Manton Reece www.manton.org

More on The New Yorker

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        "html": "<p>I linked briefly to <a href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/can-indie-social-media-save-us\">The New Yorker article by Cal Newport</a> over the weekend, but wanted to add a few more thoughts. The article really does a great job of capturing what the IndieWeb movement is about, and Micro.blog\u2019s role in it:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>Even as it offers a familiar interface, though, everyone posting to Micro.blog does so on his or her own domain hosted on Micro.blog\u2019s server or on their own personal server. Reece\u2019s software acts as an aggregator, facilitating a sense of community and gathering users\u2019 content so that it can be seen on a single screen. Users own what they write and can do whatever they want with it\u2014including post it, simultaneously, to other competing aggregators. IndieWeb developers argue that this system\u2014which they call posse, for \u201cpublish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere\u201d\u2014encourages competition and innovation while allowing users to vote with their feet.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>As we\u2019ve been consistently chipping away at Micro.blog bugs and features, moving the platform forward, I\u2019ve always thought that eventually Micro.blog will get mentioned in the larger narrative about social networks from the mainstream press. We can\u2019t control <em>when</em> we get noticed. We just have to be ready when it happens.</p>\n\n<p>It\u2019s great to see all the new folks joining Micro.blog! Whenever someone new has feedback, I\u2019m reminded what we can improve so that the experience is better for the next person.</p>\n\n<p>There\u2019s one sentence in Cal Newport\u2019s article that I keep going back to:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Internet may work better when it\u2019s spread out, as originally designed.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>I have no doubt that this is true. It\u2019s okay to have centralized services to make things easier for people, because it\u2019s too much to expect that everyone should run their own server. The web can be \u201cspread out\u201d on multiple layers: a more diverse set of platforms, so that not all the power is concentrated in a couple massive platforms like Facebook; and more personal domain names, so that even if Micro.blog hosts 1000s of blogs, each one has its own identity on the web and can be moved.</p>\n\n<p>Domain names are the key to content ownership. This is a fundamental part of Micro.blog\u2019s architecture, not something that was tacked on as an afterthought. I\u2019ve written more about <a href=\"https://manton.org/2018/03/23/indieweb-generation-and.html\">owning your content here</a>, which is one part of <a href=\"https://manton.org/2018/09/07/the-way-out.html\">the solution to moving beyond today\u2019s social networks</a>.</p>",
        "text": "I linked briefly to The New Yorker article by Cal Newport over the weekend, but wanted to add a few more thoughts. The article really does a great job of capturing what the IndieWeb movement is about, and Micro.blog\u2019s role in it:\n\n\nEven as it offers a familiar interface, though, everyone posting to Micro.blog does so on his or her own domain hosted on Micro.blog\u2019s server or on their own personal server. Reece\u2019s software acts as an aggregator, facilitating a sense of community and gathering users\u2019 content so that it can be seen on a single screen. Users own what they write and can do whatever they want with it\u2014including post it, simultaneously, to other competing aggregators. IndieWeb developers argue that this system\u2014which they call posse, for \u201cpublish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere\u201d\u2014encourages competition and innovation while allowing users to vote with their feet.\n\n\nAs we\u2019ve been consistently chipping away at Micro.blog bugs and features, moving the platform forward, I\u2019ve always thought that eventually Micro.blog will get mentioned in the larger narrative about social networks from the mainstream press. We can\u2019t control when we get noticed. We just have to be ready when it happens.\n\nIt\u2019s great to see all the new folks joining Micro.blog! Whenever someone new has feedback, I\u2019m reminded what we can improve so that the experience is better for the next person.\n\nThere\u2019s one sentence in Cal Newport\u2019s article that I keep going back to:\n\n\nThe Internet may work better when it\u2019s spread out, as originally designed.\n\n\nI have no doubt that this is true. It\u2019s okay to have centralized services to make things easier for people, because it\u2019s too much to expect that everyone should run their own server. The web can be \u201cspread out\u201d on multiple layers: a more diverse set of platforms, so that not all the power is concentrated in a couple massive platforms like Facebook; and more personal domain names, so that even if Micro.blog hosts 1000s of blogs, each one has its own identity on the web and can be moved.\n\nDomain names are the key to content ownership. This is a fundamental part of Micro.blog\u2019s architecture, not something that was tacked on as an afterthought. I\u2019ve written more about owning your content here, which is one part of the solution to moving beyond today\u2019s social networks."
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#5450

