Ooohhhh. I like this! A case for the Happy Hacking Keyboard.

I’m enjoying the ‘Ancillary Justice’ trilogy but keep being haunted by thoughts of Iain M. Banks with just a soupçon of a Star Trek’s Borg.

Pulled in two directions on when I Update to Catalina. Waiting for my backup software to be compatible is very important obviously. On the other hand there’s an all new Carrot Weather for Mac 10.15.

I am also really enjoying the Spoke Pen and it’s cousin the Baux pen. I do like orange!

I am really liking my LAMY 2000 Bauhaus. At the end of the day, it’s just a plastic LAMY in a different colour but it’s rather nice.

Looks like the latest version of Icro has lost its gestures for conversations and replying. I’d kind of turned them into muscle memory.

🔗 📚 Over on my main blog, a review of the book Vietnam by Max Hastings.

Checking my compatibility with Mac OS Catalina I’m not surprised the two big culprits are Adobe and anything associated with my ScanSnap scanner.

BBEdit 13? That’s a bit of a no-brainer decision - upgrading now…

Any Flickr users know of an iOS app that allow the embed code for photos to be copied? I’d like to be able to do this for blog posts.

I wonder whether there’s much correlation between the zoom level in Microsoft Word and the age of the author?

It’s pay day and I just treated myself to a Kinu M47 coffee grinder. My word, it feels beautifully engineered and thoughtfully designed.

I am hoping the iOS 13.1 sorts out some of the islet experience mess the mail app has become.

One day I will research the long history of the English confectionary trade’s fascination with Parma violet flavours. It baffles me, and I can only assume they were once thought to ward off The Pox or something.

I am really liking Feedbin’s native app for iOS. It’s super simple and gets the job done.

The Trainee Artist has been hard at work in DJCAD¹ this week.

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1. Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design.

I can’t quite believe iOS 13 responds by saying “Curation complete” after I send a photo to my daughter!

That word has already been diluted to homeopathic proportions and I can only imagine how actual curators must hate how it’s used now.

‘Animated’ car indicators. An excellent example that just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should!

🔗 So much of this rings true with my own feelings about my daughter starting university. it also helps to have this set in a place I recognise so clearly.

This afternoon’s listening. The ‘Dave’ artwork really stands out at the bigger album size.

My Red Oxx CC Rider is proving to be The One Bag To Rule Them All.

This is going to be a tough and hopeful weekend. Daughter no. 1 moves off to a new city to start art school. Hard to lose daily contact with the girl I once could carry on my forearm but so great to see her starting her own journey in the wider world.

📚 I just finished reading Joseph Conrad’s ‘The Secret Agent’ and enjoyed it. In particular, towards the end of the novel there is a scene with the agent and his wife that is unbelievably tense. I also wondered whether one character in the book is what we would now call Autistic.

I am really enjoying playing with Airtable for my lightweight database needs. Quick and easy to use while being fully cross-platform and attractively designed.

Exploring something different with photography to try and shake things up a bit. This is an imagined coastline, made up from multiple coastlines.