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Analogue pleasures, digital tools and finding what actually works.
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Working Tools 44. Ghost

From Wordpress to Ghost. A journey. Why did I move and how has it been? Read on to find out the story so far...
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Members 86. Wordpressed over the edge

As a precaution, I’m subscribed to this blog. So, when a post publishes, I get a version of it emailed to me. Early August, I noticed that apostrophes were not rendering correctly in the e-mails. See an excerpt below.
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Apostrophes

It’s a thing. For the month of August, WordPress’ e-mails, notifying subscribers of a new post, have been flipped out by apostrophes. It’s been annoying. Support told me to switch the site language from English, to American English and then back to English. “It’s a test.
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Working Tools 43. Back to the Mac

I’ve been pretty much full time on the Mac for more than a week now, after an extended period of iPad only / iPad first. I have just about stopped prodding the screen with my pudgy finger. Setup I have a 15 inch MacBook Pro from 2017. 2.9 GHz
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Working Tools 42. Sabotaged.

The new normal has exposed the weakness of my iPad-only system [https://stuartlennon.com/working-tools-36-horses-for-courses/]. The iPad Pro as a mini-desktop is a beautiful, minimal setup. The tablet sits on a stand, in horizontal orientation, controlled by a separate keyboard and mouse (or
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Working Tools 41. Customer Hostility

Why do tech companies hate their customers so much? Remember aspirational me [https://stuartlennon.com/working-tools-36-horses-for-courses/]? The one who had his iPad Pro on a boom arm. The premise of the iPad Pro is that it can handle pretty much anything. It almost can. Almost.
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1857. New Episode - Dumb Tech

TJ bravely listens to [https://1857-01e824a9.simplecast.com/episodes/dumb-tech] an old man ranting at the internet.
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1857 - New episode - DIWhy

TJ & I rolled hissleeves up on the latest 1857 [https://1857-01e824a9.simplecast.com/episodes/diwhy]
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