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Welcome to the first issue of Homescreen, my new tech newsletter about what’s on my phone and my tablet, now that I’ve gone fully mobile.
Yes, I only use my desktop computer when I’m at home, and have forfeited my MacBook Pro in favor of a new iPad Pro 13” WiFi + Cellular that will ‘do everything’ I need to when I’m not at home or on my desk.
I’m Giacomo, Jaack for online and IRL friends, and I work at Routescan.io, a block explorer provider. I work in crypto, meaning that I think about work 24/7, and this is also the reason why I chose Paragraph as my newsletter provider instead of Substack or other more traditional ones.
While this newsletter will be free for a while, I plan on monetizing on it, for a very simple reason: I get asked about what’s on my phone constantly, and I figured that my expertise and experience has some value that I can monetize in some way.
I will let you know when I will switch to a paid model, but I only plan to make it a few bucks a month, less than 5$ ideally, to make it extremely doable for almost anyone. I also plan to give out some subscriptions along the way, to reward some specific users.
Now, why are people asking me about what I have on my phone, would you think?
It’s because of my past experience.
I started working as a blogger in 2014 when, along with some friends at university, I started tweaknology.org, a blog about technology, right when MacStories and The Verge started. We shut down Tweaknology in 2019 after some we made some bad errors and crashed the database with most history, without a very recent backup. We saw in that a sign that we had to shut down this project, and go on - you can find a farewell page on my GitHub.
I blogged on Tweaknology and other tech media outlets for years, until I made it to the tech column of La Stampa, one of the biggest mainstream outlets in Italy. I’m not an influencer, and I never was: I always like to write, and not to shoot videos. This is why, for this newsletter, I aim to make it so that not only you can read it extremely fast and easy, but that you can also listen to it using any text-to-speech software without losing much of the content. I’m not talking about life-saving things after all, but some tips and things I find interesting, why I pick them and how they change my routine over time.
I’ll insert some photos here and there, but only if it’s extremely necessary to make a point and describe some specific aspect - like positioning an icon in a specific way on the homescreen.
This is my way of keeping my tech expertise alive and useful for someone else.
I’ll also publish specific issues about new crypto stuff I find, both gadgets and apps, because yes, that changes things. And I’ll also publish some ideas on how to potentially change something, even if I don’t do it - if it’s not useful for me, it doesn’t mean that it shouldn’t be for other as well.
Well, I guess that’s it.
I’ll try to publish every Wednesday, because I have some time on the weekend plus on Monday and Tuesday to research and edit the issue, though I can’t really promise that now, since we’re also going through Christmas holidays, so who knows!
But I have many things to talk about, I’ll leave a few links down below that I’ll talk about in more detail in the coming issues.
Thank you for reading!
Interesting links
