the bookstore today and was considering buying it (been a while since I read some Murakami)...maybe I'll pass on this one then.

@chet for now, but I imagine things will settle down and they’ll probably be better of.

@bix resist the urge. Your site looks good.

@truefalse ha! That must have been an awesome journey!

@truefalse Norreport Station in Copenhagen. UN building in the background. If you squint you can see the magestic wind turbines in the distant background :)

@JohnPhilpin ha, if only I could share the taste and smell. Sadly the internet hasn’t solved those yet :)

@Bruce ha good spot. I have like 10 photos leading up to that one :).

@bradenslen over the years since the referendum, I think the most nuanced thoughts on this have come from Nick Clegg. In an interview he described why the British people don’t have the same level of connection with Europe as many countries in the EU have. Part of this was the fact that the country didn’t feel the step change that many other nations felt when they became European (I certainly felt it as I grew up in Greece). Obviously there is many more reasons, but that analysis of the country has stuck with me. Sure European projects have contributed to the country, but the step change wasn’t felt across.

@ChrisJWilson come to think about it vast is unfair. I’ll change that :). This is a sad enough day as it is.

@ChrisJWilson I hear you about using the general election as a proxy 2nd referendum, but ultimately that is what it was about. Obviously no guarantees that a second referendum would have been put on the table or even how that one would have played out.

@ChrisJWilson maybe not for the referendum, but the vote for the Conservatives certainly was.

@tgray the Sketch model works for me. I haven’t upgraded in ages but that is because I switched over to Affinity. But I agree. Buy it with the current features for a year worth of upgrades. If you want more buy it again when the upgrades mean something to you.

@smokey Where are you buddy? Hope all is well.

@Blot all good thanks! :)

@blot Service seems to be down? Is this a planned one?

@Mtt that\s soo sad. Damn. What is it about elite sportsmen who can't seem to get a break in their retirement? Legends like Schumacher and now Kobe (I know there are plenty more, but these are the only ones that come to my mind)

@manton not sure what if there is a setting to be updated, but I'm getting a web certificate error going to my site. Also my on-this-day plugin isn't working either (when I make my way past Apple's security message)...

@Miraz nice! I love really well made and designed things. Pay more. Buy once. Will investigate where I can get in Denmark or from somewhere in Europe.

@MrHenko They absolutely are. My boy Pontus (who is Swedish and travels over the border every day) tells me that the ones in Sweden are typically more traditional (white sugar, cream, etc), while the Danish one are a little more out there with all the additional stuff (blueberries, chocolate, nougat etc)? Either way, it's a tradition I can get behind :)

@Bruce Soo much new gear. Some new clothing technologies have been introduced while I've been away - like the thermal tights and the good quality puffers and gloves with touch sensetive finger tips. Sadly umbrella technology still sucks....at least I've not found a decent umbrella. Does such a thing even exist?

@macgenie really enjoyed this one. Good to have you back on the ‘air’.

@alans I’ll be taking more photos the next time I go there which shouldn’t be too long

@yorrike no but hey I grew up with TNG and TOS is just something that happened long, long ago in a galaxy far far away...wait a minute :)

@yorrike huge gap between Enterprise ans Discovery

@Gabz isnt it a videogame company...nono thays PikPok :)

@JohnPhilpin it’s a polarising one :). Some peeps (myself included) don’t get BBEdit. So can certainly understand if iAWriter isn’t for you :)

@Mtt always good emwhen you hunt down the solution and it works :)

@k9andkbd NICE! Definitely going to check this out

@vincent that is an excellent feature right there

@JohnPhilpin nailed those recommendations! It’s been YEARS since someone opened up this much awesome music to me. Thanks. Really really appreciate it.

@ccgus Maybe it works better in practice than just viewing. Will need to try it out tho

@JohnPhilpin Anathema yes! Blackfields definitelty! Now you've added a bunch more to my list. Thanks, always looking for good recommendations

@Gabz One if my favourite bands

@hartlco any thoughts about introducing drafts to Icro?

@Bruce its different but i know it wont last forever and its all part of the seasons :)

@simonwoods i know right! But i am really looking forward to the long nights in summer

@Mtt looking good sir, looking good!

@fahrni same. Except on ipados - sort it out :)

@Mtt i think you need to update list.photolist.html maybe? Also love the green underpants - I think all websites should have that

@pratik thanks! He's a good subject :)

@sku_b @jayroddi definitely recommend that particular method. Simple to implement and play around with in the example codepen

@adders Totally hear you there. Remember you are not doing it for those people unsubscribing, you are doing it for your people. It will grow but my experience is that it takes the time it takes..Good luck!

@hollyhoneychurch congrats on the decision! Exciting times ahead. Sure there will be disruption but its going to be awesome exploring a new city and all that this entails for sure.

@gerwitz Nice use of Plex! Love the little details on your site.

@ft good theme for your year. The year of balance. Mine is the year of consolidation.

@kgfuglsbjerg So I think that Micro.blog nails the flow aspect of writing to your site. Inputing your thoughts is the reason I do it so regularly and don't like missing a day.

