I recently rebranded these updates to rewinds instead of weekly rewind to remove the pressure of publishing weekly, yet, I found myself enjoying and spending time on this one. Guess because I'm removing more and more constraints to what and how I put things here. So here we are with a rewind of the previous week.
⏪ Week in rewind
👨💻 While I'm happy with Safari on mobile, I've always run into problems with bookmark management and handover from desktop to mobile, as I spend most of my time on a non-Apple device. A bookmark tool like Raindrop could be part of a solution; however, it remains blocked at work for unknown reasons.
Last week, I came to an epiphany to use a browser that supports all my devices and syncs bookmarks and history that way. Likely what many already figured out before 🙄 But anyhow, I went for Firefox/Vivaldi (testing out both) as a simple and lightweight solution, and it had been working rather well.
👟 On Sunday, I went to a close-by local running event with my family. You could even call it a backyard run or a home run as it was that close to where we live. It also added a nice touch of seeing a lot of familiar faces participating. While I was pacing my brother-in-law to reach a sub-45-min time on the 10 km (✔️), my oldest ran the 5 km with his friends. He wasn't tired enough after finishing, so he decided to complete an extra 1 km through a kids' run. Perhaps to get that extra medal. And my youngest did his very first kids' run. I felt so proud I almost had tears.
Another medal for the running wall of fame.
🍾🍟 We had our cava and fries meet-up with friends. We hosted this one according to our tradition, serving cava and snacks, followed by real Belgian fries at dinner.
🏗️ I've been doing some housekeeping on this blog. Updating my RSS page, creating overview pages for my main items, and adding a guestbook. It's not a real guestbook that automatically stores entries, but it's a nice way if anyone wants to leave something publicly.
Pagecord is much more limited towards scripting (vs. Bear, for example), but that is also why I like it. It forces me to focus on creating content, rather than fiddling with add-ons.
📺 Watched
We continued watching Berlin, and I followed some matches of the World Cup, but I can't say I'm as excited as I used to be trying to watch as many games as possible.
📚 Reading
No books read.
📱 Apps in focus
Loupe (iOS). A simple tool to understand what fingerprint you leave behind when using apps and being online.
🎧 Listened
I started using Last.fm as a test to understand what I'm listening to and what other music I could discover this way. While my history is definitely not clean, with my sons using the same Spotify account, and the running beats I listen to when doing heavy workouts, I already found some songs & albums worth listening.
Here's what I listened to recently.
🏋️ Fitness log
- 🏃 Running: 54km