Don’t be ashamed of the things you like. Everything else is also dumb as hell
One of the best toots I’ve read today.
A chín is a real PuertoRican measurement unit.
Just a chín more
These are the albums for this week. Yes, even Bluey, Biscuits!! Hashtag dad life!
🎵 🎵 Back To Reggaeton - Don Omar, Wisin & Yandel
🎵 Radio Güira - EP by Juan Luis Guerra
🎵 When Your Heart Stops Beating - +44
🎵 Action Adventure - DJ Shadow
I always enjoy these “Subway days” with Marley. They order Subway sandwiches for the kids and we parents get to join them for lunch. 😊🥰
Inspired by the latest Hemispheric Views pod-radio-show, episode 097 Duel of the Defaults!
So, after listening to what will go down in history as one of my favorite episodes, I thought I would play along and do my own default assessment. I never made sense of Andrew's scoring so I won't be scoring myself. And all of mine will be iOS, mostly.
Here we go,
📮 Mail Server
📨 Mail Client
📝 Notes
✅ To-Do
📷 iPhone Photo Shooting
🟦 Photos Management
📆 Calendar
📅 Calendar Backend
📁 Cloud File Storage
📖 RSS
🙍🏻♂️ Contacts Management
🔎 Browser
💬 Chat
🔖 Bookmarks
📑 Read-it-Later
📜 Word Processing
🛒 Shopping List
🍴 Meal Planning ( as Recipe Management)
💰 Budgeting and finance
📰 News
When I care to check, News app, and Podcast shows as Today Explained
🎵 Music
🎤 Podcast
🔐 Password Management
Well, there you have it, This should probably turn into a page for the blog (😂) or should have been a microcast (🙃).
Now, there is one category I would like to add of my own,
📸 Photo Editing
What are yours?
My blogging workflow has somewhat changed in the past month or so. Before I would compose and publish, strictly from Ulysses, at least long-form blogs with pictures — or without.
Lately, I have found myself just simply using a combination of Drafts and Mimi Uploader, all from my iPhone 14 Pro more and more. So far has worked well.
For example this post from a few days ago.
Mimi makes it so easy to upload images in bulk and get the markdown links from it for easy use. I selected all the pictures I wanted to post, copy the links to a Drafts note.
Since I am using Jason’s super-awesome GLightbox plugin I just needed to add some simple code to be able to generate a grid-of-images. A code that I have a text replacement shortcut for (😉). Then, I added some text, opened up the Drafts actions drawer, and selected this useful action which I believe was created by Craig, selected any categories if needed, and voilà!
Just note that if you are looking at this blog post with pictures on your mobile device, you might not see the nice-looking grid of images, you might want to use a bigger screen 🤷🏻♂️.
Mostly I have been posting short posts without a title but I think I will just do it all from Drafts. When I am not composing and publishing from my device, it is usually on my computer, and I just use Micro.blog’s web editor.
I’m sure someone who may or may not read this will think that this is a lot of clicking around and that there’s possibly a better way to go about it. And that might be entirely true, and maybe one day I’ll change my ways again, but this way works well and for now, this is the way.
Again, for now…
🔗 The Beatles Just Released Their Final Song That Resurrects John Lennon’s Voice With AI
“People will say to me, ‘Oh, yeah, there’s a track where John’s singing one of my songs,’ and it’s just AI, you know?” he told the British public broadcaster over the summer. “It’s kind of scary but exciting, because it’s the future. We’ll just have to see where that leads.
– McCartney
It is kind of scary and it would seem that this is the feature that we’re heading to, I guess.
Ah Biscuits! I was doing so well!
October’s 2023 report.
happy ULTRA anniversary! 🙃
Also, Happy Bday to Hello Kitty 😊🍙
Another Halloween in the books.
We’ve found the house with the full-size candy!!
I’m gonna need a bigger basket
— Luna, age 4
Happy festivities, is that time of the year for stouts.
From: Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.
Style: Russian Imperial Stout
ABV: 10.2%
Rating: A
Halloween costume has arrived just in times for tonight’s shenanigans. Happy Halloween 🎃 🐼
And that’s a wrap! Finally!
I remember back, I don’t know 10 years ago? When I first started using Drafts. At the time it was a simple quick note-taking app, with not a whole lot of features and easy and straightforward to use. Fast forward to 2023 and oh my god, I can’t even keep up with everything it does nowadays. I still use it to this day regardless, but just to a level in which I am comfortable with, and my needs.
I am, in some way, having the same feelings about services like my beloved Micro.blog. For the longest time, it was just open a page sheet in your text editor of choice, type away, and publish. Now it has evolved in such a way, with plugins, other services, fediverse integration, and many other amazing things that at times I feel like falling behind. Of course, the nerd in me wants to partake in everything but I feel like by the time I wrap my head around how to implement or do some, 3 other things pop up.
That said, this is not a bad thing at all! In fact, let’s keep evolving the things we love and enjoy using.
I think is just me recognizing my “limitations” and laziness, in some way.
Until what point I keep partaking or just let things evolve past my level of concern.
Not sure if it’s the spookyness of the season but I have been wanting to rewatch The Last of Us since yesterday.
In my mind, I was going to finally finish this game [Final Fantasy XVI] tonight. I was very wrong. I am close to 50 hours and I’m just about 95% completion. I am enjoying it but; can we wrap this up? I need to get to Mirage.
Colored ones remixed.
Luna, age four.
She’s on the backseat with Marley.
Lu: Marley, pretend we are rich but we were criminals!
I, I don’t know how to feel about this 😅
Today was hairdo day. 😊
Yesterday we went to what is arguably my favorite store in town. The only bad thing about this store is that I never go intending to buy anything and the next thing I know, I have spent about 50 dollars or more (😅).
They even had this enterprise command chair. Luna had no idea what was going on but the guy from the store and I were nerding out about it.
The girls walked out with some cool stuff.
And so did I.
I got the coolest shirt!
Today’s hairdo
Slightly cold today 🥶
