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I think my favourite thing about Micro.blog is replies of (effectively) arbitrary length.

I love Paul Ford.

Speaking of Apple Watch, I still think Apple should make a smartband. Here’s the short version why.

Surprised to hear Jason Snell say on the latest Upgrade that Apple didn’t need to upgrade the Watch this year. This seemed to be because he’s given up hope of battery advances rather than a belief that the Watch is perfect. Let’s demand a little more from Apple.

Having difficulty finding a robust solution for archiving all my e-mail.

I use Safari’s Reading List all the time but I wish it could be sorted so that oldest links were first :(

I’m not sure I’ve loved anything as much as I love this album cover.

I would be interested in a Clojure Native akin to Scala Native.

Do I have any friends who listen to The Rewatchables?

I’m sure I’ve said this before but it is surprisingly difficult to find high quality versions of the middle seasons of Law & Order (the original series).

Regarding my comment on Tuesday about Yahoo being incorrectly blamed for Tumblr’s failure, here’s a former Director of Platform Engineering saying something similar.

My Apple Watch Series 2 seems on the verge of giving up the ghost again. Its battery magically got better the last time this happened, I’m less confident that’ll be the case this time around.

I find the discussion about Tumblr failing because Yahoo bought it oddly disconnected from reality. Tumblr had years to turn itself into an advertising juggernaut. It couldn’t do that and was lucky Yahoo paid what it did.

So it seems like if you have a bunch of data files (i.e. PST files) open in Outlook and you reorder one, you lose the ability for new data files you open to appear alphabetically ordered in the existing list of data files. That’s just gone forever now.

I’m spending my holiday Monday fixing my Synology.

Does anyone else use Reading List on the Mac? Do you notice that stories don’t disappear from the list automatically like they seem to on iOS? Is there a trick I don’t know?

I can’t shake the feeling that I forgot to back up something from my Digital Ocean account before I deleted it.

I’m a little surprised YouTube only has one upload of the scene between Tom Cruise and Jon Voight in Mission: Impossible where Cruise is listening to Voight’s lie while imagining the truth. Probably the best scene in the movie.

I really want to write a trilogy of blog posts about Pixar’s Cars movies.

Hey, remember how I lamented yesterday that that essay by Craig Mod about fast software was trapped inside an e-mail newsletter? No more! Now if only I could use this power to get Longform to create RSS feeds for their author pages.