We all have our own suboptimal behaviours, which are usually as revealing as they are load-bearing. These are some of mine, in no particular order.
Read (mostly on my e-reader).
Add writing or design improvements (see Changelog) to this site.
Sketch new interface ideas in tldraw.
Binge-read the classic DC comic series on Read Comics Online
Go lounge around at a friend’s place.
Talk to an LLM about sync engine architectures.
Go through the tabs in my reading backlog.
Emptying my Twitter bookmarks. Which means either making use of the information in those tweets, quotetweeting them, and/or adding them here, before unbookmarking them in the app.
Tweak the CSS or do a minor refactor for one of my apps. Lately, that app has been Scatterpad.
Put on a random episode from a podcast/channel, based purely on the title and person being interviewed. Usual suspects: localfirst.fm, Dialectic, Manifold, Ryan Carniato’s streams
Draw up plans for a new microsite, or think about ways to improve an existing one.
Browse the Commoncog Forum.
Doomscroll Twitter, sometimes Bluesky.
I use write-only clients for both these apps, no timeline to scroll.Rewrite my todo lists to clean up/reprioritise them.
No more!Prune my unused notes in Bear or the drafts section of this site.
No longer necessary, I have banished all my non-active notes to the archive.Go through the designs on Dead Simple Sites to see what simple ways of laying out text I can make possible in the Scatterpad editor.
Not my goal anymore.
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