• Just started a Raycast Focus session to write this little /now blog post. This new feature from Raycast seems effective at blocking distractions.
• It's Friday, the weekend is coming, I'm not sure what I'm going to do from a creative hobby perspective beyond finishing my ephemeral scrapbook newsletter edition. 
• I should spend some time on Pixelfed, provided the instance can keep up, to post some new photos.
• Oh, I see, I must write my first personal blog post for my newly created French blog on Micro.one. I have many reasons for owning a little corner of the Internet, away from the silos (not to be confused with the Apple TV+ series mind you). I must educate my friends, not justify my decision.
• I used to write a series called Friday Notes, inspired by a series called Monday Note from Jean-Louis Gassée. He seems to have stopped publishing in his series, so did I in mine. Does he still publish? I can't find any recent articles. 
• I'm still liking Scribbles, but I tend to forget to post here. Sorry, Vincent. 😔
• I wish you a great weekend to you all!

We should know that we fail at using Gen AI when the prompt is much longer and take a long time to get right than the actual response we get.

One of my goals for 2025 is to focus even more. It started in 2024, and it's the idea of saying no more often. With the release of micro.one yesterday, an entry-level-yet-features-rich blogging service, while it is tempting to try it, it's not enough different from micro.blog while I'm not being the target demographic. I wish Manton Reece all the best with this new-entry-level service and hope that it will bring more awareness to Micro.blog.

1️⃣ It's the time of the year when I feel being in front of a blank slate, not with this bad feeling of not knowing how to start, but where everything seems possible. 2️⃣ It will be a slow day as I continue preparing to move out of my house for the next three to four months to allow for a home improvements project to start. My back is hurting, sadly.  3️⃣ Check your Apple Watch for a cool firework animation. 4️⃣ A new year is the time to start experimenting something different, like writing this blog post as a big chuck of text with number separator for each thought. 5️⃣ That wasn't really the first post, Micro.blog was the one who got my very first post of the year. ∗ Have a great day, and a great year! 

• I completed all the things that I wanted to share for 2024. 
• Only two days left to 2024, and I'm already turning my attention to 2025 in search of stimulating and creative projects. Things are getting clearer and clearer.
• Provided unforeseen circumstances, I'll focus on learning to use two apps: Realmac Software Elements and Apple Final Cut Pro X. The former to design a few websites and the latter to get ready to upgrade my YouTube video recording workflow.
• I'm also closer and closer to buying the RODECaster Video. That will trigger the most profound change in my video recording workflow with some ripple effects on the software I use to create my YouTube videos and the workflow behind all of it. I'm still unsure if this is the right thing to do. Why? Because it's only a hobby, not a full-time job and this is a lot of money just for a hobby!
• Focusing on learning might also mean spending less time on writing.
• This post on Scribbles is probably my last one... for 2024.

I just came to realize that Craft is sort of a digital playground for me. Some people are playing with Legos, I'm playing with Craft. 🤷🏻‍♂️

• 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. 😂