TRST_Blog

Penned January of last year, I cannot express how useful this would be to capture links. For reference, I read an article on my Mac while I was updating it, tried to share an article, searched the Internet for a way to do it, thought about hacking together a simple AppleScript or LaunchBar template or whatever, eventually realised how much time I jut wasted, and finally, pulled up my phone, opened the my iCloud tabs and captured the link along with this screed of a post.

Please Ulysses team, pretty please consider adding your app to the Mac share sheet.

Another pivot, another burned bridge and again, publications pay as support for subscriptions on Medium^[1] are abruptly terminated.

This is a moment of real pain for the publishing industry. Unfortunately, there’s no easy answers. Whomever was lured over should have stayed on their own properties, true. But we must remember they would have done, if they felt they had any legs to stand on. It’s clear in hindsight what should have happened, but I imagine it felt just as obvious that this was a better deal.

What dies when the traditional publishing model goes is a trusted brand with an established voice and norms. Smaller players have a lot of room to grow into the publishing space, so long as overhead stays low, but we may never be able to lean on reputable local publications again. News, information and expertise will need to be found through smaller, probably one-person brands which might cause even further exacerbation of the signal v. noise problem. See the growth of YouTube and Instagram influencers as the bellwether here.

(H/T Owen Williams’ Charged)

You may have to set the date on your machine to just after the release of El Capitan to install properly. Use the date command in the terminal before starting the installation.

Useful, if you’re dual booting or just generally goofing around on an old Intel Mac.

I realise that I just wrote about rethinking my text editors, but I ran into this one and was rather intrigued. Focused on providing full client-side encryption for users (including the free tier) and an ethos that includes longevity, Standard Notes is a service that I am going to keep an eye on.

What a bananas piece of technology. Not terribly helpful to think of as a phone, per se. Rather, if RED can execute—which at this point I’d be surprised if they couldn’t given their manufacturing record—it’s better to consider this the processing module for a lower-end RED camera. Significantly cheaper than their current “low-end” offering but probably pretty potent if/when it arrives. Clever use of modular components from the phone manufacturing ecosystem glued together with some audacious ingenuity. Similar in thought to the mobile industry’s playbook but oh so different in execution.

I’m an unabashed VIM user but I want to use the features we’ve come to expect in software like Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code. Most modern text editors have a “VIM-mode” plugin, sometimes embedding NeoVIM inside the editor to deal with modes and movements, but it never feels as responsive as I want. This might be my middle way.

One of the first professional apps I bought for my budding web development career 😋 I’m glad to hear that Espresso will live on.

I heard this poem read aloud and, for whatever reason, I felt the weight of our collective cloth. In this moment of clarity, I remembered that even though it may seem that I have but little to offer, often that is enough to connect us together.