However, and this is where things break down, you need to offer a simple way for people to customise their site. This shouldn't include any coding really. It should be a series of dropdown menus. Change the colours. Change the typography (typeface and size). Maybe add an image/header (if you want). And if it was awesome there should be at least 5 variants on this (1 column, 2 column, photoblog, etc).

@Burk also called wheelchairs...

@simonwoods Nice! Its the way to go as this way you get my little email intros which dont appear in the direct RSS feed.

@Mtt Awesome! Can't wait to see what you come up with.

I understand now. So I believe I copied the primrose theme into my repository and started editing it there. Once it was 90% done I imported that into Micro.blog.

@Mtt thanks! So it is a totally hosted Micro.blog site. i used Primrose and then honestly beat the CSS (and some HTML and JS) into submission. The thing is I imagine that most users dont have the knowledge, time or patience to do this sort of thing. I know that there is a better way, but alas that is something that has been a struggle for most blogging platforms. Years ago blogger did a thing where they introduced several themes by top name deaigners, which was nice. I should write some of this down in something longer form I think.

@Miraz it is heartbreaking, but maybe now the Australian government can take this issue of climate change more seriously?

@hjertnes blotting paper? i use it anyway (at least the one supplied with Nanami Paper notebooks), solves the problem instantly, regardless of what hand you use. If you've not tried it, highly recommend it.

@ChrisJWilson Close. It is Tomoe River Paper, but found in this: www.nanamipaper.com/products/...

Yup, Twsbi Eco, although I am going back to my trusted and favourite Sailor ProGear Slim (I keep eyeing a normal sized ProGear but haven't pressed the trigger on that one yet, maybe this year?)

@smokey great list. Followed all those I hadn’t till now :).

@manton just a heads up but would be worth checking out if .bz is available in the domain hosting partner? When I tried using it said the name was not available...except of course it was.

@sketchbookb nice! Living the dream. 1 book every 2 weeks is certainly a great target to have.

@smokey The welcome wagon was the best part of the onboarding experience. So unique to this place, which is great. I do have some thoughts about the rest of the onboarding process which i think could be improved.

The only other couple I know is @cleverdevil and @cleverangel (love the user names).

@adamprocter you definitely should. I know i have spent many hours customising, but found that the two most important things to consider is the typography and the colours

@Bruce that looks really interesting. love the black and white artwork.

@gerwitz thanks! Will definitely check it out.

@pratik Good catch! I tried something recently that was similar...sadly I was sloooowww and the red plane got away.

@Bruce ok, what you making :)

@fahrni completely agree about the issue of flow. That is definitely something that Micro.blog has solved for me.

@bradenslen thanks for subscribing! Really hope you enjoy the archive, it’s been one of the funnest things I’ve done this year for sure.

Re concrete, I can’t help but imagine that the scale at which things need to be constructed in the US play a role in the shortcuts being taken. The concrete being used in Denmark is bunker grade it seems (at least that’s the impression I get anecdotally from trying to put my curtains up and talking to some of the guys in the office who have experienced the same thing).

@smokey Great spot! The idea of this months issue came from that point. I wanted to understand why the process was so bad for us and what was being done to better the situation.

The part about Roman concrete was great to discover as well. Stumbling onto these little gems of history really makes me smile. I think my brother reads the newsletter just for the intros :).

@kgfuglsbjerg Ha, dead giveaway. Yeah today is incredible day. Kids really loved it outside, even though freezing :)

@kgfuglsbjerg that is some eagle eyes 👀 you got there :). Yes it is!

@smokey it is indeed. Apparently made in Malmo, we live 30-40min away from the factory now :). Decided to support that instead of Lego this year :)

@smokey Clearly you understand the needs behind nurturing and developing a community. From my POV, I will notice these when they are gone (or not posted as regularly), however I think you fought the good fight, but as with all things they come to and end. MM will continue with the podcast hopefully and you get to experience what we have :). I think just your level of consistent and complete interation is value enough (no one comes close to that level, at least not that I've seen).

@brentsimmons having just bought Reeder 4, I kinda now wish I had saved my cash. This is a nice app you have here sir. Fast, clean, and has some nice features.

@snookca Ha, hot tips, thanks! Will need to get some babysitting arranged :)

@emma not had that yet :). Something to look forward to....?

@crossingthethreshold Ha, seems Portland has some crossover with Copenhagen - there are bikes I’ve seen here that I’ve not noticed anywhere else

@smokey @vincent I think we agreed not to use the underscore but rather the asterisk convention for italics.

@numericcitizen Each space online has a different thing that makes it work better. If more engagement is why you are here, then catering to those that you want engagement with will become the priority. Seems to me that you are doing your thing though - sometime this will lead to some engagement, but I have found this goes in waves and randomly depends upon the subject itself and the time you post.

@basus i like that as an idea. Better filtering of the timeline would mean better interaction tbh.

@poetalegre awesome! glad to hear it. Remember to keep it micro, habit is much more likely to stick that way.

