§ Happy year of the fire horse. I can’t help but think it feels like a particularly portentous designation.
§ As the snow cover continues to recede the starlings and the sparrows and the robins all descend to comb the muddy lawn and fill their stomachs.
We have our first signs of life in the garden: eight of the garlic cloves I planted last October have started sprouting. Is it too early for them to sprout? I’m not sure but it sure is nice to see something growing.
§ After pining after it for a while I finally bought Chris Glass’s favorite tiny photo printer. It doesn’t have perfect color accuracy or anything but that isn’t the point. It has been fun to quickly print out photos to give away to friends or stick on the fridge. I can’t help but think that they have a better chance of surviving longer than any digital file.
§ Current is the first new interesting RSS reader I’ve seen in a while. I’ve been on the lookout for a new app ever since Reeder “classic” was sunset in favor of a reimagined app that doesn’t work for me.
The core principle driving Current’s philosophy is that each individual RSS feed has an inherent “velocity.” Personal blog posts should stick around for a while but updates from high-frequency news feeds should be more ephemeral.
The app is still immature—it is slow and is missing a few features I would like. Nevertheless, I’m excited to watch its development and I’m going to try to stick with it for the time being.
I have to say, the developer is super responsive. I sent him an email about a couple of bugs Thursday morning and he responded in less than an hour and released an update addressing them by the end of the day.
A small warning: Current automatically monkeys around with your RSS feed categories (thanks Phil) so maybe experiment with a new OPML import instead of logging in with a sync service if that bothers you.
§ Ok, that’s all for now. See you next week.
