I'm back home after a two-week vacation. I think that using my Scribbles.page blog is the best place for an update. So here we go. 

1. I had a great vacation and visited many wonderful places, like the south of Italy and Spain. I really liked Ibiza. It's not only a party place, trust me. There are great spots to visit there, provided you rent a car. Photo processing is underway. Check my Pixelfed page and Glass page to discover my discoveries. 🌅
2. I felt completely disconnected from my work and mostly from my digital world. I'm slowly reconnecting to the latter as I try to read past news and get ready for the next iteration of my newsletter. From what I'm seeing, a lot of news about AI, OpenAI and Apple. Poor Apple. More to come. 📨
3. Woke up early this morning, thanks to the jet lag ✈️. I expect a one-week recovery time is past vacations in Europe is any indication. 🥱
4. I spent some time updating my devices to the latest OS releases and applied all pending app updates. 99 were pending on my iPhone! 👀
5. I checked my website analytics and found a few surprises—some good and some bad. While I don't care too much about these, it's interesting to monitor them since my publication pattern changes throughout the year.📈
6. Just before taking off in Barcelona, I ordered a 140W Anker charger that should improve my device charging experience while on a trip. I really like their products. Ordering stuff from an iPhone while in the plane still feels science-fiction to me.🔋
7. I like writing, and I'm glad that I'm back at it, now.

Cheers! See you for the next udpate!

People are upset since Synology announced tied control of drives supported in their recently updated NAS devices. As someone who works in IT with enterprise-class storage vendors like NetApp, IBM, and Hitachi, I am accustomed to this level of control. However, home users see it as a money-grab tactic. The truth might be right in-between. 

My Sunday mornings look like this:

• Start a new blog post on Scribble.pages (this post!) about my morning routine for this Sunday.
• Get the weather outlook for the day, and the week. Currently -2°C here in Montreal, Canada, cloudy and freezing rain expected soon.
• Visit YouTube Studio dashboard and look for new subscribers, new comments to respond. One comment on my latest Craft-related poll, and the trend continues: two-third of respondent think that Craft is not confusing to use. I'm surprised by these results.
• Visit my Gumroad dashboard and look for new subscriptions to The Craft Bible. Nothing since March 24th. 😔
• Visit my Ghost dashboard and look for new notifications, and new articles in the feed. The latter was recently added as part of the social web integration initiative. Ghost is now more than a CMS. I'm not used to that just yet. I read and responded to an article from Spyglass about AI summaries from Bloomberg. I wonder if the author will notice as he is probably not used to Ghost's social web, yet.
• Visit my Micro.blog timeline and look for recent mentions. Nothing this morning. I'm probably getting 0-20 mentions a week. Scrolled the last 12 hours and commented on a few posts. 
• Look at my Tinylytics dashboard to see how my recently published article about data and privacy protection for Apple users is faring. According to these numbers, not too bad.
• Visit Craft community on Slack to get recent updates about the latest beta and see if anyone is poking me. A few did mention me as usual, on is from the Craft team about a bug I submitted. I should write more about Craft, but I prefer to stay quiet preferring to keep a low profile.
• Start thinking about how I'm going to spend the rest of the day. I do have the next edition of the Ephemeral Scrapbook in the works, but it is not complete and will probably go out next weekend. 

My coffee is so good. Have a nice Sunday! ✌🏻

1. I revisited my /nope page with more up-to-date things that I don't like.
2. I updated my About Me page hosted on Craft while working on preparing the migration off Craft to a stand-alone website built using Realmac Software Elements. Here's what it will look like.
3. Last week, I shared an updated diagram of my content creator ecosystem.
4. I got my first referral commission from the Fastmail referral program. The first of this kind. I never got one for Craft after being on their referral program for since its inception. You might like Fastmail too, btw, just like I do.
5. I like to spend some time nurturing these. It's fun. 

   

• I was trying to find a word that reflect my mood these days about the news and "resentful" came out from a prompt to ChatGPT. 
• I feel that way about what is happening in the US. I feel that way about what is happening in Ukraine. I feel that way about leaders who are getting away from their responsibilities. Speaking of which...
• I'm not happy with Apple these days, I'm not happy with Tim Cook. He seems more focused on printing money than building game-changer products. I don't buy their empty slogan anymore. Apple Intelligence could have been such product, but instead it is vaporware. It is unprecedented. When you pile this up with the general attitude of Apple toward their developers, we can see a trend that will tarnish the brand for many years to come. Apple should be looking for a new leader.
• Resentful is the perfect word. 
• Oh, I almost forgot, I feel resentful for the way Trump and his bunch of clowns are treating Canada, my home country. 

Some people own a town house and a country house and maybe a third house elsewhere in the world. Good for them. I'm one of those guys, except that my houses are built in the digital space, and I call those homes my blogs. 😌