@hollyhoneychurch i guess it is. Still feeling great that its coming up to a neat little break for us to catch our breathe and jump into the new year settled....mostly :)

@prologic thanks getting closer every day :)

@smokey yup agreed, i just wanted something i could reference when i saw someone struggling and may have just needed a small bit of help getting it straight in their heads.

@Gabz Same here. The app did so much right. Great thoughtful typography. I truly wish it could be revived somehow...

@andrumatt there is an element about publishing online that writing in your own journal just doesn’t translate over. But I imagine that it’s to do with your target audience - mainly yourself in the future. You want to write something that they might enjoy. In my journal I am working through things. Troubles, anxieties and difficulties. I wouldn’t post any of that stuff online because it’s a brain cleansing exercises or a reflection exercise. The site is for ‘Hey, this is cool. Or this happened. Or I’ve been spending time doing this and it’s changed my views on something’ e

@smokey thanks, he a cool little guy :).

@manton love these ‘pins’. Something about them tickle the right side of my brain. I’ve always said it would be great to have more of these, but then again would that dilute their specialness?

@smokey Hehe, more 🏠🌪🏚. Stuff everywhere :).

@crossingthethreshold hehe, super glad you found it in the end :). Would love to hear your wife’s thoughts on any of the subjects I’ve covered so far. That’s one of my favourite things to be honest, hearing what resonated with everyone.

@smokey thanks! Really glad you’re enjoying it. Been a real pleasure to write it.

@smokey @simonwoods as you can imagine I do have some thoughts about this. It’s very difficult and time consuming for people to sort out the design of their sites, especially because it can sometimes lead to design procrastination which is the opposite of what you want when the act of writing and publishing should be the focus. It’s like buying a car and then spending ages polishing the wheels and never driving it. The issue is that if those wheels are not just right you are likely not to bother driving it :).

@caseyhansen Atomic Habits Ego is the Enemy The Art of Noticing

@macgenie loved it. Kickstarted a new way of writing for me, so got a ton of value from it. Thanks you.

@fgtech totally with you on this one.

@fahrni suggestion: keep it to one or two sentences max. Write these 1-2 sentences at the same time every day. Your audience is yourself 1 year from today - what is future you going to gain from the words you’ve just written.

@gerwitz huh, I kinda missed that. I was concentrating on how the hell it would work for me :)

@Miraz Ha, same here. It's a great addition to the landscape :)

@Miraz @crossingthethreshold @smokey so none of the current crop of Macs excite me except maybe the Air, however I’m not a fan of those keyboards (I’m not just saying that, it’s a step back, highlighted by the fact they’ve finally recognised it themselves). Considering I’m going to be using this machine for another half decade, I want to love it. The power is important, for longevity more than anything else - when I need to push it 3 years from now it won’t flinch (like my broken machine used to).

The repair cost is 1/3 the cost of a new MacBook Air (1/4 of a new MacBook Pro) which is why it’s not such a clear cut answer.

@crossingthethreshold @miraz Sooo the other question I have is, considering the new 16" macbook pro, i'm thinking it would likely be prudent to wait for the 13" (or 14"?) equivalent.

@Miraz Thanks for the advice. Software updates will be an issue for sure. The thing is I was really hoping to have get a new phone which is 4 years old at the moment. Getting both right now is a luxury I can’t really afford. The computer I need to get stuff done. The ‘phone’ is for photos.

@hartlco savour it, it’s such a different world that you’ll be longing to go back

@twelvety yup that’s the one I have and it’s future proofed for a while :)

@fahrni each one of us is on. a different blogging journey for sure. My 2 cents on this is that for the last (nearly) 2 years (?!!1!) Micro.blog has helped me develop my writing muscle better than any other platform. But being a relatively early adopter means that sometimes you have to wait a little. My view is its worthwhile in the end because you finally can focus on the writing and let someone else worry about the rest (mostly).

@fahrni out of curiosity what is it that you were trying to achieve that you could not achieve in Micro.blog?

@fahrni wasting time when you could be writing more :).

@JohnPhilpin who would have thought that the spiritual successor to Obama would come from New Zealand. Its good to see the torched passed in someone thoughtful.

@manton we watched this last week and thought it was fantasitc. Favourite Christmas movie since 'Tokyo Godfathers'.

@smokey with 9 more of these to go, lets hope I stick the landing :)

@manton not sure but it seems my RSS feed isnt working. Also while my latest post is on my website its not in the timeline? Not sure if others are having the same issue?

@adders its already my iphone background

@pratik Thanks! Glad you're enjoying them. They usually come after I've written the article, so they feel like I'm treating myself to a drawing :)

@gerwitz It's actually a very good question. I tend to spend most of the month immersing myself in a subject. I let myself wonder a little bit from link to link when I'm not happy with the level of information that is given, or I don't buy the argument. One of the things I am considering is creating a bibliography/reference page for each of the articles where I'm not linking to the sources as I do want to be as transparent about the information as possible. Might do that for the next article. Thanks for the question.

@smokey @pratik @simonwoods your timing guys is impecable :). Just released the latest issue and forgot to post about it on my site.

@manton nice. It will join the quintessential web-book (at least for me), www.practicaltypography.com Can’t wait you’re dip in and out of it.

