I am trying my hand at the digital garden, and I’m an iPhone user now, I guess.
It’s been a while since I talked about this topic, but I’ve decided to try my hand at the digital garden. I’ve added a new section of my site, /garden/
, and added my first note on API keys.
The idea for this section of my site is that it is content that grows and evolves over time, as I have more ideas or learn more about a particular topic or concept. So it isn’t really meant to be a chronological log of writing, like the blog is.
Right now the style of the page is very similar to the blog index, but the garden is sorted by last modified, rather than by when it was authored. I do want to make style improvements here and make each item in the garden a little card that shows the maturity of the note as well as the authored/updated dates. That way when you land on /garden/
you can see more useful information.
My Pixel 5a died yesterday. It had been acting a little strange for a while now, randomly freezing up and then the system UI restarting. I should have taken this signal and migrated my data to another phone, but I didn’t.
I was updating a note in Obsidian, went to gesture to switch apps, and it froze up. Eventually the screen turned off and wouldn’t turn back on. After a few hours of investigation and attempting everything I could about fast boot and recovery mode, adb debugging, etc, I learned that the device was in Qualcomm’s EDL mode, which was identifiable via the device showing up as QUSB_BULK_CID
in Windows device manager.
Thankfully most of the data on my phone is just stuff that gets synced automatically, either to Google Photos, Google Drive, or Obsidian. But I did lose years of Signal history, most notably my chat history with Sienna. That is the part that bums me out the most.
Anyways, I bought an iPhone 16. I don’t know if I like it yet, but I have mostly settled into it and gotten my apps installed. My first impressions from this morning are:
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