Micro Posts on Jarrod Blundy

Sun, 01 Mar 2026 11:47:14 -0500

Greg Morris: ‘The Only Digital Detox That Worked’

I’ve written about this exact trap before. The irony of the dumb phone crowd carrying a phone, an MP3 player, a camera, a kindle, and a notebook when a smartphone does all of that. I called it ridiculous. And it is, if you’re doing it to be minimal. But that’s not what Becca was doing. She wasn’t trying to own less. She was trying to think more. There’s a difference.

Sun, 01 Mar 2026 11:29:43 -0500

Watched: Eternity 🍿

I really liked this movie. It’s rare to find a story that poses a really good question with relatable stakes, catches your heartstrings, and finds a way for everyone to come out of it looking like a good guy. It was very sweet. 👍👍

Sun, 01 Mar 2026 06:44:57 -0500

A thought I had for @manton last night: There are so many talented designers here on Micro.blog. It would be neat to see their takes on designs for the Timeline. Maybe plug-ins could be made to adapt its styling? Just to keep things fresh and interesting as we move toward ever more personal software?

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:17:02 -0500

Well, fellow space travelers, I’ve successfully completed my 32nd mission around the sun. Might as well go for one more! 🚀 ☀️ 🥳

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:30:52 -0500

Pentagon puts Scouts ‘on notice’ over DEI and girl-centered policies | NPR:

Hegseth made the announcement in a video posted to X, framing it as an ultimatum to Scouting to conform to the Trump administration’s anti-DEI agenda. He detailed his many criticisms of the group, saying Scouts had “lost their way” by changing the organization’s name and “watering down” what he called “the focus on God as the ruler of the universe.”

Fuck this administration. If you voted for Trump/Republican, you are responsible for these things. I hope you’re ready to vote differently next time.

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:23:05 -0500

Related, Tyler had to suffer through AirPods setup again (complete with ill-sized Apple Music ad) when they failed to connect:

My wife switched to a pair of Sony earbuds last year after swearing off AirPods for frequently failing to charge. She’s enjoyed them. So instead of accepting Apple’s generous three free months of Apple Music, I put that money to better use and bought a pair of Sony WF-1000XM5 (what a name) on my lunch break.

I no longer care if AirPods are the better product for my needs. They’re not the experience I want. And, increasingly, more and more of what Apple offers is not, either.

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 17:46:50 -0500

I’m pretty disappointed by this, tbh

HBO is now effectively dead. This is truly terrible. I cannot think of a worse outcome. David Zaslav, may you rot. https://deadline.com/2026/02/netflix-declines-to-raise-offer-for-warner-bros-1236738005/
film_girl@mastodon.social mastodon.social/@film_girl/116139432451098146

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:44:24 -0500

Happy birthday (yesterday) to this wonderful woman! She’s the best.

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:45:18 -0500

Paging @stephenrobles@mastodon.social. I tried to DIY a fast-charge station for my Apple Watch in the bathroom. Apple’s cord that came with my Ultra 3, in a wooden mount adhered to this slim (supposedly 20W) brick. I don’t think it’s actually fast-charging. Any way to tell, or other solution?

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:36:03 -0500

Finished (re)reading: The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss 📚

Some of the most beautiful prose I’ve ever read. If you’ve ever held love for inanimate objects (and who hasn’t?), I think you’ll connect with this book. It holds a special place in my heart. 👍👍

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:10:39 -0500

Matt Birchler’s insight of the Six Colors Apple Report Card is spot on:

Apple’s good will from this community has vanished. They may still make our favorite products to use for our computing needs, but we don’t see them the same anymore. There was no, “liquid glass isn’t good, but you’re still my favorite,” attitude from us, it was more, “liquid glass isn’t good, and I don’t even know you anymore.”

Apple’s squandered its brand loyalty, and lost any slack we might once have given it for product blunders. Birchler’s comparison of quotes from the 2015 survey is striking.

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 07:17:37 -0500

Maybe you can spare a couple dollars to help out a furry little guy?

my parents got two new cats, and one of them, dutch, made a poor life choice and had to have emergency surgery. turns out that kind of thing is extremely expensive so my sister started a gofundme. zero expectations, but just in case you'd like to help out my folks:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-dutch-boys-surgery-costs
cabel@social.panic.com social.panic.com/@cabel/116120856261477794

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:29:13 -0500

Zachary and I braved the frigid blast for an alpine adventure on Algonquin today! Hardly anyone else out there in the high peaks.

It was a beautiful way to end a looong stretch of work since the start of February. Looking forward to a few days off and out of the cold for a quick trip down to Florida!