@MrHenko I'm actually looking forward to the changes. For nearly a decade now my days, evenings and weather have all been predominantly the same. This change is welcome :). I just want to make sure it doesn't get to me subconciously..

@ddykstal i gave up on using the prompts a while back. At this stage im glad if the story makes any sense :).

@amoroso your posting has been broken for a while now... for me at least everythibg is blank.

@luby love this widget. Great to see you are still giving it love. Any chance of adding drafts? kinda like Wren for twitter? 3 drafts limit or something?

@manton I trialed plausible for a month. That was also a good option...considering Fathom is going to change it’s codebase soon...

@antonzuiker hey thanks for checking it out. So I’ve not included a byline on this as I initially decided to go down Economist route. Since then I’ve been signing it in the email itself but you are right I should update to include a small bio about myself on the site.

@vincent looking good. I would definitely take some inspiration from the iA writer for iOS toolbar. No question in my mind the single most elegant and useful toolbar on the platform.

@Burk seriously tempted just so that I can give Ubuntu another try :)

@Burk looks like an awesome thing. I do want to eventually get one to try some stuff out with it.

@macgenie your emoji-fu is strong. Also thanks for getting this going, I’ve really been enjoying it and actually might continue doing this after November is over.

@antonzuiker I think you have to have a paid video account maybe on Micro.blog? Also love your site, especially the Butterick type, well chosen sir, well chosen :)

@bix yeah good point, but I imagine that one will fit into the other. I’m talking about my own perspective that I wouldn’t want that clogging up my timeline :). One idea would be that you create a post as usual. Then under the posts page you could convert that into a ‘live’ page with its own UI that allows you to use it differently.

@manton Yup, totally agree. Would be a great way for it to be collected when you are discussing something live. You want to comment on things, but certainly don't want 56 posts on the subject. Have them all collated somehow under a single post, with a time stamp for each addition.

@antonzuiker Not really had the chance to visit very much here tbh. Partly because there is no rush :), but will definitely check out the library when I get a chance

@baldur @smokey I think he has missed the point entirely. Micromobility is not scooters alone, or the VC model. Rather it is a plethora of different vehicles and different funding methods. The way to make this commercially explosive hasn’t been invented yet (google ads were not invented at the same time as google search). As for operating in Paris, I imagine that’s because there are parked cars on either side? In Copenhagen bikes are everywhere, scooters get used (although not as often as I would imagine), but they run in the bike lanes.

@jwurzer and that’s the point really, Micro.blog is definitely not a twitter replacement. It’s primarily a blogging platform with a social layer on top. Soo if you’re in the market to create an online presence for yourself primarily and then have some interaction at some point (so you’re not just talking to yourself online), then Micro.blog is the absolute best solution. If you’re looking for a microphone, then maybe Mastadon is better suited for that, dunno? But that’s my take on things.

@jwurzer honestly based on what you've written Micro.blog might not be for you. Best way I can describe it is if you want to create something lasting for yourself (an audience of 1) then this is probably the easiest and simplest way - you might ask why would you do that online? I actually have a longer answer to that. The social layer is an added bonus (not the other way around).

@ddykstal i hear that. I've actually given up on the prompts at this point unless they let my mind wander in a certain direction I had not considered but haven't forced myself to adhere to them. My favourite part is discovering the story, day by day. No idea if its going to turn out rubbish in the end :)

@johnridesabike welcome to the community. I find the best way to keep engaged is to remember that this site is primarily for yourself. You are writing the site that you want to read in the future.

@Burk I have the same issue. Having an logo or something is certainly more distinctive but leas personal...

@Cheri totally awesome. Of course I’m not writing a novel, rather a very very short story but hey it’ll be my first :)

@cdevroe that is very cool. A different kind of post.

@hollyhoneychurch everything is slowly starting to settle a little bit. Once we’ve moved into our house and have the kids doing the schooling stuff everything should hopefully be 👍. Love exploring the city even though it’s been the wettest autumn since records began apparently (or at least its on track)

@smokey Thanks, like @amit I'm also really enjoying the journey of writing this type of fiction.

@patrickrhone if you’ve not had a chance to read the book Ikigai I do recommend it. One of the few books I got to read this year.

@kusters never too late :)....although getting pin might be? Do it though!

@amit we had the same idea ;). Looking forward to what you come up with. I haven't written fiction in a while so its going to be interesting. Also literally no knowing where this story is going is kinda fun and really low stakes :)

@jmoltz start small and build the habit, definitely the right attitude :). Good luck.

@timswast Great effort. Really enjoyed what you did

@jack not picked Digital Minimalism, might put that on my list next. Although I think I need to read atomic habits again this year to cement things a little

@cm happy Halloween to you to 🎃 👻 . We kinda let this year pass us by as we don’t have the costumes or any of the gear yet, so living through everyone’s photos

@macgenie ha that’s exactly what I’m doing. Except in a bit of a low voice. I’ve realised that the first time I do a new lesson I’m rubbish. By the third time it’s all there :).

@Mikehendley best one yet for sure and I loved them all :)

@manton great little feature for newbies. What about transferring your domain name, can that be done?

