Enjoyed some delightful boat time with the wifey this weekend 🛶 👍

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🆕📝 I just don’t feel like blogging today

Massive kudos to Ryan and David for taking on the Gothics cable route yesterday! We pushed a solid pace all day to avoid some weather and they were totally game. High Peak 5/46 in the bag. Oh, and we counted 378 stairs built into the Orebed Slide if anyone’s wondering. 😅

@newyorkoutdoorguides @lakeplacidadk #Adirondacks #PerfectDayADK #HireAGuide

🆕📝 One Small Improvement

It was a little screwed up, and just took a few screws to fix.

🆕📝 One Small Improvement

It was a little screwed up, and just took a few screws to fix.

Matt Birchler with some subscription news that I can really get behind:

As of today, the annual plan drops to $35/year (from $50). The monthly option is no longer available.

Basically, I really want to encourage longer term relationships with readers. I think the value of this blog is revealed over time, and I want to encourage people to give me a year to earn their subscription renewal.

If you enjoy Matt’s blog, you should really consider joining his More Birchtree membership. It’s great writing, and while not One a Month, is really good value.

🆕📝 Your Time, Our Time, All Time

This video has really stuck with me.

🆕📝 Your Time, Our Time, All Time

This video has really stuck with me.

🆕📝 Burning the Candle

At both ends.

🆕📝 Burning the Candle

At both ends.

🆕📝 Oasis Is No Longer So

What are you doing, Amazon??

Via MacRumors, Apple’s foldable iPhone is sounding more and more like the ultimate mini comeback story:

Apple’s first foldable iPhone will be equipped with a 7.8-inch inner display, and a 5.5-inch outer display, according to Taiwanese research firm TrendForce.

Oh? 5.5-inch outer display? Just bigger than my beloved iPhone mini?? 7.8-inch inner display? Just smaller than my beloved original iPad mini?? Sign 👏 Me 👏 Up!

Name that classic climb!

Feet wearing climbing shoes grip a rocky ledge as a rope stretches downward past trees into a forested area where climbers are visible below. A climber wearing a bright green helmet and blue shirt smiles while standing on a rock face surrounded by lush green trees and secured with climbing ropes. A climber wearing a helmet and harness ascends a steep rock face using ropes surrounded by a forest of green trees.

🔗 David Pogue announces ‘Apple: The First 50 Years’ book, pre-order:

David Pogue’s been covering technology (and Apple) for longer than many 9to5Mac readers have been alive. And to celebrate Apple’s upcoming 50th anniversary next April, the “CBS Sunday Morning” correspondent is releasing a book where he promises stories, photos, and “fresh interviews” that will help tell the story of how 1976 Apple became today’s Apple.

This is going straight onto my to-read list.

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#178]

Get yer links! Get yer links over here!

The Vagueness and Vagaries of ‘Personal Superintelligence’ – Pixel Envy

No mention of being careful, no mention of choosing what to open source. Zuckerberg took an ostensibly strong, principled view supportive of open source A.I. when it benefitted the company, and is now taking an ostensibly strong, principled view that it requires more nuance.

Men who don’t stand for something will fall for anything.

I couldn’t figure out why there were so many cat pics in this NYT article about Trump’s continued playing by an Authoritarian rulebook. Then I remembered I’d installed this Safari extension that swaps out pictures of Trump for ones of cats instead because I can’t stand to look at his stupid face.

A webpage screenshot from the New York Times showing an article titled “Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook.” Below the title, a summary explains the firing of a Labor Department official. The article is written by Peter Baker. The page also features an image of a light-colored kitten with blue eyes, resting its paws on the edge of a woven basket. The browser window shows various tabs, menus, and a background image of tall trees.

🆕📝 Keep Calm and Carry a Towel

Among many other things.

Hiking with @sekoshan was a total joy. I haven’t laughed that much on the trail in quite a while! And I know she’s going to crush it down in South America. 💪

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After 132 High Peak summits, I finally got the last of the ADK 46ers done! 🎉 Big Slide was a great peak to end on, too! It was Jo’s and Phin’s first High Peak, so it was pretty special to do as a family. 🧡

It’s been quite the journey over the past three years, shared with many, many people. And I can’t wait to climb these amazing mountains again and again!

(46er #16461)

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🆕📝 Some Sounds From My Backyard

Sound is a lovely sense.

Heyo! Cotton Bureau recently introduced stickers to their on-demand product lineup, so…you can now get a HeyDingus sticker if you want. 😁 I can’t remember if I mentioned the Swanson Pyramid of Greatness shirt, mug, or tote when I made them, but they’re available too.

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Image showcasing three items featuring the “Swanson Pyramid of Greatness” design. On the left, a tote bag with a pyramid graphic and two faces above it. In the center, a white mug with the same pyramid and faces. On the right, an orange T-shirt with the pyramid and faces. Each item is labeled with its name and “On-Demand” below.

🆕📝 Oh Shit, It’s Blaugust

Here we go again!

🆕📝 Oh Shit, It’s Blaugust

Here we go again!

Matt Birchler: ‘The Mac-ification of iPadOS’

Take window management, for example. The iPad started by supporting one window at a time in full screen. 5 years into it’s life, it got split screen, which was implemented in a limited, but very iPad-feeling way that embraced the touch UI […] With iPadOS 26, users are forced to make a strange choice: revert back to one window at all times or adopt the Mac-like windowing system, the iPad-native split screen is dead.

Count me as someone who rejoices the unbridled window mangement for folks who want it, but mourns the loss of Split View and Slide Over.