For the past few years, I've been using a custom
#xojo app to publish my website (utilware.com) from markdown files. Started playing with Obsidian Publish recently, and with a few CSS tweaks, I'm seriously considering switching.
Suddenly realizing I don't know the back of my hand
Why does Google Drive take so incredibly long to zip before downloading? I have a folder of 645 .rtf files, and it takes 10~15 seconds for Google to zip them. MacOS takes <1 sec for both zipping and unzipping.
Best mental health boost this week: Unchecking "show inline predictive text" in Settings under Sonoma. Nothing wrecks my train of thought more than the computer trying to guess what I'm going to say next. It's like when you're talking with someone who is always finishing your sentences, but incorrectly.
Mornings at work, November 16
Note flock of birds in upper left
Taken with my new Ray-Ban Meta glasses 🕶️
Why is it that every ChatGPT response ends with a milquetoast platitude that makes me feel like it's a condescending librarian* telling me to be good?
* Few librarians are condescending. But the ones that are, are.
"I covered a laptop in Black 2.0… I liked the way it made other people in coffee shops look at it with a vague sense of unease. I'm hoping that my Black 4.0 laptop will be genuinely discomfiting for humans to behold."
https://boingboing.net/2023/11/01/black-4-0-is-the-blackest-paint-you-can-buy.html
Black 4.0 is the blackest paint you can buy | Boing Boing
Stuart Semple’s Black 4.0 is very nearly as black as Vantablack—and unlike that fabulously expensive coating, developed for the UK’s defense ministry and possibly carcinogenic, you can …
I put it in repair mode before dropping it off, and back into normal mode when picking it up. All my data is there, just as it was this morning. Slick.
Holy moly. Took the Fold4 in for a warranty repair on the hinge, and got back effectively a new phone. New hinge, inner screen and protector, frame, and batteries. Very happy at the moment.
I love SyncThing for keeping files in sync between my Android phone and macOS desktop. Now I'm wondering if anyone has ported it to classic Mac (MacOS 7.x, for instance).
Joe Germuska