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@numericcitizen FMail2 is a nice 3rd party Mac client for Fastmail. It’s a wrapper around the web app, but it does let you have things like default mail links, keyboard shortcuts and some scripting support.

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All the finest brands are available to you in Vienna

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@jeremycherfas that’s good to hear. I really had no idea what I was doing with this thing but am hoping I’m going to be a better orchid dad from now on!

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Splash of yellow on a grey Devon day

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@vincent I have been wanting something like this for a while. Am envious of my friend who still has a Logitech Squeezebox Touch running. You could probably pick one of those up on eBay, but I’m thinking of trying this project with a Raspberry Pi. Or you can go crazy with one of these from Volumio.

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@matthewlang Nova doesn’t support Copilot, but Zed does. I have been using it a lot recently as a refreshing alternative to VS Code. It’s a work in progress, but that progress is pretty rapid!

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@adamprocter yep, same here. Our 1997 model burned out an element, but otherwise in excellent shape. My only slight grumble is that the replacement element takes longer to toast. I absolutely love that there are no integrated circuits in this thing, just a clockwork timer and some wires. Should run to the end of time..

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Eastbourne seafront, rain approaching

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#photography #weather #sussex

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@BestofTimes do you mean separate journals in the app, or separate exports to PDFs? Not sure there is much advantage to the former, but annual PDFs seems like a good idea especially if you have loads of photos.

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@bsag Very interesting, and sound Covid advice. Just getting through the worst of my second bout myself. It’s really messed up my sleep this time which makes it even harder to bounce back. No plans for new hobbies in the recovery, just to apply myself a bit more to my existing ones!

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Well I’m a heavy Things user, so always interested in shortcuts there, especially with the extra capabilities recently added. Otherwise, used to be mainly Drafts but have been trying Bear out recently and really like it. Have got a bit tired of raw Markdown and enjoying the visuals and more playful interface of Bear.

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I saw this very cool Things / AI Assistant shortcut which someone created to use with Craft but is easily adapted to use elsewhere: www.craft.do/s/elJ0wld…

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Definitely a golden age for this sort of stuff at the moment

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@heyscottyj this is great, and has led me to your other shortcuts which are also super helpful. Thank you!

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@bsag Good plan! I’ve got a trial of Apple Fitness+ at the mo, but am in a hopeless loop where I do a 20 minute workout and then feel so stiff and sore for days that I can’t face doing another. And somehow have been thinking that surely 10 minutes isn’t enough to do any good. Thanks for the reassurance that it not only is, but is also bang on trend.

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@alexsavin what a classic! Funny that it got a ‘cassingle’ release, that wasn’t the case for most dance 12”s then. It shows what a huge breakout hit it was.

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@nitinkhanna not an app, but I’ve always used @adactio ’s Huffduffer for this and it works really well. huffduffer.com

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@jeremycherfas maybe - but I haven’t found the curve too steep. For me Bike is a wonderful tool for thought in the literal sense: ideas out of my head, free-flowing in to a document, easy to synthesise and edit.

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Bike: Rich text editing

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Jesse Grosjean is one of the great artisans of Mac software development. Everyone should buy his stuff.

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Hello lazy-micro-web! Does anyone have any positive experiences with project management software for mixed teams?

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My own are all techie, and I basically live in Github, but company I work with is looking at Monday.com, ClickUp, Asana and the rest.

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It’s a beautiful evening in Glasgow\n\n

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@ChrisJWilson if you’re looking for interesting, Nick Milo’s Cybertron is extremely cool and more usable than you might think on first look! If that’s too much, Jamie Brynes’ Clair de Lune is really lovely, my fave dark theme so far.

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I’ve always enjoyed stringing together my two favourite Mac apps, Drafts and Alfred, but Stephen Millard has taken them to a whole new level with Doctor Drafts!\n: benedwards.micro.blog

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@joshuapsteele the Flow State newsletter sends out a single artist each weekday in that general field of music. I’ve made some amazing discoveries through it. www.flowstate.fm/subscribe

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@numericcitizen I’ve used Instapaper for years, and prefer it to Pocket for just reading things (Pocket has other good features). I make a lot of article highlights and have used Readwise for the last few months to store them. The daily digest email of those highlights is just amazing for absorbing those details over time. Highly recommend it.

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Belatedly pouring one out for Rupert Neve, legend of the mixing desk, who died last month aged 94. He also founded [Focusrite], which still makes excellent audio interfaces, not to mention synths and iOS apps from Novation and Ampify. Keeping the British Sound alive!\n: benedwards.micro.blog

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@ChrisJWilson challenge accepted!

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@ChrisJWilson Great list! I’ve also just set up an M1 Air from scratch and been through a strict exercise: every app has to justify its place on that machine. It’s been a real eye-opener, I’ve been surprised and sometime sad at things that haven’t made the cut back on (eg MindNode). But just so great to clear the cruft sometimes. BTW, getting a strange text glitch on that page with a big gap after all the apostrophes.

