: You were the chosen one, etc. #enshittification
: With Ivory having timeline sync and it remembering my reading position I’m much more likely to โฆ
: Maybe Gruber is a good writer. As a foreigner I can’t really judge the quality of his tech โฆ
: if we were to make a few @obsidian merch items which combo would you like best? โ โฆ
: Kaitlin Salzke makes excellent OmniFocus plug-ins. I’ve written before about the “work โฆ
: Environmental software quality TL;DR: In light of the growing importance of digital services, we ought to consider modern software โฆ
: Full points! (I wish more projects would have a clearly visible link to an explainer what the thing โฆ
: Half-Watching some Baseball and doing some light reflective writing. That’s enough for a โฆ
: Dog and Partner are away until Monday. I’ll have to see if daily dogo happens today or notโฆ
: The combination ChatGPT and Keyboard Maestro is really something.
: Who would have thought that I play the role of the code quality lobbyist in my new job?
: In other news: I solved my first real hard and urgent ticket at my new job and am proud as f about โฆ
: Car front window got a crack while my partner was calling me to tell me that there was a dangerous โฆ
: Who would have thought that PHP_Codesniffer is actually superior to php-cs-fixerโฆ (Not me. But it โฆ
: You don’t need to be a “test first”/test-driven developer to like tests in your โฆ
: There is a great OmniFocus plug-in by Kaitlin Salzke called Work On which apparently is an idea - โฆ
: I didn’t sleep long. I didn’t sleep deeply or well, really. But man, did I enjoy โฆ
: I can’t get this out of my head: mastodon.online/@virtualb… Can’t believe that at โฆ
: A little thing I do, when critiquing societal issues: I try to say what I think is wrong - morally โฆ
: A good difference to make when talking about generating code through ChatGPT: It is much more of a โฆ
: PHPStorm's keybinding system is ridiculous It is no news that I am pretty skeptical that PHPStorm is actually a good IDE. I especially question โฆ
: If in doubt: Eat more sorbet.
: First workday at the new company!
: Soooo. Does anybody know any alternatives to Frame Grabber? arthurhammer.de/2023/06/f…
: The (Hu)go template syntax is bad. There is no two ways about it. It’s just bad and often counterintuitive. It’s hard to โฆ
: It’s really cool that the upstairs neighbor has decided to renovate their apartment without โฆ
: Previously (Dead Cells). Previously (Diablo IV - same link as below). Quick update on my Diablo IV โฆ
: First impression of Diablo IV. I hate the MMORPG aspects of it. I don’t need to see other โฆ
: A little addition to what I said the other day: The “take notes to reach your goals” is โฆ
: I wonder if the dystopian looks of AR/VR headsets are really the problem. I can see that they โฆ
: About the Vision Pro: I don’t think I would ever pay that much for a device. Except if I would โฆ
: I do wonder if it’ll matter, that people don’t like how the new Apple Headset looks. โฆ
: God damnit, Karelian pies are so good! ๐ซ๐ฎ
: Some ways in which notes can help to reach goals: Finding goals and planning them out Tracking โฆ
: Quick note on the terrible, terrible reddit api pricing and how it affects apps like Apollo. โฆ
: From the faq page of the mouse config tool “logi options+": Why is it called Logi โฆ
: Quick note about Obsidian’s new icon: For me it’s more of a warning sign than reason to โฆ
: Quick note about the recent discussion about pricing of apps on @atpfm@mastodon.social: I agree with โฆ
: Not gonna lie: The last couple of weeks in my current job have beenโฆ trying. Being annoyed always โฆ
: As exciting as app development for iOS/MacOS sounds (being an indy is actually a dream of mine), the โฆ
: Previously. Two more promising apps: I’m a big fan of noise and music apps and podcasts for โฆ
: Great Episode of @clockwise@relayfm.social. The message of trying to stay even keeled, working for โฆ
: Had the weirdest stress dream last night: I dreamt that I agreed to buy one kind of computer for my โฆ
: That isโฆ a pretty old MacBook by today’s standards, right? From Apple’s Safari page.
: It’s always surprising to me, even though it shouldn’t anymore: Pretty thorny coding โฆ
: Previously On the one hand I’m baffled that Apple Music doesn’t have a dedicated โฆ
: I am more and more of the opinion that relying on semantic versioning conventions (e.g. using โฆ
: Yesterday I tried to write three different blog posts about three different half baked ideas and โฆ
: Alt for today’s DailyDogo (she has been such a good girl, with her mom on a business trip for โฆ
: (I’m also immediately put off by any app/piece of code calling itself “blazing(ly) โฆ
: (So looking forward to Ivory on the Mac.)
: One of the best things I’ve done recently in terms of emotional hygiene is giving myself a โฆ
: There must really be some compelling evidence that changing your visual corporate identity is โฆ
: Today especially the afternoon walk with the dog was memorable: We saw Napu’s friend Obi out โฆ
: Survived the day pretty well, all things considered. Dentist appointment showed no holes in my โฆ
: We’ll have an exterminator over on Wednesday for a silver fish and paper fish situation in the โฆ
: My Partner is on a business trip in Germany for three weeks. Napu and me are holding the fort at โฆ
: We’re not eating this because it is tasty, we’re eating this because we need space in โฆ
: Wow. Hug your dogs. And your (other) loved ones. www.youtube.com/watch
: This year I may skip buying mlb.tv and will only watch the occasional “free game of the โฆ
: Late breakfast today. It’s almost 12.