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        "html": "<p>Day 2 of <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/2019/Utrecht\">IWC Utrecht</a> was hack day. Some great stuff \u2013 an indieweb search engine, an OPML to Microsub importer, a look at Yarns, lots of geo data stuff, actual blog post writing and book reading tracking.</p>\n<p>I installed Matthias\u2019 WordPress ActivityPub plugin and initial tests suggest that it works great \u2013 to the extent that I think I\u2019m going to set it up on my main site when I get chance.</p>\n<p>I\u2019ll write some full blog posts about Utrecht and my hack day project when I get some downtime.</p>\n<p>#IndieWeb</p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https://doubleloop.net/2019/05/20/5450/\">#5450</a> appeared first on <a href=\"https://doubleloop.net/\">doubleloop</a>.</p>",
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#5445

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        "html": "<p>Day 2 of IndieWebCamp Utrecht \u2013 hack day!  Possible projects for today:</p>\n<ul><li>learn more about the <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/IndieAuth\">IndieAuth</a> building block by trying to add the token access flow to my <a href=\"https://github.com/ngm/micropub-layer\">Emacs Micropub</a> client</li>\n<li>investigate <a href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/\">WordPress ActivityPub</a> as another approach to bridging to the Fediverse</li>\n<li>fix my <a href=\"https://indieweb.org/micropub_media_endpoint\">Micropub media endpoint</a> which is currently getting an error returned from Indigenous</li>\n<li>write a blog post about IWC Utrecht <img src=\"https://aperture-proxy.p3k.io/6ef0406ca201a7bacb70ebfd285ad6170afb39ae/68747470733a2f2f732e772e6f72672f696d616765732f636f72652f656d6f6a692f31322e302e302d312f37327837322f31663634322e706e67\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude42\" /></li>\n</ul><p>The post <a href=\"https://doubleloop.net/2019/05/19/5445/\">#5445</a> appeared first on <a href=\"https://doubleloop.net/\">doubleloop</a>.</p>",
        "text": "Day 2 of IndieWebCamp Utrecht \u2013 hack day!  Possible projects for today:\nlearn more about the IndieAuth building block by trying to add the token access flow to my Emacs Micropub client\ninvestigate WordPress ActivityPub as another approach to bridging to the Fediverse\nfix my Micropub media endpoint which is currently getting an error returned from Indigenous\nwrite a blog post about IWC Utrecht \nThe post #5445 appeared first on doubleloop."
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Manton Reece www.manton.org

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        "html": "<p>The New Yorker: <a href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/can-indie-social-media-save-us\">Can \u201cIndie\u201d Social Media Save Us?</a> \u2014 by Cal Newport, featuring Micro.blog, Mastodon, and the IndieWeb alternative to big social networks. Welcome everyone discovering Micro.blog today!</p>",
        "text": "The New Yorker: Can \u201cIndie\u201d Social Media Save Us? \u2014 by Cal Newport, featuring Micro.blog, Mastodon, and the IndieWeb alternative to big social networks. Welcome everyone discovering Micro.blog today!"
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#5440

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        "html": "<p>Great first day at IndieWebCamp Utrecht!</p>\n<p>I went to sessions on IW building blocks and WordPress; privacy and sharing of personal data; federated search; other projects like Solid and how they overlap; and discovering content.  Lots of ideas and so many interesting people.</p>\n<p>And today with immaculate timing an article about IndieWeb popped up in the New Yorker: <a href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/can-indie-social-media-save-us\">www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/can-indie-social-media-save-us</a></p>\n<p>#IndieWeb</p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https://doubleloop.net/2019/05/18/5440/\">#5440</a> appeared first on <a href=\"https://doubleloop.net/\">doubleloop</a>.</p>",
        "text": "Great first day at IndieWebCamp Utrecht!\nI went to sessions on IW building blocks and WordPress; privacy and sharing of personal data; federated search; other projects like Solid and how they overlap; and discovering content.  Lots of ideas and so many interesting people.\nAnd today with immaculate timing an article about IndieWeb popped up in the New Yorker: www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/can-indie-social-media-save-us\n#IndieWeb\nThe post #5440 appeared first on doubleloop."
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#5439

