I love this kind of stuff… when we humans aren’t busy being horrible to each other and burning the planet down, we can make some truly inspired (and inspiring) things.
I love this kind of stuff… when we humans aren’t busy being horrible to each other and burning the planet down, we can make some truly inspired (and inspiring) things.
Currently reading: Future Ready by Stephanie L. Woerner… I attended a webinar presented by Dr Woerner yesterday and loved the “four pathways” approach, so went out and immediately bought the book. 📚
A week(-ish) into the Arc experiment, and I think I’m going to stay with it. It took a few days to get everything the way I wanted it, but now that I’m all (mostly?) sorted out, I really like it.
The iOS “companion” app is OK, I guess, but (the understandable) lack of a proper version is a bummer.
Tears of the Kingdom sold 10 million copies in its first three days on sale… staggering.
This is a game selling on six-year-old hardware locked at a quaint 30fps that largely takes place in a setting players have seen and explored before.
For non-gamer gamers, things like frame rates just don’t matter; a fun game with a great story is always going to do well, and Totk is incredibly fun with an outstanding story (even if we have played variations on this theme many times before).
That article I posted earlier got me thinking about something else: when it comes to note-taking, I love the idea of “working with the garage door up” via a digital garden / second brain / commonplace book / whatever, but it also seems largely performative. I’m yet to see a anyone put together anything that isn’t a glorified blog, or see anyone engage deeply with ideas or other people—and more importantly, ideas from other people—this way (but keen to being proved wrong here!).
For this reason, I’ve largely given up on the idea of a public-facing notebook. And I’ve also found that taking the idea of any kind of external appraisal off the table has given me more mental freedom to just get things documented the way that I see them without the fear of some rando passing judgement.
This blended-wing aircraft concept is super cool… I would switch to buying tickets from any airline flying them in a heartbeat.
Well. That was pretty much perfect. #TedLasso
Of course we should all be working less… makes total sense, but good luck with that. We are all (and Americans in particular) too culturally indoctrinated to believe that work is an absolute moral good for this to happen. And—you know—capitalism. 🙄
I don’t entirely buy into the premises of the argument in Automate the CEOs (I think it’s a bit of a stretch to classify the entirety of an executive’s job as “rote”), but I do agree with one of the conclusions—"…CEOs will be spared from automation not because they should be, but because they are making the decisions about who is spared from automation."
99% of my (computer-related, at least) problems could be solved if I actually R’ed TFM instead of skimming. Dumbass.
I’m trying Arc again. I really want to love it—‘Spaces’ in particular is killer and the UI is pretty decent—but it is a big change. I’m committing to giving it a week as my default and we’ll see how it goes.
I’ve seen this skyline so many times over the last seven years, but sometimes I still can’t believe I live here.
I’ve been a bit on the fence about this season of Ted Lasso, but the penultimate episode pulled me right back in. I’m going to be sad next week.
Filed under “dumb shit”: my office building replaced the number pads with badge readers on the doors to the restrooms on each floor (aside: do they want to track how often we pee?). The men’s room on my floor has had a broken catch for years. They didn’t fix it, so you can still just push it open. 🙄
So, so good: Kenny Log-Ins. I know where I’ll be sourcing my next password from.
So yeah… this sounds about right.
The biggest downside to moving to Micro.blog? Not being able to use Ivory any more.
Took some time this afternoon to tidy up the VPS I used to serve my old site; there was a (probably should have been un-)surprising amount of stuff there. I also took the opportunity to spin up some services I’ve been wanting to run and holy-shit-where-has-Docker-been-my-whole-life?
It looks like MSG might be making a comeback. Uncle Roger is going to be so happy (since, according to him, MSG stands for “Make Shit Good” 😆).
After a few fits and starts, I’m getting the hang of working with Micro.blog and getting content imported. Love that I don’t have to maintain the plumbing that makes my site work. Just got dig into theming now… it’s basically Hugo under the hood, so shouldn’t be too to hard to work out.
Wondering what Link smells like has never occurred to me. That aside, this WIRED interview with TotK’s director and producer is worth a read to get some insight into how they thought about building the game.
I need to spend some more time with it, but my initial impressions of Micro.blog are very good; the onboarding has been great, and 99% of the way things work makes sense to me. Added bonus: I can now publish using IA Writer via micropub!
After thinking about it for a while, I decided that I was spending more time building and maintaining stuff for my site than I was actually writing/doing something with it, so I decided to make the switch to Micro.blog. Now I’ve just got to work out how to bring all my old stuff over.
Tears of the Kingdom first impressions: it’s just like Breath of the Wild, in the best possible way. Some of the new game mechanics will take a little getting used to, but I expected that and what I’ve seen so far has been pretty cool. The transition from post-BotW, beefed up Link to start-of-game Link was handled pretty well. The world looks massive… looking forward to exploring the new bits, but also getting back to some of the familiar locations in Hyrule again.