In continuation of week 31, here are a few thoughts and things that caught my attention in the thirty-second week of 2024:

  • 🖥️ If you’re tired of always having to find a tiny free spot on an macOS app window to move or resize it, then this app might help: Swift Shift - Manage your macOS windows like a pro.

  • 🖥️ BetterDisplay - Unlock your displays on your Mac - was updated to version 3.

  • 📝 Quick Note Taking - Type made the rounds. Lout has (of course) already written about it. I like the idea, but the app does not support ISO formats for date and time and it1 does not fit into my personal Obsidian workflow, as I would have to configure a new note daily. However, I can imagine that the app could be great for many people. I will stick with Drafts in combination with Actions for Obsidian, though.

  • 📷 The image uploader for micro.blog Mimi Uploader was updated.

  • ☀️ A hat that produces energy? Sure, why not: EcoFlow Power Hat.

  • 🚴‍♂️ I really like my Lumos Ultra Fly Pro bike helmet and the matching Firefly are used in a variety of ways within my family. I also really like their announced new, smaller Firefly Mini.2

  • 🍏 I really hope that Apple manages to get a grip on macOS Sequoia Permission Madness.

  • 😢 I have once again been annoyed by poorly translated apps: Automated Translations in Apps: A Threat to Quality and Credibility.

  • 🌡️ For many months now I bake bread (yeast and sourdough) several times a week. I distrusted the temperature display of our oven and was therefore looking for a reasonable thermometer I can place inside my oven. I came to the conclusion, that this is one of those categories of items for which there is only trash available to purchase. Ultimately, I bought the meat thermometer Meater 2 plus. I suspect that my Meater will never see the inside of a raw piece of meat and I dislike their target group marketing and even more dislike their advertising campaign (woman lets food burn and star chef, of course a man, rushes to help 🤦‍♂️) BUT I still found the product very interesting. My Meater now measures the dough temperature, supposedly to the decimal point. (The reading of the ambient temperature seems to be completely off as well but the internal readings seem to be awesome.) It does leave an ugly hole in the bread, but the endpoint (96-98 °C, depending on the dough) can be determined pretty well. (For the first loaves, it was 5 - 10 minutes longer than the maximum duration stated in the recipe; so I have already learned something about our oven.)3

  • 👋 After actively ignoring Gruber in my podcast and RSS feed as well as social media for a while, I have now deleted all sources.

  • 🕹️ DOOM + DOOM II was released - The legendary action FPS is enhanced, combined, and now available on modern platforms! Nice move: Existing owners of DOOM (1993) and/or DOOM II on any of the above platforms receive a free upgrade to the new combined game, and can still access their previously owned versions. So, I could download the new version for my Steam Deck, Switch, and PS5 for free. (Of course, I own a legal copy of Doom and Doom II for all these platforms.)

Have a sunny week ahead! ☀️

Update

  • 2024-08-14: corrected paragraph about Type

  1. Lou was kind enough to point out that it is possible to define ISO formats as custom formats. ↩︎

  2. You can never have enough (pocket) knives, flashlights, bike lights, retro consoles, and gamepads 🤦‍♂️. ↩︎

  3. Of course, a few days after my purchase, the successor was announced 🤷‍♂️. ↩︎