Fran's Realm

Soon enough anyone will be able to write novels, draw beautiful images, or simulate photography using AI.

The Tofana di Rozes, in the Dolomites mountains, is famous for its vertical cliffs, and reddish rocks (due to iron-rich minerals).

John Gruber: Sometimes a leader needs to make decisions with uncertain business sense, or even knowing that the decision doesn’t make business sense, but simply because their intuition or conscience tell them it’s the right thing to do.

Even if I don't use mymind anymore [^really], it doesn't mean I don't love what they do.

Spending the night in an airport [^not] always makes me think of Marc Augé's famous intuition: [^not]: Which is something I don't do that often, thankfully The non-places [...] are not meeting spaces and do not build common references to a group.

I don't remember when I first read this post by Craig Mod but it's been resonating with me ever since.

If you love Markdown [^markdown] and hate assembling presentations [^presentations] this app is for you.

Goodbye opinionated design, you'll be missed I feel like the customisation possibilities unveiled at WWDC 2024 mark a significant shift for Apple.

What a great time: visiting friends in Greece, climbing and swimming every day.

With the upcoming Apple event in June, everyone is wondering about Apple’s AI or the new MacBooks but here I am, hoping for Apple to give its note-taking app some love.

There’s this thing in Things[^thing] where you can set deadlines.

In the design and tech worlds it's common to go by the motto "My job is my only passion" and lucky are those for which this is true.

Matt Birchler recently commented two articles[^birch] related to the drag-and-drop gesture and how we use computers and, in the first one in particular, he asks himself if he's the one out of touch, or the author of the following lines is: [^birch]: One of

Stephen King is a bit of a dirty pleasure of mine.

– What do our users want?

Even if I moved most of my browsing activities to Arc, I still find myself using Safari from time to time but there's one thing that was driving me crazy: there's no keyboard shortcut to copy the URL of the current page to the clipboard.

John Gruber, on Daring Fireball: To me the Macintosh has always felt more like a place than a thing.

This is a small app that I rarely see mentioned around and yet it's pretty unique: it automatically highlights the front window on your Mac and puts an overlay over everything else.

I hate how it swaps movie’s covers.

From iA: Good design takes time and effort, but the time used to understand and clarify a design is not wasted.

A bit late to the party but here I go: Email: iCloud + Default Mail app Browser: Arc + Safari Task management: Things + Reminders Bookmarks: mymind Photo shooting: Default camera app + Halide + Spectre Photo editing: Lightroom Notes: Apple Notes + Bear Wr…

⭐️ = A masterpiece / 😍 = I loved it Fiction Zone One - Colson Whitehead The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury ⭐️ The Leviathan - Rose Andrew The Evolution Man, Once Upon an Ice Age, What We Did to Father - ‌Roy Lewis Death's end - Liu Cixin 😍 The Curious…

The rough animal sketches of Italian comic books artist Andrea Pazienza.

I don't know about you, but I used to have hundreds of neatly organised and categorised notes that I collected during the years.

Since I spend a lot of time reading the (incredibly always interesting) articles written by the team over at ilpost.it, I took the time to review and clean up some CSS style I wrote to customise the article view.

Even if I am not the biggest Shortcuts user, I do play with it pretty often and there are indeed some shortcuts that I use everyday.

Simple shortcuts are the best ones.

The beautiful lines and colours of Head Lopper.

Bear 2: What's still missing We are all happy about the release of Bear 2: the Shiny Frog teams confirm themselves as one of the few companies that really care about design and User Experience.

I've been vegetarian for more than 15 years, but I couldn't resist taking this picture [^1]. [^1]: Especially when travelling to foreign countries, always ask if you're allowed to take a picture before doing so.

I avoid apps that try to do a thousand different things and end up doing all of them in a bad way.

I recently found out about this concept which explains perfectly what I think a great product should represent.

I recently watched “Batman: The Long Halloween”, a three hours long animated movie based on the graphic novel of the same name, and I was extremely disappointed by the lack of imagination displayed in it.

⭐️ = A masterpiece / 😍 = I loved it V.