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Optimistic Wrist

Today I had the nth appointment for my wrist. Yesterday, we had done an echo just to make sure that thereโ€™s no damage or cysts. Fortunately, when it comes to those types of abnormalities, everything seems fine. The conclusion seems to be that my wrists are slightly more mobile than they should and therefore itโ€™s just much easier to get an injury. And that the tendons need to do a lot more work than they would usually need toโ€ฆ

The next steps were not fun: getting an injection directly in the inflamed tendon with some substance that is supposed to help it come to a more rested space. That was performed immediately. I wouldnโ€™t recommend that.

At the end of the month Iโ€™m also getting a custom made brace to also ensure I can give my wrist proper rest. The injection plus the brace plus exercises to make sure that my wrist becomes stronger should do the trick. Iโ€™m cautiously optimistic.

Year in Music '24

Cute entity listening to music

Similarly to previousย years, it’s time to share my musical habits throughout 2024. Around a month ago, I published my Spotify Wrapped ๐ŸŽ, but, as usual, I don’t trust it completely. If they’re sharing it before the end of the year, how can it successfully show the statistics for the whole year? Here I am again, with my (almost) complete data from Last.fm.

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App Defaults in Late '24

Just like last year, a lot of “App Defaults” posts have started popping up in my RSS feed. So, I decided to join with an updated list, featuring more categories than last year:

  • ๐Ÿ“ฎ Mail Service: Migadu โ†’ Fastmail (why I moved)
  • ๐Ÿ“จ Mail Client: Apple Mail
  • ๐Ÿ“ Notes: Apple Notes
  • โœ… Reminders: Apple Reminders
  • ๐Ÿ“† Calendar: Google Calendar โ†’ Apple Calendar (Fastmail)
  • ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ Contacts: Google Contacts โ†’ Apple Contacts (Fastmail)
  • ๐Ÿ“– RSS Service: Miniflux
  • ๐Ÿ—ž๏ธ RSS Client: NetNewsWire (iOS)
  • ๐Ÿ“ Cloud File Storage: iCloud, Google Drive
  • ๐ŸŸฆ Photo Management: Apple Photos, file system for RAW
  • ๐ŸŒ Browser: Chrome on macOS, Safari on iOS
  • ๐Ÿ’ฌ Chat: WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal
  • ๐Ÿ”– Bookmarks: Browser, Linkding โ†’ Browser, This Website
  • ๐Ÿ“‘ Read It Later: Apple Reminders
  • ๐Ÿ›’ Shopping Lists: Apple Reminders
  • ๐Ÿ“„ Documents: Google Docs, Markdown
  • ๐Ÿ’ฐ Personal Finance: Google Sheets
  • ๐Ÿ“ฐ News: NRC ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ, Pรบblico ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡น, some tech blogs
  • ๐ŸŽต Music and Podcasts: Spotify
  • ๐Ÿ” Password Management: 1Password
  • ๐ŸŒค๏ธ Weather: Apple Weather, Buienradar
  • ๐Ÿงฎ Code Editor: Visual Studio Code and vim
  • ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Terminal: iTerm with zsh and oh my zsh - see my dotfiles

In the course of 2025, I hope to further reduce the Google services from this list, especially when it comes to documents and cloud file storage. To be fair, I don’t really use it that much, only for maintaining one or two spreadsheets, and I rarely make slides or written documents. Moving these to local files would be ideal, but it is also undeniable that the versatility of Google Docs makes it very compelling to use.

Keep an eye on my uses for an always up to date version of this list!

Ikigai by Hรฉctor Garcia

Yesterday, I finished reading Ikigai, a book by Hรฉctor Garcia and Francesc Miralles, which dives into the Japanese concept of the same name, Ikigai (็”Ÿใ็”ฒๆ–). The reasons for buying this book months ago were not exactly because I wanted to read it, but just because it looked and felt nice. But now that I have read it, I think it was a good purchase.

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Using Cloudflare on Your Website Could Be Blocking RSS Users via openrss.org

I have been having a few problems with some of the feeds on my feed reader during the past months. Changing the User-Agent has always fixed the error. Now, I came across this article from Open RSS.

This very likely explains all of the issues I have had across the past months. It is very sad that this is happening to such a large amount of users, and I can see that most non-tech people would not even care at all about RSS.

Personally, I also use Cloudflare and I’ve considered many times moving away from it. Unfortunately, I haven’t done that yet. I don’t know if the alternative would be to just use another DNS service, or try to find something more complete for caching purposes, such as Bunny - which I already use for the media.