• Analog Notes

    Following up on a previous post, I have too many unused paper journal notebooks in the form of Field Notes©. I need to frequently remind myself to use them, and this post intends to do just that. During the day, I’ll come to a point…

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  • Digital Essentialism

    How is your digital life? Feeling overwhelmed by all the clutter in your inbox, hard drive and cloud service? I know I was. Though I consider myself to be a minimalist essentialist, there does come a time when I get lazy and the discipline slides.…

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  • The Ideal Life

    Lately, I’ve been thinking of the optimal lifestyle and how to get the best out of life. How can I better my existence? An ideal lifestyle is one you have to define for yourself. So if I wanted to focus on creativity and photography, I…

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  • Overthink Before I Act

    Give yourself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around. —Marcus Aurelius, Meditations This website has seen a lot of documentation on tools, workflow, and productivity. I would rather not have a workflow, I don’t want to talk about it…

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  • Long Live The iPod

    The iPod is a discontinued (as of May 10, 2022) portable media player designed by Apple in 2001. At 20 years, the iPod brand is the oldest device to be discontinued by Apple. It’s the end of an era, that’s for sure. Apple iPod Classic…

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  • Technical Issues

    If you think technology will solve your problems then you don’t understand technology – and, you don’t understand your problems. Laurie Anderson Find the best tool for a specific job and stick with it. This is better said than done for me since I enjoy…

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  • Take Charge

    “Nothing about the Internet is fixed, permanent, or inevitable. It is malleable, shape-shifting, and constantly evolving. And it increasingly comes with more responsibility and risks for guarding our own data and taking charge of distributing our words and images.” EI Skyers This sums up nicely…

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  • Plain Text

    Just about everything I write digitally-  blog posts, to-do’s, notes, journal, code, thoughts, plans, etc get drafted in text format (.txt)  These are an extension of me, my digitized, quantified, extended memory of organized thoughts. I use them often for research, reference, and a log. …

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  • Server Issues

    After an hour and a half with my server host, the connection issue to my Micro posts page was unresolved. I am trying to secure the web certificate so it reads as: https://www.micro.chrisdenbow.com The “S” in the domain name denotes a secure website. But the…

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  • Ulysses Update

    Ulysses 26 update looks great. Now with custom fonts and better support for accessing my web server (meaning I can connect to it again. Will I re-up or stick with iA Writer? Unfortunately I run into an error where I cannot post to the Micro…

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