Beatrix on the mid-wire; now with video!


OK, who out there in micro.land has thoiughts on security cameras? I’m in the market (wife wants for Mother’s Day). Need something simple, safe. secure, and able to be monitored from anywhere.


My hosting provider somhow always manages to find an issue with my site and take it down right when I’m least equipped to fix it. In this case, when I’m out of town and mostly off grid.

Frustrated.


Me using a retro styled mechanical keyboard to try to talk myself out of getting another mechanical keyboard.

This is the way.


I’ve updated my reading list with my second completed book of the year — The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking.


My Dad (who’s had two heart failures and life-long chronic asthma) got his first COVID vaccine shot today. I’m more relieved than I realized I would be.


Had a sudden flash of a new book idea for my minimal guide series…

Paper: A Minimal Guide.

About the many ways paper beats digital.

Hmmm…


I had a brief and slightly melancholic thought this morning: The quality of the camera in my iPhone 12 mini has all but guaranteed I’ll never use my Olympus M-10 again.

Should probably sell it.


Default Apps for Productivity — CJ Chilvers

Some interesting discussion. As a long time advocate of defaulting to default apps using I have some… Thoughts. Not sure I’ve mulled them fully. More later. perhaps.


Never underestimate one’s depth of willful ignorance in order to spare one’s guilty conscious.