Tech
- 📨 Mail Client: Fastmail
- 📮 Mail Server: Fastmail
- 📝 Notes: Craft
- ✅ To-Do: Things and GitHub
- 📷 iPhone Photo Shooting: Apple Camera
- 🌅 Photo Management: Apple Photos
- 📆 Calendar: Apple Calendar
- 📁 Cloud File Storage: iCloud
- 📖 RSS: NetNewsWire and Feedbin
- 🙍🏻♂️ Contacts: Apple Contacts
- 🌐 Browser: Firefox Developer Edition (development) and Arc (everything else)
- 💬 Chat: Messages and Slack
- 🔖 Bookmarks: Crafts and my own Raycast plugin
- 📑 Read It Later: Things and Craft
- 📜 Word Processing: none
- 📈 Spreadsheets: Google Sheets
- 📊 Presentations: Keynote
- 🛒 Shopping Lists: none
- 🍴 Meal Planning: just started using Paprika
- 💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance: YNAB
- 📰 News: My RSS feeds, newsletters (mostly NYT and The Athletic) and some podcasts. This would deserve its own post.
- 🎵 Music: Spotify
- 🎙️ Podcasts: Overcast
- 🔐 Password Management: 1Password
- 🤖 Code Editing: Xcode and Visual Studio Code
- 📚 Books: none
- 🌎 Blogging: Micro.blog
- 🗒️ Scratchpad: Drafts and Boop
I just wrote my mission statement as a programmer. A little introspection never hurts. Especially when you find out you stand where you wanted to be. 💻
I iterated on my stupidly simple colour tool: write any colour hex code in the form field and the page will use it as a background colour. With shareable URL.
At first I wanted to demo theoretical properly typed forms flows on a very simple form but when I realised I did not have much time, I made the scope smaller.
But you know what? I love it. 🌈 💻
I just released version 0.2.0 of swift-blocks. It is a package of all the code I repeatedly use in all of my Swift projects. I love it. And maybe you will too. I also wrote a post to introduce it to the world. 💻
Johanna Stern interviews a guy who stole more than 300k$ from iPhone users through social engineering. TL;DR: Do not share your passcodes. Do not let people use your iPhone without supervision. I usually do that with 1 big exception: when I hand over my phone to my kids… and their babysitter. I wish iOS could provide a kids mode with an allow list or deny list of apps that are safe to use by anyone. 💻
Following up on Manton Reece’s default apps post, here’s my list for 2023:
I added the Scratchpad category at the end. 💻
Great excerpt from Under the Radar, the podcast of David Smith & Marco Arment:
And my family is very well trained at this point that if they see a bug happens in one of my apps, they must immediately drop everything and bring it to me because we all know the old adage “a bug in the hand is worth two in the report.”
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I just posted a new post about software design: “Get rid of types you don’t control early: a lesson (re)learned”. Some Rolling Stones jokes included. 💻
remix.run/blog needs a RSS feed. https://github.com/remix-run/remix/discussions/7506 💻
I love open-source code, but when I come across something that needs improvement in an open-source repository, I sometimes hesitate to point it out because I don’t want to be seen as overly critical or ungrateful. However, I recently felt it was the right thing to do when I raised the issue that vapor-community/bcrypt may no longer be relevant in a somewhat positive manner. Most importantly, I want to express my gratitude to @[email protected] for their time and dedication to the Swift Server Workgroup. 💻
Bandcamp Schadenfreude. I was offered a deal to become an employee for Bandcamp back in 2011. Then the deal was off for reasons that didn’t make sense. Since then, I had mixed feelings: I liked the product as a listener, not so much as a musician, and I resent founders and managers from then — I know I shouldn’t but I do — and I am not sure they are genuinely nice people. 💻