: Drinking coffee on the balcony, eating easter sweets sent from Germany by my mom. ๐
: There is no real reason for this, but I feel anxious somehow. Doesn’t happen that often. Thank โฆ
: LLMs Usefulness As A Tool Is Not What Makes Them Morally Ambigous What I do get: I get that LLMs are not real AI and fantasizing about LLMs being sentient is foolish. โฆ
: The style is different, fewer Vogue cover stories[…] Wow. This is a Finish professor of โฆ
: Uff. Finland just became way more right wing. Sanna Marin was not re-elected. Her social democrats โฆ
: Tools Make Knowledge HeyScottyJ - No PKM necessary The concept of Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) is flawed in that โฆ
: Actually impressed by ChatGPT bot for BuyItForLife. This is a GPT-like(?) bot that has been trained โฆ
: PuppyCast 028 ๐ถ๐ What?! A new puppy cast?! Only to test out the new transcription feature (and plug-in). ๐
: Finished working late today but only because I interrupted working for a bit so that my partner and โฆ
: I guess I like programming?!
: I very innocently tried to diagram my current gtd-like workflow in Mindnode and after a couple of โฆ
: Does anybody know about environmentally conscious work done in the world of “AI”? I feel โฆ
: Newsletter writers: Apart from an “unsubscribe” link, please also offer a “change โฆ
: Turning the clocks back has so far destroyed me three mornings in a row.
: Two unremarkable days this weekend. I enjoyed them very much. Now waiting for the Sauna to heat โฆ
: Just finished 911 lonestar season 3. All in all a very good (pretty long!) season. I love the โฆ
: I’m unhappy to note that JavaScript tooling has stayed just as opaque as last time I had to โฆ
: Turns out: solving hard problems under time pressure is hard. Who knew! ๐คช
: I, as a non native writer (and an error prone one in general), so wish mb would sync edits between โฆ
: Good to see that state management in SPAs is still hard since the last time (3,5 years ago) I used โฆ
: The long afternoon walk with the dog made me incredibly tired today.
: Previously An interesting difference that just occurred to me: Knowledge management and idea โฆ
: Previously Readwise Reader… You were the chosen one! Their feed reader cannot handle daring โฆ
: As somebody who has taken notes for a long time now, I have gone through iterations of my setup to โฆ
: Playing Stellaris again, which I do every time a new dlc comes out. The newest dlc is a “First โฆ
: I was (and am) so enamored with an article I read that my sleep deprived self decided in the morning โฆ
: Nothing better than tortilla leftovers for lunch. ๐
: Peviously. I don’t know why, but I may have for the first time really understood how โฆ
: Having learned about mastodon’s capabilities of being a ddos tool, I wonder: Are URL previews โฆ
: Knock on wood: Things in the old as well as the new company are solved. The job transition ought to โฆ
: My Current Thoughts On Therapy And Mental Health Part of my depression is a degree of apathy; the more I can focus and get excited about something โฆ
: Decided to remove my notes on notes newsletter page from the navigation. I’m not pursuing that โฆ
: Previously. (I’m not using teuxdeux anymore. And after a short liaison with Todoist, I’m โฆ
: It’s a blessing in disguise that I do not have a big podcast backlog anymore and so fall back โฆ
: Started to cry out of happiness after receiving a positive message as regards to my new job. The new โฆ
: Sprint review went much better than expected.
: Overslept a little today. But hey:
: Watching 9-1-1 Lonestar, Season 3.
: Didn’t want to go out for Napu’s longer walk, but I never ever have regretted going โฆ
: Uff. I’m clearly not made to sustain existential dread. Hopefully things with the new job will โฆ
: Trimmed Napu’s nails just now. Always an intense moment for the both of us. But with lots of โฆ
: Updated my about page and added some info for people unfamiliar with micro.blog. I also added some โฆ
: Don’t want to jinx it but… (famous last words) I’ve had a good start to the work โฆ
: Dinner was a success, albeit too late. Now (or rather 30 min ago) off to sauna. Having a good calm โฆ
: Today’s dinner is going to be a nice mishmash: Potato mousse, creamed spinach, red beed โฆ
: When I try to figure how something works in my programming language I often use the service replit. โฆ
: It still is a challenge to find the right words in code reviews, no matter what side I’m on: โฆ
: Rounding up to 300 characters manton.orgRead: www.manton.org Manton Reece โฆ
: Even though I want to use the services that Omg.lol provides, I struggle to do so. I set up a โฆ
: The weird feeling when you realize that you work quicker in php than in typescript nowadays. Or in โฆ
: Weird question: How do normal people handle giving/donations? How much? For what? Through what โฆ
: I’m more and more impressed by the offering of radio programs on Apple Music. The most recent โฆ
: As a big fan of the art of live sports commentary and especially of the US school of the profession: โฆ
: Having just recently started (at 36) to become interested in the NBA, I immediately got interested โฆ
: (God damn Ivory is so nice to use. And I don’t even have cause to post a lot of stuff at the โฆ
: Boosts on mastodon are great for discovering new accounts you might like to follow and terrible โฆ
: As somebody who frequently edits older posts to maybe add links and/or fix typos, etc., I just have โฆ
: Previously. Short follow-up: Sometime has not worked out for me. I never got the hang of it. I โฆ
: Jeez. Moderat FM on Apple Music is GREAT. Super atmospheric! Great electronic music! Highly โฆ
: It is a pity that there is no dog park for small dogs in Kuusamo. Poor Napu. ๐ถ
: I now have a Mastodon account at @matti@social.lol. I probably will end up mostly crossposting โฆ
: Hm. Is duckduckgo down? It seems like itโฆ but I can’t find its status page. EDIT: It seems ddg โฆ
: The way I journal - Part 1: Overview My journal is in some ways similar to what ratfactor has described, only its not a hybrid โฆ
: Everything whole is just temporarily unbroken, I guess. My job situation will very likely change โฆ
: Another dog pic streak repair later. I guess I need that reminder in Due. ;)
: I finally deactivated my twitter account. Hadn’t really used it in a long while, won’t โฆ
: Previously This last year was not a great year. I wouldn’t say it was as bad as 2021. But it โฆ
: Daily Dogo Streak repaired! It took me about an hour to select pics, update my apple shortcut โฆ
: Seeing people struggle with Hugo makes me think that it would maybe be nice to have options for the โฆ
: Previously I don’t want to jinx it, but I kinda automatically open readwise reader instead of โฆ
: Christmas is a catastrophe but this one is ours.