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        "html": "Liked <a href=\"https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/05/indiewebcamp-utrecht-day-1-readers-discovery-federated-search-and-more/\">IndieWebCamp Utrecht, Day 1: Readers, Discovery, Federated Search and More</a> by Ton Zijlstra\n<blockquote>It was a beautiful morning, cycling along the canal in Utrecht, for the first IndieWebCamp. In the offices of shoppagina.nl about a dozen people found each other for a day of discussions, demo\u2019s and other sessions on matters of independent web activities. As organisers Frank and I aimed to not jus...</blockquote>\n\n<p>The post <a href=\"https://doubleloop.net/2019/05/18/5439/\">#5439</a> appeared first on <a href=\"https://doubleloop.net/\">doubleloop</a>.</p>",
        "text": "Liked IndieWebCamp Utrecht, Day 1: Readers, Discovery, Federated Search and More by Ton Zijlstra\nIt was a beautiful morning, cycling along the canal in Utrecht, for the first IndieWebCamp. In the offices of shoppagina.nl about a dozen people found each other for a day of discussions, demo\u2019s and other sessions on matters of independent web activities. As organisers Frank and I aimed to not jus...\n\nThe post #5439 appeared first on doubleloop."
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The New Yorker features the IndieWeb and Micro.blog

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#5436

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        "html": "<p>Looking forward to day 1 of IndieWebCamp Utrecht!</p>\n<p>#IndieWeb</p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https://doubleloop.net/2019/05/18/5436/\">#5436</a> appeared first on <a href=\"https://doubleloop.net/\">doubleloop</a>.</p>",
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Take Back Your Web by Tantek Çelik – Fantastic Talk!

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        "text": "Fantastic talk by Tantek \u00c7elik\u00a0about owning your identity on the web, and fighting back against the centralization of identity into harmful social networks like Facebook. Includes an inspiring introduction that sets context, and then an overview of the #IndieWeb and related technologies like microformats2, webmention, micropub, microsub, and more. Must watch!",
        "html": "<p>Fantastic talk by <a href=\"https://tantek.com\">Tantek \u00c7elik</a>\u00a0about owning your identity on the web, and fighting back against the centralization of identity into harmful social networks like Facebook. Includes an inspiring introduction that sets context, and then an overview of the <a href=\"https://cleverdevil.io/tag/IndieWeb\" class=\"p-category\">#IndieWeb</a> and related technologies like microformats2, webmention, micropub, microsub, and more. Must watch!</p>"
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Manton Reece www.manton.org

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        "html": "<p><a href=\"https://vimeo.com/336343886\">Great talk from Tantek</a> at Beyond Tellerrand this week about the IndieWeb.</p>",
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Colin Devroe cdevroe.com/author/cdevroe/