@tones its funny, the way back was easier but partly because I thought it was 4km. Negative placebo? Either way I was just thinking how my health would be in a years time of doing this on a quasi-regular basis :)

@Gabz I feel the same. I only posted a few pics during Inktober, which we reposts of what I had on my site. Thing is there are some interesting folks to follow on the service (comic artists, stationary people, friends, family). These people are not going to follow me or ever come to Micro.blog (they barely made it onto Instagram)...I feel your dilemma

@macgenie Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday. Then grab a Shiraz

@DiplomaticDiva I’m sure I’ll be boring you guys lots in the coming months :)

@macgenie totally right about that. I’ve spent a small fortune on shoes already. We have soooo much to get :). It’s fun though because we’ve not had to think about this sort of thing ever for kids and nearly 10 years for ourselves.

@DiplomaticDiva @alans thanks! It’s been a rough month and a half bit every change has its challenges.

@manton interesting bug(?) @sku_b name was turned into markdown in my reply...

@skub I really like the live blogging inplementation. @manton if something _like that could be implemented into Micro.blog that would be really cool. Not sure how, but being able to append thoughts and ideas with a timestamp to an exisiting post opens up a range of possibilities (and I've not seen that implemented elsewhere on the major platforms)

@bradenslen yeah and they are going to need to get used to it all :), but it will be a grand adventure.

@tones thank you sir, much appreciated :)

@cleverdevil Try the Sony equivalent (WH-1000MX3, rolls of the tongue I know). I was considering the Bose, but the controls, sound and overall build quality won me over.

@canion isn’t November NaNoRiMo and Movember? Blogust sounds good though :)

@microflow I hear you there. Part of the appeal on Micro.blog was that it limited your ability to keep tinkering. That has gone but that did help focus the mind on the writing. I guess if you are a tinkerer, then limitation is going to help with that.

@jamesgowans What's the very first icon? What's on the second page? Where do I get that wallpaper? Does it come in other colours? :)

@hollyhoneychurch nice! Great selection of prints in her shop as well. Really tempted...

@teisam oh man thats brilliant :). I really feel just like the dude, with a clump of money in my hand.

@smokey, @odd is right. Not been into a Joe & the juice, so will report back when I do - pretty sure it’s a chain over here :)

@amit ah dude, I did that 10 years ago. Succcckkkksss so hard. Good luck with the recovery.

@AlanRalph that’s a good thing. It wasn’t a great company. Now it is much much better. I use a lot of Microsoft stuff, now not begrudgingly :)

@smokey Ha, no but good eyes :). That’s the building my new office is based in. I’m sure I will partake in Joes offerings though :)

@gerwitz is that right? They export the wind energy from here? That’s pretty cool.

@sku_b damn is it really $5/month now?

@smokey thanks! The biggest stress is not knowing exactly when the visa will arrive but we will work it out whatever happens

@gerwitz thats the exact same take that another reader made. He's also a cyclist and doesnt like electric scooters. I think its going to be a transition period that will eventually lead to some form of regulation...

@chet an inspiration. I’ve not been able to integrate the habit into my daily routine but I certainly hope to do something about that soon.

@joec awesome looking forward to hearing about it

@manton dropped you an email a couple of days ago about my categories and filters not working (which i think is now also affecting my photos page), not sure if you've seen it, but i imagine its a quick fix/reset?

@Gabz @canion @manton @vasta @smokey Thanks guys. Through sheer circumstance I’m going for something a little more ambitious and complete this year. One large image on micromobility. Here’s hoping I do it justice. Wish me luck before I fizzle out by the 4th of October :)

@duckrowing and yes totally agree would have loved a reboot

@duckrowing im just glad s5 got made at all. It almost didnt and they had to do some serious regigging. There was more if I remember correctly, but they had to cut it.

@hartlco I reinstalled the normal released version and it works fine...

@hartlco so I’m on the beta and the actions (when swiping left or right) appear to have been disabled for version 2.0...could be just me?

@eli Another good example (although I think CNN Lite actually looks better). The BBC had a version for it, but that's been gone for a while.

@Gabz Why is that then? I really like the show, except when they go into Youtube shit that really doesn't interest me very much (except some of the legal stuff)

@amit the iPhone is predictably solid when I add the keyboard or earphones. Flawless on an iPhone 6S. iPadOS however is temperamental at best with these, which honestly I need to use as my primary machine at the moment while I find a solution for my dead MacBook Pro.

@macgenie I've certainly missed the regular shows. Hopefully those skills will come back soon :)

@amit Yeah, the current iPadOS is buggy. What's frustrating for me is that this is now my primary machine. I guess in the grand scheme of things it's not a big deal, but still, I've waited for the better part of 8 months for this update to finally put the Pro in iPad Pro, but alas it's not there yet.

@jhull Thanks! User filters at the top of the stream would make my reading experience a little more focused for sure.

@appuser yeah it’s a pretty awesome service.

@max it’s funny but after Balmer, MS soft power in the tech world has definitely increased significantly. It’s good to see.

