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In an effort to both reduce the subscriptions I’m on the hook for and streamline the apps and services I use, I had a thought to migrate from TextExpander’s snippet expansion to Alfred. I use a fraction of what TextExpander can actually do, and Alfred’s implementation is rather good (and actually a bit faster). The thing I forgot is the fact that TextExpander’s “thing” is that they are effectively cross-platform. I don’t really need it to work on Windows, but I do use TE expansion in the few apps that support it on iOS (namely Bear and Ulysses, and exclusively on the iPad).

It will be a long, long time before an app like Alfred is even allowed on iOS (and hell, even TE has to partner with apps to offer the expansion, rather than it being a system-level thing). I feel like I might need to execute a U-turn…

My last two remaining threads to Twitter are effectively cut — Reeder’s RSS capability and my dinky little app to get images from liked tweets are both shutdown (with no realistic hope of them ever returning). I was still getting value from my timeline via RSS, but not enough that I want to trudge through the official apps for it.

Spring 2023 is simply insane! So many shows!

I think if I wasn’t heavily invested in Bear.app for notes, I would readily embrace the Obsidian ecosystem. I feel like I’ve been waiting for Bear 2 for years at this point and if it weren’t for the faint promise of it being released sometime this year, I would probably have migrated at this point.

POSSE - Publish Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere

https://indieweb.org/POSSE

I recently came across this as a more formal definition of what I’ve tried to set up for myself. In truth, this is too simplistic to capture the real boundaries between media silos, but it’s a helpful place to start. I suspect a longer post is incoming…

So it turns out Ulysses on iOS does support using TextExpander snippets!! This is huge! I really appreciate the distraction-free writing environment that the iPad provides — this checks off one more friction point.

Finally making some time to finish Summertime Render - If you are a fan of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni this one is highly recommended! An absolute trip…

Just finished the new Willow series with the kids. They loved it and it was the perfect level of nostalgia-camp for those of us who were fans of the movie as kids ourselves. Seeing Warwick Davis go from a kid in the movie to an “elder” in the series was trippy. Loved the cast. Loved the irreverent references and humor. Great fun all around.

OMG! New Hiroyuki Sawano album in 3 days!

Winter 2023 😳 is upon us!

Starting out with a wide sampling, which I’m fairly sure will be trimmed down quite a bit. Very excited for Tomo-chan – absolutely loved the manga.