From My 100 Strangers Project - Ricardo and his five-year old twins (yes, there are two of them in the photo) were downtown on a rainy winter afternoon looking for some hot chocolate at the local coffee shop. Sounded like a good idea to me, so I joined them.
App Tamer from St. Claire Software
Today on App Addict - App Tamer from St. Claire Software - St. Claire software makes an app that can help control heat and fan noise, extend your battery time and increase the amount of CPU power available for you frontmost application. App Tamer comes preconfigured to automatically reduce the CPU and battery usage of Safari, Firefox, Google Chrome, Spotlight, Time Machine,… - apps.louplummer.lol/post/app-… #Mac Apps #Blaugust2024
I think Apple can either take a commission on all commerce they want on the App Store or they can be the exclusive place to get software for you iPhone and iPad, but they cannot be both. - Matt Birchler on Bitchtree
Mastodon Tools
Mastodon Tools - Three tools for finding new people to follow on Mastodon and for analyzing your account activity. - linkage.lol/mastodon-… #Blaugust2024
Traveling Man
Traveling Man - My past and future travel plans and all the reasons I’ve had to explore - louplummer.lol/traveling… #Blaugust2024
From my 100 Strangers project - Mike said he was on the way back to his downtown office after a 30-mile ride out in the country.
BatchMod - Classic Utility, Abandoned But Still Partly Functional
Today on App Addict - BatchMod - Classic Utility, Abandoned But Still Partly Functional - Back in the days when Apple still made hardware servers and an operating system to go with them (at $1K a copy) we used to have to deal with hundreds of user home directories in my line of work as a K-12 system admin. Most users files got deleted at… - apps.louplummer.lol/post/batc… #Blaugust2024
Awesome Self Hosted
Awesome Self Hosted - Links to dozens of self-hosting solutions to replace SaaSS providers - linkage.lol/awesome-s… #Blaugust2024
A Man Shopping
A Man Shopping - My relationship with shopping from the mallrat days of the 80s through the Amazon age - louplummer.lol/a-man-sho… #Blaugust2024
From my 100 Strangers project - Elise was selling art, mostly pencil drawings and watercolors, at a street fair in Raleigh. She said businesses had been pretty good, but she was hot and tired and ready to go home.
SilentKnight - Free Security Checks for Your Mac
Today on App Addict - SilentKnight - Free Security Checks for Your Mac - SilentKnight from The Eclectic Light Company is a free utility to check the security settings of your Mac. it will let you know of any uninstalled security upadtea you may be missing and offer to download and install them from you. It’s often better to run these updates from Software… - apps.louplummer.lol/post/sile… #Mac Apps #Blaugust2024
“Without labor nothing prospers.” — Sophocles
No celebrating the grind life, celebrating all the workers who actually make stuff, the under-appreciated bedrock of society.
A Great Search Engine for the Indy Web - Submit Your Site
A Great Search Engine for the Indy Web - Submit Your Site - Searchmysite.net is a niche search engine for the Indy Web that contains ad free user submitted content - linkage.lol/a-great-s… #Blaugust2024
Tattoos Tell a Story
Tattoos Tell a Story - The story of my three tattoos, all gotten under very different circumstances - louplummer.lol/tattoos-t… #Blaugust2024
Time for an update to my /now page with info on a great book by Scottish writer James Rebanks, a TV show about ancient Rome, links to all of this week’s blog posts, an alternative to streaming music and all of the pages I bookmarked this week.
This Week's Bookmarks - Sandwiches, Movies, Alcohol Preferences, Abandoned Buildings, Books, Warhol, Computer OS
List of sandwiches - Wikipedia
How Going to the Movies Is Changing, in Charts - WSJ
Charted: Alcohol Preferences Around the World (visualcapitalist.com)
12 of the world’s most fascinating abandoned buildings (bbc.com)
Find Your Next Favorite Book - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Rare Digital Portrait by Andy Warhol for Sale for $26 Million | PetaPixel
50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution • The Register
From my 100 Strangers Project - Shayonna and her sisters were handing out flyers for a fundraiser to benefit a foundation that helps people in need in their community.
Paletro - Add a Command Palette to Any App
Today on App Addict - Paletro - Add a Command Palette to Any App - Paletro, by appmakes.io, is a $6.99 utility that gives you a command palette in any app. Large, multifunction apps with many commands like VScode, Sublime Text or Obsidian can have dozens of menu commands and good luck to the intrepid user who tries to remember them all. That’s why those… - apps.louplummer.lol/post/pale… #Mac Apps #Blaugust2024
A group of instructors from the Special Operations language school at Ft. Liberty play cricket at my neighborhood elementary school on weekends. They very graciously let me watch and take photos.
One of my favorite quotes of all time -
“I will not stay silent so that you can stay comfortable.” - Mary Engelbreit