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Old Steine\n\n

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I Do Yoga T-shirt | Very British Problems Clothing\n\n

After a year of #ywa I am absolutely ready for one of these.\n\n

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@hollyhoneychurch I have a few possible answers, but I was thinking this week that I could survive with nothing but a copy of LTJ Bukem’s Earth Vol. 1. Such a perfect record.

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@jack might be worth looking at NotePlan 3 for Mac and iOS which came out this week. Very focused on a bullet journal-style daily log, all stored in Markdown on filesystem, so good inter-op with other tools. Wiki links and other goodies. Quite expensive on a subscription, but a 30 day free trial available. Am checking it out at the moment and really liking it so far for the use case you have described.

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Watched the brilliant Daniel Kitson last night on his Tour Of Empty Theatres. As he promised in that blurb, it was “funnier than it sounds” but made me miss being at a live show so much.\n: benedwards.micro.blog

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Official Joy Division / New Order podcast on the way ft. mems Radiohead, Blur, Oasis, more\n\n\nActress Maxine Peake narrates the eight-part podcast which also features new interviews with Bono, Johnny Marr, Thurston Moore, Damon Albarn, Radiohead’s Johnny and Colin Greenwood, Liam Gallagh... benedwards.micro.blog: benedwards.micro.blog

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The last swim\n\n

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On collaborative zines: benedwards.micro.blog

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@nitinkhanna if you put \"!g\" or \"!b\" in front of your search string it will search Google or Bing. In testing I just found it out works with \"g!\" or \"b!\" as well. It is part of the bangs feature, and there's hundreds of them

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@baldur I’m a big fan of Whimsical for doing these. Super simple and accessible, but easy to make complex flows. They have great wireframing tools as well.

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Sitting in the garden, listening to Loscil’s Faults, Coasts, Lines and posting to Micro.blog from IA Writer on the iPad, fantastic! 🎵\n: benedwards.micro.blog

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Take me away\n\n

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Confined\n\n

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The Talking Politics podcast spinoff series, History of Ideas is as good as you would expect. Listening to the one on Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan which I found really bizarre and impenetrable when I studied it at uni, but makes a lot more sense with a chunk of life under my belt.\n: benedwards.micro.blog

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Two great pieces on the virtue of adaptability. The current crisis is just one challenge to our ability to adapt, there will be many more. Adapting is hard and like all hard things you need to practice.\n\nAdaptability: Change Your Relationship to Change - Key Step Media\n\nCoping with chan... benedwards.micro.blog: benedwards.micro.blog

","summary":"","url":"https://benedwards.micro.blog/2020/04/30/two-great-pieces.html","date_published":"2020-04-30T15:04:44+00:00","author":{"name":"Ben Edwards","url":"http://simplicat.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbenedwards%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"benedwards"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2020-04-30 15:04","date_timestamp":1588259084,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"9551994","content_html":"

One of my favourite Radiohead songs, beautifully rendered in multiple layered cellos.\n\n\n: benedwards.micro.blog

","summary":"","url":"https://benedwards.micro.blog/2020/04/26/one-of-my.html","date_published":"2020-04-26T06:06:29+00:00","author":{"name":"Ben Edwards","url":"http://simplicat.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbenedwards%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"benedwards"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2020-04-26 06:06","date_timestamp":1587881189,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"7771282","content_html":"

Around this time of year Headphone Commute’s Best of … list drifts out like a slow, evolving chord. Lots of lovely ambience to discover, but so far Grønland by Glåsbird is a real standout for me.\n: benedwards.micro.blog

","summary":"","url":"https://benedwards.micro.blog/2020/01/14/around-this-time.html","date_published":"2020-01-14T16:56:40+00:00","author":{"name":"Ben Edwards","url":"http://simplicat.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbenedwards%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"benedwards"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2020-01-14 16:56","date_timestamp":1579021000,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"7583904","content_html":"

Winter Walk In Monsal Dale

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No Alternative. Brighton\n\n

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","summary":"","url":"https://benedwards.micro.blog/2019/09/08/no-alternative-brighton.html","date_published":"2019-09-08T09:34:29+00:00","author":{"name":"Ben Edwards","url":"http://simplicat.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbenedwards%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"benedwards"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2019-09-08 09:34","date_timestamp":1567935269,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"5055100","content_html":"

And while I’m wallowing in nostalgia, not much can beat the mesmerising Poolside FM, retro disco, 80s desktop & tourist video mashup. (via @kicks)\n: benedwards.micro.blog

","summary":"","url":"https://benedwards.micro.blog/2019/08/16/and-while-im.html","date_published":"2019-08-16T06:48:05+00:00","author":{"name":"Ben Edwards","url":"http://simplicat.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fbenedwards%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"benedwards"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2019-08-16 06:48","date_timestamp":1565938085,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"4776532","content_html":"

@help I have tried setting up the new photos page, and even though it shows in the micro.blog interface (though no photos shown) and in the page links section, the links are not active. Have I missed something?

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@adders great piece. Especially where work is concerned, the temptation to burn down one set of compromised habits and replace with another is so strong.

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@adders I read that as ‘Our daily beard', and assumed it was parody!

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