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Conor McClure with the smack down on health: The takeaway should be this: you don’t have to be a slave to the numbers to get the results you want. I would in fact argue the opposite: succumbing to the conventional wisdom of weight loss will only lead to unsustainable habits and disappointment. Take the long…
Conor McClure with the smack down on health:
The takeaway should be this: you don’t have to be a slave to the numbers to get the results you want. I would in fact argue the opposite: succumbing to the conventional wisdom of weight loss will only lead to unsustainable habits and disappointment. Take the long road, and be in it for life.
Low commitment, low bullshit.
I’ve struggled with the personal journal concept my entire life. It’s something that I envy when I see others doing it, even back when it was a spiral notebook journal, but no matter what I do, I can’t keep it up for more than a week or two.
And I love Day One — it is a gorgeous app. I love many of the other journal type apps too. But none of them stick. And it’s not a problem with apps, it’s a problem with my approach.
I mean, I got some disk space back and learned somethings.
Just about every 3-4 months I used to reformat my computer, doing a fresh install of the entire system. It was the best way to speed up the computer and clean out a borked registry.
I am, of course, talking about when I used a PC. I could do the whole process in an evening, and thought it was just an elite skill I had.
Michael Tsai: Presumably the GPS does not perform as well without access to cellular towers or Wi-Fi. But this could potentially save a lot of battery life when you’re in an area with poor cell service. Plus, it would let you track your flight process while on an airplane, if you had the maps preloaded.…
Michael Tsai:
Presumably the GPS does not perform as well without access to cellular towers or Wi-Fi. But this could potentially save a lot of battery life when you’re in an area with poor cell service. Plus, it would let you track your flight process while on an airplane, if you had the maps preloaded.
I can attest this is the case in 8.4, as my photos show from my recent flight. Phone completely in airplane mode, wifi off, all my photos are geotagged. Which is pretty neat as I snapped photos out of the plane and had no clue what I was looking at.
Alik Griffin comparing the Fuji X-T1 and Sony A7r: My take away from all this is that you have two RAW files that are geared for two different users and it comes down to preference. Would you rather apply noise reduction yourself in post and have a sharper image at low ISO, or would you…
Alik Griffin comparing the Fuji X-T1 and Sony A7r:
My take away from all this is that you have two RAW files that are geared for two different users and it comes down to preference. Would you rather apply noise reduction yourself in post and have a sharper image at low ISO, or would you rather have a cleaner image at high ISO to start with? For me I would rather have clean high ISO since sharpness is a lot easier to apply than noise reduction. And I think most average Joe photographers would prefer this as well.
As with cameras on your iPhone, these days it is less about the sensor and a lot more about the image processor. No doubt in my mind that Fuji is leading the way in that regard.
Make people want to read your article. That’s step one.
Over two years ago I wrote a post about how to design a site for reading experience. In that post I explored visual clutter by looking at ad placements, image use, and image placement, as a method of determining what attracts your eye, and thus detracts from the reading experience.
My first stab at talking about a readable site was very focused on clutter, and yet very flawed, because of the fact that I looked just at clutter, and not more elements of the site design.
A good, readable, design is far more than just clutter.
A few thoughts on how summer brings peace in the home.
A few thoughts on how summer brings peace in the home.
This is a repost of the audio originally published to Spoken.co
This is a repost of the audio originally published to Spoken.co
This is a repost of the audio originally published to Spoken.co
This is a repost of the audio originally published to Spoken.co
How the iPad can compete with the MacBook.
Now that I have posted such a positive MacBook review, especially after talking so much about just wanting an ‘iPad Pro’, a lot of people have been wondering where the iPad fits in for me. That’s a tough question as I don’t see many huge benefits of my iPad Air over my MacBook.
Size isn’t a great advantage anymore, and battery life is par.
I am about to go on a longer trip, and I won’t be taking the MacBook, but that is largely because I don’t plan to do anything but read on that trip. If were planning on writing at all — I would most certainly take the MacBook over my iPad.
Brent Simmons: Write the apps you want to write in your free time and out of love for the platform and for those specific apps. Take risks. Make those apps interesting and different. Don’t play it safe. If you’re not expecting money, you have nothing to lose. Brent’s post reads a little bleak, but the…
Brent Simmons:
Write the apps you want to write in your free time and out of love for the platform and for those specific apps. Take risks. Make those apps interesting and different. Don’t play it safe. If you’re not expecting money, you have nothing to lose.
