Matthew Lang

Is it Friday yet?

The Airshow integration with Feedbin might just be the nudge I need to move from Overcast to Airshow. There’s nothing wrong with either app, but the ability to listen to podcasts in my feed reader might just be the game changer.

I can’t remember a wetter, colder, greyer and more miserable spring than the one we’re having right now in the west of Scotland.

Just finished watching The Flash. I don’t get why it got the negative response that it did when it was released. I thought it was really good.

Trying to add a change of scenery to my work week.

My MacBook Air’s battery life is starting to wane when it’s unplugged for most of the day. I didn’t think I would notice it this quickly. It is over a year old now, but I really thought the performance of the battery would have been better for longer than this.

My early morning walk finally yielded a wee photo opportunity.

I really like the re-design of kottke.org.

I finished flooring the last of the rooms yesterday. The wee yin is chuffed to bits with his bigger room. No more major home projects now until late autumn. Weekends are for golf now!

Back to Ikea this afternoon for the second time in a month. Picking up some furniture for the big yin’s room.

I like the Basecamp home screen updates, but it would nice to see logos on individual projects as well.

This post by Nikita Prokopov on JavaScript bloat in 2024 is interesting. Here are a few others that can be added to the list - Hey’s Imbox page (744 KB), Feedbin’s Unread page (1.67 MB), Basecamp’s logged-in home page (1.16 MB) and my own homepage (1.17 MB). Clearly, I can do better.

I picked the wrong time of year to do a major home project. I had to rest for a few days between flooring our three rooms as the lurgy had taken old. I returned to it last night and almost finished the second and largest of the three rooms. The final room will be done at the weekend.

First stage of our changing of rooms complete. My office is now upstairs and ready to go.

Going to floor the big yin’s new room over the next few days and then finish off the wee yin’s new room a few days after. Better rooms for everyone with more space for the boys.

Made a red velvet cake tonight using this BBC recipe. Disappointed that it looks more like a chocolate sponge than a red sponge.

I feel like I am in the minority on the influence of the Apple Vision Pro. While the technology is certainly a game changer, I can’t help think that this new generation of devices will close us off from the world even more. Well at least until they reduce the device to a simple pair of glasses.

It looks like YouTube is dropping RSS feed support. I have tried to access a couple of channels I am subscribed to, and they are also returning a 404 for their channel’s feeds.

Last Sunday of the season, when an NFL game is broadcast at a watchable hour here in the UK. I’m watching the Chiefs at the Ravens tonight and hoping for a win for the Ravens. I’ll need to fill my Sunday night with some golf until the new NFL season begins!

I’ve been giving Airshow a spin over the last couple of days, and I quite like it. I haven’t signed up for the remote sync yet, but I think I will, as it will sync up with my Feedbin account.

After a few minutes of keeping a log in Obsidian for my work day, I’ve decided to switch back to bullet journaling. I find it a lot easier to keep a bullet journal updated. Also, it’s a welcome break from the screen for my eyes.

Added to “Things I will never buy”.

A travel mug that lets you control the temperature of your drink and find said mug if you lose it. My coffee is too important to leave the mug it comes in standing any longer than one hour or even lose my mug, to begin with. Thanks, but no thanks.

Skipping the golf today as I’m feeling a bit under the weather. I’ve got plenty to be getting on with indoors, though, where it’s nice and warm.

Hey Calendar is now in the App Store!

Sad to see that YNOT in Toronto is closing its doors.

I have several of their products, including two pairs of pedal straps (still going strong) and two backpacks. I’m disappointed I couldn’t pick up another backpack, but it’s good that they’ll continue selling the pedal straps.

I have my fingers crossed that 37 Signals release updated versions of their older products like Tada List and Backpack under their Once approach.