No, your iPad is not getting MacOS. Stop asking: This is going to be a short post as I have already touched on this topic a while ago. Recently there has been an increase in iPad related talk on the internet, mostly on Apple forums, news sites and reddit. On sentiment I see time after time in the comments is stupid. “The iPad is held back by …

Is my future offline?: As I’m sure many of you have noticed, I have recently been on something of a cleanse. Ejecting things from my life which I feel are no longer relevant. Trying my best to live intentionally and considering what adds value to my life, and what are things which I use as crouches for someone I …

NewsExplorer seems pretty good so far. RSS win. I guess.

Today have learned that my RSS reader (Reeder+) doesn’t have an export. Oddly this made me want to leave, so i installed NewsExplorer. Seems pretty good so far.

Digital Minimalism?: I have spent some time reading the Cal newport book ‘Digital Minimalism.’ I’m not that far in, but I picked it up because I was feeling a ‘thing,’ the book, so far, has made me double feel that ‘thing.’ I need to write a full post about the …

Few days into DAP life now. I love having a music player which doesn’t expect more from me than to hit the play button.

Do you ever make a purchase and then think “that was dumb, I should not have done that” ?

My wisdom tooth is uncomfortable this morning.

Bible translation comparisons and thoughts, from an interested reader.: Recently I was reading the translation notes in my NLT bible and there were a few lines which made me raise an eyebrow. This led me to go on a bit of a deep dive into all the translations which I read. I am not an expert and all information provided can be found online with ease. All I did was read …

Imagine a world where Things got worn out when you looked at them. Like erosion of viewing. I think it happens in some ways, on a personal level, the more I look at a thing the less I appreciate it. Maybe it’s me being depleted, not the things I look at.

Why doesn’t apple mail have a share sheet? It’s infuriating

It’s foggy today. I assume this is because 2025 has started loading.

My 2024, in review.: The end of the year is looming, and we approach the dark, melancholic week which sets its home between Christmas and the new year. Like a troll on a bridge, the week of limbo must be defeated to pass into the glorious bastion of twenty twenty-five. Which, is an overly dramatic way of saying that …

My desk now contains a MacBook air, two iPads (don’t ask,) a bluetooth speaker and a usb chargeable reading lamp. There is something awesome about an all battery-powered desk. I don’t know why, but it gives me great joy.

Merry Christmas.

I wrote a ‘novella’ – Of Gods and Vampires. A Denouement story.: I wrote a ‘novella’ (it’s a long novella…) Please see below for a download in PDF format. Of Gods and Vampires is an episodic story set inside the Denouement universe, the Denouemeverse, if you like. DOWNLOAD PDF Also, because it’s Christmas DOWNLOAD TXT Oh, and… …

Towards the light.: Recently I tried the dark mode on my Kindle for the first time since I have had it. It’s strange that I ever tried it at all, give that in the decade or more I have been using Kindles, it has never before occurred to me that dark mode maybe a viable option. My verdict after an hour was this: …

I have decided that now my headaches are ‘under control’ I no longer need to think of dark mode as an accessibility issue. So, I’m going to try ‘light by default’ for a few weeks

I’m considering replacing GoodLinks with DEVONthink. Since I already use DT, my initial reason for using GoodLinks to save articles was to avoid cluttering my notes. Now that I understand DT better, I realise I can separate the databases and adopt a more holistic approach to managing my PKMS

I think I have become someone who enjoys classical music. You know, like meatloaf and rush.

I’ve thought about it and Hot Frosty was the movie I have enjoyed the most this Christmas season.

Writing a novella – ‘Of Gods and Vampires’ (coming soon): I wrote a thing. For Christmas. It is not ‘Christmasy.’ When I say that I write it for Christmas, that’s not entirely true, it just happens that it’s basically finished, and it also happens to be mid-December. ‘Of Gods and Vampires’ is a short novel following the …

I used the word ‘blithesome’ in a sentence today. Felt like a rockstar!

The current, sad state of my broken toaster has never been more relevant and disappointing than, right now.

If people were to ask, I would say that I didn’t use social media, despite all the things I post to dandelion-utilitarian.com ending up on micro.blog, bluesky and the wider fedi. I think, that I dont parse it as social media because from my point of view it’s just me pushing things to my website. …

I’m editing my ‘current writing project‘. I don’t know if it’s because it’s winter, or because I have country music on, but I can’t get ‘into’ it right now. I have this cozy vibe which makes me want to read a book, not write one.

Come Visit.

