I disagree with the the choice of WordPress for someone like Jack who is clearly capable of running a static site, but this line is spot on:

One thing I do know, is that a blogging platforms like Medium or Tumblr are never permanent.

Then again, if WordPress is the thing that lets Jack continue to share his words with the world, then I'm on board.

With over 46k emails in my inbox and over 200 unread text messages, I have officially earned the "lol fuck you" badge in life.

Inbox 46,811.

There's a chance I messed something up when migrating to a new Gmail account.

Twenty browser tabs brings my work Windows 10 PC to a painful halt. Meanwhile, I have many many dozens of tabs open on my iPad Pro and it's fine.

Windows is great. It's where Real Work happens.

Somehow OmniFocus made it back on to my iPad, and I don't have any idea how.

The TaskPaper format support is... stellar.

Logging in to a pile of old Twitter accounts to disable email notifications. This feels like a good use of my time.

The constant inane emails just reek of desperation on Twitter's part.

Nothing but errors trying to add an Airport Express to my home network with my iMac. Worked on the first try from my iPad.

I'm not sure why I didn't try the iPad first.

I loved the idea of Strips at first. Very quickly, I declared the experiment a failure.

The Strips experiment was a failure. I love the way they feel for the first day after they're applied. By the second to third day, the grippy layer comes apart from the adhesive layer, and they need to be replaced.

Good news - Strips aren't dead. The makers redesigned Strips to solve the exact problem that I was having. They re-released an all-new version of Strips. In fact, they released two different kinds.

Even better than that - they sent me both types for free. Since I supported the Kickstarter campaign ages ago, they decided this was the right thing to do. Classy move.

Strip now comes in Subtle and Rough. Neither feels as good as the original when you apply them. I recommend passing on Subtle, even though they feel nicer than Rough. Rough feels slightly unpleasant at first - like a bobcat's tongue¹.

But.

The first set of Rough Strips have been on my phone since the day I installed them. They work exactly as well today as they did that day - there's no sign of wear or peeling.

The redesigned Strips are a resounding success. I now happily use my iPhone 7 Plus without a case, and I feel relatively sure that it won't slip out of my hands and make me sad and broke.

These things are seven bucks. If you haven't yet found a case that makes you happy, you should try them.

Not too long ago, I complained about the amount of political bullshit in my RSS reader.

Way too much politics in my RSS reader lately. I thought I was avoiding all this nonsense as a byproduct of avoiding social media.

Inoreader is the answer. I switched to Inoreader recently, and have been making liberal use of the Filters and Rules. If you can imagine Tweetbot filters for RSS, then you're most of the way there.

Sure, you can set up fancy automatic starring, or automatic sending to Instapaper¹ - but really, filtering out a huge percentage of the bullshit is worth the price of entry.

You can play around with the Filters if you want. They let you filter individual feeds, and that's nice. But the Rules hold the real power. Set up your account-wide filtering in Rules, and you never have to see a headline with words that raise your blood pressure.²

Amazon is launching a layperson-friendly VPS service called Lightsail.

It handles all of the technical details, such as launching the virtual machine, attaching the storage, setting up security groups and so forth — removing a huge barrier to entry for less-technical users.

Now there's even less of an excuse for you to not run your own website on your own server.