💾 v1.1 of my SFF PC build is complete today. Swapped the PSU to a smaller one that allowed me to also put in a case fan. Not yet sure of the impact on temps, some work to do with fan curves. Next, I need a pair of these cute SFF WiFi antennas and a better couch keyboard + mouse combo.
📓Today is my Micro.blog, and microblogging in general, cake day 🎂 One year ago, inspired by @manton’s book, I joined the community. It’s helped me reflect a lot during the past year and engage in a healthy way with a social network. Here’s to many more 🥂
🎮 🍿 I’ve been playing Cyberpunk 2077 recently and decided to give the Edgerunners anime a go. Super impressed, not only with the plot but how it represents the game world.
📓 Finally got my partner to watch The Last of Us. We saw the first 2 episodes. I didn’t give her any warning. 👹
💾 There are (some) development experience and security posture improvements from cloud workstations. However, I feel a strong concern that the major driving forces to adoption have skewed incentives that have the capacity to endanger personal computing in the long run.
HN discussion on Google Cloud Workstations GA
In addition to a challenging health crisis, the pandemic doubled as a grand intellectual test, and most of us failed it. Not all, but most. If you want to be better prepared for the next test, and I guarantee you there’ll be plenty more, you better begin studying now.
Start by asking yourself this question more often: But what if I’m wrong?
Wait, this is exactly what made people and governments react with strict measures - they asked themselves “What if I’m wrong?” and didn’t accept the risk, had they chosen differently. 🤷🏻♂️
📚 OMG, I didn’t expect how bad The Hard Thing About Hard Things is. Unless you are into narcissistic writing for startup bros, steer clear. Reached Chapter 3 and just can’t go on. Wasn’t prepared for that.
🎮 Finally getting a grip of Warhammer 40k: Mechanicus on the iPad so that Necrons don’t mop the floor with me on the easy missions… But damn does it crash, 20 min lost just before clearing a tomb 😖
📓🎵 Eurovision 2023 final tonight!
🇫🇮🫲🟢🟢😎🟢🟢🫱🇫🇮
💾 I had no idea this would stick with me but… You can use “Lumos” and “Nox” with Siri to respectively turn on and off the torch. Works well on the apple watch as well! 🧙♂️
💾 @help would be great to have an UI element that indicates a thread has comments in the Micro.blog iOS beta app. Would save a bunch of swipes/taps. Gluon has this tiny but very handy feature.
📓📷 It was a tough week health- and work-wise. There were some bright rays of light to it, though. Like the visit at the re-opened Ateneum.
In the photo Esko Tirronen’s Sunrise, 1971
📓 Binge-watching the Mandalorian S3. This is the way. 📺
📓📷 Opening the 2023 cottage season 🏡
📓 Just realized that coming back to Finland 🇫🇮 during Easter means it’s also mämmi season. I think it’s a polarizing opinion at least among foreigners in Finland but I ❤️ mämmi 🤤
📓 Working on my weekly review template in Obsidian. Decided to have an optional photo from the week, I hope it becomes mandatory. Here 2023-W13’s photo - Bernie escaping a wave 🌊🐶 in Lerici 🇮🇹. Gelato🍦was also had that day.
💾 Raindrop vs. Readwise? The use case I have is syncing highlights with Obsidian. I would have considered the Readwise + Reader subscription (as it comes with an official Obsidian plugin) if it could replace Feedbin. But, Reader makes my head explode vs the simplicitiy and control in Feedbin 🤯
📓📷 A love story in Florence 😋 Throwback to our visit last week. Thankfully, I’m not the main photographer on this trip.
📓📷 Spent the weekend in Naples. I think I gained a couple of kilos. It’s too hectic and loud city for my taste, but it’s quite a unique sight. The level of adoration for Napoli and Maradona is something I’ve never seen elsewhere. Napoli is on the way to winning Serie A after a 30+ break 🤞
💾 Pair a restrictive enterprise environment with Microsoft’s suite on the Apple ecosystem and you get endless misery and despair for your average productivity geek. Like, you think you can sync Obsidian via OneDrive (no Obsidian Sync cause enterprise + M$) on mobile…
Computer says NO!
📓📷 Visited San Gimignano today. Grey and slow Sunday. Now back at the house, headphones on 🎧 and an equally slow evening.
📓🚄 Riding on a train at 300 km/h. Paint me impressed 🏎️
📓📷 On the way to Tuscany 🇮🇹 for a month of remote working. Day 4 of our trip from Helsinki. We see the light at the end of the tunnel - Sunday breakfast in Milan. Doggos have been brilliant 🐶🙇 Just one more train leg before we get a rental car and some 10 hours from our final destination.
📓 You know the feeling when you complete something worthwhile at work and feel like you need some extra prize for basically doing your job? That prize is called salary 😂
I uploaded a very short 21-second demo video to YouTube, showing the Mac app’s updated character counter for posts with block quotes. Same behavior across all platforms as described in this announcement post.
Funnily enough this video got me more excited about the Embed feature than anything else. Anyway, thanks @manton!