Marcus Anthony

@marcusanthony.com

Canadian-European web creator since 2000

This is a short clip I recorded in November 2018 with my iPhone XS Max at the time, at Alouette Lake, when I was living in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada. I visited this beautiful location often to manifest the future I am living today.

Linux is buzzing right now, partly because of Omarchy by DHH, and partly because many PC users are tired of Windows. Been there, done that—I left Windows for Macintosh in 2008. I still like the Mac, but I’m curious… if not Omarchy, which distro do most Linux users recommend?

Due to watermarking, I’ve cancelled my Claude Max subscription, which I was using for Claude Code in VS Code. Should I switch to ChatGPT’s Codex, or is there something better?

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I use the iPhone 16 Pro Max, and increasingly think my next smartphone will be a foldable. It looks like the form factor that will finally let me code on the go. The Samsung Z Fold 8 and Oppo Find N6 are both pulling me in that direction. Let’s see what Apple offers next month.

We use four web analytics tools across our @solespire.com sites. Each gets something right, yet each is needed to fully understand different data points. That’s problematic. Google Analytics is the worst of all. It does a lot, but somehow makes everything harder than it needs to be.

These never stopped being great. Apple EarPods play Apple Music in true lossless quality, through the 3.5mm headphone jack, while AirPods, via Bluetooth, do not. That’s a plus, but the bigger positive is that on my iMac I can now keep Bluetooth turned off.

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I recently read Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki on a flight across the world. Beginner’s mind is not a lack of knowledge. It is the ability to learn without allowing what we already know to close what remains possible.

Marcus Anthony’s left hand holds a cream-coloured copy of Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki beside an airplane window, with blue sky and sunlight outside.

My relationship with social media began in the era of MSN chat rooms and MySpace, long before today's platforms. I joined Twitter in 2008, and it became my primary social home. Over the years, I posted thousands of tweets.

First post on Bluesky, from West Vancouver in beautiful British Columbia, Canada, my home country, with a palm tree behind me and a clear blue sky overhead. A fitting place to begin.

Marcus Anthony with the Insta360 Ace Pro 2 in hand, standing outdoors in West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, wearing a black cap, sunglasses, and a green jacket, with a palm tree in the background, beneath a clear blue sky.