Surprised to see there’s not more shortcut keys in the Micro.blog Mac App. Spent 20minutes with Keyboard Maestro but ultimately I’d prefer to see reply, favourite and view conversation actions hard-coded. // @manton

Growing the beard a bit. Haven’t yet got past the scruffy and itchy stage.

I’m still really not enjoying dance of reorganising apps and folders on iOS 12. I’m really hoping this gets fixed in iOS 13. After 5 minutes of trying to move the Micro.blog app to folder on my dock I’ve given up. It can live in it’s current place for a few more weeks at least.

I’ve learned that on the 12.9 iPad Pro (2018) you can stick the Apple Pencil inverted, with tip near the right edge. The magnetic adhesion is strong enough to hold the Pencil there, without the needless constant charging.

I like running my work-issued MacBook to my iMac using target display mode. But the cable or MacBook only has to move fractions of a millimetre for the signal to be lost.

From child refugee to president: Latvia’s Vaira Vike-Freiberga. BBC News.

We’re all immigrants. Immigration is 2nd or more generation immigrants arguing against the rights of 1st generation immigrants.

Thanks. But I’ll pass on drinking the rest.

Ikigai micro.derekpeden.com

A £9000 dog bed? How is this even possible? micro.derekpeden.com

I feel terror at the thought of Priti Patel in a position of power.

No mention of No Deal. derekpeden.com

Opened my MacBook to find my entire document has resorted to Times New Roman font. But then it is Microsoft Word like it’s 1999. I’m expecting Clippy to reappear any second to help me.

Watched “Happiness”. Very clever if ultimately depressing.

Clearing physical media and rediscovering the pros and cons of holding so much. micro.derekpeden.com

These people should book a cruise across the pacific. BBC on the Flat Earth.

Found Lost Boys playing some random channel. Everyone looks so young, both the adult actors and the child actors.

There’s something disturbing about advertising on the top of the fuel filler nozzles at the garage. But even more disturbing when it’s ads for vaping products. Cause that’s really what you need to be thinking about when pouring litres of flammable liquid.

On seeing BBC News reporting Japan resumes commercial whaling, my thoughts immediately turn to what can the world stop buying from Japanese companies. Sadly the countries largest exports appear to be in Vehicles and… micro.derekpeden.com

I’m regretting selling my mini-Disc portable and HiFi unit years ago. There’s something to be said for small, portable but tangible hardware like that.

Thoughts on Ive Leaving Apple. micro.derekpeden.com

The sound of distant thunder…

I love my AirPods, but only to a point. As useful as our devices are, they should never creates barrier to real people and real life. Digiday.com

France hits record temperature of 45.9C (114.6F) according to BBC. But climate change is fake news, so that’s all right then.

Our wee princess. Minnie looks like she’s sitting on a throne in the garden.

In travelling to central Europe with Apple Watch 4 with a Carrot Weather complication I’ve seen just how Red the temperature can be. It makes a change to make it out of various shade of Turquoise.