: You may think that actually physically dying from mere stress is impossible, but I might prove โฆ
: Choose Boring Technology by Dan McKinley is a great example of a kind of thought I enjoy. Boredom โฆ
: Previously. Got an unexpected Mail from TeuxDeux with a special offer. Very tempting to get TeuxDeux โฆ
: This week’s MicroMonday goes to @val, who happens to live in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. She’s โฆ
: Two promising new apps: Sometime is an app for recurring tasks and reminders that seems to be what I โฆ
: I wonder if there are people who feel excluded, because my no-frills daily dog pics do not include โฆ
: Christmas is just hard on me. Every year I feel I have to steel myself, get ready for battle. I am โฆ
: I wonder if Albums will ever come out with its desktop version. Would be an instabuy for me.
: It’s just the best feeling strolling to our small city’s center, the dog is in a good โฆ
: Good that my side project is done in typescript. Since learning and using PHP everyday for my โฆ
: Walked with the dog 2km on a winter trail half an hour from home. Started around 15:30, it was โฆ
: I’m coming to you live from MarsEdit 5! ๐คฉ
: I don’t know why, but there is just something so comforting listening to โฆ
: For this week’s MicroMonday, I recommend that you follow writer and Buddhist @patrickrhone. I โฆ
: Does anybody have tips for good flannel shirts? I love the monochrome ones from Patagonia (this year โฆ
: I graduated to the next bigger shirt size. Which also means that I need to invest in my wardrobe. โฆ
: Hm. The last @atpfm@mastodon.social makes me think that having a dedicated mastodon account so I โฆ
: It was naive to think that the economic situation would not make a meaningful difference. I am โฆ
: My MicroMonday recommendation this week goes to @annahavron: A thoughtful productivity geek, that โฆ
: twitterisgoinggreat.com finally took over the autocomplete spot of twitter itself. I’m not sad โฆ
: Previously. (Media Tracking) If there would be a bookshelves feature for games then the โฆ
: Maybe it’s because I post more, maybe because I have followed more people recently, maybe โฆ
: I can’t recommend @maggie@indieweb.social’s website enough. If you’re into the โฆ
: My MicroMonday this week goes to @Miraz who lives in New Zealand. I love the little slices of life โฆ
: At least I’m not going to sweat anytime soon.
: Two hours of mindful chores while listening to podcasts. Almost enjoyable. A point to think about, โฆ
: The more I read about how mastodon works, the happier I am that I ended up being so curious about โฆ
: Working on my side project, watching other people play video games on my second display (youtube). โฆ
: Very hazy day for me. Not a lot of momentum. I’m not doing nothing, but I surely am less โฆ
: It’s new project time over here. The new project is going to be Scrum instead of Kanban. โฆ
: My MicroMonday rec for this week is @sod. As far as I can tell his favorite hobbies include: Helping โฆ
: Jeez, I have not had so much fun tinkering with a side project, ever, I think. Slowly but surely โฆ
: Amazingly bad weather today. Snow is melting. It rains and it’s dark already(it’s only 5 โฆ
: My MicroMonday rec goes to @baldur for his different viewpoint on the web dev world. Come for the โฆ
: I just pledged 210$ for a cooperative board game that I might never play: It’s the board game โฆ
: Fantastic episode of Upgrade this week. @jsnell said out loud in a clear way, what I have been only โฆ
: I was just out with the dog ๐ถ in the dark, grayish, cold and freezing-melting-freezing weather we โฆ
: Looking at math proofs for the first time in a very long time. I wish that math would have not been โฆ
: Lots of walking with the dog ๐ถ in the morning today. Therefore not a lot of “sitting on the โฆ
: Previously After using my new M1 Mac Book Air and my new 11" iPad Pro for some months now, I'm able โฆ
: I had a fantastic day at work today. I guess I love programming? Found a way better solution to a โฆ
: A good indicator of expertise (in my case) seems to be if and what Iโm willing to promise to โฆ
: Are there any non-clickbait-y games news sites?
: I think this is an incredibly well done piece of product communication. When I’m a grown up, I โฆ
: The dog has kept me pretty active the last few daysโฆ ๐ถ๐
: After three months with Agenda, which is still a very good app, Iโm back with Obsidian for all the โฆ
: Dreaming of the day when we can just download our whole microblog (posts, designs, etc.) so we can โฆ
: (I didn’t post DailyDogo pics the last two days, for some reason. Streak fixed!)
: I recently tried Sorted, a "hyper-scheduler", which is just a fancy task manager that will โฆ
: In an effort to make my blog perform better - lots of images means slow load times - I have updated โฆ
: Nicht jedes Scheitern ist tatsรคchliches Scheitern Wichtiges Konzept: Zu unterscheiden, ob das Ausbleiben einer Handlung, die man sich vorgenommen โฆ
: Anybody here with experience using the stoic. app for guided journaling? Iโve used it for four days โฆ
: Not a lot of sleep tonight, because the dogo needed to go out at 6 (I was in bed around 1, which is โฆ
: (Iโll try to post a little more this week to see if I like it) Difficult to get myself going this โฆ
: Good Apps - Agenda For a while I used Obsidian to contain all kinds of notes I take: timeless notes, project notes and โฆ
: Stock Is Better The best feature is one that is provided and maintained by the platform. A feature that can be built โฆ
: The three types of notes I take My note taking system consists of three different pieces: Timeless notes: Ideas, thoughts, etc. โฆ
: Phew! And with that the DailyDogo streak is repaired and more regularly scheduled posting will โฆ
: (It feels very weird to not post DailyDogo pics this week.)