You can now follow any blog on Micro.blog

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        "html": "<p>Neat feature from Micro.blog. <a href=\"https://www.manton.org/2019/05/16/following-other-blogs.html\">Here is Manton Reece</a>, from his personal blog, on the new feature:</p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote><p>You can now <em>follow blogs</em> in the Micro.blog timeline, even if the blogger hasn\u2019t yet registered on Micro.blog.</p></blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Manton describes this feature as another type of \u201cusername\u201d. I understand why he\u2019s framing it that way but I\u2019m unsure if it is the best way to describe it. A blog\u2019s content being syndicated through Micro.blog, unwitting of the owner, isn\u2019t a username. In fact, any interaction with those posts by the Micro.blog community may very well go wholly unnoticed by the owner of the site unless their site supports Webmentions. So these are hardly Micro.blog users.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be that as it is, I am struggling myself with a better way to fully describe the different ways in which someone can use Micro.blog.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>At current, here they are:</p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>you can host your blog on Micro.blog at your own domain name</li><li>you can sign up to Micro.blog and post there using their domain name</li><li>you can sign up and syndicate your blog to an account (like I do)</li><li>with any account:<ul><li>you can follow Micro.blog accounts</li><li>you can follow any Mastodon account on any instance</li><li>and now you can follow any blog irrespective of whether or not the site knows it or not (like an RSS reader)</li></ul></li></ul><p>A powerful service!</p>\n\n\n\n<p>This brings back memories of two services that had some interesting tip-toeing to do as a result of syndicating the content of another persons without their permission.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>One, I had a lot to do with, which was <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9rules\">9rules</a>. We <a href=\"http://cdevroe.com/2019/04/15/blog-search/\">crawled the content</a> of all of the blogs within the community and kept a copy of a lot of their content. This allowed a few things. We had categories on the 9rules web site that made it easy for people to find blogs that interested them such as Tech, Culture, Food, etc. It also made search possible \u2013 so in a way, we had our own blog search engine. It was one of the first services of its kind on the web. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, 9rules\u2019 main income came from ads. Our homepage featured a few primary ad spots and some of our subsequent pages did as well. A few of the members wondered if we were profiting off of their content. A valid concern, one we didn\u2019t intend, and I remember it being a topic of debate.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another service I had nothing to do with, <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Satisfaction\">Get Satisfaction</a>. This service created forums for people to ask questions and get answers and rate their favorite products and services. One reason it caused a kerfuffle was because the companies had no idea these conversations were happening and it made them look bad when a big issue with one of their products went unanswered. Many asked to be removed from it.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t think Micro.blog will end up with ads but never say never. Also, I trust Manton and his team to be mindful of how they use this content and how they notify site owners of anything that is happening with that content on their platform. So far they\u2019ve proven themselves to be careful, purposeful and altruistic.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to follow me or my blog on Micro.blog you now have lots of ways to do that. <a href=\"https://micro.blog/cdevroe\">My account</a>, <a href=\"https://micro.blog/cdevroe.com\">my blog</a>, and <a href=\"https://micro.blog/cdevroe@mastodon.social\">my Mastodon account</a>. Cool.</p>",
        "text": "Neat feature from Micro.blog. Here is Manton Reece, from his personal blog, on the new feature:\n\n\n\nYou can now follow blogs in the Micro.blog timeline, even if the blogger hasn\u2019t yet registered on Micro.blog.\n\n\n\nManton describes this feature as another type of &#8220;username&#8221;. I understand why he&#8217;s framing it that way but I&#8217;m unsure if it is the best way to describe it. A blog&#8217;s content being syndicated through Micro.blog, unwitting of the owner, isn&#8217;t a username. In fact, any interaction with those posts by the Micro.blog community may very well go wholly unnoticed by the owner of the site unless their site supports Webmentions. So these are hardly Micro.blog users.\n\n\n\nBe that as it is, I am struggling myself with a better way to fully describe the different ways in which someone can use Micro.blog.\n\n\n\nAt current, here they are:\n\n\n\nyou can host your blog on Micro.blog at your own domain nameyou can sign up to Micro.blog and post there using their domain nameyou can sign up and syndicate your blog to an account (like I do)with any account:you can follow Micro.blog accountsyou can follow any Mastodon account on any instanceand now you can follow any blog irrespective of whether or not the site knows it or not (like an RSS reader)\n\n\n\nA powerful service!\n\n\n\nThis brings back memories of two services that had some interesting tip-toeing to do as a result of syndicating the content of another persons without their permission.\n\n\n\nOne, I had a lot to do with, which was 9rules. We crawled the content of all of the blogs within the community and kept a copy of a lot of their content. This allowed a few things. We had categories on the 9rules web site that made it easy for people to find blogs that interested them such as Tech, Culture, Food, etc. It also made search possible &#8211; so in a way, we had our own blog search engine. It was one of the first services of its kind on the web. \n\n\n\nHowever, 9rules&#8217; main income came from ads. Our homepage featured a few primary ad spots and some of our subsequent pages did as well. A few of the members wondered if we were profiting off of their content. A valid concern, one we didn&#8217;t intend, and I remember it being a topic of debate.\n\n\n\nAnother service I had nothing to do with, Get Satisfaction. This service created forums for people to ask questions and get answers and rate their favorite products and services. One reason it caused a kerfuffle was because the companies had no idea these conversations were happening and it made them look bad when a big issue with one of their products went unanswered. Many asked to be removed from it.\n\n\n\nI don&#8217;t think Micro.blog will end up with ads but never say never. Also, I trust Manton and his team to be mindful of how they use this content and how they notify site owners of anything that is happening with that content on their platform. So far they&#8217;ve proven themselves to be careful, purposeful and altruistic.\n\n\n\nIf you want to follow me or my blog on Micro.blog you now have lots of ways to do that. My account, my blog, and my Mastodon account. Cool."
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Colin Devroe cdevroe.com/author/cdevroe/

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        "html": "<p>I watched <a href=\"https://tantek.com/\">Tantek\u2019s</a> presentation <a href=\"https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/duesseldorf-2019/speakers/tantek-celik\">Take Back Your Web</a> from Beyond Tellerrand during lunch. Great presentation. From it I added <a href=\"https://matthiasott.com/articles/into-the-personal-website-verse\">Mattias Ott\u2019s blog post</a> and <a href=\"https://aaronparecki.com/2018/04/20/46/indieweb-reader-my-new-home-on-the-internet\">this one by Aaron Parecki</a> to <a href=\"https://unmark.it\">Unmark</a> to read later. Via <a href=\"https://adactio.com/links/15179\">Jeremy Keith</a>.</p>",
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Colin Devroe cdevroe.com/author/cdevroe/

