Apparently the Australian mint have made Bluey “1 dollar (buck) coins”. This is clearly a clever ploy to drive up the value of the Australian Dollar by getting millions of foreign nationals to invest.

Listening to U2: How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (Remastered 2024).

I love this album. I know hating U2 became a thing for a while but it’s good (as are many of the other earlier albums).

Finished reading: Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon 📚

Reread partially to juice my reading numbers, partially for an easy read to get back into reading but mostly to remember some of the ideas.

Sometimes I see stuff about “liberals” and think “that’s such a straw man”.

After 5 minutes on bluesky, I can see where some of the crazy stereotypes come from.

WordPress 6.7 is here as is the new default theme Twenty Twenty-Five. Seems like it might suit Sketchy Ideas well (and allow me to move away from a WP Engine related theme)

It’s a mju day, it’s a mju life, it’s a mju world. And I’m feeling good.

My brother is visiting so I took him to the Jewish coffee shop and cultural centre. One of my favourite spots in krakow.

I opened the mac App store to update Final Cut Pro (this one goes to 11) and it made me realise something.

I miss minimal writing apps.

Yes, there are still some out there but most now are some sort of PKM app. There was something beautiful about the basic writing app era.

Now, please excuse me while I add a note about this to Obsidian.

(Can’t remember the source of this idea).

Governments SHOULD do inefficient things. If those things were efficient and profitable, then business would do them but we need governments to do the things that don’t have an immediate payoff.

An example, building roads and other infrastructure to connect rural communities. No business would do this as it wouldn’t be worth the ROI, governments should and many businesses benefit as well as the residents.

This doesn’t mean governments can’t/shouldn’t be more efficient and seek to limit waste, but judging a government by a corporation is dangerous.

I just updated the Sketchy Gospel about page as I try to get my sketchy advent devotional series ready in time. I have a cool theme for the series and it’s just four/five emails so it should be easily doable. We’ll see!