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🔗 A modern Hotline client for Mac, iOS, and iPadOS
by JamesA modern Hotline client for Mac, iOS, and iPadOS. Contribute to mierau/hotline development by creating an account on GitHub.
A couple of years ago I was looking around to see if Hotline still exists. Super cool to see this rename for modern macs.- Tagged with
- computing
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by JamesMorning Run
5.0km
33.1min
29.6m climbed
165.7avg bpm
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The Week #240
by James- 🪟 I moved my desk to the opposing wall where it has been for 5 years, in front of a sliding glass door that we never go through. The room feels larger, I can look outside while working, and it encourages me to keep the shelves organized (as they now appear in the background-ish). Why did I spend 5 years looking at a wall when I could have been looking outside?! Which is to say, it's been a good change.
- 💩 TFG continues to do shady, illegal, and wildly unpopular things. I want to say that nobody deserve this, but also he's doing exactly what he said he would and they voted for him, so perhaps they do. Very glad we left just before his first term.
- 🇬🇧 I think we found a good English school for Leo nearby. It's not with one of the big eikaiwa chains, but direct with a teacher. We're going to go for his first lesson on Saturday and he's excited. I'm excited too.
- 📧 I've sent more email in the past 2 weeks than I have in the past 2 years connecting with readers of my blog. It's been kinda nice. I like how personal an email feels compared to, say, a DM on <social media>. I wanted to share a sentence I wrote in one of my replies that I think is worth keeping in mind as we're tempted to doom scroll our days away.
> When I quit smoking in college the hardest part wasn’t the nicotine, it was figuring out what to do with my hands when I had 7 minutes between class. Smartphones (and by extension streaming music and AirPods) are the same. We use them not because we want to listen to a song, we just need something to do between class…and it expands to fill the gap.
Don't let the news cycle and the noise expand to fill every gap. Read a book. Bake some bread. Go for a walk. Create that space and protect your mental health.
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🔗 What Now for Climate Under Trump? Act Locally
by JamesFor the health of our planet and your own mental health: focus on the things you can change... and those are, for the vast majority of us local. Think Globally. Act Locally.- Tagged with
- climate change
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Checkin to Loco’s Moco’s
Feeling like I’m in Hawaii -
by JamesMorning Run
Much easier in winter when the suns up.4.5km
30.2min
28.4m climbed
147.3avg bpm
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The Week #239
by James- 🇬🇧 Thank you everyone who reached out last week about improving Leo's English. As you suggest he needs to play with kids his age in that language and if he has a teacher, it needs to be not me. I found an English/Japanese Minecraft pictorial guide that he's opening everyday and reading. It also has a practical use – when he wants to search for an item that he doesn't know how to spell, he can use the index in Japanese to find the page that has the corresponding English word.
- 🍕 I went to Eatly for a quiet lunch with my wife. We split a pasta and a pizza. While eating the (delicious) pizza I noted, you can tell the quality of the product and simple ingredients because when you chew it, it doesn't just dissolve in your mouth like a slice of dominos. That in turn slows you down, which in turn gives your body time to signal that it's satiated before you've eaten an entire pie.
- 🏋 I find myself enjoying lifting weights more than running this past week. Perhaps because it's warm and I don't really need to change if it's just for a quick 20 or 30 minutes. I should probably find a program to follow, but I'd rather do something than do nothing while geting stuck trying to find the "perfect" routine.
- 🗃️ After 5 years of feeling like we don't have enough "proper storage", despite having 2 nice tall (reaches to the ceiling) anchored into the wall steel racks from Muji, it finally clicked how to use them better so we have a "proper" amount of storage. When buying the racks, I also needed to buy storage cases (with drawers) that could be stacked in a uniform manner across the shelving. Starting to organize stuff into storage cases has made the house feel so much less cluttered... unfortunately I need to buy another zillion to fill the shelves.
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Checkin to EATALY
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by James🍱 Lunch Run
Get some activity in before an afternoon of meetings.4.4km
30.5min
29.6m climbed
134.2avg bpm
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The Week #238
by James- 🏃♂️ Close followers of the blog may have noticed, I did not run 2 times this week. I only ran once. I still closed my rings each day (often doubling), but it's hard to convince myself to go out in the cold.
- 🦋 I realized I don't really enjoy posting on short form social media any longer. I think because the way Twitter went, the trolls, and AI ingesting all the things, I don't trust it like I used to, which bleeds over into not posting. Even replies, I'll find myself composing something and stop more often than not.
- 💪 We setup a home gym in Leo's room since he's not using it. I should have done this ages ago. Currently we have my kettle bells (existing), a bench (new) and two adjustable dumbbells (new). We put some some thick 2cm mats in the floor. Now with Leo's playing Minecraft, I can sneak upstairs of pump some iron.
- 🇬🇧 I've grown a bit concerned about Leo's English levels. His listening is native, vocabulary is good, pronunciation of individual words is good, but producing sentences remains a challenge. When we read books, I've started to (try) to get him to shadow me, and that seemed to help, but he needs more. Often bi-lingual kids go back one parent's country for the summer and that's how they level up...but that's not really an option for us. International school, while expensive (💸), for the time being isn't an option because the daily commute length and base-levels not being enough to study.... maybe we just need to move for a couple of years? I'm not sure if Sophie (🐶) could do another long flight at her age...and we can't just leave her, she's a member of the family.... Open to ideas 🙏🏻