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        "html": "<p>I still need to find time to improve my site\u2019s webmentions. They are terrible.</p>",
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Jeremy Keith adactio.com

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        "text": "Eintrag \u201cTake back your web \u2013 Tantek \u00c7elik @ Beyond Tellerrand Conference, D\u00fcsseldorf 2019\u201d beim Webrocker\n\n\n\nTom share\u2019s his thoughts on Tantek\u2019s excellent closing talk at Beyond Tellerrand this week:\n\n\n  Yes, the message of this rather sombre closing talk of this year\u2019s Beyond Tellerrand Conference D\u00fcsseldorf is important. Watch it. And then go out, take care of yourself and others, away from the screen. And then come back and publish your own stuff on your own site. Still not convinced? ok, then, please read Matthias Ott\u2019s great article (published on his own site btw), and then start using your own site.",
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Jonathan LaCour cleverdevil.io/profile/cleverdevil

iPad Pro Impressions

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        "text": "This past weekend, I took the plunge and purchased myself an iPad Pro, including an Apple Pencil and Smart Keyboard Folio. Amazon had the iPad Pro on sale for 16% off of list price, which is an uncommonly large discount that I couldn\u2019t pass up. I also had saved up quite a bit of Amazon rewards credit, so my out of pocket cost was quite low. I\u2019ve had my eye on an iPad Pro for quite some time, and now that I have one, its time to share my impressions.Which iPad Pro?I chose to purchase the smaller 11\" iPad Pro in Space Gray with 256GB of storage. Why? Well, the 12.9\" iPad Pro was very tempting, but my primary use case for this device is to be a highly portable alternative to my MacBook Pro. What do I plan to use it for? 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The screen is bright and crisp, and the bezel-less design is reminiscent of Dieter Rams' greatest hits. The last hardware design that I loved this much was the iPhone 5s.The accessories are similarly well designed. The Smart Keyboard Folio attaches to the iPad Pro with ease thanks to an array of powerful magnets, and the Smart Connector means that I never have to worry about charging or pairing the keyboard. It just works. The Apple Pencil is similarly impressive, with an ingenious magnetic attachment to the side of the iPad Pro, and wireless charging that is effortless.The Good: SoftwareiOS has come a long way in the past few years, adding rudimentary file management in the Files app, early multi-tasking capabilities, and iPad-specific features that enhance the overall experience. That said, there\u2019s a long, long way to go from an OS-level to truly make the iPad Pro a professional tool. I\u2019ll touch on that more later.Now, there are some truly amazing apps that I have been enjoying to help me with my target use cases. They\u2019re not all perfect, but I am encouraged by the vibrant and growing ecosystem of truly professional apps for iPad. These give me a great deal of hope for the future of the Mac as these apps begin to show up via Marzipan. Below is a list of apps I am using or experimenting with so far:Productivity\n\nEmail \u2013 Apple Mail. I am a heavy email user, and try out email clients often. For now, I am sticking with the built-in option, which is adequate.\n\nDocuments \u2013 Pages, Numbers, Keynote, and Drafts for personal projects. For work, we use GSuite, so I have installed Google\u2019s Drive, Slides, Sheets, and Docs apps.\n\nTask-Management \u2013 I use Things on my Mac and iPhone, and now I am using it on my iPad Pro.\n\nNote-taking \u2013 This is an area where I am spending a lot of time experimenting. I have very much enjoyed note-taking in Drafts with my Smart Keyboard Folio attached, but am also trying out note-taking apps that are more Apple Pencil driven, including Notability and Nebo.\n\nDevelopment\n\nSSH \u2013 Panic\u2019s Prompt and the emerging iSH, which adds an emulated Linux environment to iOS.\n\nLocal Development \u2013 The aforementioned iSH has been a revelation, enabling me to do local development in a very similar way to how I would on macOS, with vim, Python 3.7, git, virtualenv, and other common terminal-based tools. I\u2019m also experimenting with Pythonista and have my eye on a few other editors to play with (Textastic, Buffer, etc.).\n\nWriting / Blogging\n\nBlogging \u2013 Drafts with a custom Micropub action for publishing to my website.\n\nMicroblogging \u2013 Directly on my website, through Indigenous, or via the Micro.blog app.