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Here comes the rainā€¦ do do dooo dahā€¦ here comes the hailā€¦

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This is the best take Iā€™ve read on the Ferrari Luce.

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There are bloggers who I admire a great deal. I have been reading or following them in some form for years. They manage to post interesting things day after day, their posts are well written and thoughtful. They are the ones who, in my mind, make blogging cool.

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They inspire me.

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When I read their posts, they...

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Itā€™s been such a busy week that sitting in a quiet cafĆ© on a Saturday morning reading my book and I keep feeling myself nodding off. I think itā€™s a combination of the ambiance in here, the busyness of my week, and the poor sleep Iā€™ve had thanks to the heat at the start of the week.

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Gosh, Iā€™m really struggling to focus this afternoon. It may have been a short week thanks to the bank holiday on Monday but itā€™s felt longer than a normal one thanks to the heat. Itā€™s cooler today, but I think my brain is cooked.

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Managed to successfully dismantle and clean my\ntower fan after realising it was barely blowing anything. Nothing like a heatwave to successfully spur a man in to action, itā€™s blowing like a gale now. šŸ„³

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Figtree is a lovely sans-serif I've just come across. Definitely going to be using it on the personal project I'm working on right now.

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At what point did it become acceptable to bring food from another place to a cafĆ© and sit down to eat it? Thatā€™s just disrespectful.

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@kev a good read! Iā€™ve been all in on analogue this year as well. If you do need to find a high quality paper notebook I recommend looking at Mark and Fold although Iā€™ve never used their lined books so Iā€™m not sure how spaced they are.

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@ayjay it was so clear. Iā€™m very pleased we (Forest) were already safe prior to that game. VAR is supposed to be for clear and obvious errorsā€¦ I donā€™t understand why they referred it to the referee instead of declaring it handball.

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@kev I really need more coffee. I read this as ā€œFinally got to North Koreaā€ā€¦

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@tg would they map to folders in Finder?

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Reading government documents about careers education really is very dry. Interesting, but hard going, a bit like reading some of the old classics.

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@manton oh no! Will the credit card company refund it?

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A disastrous performance from Forest last night. Villa played well and deserved the result, but Iā€™m sad that our European adventure is over. Hopefully it wonā€™t be another 30 years before weā€™re back in the competition.

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The new Google Fitbit Air looks exactly like the kind of fitness tracker I would like. Except it's not made by Apple.

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@manton it would be ace if all posts with titles from the people Iā€™m following on Micro.blog were in Inkwell. It would be a nice way to teach a new Inkwell user how it works.

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@tg this is fantastic. Please keep experimenting!

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@tg yes! Every few months I am compelled to search for this app. I am always disappointed.

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I finished my notebook yesterday, now Iā€™m in that awkward couple of weeks where I need to carry the finished one and the new one because there is thinking across both I still need access too. The plus side is new notebook day!

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@gregmorris Itā€™s great, my primary method of using Micro.blog!

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@ayjay I forgot about that, I need to see if it works in Tuna!

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@ReaderJohn ha! Yes, Iā€™m not sure the names ever make sense but quicksilver was the best app launcher utility the Mac ever had.

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@ayjay I have temporarily paused my Alfred us to give this a try. Nothing has ever clicked with me the way quicksilver did.

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The spirit of the original launcher Quicksilver lives on in Tuna.

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@ChrisJWilson perfect excuse for notebook shopping!

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@kev same, I now have 3 Lamyā€™s and struggling to resist another one šŸ˜¬

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Interesting, Fastmail have shipped their own MCP server should you wish to try it. I like that services are trying this out rather than trying to find ways to build AI into their services.

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@manton Iā€™m interested, are you all in on OpenAI or do you use others like Claude?

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@ChrisJWilson Iā€™m not sure how it will be, we have some devs with access to Claude code, I think they will feel the pressure more than us in UX. Iā€™m not using it for design, but I would like to make more use for prototypes etc as part of the design process but weā€™re not setup for that yet.

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@ChrisJWilson Yep, I think GEO is in the accompanying deck as well. Weā€™ve just had an AI awareness week introducing the company AI policy and approved tools.

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And so it begins, work just sent an email around to the marking BUā€”which my UX team now sits inā€”about AEO. Answer Engine Optimisation. The new SEO is here.

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@manton very nice and calm UI šŸ‘šŸ»

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@jonhicks hmmm, looking into it now. I donā€™t see any settings in my Sonos account but when I view in Last.fm under application Sonos is there.

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@jonhicks A mix of Apple Music and Plex. Seems to work with both so far.

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@jonhicks ended up down a rabbit hole on your site about music apps. Thought I would let you know that Last.fm scribbling on Sonos is working again. Iā€™m not sure when it was fixed but seems to have been working for a while now.

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Itā€™s roughly two weeks since I got my first new personal Mac since 2015 and Iā€™ve yet to comment on it. In short itā€™s an incredible machine. The upgrade is well worth it and I wish I had made the jump a little sooner. I am working on a piece to speak to all the differences Iā€™m noticing but for now I wanted to...

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This might be the first font I buy in years. Something about it feels really nice. Although I also like this one.

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@alpower beautiful shots.

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@jthingelstad @manton definitely do this! Iā€™ve had coffee from Nomad in the UK and itā€™s superb.

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But he was wounded because of our crimes,\ncrushed because of our sins;\nthe disciplining that makes us whole fell on him,\nand by his bruises we are healed.

\nYesha 'yahu (Isa) 53:5 CJB\n
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@ChrisJWilson interesting, need to explore this!

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@ChrisJWilson certainly will be!

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Finally pushed the go button on buying a new MacBook. M5 Air arrives tomorrow 11 years after I bought my last personal Mac.

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With work I often need to jump into Chrome to use a particular website (the perils of being a Mac user in a largely Windows org), whilst I find it annoying it does give me a chance to use new features when they are released. I do really like have tabs on the side, I hope Safari in macOS 27 implements...

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Iā€™ve several people linking to this piece by Sam Henri Gold for the same reason I am. It resonates with them.

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I got my first Mac in 2004, I was 19 turning 20, and about to head off to uni. I was a slightly older version of this quote:

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Somewhere a kid is saving up for this. He has read every review. Watched the introduction video four or five times. Looked up every spec, every benchmark, every footnote. He has probably walked into an Apple Store and interrogated an employee about it ad nauseam. He knows the consensus. He knows itā€™s probably not the right tool for everything he wants to do.

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He has...

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Took the plunge and cancelled my Feedbin account this morning before it renews. Iā€™ve been using Inkwell exclusively since I got beta access and itā€™s worked perfectly for me. No point in paying for something Iā€™m already getting in a service I use everyday and want to continue to support.

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A lovely take on the new MacBook Neo which continues to try and woo me.

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Wonderful start to the day, mistyped my Mac password (one time) and it decided to lock me out for an hour. Currently trying to use my iPad do some Teams calls while I wait to get in.

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Spent some time reworking my books page to become my shelf and only display what Iā€™ve read. Iā€™ve also built a new design as part of process, Iā€™d love to be able to add some other data to the books but as far as I can tell thereā€™s no way to customise the template micro.blog uses for books. This is all CSS and...

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