Johnny.Decimal fans on macOS: I’ve just realeased the first public version of my Alfred workflow, alfred-jd! 🎉🥳
It’s still very new, so make sure you have backups before using - nothing bad should happen, but safety first 👷♀️🥽🧯
I know there are some Johnny.Decimal fans here, so you may be interested in an Alfred workflow I have been developing. I’ve been having huge fun with Go to write it!
New post: Digital spring clean
In which I talk about switching banks to one that doesn’t have an online banking system fossilised in the 1990s, and setting up a Johnny.Digital system for my personal files.
Hornbeams.
There’s a house near us which always has spectacular Christmas decorations. This year, they have left the tree and sleigh out and decorated it for Valentines Day and now Easter. Eggs and bunnies hanging on a Christmas tree is confusing!
Oh, nice! Ulysses also lets you make scheduled posts to Micro.blog, as well as saving to a draft.
Great to see that Ulysses now enables you to post to Micro.blog! I also like using MarsEdit for that, but it’s nice to have options, particularly as this means you can post from Ulysses iOS.
Woohoo! I got my first COVID-19 vaccination today. I had to resist the temptation to high five the nurse who gave it to me 🙌 😷
My latest letter to nature: Falling tree.
After reading about HEY World, I had a whimsical idea to use it to write a series of love letters to the natural world. I’ve no idea if I’ll keep it up, but the first couple of letters are here. You can subscribe to it as an email newsletter, or get the RSS feed.
I had forgotten how hypnotic this track is. I haven’t listened to it for a while, but I’m celebrating getting my RasberryPi DAC connected back up again after some wifi issues.
Part of my digital de-cluttering has been to rationalise multiple email accounts into 2 hey.com accounts. I tried the service when it launched, but it didn’t click with me at the time. Now I really like it. It is making me feel more in control.
I don’t know why, but over the past week or so, I’ve been in a frenzy of digital de-cluttering and simplifying, and DIY fixing of long-standing issues in our house (busted pendant light fittings, wonky hinges, that kind of thing). It can be hard to know when to stop!
New post: Re-visiting poetry
On which I think about the way that the meanings of poems change throughout our lives.
I made a homemade Valentines card for Mr. B with a geeky touch.
This film is everything you might want from a Peter Strickland film: weird, creepy, funny, delightfully loopy, and visually arresting. I loved the whole thing from the skewed 1970s aesthetic, which reminded me of the satirical ‘Scarfolk Council’ publications, to the Nosferatu-like Department store manager. I think I’m going to have to watch it again to catch all the subtle detail on posters and so on in the background.
New post: Using the tab-bar in Emacs.
In which I get to grips with configuring the tab bar to provide a workspace-like environment.
Setapp continues to be my most valued subscription. Example: I had wifi issues and wanted to see whether my new router would solve. A quick download of WiFi Explorer, and I had the info I needed.
Yesterday I tried a couple of the Apple Fitness+ dance classes. I danced like someone who has checked really carefully that no-one is looking, I winged it a lot of the time, and I closed my rings. I can’t dance for toffee, but I had fun.
Conditions were perfect for my walk today, and the sky was a crisp pink-blue gradient.
New post: Cutting my own hair 😱
I woke at 5am this morning and looked out of the window at the pre-dawn snow. Just at that moment, a fox - a warm russet flame flicking across the snow - trotted down the road. It felt like a lovely gift for a Saturday morning.
Foggy morning walk from a couple of days ago.
Goodness, macOS Big Sur is buggy! First my external drive wouldn’t mount so I had to format it, and then I had to reset the SMC so that System Prefs would let me unlock the settings. Let’s hope stability improves over time.