\n\nMedia\n\nStreaming \u2013 Plex, Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, etc.\n\nLocal Video \u2013 Infuse, VLC, and Plex. 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In the lap, the whole Smart Keyboard Folio and iPad Pro setup is a bit top-heavy, making it slightly unstable. Other than these minor nits, overall I think the hardware is top-notch.The Bad: SoftwareWhile the app ecosystem is amazing, and iOS has made great strides, there are still some fundamental missing pieces that prevent me from viewing iOS as a true alternative to macOS:\nKeyboard \u2013 While the Smart Keyboard Folio is generally great to type on, in spite of its small size and low key travel, it is greatly hampered by software limitations in iOS. There is no ability to re-map keys in iOS, so I am stuck with a system-wide Caps Lock key, and no ESC key. Some apps, such as iSH, allow you to map Caps Lock to ESC, but this should really be handled system-wide. In addition, the Smart Keyboard Folio has a \u201cglobe\u201d button in the bottom left corner which is infuriating. Pressing it pops up the Emoji keyboard on screen, and its right next to the control key, which I use heavily.\n\nFonts \u2013\u00a0iOS comes with a small set of fonts, and there is no standard, built-in way to install additional fonts. I have been able to use an app called AnyFont to install fonts, including my preferred programming font, Dank Mono, but because the system itself doesn\u2019t have support for font management, most apps don\u2019t surface font customization. Kudos to Drafts, though, for allowing users to pick from any font available to the system, including ones installed through AnyFont.\n\nFile Management \u2013 Apple added the Files app to iOS, and its a good start, but has so far to go to truly make it a pro-level file management tool. In addition, there isn\u2019t any ability to plug in external storage to my iPad Pro, in spite of the fact that it has a USB-C port.\n\nMulti-Tasking \u2013 iOS has a very rudimentary multi-tasking system, which allows you to place multiple apps onto the screen at the same time, in floating panels, and in split views. It works, but is fiddly to use, with delicate gestures required to bring up the dock, drag apps over each other, and position them. In addition, there is no way to have multiple \u201cwindows\u201d of an app used in different multi-tasking sessions. I think Apple is definitely innovating here, looking for new ways to approach multi-tasking than traditional window management. In many ways, iOS multi-tasking reminds me of tiling window managers, just\u2026 not as good. I\u2019m hoping for good news on this front at WWDC.\n\nWeb Browsing \u2013 Safari is an awesome browser. 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        "html": "<p>This past weekend, I took the plunge and purchased myself an <a href=\"https://amzn.to/2QeZazn\">iPad Pro</a>, including an <a href=\"https://amzn.to/2VG0bGh\">Apple Pencil</a> and <a href=\"https://amzn.to/2E6Ii91\">Smart Keyboard Folio</a>. Amazon had the iPad Pro on sale for 16% off of list price, which is an uncommonly large discount that I couldn\u2019t pass up. I also had saved up quite a bit of Amazon rewards credit, so my out of pocket cost was quite low. I\u2019ve had my eye on an iPad Pro for quite some time, and now that I have one, its time to share my impressions.</p><h2>Which iPad Pro?</h2><p>I chose to purchase the smaller 11\" iPad Pro in Space Gray with 256GB of storage. Why? Well, the 12.9\" iPad Pro was very tempting, but my primary use case for this device is to be a highly portable alternative to my MacBook Pro. What do I plan to use it for? Ideally:</p><ul><li>Productivity\n<ul><li>Email</li>\n<li>Documents</li>\n<li>Task Management</li>\n<li>Note-taking, as an alternative to my trusty paper notebooks</li>\n</ul></li>\n<li>Development\n<ul><li>SSH\u2019ing into my various Linux environments</li>\n<li>Local development, preferably using Python</li>\n</ul></li>\n<li>Writing / Blogging\n<ul><li>Publishing to my website</li>\n</ul></li>\n<li>Media\n<ul><li>Streaming from my <a href=\"https://plex.tv\">Plex</a> server</li>\n<li>Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, etc.</li>\n</ul></li>\n<li>Reading\n<ul><li>Books</li>\n<li>News</li>\n<li>Comics</li>\n<li>Web</li>\n<li>My <a href=\"https://github.com/cleverdevil/together\">Social Reader</a>\n</li>\n</ul></li>\n</ul><p>Given my constraints and desire to have something more portable than my MacBook Pro, I opted for the smaller size iPad Pro and Apple\u2019s very slim keyboard case, with the Apple Pencil to help me replace my paper notebooks. I chose the 256 GB storage option because the base model only offers 64 GB, which is just not enough for my needs.