@manton That’s actually a really, really useful feature. Simplifying the controls of 1000s of posts is awesome.

@jmreekes yeah that definitely makes more sense. tbh i might need to review my iphone purchase on account of my laptop dying. The replacement will cost me, so might need to spring for a MacBook or Mac Mini

@jmreekes I’m also on a 6S, but this is the year I upgrade. I’m on the Beta and while it’s ok I wouldn’t call it a great experience. Maybe upgrading to the 11 Pro is a major cost, but taken over 5 years, that’s roughly $250/year. That’s how I’m selling it to myself.

@sku_b thanks for the link. Implemented on my site as well. No protest organised in Lebanon, and I only arrived yesterday so certainly cant be organising myself, but it's great to see.

@sku_b oh i see that is pretty cool. How did you do that? Any code to share?

@crossingthethreshold its a good question. I am still playing with this. Needless to say if the answer was simple I would have had the answer instantly. I'm honestly leaning towards iAWriter, but it all has to go through iCloud for that to work.

@pratik hey happy birthday! It’s all a number, what’s important is how you feel !

@kgfuglsbjerg Ha, looking forward to it big time! I've been out in the desert for 10 years. I was in the UK for 12 years before that, so I'm used to that kind of weather...although I have been told that the weather in Denmark is somewhat better than in the UK (fingers crossed).

@smokey Huh, that's a pretty useful link. I'll take it to the Apple store to see if it's a simple case of the adapter being faulty, hopefully that's the culprit, otherwise I'll have to move towards an iPad only lifestyle...which could be ok, considering iPad0S...

@macgenie it could be. Might take it to the Apple store tomorrow to see if they have a spare I could try.

@Gabz this is what I wanted back in the day but they didn’t have it in the Gulf, so I ended up going all into Sony’s e-mount system...kinda glad I did tbh, but I still love the look of the Olympus

@yorrike that’s pretty cool. Loved Cowboy Beepop

@hollyhoneychurch yup we are really looking forward to completely changing our way of life. So many things that I’m looking forward to. Can’t wait to share it with everyone :)

@hollyhoneychurch First a brief stop in Lebanon to see the grandparents, then we will be relocating to Denmark 🇩🇰

@hollyhoneychurch you'd think right? Sadly no. As we have moved we have also made a few small humans along the way, and this house (which is massive) has been very good at hiding stuff so its not in your way.

@Miraz that does sound pretty interesting. Will definitely check it out.

@MaxResDefault It's a different kind of engagement. @macgenie calls it the 'slow network'. People generally take their time to respond back to things.

@Burk I'm holding off as they're saying they're working on a new way to do it apparently...

@seishonagon Yeah, it's getting there. The next few days will be a bit mega, but then I can relax for a week or so.

@JohnPhilpin I would get a micro 2/3. And pick up a 50mm lens (I think it’s 30mm on the micro 2/3 scale). Pictures will be a huge step up.

@Burk if you’ve got hundreds of hours to burn, maybe. I’ve found that using ‘on this day’ which I check every day, to edit & correct things that way. It’s just more manageable...

@hjertnes I hear you there. I only bought a car when I turned 30 and that was because of necessity. If I do ever buy another car I want it to be an electric one that I use for a decade at least.

@Gabz Interesting take...I like that. Might give it a try tonight.

@patrickrhone looks excellent. Tons of great books there that I want to read.

@pratik ah man I need to share this awesome thing from Twitter about it :).

@JohnKyle Awesome trip. Was good following along with you.

@manton will do ;). Good choice of machine btw.

@brentsimmons @manton so the issue appears to be the Micro.blog app(?)...at least on my machine. So when I share from NNW to MarsEdit, no problems, it opens MarsEdit, opens a new post and fills the entire post HTML. When I share to the Micro.blog app it opens the app and that's it. When I share again with the app open, then it fills the title and link in markdown.

My machine is older, it's a 2013/2014 MacBook Pro, so yeah maybe it is causing a problem, but it's not slower, it just doesn't appear.

@JohnPhilpin nope so when you are in NNW, and share something the extension doesn’t work if the micro.blog app isn’t open already

@manton Right. Not sure if it’s just me but the Micro.blog app needs to be open already to work correctly, but yeah looks good.

@manton Hmm, I was thinking more along the lines of a single map, with multiple pins on it that you can zoom in and out from?

@manton I might be missing something, but where's the share option? Is it similar to how Feedbin does sharing (which is the cannonical version I think because of how well it's implemented,...similar to posting/replying on Mb.

@manton So what's the deal then, it just a log of where you were when you checked-in? Would this have a map element to it somehow? That would be the most useful I guess...

@ricco Thanks Ricco! I've heard that ordering a cargo bike can take some time. I guess if you use something long enough and it saves on paying for public transport, or even a car, then maybe it's worth it.

@smokey Thanks, really apprecaite it. , MB Birthday twins...it's got to be a first right - I want a special badge for that. Find another MBlogger with the same birthday as you.

@JohnPhilpin I'm going to be there I think. It's a reasonable price and can likely cut out Prime or Netflix to squeeze that in.

