š Watched: Logan – The Wolverine
I didnāt really have high hopes for this movie and unfortunately it didnāt prove me wrong. I think Iām just tired of these bleak near-future post apocalyptic stories.
š Watched: Logan – The Wolverine
I didnāt really have high hopes for this movie and unfortunately it didnāt prove me wrong. I think Iām just tired of these bleak near-future post apocalyptic stories.
A nice overview of macOS Mojave. Hereās a small thing that stuck out to me and made me happy:
In macOS Mojave, Services plug-ins in Automator have been renamed as Quick Actions, and their visibility has increased. Quick Actions appear in the Preview pane in the Finder, alongside other commands like Appleās own Rotate Image and Markup commands.
I use Services a lot, so this seems like a really useful feature of Mojave.
š§ Listened to: H.I. #39: Getting Things Done
Interesting conversation. Also the first time that I felt like smart speed in Overcast was improving the experience.
I’m confused.
š§ Listened to: Cortex #33: Cortek
I’ve been taken a lot of notes lately, for my masters studies. I take notes in class and, most importantly, I highlight passages in the books I read and also take notes around the reading. Some of those notes relates directly to the highlighted passages, other notes are more general thoughts as I’m trying to work things out.
As I was reading, highlighting and writing last week I realised that over the course of two years these notes and highlights would grow to a big mess of assorted thoughts that I could never have any hope of organising in my final thesis, or any written exams either for that matter. So I need a better system.
I recalled having heard one or more podcasts where CGP Grey talked about how he handled similar tasks around his research for videos so I googled and found this old episode of Cortex. Around the 44:00 marker he describes his main workflow. Here’s the gist of it
Read ebooks -> Highlight passages -> When done, screen shot the pages with highlights -> import screenshots into Evernote -> Make notes in Evernote
I need to do something similar, but two things
Grey (and Myke) was already upset with Evernote when makes this podcast (in July 2016) and in later episodes that has been mentioned again and again, so it seems like it would be dumb to actually start taking these kind of notes in Evernote today.
So basically what I need is
I’m thinking of maybe some kind of combination of Microsoft OfficeLens for the scan and Apple Notes for everything else, or maybe just Microsoft OneNote for the whole thing. Or maybe save the notes as flat text files (preferably in Dropbox or iCloud Drive) together with PDF scans from something like OfficeLens. In this later case I might not need the OCR on the phone since instead I can use PDFPen on my Mac.
What do you think? Any suggestions?
@MrHenko I cannot be certain, but I seem to recall the Dropbox will ocr a pdf for you. And there are any number of iPhone apps that will create a pdf from a page. I use Tinyscan. For the notes, I would use plaintext and some kind of Zettelkasten. Their app The Archive is good.
@MrHenko I use Scanbot (iOS) to capture any snippets from books I want to remember, use the results from Scanbotās OCR to import into Day One where Iām able to add tags and context (date, location, the image itself, etc.). Pretty easy workflow, and ends up being a beautiful digital commonplace journal.
@vasta Thatās an interesting approach. What happens when you decide to stop subscribing to Day One?
@jeremycherfas Thanks, I’ll look into Zettelkasten and The Archive app.
I did a quick googling about the Drobox ocr and it seems to be a Dropbox Business only feature and as of right now I’m not a Business customer.
@vasta Thanks, I’ll look into Scanbot!
@MrHenko Sorry if I misled you on Dropbox. It was just a vague memory. Iāll be interested to watch how your note-taking develops.
@jeremycherfas Oh, no need to be sorry. I don’t see that as misleading me in anyway. I appreciate all suggestions.
Glad to hear that you’re keen on my results. I’ll keep you – and the rest of the web – up to date.
@jeremycherfas Also, you are very quick with your replies today. Are you procrastinating actual work as hard as I am? š
This is some interesting food for thought for me, because I do think that banning phones in the classroom of kids can be a totally reasonable thing to do.
Thanks for your perspective Adam!
š§ Listened to: Micro Monday – Micro Monday Extra: Late Night In The Airstream with @aaronpk at XOXO
Aaron brings up some interesting points and I wholeheartedly agree with him that the most important thing about the indieweb and owning your content is to own your domain name.
My personal site (where you might read this) has lived on at least three different web hosts but the domain has always been mine. In my particular case there are probably some broken permalinks in old posts that I will need to fix some day but most things are easily findable on the site.
It’s also nice that Aaron points out that the indieweb is not like the web of yore, it is so much more with webmentions and similar tools.
š§ Listened to: Episode 22: On the Road Again – Percolator
š§ Listened to: H.I. #59: Consumed by Donkey Kong ā Hello Internet
Brady and Grey discusses follow up from their previous discussion on Guns, Germs and Steel and while the discussion itself is interesting, I think the main point can be found around the 39:50 mark.
