🔗 ‘On becoming a day person’ herman.bearblog.dev
Greg Morris: ‘The Sidelines Are Sterile’
That’s the sideline nobody talks about. It doesn’t look like sitting still. It looks like preparation. It looks like being sensible, doing your homework, waiting for the right time. I’ve lost count of how many things I’ve “nearly” done. Nearly applied for that job. Nearly published that post. Nearly signed up for that race. Nearly is just the sideline with better branding.
AKA “workcrastinating” — something I’m exquisitely good at. 😬
Watched: For All Mankind S5E3, Home 📺
😢 Outstanding performances across every season. At ease, Admiral. 🫡
Nick Heer, Pixel Envy: Macworld: ‘Use Apple’s App Store at Your Own Risk’
Price calls the App Store “rotten” — is there any other word? — and says Apple should “give iPhone users the freedom to install from other places. Or just stop pretending the App Store monopoly is about anything other than revenue” if it cannot effectively police its wares. I imagine Apple would argue it enforces its rules all the time and sometimes things just get through.
I sense we’re nearing a boiling point on the App Store’s governance. I’m hoping for some radical change, challenging as it will be at its scale.
Terry Godier argues that App Store ratings are fundamentally broken:
But sometimes they’re impactful in a way that doesn’t match the reviewers intent. For example, if you have a 4.1 star rating in the App Store, any 4 star review is going to decrease that average. In other words, leaving a 4 star review is essentially leaving a negative review.
I agree with Godier’s premise and conclusion, but not totally with the point above. A 4 star rating is still a good one, but perhaps not a great one. So pulling down the average might be justified. Still, other systems are better.
Finished reading: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan 📚
I highly recommend this one! It goes down quick and smooth, but will keep you thinking about it long after you finish the final page. Keegan captured the inner dilemma of human morality here.
Watched: Outcome 🍿
A weird one. Felt more like a long YouTube, or rather Vimeo, film than anything else. The A-list cast and their skill kept me watching cause the story sure didn’t. Oh, and Jonah Hill was unrecognizable until he spoke! A rare miss from Apple TV.
One of my favorite-ever days of guiding was taking Ian rock climbing! He was so brave while doing something brand-new, and showed the world that nothing will stop him from achieving his goals!
Jason Snell loves his Aqara UWB Smart Lock U400. I can’t wait to get mine installed. 🔒
I think I’ve figured something out that has been nagging at me for a year. Some people are only selectively empathetic. This sounds fine if you are “on their side”, so it’s easy to miss unless you look closer.
We should treat everyone with more respect, patience, and honesty. There are exceptions — people who have truly lost their way — but those are rare, far fewer than we tend to imagine. Most people are good, even the people we disagree with.
Just noticed that @gruber@mastodon.social made a 15-years-early prediction in his day one iPhone first impressions:
One of the knocks against the idea of a screen-based keyboard is the lack of tactile feedback. (It might be nice if a future iPhone offered some sort of subtle force feedback while typing, sort of like modern video game controls.)
Haptic feedback for typing debuted in 2022 with iOS 16 on phones with the Taptic Engine. (Each one since 2015’s iPhone 6S.) 😝
🗓️ We’re 100 days into 2026 already! 🤯
Started reading: Apple - The First 50 Years by David Pogue 📚
Got it as an audiobook via my library/Libby. I just love it when books are read by the author themselves. They get the names and cadence of everything right. I can already tell it’s going to be a fun — and well-produced — listen!
Recently crossed over 30,000 photos and 3,700 videos in my Photos library. What are you at?
A few pics from the end of March as I reflect on this awesome winter we were blessed with. 31 hiking days, 17 skiing days, and 35(!) climbing days between December and March. (Not including a few bonus ones in November!) Eternally grateful for the work, and for the clients and friends I was able to share these outdoor adventures with — you make even the less-than-ideal days fun! ❄️🏔️🧊⛷️
I’ll be happy to see the snow fly again next winter, but now I’m ready for pulling on rock, moving fast in the mountains, sleeping in tents, and gliding a paddle through water. 🧗🥾🏕️🛶
Finished watching: Shrinking Season 3 📺
Goodness, what a special show. Right up there with Trying as one of my favorites from Apple TV.
Every episode was so good. Equally spit take funny and heartwarming. The season’s arc, as a whole, was perhaps not as cohesive as past ones, but I still loved it.
🚨 Shit shit shit!
Jim Pattiz: ‘Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service’
They’re ripping the headquarters out of Washington and shipping it to Salt Lake City, Utah — the beating heart of the anti-public-lands movement in America. […]
If the headquarters move is the gunshot, the destruction of the research program is the burial. […]
You cannot move a thirty-year watershed study. You cannot relocate a decades-long old-growth monitoring program. You cannot box up a forest and ship it to Colorado. When these facilities close, the experiments die.
Very bad. Call your reps!
LunarWall is a simple shortcut that picks a random image from a curated set of 23 photos pulled from NASA’s Artemis II Lunar Flyby gallery and sets it as your wallpaper. That’s it! Each time you run it, you get a different photo. […T]he LunarWall shortcut fetches each image directly from NASA’s CDN and passes it to the ‘Set Wallpaper’ action, which is configured to automatically crop images to fit on mobile devices, blurs the wallpaper for the iOS/iPadOS Home Screen, and uses the original widescreen images at high resolutions on macOS.
I’ve set this up and am loving it. 🌕
PSA: Switching from 1Password to Apple Passwords? (Been very happy with the swap, personally.) It’s probably worth migrating on your iPhone instead of a Mac. You can migrate everything directly from app to app, rather than exporting to a CSV file as an intermediary and leaving behind your passkeys.
Really enjoyed this well-done interview of @imyke@myke.social by @maxfrequency.net. Covers a bunch of Myke’s thoughts on the podcasting industry, how he designs his own podcasts, some nice thoughts on dad life from the both of them, and more. 🎧
Maya Silver, Climbing:
Astronaut Christina Koch, currently onboard the Artemis II mission, is a climber. And not just a climber in passing, with rental shoes and little else. She’s a climber to her core: listing “rock and ice climbing” among her hobbies in her NASA profile. […]
A deep dive into the wormhole of Koch’s climbing past reveals she has been lead climbing for at least a decade, enjoys the challenge of trad routes, and gets out ice climbing in Hyalite Canyon in Montana, where she once lived. She also backpacked throughWyoming’s Wind River Range, a premier climbing destination.
🤘🧗♀️🚀
🔗 ‘Macs crash after 49 days of uptime’ sixcolors.com
Maybe that’s the secret to true happiness, being thankful for what we have, here and now. We may have plans and ambitions, but we don’t let them overshadow the value of the present moment.
After all, this is all we have.
This episode of The Good News Podcast about hyper-detailed instructions and AI-powered solutions to help people with low/no vision to enjoy building LEGO sets is so very cool. 🎧
🆕📝 Louie Mantia’s ideal burger ingredient stack
Anyone else a little hungry?