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:59:12 -0500

Proud husband and guide day, @jo_marie07 (not usually one for heights) finally agreed to try ice climbing and totally rocked it! Look at that smile. 😁 We climbed Buster and enjoyed a beautiful sunset on our way down. Love my awesome wife! ❤️

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:27:24 -0500

Finished reading: The Expert System’s Brother by Adrian Tchaikovsky 📚

Interesting… 👍

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:29:14 -0500

Honored to help @bigbrando66 and @alexandriajzonge kick off their big goals in big mountains! We had a blast rising before the sun! 🙌

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:29:03 -0500

Julie and I spent an awesome day on the remote Allen Mountain yesterday. We were the only ones out there, which meant we had the pleasure of breaking trail the whole way. Though we didn’t quite make it to the summit, we still had a lovely time and know it’ll still be there for us next time! 17.5mi, 13hr

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 21:11:00 -0500

In case you think being a mountain guide is all glory…

Today’s 15-hour shift had me leaving my house at 1:30am, hiking by 2ish. We covered over 18 miles and 5600 ft of elevation gain to summit four peaks. I led the entire way, breaking trail with snowshoes in 6-12" of fresh, heavy snowfall on top of already massive amounts of snow. It was grueling work. No views.

But my client made great company, and I live for these huge endurance days.

Tomorrow’s hike is another 18 miles, and I need to wake up at 2:20am (in 5 hours 😱) to get there on time.

I love this work. And also some days are really, really hard. 🙂

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:59:38 -0500

Spent the day with Joe on a fat and wonderful Harlot at NSOP. Though it was his first day on ice, Joe was eager to learn and we got his technique dialed in so he could try some steep columns and a little mock multipitch practice! Love these one-on-one days where so much progress can be gained in just a few hours. 🙌

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:02:53 -0500

Seeing folks go from zero ice climbing experience to scaling overhung curtains, thin stepped ledges, and vertical corners in the space of a few hours is always thrilling! Equally exciting was the camaraderie and enthusiasm for cheering each other on shown by Everly, Emery, Lizz, and Lindsay today. We learned that we sure can do hard things!

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:02:18 -0500

Spent another fine day with @andymack.97, this time exploring the many miles of trails at @vanhoevenberg! Grooming was top-notch, which was a nice change from some of the slog of the Jackrabbit yesterday. Skiing 18 miles made for a full day! 😮‍💨

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:01:28 -0500

17+ miles on the 🐇 Jackrabbit Ski Trail with @andymack.97 today! We skied from @paulsmiths to @saranaclake, battling sticky snow in these warm conditions. But Andrew was a trooper on this, his first backcountry Nordic outing, and we made up great time in the second half! Gonna hit up some groomers tomorrow for extra speed. 💨

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:00:57 -0500

🫶 We love sharing our passion for the mountains with our guests!

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:00:49 -0500

Gothics & Armstrong are now packed out from bottom to top from AMR. Wild amounts of unconsolidated snow up there kept my client and I busy. 🥵

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:59:05 -0500

Fun (and snowy) formations on Roaring Brook Falls today! Always a good time with @fosseauxlions___. 🤙

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:02:00 -0500

Seeing folks go from zero ice climbing experience to scaling overhung curtains, thin stepped ledges, and vertical corners in just a few hours is always thrilling! Equally exciting was the camaraderie and enthusiasm shown by Everly, Emery, Lizz, and Lindsay today. We sure can do hard things!

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:02:00 -0500

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:01:00 -0500

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:00:00 -0500

🫶 We love sharing our passion for the mountains with our guests!

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:51:16 -0500

Finished reading: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel 📚

I can tell this is going to be one of those books that I think about again and again. (Like Piranesi) 👍👍

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:00:00 -0500

Gothics & Armstrong are now packed out from bottom to top from AMR. Wild amounts of unconsolidated snow up there kept my client and I busy. 🥵

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:59:00 -0500

Fun (and snowy) formations on Roaring Brook Falls today! Always a good time with @fosseauxlions___. 🤙

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:16:54 -0500

Great day on the trail up Street & Nye today, and so good to reconnect with Luis and Tasha. After doing Cascade last winter, they’re officially on route to go after the 46! We enjoyed a variety of beautiful weather conditions, and a hard-packed trail all the way up. It’s a great time to bag some peaks! ❄️

Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:46:08 -0500

Out for a ski with the buds 👌

Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:12:23 -0500

Getting youngsters into this sport — especially with the support and participation of their family with them — is one of the most rewarding aspects of being a guide. Can’t wait to climb with @marileefaist and family again! 🧡

Mon, 09 Feb 2026 09:28:33 -0500

Wired: ‘Ferrari’s New Jony Ive–Designed EV Is Swathed in Glass and Aluminum’

When Ive pushed it down, the yellow E Ink on the fob dimmed, and the glass knob of the gear shifter beside it lit up with a yellow gleam. The Ferrari logo blinks on, and the dials on the dash spring to attention. It was as if that signature yellow pigment was a serum being injected into the car’s body, awakening it from slumber.

Ive’s still got it. This interior is absolutely gorgeous. Its design is so thoughtful and tactile. I could spend hours inspecting all the details. Well done to the LoveFrom team.

Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:09:33 -0500

Watched: Stranger Things Season 5 📺

Alright — I’ll admit — they landed season and series quite well. 👍

Sun, 08 Feb 2026 23:59:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#182]

I confess, not all of these links are from this week. I double confess — none of them are. 😝

Sun, 08 Feb 2026 23:58:13 -0500

Congratulations to @ismh86@eworld.social on his 7(!) year run as a host of Mac Power Users. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed his tenure on that podcast. Also congrats to @stephenrobles@mastodon.social for filling that spot — excited to see what he brings to the show!

Sat, 07 Feb 2026 15:24:48 -0500

This feels significant for an outlet that made a big deal about commissioning an artist to illustrate their biggest story of the year in defiance of Apple Intelligence/Image Playground taking space from humans. And continue to specify that AI will not do their writing, but will help with everything around it. Not trying to pass judgement, but I do find it notable considering that Finn is @johnvoorhees@macstories.net’s son.

Coding agents have absolutely decimated the MacStories Special Projects Team billable hours

Finn Voorhees https://mastodon.social/@finnvoorhees/116031072043254033

Sat, 07 Feb 2026 15:11:13 -0500

Oh no. Blue Ice has revealed their new packs for Spring ‘26, and I want everything. Especially that Stache Ice 38L. 🤤

I’m drawn to brands that obsess over the details for their given market. Mountain Equipment for alpinist clothing. Raide for ski touring gear. Blue Ice for packs and other climbing equipment.

Sat, 07 Feb 2026 13:21:23 -0500

Today in interests colliding: my wife’s (video games) and mine (climbing) come together beautifully and authentically in Cairn. At least from this trailer, it appears they got so many details right. There’s definitely a climber on the development team. Might be my first play-through in years!

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 23:02:46 -0500

So proud of Brandon and Ali as they summited their first winter ADK peak this morning. Extra kudos for still being game to do a sunrise hike despite (very) negative wind chill temps. We had the mountain to ourselves and enjoyed a lovely summit with no wind! Can’t wait for our next adventure together. 🥾 🏔️

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:35:21 -0500

Watched: Shrinking S3E1, My Bad 📺

Dude, what a great episode and return to the series! I’d missed these characters. Hope they didn’t spend all their best writing on E1, but this one fucking ruled.

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 23:04:34 -0500

Finished reading: Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway 📚

Made for a quick listen on my long ski today. Not the most impactful book, but intriguing enough to keep my interest for the full eight hours. Compelling characters!

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 23:03:38 -0500

Did nearly 30 miles of skiing on the Jackrabbit Ski Trail over the last two days in preparation for a guided trip in which a client wants to ski the whole thing. So many awesome sections on this trail that stretches from Paul Smiths all the way to Keene!

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:08:52 -0500

Started reading: Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway 📚

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:56:14 -0500

Matt Gemmell: ‘The Fallen Apple’

Apple removes apps at the request of repressive governments, busts unions, fights tooth and nail against consumer-protection laws, has to be strong-armed into allowing repairability, and so on. Just as the US flag has internationally began to take on the whiff of fascism, so too is the Apple logo now tinged with something else.

We nerds have been saying it for years, and I’m hearing that that everyday folks are starting to get the whiff, too. Apple may have missed its opportunity to “save” its brand — if it even wants to.

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:13:12 -0500

I throughly enjoyed this weekend’s @aiare_official course taught by @caseyghenley and @northeastmountaineering (put on by @mountaineerbandana). Great crew and tons of learning! This is just the start of my avalanche safety and snow science education, but it provided a firm foundation — not a weak crust. 😉

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 11:47:08 -0500

Ryan Christoffel has a great tip regarding generated-but-not-yet-saved passwords in Apple’s Passwords app:

Now, when new passwords have been generated in iOS, but aren’t fully saved inside the Passwords app, a new menu option appears.

Available behind the three-dot icon in Passwords’ top-right corner, you’ll see a ‘Generated Passwords’ option.

I’m in the midst of transitioning from 1Password to Apple Passwords (so far, so good!), so I’m happy to have run across this.

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:12:51 -0500

It was 13 years ago today that I was first introduced to ice climbing at the @michiganicefest. It’s fun to look back at how goobery that first climbing day was with my tools upside down on my pack and terrible technique. 😆 Little did I know that it would become one of my favorite sports and so important to my career. It’s been a great journey!

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 08:32:23 -0500

Short, sweet, and to the point! Thanks, Mike! 😁

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:15:16 -0500

My final morning (Day 5) at @ourayicepark with @adkclimb.club pals. I only did a couple (loooong) climbs and didn’t take a ton of pics, so enjoy this progression of @bbrianandersonn emerging victorious from Brass Tax on a gloriously sunny morning. I feel so fortunate to have spent these past few days pushing hard on western ice with such good friends. Thanks to Shane, @bbrianandersonn, @darnisock, and @casey_hale_ for making this trip happen. And to new friends Andrew, Simo, and Grace who we adopted into the clan. Hope they’ll make it to an @adkclimb.club meetup someday! 🙌

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:06:09 -0500

Day 4 at @ourayicepark with @adkclimb.club pals! We spent the day at Lower Bridge and South Park, and enjoyed sunshine and mixed climbing, stoked on by @darnisock. Full value day!

