Month: June 2020
You Can’t Fill Your Bank Account, or Your Love Account – Friday Notes 106
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Does your bank account ever get ‘too full’? Like you have to open another account so you can keep depositing money? Of course not, that’s silly. You know what else doesn’t get too full? The ‘love’ account your kids or spouse or partner has. The worst thing that can happen is that you fill them…
The End of Average by Todd Rose
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At many points in our lives we are graded against the average[^2]. In fact, the entire process of school is you being graded against the average. But the truth is that the middle of all the variance that’s being measure is a big hole that no one fits in any way resembling perfection. The outcome…
Usage – Monitor Your iPad
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Something that many macOS users run is iStat Menus, which lets them do some fine grained monitoring of their Mac from the menu bar. Until recently this type of thing wasn’t available for iPadOS, at least not in any way that looked decent. Today we’re going to take a brief look at Usage for iPadOS,…
Refactor or Nuke and Pave? Work Journal 09-06-2020
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This is some of the coding work and thoughts I looked at today. If you’re interested in WooCommerce Membership Sites [email me](mailto:curtis@curtismchale.ca) ## Should You Refactor old SCSS or Nuke and Pave Been working on a site for about 9 years and we’ve done a bit of nuke and pave, but mostly just kept working…
Unread 2 – My Favourite iPad RSS Client
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Over the last number of weeks I’ve looked a number of RSS clients for your iPad. Today is the day I’m going to choose a winner out of the contenders. ## RSS Client Criteria The primary task on for an RSS client is reading, so if it doesn’t have an interface that presents words in…
How to Do Nothing With Jenny Odell
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Nothing is harder to do than nothing. In a world where our value is determined by our productivity, many of us find our every last minute captured, optimized, or appropriated as a financial resource but the technologies we use daily. we submit our free time to numerical evaluation, interact with algorithmic versions of each other,…
The Passion Rhetoric is Harmful – Friday Notes 105
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I’m sure you’ve heard that if you can make your passion your work then you’ll never work a day in your life. I mean the sentiment is nice and all, but it’s a load of crap. No matter what you do there is going to be grunt work you don’t enjoy. You’ll have to make…
Getting Started with Networked Thought in Obsidian
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Today we’re going to do a walk through with [Obsidian.md](https://obsidian.md) for those of you that are getting started with networked thought in Obsidian. ## Links – [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md/) – [Obsidian Forums](https://forum.obsidian.md/) – [iA Writer](https://ia.net/writer) – [1Writer](http://1writerapp.com/) – The Second Mountain: [Independent Bookstore](https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780812993264?aff=curtismchale) | [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0812993268/?tag=blogcurtismchale-20) – Stillness is the Key: [Independent Publisher](https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780525538585?aff=curtismchale) | [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0525538585/?tag=blogcurtismchale-20) – [Reeder Review](https://curtismchale.ca/2020/05/11/reeder-4-ipados-review)…
Using Lire on iPadOS for RSS Feeds
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We’re almost done looking at RSS apps for use on your iPad so that we can make a final pick of the best RSS application for iPadOS. Today we’re going to look at [Lire](https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/lire-full-text-rss/id550441545). To start, Lire has an understated pleasant 2-column design. Nothing flashy here, just easy reading and clean lines. …
