Bear Notes Turns 7!

As I wrote about twice in the preceding days, I use Apple Notes for everything, but I always keep an eye on, and test the new features of Bear. So I’d like to share a few thoughts on its recent updates and the celebration of its seventh anniversary. The past year has brought notable changes, including their 2.0 update, and the improvements coming look fascinating. Bear 2 launched in July with significant updates including tables, nested styles, pinned tags, and quite a bit more.

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10 Nov 2023

Coffee Shop Adventures vol2

After a full morning of running around in the head office and helping everyone out, I needed to get out and catch up on things, but didn’t want to go home. So I went on the next instalment of coffee shop adventures and stopped off for a Black Forest Hot Chocolate on the way back. There’s no quaint little coffee establishment this time. It is a full-on capitalist franchise, Costa Coffee.

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10 Nov 2023

My Homescreen

Since sharing some thoughts on the default apps blogging trend yesterday, I have had a few emails from some people, which is always nice, asking about even the few apps I did highlight. So I thought I would concede that perhaps even my setup might be interesting and share my homescreen for the first time since 2021. I don’t like to have many apps on my actual homescreen, as that tends to prompt me into usage that I don’t want to have.

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10 Nov 2023

On Defaults

I love a good blogging trend, me. I don’t always join in with them, but this time around it has even brought Andy Nicolaides out of retirement. So I thought about sharing mine. Deciding against it in the end because I don’t have much to share, but as I said yesterday, I have embraced the fact that I have to have a good think about why first. This trend is sharing the default apps we are using.

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09 Nov 2023

Coffee Shop Adventures

Bar a couple of months in early 2022, I have been working from home now for more than three years. It’s a great existence, means in can concentrate better, look after my beloved dog and also be around for my family in the school holidays. I would however like to mention that it can be a bit lonely at times and I want to change that no my contract is fully remote.

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08 Nov 2023

🔗 What happened to blogging for the hell of it?

I’m sick of everything having to be a hustle now, even something personal like sharing our ramblings with strangers on the internet.

The second Amen of the day 🙌

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08 Nov 2023

Ruining Blogging

Every so often I get stuck between a few bits of content I consume and suddenly an idea clicks. It might take a while to flesh it out, and work out if I haven’t got things backwards and just have some kind of frequency illusion of ideas. This one clicked straight away. Whilst listening to The Verge cast from last Friday, I suddenly realised that Google and SEO could be ruining blogging.

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08 Nov 2023

🔗 Apple events, SEO, and other fights

read the comments from the Angry SEO people, because the comments are some of the best formatted. If they could have put H2s in the comments for better search discoverability, they would have…The funniest thing about this whole situation is the SEO professionals being mad at us, but doing perfect SEO by instinct in all of the places where they’re yelling at us.

I laughed so hard at this bit 😂

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07 Nov 2023

🔗 🖋 Stop Giving af and Start Writing More

Seriously. The idea of a “blog” needs to get over itself. Everybody is treating writing as a “content marketing strategy” and using it to “build a personal brand” which leads to the fundamental flawed idea that everything you post has to be polished to perfection and ready to be consumed.

Amen 🙌

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07 Nov 2023

Just Don’t Remove The Function Keys

Think way back to 2016. The X-Files came back after 14 years, a 4-inch lock of John Lennon’s hair sold for $35,000 and there was a baby born with DNA from three parents. Weirdness all around, especially on the Apple campus. They were convinced the iPad was the future of computing, deep into “what’s a computer” thinking yet still produced laptops with 3-year-old chips in them. Whilst everyone pointed towards a touchscreen Mac, they instead gave users a weird strip you could interact with and took away their function keys.

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06 Nov 2023