Three months in switching to @Simple as my bank has been life changing, and changing banks was easy. It’s the only budgeting tool that’s ever stuck. I’m debt free, accounting for rent and expenses a full pay period ahead of when I need them, and saving money for my future.
An experiment I’m running: Just took the Amazon and Prime Now apps off my phone to see if that saves me money.
Or, for that matter, the number of times professional audio engineers have fooled themselves by thinking they got some settings just right until they realize they forgot to connect/enable their equipment.
If you don’t think that you could be tricked into thinking a speaker is better because you can see it, let me refer you to the trick audio engineers often employ where they give musicians knobs that aren’t hooked up to anything and let them “dial in the sound” themselves.
Sonos One does not mess up your wood furniture, and you can get two (which can be stereo paired for the price of HomePod). Oh and in a blind test a these people thought it sounds better: pogueman.tumblr.com/post/1707…
The main thing I get from looking at retirement calculators is that retirement is really really expensive if you don’t want to be poor.
I will be completely debt free in one week!
Huh. Never thought of a smart power strip, but this is actually pretty neat and not too crazy expensive. www.ilounge.com/index.php…
Would really love a checkbox when writing in Micro.blog to not syndicate a specific post to Twitter or whatever service.
I’m not ruling out the idea that this is just my body rejecting C++.
Been sick for a few days. Back in the office but still feeling a bit run down and might head home early.
I think I just passed the point where this C++ code I’ve been in all week is starts to look normal-ish.
My Pilot Vanishing Point showed up. This is a very sexy looking pen. (AF stands for “and fun”, right?)
Micro.blog is really turning into a great community. Meeting lots of interesting people.
I have never coded C++ in my life before yesterday and now it’s a thing I’m doing. I have no idea what I’m doing but I am making more progress than I might’ve guessed.
Midori MD paper is the bomb dot com. Can’t believe how much better my pens look on it than on Leuchtterm.
Giving this bullet journaling thing a try. Here’s my first attempt at a weekly spread.
I bought these rad Japanese sticky notes that have fountain pen friendly paper and… now I don’t know what people use sticky notes for.
I just deactivated Facebook. I don’t foresee missing it, but curious how many problems I will have logging into things.
You can get a stereo pair of Sonos One’s for about the price of a single HomePod. I feel like it would be more fair to compare the sound quality to that setup. Never mind with Sonos you have way more expansion options with TV audio, option to add a sub etc.
Link has moved to taking up a position next to stationary stuff. d.pr/i/yy4QsK
I can only imagine that if you see the code for the Mac version of Messages your face melts like the Nazi’s at the end of Indiana Jones.
My little baby stationary shelf. Have a feeling ink will need its own shelf soon at this rate.
For a $2 fee and about 90 seconds of your time, you can opt out of seemingly all junk mail. collindonnell.com/2018/01/2…
For no reason today I thought to Google “opt out of junk mail”, which lead me to an FTC page which describes how you can do just that. It takes about ninety seconds.
We’ll see how it works, but I assume if it’s linked to from the FTC website it’s pretty legit.