Category: Tech

  • Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret

    One path tracks someone from a home outside Newark to a nearby Planned Parenthood, remaining there for more than an hour. Another represents a person who travels with the mayor of New York during the day and returns to Long Island at night.

    Really great article design on mobile, nice data visualisations too.

  • Trying out some new workflows for posting to my blog, and then on to Twitter, with the Syndication link displaying on my site.

  • I’ve been going down a rabbit hole for the last 5 or so hours trying to work out what “value” is added to one of my blog posts if I use the Post Kinds plugin. As I’m publishing a lot of my content using @Draftsapp I can automatically markup the entries by either using Text Expander snippets or by having different Draft workflows for each “kind” of blog post.

  • @aaronpk is there any way you can take a look at my account in ownyourswarm, it says I’m connected to 40 other accounts. I’m guessing they’re from previous attempts to connect it to my blog.

    ownyourswarm-connection

  • Just downloaded the @draftsapp Mac beta, despite actions not being available yet, it’s awesome. I think I just found a place I can build my Memex!

  • I’m looking for a new RSS reader. I really don’t like the latest update to Feedly, in particular how they’ve changed the long press/force touch mechanism.

    Instead of being able to assign force touch directly to an outcome, i.e. Save to Pocket, you’re now forced to do it via the share sheet. With just that extra step, it’s taking me a lot longer to triage my feeds now.

    Any suggestions?

  • I think about my workflows way too much.

  • Been on the phone for an hour so far trying to get our @Telstra services sorted out. Phone and NBN services went down early this morning, I think it’s because someone hasn’t processed our transfer from ISDN to SIP. Frustrating!

  • Designing in public

    I’ve moved my domain / blog back to my own server, previously hosted on micro.blog, as I’ve started working on a larger project and so I needed to really re-familiarise myself with WordPress and managing servers and all the fun stuff that goes along with owning ones content.

    Anyway, I’m writing this post to have an entry to work on the layout / design, with most of the elements I would typically use in a post.

    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

    I might also post an ordered list;

    1. this is the first item
    2. this is the second item
    3. this is the third item
  • Today, might be the day I delete my Instagram account…