2025/07/29#p1
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Zsolt Benke writes that "a compelling use case for a big iPhone and a small iPad mini is using them as a mobile writing environment" where most people consider them content consumption devices.

I couldn't agree more.

I have said for at least a decade now that my phone is my PC โ€“ that's primary computer โ€“ย and almost everything I do happens there. Reading, writing, image editing, even coding.

I moved from the iPhone 4S (which was already central to my online life) to the Nexus 5 in December 2013 due to its larger screen and never looked back. 2014 saw me type around 110,000 words for the #write365 project alone. All on the phone. All using the on screen keyboard.

With screen sizes increasing, and the convenience of always having the it to hand, it became second nature to use the phone as my main writing environment. In fact, I usually have to force myself (as I am doing now) to write on the MacBook due to it not always being readily available and requiring a degree of preparation.

As Zsolt says, tapping away on a phone may seem "an ineffective way to write" but, just as the best camera is the one you have with you, the best writing environment is the one available and we quickly adapt to its limitations.


2025/07/29#p2
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What should have been a 5 hour drive, 5 and a half at most, turned into 7 and a half hours. Sheer weight of traffic, roadworks and a stranded vehicle later we finally made it but then had nowhere to park. It can only get better from here. ๐Ÿ˜†


2025/07/29#p1
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An initial version of the 'feed updates' page is live. (See this post for the background.)

It's nice and simple, just listing those sites with unread updates, how many and since when. A 'mark as read' check mark is shown next to each when logged in.

Feed updates

This is, obviously, only intended for me as it reflects my unread status in /reader. It's an experiment to see how it affects my reading behaviour.

An extra option has been added to /admin to choose the default view of /reader so that I can switch between this and the standard 'items' view. This doesn't affect the view when not logged in.




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Random posts now show two completely random posts.


The hope is that doing will throw up unexpected synchronicities between items or juxtapose them in such a way as to foster new ideas.


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