Masterpiece! I can’t believe I’m so late to this… This is everything I could ever want in a show. The music is out of this world, the voice acting is better than most Broadway A-list shows, the art is pitch perfect! Now, to dive into Helluva Boss.
10/10
Unfortunately, there is one aspect of Zen/Firefox that doesn’t look to be configurable (that will probably be a deal breaker without a lot of retraining my brain) – The Location Bar won’t autocomplete to browsing history first ahead of executing a search for the string in the field. Example: If I’ve been to espn.com, in Arc if I type “es” then the first thing that matches is the history entry and I can just type “es↩” and go. In Firefox, the default first entry is to execute a search for the string “es” and the second entry is “espn.com” if I’m lucky (requiring “es↓↩”). It doesn’t look like this behavior is configurable either.
As a precautionary measure, running an experiment with Zen Browser as an Arc replacement. Given a bit of customization, I was fairly happy with the result. The recent Arc updates are essentially Chromium upgrades which really isn’t surprising given the company’s pivot to Dia (a new AI focused browser). Definitely not for me, so I’m glad Zen is at a point where I can drop it in.
Doga Kobo is on an absolute tear. While this season may not have the punch of the first (and I missed the OP & ED) I loved every aspect (and very glad I waited until the end of the season to binge it)
10/10
Took out my trumpet to record a bit. Can only do about 15 minutes before lips get too tired, but was nice to get it oiled up and making sound again. Still frustrated that I can’t seem to find my SM57s after the remodel. Was holding off on getting new mics thinking they might turn up, but no dice.
None of the charm of Dungeon but with all the production values (trailed off at the end - You could tell they ran out of money in the last third as every action shot was matched with one or two stills) The discrimination conflict just isn’t believable and is far too repetitive.
6/10
Interesting that again there was a huge spike but no long tail in artist accounts moving from Twitter/X to Bluesky. I was expecting a longer tail as what seemed to be a critical mass took action, but maybe it has to do the venn diagram of communities.
I think this latest dick move has finally pushed the rest of the artists I used to follow on twitter to create accounts on bluesky and I’m 100% here for it. My timeline is finally starting to feel like it did a few years ago.
I always thought Blue Box would have been a better story without the “living in the same house” angle, but seeing Wit Studio put the vision on screen is a treat in and of itself.
Tokidoki Bosotto Russiago de Dereru Tonari no Alya-san
This one was unexpected. I thought it would be a show rife with “misunderstanding” hijinks, but the language conceit cleared a path for more in depth character motives and backstories. To be clear, there are definitely hijinks to be had, but with more charm than I was expecting. Doga Kobo knows what they are doing and at this point, you should give every one of their shows a fair shot. Looking forward to season 2.
8/10
The attention, love, and care the production team put into this adaptation is breath taking. Incredible animation, environments, voice acting - An absolute tour de force. The story may be hit or miss depending on what you bring to the table, but the characters are more honest and real than most in this genre.
9/10
Forgot that the iPad version of Photoshop doesn’t let you edit the parameters of the crop box, leaving it exclusively to your meat fingers to try in vein to precise crop an image. No presets for you either. What a joke.
In spite of the heat wave causing delays this week, I got a chance to ride CalTrain’s new electric trains. Have to say, a very worthwhile upgrade. Still, a bit miffed that my stop was dropped from the limited service, but I’ll make due with the local train.
Great animation from PA Works with a heart felt (if not contrived) plot device. The Youtube/creator elements didn’t really resonate with me, so this one is probably just a hit or miss depending on your approach to the subject matter. Still, I enjoyed the show even if I wanted a bit more from the main couple.
6/10
Honestly, I think if Ulysses supported publishing to a micropub server I could make my POSSE system work. That realization is frustrating (I need a third party to make a change) but hopeful (it’s only a single piece of a puzzle and if I can find an alternative everything would work). I think I’ll give iA Writer a shot as a co-alternative (using both clients as the first step in my workflow) and see how far I can get.
It would be nice if there was there was an Espanso iOS app just for reference (no actual text expansion required). Things like forms or clipboard triggers wouldn’t work, but the simple replace ones could be available to copy & paste into other apps.
Considering 11ty as a hugo replacement: It has the requisite performance but would require a lot of config & front matter tweaking to get something that would work (anything that needs a manual forEach ultimately doesn’t make the cut). Probably not worth the effort unless I really wanted to rebuild it from the ground up (and at that point I might be better cutting my losses, archive the existing content, and start from scratch)
Going to overhaul my .dotfiles with stow
Grab a beer, enjoy a Friday night
I love POSSE as a concept and every few months I get fired up that I’m going to completely overhaul everything, only to be reminded that my main problem is I have history (existing posts dating back to 2003) that make things hard to do it the way I want. If I was starting from scratch today, I would consider Ghost (as long as I could identify a good mobiledoc to markdown converter for backup).
Maybe I should just freeze my legacy content and start completely fresh…
The new version of Reeder and Iconfactory’s new Tapestry project are both looking at what it means to be a Universal Timeline. For me, this won’t supplant Reader Classic for my RSS consumption, but it has opened up a possibility for a universal social feed, combining Mastodon and Bluesky. Ideally, a client like Ivory would pick this up, but it’s probably too much to expect of an app that is looking to be the premiere client for a single social network. That’s where Reeder and Tapestry come in.
Reeder is further along with a solid macOS and iOS experience. Tapestry is still in TestFlight and still very much focused on iOS. Both are read-only views into the social networks (which easily covers 90% of my usage) so require some additional workflows when you want to engage (including basic favoriting and boosting, let alone replying). I’ll need to think about what this looks like going forward, but it’s good enough at this point that Reeder’s timeline is my default view into social media going forward.