My excitement for my Meta Ray-Ban glasses just shot through the roof and its not even about the new AI features. It’s cause I can also pair them to my watch for audio! It’s been my one wish. With the watch/glasses combo, I’ve got streaming audio, open-ear headphones, shades, and a camera for runs. 🤩
📺 Awwww yeah! Trying is back next month for season 4. It’s my favorite show on Apple TV+, which is saying something. Looks like we’re doing a time jump this season. Can’t wait!
All the info: www.apple.com/tv-pr/ori…
Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch
🆕📝 My Favorite Alpine Draw Slings
The smooth bar tack makes all the difference, and I'm surprised other brands haven't copied it!
📷 #mbApr Day 22
Many blues.
Been working on a new layout for heydingus.net. If you’re sleuthy, you might be able to get a sneak peek. 🧐 (If you do, let me know by replying with a sneaky screenshot — don’t give it all away! — and I’ll give you a virtual high-five. And let me know what you think! 😉)
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But I took a picture of a Blue Apron recipe I was making for dinner, told Gemini to remember it, and left my phone on the counter. As I moved around the kitchen, I asked Gemini questions I’d normally have to peek back at the recipe to answer like “How long do I roast the vegetables for?” and “How do I prep the fish?” It gave me the right answers every time.
What was more impressive is that I could ask it tangential questions. It helped me use pantry ingredients to recreate a seasoning mix I didn’t have on hand.
What a great use case!
A trio of junk mail tips, Google and Apple Watch throwbacks, a controversial review that shouldn't have been, and an app that I never knew I needed. Plus an extra throwback (to me) record and a roll-the-🎲 link.
📷 #mbApr Day 21
Improbable mountain.
Holy smokes, @macstories@macstories.net is 15 years old today. Been reading for almost that entire time. Federico and team have built quite the empire over there at macstories.net, and the quality has only improved over that time.
Happy 15th birthday @macstories 🎂☺️
My dream job. Here's to the next 15 years and the big ideas we're working on 💪
The Internet Explorer logo is not one I expected to see representing a webpage in the 2024. 😵💫
📷 #mbApr Day 20
Climbing ice at night. Probably not something our ancestors predicted we’d do with our free time. 😅
🔗 Does everything need to be an ad? // Joe Rosensteel // sixcolors.com
Imagine a future where Roku injects ads over the YouTube app injecting ads. Will there be a cat-and-mouse game over who gets to sell access to the screen you paused when you went to the bathroom?
🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #550: ‘Strap In and Forget My Email’
It's been a minute, but I'm back stealing blogging fodder off the podcast cart.
📷 #mbApr Day 19
A birthday cake, what else?
Uhhh…yeah, no spoilers, but you’re gonna want to try this equinox.space thing out. Amazing what can be done in a web browser. So fun!
Herman’s got it right:
I'd rather a product not exist in the first place if their business model requires them to eventually enshittify after they've lured people in. Because, unfortunately, a subsidised product crowds out products that are more basic, yet more sustainable in the long run. Creating something that captures market share and then turns the tables actively harms their users, and the market in general.
On the other hand, I love the internet. It's a place where people come to share ideas and digitally congregate. I see it as a bunch of campfires sprinkled throughout the darkness of cyberspace.
Goodness. 😲
Multiplying all the possible sounds, fonts, quotes, icons, and themes gives you over 4 billion (not a typo) different permutations. It's unlikely that two Clear users are ever going to give Clear the same personalized touch.
It’s too bad that all these post-Twitter platforms seemingly need to reach critical mass to stay alive. None appear to have gone in with a business plan that allowed for organic growth over time — they banked on “rapid consumer adoption”. Virality or bust. 🙄
But, at the end of the day, our service is not growing fast enough to become a real business or a significant platform. A consumer business, at its core, needs to show rapid consumer adoption and we have not managed to find the right product combination to make it happen.
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Whoa. It wasn’t until 2020 that macOS market share eclipsed that of Windows 7. I would have pegged it sooner.
I wish I were as good at social media as @BasicAppleGuy@mastodon.social. A+ 👍👍 Certified Very Good Tweet™
An iPod, a Phone, an Internet Communicator, and a NES, SNES, N64, GBA, DS emulator.
An iPod, a Phone... are you getting it?!
Now that my hair is getting longer, I’m convinced that the “it’s bad for your hair” reason that long-haired folks give for not shampooing it every time is mostly a sham. I think it’s because it’s an ever-growing pain to scrub it all every time. 😝
I’ve been using emoji’d bookmark folders like this tip that Greg Pierce shared without ever realizing they lacked rhe folder icon. They’re great.
I promise you’re not ready for the utter madness that is this very real training video from Waffle House where they show how they’ve made a new “written language” of sorts with food and condiment packets to represent every possible variation of their menu.
Alright @robb@social.lol, you got me. I’ve swapped the @HeyDingus@mas.to auto-poster from Make.com to echofeed.app. How could I resist? 😘
📷 #mbApr Day 18
Night mode mountain was a real mood.