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:10:25 -0500

Prepare to be blown away by these women, Sarah Hueniken and Ines Papert, in this film Fifty-Five. It’s only ten minutes long and, if you’re like me, you’re going to come away inspired to become stronger mentally and physically with every passing year.

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 09:06:06 -0500

Day 3 at @ourayicepark with @adkclimb.club pals. We took on the longest and steepest lines yet at Pick O’ the Vic and ice fresh out of the oven at the Scottish Gullies. Spectacular positioning!

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 08:46:44 -0500

I’ll take it! (Via Athlytic)

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 13:52:04 -0500

Day 2 at @ourayicepark with @adkclimb.club pals. School Room area. So much fun with friends! Refueled with great food at @ouraybrewery.

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 06:09:13 -0700

Nick Heer: ‘Tim Cook Attends Screening of Propaganda for Authoritarian’s Wife’

Cook, though? He was there because he wanted to be. This was on the same day that, as Stuart writes, agents of the U.S. government murdered a second citizen in Minneapolis in three weeks, and then lied about it. Renée Good and Alex Pretti both embodied courage. Cook chose fealty and, ultimately, cowardice.

Indeed.

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 08:20:14 -0700

New toy, new place! Having the best time on western ice at @ourayicepark. Fun to get a new perspective on my own climbing. Thanks to @bbrianandersonn for the belay. 🙂 More to come, for sure.

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 05:59:43 -0700

Lots of preparation and hiking the high peaks in every season helps keep my internal compass honed for the trails no matter the conditions. They’re sometimes tricky, but I work hard to keep us pointed in the right direction. 🙂

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 05:11:32 -0700

As of a few days ago, I had hundreds of drafted notes in Drafts. They were ideas, tasks, quotes, and in-progress blog posts saved over years. But out of sight, they were out of mind. I finally cleared them out, moving most to Things as actual tasks, transferred some to Apple Notes for long-term storage, and archived the rest. I’m making a fresh go at staying on top of my tasks with Things, and Drafts will be simply “where text starts” — not where it stays.

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 10:42:21 -0700

Hey, don’t forget that you can change the metrics shown during specific workout types on Apple Watch. I finally got around to adding elevation and pace to my hiking workout screen — two things I’m always getting asked while guiding — so now I can check them without scrolling through all the views.

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 10:25:10 -0700

🎙️ Apple News In Conversation: ‘How America’s student-debt problem got so big':

An enlightening conversation about student debt and its knock on effects for either canceling or not canceling, as well as the role that for profit and nonprofit schools play in education and the student loan crisis

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 09:00:00 -0700

🆕📝 You can (maybe?) save non-passwords in Apple Passwords

It’d be pretty sweet if this worked.

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 08:46:00 -0700

🆕📝 Lisa Jackson leaves big shoes to fill at Apple

And it’s not clear that they will be.

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 08:45:00 -0700

🆕📝 Netflix’s ‘Famous Last Words’ is ingenious and not easily replicated

I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised that no one's done it before.

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 10:27:11 -0500

Manton Reece: ‘Quotes and notes on the case for blogging’

The call to action is clear. Get a domain name and start writing. Short posts, long posts. It’s okay if you haven’t figured everything out yet. With time it’ll all come together.

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 09:59:21 -0500

Finished reading: Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe 📚

So…I liked most of the characters, some of the time. Frustrated by many choices they made, but nobody’s perfect. I unexpectedly came away with much more empathy and respect for OnlyFans work. I’m cautiously optimistic for the upcoming show.

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:55:28 -0500

Gnarly day up on Mt. Colden with Todd for his 40th/46 winter high peak! We were the first at the trailhead, so we had the pleasure of breaking trail through knee deep snow all the way way to the summit. Still, it was a stunning day in the mountains, and with careful precautions, the dropping wind chill was manageable. Only 6 left!

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:00:58 -0500

Huge day yesterday! Pre-dawn uphill ski at Whiteface with Sarah and Dan, followed by super fun climbing on Multi Gully with Lizzo. One of my favorite ADK multipitch ice routes! Rounded out the evening with a bunch of hours with the rad crew of @adkclimb.club on Poke-O-Moonshine’s steep and long Waterfall routes. What a privilege to be outside all day doing cool things with cool people. 😁

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 10:59:09 -0500

I plugged in my GoPro from 2014 today, intending to start using it again for some helmet cam footage. I managed to update the firmware despite it no longer being supported, but the date selector still only goes to 2025… LOL I guess they didn’t expect someone to keep using it for over 10 years!

Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:10:25 -0500

What a fucking masterpiece. 🎵

song.link/i/1590368…

Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:49:06 -0500

Preparation for climbing a winter high peak begins long before reaching the trailhead! We see our guests as teammates, and each of us should be well-versed on what to expect out in the mountains. It gives our team a higher chance for a successful summit! Thanks for being a great teammate, Julie! 🙌

Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:48:55 -0500

Incredible ski day! ⛷️ I had the pleasure of joining @jmhaas73 and team for very productive ski guide training on the Angel Slides, and then @highpeaksskiup for a true gem of a Nordic ski back on the home turf. The snow was so good!!

Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:47:21 -0500

A wild day up in the High Peaks! Todd nabbed his 38th and 39th winter summits on Gothics and Saddleback. You really can’t overstate how different those two peaks are. Gothics was steep, exposed, and mega windy — almost blew out packs off the mountain! We opted for a roped descent through the steepest and iciest bit. Saddleback was a cakewalk with consistent slope and powdery snow by comparison! But Todd did awesome. Every ascent is unique!

Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:45:22 -0500

Neurosis (WI4-) with Shane today. What a route! P1 was thin and hollow for the first third, but got progressively better. P2 & P3 were generally fat and happy. P4 was steep and hard. So good!

Tue, 20 Jan 2026 08:03:19 -0500

Riley Testut is prototyping some incredible animated lock/home screen wallpapers. I really hope this becomes more than just a hidden feature!

Tue, 20 Jan 2026 06:31:19 -0500

Nick Heer: ‘A Lament for Aperture, the App We’ll Never Get Over Losing’

Times change, though, and it seems like Apple has lost the soul of what made Aperture excellent. It should really figure out what that is. Questionable user interfaces, mediocre icon design, tolerance for lagginess and bugs — these are all bad things, but they are symptoms of a greater loss.

Sat, 17 Jan 2026 01:44:13 -0500

Another fine day spent in the mountains assisting someone on their winter 46er journey. Today, Julie and I tackled Seward Mountain after we turned around on it last week. This time, we enjoyed bluebird skies, bright sun, fresh snow, and single-digit temps In other words, a winter wonderland! We got it done in under 11 hours, and thoroughly enjoyed every minute, including pushing through all those thick branches and deep snow up top! 😁

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:45:40 -0500

Some shots from @adkclimb.club at Pitchoff Quarry last night. This little community is the best and brings out so much stoke! Groups made the treks from Plattsburgh and Burlington VT 🤯 and we were out sending till 11pm. 🤞 We’ll be closer to home at Poke-O next week for them.

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:44:35 -0500

Three Flows gifted us many pitches of hero ice yesterday! @9_9_mph and I managed to climb all three main lines. Come with me on lead up the right WI4 flow!

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:43:42 -0500

Enjoyed one of my best days of ice climbing yesterday, with great fun and proud leads at Buster, Three Flows, and Pitchoff Quarry. This sport rules.

Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:44:00 -0500

Tom couldn’t stay out of the high peaks for long! Though he completed his 46ers in November, he returned for a second chance at the Phelps’ summit view. We managed only to see the inside of (moody) clouds again, but still had a great time catching up and getting him acquainted with snowshoe travel. 😁

Mon, 12 Jan 2026 22:44:44 -0500

Today was a standout day for ice climbing—thanks so much to Ryan for being game! We linked up Crystal Ice Tower with White Line Fever, which went from mega fat to mega thin. Rock gear saved the day on P3! Then headed to Tahawas for three more pitches of glory high above Chapel Pond.

Sun, 11 Jan 2026 19:44:14 -0500

Another stellar, speedy day in the mountains. Big Slide took big energy on the way up, was big beautiful, and big fun and fast on the way down. Car to car in about 5 hours.

Sat, 10 Jan 2026 22:44:31 -0500

A big day guiding in the mountains helping Todd attain his 34th-36th winter high peaks. We had all 13 miles of the trail to ourselves, adding to the backcountry experience. These peaks never come easy, but they’re always worthwhile! Back at it tomorrow for no. 37…

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 22:43:59 -0500

Another stellar day climbing frozen water with clients and friends. This time in the sun for the first day this season! ☀️ Pitchoff Left was chandeliered but pretty good, getting mushy by midafternoon. Hot Shot and Ice Slot in the Canyon were wet and wonderful. Today marked 50 pitches this season for me. 🙌

And check out that wild fog flowing over Chapel Pond! 🤯

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 04:44:56 -0500

Mega fun day on Roaring Brook Falls with @kam827 and then extra laps in the Canyon on Lions and Rule of the Bone for @adkclimb.club. Gettin’ it in while the gettin’s good!

Wed, 07 Jan 2026 01:43:53 -0500

Weeping Winds with @bbrianandersonn today! Burlier than expected, but so much fun!

Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:32:43 -0500

‘iOS 26 CarPlay confusing UI/UX - Apple Community’

In iOS 26, Apple CarPlay Maps, the currently focused button is grey, while other buttons (not focused/hovered/selected) are blue. Read this again: it is grey for active, blue for inactive.

