In continuation of week 48, here are a few thoughts and things that caught my attention in week 49, 2023: 🦠 Yes, I had already feared it, and unfortunately, it happened: My wife’s Covid-19 infection did not pass me by. Therefore, my weeknote is regrettably appearing a little too late “this week.” 🔫 You may not necessarily like the content, but technically, the trailer for GTA VI definitely blew me away.
In continuation to week 47, here are a few thoughts and things that caught my attention in week 48, 2023: 🦠 My wife was plagued at the beginning of the week with severe headaches and especially nausea. The Corona test was negative. However, on Friday it turned out that she did have Corona, for the first time (proven) since the beginning of the pandemic. She is now slowly getting better, but it has really knocked her down.
I just realized that I’m slowly getting old and tired. In the past, I knew at least a little bit about every (Apple) thing. Nowadays, I’ve lost track and have no desire to understand whether I can simply integrate Matter devices into my existing Homekit setup or if I need to make some fundamental changes and then everything implodes. I’d rather not touch anything and just let it continue as it is. And what is this RCS? Does it also run on mobile data or does the provider charge a fee for each message, like for an SMS? And if so, why does anyone believe that it could somehow be an alternative to WhatsApp? And these passkeys; is there really no way to copy them from Keychain to 1Password or vice versa? Do I have to think in advance about how and where to save them? Seriously? Then I’d rather stick with conventional passwords. Oh man 🤷♂️🤦♂️
You can do so much fun stuff with Obsidian and Dataview. I added notes for all of my electronic gear and based on properties for purchase date and price an inline dataview calculates the costs per week for each item, every time the note is opened 🤩 This is the actual inline calculation for cost/week: =round(number(replace(this.preis,",",".")) / number(durationformat(dur(date(now) - this.kaufdatum),"w")),2) with preis: price property; as I am located in GER I use a textfield with an entry like “42,99 €”; therefore the replacement of “,” by “.
You can do so much fun stuff with Obsidian and Dataview. I added notes for all my pico-8 games, containing the cartridge png itself and added some Templater and Properties magic. With the help of Keyboard Maestro I can now click on the little play button in my Dataview table and the game just launches 🤩
Winter is coming
Adam told me to stay on the path, so I’m trying to motivate myself to get back into the habit of writing down what has interested me throughout the week. So, here comes week 47. 🎮 I finished playing Horizon Forbidden West. It was my first computer game in years, and probably the first AAA title in decades that I actually watched the end credits for. Usually, I start playing and then eventually stop.
It feels like every day for weeks now is a special day and everything is and will be discounted. Oh, wouldn’t life be nice if things were just generally cheaper and my inbox was spared the flood of advertising? Anyway … There’s another Indie App Sale this year and there are now over 400 (!) programs listed for macOS and iOS. Fortunately, I already own the ones that interest me most and bought three additional apps this year:
Shamelessly stolen from Robb and inspired by Hemispheric Views 097 - Duel of the Defaults! here are all the apps I use in the various categories as written by Andrew: Mail Client: Mail.app Mail Server: iCloud with custom domain and posteo.net Notes: Obsidian and some stuff left in Notes To-Do: Reminders (and Things at work) iPhone Photo Shooting: iOS Camera Photo Management: Photos Calendar: Calendar Cloud file storage: iCloud Drive RSS: Reeder Contacts: Contacts Browser: Safari Chat: iMessage, Threema, WhatsApp Bookmarks: Anybox Read It Later: Readwise Reader Word Processing: Pages (MS Word at work) Spreadsheets: Numbers (MS Excel at work) Presentations: Keynote Shopping Lists: Pons Meal Planning: Mela Budgeting & Personal Finance: YNAB News: Mastodon, tagesschau.
TIL that you can easily uninstall your entire MS Office package under #macOS with Office Reset (https://office-reset.com/), then download only the app(s) you need from the Mac Appstore and use your existing Office 365 subscription. I always thought you had to purchase a new one somehow via Apple IAP. Cool, now I’m rid of all that garbage MS AutoUpdater.
Here are a few things that caught my attention in week 37.
Teaser: and not much again 🤷♂️
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Here are a few things that caught my attention in week 36: week.esamecar.net/36
Teaser: not so much 🤷♂️
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Here are a few things that caught my attention in week 35: week.esamecar.net/35
Teaser: iOS and macOS stuff
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Here are a few things that caught my attention in week 32 - 34: week.esamecar.net/34
Teaser: Family vacation, lots of RetroGaming, a little Obsidian, iOS and macOS stuff, one movie and a little TV.
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There is a kagi help document for Alfred and another one for Search Templates in Launchbar I used as a reference. It’s really easy to set up:
Menu bar / Index / Show IndexWeb / My Search Templates 1 -> add a new one&q=%son my system it’s in German, but you’ll figure it out ↩︎
Okay, until just now I thought my 3D printer was just such a useless thing. But far from it - look what you can do with it! 🪿😍