: (Since Iโm traveling and Napu is not with me there may not be any DailyDogo pics for a weekโฆ)
: IDE Troubles: PHPStorm and VS Code I work as a programmer for my day job. Right now I am working on two php projects. Coming from โฆ
: Fascinating: This website shows the most recently bought books on book depository - an online book โฆ
: Thoughts on the WWDC Keynote in Light of My Recently Bought iPad Pro and M1 MacBook Air I recently bought new hardware for my personal use: An M1 MacBook Air and an 11โ iPad Pro. My โฆ
: Setting up code-server again, because the iPad pro is my main personal machine. Last time it took me โฆ
: How I deal with notifications I think notifications are a rich vein for thinking about my setup, because it requires me to be โฆ
: Taking a break from microcasting I recently published a post about my microcasts and Iโm now writing this to tell you Iโm going to โฆ
: The Early Riser 139 ๐ ๐ Going too late to sleep in absolute time.
: The Early Riser 138 ๐ ๐ Rhythms and exceptions.
: The Early Riser 137 ๐ ๐ Late to bed, but an exciting thing waiting for me on my free day means: Less sleep, because I canโt โฆ
: The Early Riser 136 ๐ ๐ About being mindful and not doing meditation.
: The Early Riser 135 ๐ ๐ Waking up by alarm clock.
: LeadDev 003 ๐จโ๐ป๐ Managing distractions. Solving your own problems.
: The Early Riser 134 ๐ ๐ Trying out my new shortcuts based posting workflow, while the dog flips out.
: Good Apps - Paletro My current editor for coding is VS Code. Before that it was Sublime Text. Both of them have a lovely โฆ
: PuppyCast 027 ๐ถ๐ Not a lot of training this week. Continuing to watch Zac George videos. Training is not a linear โฆ
: The Early Riser Day 133 ๐ ๐ We survived the sleep deprivation and went earlier to bed to make up for it.
: The Early Riser Day 132 ๐ ๐ I watched way too long TV last night. Uff.
: The Early Riser Day 131 ๐ ๐ A nice side effect of this experiment: Having a pretty solid evening routine.
: The Early Riser Day 130 ๐ ๐ Looking back, appreciating how my ideas around waking up early have changed throughout the โฆ
: The Early Riser Day 129 ๐ ๐ Down with the rain pipes!
: The Early Riser Day 128 ๐ ๐ I got my wish: no pees inside. Now Iโm slightly sleep deprived.
: PuppyCast 026 ๐ถ๐ Meeting badly handled dogs. Reactivity in dogs including our own. Nosework. Impulse training.
: I believe I spotted another welsh corgi cardigan on mb: @hollie
: The Early Riser Day 127 ๐ ๐ Sleeping through the night is great, however Iโd rather wake up in the middle of the night and take โฆ
: The Early Riser Day 126 ๐ ๐ What is it about the weekend that makes me feel more rested?
: My Microcasts At the moment I publish three different microcasts (short, no-frills, solo podcasts): The Early โฆ
: LeadDev 002 ๐จโ๐ป๐ Framing. Experience, Expertise and Perception of Others. Thinking out loud.
: The Early Riser Day 125 ๐ ๐ Looking forward to a long Saturday.
: What wouldnโt I give for a wavelength upload shortcut to automate my microcastingโฆ ๐ @manton
: The Early Riser Day 124 ๐ ๐ Not happy with my mornings.
: The Early Riser Day 123 ๐ ๐ Meditation is on hiatus.
: The Early Riser Day 122 ๐ ๐ LeadDev 002 ๐จโ๐ป๐ The mash up episode pf the year. Trying to sleep and not being able to. I didnโt press a button. โฆ
: The Early Riser Day 121 ๐ ๐ The decision problem: Should I stay awake or not? Meditation. How the dogโs changed rhythm changed โฆ
: LeadDev 001 ๐จโ๐ป๐ Notifications 1
: Have not meditated today so far as I discussed in the early riser. Having one less thing โto doโ has โฆ
: The Early Riser Day 120 ๐ ๐ About my (ending?) meditation practice.
: Project Lead Developer 000 Just about the name, format and general direction.
: Finished the focus challenge. When I switched focus mode off in gluon, I realized how much I would โฆ
: The Early Riser Day 119 ๐ ๐ Itโs sunny here. For some reason the dog peed inside the last two nights. Having a long day ahead, โฆ
: PuppyCast 025 ๐ถ๐ Nosework Pottytraining Watching Dog Training Youtube Videos (Zac George) My Partner is back in town โฆ
: The Early Riser Day 118 ๐ ๐ Back to normal. But with a different perspective (maybe).
: The Early Riser Day 117 ๐ ๐ Last day before my partner is back. Ego depletion over longer periods of time.
: The Early Riser Day 116 ๐ ๐ Woke up refreshed. Still feeling headache-y.
: The Early Riser Day 115 ๐ ๐ Headache since yesterday evening. And lots of interruptions.
: The Early Riser Day 114 ๐ ๐ Night 2 of being home alone. A changed environment means more willpower is needed to keep healthy โฆ
: PuppyCast 024 ๐ถ๐ Super late edition. Napu still has inflamed eyes. Napu and me are home alone until Friday. Nosework.
: The Early Riser Day 113 ๐ ๐ Partner is on a business trip. I stayed up too long. Podcast continues for now.
: The Early Riser Day 112 ๐ ๐ An instant gratification problem.
: The Early Riser Day 111 ๐ ๐ I shouldnโt be this awake. But somehow I am.
: The Early Riser Day 110 ๐ ๐ Trying a hard โgetting up at the latest thenโ limit: 7:30 am.
: The Early Riser Day 109 ๐ ๐ Had to get up too often and didnโt find sleep immediately.
: The Early Riser Day 108 ๐ ๐ Solo nights and exhausting days.
: The Early Riser Day 107 ๐ ๐ The paradox.
: The Early Riser Day 106 ๐ ๐ Maybe I should be ending the experiment?
: The Early Riser Day 105 ๐ ๐ Being more at ease with transitioning to prioritizing amount of sleep over waking up time, because โฆ
: PuppyCast 023 ๐ถ๐ Short and sweet.
: The Early Riser Day 104 ๐ ๐ Prioritizing sleep amount over fixed wake up time.
