For too long this week I underestimated the power of a shower and some stretches. And breathing.
Side hustle
I would like standard keyboard shortcut conventions on macOS for showing sidebars and side panels and whatever. I’ve got to remember one for BBEdit (cmd-0), another set for different Ulysses modes (cmd-1,2,3,4), no option for Notes (yes, I write stuff in all of these apps, maybe that’s part of the problem), something else for Things (cmd-/). I understand the “side bar" experience is slightly more complicated in a couple of these cases, but I feel like there could be a default behavior apps could add subtlety on top of.
I don’t appreciate notifications from apps that I actually want to use (for how long though, given this?) that are essentially coupons and marketing and not critical transactional updates, with no settings to “unsubscribe” from a type of notification. You know who…
Tooling around Heritage and Kingman Islands in DC today and trying to maintain distance … from other people and my house.
Crossing my fingers for John and Fiona Prine (and everyone else, and myself… but right now, John Prine and family).
It's getting better?
The Internet is getting better (yes, parts of it, or the people and businesses behind it continue to be rubbish) with all this… enjoying catching-up with what Kottke.org and LaughingSquid.com (some old school aggregation and curation) have corralled over the past week. Digging Brian May’s Instagram posts. There are many little reasons to hope. For now I’m focusing on individual creativity and sharing. (Without devolving into a power politics analysis, we gotta do more than hope.
Our (the U.S.’s) late-December 2019/January for the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 for the Climate Crisis was 30-40 years ago.
On compromise
Some compromises slow things down in order to turn a path forward into manageable steps and gain traction for each one, affording for inclusion, time for everyone to learn, agree, disagree, adjust, correct — iterate. That’s nice when there’s time and good faith. It’s hard, can be complicated, full of nuance and tolerance of opposing skepticism or inclinations, harder for those with strong convictions, clarity of vision, and particularly the preponderance of data.
Time has passed, stuff happened
Plenty has happened since I last bothered to post here. I got to travel a bit more, my wife gave birth to our son, I’ve been mucking around on the preview of Planetary, I got promoted. I’ve gotten overwhelmed, stuck, unstuck, stuck again. Working on it.
Woodford in the solstice sunset.