Every time I try to select a route, I end up missing the right button.

It’s truly infuriating.

(Via Dr. Drang, whose post exposes other diabolical interaction designs.)

Tue, 06 Jan 2026 10:23:03 -0500

Sometimes, I just like looking at the big numbers. 😆 I didn’t quite make the length of the Appalachian Trail, but working out every ~2/3 days and for almost 1000 hours feels good! And the biggest effort day totally tracks with my memory of hiking the Santanoni Range on Jan 24. 😅

Tue, 06 Jan 2026 01:44:17 -0500

So glad this last-minute booking came together! Helping expand @maxwellmortillaro and @phil_dworzanski’s backcountry ski touring repertoire was a total joy! And we saw some real progress as they mastered heading up and down the steep and tight terrain.

We made our way up Wright Peak from the Loj via the Old Marcy Dam trail and Wright Ski Trail. The rocky hiking trail and bottom section of the ski trail made for some exciting dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodging. But mega fun up top! Great temps too — way nicer on Wright than yesterday! 😁

Mon, 05 Jan 2026 22:54:25 -0500

#MykeWasRight Athlytic is awesome. Thanks @imyke@myke.social!

Mon, 05 Jan 2026 22:43:59 -0500

Don’t let the fun music fool you, Wright, Algonquin and Iroquois Peaks were butt-kickers yesterday! Huge gusts, -30°F wind chill, and major drifting made us really earn those summits. Make sure you’ve got good traction — lots o’ ice on those rocky peaks! But Todd crushed it, as usual.

Mon, 05 Jan 2026 10:43:40 -0500

All the kudos go to Hao and Junlin for taking on the challenge of spending two winter nights backcountry camping in the High Peaks for their first experience in the Adirondacks. Even when the going got tough, their tenacity brought them success on their goal of climbing the Gothics cable route. Hard core! 💪

Sun, 04 Jan 2026 22:45:03 -0500

Started reading: Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe 📚

It’s debuting as a show on Apple TV soon and it looks great!

Farewell 2025

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 22:44:52 -0500

Some personal highlights from the year!

Jan - Ski instructing at Whiteface Mountain and many uphill skinning adventures with early morning exercise buddies. 🎿

Feb - Saranac Lake’s Winter Carnival is always a blast and ice palace spectacular! This year we got to share it with my mother-in-law. ❄️

Mar - Multi-sport weekend with Mike — climbing in the Gunks and skiing at Whiteface. 🧗

Apr - A trip down to Florida, with a visit to Bok Tower with Aunt Sally and Grandma Beck — a cherished memory as we would lose Grandma later in the year. ❤️

May - Backpacking with Jo and Phin. We hadn’t done one together in a while, and it was wonderful to hit the trail as a family again. 🏕️

June - Rock climbing season kicked into high gear with many trips up the slab, including this memorable one with friends from @adkclimb.club in which Taka did a few barefoot pitches. 🤣

July - Perhaps the highlight of the year, a trip to Wyoming to climb Gannett Peak for Matt’s 48th state high point and my personal tallest climb. The stunning cirque rekindled my desire for bigger objectives. 🏔️

Aug - Heartbreak as we said goodbye to our beloved Ollivander after 10 years in our little family. I can finally start looking back at photos of him with fondness instead of sadness. He was the greatest furry friend. ❤️‍🩹

Sept - The month for love for us, as Jo and I celebrated the wedding of dear friends, Tyler and Lauren, and attended the balloon festival. And then celebrated our own (7th!) anniversary the next weekend. 💍

Oct - Or Rocktober! The fall is my favorite time of year in the ADK, and I got to tick off a bunch of spectacular climbs among the beautiful fall foliage, including a few here on the Upper Washbowl with Brian. 🍁

Nov - Snow and ice season arrived blessedly early and in full force! Got in some great pitches of climbing and backcountry skiing in deep snow before Thanksgiving — take that, west coast! 😉

Dec - I couldn’t choose between family time at the holidays and our current adventure with Dan and Sarah in Las Vegas for New Year’s, so I didn’t! Both have been wonderful. 🎉

I’m so lucky to live in a place I love, have a career sharing my favorite activities, and be surrounded by wonderful friends, family, and community.

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 13:44:34 -0500

We love helping dreams come to life! @haojjiang and Junlin had backpacked together before, but never in the winter and never in Adirondacks. Their goal was to test their skills in a winter mountaineering excursion. Gothics Mountain provided sub-zero temps and waist-deep snow for the challenge, and they crushed it! We ate, slept, laughed, and awed in nature’s stunning beauty. In short, we thrived. Can’t wait to get out with these two again!

Book your dream adventure today!

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 12:33:57 -0500

🆕📝 2025 & 2026 Fitness Goals

What I wanted to do. What I did. What I’m gonna do next year.