: The Early Riser Day 103 ๐ ๐ 4.5 hours of sleep. And we are in Oulu.
: The Early Riser Day 102 ๐ ๐ I might have not been up at 6:30 but I hit my sleep goal.
: The Early Riser Day 101 ๐ ๐ PuppyCast invasion. The dog has an eye infection.
: The Early Riser Day 100(!) ๐ ๐ First day back on the horse.
: PuppyCast 022 ๐ถ๐ The dogpark, first Nosework class, potty training and training recall.
: The Early Riser Day 99 ๐ ๐ Thoughts about the experiment within the experiment of waking up after I have slept the full 7,5 โฆ
: The Early Riser Day 98 ๐ ๐ I woke up very late today. Not trying to feel bad about it. And I guess I havenโt yet made it to 100 โฆ
: The Early Riser Day 97 ๐ ๐ Another longer episode. Taking it easy this easter weekend. Trying to get enough time in bed.
: The Early Riser Day 96 ๐ ๐ Rebalancing my efforts because of sleep deprivation. A longer reflective episode.
: The Early Riser Day 95 ๐ ๐ Fragmented sleep.
: The Early Riser Day 94 ๐ ๐ Plus three degrees. The snow thawed yesterday and the resulting slush froze overnight. Difficult โฆ
: The Early Riser Day 93 ๐ ๐ A very fragmented and short night.
: The Early Riser Day 92 ๐ ๐ 6:45 of sleep (not time in bed) seems to be the magic duration, when looking at old sleep tracking โฆ
: PuppyCast 021 ๐ถ๐ Special, extra unprepared edition! We finished up puppy school this week. Little progress on the โฆ
: The Early Riser Day 91 ๐ ๐ That half hour makes a difference. Didnโt need to get up in the night because of the dog.
: The Early Riser Day 90 ๐ ๐ Feeling good thanks to more sleep. Itโs foggy here.
: The Early Riser Day 89 ๐ ๐ The first sleep cycle data is in. I slept about six and a quarter hours.
: The Early Riser Day 88 ๐ ๐ Trying sleep tracking to figure out if I get enough sleep.
: The Early Riser Day 87 ๐ ๐ Waking up on hard mode.
: The Early Riser Day 86 ๐ ๐ Indeed: Slight changes in the environment makes habits harder to perform. But I did it. Also: Lots โฆ
: The Early Riser Day 85 ๐ ๐ Even slight changes are disruptive. My Partner leaves town for a night. Wondering how tomorrow โฆ
: PuppyCast 020 ๐ถ๐ Napuโs potty training is going well. Carpet shewing. Realities of being a dog owner. Not enough time โฆ
: The Early Riser Day 84 ๐ ๐ Being an early riser is an introvertโs game.
: The Early Riser Day 83 ๐ ๐ The siren song of talking to yourself and not getting up immediately almost got me today.
: The Early Riser Day 82 ๐ ๐ Itโs really cold. But hey, there are geese honking.
: The Early Riser Day 81 ๐ ๐ Going to bed earlier works. Itโs the end of end of March and they are driving snow out of the town.
: The Early Riser Day 80 ๐ ๐ Super sized early riser today. Iโm struggling to go to bed in such a way that I get enough sleep. I โฆ
: The Early Riser Day 79 ๐ ๐ If you wake up earlier, mornings are darker again.
: The Early Riser Day 78 ๐ ๐ Starting to wake up half an hour earlier on the day the clocks get adjusted for summer time was โฆ
: PuppyCast 019 ๐ถ๐ Puppy school continues to be great. If at first you donโt succeed use bigger treats. 30 Day Perfect โฆ
: The Early Riser Day 77 ๐ ๐ Trying to wake up half an hour earlier.
: PuppyCast has been postponed until tomorrow.
: My New Thing Is A Newsletter: Notes On Notes I had toyed with the idea for a while now: I have joined the ranks of the people who have their own โฆ
: The Early Riser Day 76 ๐๐ The snow is back. And itโs windy!
: The Early Riser Day 75 ๐๐ Looking forward to the weekend for different reasons. The current freeze-thaw cycle.
: The Early Riser Day 74 ๐๐ Being conditioned to jump out of bed in the night as soon as the dog makes any noise.
: The Early Riser Day 73 ๐๐ Update on the puking puppy situation (spoiler alert: she is fine). Thanks for all the sweet โฆ
: 100 Days Of Meditation Not my longest meditation streak (I did 365 days in 2017), but nonetheless I’m very happy with โฆ
: No early riser today because the dog puked in the morning and we are going to the vet just to be โฆ
: The Early Riser Day 71 ๐๐ The dog has a little wound.
: The Early Riser Day 70 ๐๐ The snow is melting.
: PuppyCast 018 ๐ถ๐ Puppy school Kuusamo, potty training, atomic habits, growing as a person in relationship to your โฆ
: The Early Riser Day 69 ๐๐ Amazing how easy it is to wake up if there is something that you really want to do. Like me, wanting โฆ
: The Early Riser Day 68 ๐๐ The snow starts to melt. And the dog is experiencing this for the first time.
: The Early Riser Day 67 ๐๐ Every day it feels more like spring.
: The Early Riser Day 66 ๐๐ Waking without the need to talk. Day and night temperatures are very different.
: The Early Riser Day 65 ๐๐ Just a little test episode. I hope the numbering is not too confusing, but I have not stopped waking โฆ
: Why arenโt there any podcast episodes at the moment? No Podcast Episodes are being recorded at the moment as you probably have noticed. The reason is โฆ
: Second day in a row where I canโt upload a new podcast episode through wavelength. @manton: Could โฆ
: .@help I canโt upload audio for some reason. The wavelength app wonโt let me.
: The Early Riser Day 57 ๐๐ More about the winter.
: The Early Riser Day 56 ๐๐ About the seasons. Beginning of Winter.
