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  1. Tooltip: set your external monitor as main display #mac

    Do you use an external monitor as your main display with your Mac? Ever get tired of turning your neck to read notifications or other dialog windows on your laptop screen? Here’s how to fix that. Got to System Preferences » Displays » Arrange. You should see two rectangles that reflect the position of your screens, one has a light grey bar at the top. Drag the light grey bar from the laptop to the display.

  2. Pool-side strategy

    Relaxing pool-side reading Dan Hill’s Dark Matter and Trojan Horses – A Strategic Design Vocabulary. The content seems more relevant and pressing than ever. > There are no clients for these problems. Who is the client for climate change, except perhaps the entire human race? Clients purport to exist for many of these problems; sometimes too many clients, even, which is a different kind of problem.

  3. Children’s day

    Happy Children's Day (こどもの日, Kodomo no hi) to all you grown up children. Get those carp windsocks (鯉のぼり, Koinobori) flying and make yourself or children a folded paper samurai helmet (兜, 冑, Kabuto) https://tavinsorigami.com/origami-kabuto/.

  4. The first next step

    Yesterday I gifted two hours of my time to the Lewes Library of Things (LLOT) https://www.leweslibraryofthings.org.uk/. LLOT is a community project that provides access to equipment on a loan basis free of charge irrespective of their financial circumstances. It also flips the consumer model of many people owning many things, to one thing being used by many people. I’m really excited to be getting involved in the sustainable and regenerative economy space, however small it may be.

  5. I voted

    I voted. Voting stations are open late this evening. Find your nearest voting station here https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/i-am-a/voter/your-election-information. You don’t need your polling card but do need photo ID. GO VOTE!

  6. Export these settings

    You know what I’d really like to see more of with software that have a huge list of settings and customisations? An option to ‘export these settings’ as a json file. Rarely do I make the time to document my setup successes, I’m far more focused on doing the task at hand. The number of times I’ve had to figure things out again from scratch. This would make it much easier.

  7. On my way to UX Camp Brighton

    Up bright and early and en route to Brighton for this year’s UX Camp Brighton https://www.uxcampbrighton.org. I’m volunteering and on the socials all day. I’m also live-blooping on Mastodon. #UXBC

  9. Ghetto POSSE

    A few weeks ago @adactio@mastodon.social helped me to change the way I think about #indieweb’s Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere (POSSE). I thought there was an official way to POSSE and everything else was a kludge. He reminded me that the means of syndication doesn’t matter at all i.e. it’s a mindset not a tool. So… RSS + IFTTT = syndicated website bloops 🎉

  10. Lists, scribbles and doodles.

    I’ve not carried a notebook on me for years. I blame Covid-19 and the promise of digital knowledge management tools. Anyway, I recently broke the seal on my cache of Analog.is notebooks and took a few on my trip to Japan. I now don’t go anywhere without one and a 0.5 Pilot Drawing Pen. I love the experimental approach to notebook design by the folks at Optional.is