I really hate what they did to MacOS. Everything is so confusing now, you have a bazillion system settings entries but nothing is easily found anymore. Right now I am trying to disable some app from auto starting on reboot but I cannot find where to edit those entries anymore. It’s so annoying!
I switched from using Docker Desktop to Colima. Won’t look back. Really happy with Colima’s simplicity. Docker Desktop was buggy for me, never was able to update itself properly and I didn’t like the direction they took.
It took a few days (no idea why!) but now I can use ChatGPT-4’s browsing feature. This changes a lot of things for me and makes my life wayyyy easier. Costs $20/month but as a business expense it’s fine.
Yesterday I tried my hand at something new: Streaming on Twitch.
You see I started developing (again) on a side project. It’s called Catalog for now and I will write more about it once I am ready for it. I want to use it to develop something that I always wanted to have and what could be useful to others. The second reason for the project is that I need to try out all the new features and things that Ruby on Rails brought along with their latest versions. I didn’t really get into Hotwire and Turbo and all those things. So now I can use it in my side project. After all that’s what these are for, right? Right?!
The Twitch stream went ok, I guess. Took my a while to set everything up and learning how the Technik works. At one point I even had one visitor watching me (briefly 😂).
I’ll post here, once I stream again.
Safari profiles. A nice start but not done well enough
I tried to use Safari for a week now. The new PROFILES feature lured me in. Unfortunately it is still not what I need from a browser and Firefox just keeps ticking almost all of my boxes. What turned me away from Safari again: Once you close a window with a profile, Safari doesn’t remember the tabs you had open. So closing a window means you need to reopen all of them once you want to continue your work. My clients all get a separate profile in my browser, but I tend to leave tabs open for later. That doesn’t work with Safari. In Firefox I use the extension “Simple Tab Groups” and it works nearly perfectly. I can even change between groups in the same window. Sadly, the compartmentalisation doesn’t work quite as well as in Safari. The tab’s context is shared between all tabs. So to separate those as well, I use another extension “Multi-account containers”.
It adds the mental overhead of choosing the right container. But it’s doable.
What drove me to try Safari again was the idea that the profiles would be synced to iOS and iPadOS as well. Since I don’t like to use Firefox mobile because it’s simply a mobile browser with really bad UX, I have to deal with using Safari on mobile and not being able to share browsing sessions between my Mac and my mobile devices.
Maybe there exists a Safari browser extension that reopens closed tabs? Maybe I should create one myself? I don’t know. 🤷♂️
Reviving and working on an oldish MacBookPro with Touchbar. The fan noise is really loud. Almost forgot how it used to to be with these things. Still, I need access to an old MacOS version and x86_64 arch today 🤷♂️
Love Marc Martel‘s shirt tonight
Currently reading: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 📚
Habe ich mir ausgeliehen aus der Bibliothek über die Libby App. Bin gespannt wie es wird, nachdem ich bisher nur überwältigend positives darüber gehört habe!
Currently reading: Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb 📚
Lese dann lieber den zweiten Teil weiter. Der erste war super!
Gestern angefangen zu lesen: Fall; or, Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson 📚 heute aufgehört. Hat mich nach dem ersten Kapitel überhaupt nicht abgeholt.