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 06:33:55 -0500

I quite like MG Siegler’s theory that Pluribus is commentary on AI (spoilers!):

To wit: All of humanity’s knowledge is involuntarily uploaded to the collective “cloud”, as it were. With this, any of the beings on Earth – aside from a handful that the virus couldn’t infect for unknown reasons – have access to all of this information in real time. And any of the “unenlightened”, when they ask any question of these connected beings, they get back a seemingly factually true, but often bland response in real time.

The consensus view, quite literally.

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 05:58:31 -0500

Artemis, the calm web reader, is thoughtfully designed to be both efficient and privacy-preserving. For instance, it logs only the last month you used it:

This is why “approximately” is something of a feature: I don’t know what day a user opened their feed last on. I don’t need to in order to fulfill my goal of not retrieving feeds for users who haven’t been active for a while. Not only that, I don’t want to know the last day a user logged in to Artemis, for that would mean I would have the necessary telemetry to easily calculate “daily active users” and such.

— James G, Designing for inactive users

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 01:43:37 -0500

Part of the fun is making the most of what Mother Nature hands us. If that’s -15°F wind chill, we bundle up, fill the thermos with hot chocolate, and keep climbing! Thanks, Liz and Nate, for bringing extra warmth with your smiles and stoke today!

Tue, 30 Dec 2025 22:44:28 -0500

North Face of Pitchoff was in excellent shape today! The hard freeze overnight (and continuing today) made for great climbing. Liz and Nate excelled despite the frigid wind chill and climbed all over Harlot. Can’t wait to get out with them again!

Tue, 30 Dec 2025 22:44:16 -0500

A mega fine day spent in the mountains guiding Todd’s 27th and 28th winter 46er high peaks! Clear skies and warm temps kept smiles on our faces! 😁

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 19:43:42 -0500

Had to kick things into gear this month (114 miles in December), but through sickness and health, before and after work, on treadmills and through bitter cold, I got it done! 😁

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 19:11:31 -0500

It’s happened again. I went searching for an obscure web editor for Blot that I used to use, but couldn’t remember the name. Guess what. My own blog post about it was the top link. 😅

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 11:30:14 -0500

Watched: Pluribus 📺

As Robb Knight put it, it’s “the most boring show I can’t stop watching.” I love the mystery and “what ifs” but wish there was more happening. A promising first two episodes turned into a slow burn that I’m nonetheless looking forward to coming back. 👍

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 11:10:09 -0500

Finished reading: Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer 📚

A harrowing tale… that nonetheless stoked my passion for the mountains — despite their inherent dangers. 👍

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 10:50:09 -0500

Rama Duwaji is a talented artist who is set to become the youngest First Lady of NYC when her husband, Zohran Mamdani, becomes mayor on Jan 1. You’ve gotta check out her website! I love how you can interact with the animated GIFs on the animation page.

(Via Jason Kottke)

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 09:27:11 -0500

Amazing.

Good morning! Just wanted to let you all know that Rian Johnson subtly rickrolled us with a scene in Wake Up Dead Man.

— Jason Kottke

Thu, 25 Dec 2025 01:38:18 -0500

I’m incredibly proud of Hao and Junlin for taking on a new challenge in a little Christmas Eve ice climbing! It was Hao’s first time on ice, and Junlin’s first time climbing ever. They crushed it on Pitchoff Right, dialing in technique quickly and having a grand time despite the cold and wind.

Hope they’re resting up tonight as we are venturing into Adirondack wilderness tomorrow for another new adventure for them: winter camping and mountaineering. 🏔️

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 22:43:55 -0500

Started reading: Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer 📚

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 22:32:16 -0500

Finished reading: Apple in China by Patrick McGee 📚

This book makes Apple’s acquiescence to Donald Trump’s authoritarianism make even more sense. It’s not their first game. They know the playbook well.

It’s an enlightening tomb. A little dry, but the second half really picks up. 👍

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 14:15:29 -0500

Watched: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery 🍿

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 23:57:37 -0500

Watched: The Alpinist 🍿

I watch this documentary multiple times a year, and it’s still one of my all-time favorite films. 👍👍

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 22:38:43 -0500

Chouinard’s Gully. Crystal Ice Tower. Roaring Brook Falls. Great day to climb ice with @mikehazard__!

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:38:17 -0500

Fun day down in the canyon getting on a couple classic single pitch ice routes with @mudrat_mackenzie! Lions and Hot Shot were both awesome. Thick enough to not bottom out any screws. 👌

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 01:37:52 -0500

Weather turned out to be perfect for @adkclimb.club! A nice, temperate evening after all the frigid days we’ve had (and will have again tomorrow!). Fun times working the steep routes at Pitchoff Quarry with friends!

