NANOWRIMO 2023
As it’s the last day of November I’ve decided to call it quits well before midnight. I ran out of steam and have barely cranked out anything the last few days.
I did it though. I wrote more than 50K words in a month. None of them are any good or even form a coherent narrative when taken together but I physically did it.
Now for step two: Do it again, better.
FUCK U/SPEZ
Reddit (the nice parts) was my favourite “new” place on the internet for a long time. But take old.reddit.com and my beloved Apollo away and you take away both the point and the pleasure.
Considering that neither old.reddit nor RSS will be allowed to hang around should Reddit survive this kerfuffle in a reasonable fashion, and the manner in which this played out, I’m taking my toys and moving to kbin.
Evil, greedy fuckers all the way down. So, fuck Reddit in general, and fuck u/spez in particular.
MASTODON APP FLAVOUR OF THE MONTH
I moved away from Toot! for Mastodon to Ice Cubes for Mastodon, and was very happy with it, especially as the updates kept rolling it. However, I subscribed to Ivory for Mastodon once it was available on the iOS App Store, and it's very good and felt so comfortable to use as a former Tweetbot user.
Yet I kept flipping between Ivory and Ice Cubes as both apps almost had every thing I want but each had their own delightful touches I appreciated which wasn't present in the other.
Recently I tried out Mona for Mastodon, and it very quickly became my go-to app on iOS. It has everything I want and need, is very customisable, and you can buy it, no subscription needed. I love it, and so far the only thing I'm not a fan of is sometimes needing to press a Load more posts button. I can happily live with that.
WEEKLY LINKS 23-01
Software
- Obsidian - PKM. Plain text. Markdown. Extensible. I love it so much!
- Mastodon Apps Feature Comparison - (Probably already outdated).
MacOS
- Linkjar - MacOS app to “Save interesting stuff and read it offline”.
- Confectionery - MacOS app to “Take delicious screenshots of your websites”.
- Amazing AI - Apple silicon MacOS app to make AI generated images locally.
- DiffusionBee - MacOS app to make AI generated images locally.
iOS
- Toot! - After development on Metatext paused, Toot! is the iOS Mastodon app I’m using while I wait for Ivory.
Cosplay
- Cosplayer’s Ultimate Guide to Eva Foam - Newly published, this looks really interesting.
Fonts
- Where to find fonts for Apple platforms - Apple system fonts
- Pixtura12 Medieval Pixel Font - Extremely cool mediaevalesque pixel art font.
Internet
- Bring Back Blogging - Encouraging people to do what it says on the tin.
- ooh.directory - Lots of blogs!
Fashion
- Is It Classist To Be Against Fast Fashion? - Very interesting article.
Art
- Rider by Sergey Grechanyuk - I love this style of art.