@seishonagon Thanks! I'm not ready yet to write my thoughts on Dubai, but it's been good to us for the roughly 4 years we've been here. Just really need the next few weeks to close out relatively smoothly :).

@hollyhoneychurch Ha! Happy Birthday to you to ;). The best ones were born on the 23rd of August :). I may be completely biased.

@Gabz hey thanks! So it’s not a theme as such, I basically built it from the ground up. It’s been a long time trying to create something that is simple but not too simple :). At some point I do want to create something for Micro.blog.

@vasta I would definitely email Ben about any suggestions. He may be considering it already or it's something that he can add later.

@cm gotta say I couldn’t find it myself in the share sheet. Can drop Ben an email he’s usually pretty good at responding back

@hutaffe the guy is the worst and actually done so much harm to US soft power around the world which has all but eroded once Obama left. The vacuum has left Canada to grow in that department. Hopefully he’s a one term president...although I don’t really trust the American voting system for shit and so not hopefully that he is.

@Burk It's getting close to when I make the jump. How stable is it now?

@crossingthethreshold @Gabz iA just hits the right notes for me. So far it's a company that has done the right moves (except the Dropbox integration thing on iOS that I still don't understand). Not having many options (fonts/colours/etc) is part of their feature. They have a strong opinion about things and generally I agree with them. When I want something more flexibile I go into something like Highland or Sublime Editor (or my recent favourite web text editor, Brackets).

@cm my list is a little longer, but mostly I now trust one man bands to so the job I want at the price I want to pay, soo mich better. I have a lot of thoughts (and posts) about this.

@crossingthethreshold yeah that’s a good question. See I don’t use The Archive for that for that sort of thing. I use it to take notes about everything and everything, but not as a place for longer pieces that I care about what they ultimately look like - for that I have always relied on iA Writer. I imagine Marked would be the best bet for that sort of thing, although MultiMarkdown Composer is another solid app as well.

@jhull read it later (saves images as well) and the iOS app.

@Bruce Can you believe even though I've been following this industry closely for 5 years, this is the first time I've heard of Bee. Learn something new every day :).

@Ron I hear you there. The my journals, which are down in Tomoe river paper I keep. They are not very big and totally worthwhile. It's the half finished project notebooks (that have say 80 pages of notes, sketches, ideas, thoughts in them), or all the Field Notes, that are a mixture of everything and nothing.

@jack Ha :). I'm just extrapolating 5 years from now, I'll have another 10 A5s and likely another 60 Field Notes....where does the madness end? :)

@klandwehr The completed A5s I am going to keep. Thinking about this it's the half finished project that filled half a book that I'm having the most trouble with, do I keep them or just abandon them like the project itself? The Field Notes are much harder. Like you say they are random, but every once in a while there's a gem of a thought in there.

@Bruce I hear you. Like you say it feels important to me...but my Marie Kondo brain is saying, 'What for?' You've got the stuff in another format, and you've benefited from having written them down' :)

@jack Plausible looks excellent. I've been using Fathom, although nice, it is very hit and miss with the actual information. Will definitely check it out.

@simonwoods haha. I'll post a couple more from the same store...this one one aisle of maybe 6 (?) dedicated to pens.

@jmreekes Yeah, outside Asia, this type of store is pretty uncommon. Guess they value the handwritten more?

@pratik @tiffany totally agree. Cut that all out, except the really, really essentials.

@frostedechoes Honestly, I'm surprised I've never come across the term before. I'm an engineer, I swim in turgid documentation and regulations every day :)

@manton Awesome news! On the days that I don't post something, I do often write comments. One of my favourite things to do is read my blog every day, except from several years ago. My own comments can only add to that experience :).

@AlanRalph I would love to own all my comments. But even on Micro.blog they live on some server that @manton owns. I have no idea how this can be solved, but I would love this comment to now appear on my site somewhere, with a link to your post (made up in the @ name part of the comment).

@smokey Totally understand. Hope everything is well.

@smokey where you been? You seemed absent these last few days

@danielpunkass Awesome. So I did have that option on. Now that I turned it off, it's all good (I'm on Micro.blog). Thanks for the swift reply. Much appreciated.

@danielpunkass Quick question. When I edit a MD post in MarsEdit, it saves it as HTML. Is there a way to force ME to keep the original formatting in tact? I unticked the 'Encode content with HTML entities' option, but that didn't help. Thanks.

@sergio_101 Primary site. I find that it's the best way to post small ideas/thoughts and photos. Longer ideas can obviously be posted here, but I've not gotten into that habit yet (although now that I own MarsEdit maybe that can change as well)

@cheesemaker You're right about the guidance element. I did a little searching and couldn't really find anything. There are other tools that I'm going to hunt for, but I suspect this really it's a vehicle to try and get people to get into the habit of offsetting their carbon footprint. That's likely what most buildings will need to do by 2050 to meet the global targets of net zero carbon across all buildings. So in a generation's time, it becomes normal for you to pay towards neutralising your emissions. At the moment it would cost me anywhere between $50-$100 a year to offset my 50tonnes of carbon/year...which seems low.

