Gregory's ServerIllustrator is excruciatingly slow on my M2 MacBook Air with 24GB of RAM and 8 cores. Contextual UIs pop up everywhere. None of them provide the tools I need at the moment. I give up for today.
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 It’s the next day now. My partner wants me to share some pictures of a festival we attended. He doesn’t have a Mac so I can’t use AirDrop. I open Photos on my MacBook. I drag the pictures out of my album into a folder on my desktop. The process takes forever. It needs to convert all the pictures into JPEGs first for some reason. Two pictures fail to export. It gives me two hash IDs but no thumbnails. I have no idea which of them are missing now. I want to share the pictures on Dropbox. I right-click the folder and select the appropriate action. Nothing happens. I’m confused. I open the Dropbox app. All of a sudden the Share dialog appears. It’s a weird hodge-podge of non-native controls. It’s slow too. I put in my partner’s email address and click Send. The dialog disappears. Is it shared now? I don’t know. You know what? I don’t want to know. The software collapse can’t come soon enough. |
I want to check out Hamish MacDonald’s memex tool. I click on one of the screenshot thumbs on its GitHub page. It won’t let me zoom in. macOS’s system-wide ML/OCR thingy kicks in and selects the text inside the thumbnail instead. I click and click again but there’s simply too much text in the thumbnail.
I get the kids. I leave for the garden.