</p><h2>The Good: Hardware</h2><p>So, what\u2019s the good news? Well, there\u2019s a lot to like. First off, the hardware itself is simply stunning. Its light, thin, fast, and beautiful. The screen is bright and crisp, and the bezel-less design is reminiscent of <a href=\"http://www.oobject.com/category/15-dieter-rams-classics/\">Dieter Rams' greatest hits</a>. The last hardware design that I loved this much was the <a href=\"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_5S\">iPhone 5s</a>.</p><p>The accessories are similarly well designed. The Smart Keyboard Folio attaches to the iPad Pro with ease thanks to an array of powerful magnets, and the Smart Connector means that I never have to worry about charging or pairing the keyboard. It just works. The Apple Pencil is similarly impressive, with an ingenious magnetic attachment to the side of the iPad Pro, and wireless charging that is effortless.</p><h2>The Good: Software</h2><p>iOS has come a long way in the past few years, adding rudimentary file management in the Files app, early multi-tasking capabilities, and iPad-specific features that enhance the overall experience. That said, there\u2019s a long, long way to go from an OS-level to truly make the iPad Pro a <em>professional</em> tool. I\u2019ll touch on that more later.</p><p>Now, there are some truly amazing apps that I have been enjoying to help me with my target use cases. They\u2019re not all perfect, but I am encouraged by the vibrant and growing ecosystem of truly professional apps for iPad. These give me a great deal of hope for the future of the Mac as these apps begin to show up via Marzipan. Below is a list of apps I am using or experimenting with so far:</p><ul><li>Productivity\n<ul><li>\n<strong>Email</strong> \u2013 Apple Mail. I am a heavy email user, and try out email clients often. For now, I am sticking with the built-in option, which is adequate.</li>\n<li>\n<strong>Documents</strong> \u2013 Pages, Numbers, Keynote, and <a href=\"https://getdrafts.com\">Drafts</a> for personal projects. For work, we use GSuite, so I have installed Google\u2019s Drive, Slides, Sheets, and Docs apps.</li>\n<li>\n<strong>Task-Management</strong> \u2013 I use <a href=\"https://culturedcode.com/things/\">Things</a> on my Mac and iPhone, and now I am using it on my iPad Pro.</li>\n<li>\n<strong>Note-taking</strong> \u2013 This is an area where I am spending a lot of time experimenting. I have very much enjoyed note-taking in Drafts with my Smart Keyboard Folio attached, but am also trying out note-taking apps that are more Apple Pencil driven, including <a href=\"https://www.gingerlabs.com\">Notability</a> and <a href=\"https://www.myscript.com/nebo\">Nebo</a>.</li>\n</ul></li>\n<li>Development\n<ul><li>\n<strong>SSH</strong> \u2013 <a href=\"https://www.panic.com/prompt/\">Panic\u2019s Prompt</a> and the emerging <a href=\"http://ish.app\">iSH</a>, which adds an emulated Linux environment to iOS.</li>\n<li>\n<strong>Local Development</strong> \u2013 The aforementioned iSH has been a revelation, enabling me to do local development in a very similar way to how I would on macOS, with vim, Python 3.7, git, virtualenv, and other common terminal-based tools. I\u2019m also experimenting with <a href=\"https://omz-software.com/pythonista/\">Pythonista</a> and have my eye on a few other editors to play with (<a href=\"http://textasticapp.com\">Textastic</a>, <a href=\"https://buffereditor.com/\">Buffer</a>, etc.).</li>\n</ul></li>\n<li>Writing / Blogging\n<ul><li>\n<strong>Blogging</strong> \u2013 Drafts with a custom Micropub action for publishing to my website.</li>\n<li>\n<strong>Microblogging</strong> \u2013 Directly on my website, through <a href=\"https://indigenous.abode.pub\">Indigenous</a>, or via the <a href=\"https://micro.blog\">Micro.blog</a> app.</li>\n</ul></li>\n<li>Media\n<ul><li>\n<strong>Streaming</strong> \u2013 <a href=\"https://plex.tv\">Plex</a>, Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, etc.</li>\n<li>\n<strong>Local Video</strong> \u2013 <a href=\"https://firecore.com/infuse\">Infuse</a>, <a href=\"http://www.videolan.org\">VLC</a>, and Plex. To get video into Infuse and VLC, I tend to use <a href=\"https://youtube-dl.org/\">youtube-dl</a> inside of iSH.</li>\n</ul></li>\n<li>Reading\n<ul><li>\n<strong>Books</strong> \u2013 Apple\u2019s Books app works great for ePub content.</li>\n<li>\n<strong>News</strong> \u2013 Apple\u2019s News app is decent, but mostly I use Safari with my favorite news sites, or more likely I use my feed reader.</li>\n<li>\n<strong>Comics</strong> \u2013 <a href=\"http://chunkyreader.com\">Chunky Reader</a> is pretty solid, though I wish this entire category was more like Plex, with rich metadata indexing and organization on the server, with clients for reading.