• We're close to the end of 2024. Most of my creative projects that I had in mind to complete are... complete. I still have a video to produce (tomorrow), my personal year in review to share and the last edition of the Ephemeral Scrapbook newsletter, after these, that's it, it is a wrap for 2024.
• My wife just ordered an iPhone 16 Pro, upgrading from the iPhone 14 Pro. I'm a bit jealous. She will get it tomorrow. What she doesn't know is that she will get an Apple Watch Series 10 for Christmas, upgrading from an old Series 6.
• I started to look at mechanical keyboards. What a complicated world! I cannot figure out how to start researching for the best ones. I should probably go to a Best Buy or something like that to test some of the brands. I miss the old IBM "clicky" (& noisy!) keyboards hooked to green TS3270 terminals when I started in computer science at the university.
• I experimented with iA Presenter 1.4 which brings shareable presentations for the web. It's pretty slick. Have a look here.
• I have a few days of vacations in the next two weeks. I'll be busy moving out of the house which will leave me little time for other things. Let's call this a break. 

I'm so not in the Christmas mood... I wonder if I'll ever be before Dec 25th. 

Random thoughts of the moment. 💭

• I cannot decide if I'm going to subscribe to Screen Studio, a competitor to Screenflow and CleanShot. There is something to Screen Studio that I like but is not available on the other two: automatic zooming.
• As much as I like Micro.blog in general, for photo-sharing purposes, it is lacking. Even with the just-released photo collections, there is no way it can challenge services like Glass or even Pixelfed. I created two collections to see how it works. It seems that I can't share a link to them from here. If I find a way, I'll update this post.
• As much as I like Scribbles, the same goes for sharing photos here. No go.
• I released a video yesterday about Craft and at the very end I mention that now any subscription to the Craft Bible includes a one-week trial for free. I have yet to see a single subscription since yesterday. I'm highly perplexed (and a tad sad). I was expecting too much from this promotion I guess. 
• I wish I could see how much energy my online presence was consuming over the course of a year. I mean, I'm using many services, and they all consume energy because of me. How much?

No more thoughts of the moment. 🚶🏻

If generative AI evolution is slowing down, it means Apple will have more time to catch up. 😂

What is that? 👀

This whole marketing and consumption thing is stupid. Sorry.

1. I came to realize that many of my link posts are finding their way into my Ephemeral Scrapbook newsletter instead of being published here or on Micro.blog. I'm fine with that, I'm only thinking out loud. 
2. I finally created a short welcome video for my Ko-fi page visitors and subscribers. The video is hosted on YouTube but is not publicly listed.
3. I bought a few things on Amazon that brings me closer to the day when I'll use a RodeCaster Video to record YouTube live streams and produce more videos, instead of using Screenflow. These things will help me connect my Nikon Z f to the RodeCaster to act as a compatible webcam, supporting UVC mode. I'll probably use it too for other needs when I need a webcam.
4. I sold my M1 Mac mini to a really weird guy. It took less time than I thought it would. Great, but that guy, oh my...
5. I'm happy to see Plausible being supported on Scribbles.page. I'll keep Tinylytics anyway, just to support Vincent, the developer behind this service. He just bought an M4 Mac mini, so he needs some money! 🤭

1. My morning routine now includes spending some time on Bluesky to get some news and to keep experiencing with this platform. 
2. At one point I was very effective on Twitter to filter out the content by different channels using Twitter lists. I'd like to do the same eventually on Bluesky.
3. For now, my Bluesky usage is heavily skewed toward following news about the war in Ukraine and somewhat engaging with the community around that subject. I expect this will evolve over time.
4. I feel that Bluesky is what Twitter should have become. 
5. I don't see bots, spammers, and the like on Bluesky and I wonder how long it will stay that way. 
6. Have a great day my friends. If you are on Bluesky, just say hi to me on Bluesky, search for "numericcitizen.me"!

1. I'm slowly getting over the Trump election. It's utterly sad because it means that you can say anything you want, do anything you want and still aspire to become the President of the United States of America. Is this what is called "the American Dream"?
2. I spent some time this morning to do some cleanup of articles that I started writing at some point in the past. My gosh, I have so many unfinished article projects: moving out of Toggl, find a better reading workflow, documenting my Bluesky experiment, and on, and on, and on.
3. I'm also slowly getting over the loss of Omnivore, the best read later service available until now. While updating a comparison table of similar services, I added Inoreader to the mix and I must say that it's probably one of the best alternative to Omnivore in my opinion.
4. I'm finally getting read for some bad news about Pixelmator apps. I prefer to set my expectations very low so that I could be pleasantly be surprise. 
5. Have a great week-end! 👋🏻

1. Fuck. 
2. Another four more years of trash politics. 
3. Fuck again. 
4. Apparently, the Americans thoughts the economy was better when Trump is in power. Under Biden everything is more expensive. The same is happening in Canada; everything is more expansive from groceries to housing. Is it because of the current Prime Minister? It's the same thing in Europe by the way. Does this mean every government is bad over there too? I mean, come on! Fuck it!
5. If people thought it was bad under Biden, wait for it, we ain't seen nothin yet.
6. Fuck da fuck.