@laura You're welcome! To my mind, The Archive is the best successor to Notational Velocity there. Themes, markdown rendered, dark mode, active development and rock solid. What more do you want :).

@cdevroe Notation is great (although no development and the developer doesn’t respond to emails). IAWriter for Windows is great.

@crossingthethreshold I do but you’ve hit on one of my big gaps. While 1writer has stuff I like, I don’t love it. For years I used Simplenote.

The best editor on an iPhone is iAWriter. Things like the bar on top of the keyboard (with all the shortcuts) and the command symbol keyboard switcher are top class of any app. The issue of course is the lack of proper Dropbox support - however that is slowly becoming a non issue if iCloud gets better.

@Gabz by far the best handheld. By far.

@crossingthethreshold @jack I'm sticking with The Archive. Dropped Christian a line about something this very morning, an hour or so later he'd responded. Guy I want to support. The icon is much better than nvUltra and there is a clear roadmap that is being developed and shared. In short, Christian is the kind of developer I like to support - and his product is great. The only thing I'd want to see is whether or not there is any noticable speed difference between the two apps, when opening, because everything else is rock solid so far.

@jack Is that an open beta? or do you need to sign up and ask for it?

@cdevroe now substitute nvalt with The Archive for software that is being actively developed

@manton that would be great, because then we can use the photo category.

@manton Quick question about the photos page. It seems it picks up any image posted to the site, regardless if it's been tagged with the photos category, is the correct? I've untagged a couple of posts that had photo, but the photos page is still showing them...

@Miraz Love Katee. Will check this out, once I'm done with Justified.

@Burk Beta 5 you say. Hmmmmm, feeling like we're getting to the number that makes me comfortable to install on my machines....

@manton 👍🏻 no trouble at all. Was just wondering if it was my end or something more spread.

@adders Yeah they've not shown all day for me. I'm sure it'll get sorted out :).

@manton love the new photos feature (finally?!) but it's a little temperamental (at least that's what I've found). Sometimes my photos show up, mostly they've not been. Have other experienced the same thing?

@hailshamkid Never heard of this app. Will definitely take a look.

@seishonagon We certainly are aiming for something like that. A holiday though is much needed for my sanity :).

@smokey crazy right. The harsh reality is that history is filled with examples of ancient monuments being destroyed by ignorant and stupid people.

@JohnPhilpin They really, really haven't. The UK still clings onto stones and pebbles and for some bizarre reason miles on the motorway. Get rid of that junk! Also I'm informed that while the Canadians claim to follow SI, they're imposters who use feet, toes and calf muscles :)

@sgtstretch Yeah I'm on the same cycle as you. It's going to be major upgrade for us :).

@cleverdevil One of the absolute best. Really, really fond memories of the BKV at his best.

@joshsullivan Really looking forward to this. I will wait a little longer for the beta to bake a little longer but when that cake is done I'm sure it's going to taste gooooooddd :) 😋

@JohnPhilpin Total madness and stupidity. Sounds about right for Brexit.

@chrispederick yeah will need the beta for that to work - but that’s cool. Favourited until I have the Beta running - I usually wait till mid August before I jump into that, figure a month before the official release is good enough.

@hartlco nicely done. Can’t wait to try this out when you release it proper :).

@macgenie Ah man, that's proper commitment!

@news Is there any way to control which posts get sent to LinkedIn?

@Gabz Just watched the intro...sorry guy, I am not onboard this bad boy. If they do some Macross, I'm there though.

@smokey I thought I'd resolved that...clearly not. So I'm on Hover.com, which doesn't have Alias. Blot needs that to use the apex domain name. I've then set up a redirect from the apex to the www address. The problem I'm finding is that it's not going to https rather to http, so sometimes the Safari shows that it's 'Not Secure' which is not something I want.

@tones my only concern with that strategy is that technology does progress sometimes that make results noticeable. I have a five year old mirrorless camera that I’m considering getting an upgrade on as well, even though the existing is fine, but there are several improvements that have happened in this space over the last 5 years... the Kindle is clearly slow technology :)

@jhull decided not to get it. I’ll just think in my mind I’ve got the brand new Kindle (since it’s the same specs as the old Kindle Paperwhite). :) Thanks for helping me.

@macgenie Oh man, that is sooo unfortunate. Best of luck sorting it all out.

@jack Congratulations!!

@manton Singapore is a fascinating place. Definitely worth a visit. Expensive though, but the advanced countries in Asia seem to skew that way.

@MrKapowski see @manton it doesn’t have to be that hard to do :). I would prefer a different visualisation but it’s all fun data that is already there, just needs to be made graphical :)

@hollyhoneychurch believe me it’s a very different picture to what you’re imagining. This is in the middle of everything. Hundreds of people walking around, it’s wasn’t noisy just tons and tons of birds in the tree drowning everything out :).

@artkavanagh that’s the one :). Which colour do you have?

@MrKapowski my favourite part are the flipping buttons to different sources. But yeah the feedback from the buttons is different but awesome.

@Bruce my body clock is wired to around that time now, which is cool since I get a lot done in the morning so I’m not complaining.