</li>\n<li>\n<strong>Web</strong> \u2013 Safari.</li>\n<li>\n<strong>Feeds</strong> \u2013 I have installed <a href=\"https://github.com/cleverdevil/together\">Together</a> as a <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Web_Apps\">Progressive Web App</a> on my home screen and it works well.</li>\n</ul></li>\n</ul><p>While none of the above apps are <em>perfect</em>, I have been quite impressed with them as a whole.</p><h2>The Bad: Hardware</h2><p>While the iPad Pro and its accessories are truly impressive hardware, they\u2019re not free of issues. Because the bezels are so small on the iPad Pro, it can be a little uncomfortable to hold in portrait layout while reading. In the lap, the whole Smart Keyboard Folio and iPad Pro setup is a bit top-heavy, making it slightly unstable. Other than these minor nits, overall I think the hardware is top-notch.</p><h2>The Bad: Software</h2><p>While the app ecosystem is amazing, and iOS has made great strides, there are still some fundamental missing pieces that prevent me from viewing iOS as a true alternative to macOS:</p><ul><li>\n<strong>Keyboard</strong> \u2013 While the Smart Keyboard Folio is generally great to type on, in spite of its small size and low key travel, it is greatly hampered by software limitations in iOS. There is no ability to re-map keys in iOS, so I am stuck with a system-wide Caps Lock key, and no ESC key. Some apps, such as iSH, allow you to map Caps Lock to ESC, but this should really be handled system-wide. In addition, the Smart Keyboard Folio has a \u201cglobe\u201d button in the bottom left corner which is infuriating. Pressing it pops up the Emoji keyboard on screen, and its right next to the control key, which I use heavily.</li>\n<li>\n<strong>Fonts</strong> \u2013\u00a0iOS comes with a small set of fonts, and there is no standard, built-in way to install additional fonts. I have been able to use an app called <a href=\"https://anyfont.app/\">AnyFont</a> to install fonts, including my preferred programming font, <a href=\"https://dank.sh\">Dank Mono</a>, but because the system itself doesn\u2019t have support for font management, most apps don\u2019t surface font customization. Kudos to Drafts, though, for allowing users to pick from any font available to the system, including ones installed through AnyFont.</li>\n<li>\n<strong>File Management</strong> \u2013 Apple added the Files app to iOS, and its a good start, but has so far to go to truly make it a pro-level file management tool. In addition, there isn\u2019t any ability to plug in external storage to my iPad Pro, in spite of the fact that it has a USB-C port.</li>\n<li>\n<strong>Multi-Tasking</strong> \u2013 iOS has a very rudimentary multi-tasking system, which allows you to place multiple apps onto the screen at the same time, in floating panels, and in split views. It works, but is fiddly to use, with delicate gestures required to bring up the dock, drag apps over each other, and position them. In addition, there is no way to have multiple \u201cwindows\u201d of an app used in different multi-tasking sessions. I think Apple is definitely innovating here, looking for new ways to approach multi-tasking than traditional window management. In many ways, iOS multi-tasking reminds me of <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager\">tiling window managers</a>, just\u2026 not as good. I\u2019m hoping for good news on this front at WWDC.</li>\n<li>\n<strong>Web Browsing</strong> \u2013 Safari is an awesome browser. But, on the iPad, too often websites give you the mobile version of their site, rather than serving up the \u201cfull size\u201d website. In addition, there isn\u2019t any sort of download manager, or support for extensions other than content blockers.</li>\n<li>\n<strong>iSH</strong> \u2013 I have heaped praise on iSH above, and it really is pretty incredible. Its also an open source project, and is rapidly improving\u2026 but its not there yet. Things I\u2019d love to see added to iSH that would greatly improve my experience: custom font selection, better performance, compatibility with additional software, tabbed sessions, and a choice of a different base operating system than Alpine Linux.</li>\n</ul><h2>Conclusions</h2><p>Overall, I am thrilled with my iPad Pro, and really excited to see where Apple is headed with iOS for \u201cpro\u201d users. There is so much to like, and massive potential for improvement. While I don\u2019t see the iPad Pro displacing my laptop anytime soon, I think it will become an important part of my workflow.</p>"
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