Writing
๐ Born a Rockefeller - I’ve known since her middle school years that my oldest daughter was destined for a remarkable life - louplummer.lol/born-a-ro…
Today on App Addict - Badgeify - Notifications in Your Menu Bar - In today’s connected environment notifications can be vital or they can be an unwelcome hinderance. It’s different for each individual. Personally, I don’t get so many that it interferes with my work, and I prefer to find out someone is attempting to contact me as soon as possible. I operate… - apps.louplummer.lol/post/badg… #Mac Apps ๐
The Funniest Sites on the Internet
The Funniest Sites on the Internet - A list of places to make you laugh when you are bored or sad - linkage.lol/the-funni…
๐ How to Get Lots of Internet Points - Getting lots of “engagement” on your “content” is gross. Just be a good writer about interesting stuff and follow IndyWeb principles. - louplummer.lol/how-to-ge…
Updated my /now page with the book I’m reading, the TV show we’re watching, what tastes good this week, what I wrote, where I went on the Internet.
Minor League Baseball
Minor League Baseball - Minor League baseball is an affordable and accessible family activity and can build fond memories - linkage.lol/minor-lea…
๐ Easy Things vs. Hard Things - We all decided what skills make a person an exceptional athlete, but what about other talents and shortcomings? - louplummer.lol/easy-thin…
Ramen is Classy
Ramen is Classy - Once a staple of poor college students and prison inmates, ramen is today a respected restaurant dish - linkage.lol/ramen-is-…
๐ Breaking Things - I have a history of fighting computers until the wee hours of the morning after breaking them after questionable decisions - louplummer.lol/breaking-…
Today on App Addict - Topgrade - Upgrade All the Things - One of the more useful Homebrew apps I’ve found is topgrade-rs, the currently maintained fork of topgrade, an updater for Homebrew, the Mac App Store, MacOS, VSCode extensions and Rust. It is supremely easy to use. Just enter the command topgrade in Terminal and sit back while it does the… - apps.louplummer.lol/post/topg… ๐
Tattoo Facts
Tattoo Facts - A full third of Americans have at least one tattoo and people have benn getting them for over 5,000 years. - linkage.lol/tattoo-fa…
๐ Non-Toxic Masculinity - Testosterone fueled chest thumping and belittling behaviors aren’t required and aren’t appreciated - louplummer.lol/non-toxic…
Slow Horses - The Books
Slow Horses - The Books - The hit TV show, Slow Horses, is based on a series of spy novels by Mick Herron about misfit MI5 agents led by Jackson Lamb. - linkage.lol/slow-hors…
๐ Books and More Books, Never Enough - I am a lifelong reader of a great variety of books, lowbrow and highbrow and I’ll never have enough of them. - louplummer.lol/books-and…
Today on App Addict - MacTube - An Ad-Free YouTube Player and More - Mac Tube is an ad-free YouTube player currently also supporting AppleTV, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Max, Disney+, Peacock, Tubi and CrunchyRoll as well as Vimeo, Twitch, Ted Talks, BigThink and TikTok. The developer’s website doesn’t it make it clear, but the Mac App Store version of the app, known… - apps.louplummer.lol/post/pear… #Mac Apps ๐
Apple Watch Fall Detection and My Latest Accident
Apple Watch Fall Detection and My Latest Accident - Apple Watches from Series 4 on up feature a robust and valuable fall detection feature that activated for me after an accident. - linkage.lol/apple-wat…
Everyone Talks About the Weather
๐ Everyone Talks About the Weather - We may feel like we are in control of our environment, but mother nature has ways to prove that to be a fallacy. - louplummer.lol/everyone-…
Moustaches Everywhere
Moustaches Everywhere - The moustache has made a comeback, and I didn’t know it until I traveled away from provincial little city - linkage.lol/moustache…
My Partner
๐ My Partner - I think my wife is awesome and she just keeps getting better. - louplummer.lol/my-partne…
People and Blogs
People and Blogs - The newsletter and website, People and Blogs, by Italian blogger, Manu, offers some of the best the IndyWeb has to offer - linkage.lol/people-an…