Animal crossing pocket edition complete is like an amazing dopamine drip and I can’t not play it right now. Totally getting me though December 😊

I really like DevonTHINK. Just saying.

Whats on my desk – December 2024 edition: These last few months have been transformative in many ways. I have been, as I have outlined in a previous post, Ejecting Things from my life, as well as changing some workflow things, both physically and digitally. I know I did an update reasonably recently, but now it feels a little more …

In conversations, I repeat myself too much. It comes from a desire to refine ideas. I image people notice, and find it annoying it. Sorry.

I had good food this evening. Which is mostly mad becausee I assembled it myself.

Dandelion-Utilitarian has a NET & a COM: I wanted to take a moment to than explain something which I have only recently realised maybe confusing. Both Dandelion-Utilitarian.com and Dandelion-Utilitarian.net exist. The dot com, is my main public facing WordPress site. It is where you will find my curated articles and my Niceferatu comic …

I drew the man who served me the excellent coffee the other day.

i had an amazing coffee this afternoon.

I need to write a blog post explaining my usage differences between my dot com and dot net urls.

The Hex has been lifted.: We all move on from things, and it often feels like a good move, it feels liberating and enchiching. I have had a lot of that feeling of liberty recently has I have been doing a very utilitarian decluttering of my home. Moving on from an online persona, however, feels like a death, more than a …

Static, in motion – The formation of a man with terrible taste.: The Outer Limits opening contains the now legendary words, “we will control the horizontal, we will control the vertical.” Like many kids, watching the scary black and white episodes through a half broken television, on a raining evening, the words were seared into my mind, along with …

Kindling, Copyright, Catastrophe: I’ve used a Kindle as my main book-window since the Kindle Voyage was launched in 2014 and since that time I’ve read many a controversy about the way Amazon manage the platform. Most of the reports are actually about copyright law, not Amazon, not directly. I thing which most …

A desk. Sans Monitor:   This week I had a very minor problem with the monitor at my desk, it has developed, suddenly, a small light bleed, or bright spot, across the right edge. I could almost ignore it. Then last night my dock started failing to process USB input, something it has done in the past. These two minor …

The micro mirror miracle. (Micro.hexdsl.com): You can skip this entire article and just click here, if I’m totally honest. If you would like to know, slightly more, keep reading… Micro.Blog has come up on my radar a lot over the last few years, mostly by being supported a supported publishing target by a bunch of writing software I …

Time can’t split. Projects eat time.: No matter how productive I can become, and no matter how skilled I become, I still have twenty-four hours in a day. Much like nothing exceeds the speed of light, no productivity pipeline will break the time barrier. This has never been more evident to me than when I started drawing. I have been in …

Time, the secret eBay offset: As I said in my last post, I have been using eBay recently for the first time in many years. I have even made a pretty reasonable amount of money in exchange for the things which were on my shelf gathering dust. On paper, it’s gone quite well. Let’s have a look at a sample here: I …

Download: Tales of the Denoumeverse – Week (A book I wrote): Starting a little after the events of ‘In Her we trust’ (Denouement 2) this story, for the first time gives us a look at the adventure from other characters. This novella is split into five parts, each part a different day of the week. We get to experience the world though the mind of …

Ejecting things:   The things.   It has recently come to my attention that a lot of the stuff in my office has dust on it. This isn’t because I fail to clean my house (I mean, in part it is. Who ‘dusts’?) but it is more that the things in my office are so infrequently used that dust …

Download: In Her We Trust (A book I wrote): This is the second book in the Denouement series Still reeling from the events of the first Denouement adventure, Jon and his unwilling group of friends slowly get pulled into a war for control of reality itself. Can the charming cult that their old associate controls really be trusted? does the …

Download: Denouement (A book I wrote): Aliens, robots, non-organic life forms, space ships and neon skies are the backdrop to a mystery about reality, family, time, love and the memories that define us. What would you do if you woke up with no memory of your life, but you had everything you wanted? All you have to do to keep it, is not …

Download: Nancy & Holmes (A book I wrote): When Nancy first meets the detective who lives in her head, she assumed he was a symptom of her drinking, trauma of her parents’ death or just a homeless ghost. Then the first corpse turns up on the beach outside of her flat. That, coupled with the monster hunters, news reports and the sea monster …

Download: Chronicles of Ned – Space, to Breathe (A book I wrote): This is the first short story in the Chronicles of Ned. Ned is like you and me, but his friends are far stupider, and he somehow attracts a lot of oddness to his life. Ned occasionally gets abducted by aliens, meets bug people and rides in a camper van… through space. This tongue in cheek …