: PuppyCast 17 ๐ถ๐ Potty training trend positive. Training being calm when she canโt see me or my partner. A weird โฆ
: The Early Riser Day 55 ๐๐ How did I end up here?
: The Early Riser Day 54 ๐๐ The services in my town. We lost the only book store.
: The Early Riser Day 53 ๐๐ Describing the surroundings of theโฆ town? city? Three national parks.
: The Early Riser Day 52 ๐๐ Describing the surrounding area.
: The Early Riser Day 51 ๐๐ I continue to describe my surroundings. This time: a part of the yard.
: The Early Riser Day 50(!) ๐๐ Trying and mostly failing to describe my surroundings.
: Using rdfind To Deduplicate Obsidian Dropbox Backups EDIT 2022-03-01: The following still works but I can’t recommend using the aut-o-backups โฆ
: Good Apps - Obsidian Obsidian is a personal knowledge base and note taking app with a lot of flexibility and extensions โฆ
: The Early Riser Day 49 ๐๐ Nothing to say.
: PuppyCast 16 ๐ถ๐ Zac George Video I was talking about. What is the heel command in Finnish? Training calming down.
: The Early Riser Day 48 ๐๐ The Article is called: The Myth of the Present Moment
: The Early Riser Day 47 ๐๐ Any problems you may have in a particular area of your life are the result of the system that โฆ
: The Early Riser Day 46 ๐๐ Reasoning about sleep is hard.
: The Early Riser Day 45 ๐๐ Waiting for the sun to rise.
: The Early Riser Day 44 ๐๐ Habit change is possible in general and for me specifically.
: The Early Riser Day 43 ๐๐ A successful morning is defined by a million little things going right.
: The Early Riser Day 42 ๐๐ We got lucky with our accommodations in Oulu. I got unlucky white recording this because people had โฆ
: PuppyCast 15 ๐ถ๐ This time from Oulu instead of Kuusamo.
: The Early Riser Day 41 ๐๐ Going to the city even though we are not going to take part in the puppy school classes anymore.
: The Early Riser Day 40 ๐๐ A Podcast Recommendation: Cortex. Their Yearly Themes Episode.
: The Early Riser Day 39 ๐๐ Waking up a little earlier.
: The Early Riser Day 38 ๐๐ Complaining where my time has gone now that it has become normal for me to wake up so early.
: The Early Riser Day 37 ๐๐ It is โArschkaltโ. Loving the silence of the early morning.
: The Early Riser Day 36 ๐๐ Power naps are magic.
: Finished reading: Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman ๐ -> My thoughts: Impermanence And โฆ
: Impermanence And Improvement Four thousand weeks by Oliver Burkeman is a book about admitting and embracing the finitude of the โฆ
: My Current Highlighting And Annotation Setup Currently my highlighting and annotation setup looks like this: Ebooks: Kindle - Even though Amazon โฆ
: The Early Riser Day 35 ๐๐ No content really today. Sorry about that.
: PuppyCast 14 ๐ถ๐ Puppy school troubles.
: The Early Riser Day 34 ๐๐ Waking up late.
: The Early Riser Day 33 ๐๐ Puppy school part 2.
: The Early Riser Day 32 ๐๐ Describing the surroundings.
: The Early Riser Day 31 ๐๐ Coming up with topics.
: The Early Riser Day 30(!) ๐๐ Waking up before the alarm. Bargaining with yourself.
: The Early Riser Day 29 ๐๐ Keeping the loved ones in mind.
: The Early Riser Day 28 ๐๐ Back at home. Being proud of having made it this far.
: PuppyCast 13 ๐ถ๐ Puppy school: First lesson. Some negatives but also some positives.
: The Early Riser Day 27 ๐๐ 90 minutes later to bed, 90 minutes earlier awake. This is fine.
: The Early Riser Day 26 ๐๐ Puppy school in another city.
: The Early Riser Day 25 ๐๐ What happens after I publish these?
: Goals And Ideas For 2022 In January I did a yearly Review and planning session, a thing I always try to do every year. This โฆ
: Current Home Screen: the upper widget is a stack. The lower is siri app suggestions.
: The Early Riser Day 24 ๐๐ Dog has an inflamed bladder and needs to pee often.
: The Early Riser Day 23 ๐๐ Trying to get the dog out into the freezing cold for a walk.
: (I can’t wait for Albums on the mac)
: The Early Riser Day 22 ๐๐ Waking up before the alarm.
: The Early Riser Day 21 ๐๐ Three weeks straight.
: PuppyCast 12 ๐ถ๐ Meeting a big corgi. Puppy school starts next week. Training wait and going to a place. Leash โฆ
: The Early Riser Day 20 ๐๐ Snowplow Alarm
: The Early Riser Day 19 ๐๐ Podcastus Interuptus.
: The Early Riser Day 18 ๐๐ Waking the dog
: The Early Riser Day 17 ๐๐ Half an hour earlier and a snow rabbit.
: The Early Riser Day 16 ๐๐ Waking up in the night wasnโt a problem.
: The Early Riser Day 15 ๐๐ The earliest riser.
: Notes on Notes - Increment by Increment Writing notes and connecting them is a practice of incremental improvement. You start with something โฆ
: Notes on Notes - Change There will be ebbs and flows. As you change, your note taking practice is likely to change. Some โฆ
: Notes on Notes - Why do it Why would you do that work? Do you want to do that work? Why? A note taking system can only be good โฆ
: Notes on Notes - Connect Notes In order to connect notes you first have to write them. If you have notes you can start to link โฆ
: Notes on Notes - Write Notes A note-taking system without notes doesn’t make much sense. You have to accumulate notes. Do โฆ
: The Early Riser Day 14 ๐๐ AirPods stress reality
: PuppyCast 011 ๐ถ๐ The week of teething.
: Good Apps - Due Due is a wonderful reminders and timers app for the Mac and iPhone/iPad that syncs via iCloud. Due โฆ
: The Early Riser Day 13 ๐๐ Using time in bed effectively.
: The Early Riser Day 12 ๐๐ Missing an hour of sleep.
