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.”