If you here about a persons opinion and arguments and want to argue against them, make sure to go back to the source and check that the person actually thinks and argues what youāve been told he/she is arguing. Donāt argue against someone elseās straw man of a person.
Listened to š§: H.I. #107: One Year of Weird ā Hello Internet
š§ Listened to: Cortex #74: The Biggest Challenge of Being a Human
Some interesting elaborations from CGP Grey on his decision to more or less leave social media for the rest of the year.
While I will not take as extreme actions as Grey, I do agree with him regarding the problem with screens everywhere, algorithms everywhere and the attention deficit society that it might lead to.
The idea behind this is that I, like many other people, listen to a lot of podcasts. I often find food for thought in these and often find myself wanting to have a way of cataloging what I’ve listened to and what was interesting in the episodes. Up until now I haven’t had a good system for that and now, I have a system. Whether it’s a good one or not, time will tell.
For now I’ll let these posts syndicate to Micro.blog but if I feel like they fill my timeline there with noise I might make some tweaks to the backend on my blog to stop them from syndicating.
@MrHenko sounds good, Iāll look forward to the posts.
Before I started to logg my podcast listening on my blog my āsystemā for keeping track of important episodes and their content was to screen shot Overcast whenever I listened to something particularly interesting. I will use some of those screenshots to back-fill some data.
@johnjohnston Thanks! Let me know if the posts gets so frequent that they feel like noise. I don’t want to fill my micro.blog timeline with unnecessary stuff.
Itās interesting to see someone elseĀ tracking what theyāre listening to. I try to include the .mp3 or other audio files in my post with proper markup to create a faux-cast of sorts that others can subscribe to. Somewhat likeĀ reading.am, I find that discovery of podcasts by seeing what others areĀ actually listening to is far more valuable than what they simply say theyāre listening to.
Iām hoping that podcast apps like Overcast byĀ @marcoĀ might support technology like webmention and micropub in the future to make some of this stuff a bit easierĀ as well as more valuable.
@MrHenko It’s interesting to see someone else tracking what they’re listening to. I try to include the .mp3 or other audio files in my post with proper markup to create a faux-cast of sorts that others can subscribe to. Somewhat like reading.am, I find that discovery of podcasts by seeing what others are actually listenging to is far more valuable than what they simply say they’re listening to.
I’m hoping that podcast apps like Overcast by @marco might support technology like webmention and micropub in the future to make some of this stuff a bit easier as well as more valuable.
@c Thanks for your reply Chris! The way you are doing the tracking has been one of the main inspirations for me. I will probably also follow your example and create a ”faux-cast”, but I just want to make sure everything else around the tracking works first.
Also, I’m glad you’ve approach @marco about this. Have you gotten any response?
@MrHenko @c If only more podcasts would make it easier to share via Huffduffer, that would become my de facto faux-cast.
@jeremycherfas Yes, that would be a good solution.
@MrHenko @c In fact an extension to the Overcast share sheet, or maybe even a workflow, would be a useful thing.
@jeremycherfas Indeed, a workflow in the workflow app is what I’m using to manually do this after completing an episode.
@MrHenko I’m not sure he’s seen it, but it’s there for he or others to take advantage of if they wish. We’ll see what comes of it. In the erstwhile, like @jeremycherfas, I’m relying heavily on Huffduffer.
@c Seems like a good idea. I’m tweaking my Workflow workflow (or my Shortcuts shortcut?) and that also seems to be a fairly simple solution.
The upside of having something that requires user interaction is that, at least to me, it also encoruages adding some comments as well. I think it has made me pay more attention to what I listen to, at least for the 30 hours or so that I’ve had it working. š
š§ The Incomparable | Congratulations! You’re Dead in Space (Episode 425)
I know I’ve watched Dark City and I know I liked it, but there are so many things they talk about that I have no recollection of actually seeing. I do know I was quite tired when I watched it, but it seems like I was almost half asleep from how little I remember. Anyway, I think I’ll have to rewatch this movie.
@MrHenko Nice. The Apple Music link if anyone wants it (spoiler alert: yes)
itunes.apple.com/us/album/…
@sirshannon Thanks!
I always have a problem finding this, so I’ll leave a link to it here.
From my point of view, itās important to understand that a mix needs to be produced for a typical listening environment.
And yes, it is off course a bit ironic to hear this on a podcast but I never the less agree with him. I’m in the middle of listening to their discussion now, so maybe I’ll re-evaluate some of my own media consumption afterwards.