: The Early Riser Day 11 ๐๐ Standing up right away is key.
: Good Apps - Daytum Daytum is a simple web app to track all the little things in your life. Think of it as an app that โฆ
: The Early Riser Day 10 ๐๐ Happy with the progress.
: Good Apps - Albums Albums is a music app for iOS that will use your Apple Music library and is focused on playing full โฆ
: The Early Riser Day 9 ๐๐ The dissimilarity of similar days.
: The Early Riser Day 8 ๐๐ Power Outage!
: The Early Riser Day 7 ๐๐ A totally different morning. A little late to bed.
: Still oftentimes just skimming the Micro.blog timeline instead of catching up with it because there โฆ
: PuppyCast 010 ๐ถ๐ Napu is an early riser, too. Visiting a skiing village.
: Would you look at that super cute dog there in @manton’s announcement of Micro.blog for โฆ
: Short Posts With Titles One kind of blog post that I really like is a short post with a title. One or two paragraphs about a โฆ
: The Early Riser Day 6 ๐๐ 6:30 on a Saturday and Iโm happy about it.
: The Early Riser Day 5 ๐๐ Had to take half a day off because of a headache. Two power naps yesterday. Feeling good.
: The Early Riser Day 4 ๐๐ Too tired. Disturbed rhythms.
: The Early Riser Day 3 ๐๐ Yesterday I survived without taking power naps.
: The Early Riser Day 2 ๐๐ Steve Pavlina: How To Become An Early Riser Tired, but: Awake! Should have taken a power nap more.
: The Early Riser Day 1 ๐๐ Good start!
: PuppyCast 009 ๐ถ๐ Happy about the progress. Itโs very cold. Napu looses her teeth!
: .@help How do you restore one of those special pages if you have deleted it? I’m talking about โฆ
: Adventures with Hugo: Configure Hugo's Native Syntax Highlighting On Micro.Blog If you are one of the brave people that uses Hugo Version 0.91 and wants to take advantage of โฆ
: .@help It seems to me that the highlight part of an otherwise working overriden config.json in a โฆ
: The bug in the highlighting happens even if you create the post via the API, which probably means โฆ
: Found a way to run the old hugo version 0.54.0 locally (thanks to this asdf version manager plugin) โฆ
: It's Impossible To Take Your Time With Everything There is this weird dream logic inside me that wants to do everything I want to do in a โฆ
: I Really Like Console Games Have to say that I really enjoy the xbox experience a lot. The whole idea of a gaming console on โฆ
: .@help I can’t seem to find this post to add a picture. That the pic is missing, could that be โฆ
: .@help Adding a picture to this post doesn’t work through the mac app:(I noticed that I seemed โฆ
: .@manton Also: Why are theme errors not shown in the log? But here?
: .@manton The design/template UI workflow is really not that good. Instead of using a two column โฆ
: 2021 - Year Of Strain A difficult year. In better moments it was a so-so year. In other moments in which I take the bigger โฆ
: PuppyCast 008 ๐ถ๐ A new year. Puppy School. Being more vocal/communicating more.
: .@help Somehow while playing with my testblog I ended up with a weird situation: Note that 1.) The โฆ
: I barely Can Watch Movies Anymore I barely can watch movies anymore. This has less to do with problems of changing aesthetics and me โฆ
: PuppyCast 007 ๐ถ๐ A short Christmas update. Visiting new places. Chewing new cables.
: It is kinda amazing how powerful Google Sheets has becomeโฆ
: Working on my audio note taking workflow. Things are happening! ๐
: Puppycast 006 ๐ถ Second vaccination went well, leave it training seemingly unlocked the fetch game for us, fetch and โฆ
: Whittling down the amount of apps on my home screen to make space for more audio based journaling โฆ
: Puppycast 005 ๐ถ No big news stories this week. Sheโs growing. Training is going well, but she now barks at me when I โฆ
: DailyDogo 38 ๐ถ (little ๐ฆ)
: Puppycast 004 Part2 ๐ถ๐ Not researched mitigation techniques are a bad idea. Status Quo nipping, barking and potty training. โฆ
: Puppycast 004 Part1 ๐ถ๐ Not researched mitigation techniques are a bad idea. Status Quo nipping, barking and potty training. โฆ
: There might not be a Puppycast ๐ถ๐ this week, because after recording it three times already, also โฆ
: Puppycast 003 ๐ถ Continuation of the allergy saga, positive reinforcement, seeing her grow, capturing behaviors (wait โฆ
: Puppycast 002 ๐ถ allergies , nipping, potty training is hard, barking, first Puppy date
: Puppycast for this week is still coming. It seems that I deleted the episode instead of publishing โฆ
: DailyDogo 14 ๐ถ (Yesterdayโs)
: Puppycast 001 ๐ถ Our puppy Napu has now stayed her first week with us. First impressions. Nervousness. Sleep โฆ
: DailyDogo 6 ๐ถ (Yesterday’s)
: Learning by maintaining is probably my favorite way to become a better developer. The only thing โฆ
: First flight to Germany in almost two years. Mostly to visit (some of) the family. First from โฆ
: I fucked up the third MR in a row in this one project. From MRs missing parts to MRs that do not โฆ
: There is nothing more satisfying in programming to me than being able to take my time.
: My favorite coding project is one with a well stocked and refined backlog and a working pace under โฆ
: My first Americano ever. I like it a lot.
: Finally have an idea for a micro cast.
