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?
Louie Mantia’s got a good system for rating burgers on his new Burger Digest blog:
One-star ★ burgers are the ones I’ll eat again, but only if I’m nearby. Two-star ★★ burgers are burgers I’ll come back to again and again. And three-star ★★★ burgers are the ones I will happily go out of my way for.
For years, I’ve been partial toward the Netflix-esque 👎 / 👍 / 👍👍 system, but 0-3 stars works quite well too — especially when paired with Mantia’s qualifiers. Plus, zero stars plays better with the idea that if you don’t have something nice to say, you shouldn’t say anything at all.
Abducktion is a really fun little board game that my wife and I have been enjoying lately. In case you’re looking for a new one.
Acme Weather’s custom notifications are pretty sweet. I’ve set one to give me a heads up when conditions are right for ice to build overnight. Maybe ice climbing season isn’t quite over yet? 🤞
Tom Ley: ‘I Guess We’re Just Waiting Around To See If This Demented Psychopath Kills Everyone’
It’s likely that this is the most proudly and nakedly evil statement ever made by a sitting U.S. President, and now we just have to sit around and see if he actually means it.
If it wasn’t already apparent by the numerous other examples, this should make it crystal clear that our government is profoundly broken if nothing can be done about an elected official making a genocidal statement such as this. It’s sickening. 🇺🇸
Watched: The Martian 🍿
Seemed right for home viewing last night (only $5 on iTunes Apple TV’s movie store right now!) considering the Artemis mission and Project Hail Mary being in theaters. Great movie! Although, Apollo 13 might have even more appropriate. Perhaps tonight.
I’ve finally gotten around to archiving a bunch of Apple’s videos that they’ve released over the years. I like looking back at the production quality and how they presented their products to the public. Wish I would have set this up years ago — so many of them are now private or lost to time.
Pebble wants to make super sure that you buy the right size of the Index 01 ring, so they send you a 3D-printed (or you could print your own) set of mockups at all the sizes. They ask that you test them and keep the best size on your finger for a day to be confident you’re happy with it. Good idea!
President Donald Trump threatened to wipe out “a whole civilization” if Iran’s leaders don’t agree to his terms to open the Strait of Hormuz tonight, prompting Iran to call off talks and his political opponents to question his fitness and call for his removal from office.
Trump/Republican/MAGA voters, this (and this) is on you. You were warned, and we won’t forget. I sure hope you’re ready to make some different choices. 🇺🇸
(If you vote red because of “Christian values”, I don’t know how you can see those values represented in Conservative leadership these days.)
Really cool webpage showcasing every iPhone model ever released with significant milestones, price, feature removals, colors and more all beautifully visualized.