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What I Read in August 2019 📚
Link from August 14th, 2019 at 10:16am
“Browsers have standardized their CSS loading behavior, so a dedicated script like loadCSS is…no longer necessary…we can achieve the effect of loading CSS asynchronously with a…line of HTML.” filamentgroup.com/…
Link from August 12th, 2019 at 1:13pm
“Support for natively lazy-loading images and iframes is coming to the web…use the new loading attribute to lazy-load resources without the need to write custom lazy-loading code or use a separate JavaScript library.” web.dev/…
Image from August 11th, 2019 at 3:44pm
What I Read in July 2019 📚
I read six books in July:
- The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo ★★★☆☆
- The Adventure Zone: Murder on the Rockport Limited by Clint McElroy ★★★★★
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick ★★★★☆
- Beekeeping by Andrew Forrest ★★★☆☆
- The Bogleheads’ Guide to Investing by Taylor Larimore ★★★★★
- The Four Pillars of Investing by William J. Bernstein ★★★☆☆
You can also follow what I’m reading on Goodreads.
Image from July 29th, 2019 at 8:22am
A few changes have resulted in updates to my home screen: running the iOS 13 beta and returning to stock apps like Reminders, moving from Dropbox to iCloud for file storage, and my return to Twitter
Video from July 22nd, 2019 at 7:39am
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What I Read in June 2019 📚
I read seven books in June:
- The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman ★★★★☆
- Financial Freedom by Grant Sabatier ★★★★☆
- The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman ★★★★☆
- The Other End of the Leash by Patricia B. McConnell ★★★★☆
- The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu ★★★★☆
- The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman ★★★☆☆
- Work Optional by Tanja Hester ★★★★★
You can also follow what I’m reading on Goodreads.
Image from June 29th, 2019 at 5:58pm
Post from June 24th, 2019 at 11:33am
I’ve finally worked out why voicemail transcription has never worked on my iPhone: I had my Siri language set to English (UK). Voicemail transcription starts working when I change it to English (US). Time to Americanize after living here for twenty years I guess 😀
Image from June 17th, 2019 at 7:50pm
Six months in and I’ve already listened to 20 books in 2019. This gives me much more satisfaction than the (often repetitive) podcasts that I have scaled back from 📚
Post from June 8th, 2019 at 9:33am
I installed the iOS 13 beta on my iPad to test it out, but was planning on waiting to update my iPhone. However, I edited a shortcut on my iPad and now it won’t work on my phone unless I upgrade. I might have to pull the trigger on updating there as well now 😬