Reconsidering things

Things I’m currently reconsidering

  • my blog hosting platform (I’ve been playing with Ghost but I can see a cool WordPress plugin for book reviews. I’m thinking of keeping MB as a separate blog, but maybe I shouldn’t)
  • my task management app (todoist works everywhere but it always feels like too much hard work everywhere!)
  • My RSS app (Unread is cool, but maybe I should just use inoreader…or prehaps reeder 4. And what about the service underneith?) All this instead of blogging, getting things done and reading enriching articles. At the same time, It’s okay to review what we’re doing sometimes and make sure we’re still doing things the right way and with the right tools. Still, I wish I had a better idea rather than just confusion.

We’re in the endgame now.

Public holiday. Family game time.

Good morning. Both I and Christ are risen today.

Sometimes work from home is fantastic. Today is not one of those days.

A Rhubarbary

“an enviornment where it is more important to look like you are working than actually getting work done.” Claire Lew

I feel like this needs a name. Perhaps an Rhubarbary. Because extras in a movie set who look like they are talking say rhubrarb (apparently) to look like they are talking, when they aren’t.

Note to self: Remember to spend more time doing the thing, than talking about/thinking about/ kind-of-related-to-the-thing-but-not-actually-the-thing. You probably will never reach that point, but the point is to do more of the thing. Okay?

Really enjoyed this week’s micro cast. It reminded me of how I set up automatical categories for Micro (under 280 characters) and longer (over 280 or with a title) posts and then change my theme so only long posts show on my homepage but you can see everything in the archive.

Friends with Logos, what package did you get (and why) including if you got a specific stream.

Keeping up with the Internet Joneses

One of the dangers elements of the Internet is that “Keeping up with Joneses” can be multipled manifold. I connect with some folks who are very well off and an average income for their country may have far more than I do.

Sometimes when I hear people talk about their five iPads, Macbook, iMac Pro and more accessories It can skew my sense of what I should be able to afford. But I need to run my own race.

Even if there weren’t other areas where I wanted to spend my money, I couldn’t afford to buy all the latest technology. I need to focus on my own values and priorities so that I don’t spend money badly nor feel jealous of those who can afford certain items that I’d like.

I wish I could say I do this well, but if I did, I wouldn’t be writing this.

Me: β€œI am happy with my blogging system and should focus more on writing than tinkering with my site.” Me five minutes later: β€œOh look Ghost…let’s give this a spin!”

Imaginary Apple device idea: Apple Studio

  • Microsoft studio form factor
  • ARM processor
  • runs macOS /iPadOS
  • has all the iPad app in catalyst.

That would be interesting for sure.

We finally pushed our website update today at work. It was a tonne of work and setbacks but I’m glad we’ve managed to get it out the door and can focus on the next steps now.

You can have two iA Writer tabs on the iPad. Nice 😎 (but part of me still misses Ulysses)

When Idris Elba first turned up in the office, I kind of hoped it was somehow really Stringer Bell and at somepoint there was going to be a crossover between the office and the wire.

My kingdom for a good research tool

Starting some new studies1. Now what tool should I use to save notes and research πŸ€”. Needs to work on iPad and probably Windows? Don’t think I’ll have access to a mac. I still have DevonThink 2 set up (which is pretty great) but maybe I should just use the old reliable Evernote. Notion seems very cool but it doesn’t have the easy web clipping of the other two. Anything I’m missing?


  1. I’m auditing a course on New Testament studies with the view to starting longer studies. I have started a newsletter on it. ↩︎

I’m working at the computer as my daughter says the Polish word for poo-poo over and over again and tries to put a nappy on her doll. This is not the work from home productivity and minimalist lifestyle of the blog posts. It’s much better.

Today I discovered, Betteridge’s law of headlines.: any headline that ends in a questionmark can be answered by the word no. I had noticed this myself and used it to avoid clickbait but there’s a name for it.

Dalgona coffee. This has poped up on my social feeds a few times recently. Has anyone tried one? What did you think?

Me: “If I leave a note saying this section is for quotes and use a really obvious placeholder quote, the developers won’t put my placeholder in, they’ll put in the quotes we have on system.” Developers: “so here I need to write ‘this is a quote, replace with real quote” - FIRSTNAME LASTNAME.’ Job done."