Writing
- Obsidian - an extensible note taking app
- Clean Shot X - the best screen shot utility
- Raycast - an app launcher that handles much more
- Keyboard Maestro - the ultimate Mac automation tool
- Microsoft Edge - my choice for web browsing for reasons
- PopClip - a text selection utility
- TextExpander - a snippets app
- Drafts - a text automation app
- Day One - the preeminent journaling app for macOS
- Default Folder X - an enhancement for open and save dialog boxes
- Hazel - a Mac automation tool for file management
- DropZone 4- a file shelf utility
- Toyviewer - a Preview replacement for images with editing capabilities
- PathFinder - a replacement for Finder (although I might opt for Qspace)
- ScrapPaper - a menu bar utility for floating notes
- BarTender - I didn’t buy into the hysteria, I just set up some Little Snitch rules
- Better Touch Tool - multi-purpose automation app
- Find Any File - a search utility
- Things 3- a task manager
- Outlook - for better or worse, it’s the email app I use to get work done (note to self: do better)
Free Blogging Advice
Free Blogging Advice , Seven Practical Steps and Services for Getting Started on the IndyWeb , louplummer.lol/free-blog…
My Top 10 Police Shows of All Time
My Top 10 Police Shows of All Time , A list of American and British police procedurals from the 80s to the present , louplummer.lol/my-top-10…
It’s Saturday, so I updated my /now page with info on my new project with @jedda@social.lol , a blog directory, plus info on what TV I watched, all of the blog posts from this week, what new piece of kit I picked up and what new bookmarks I found.
The Power of Online Community - After six months on the Indy Web, on Mastodon, Micro.blog, Scribbles and BearBlog, I share what I have learned about online community without algorithm driven social media.
The Power of Online Community
The Power of Online Community , I share my experiences with online communities and discuss the many benefits they can offer. , louplummer.lol/the-power…
Mindhunter was a Netflix show that although it only ran for two seasons, was a high quality portrayal of the early days of the FBI’s profiling unit wirh some chilling performances of serial killers like Charles Manson, Richard Speck and Ed Kemper.
I See Color - When people talk about race, they use the line “I don’t see color” to prove they aren’t prejudiced. I make the argument that you better see color, or you will find yourself in the same old segregated spaces you’ve been in before. It takes intentionality to end society’s bad habits.
I’m not a fan of Steve Jobs hagiography at all, but the other Steve, the humble one, the nice one, the generous one - him I like The Right Steve
Getting Caught With the Feels - My personal experiences with quiet crying, emotional vulnerability, and coping mechanisms, highlighting the power of the written word in self-expression and emotional regulation
Taking a look at Internet Trolls, their origin, history and most infamous campaign, Gamergate, the one that gave rise to the alt-right, r/theDonald and the Trumpification of disaffected young white men
Looking at the quandy caused by feeling optimistic about my own circumstances while so many others are in a panic. Writing this brought me to tears
After water, tea is the most popular beverage in the world and I do my best to to consume my share of it in a way much different than my fellow southerners.
We use the phrase “Absolute Legend” so often it loses meaning. Well, here is a real legend, Grandma Gatewood, the first woman to solo hike the entire Appalachian Trail, at age 68 in 1955. Link
if I Could Only Install 20 Mac Applications
I’m rather proud of having more than 400 apps installed on my Mac. According to Lingon X, I have 102 apps either as login items or running in the background as helper apps. I have a hobby blog, AppAddict where I write an app review every day, always something I have downloaded, installed and used on my personal Mac. I love my Setapp subscription because it gives me an evergrowing library of high quality apps to try out for the same monthly price. But if all this goodness evaporated suddenly and i was forced to run vanilla Mac OS plus twenty apps to get my work done, which out of all the ones that own would I choose? Answering this requires some tough choices. may of these apps I have been using for more than a decade, although a few have been adopted in the past year.
A riff on what it’s like being sick as an adult vs. being sick as a kid with a hat to tip some of my favorite care givers.
A while back I published My Rules for Me, my self-written guidelines for living. This guy has 100 rules and they are all worth reading.
POSSE, Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, is a foundational tenet of the Indy Web. Do you do it? How? On cross posting
It’s Saturday and time to update my /now page with what I’ve been reading (and what I quit reading), watching, writing, buying and browsing. Lots of stuff!
Mixtape Garden is a free service that crafts downloadable mixtapes crafted from the YouTube videos you specify
Time is What You Make of It - someone asked me when I had time for myself because I write a lot, but my writing time is my “me time”. It’s a privilege, not a chore.