: Expectations and Entitlement The problem with good free hobbyist websites is that some people misunderstand; just because these โฆ
: Problems of the Social or Properties of the Social Problems with "the social" are emergent properties of the social1. Since they are properties, we're โฆ
: Wikipedia and Mรผndigkeit I am amazed that one of the most important, if not the single most important term in continental and โฆ
: Able To Post Again My playing around with custom themes led to errors in the building of my site. Haven’t been โฆ
: Relieved to see, that my posts seem to make it through. It is amazing what makes me nervous these โฆ
: Puppy Fever I have a bad case of puppy fever. It’s true. For years it has been this way. After moving to โฆ
: A little boat trip on the upper part of the Oulankajoki - About 15 km. Our bodies were so sore the โฆ
: I said a while ago that my GF and I switched from Youtube Music to Apple Music. While she is back โฆ
: I am introducing a new collegue to the project and it is a joy to notice how much I have actually โฆ
: I just stumbled upon this, while scrolling through the iPhone 13 pages on Apple’s website: The โฆ
: Teamflow is a kind of virtual office, in which every worker has a “video” bubble, that โฆ
: A kind of Obsidian lite? nota.md
: Vegetable pasta. ๐งโ๐ณ
: Colors of the ruska season in the Riisitunturi Nationalpark
: Just upgraded to MB premium! Reasons forthcoming.
: The maxfun show story break is gonna end their run in 5 eps. Damn. Not one of my regular shows, but โฆ
: The Netflix movie Kate, which we just watched, is amazing. Check it out if you havenโt already.
: (I should really pledge to interact with people here, every day, a little bit.)
: What a nice thought: My mom sent me a Google Nest Mini for my birthday. But: In Finnland you โฆ
: Kinda surprising: The recommendations on library thing are very very good. I’m tracking my โฆ
: Working with heavily linked notes shows that one unexpected value of a link is not the link but its โฆ
: When I think about it, it is very fascinating to think that my body can metabolize food and drinks. โฆ
: Jeez. Somebody blocked the ventilation slits above almost all of our windows in our apartment โฆ
: Hm. For how much I dislike when a discussion gets derailed, I tend to do it quite often. We had such โฆ
: This vacation has me the most motivated about writing in a few years. Have to transform it somehow โฆ
: Accidentally opened twitter. Ugh. I want to be enlightened and able to say: You can have or be part โฆ
: Thinking about starting my own newsletter.
: First little balcony harvest. ๐ฑ It wasnโt easy or sure with all the scaffolding from the roof reno โฆ
: On Quoting And Commenting Today I discovered Manuel Moreale’s Blog thanks to this great endorsement by @uncertainquark โฆ
: I had a feeling something was up after this week’s RecDiffs - which was excellent btw. As if โฆ
: That there hasn’t been a new Back To Work in two weeks has me gravely concerned for โฆ
: Finished reading: Blue Nights by Joan Didion ๐My thoughts: The Melancholic Richness Of Frailty
: The Melancholic Richness Of Frailty This book is as much about aging than it is about her adopted daughter Quintana. It is a sad book. โฆ
: A very good person to follow on here, if you are interested in web development, is @baldur. He links โฆ
: When will I learn that early flights are to blame for everything? Their seductive quality of โhaving โฆ
: Test was negative. What a relief.
: First Corona test ever. Hopefully itโs nothing.
: Switched over today from Youtube Music to Apple Music. Something I wanted to try for a while, but โฆ
: Finished reading: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion AND Let Me Tell You What I Mean also โฆ
: Acceptance As A Worthwhile Struggle As I said in my last review: I love autobiographical writing. To continue the theme, I recently โฆ
: Birdnet made the rounds on hacker news yesterday. Can’t wait to test it out when we’re โฆ
: Finished reading: The Art of the Wasted Day by Patricia Hampl ๐For my thoughts see: The Art Of โฆ
: Also learned that you can archive your posts to github and to the internet archive. Great stuff โฆ
: Now I need to figure out how to migrate all the old blog posts from all the other blogs here. Many โฆ
: Just set up my custom domain so that it would point to my micro blog instead of an old blog I โฆ
: The Art Of Writing About Yourself A favorite book of mine is one that looks back. One that is thickly layered in the complications of โฆ
: The possibility to edit one’s own posts after the fact on micro.blog, is something I really โฆ
: After not working for about two weeks, the people putting up the scaffolding around the house โฆ
: Calling family will never not be a trial to me. I’m just bad at keeping people in the loop. โฆ
: The Jerk Prodigy, Or: Who Am I To A Person That Doesn't Like Me? When I was looking through my DayOne posts - the recent acquisition of the journaling app by โฆ
: Construction work throughout the whole pretty short summer sucks. But we make the best of it โฆ
: One thing that will be tricky for me is that Iโm no native English speaker. And although for most โฆ
: They are building a roof on our roof!
: I just LOVE that I can just write slightly longer posts like the last one if that fits with what I โฆ
: What a beautiful day! I had taken a vacation day from work today. After I woke up to help my GF in โฆ
: From Ristikallio To The Heart Of Oulanka Mosquito bitten and sore from carrying the heavy backpacks while walking through difficult terrain, โฆ
: Emojitags and the trouble of the inevitability of Trends Just read @manton’s old post on the deliberate lack of Hashtags on here. I think the concept โฆ
: Starting fresh on my work computer because of changed policies around private use and a new โฆ
: If you want to make me monologue without end, give me a question where framing is important, like: โฆ
: I found myself laughing out loud today. To myself. While nobody was at home. It’s probably โฆ
: Uff. The drama around the roof reconstruction continues. They decided to work on Sunday, too. โฆ
: Hiking was indeed nice. Now a late dinner cooking session to feed us hungry and exhausted nature โฆ
: Approximating talented hosting (The era of the Pre-Post-Pandemic means that having guests over becomes possible again. Itโs a โฆ
: Having a guest (Friend of GF) over. My GF and me both are not natural hosts. We stress cleaned like โฆ
: Also: Just got my first vaccination. Thank goodness we are still allowed to go to Sauna!
: Would’ve been good to inform the tenants more than 2 days in advance that the roof will be โฆ
: We started watching 911 Lonestar (3 eps in) and we like it. I especially like it for making โฆ
: Speaking of @merlinmann: Got inspired to try something new, after seeing him enthusiastically โฆ
: Hi! So. Hi! I’m matti. I’m a German living in north-eastern Finland. I work as a developer โฆ