11 years ago I was using Movable Type to host my sites, but playing around with other platforms to learn and enjoy. I had already installed WordPress on my own server, but wanted to check out the hosted version. It would take another 9 years before I would actually run a live site on WordPress (and it still isn’t my favorite CMS).

Would you be comfortable giving contact details of your best customer, spouse or friend to a stranger?

Then why did you give Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Google access to your complete address book?

Sèquia tercera del canal d’Urgell

Why do Microsoft Office apps ask me whether I want to save my work when I close the app? Of course I want to save it!

I would like for Microsoft to adapt the macOS way of saving always and everything without asking.

The main reason I don’t like #blackfriday is that I feel stupid and ripped off for having paid the full price for products and services in the last months.

Muy importante (y uno de mis puntos débiles en los hábitos saludables): La vida sentada… que, poco a poco, nos mata × @MadAbad

Blogs were and are better than “social” media sites. (Via @seligerj)

How to configure your iPhone to work for you, not against you

This large article is stuffed with handy tips. Though I not always agree (I would recommend the default apps over installing Google’s alternatives) and some advice should be updated for iOS 13, there is a lot of solid advice.

My recommendation: read the arguments before applying any tip.

Since reinstalling my computer last month, I only use the default web browser Safari. I already have decides that when the time comes that I need a second browser, I won’t install Chrome; Firefox looks like a far better option.

I’ve fallen off the microblogging wagon in the last week.

Usually that is a bad sign and the direct result of not taking enough time for reflecting on work, life and the world…

This is a sad list. I have used so many of these services in the past.

Capitalism is an efficient system for surfacing and addressing the needs of consumers. But once it veers toward control over markets by a single entity, those benefits disappear.

Very insightful thoughts on how combat firehosing, burying the truth under a huge pile of low-quality information and even lies:

there is no substitute for teaching actual critical thinking, for good quality journalism, and for scientific literacy.

November 9th will always be a special day. 22 years ago I started writing on my personal blog. I have not always been equally active on jeroensangers.com, but it will always be my digital home.

Once in a while, I rotate the OS language of my devices between Dutch, Spanish, Catalan and English. It is amazing how simply organising yourself in another language completely changes your perspective on the work to be done.

Since I’m reinstalling my main computer, today I did my tasks using almost exclusively my iPad and iPhone.

It went way better than I expected, though there are some little things, such as text snippets, that I have to fix if I want to use my mobile devices more often for work.

Whenever I visit a website and a dialog pops up telling me that “We care about your privacy”, I always think “No, you do not. You’re just complying with the GDPR rules.”

Stukje bij beetje gaan de bedrijven de goede kant uit: Bij deze bedrijven moet je stil zijn onder werktijd: ‘Ik krijg veel meer gedaan’ × Madelon Meester

Is er op jouw kantoor ook tijd en ruimte voor stilte?

Far too many people are unaware of the real consequences of giving up their privacy. As Carissa Véliz writes, privacy is not a private problem, privacy is a collective issue.

Because we are intertwined in ways that make us vulnerable to each other, we are responsible for each other’s privacy. I might, for instance, be extremely careful with my phone number and physical address. But if you have me as a contact in your mobile phone and then give access to companies to that phone, my privacy will be at risk regardless of the precautions I have taken. This is why you shouldn’t store more sensitive data than necessary in your address book, post photos of others without their permission, or even expose your own privacy unnecessarily. When you expose information about yourself, you are almost always exposing information about others.

I lostinvested half the morning on finding good alternatives to Zencastr for recording podcast interviews locally, since Zencastr had technical issues.

Fortunately, the issues have been resolved, but now I have two alternative solutions ready in case they ever have issues again: a local solution based on the Audio Hijack–BlackHole combination and Ringr.

Autumn walk through fruit trees

I had exactly the same problem happen to me.

Even though I have my iPhone configured to only allow calls from my contacts, some some spam calls got through. I just needed to delete my old ‘Don’t answer’ contact, which I used in the past to silence known phone spammers.

The is so much great advice in this article. More than ‘hacks’ these are basic principles.

A neuroscientist shares 5 ways to hack productivity × Aileen Kwun

I advised many coaching clients to create a repository of great questions. I always say that the quality of your thoughts is directly related to the quality of the questions you ask.

To become more efficient, ask better questions × Thomas Oppong

I wish I could set a default skin tone for all emoji instead of having to do it one by one #firstworldproblems