Brent’s post reads a little bleak, but the upside is that there is actually a huge upside if the app is good (and gains market traction, which is part of the “good” I am talking about) — and I mean monetarily. Don’t spend a year working on it — get something solid out there and send me an email. I actually love talking about good apps.
It turns out I am not much of a power user anymore these days. Go figure.
After years of dedication to LaunchBar, I made the move to Spotlight a while back. It’s been about 5 months now, and I honestly am perfectly happy. That’s odd to say, because Spotlight was something I always wanted to strip out of OS X, but with Yosemite (and now El Capitan), Spotlight really has become a powerhouse.
What prompted this move has nothing to do with what Spotlight can and cannot do. It came down to an issue with my computer. For whatever reason my computer showed the pinwheel every time I invoked LaunchBar and I would have to wait quite some time to use the app. Naturally this kills usefulness eventually I figured it out and I got it fixed.
After I fixed it though I wondered: do I need this tool? Does Spotlight work better?
This is a very interesting post from Álvaro Serrano and I mostly agree with it. Either way it is worth your time. In a section leading up to the below quote Serrano talks about The David and how it likely would not be any better if it had been made with more advanced tools. In…
This is a very interesting post from Álvaro Serrano and I mostly agree with it. Either way it is worth your time.
In a section leading up to the below quote Serrano talks about The David and how it likely would not be any better if it had been made with more advanced tools. In theory I agree, and take the point, even if that is a hard statement to prove.
Then Serrano starts a new section of the article, in which he says:
That’s great if you only ever plan to shoot with Olympus cameras and it’ll definitely allow you to capture some gorgeous images but at the end of the day, you haven’t learned anything, and it hasn’t made you a better photographer because it didn’t take any effort or knowledge on your part.
Worst of all, technology can cheapen the end result. If all it takes to capture a scintillating long exposure is pressing a button, where’s the artistic merit? How is that image compelling in any way?
What the hell? I can’t agree with this at all. Knowledge of the tools is not, in any way, a prerequisite for art. Art, photography, or any other creative pursuit is in no way lessened or enhanced because of the tools used to make it.
If someone takes a gorgeous photo, it remains gorgeous no matter if the camera was set to manual or set on auto. Art is art. It’s the vision to create the art that matters, not the knowledge of it.
Bruce Schneier: But if everyone uses it all of the time, encryption ceases to be a signal. No one can distinguish simple chatting from deeply private conversation. The government can’t tell the dissidents from the rest of the population. Every time you use encryption, you’re protecting someone who needs to use it to stay alive.
Bruce Schneier:
But if everyone uses it all of the time, encryption ceases to be a signal. No one can distinguish simple chatting from deeply private conversation. The government can’t tell the dissidents from the rest of the population. Every time you use encryption, you’re protecting someone who needs to use it to stay alive.
Mike Schmitz: Another great feature in Ulysses is versioning, which allows you to go back to a previous version of something you’ve written in Ulysses. This allows you to edit ruthlessly, as you can always go back and get that sentence you deleted a few days ago if you decide it really should be there.
Mike Schmitz:
Another great feature in Ulysses is versioning, which allows you to go back to a previous version of something you’ve written in Ulysses. This allows you to edit ruthlessly, as you can always go back and get that sentence you deleted a few days ago if you decide it really should be there.
Wow people are doing some really great stuff.
Wow people are doing some really great stuff.
Revising my OmniFocus contexts to make them less stupid, I mean to make them useful, of course.
I hadn’t touched my contexts inside of OmniFocus in, well, years. There was a ton of cruft in there stemming from various different techniques and ideas that I have tried over the years. Device based context, person based context, time based contexts, and location based contexts. For the better part of a year, all of my new tasks in OmniFocus simply went under the Mac context and — well — that’s not really using the tool very well.
But I struggled, because dicking around with my contexts is not productive, is tedious, and frankly it is quite annoying. More than any of that: I didn’t have a single idea of what to change it to.
So, anyone make a curved standing desk?
So, anyone make a curved standing desk?
