John Gruber reports on the new version of OmniOutliner (6) which includes a featured called Omni Links: OmniOutliner has always been document-based, and version 6 continues to be. There are advantages and disadvantages to both models, but one of the…
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
📅 Daily Note: September 18, 2025
Giles Turnbull: The strategy is enquiry What I’m suggesting is a new approach for the times when there’s a perceived need for a document called a “strategy”. It shouldn’t be a document full of “we will”; it should be a…
📅 Daily Note: September 9, 2025
MacOS icon history. # – micropost 23027 The hidden fundamentals of digital transformation in healthcare: how to roll out nationally in a local system – by Jane Maber on the dxw blog: There’s no question that the technical challenge is…
💻 New Mac, new setup (June 2025)
I’ve recently moved into an office in the garden – a fancy shed, in other words. Doing so exposed a weakness in my tech setup, based as it was on a Mac Mini. When I returned to the house, I…
Weekly note for 25 August 2023
One note for the whole week as I haven’t been working. Instead, had a week at home having fun with the family. However, I did occasionally look at a computer, hence the below. So Twitter/X finally took Tweetdeck away from…
LINK: “Apple, Sui Generis”
Wall Street still doesn’t trust Apple’s future. The company is seen as an anomaly, it shuns accepted ways of doing business and defies categorization. Perhaps the categories are wrong. Original:
Five for Friday (23/6/17)
At some point I will post something other than links to this blog. But for now, this is it. Five more for you to enjoy this week: Standard Ebooks – There are lots of free and public domain ebooks about…
Link roundup
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: Delivering alpha performance reporting dashboards | Digital Health Origami – Design prototyping with Quartz Composer (free from Facebook) Daring Fireball: Microsoft, Past and Future – excellent read Splat the rat –…
Link roundup
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: emacs bites – learn emacs and lisp in bite sized chunks The real deal | by @helenmilner Citizens Advice Bureau: showing things aren’t working as they should Remembering the Apple Newton’s…
GovGeek setups: Steph Gray
The first in an occasional series of posts written by prominent geeks working in and around government, talking about the tools they use to do their jobs.