Joel Bews

Get out of cities, return to the tress

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@psychotronica_ @_SamKeene I love how excited he is about the possibilities of sound. Saw them at the Big Day Out 95 and 96 wonderfully wonky.

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Pretty experiments with Google maps and Houdini

https://t.co/waiPNVGy3F

[kepano @kepano]

File over app

File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you this freedom.

File over app is an appeal to tool makers: accept that all software is ephemeral, and give people ownership over their data.

In the fullness of time, the files you create are more important than the tools you use to create them. Apps are ephemeral, but your files have a chance to last.

The pyramids of Egypt contain hieroglyphs that were chiseled in stone thousands of years ago. The ideas hieroglyphs convey are more important than the type of chisel that was used to carve them.

The world is filled with ideas from generations past, transmitted through many mediums, from clay tablets to manuscripts, paintings, sculptures, and tapestries. These artifacts are objects that you can touch, hold, own, store, preserve, and look at. To read something written on paper all you need is eyeballs.

Today, we are creating innumerable digital artifacts, but most of these artifacts are out of our control. They are stored on servers, in databases, gated behind an internet connection, and login to a cloud service. Even the files on your hard drive use proprietary formats that make them incompatible with older systems.

Paraphrasing something I wrote recently:

> If you want your writing to still be readable on a computer from the 2060s or 2160s, it’s important that your notes can be read on a computer from the 1960s.

You should want the files you create to be durable, not only for posterity, but also for your future self. You never know when you might want to go back to something you created years or decades ago. Don’t lock your data into a format you can’t retrieve.

These days I write using an app I help make called Obsidian (@obsdmd), but it’s a delusion to think it will last forever. The app will eventually become obsolete. It’s the plain text files I create that are designed to last. Who knows if anyone will want to read them besides me, but future me is enough of an audience to make it worthwhile.

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@rsms Airmail has been good for me. Both iOS and MacOS. Multiple Gmail accounts. Privacy mode may give you what you want with tokens. https://t.co/My1THJ9FBv

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@willw Pretty please 🥺 could you fix the Dropbox integration in Everyday App.

[Upnext @getupnext]

🚀 Introducing Upnext: a reader with superpowers 🚀

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🗣 Easily share what you learn or discover with others

Head over to https://t.co/Na2bJ6WK6l to get started!

[Joel Bews @jobbies]

@nottheword Business fire. Happened while we were in the building. Those fire drills are for real.

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@shockdesign @moyix @thegrugq @1Password I switched from standalone vaults when I moved all of my family to 1Password about 4 years ago. Really was painless and I didn't have to deal with all the hassle of helping manage many standalone vaults.

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@IntervalsPro where can I turn off the extra time? After searching high and low can’t find any settings for it. Shows up between my run and coast intervals.

[Mario Carrillo @marioecg]

Dissonance

🎱 https://t.co/DVAps15yRT

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🤔 @evernote it would be really 😎 if we could set a colour 🌈 or an image 🏞 for the cover of notebooks.

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@soffes https://t.co/FqvZk5THIZ ☝️This Has a few good tips.

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@danilic Had the same problem. Just went to Bunnings and got some rack-it shelving. It's not pretty, but sturdy and you can make lots of different combinations. https://t.co/tfcdfT88JJ

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@lants Okay

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@guisebule She looks like she's called Crypto to me.

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@co_pony @maddieanthes Running a tie-dye class today. Wish it was a scooby-doo episode.

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@shockdesign 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

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@calaveralovesu Very Yes, but with tea.