@MrHenko I subscribe to a lot … I listen to a few … Castro is great for curation … the ones that have interesting guests and / or topics make it … rambling 2.5 hour ācasts like @gruber ās do not get listened to any more.
@MrHenko my list of podcast subscriptions if you have interest
@JohnPhilpin I tried the same thing a year or so ago and I really liked the organization of Castro. However there was something about the astetics of Castro that just didn’t fit with me. It feel weird to say, but using it felt wrong for a lack of better word. Once I switched back to Overcast I felt at home again, but I do miss the inbox style approach.
@JohnPhilpin Thanks!
@MrHenko interesting …. So what does overcast have / do that makes you feel at home?
Judging by my drinking habits, I should probably have a lot more tattoos and facial hair.
upload_max_filesize in php.ini might not be enough, since there is also a post_max_size value.
@MrHenko Very interesting. I’ve always wanted to play with binaural; do you think it would work using two small Sony ECM-50s attached to ear hooks, or do you really need in-ear microphones?
@jeremycherfas ECM-50s (or similar) placed close to your ears would certainly create some kind of binaural effect and would give much more of a 3D experience than traditional stereo techniques but probably not as good as an actual dummy head, or in ear microphones. (Like these, for instance: http://www.thomann.de/se/sennhe...)
Even something like an ORTF placement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORTFstereotechnique) gives more of a 3D experience than something like a traditional spaced pair or X/Y stereo.
My advice is if you have two ECM-50s, try it!
@MrHenko Thanks. Those Sennheisers look really interesting. Expensive at first glance, but then, you get in ear speakers too. At the moment the only buds I have are some horribly distorting Beats. Might have to start saving my pennies.
@jeremycherfas I haven’t tested those myself but Sennheiser is one of the pro audio companies that I put a lot of trust into, so they are probably a great purchase.
However it seems like they are for recording with an iOS device only which limits their appeal a bit to me.
@MrHenko Agreed. The lightning connector is a bit restrictive. Iām sure someone will come up with lightning to 2xXLR at some point.
@MrHenko great timing friend just sent me an Android game he has been working on and am trying to figure out how to use old Android phone I have located ! š
@adamprocter Cool! I’m glad that a post that was almost 100% for my own future selfs benifit actually helped someone else as well. That’s one of the cool things about blogging. Even the things that you think will only help your self might be valuable to someone else.
In Compressor 4, this no longer work.
It’s not that it is a deprecated feature, it is that the feature is broken. If I use AIFF files, it does work, if I use WAVE it doesn’t.
I’ve dug around a bit and it seems to be either a problem with Compressor 4.4.1, and it wasn’t a problem in 4.4.0, or it is a problem with High Sierra. The error message says
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Failed: 3x *** -[AVAssetReaderAudioMixOutput initWithAudioTracks:audioSettings:] invalid parameter not satisfying: [audioTracks count] >= 1 |
I’m not a developer but to me that seems like an SDK problem, so maybe it is High Sierra (in my case 10.13.5) that is the problem.
The silver lining is that there is an update to 10.13.6 available, so I guess I’ll do that update and hope for the best. See you on the other side.
@MrHenko 10.13.6 did not fix the problem. š
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25 september, 2018 11:19@MrHenko I think it’s the same and just got rebranded. If you searched for shortcuts in Spotlight, the search result was still named Workflow, although this has changed now š
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25 september, 2018 11:30@hutaffe Seems something like that, yes.
I just tried to download Workflow to my iPad, where I haven’t had it before. A search for it just showed me the Shortcuts app. Since nothing about Shortcuts on the App Store told me that it in fact was Workflow, instead I tried to find the app store link from my phone where I do have Workflow installed. When I searched my list of installed apps via the App Store app I found Shortcuts instead of Workflow. Really confusing!
So I installed Shortcuts on the iPad, got an error message telling me that the latest version isn’t compatible with my OS (iOS 11) and asked me if I wanted to install an older version. I said yes and got Workflow installed.
If this had happened on Android it would be the kind of thing that Apple nerds (myself included) would complain about as ”typical Android”. ”This poor user experience is why iOS is superior”, etc.
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25 september, 2018 11:33@MrHenko yeah… I don’t know why they didn’t just really replace it. Would have been much better understandable. I searched for the Shortcuts app and didn’t find it. Instead it showed up in the Updates section, but I never installed itā¦ I had Workflowā¦ confusing.
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MrHenko
25 september, 2018 14:24@hutaffe Either that or kept the Workflow name. Doing that would also avoid the problem that seems to be present now when there are shortcuts (lowecase s) and there are Shortcuts (uppercase s), or possibly Shortcuts shortcuts.
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