28 years ago, I graduated from #ShoreSchool - a fact I, frankly, don’t like to admit do. From the first day term 2 year 9, until I had a mental breakdown and tried to quit 2 weeks before my trial HSC, I was subjected to (multiple) daily verbal abuse and physical assault… …constantly hunted in corridors, and grabbed by the hair, and hurled around, and against walls, labelled a “faggot”, for the crime of a *haircut*.

Yes, apparently, there are “gay” haircuts.

#ShoreSchool

Gave the 2009 #MacPro cheesegrater a pre-summer service. Pulled every major component & blasted with the air-compressor. Re-greased the northbridge and processors (x-pattern).

Back together, temps are down about 5-8c, & ready for another year’s work. Chassis & motherboards from 2009, processors & RAM from ~2011, Wifi from ~2014, spinning storage from 2009-2020, SSDs from 2018-2020, Graphics from 2019.

By a large margin, the most stable #Mac I’ve ever owned.

The sealed & non-upgradable = stability hypothesis is horseshit.

Hey @Pinterest, I follow boards for metal fabrication, architecture, workshop tools and custom vehicle modifications… so why’s my pinterest feed filled with 4th-rate wannabe anime art? @Pinterest And another one…

Been doing #DTP for 26-odd years. Started with Quark Xpress 3.32 (AU$1900), and Photoshop 3.01 (AU$1200), bought Adobe GoLive 4 (~AU$4-500) & PS 6. CS1, & CS2. CS3 was the ruination of CS, with Dreamweaver & Fireworks clumsily replacing GoLive & Imageready, + Flash infection. Nowdays, I’ve replaced InDesign, Photoshop and IIlustrator with @affinitybyserif Publisher, Photo and Designer, each for about AU$79.

Best description of Publisher, is “Frictionless”. You can be as rigidly process-oriented as you like, or you can also work quickly and loosely.

so one of the great #Mac news websites #Macsurfer has closed down. It’s a real shame, BUT it was inevitable when they revealed their pricing.

Every time I see a website / podcast network membership pricing scheme, it’s always nuts, by a whole digit.

#Subscriptions My whole email, web hosting, domain rego etc, works out at about AU$10/month. That’s my entire online infrastructure - a single news website suggests it should be worth AU$4/month to me?

#Subscriptions

So, the workflow: you’ve got dozens, if not hundreds of images to check. You have a finder window on one screen, you Quicklook an image onto a second screen, drag it larger, then go full screen. Every image you click now displays scaled to full screen size. #macOS #Mojave You can do this one at a time, or as a slideshow - it’s an incredibly powerful workflow for dealing with lots of images. No having to bust out a DAM app, or open them all into Preview, just click and it’s there, you can even apply labels etc as you go. #macOS #Mojave

what’s wrong with #iTunes has nothing whatsoever to do with it’s “complexity”, and everything to do with incompetent #UI design at Apple.

iTunes doesn’t need features removed, it needs designers removed, and replaced with people who aren’t #Bozos For example the breaking of the disclosure-triangle list on the left. Previously the conceptual heart of navigation, where everything could be found (even downloads), its mutated into this confusing combination where the first level of the app is modal to the media kind.

With the recent @4corners story covering yet another example of how economics has been allowed to ruin the tertiary #education sector, I thought I might share some fun stories of things I encountered teaching in @tafensw.

First up, the student who cheated in their exams… So, I had a student in the class, the sort of student every teacher will recognise - regularly late to class, talks through the lesson, hands in garbage work - someone who doesn’t want to study this particular subject, even though it’s a core part of the overall qualification…