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 14:39:35 -0500

Nick Heer: ‘Fault and Responsibility’

While I am excited for the potential of a change in direction, I do not think this singlehandedly validates the perception of declining competence in Apple’s software design. It was [Alan] Dye’s responsibility, to be sure, but it was not necessarily his fault. I do not mean that as an excuse, though I wish I did. The taste of those in charge undoubtably shapes what is produced across the company. And, despite a tumultuous week at the top of Apple’s org chart, many of those people remain in charge.

I so appreciate Heer’s signature measured and clear thinking.

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 12:05:02 -0500

A new, classic @atpfm@mastodon.social moment is born! “How DARE you!?” 🤣 🎙️

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 20:34:32 -0500

Louie Mantia blogged about Alan Dye leaving Apple, pointing out a change in Apple’s design direction that happened without my conscious noticing:

Not to put too fine a point on it, but they started making products that appealed to themselves. Because since Steve Jobs died, Apple, its executives, and its corporate employees got significantly wealthier. It wasn’t just Jony who took an interest in luxury. The whole company did. Anyone with even a little bit of power in the company started to dress more expensively. They all look like they could walk right out of a fashion advertisement.

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 14:10:00 -0500

🆕📝 I’m not a ring guy, but…

Pebble's Index 01 looks pretty cool.

Mon, 08 Dec 2025 01:38:14 -0500

Making the most of these awesome early winter days! Starting with a 5-mile ascent up the Whiteface Memorial Highway and then cruising back down before jetting off to the North Face of Pitchoff to climb ice till dark! Thanks to today’s adventure buddies for making it great!

Sun, 07 Dec 2025 01:38:31 -0500

Fun in the… snow! ❄️ Thanks to @bbrianandersonn for joining me on this scouting mission. Base could use some more work (lots of rocks under there!) but the snow is powdery and DEEP up top! Gonna be a great winter for backcountry skiing in the ADK! ⛷️

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:09:56 -0500

Remember that Rewind app that recorded everything on your Mac screen? Or their Pendant that recorded your physical day-to-day? If you’re a user, I hope you really trust their privacy policy because they’ve just been bought by Meta. If you don’t, now’s your chance to export and delete your data.

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 11:13:10 -0500

I don’t think my mouse repellent is working… 😕

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 01:38:28 -0500

Early ice season is treating us so well in the Adirondacks! Awesome couple of days swinging tools and kicking ice. Come learn to scale frozen waterfalls with us!

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:43:47 -0500

Greg Morris: ‘The Weird Part Was the Platforms’

When there was one big platform, leaving meant missing out. Now there’s Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, and whatever else springs up next week. No single space feels needed anymore. The FOMO vanished. Once that happened, having your own blog stopped looking like the odd choice.

It’s not perfect, but it’s better this way.

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:45 -0500

Apple’s latest video, ‘I’m Not Remarkable’, might be my favorite that they’ve published in quite a while. Their technology really takes on a secondary, literally assistive role, while the actual, awesome human beings take center stage. Full of life, with a great message. 👍👍

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 01:39:03 -0500

Incredible to see the first @adkclimb.club ice meetup of the season so well-attended! Folks are getting PYSCHED for ice season. A lot of new partnerships growing out of the club, which was the whole point. 😁 Thanks to all the newcomers.

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 01:38:32 -0500

The stoke was high at the North Face of Pitchoff with @darnisock! Got a few laps in on Harlot before heading over to Tendonitis for the good stuff. Dialed in some multipitch skills on the way up, which made for an excellent afternoon before heading to @adkclimb.club…

Sun, 30 Nov 2025 20:57:56 -0500

Started reading: Apple in China by Patrick McGee 📚

Finally available from my library (via Libby). Let’s see if all the positive reviews hold up. (Based on the prologue, they will.)

Sun, 30 Nov 2025 20:53:13 -0500

Finished reading: Born to Run by Christopher McDougall 📚

Holy smokes, what a book! Both the story and science were each captivating. Definitely got me fired up for running, and getting back into barefoot shoes. 👍👍

Sun, 30 Nov 2025 19:38:20 -0500

Got in a few laps at Pitchoff Right and Pitchoff Quarry this afternoon with Brian. As Ian Osteyee put it, conditions aren’t great but they are passable—and certainly passable enough for a good time! Got a Jackson and Luke sighting, styling as usual. 🤙

Looking like the season’s about to take off in earnest this week with low temps! 🌡️

Sun, 30 Nov 2025 19:00:25 -0500

COVID & Flu shots = acquired! 🙅‍♂️🦠

Sat, 29 Nov 2025 12:20:04 -0500

Watched: ONE SHOT with Ed Sheeran 🍿

This was so cool! Ed roams around New York City with his guitar, playing songs for unsuspecting strangers and surprise parties—all in one take. He seems so genuinely nice and grateful to play for fans. I’d love to see some behind the scenes of how this was shot. 👍👍

Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:20:09 -0500

It’s too late to get any of the deals, but Cards Against Humanity’s 99% off sale still made me chuckle.

Fri, 28 Nov 2025 23:16:59 -0500

Watched: The Marvels 🍿

I know I’m behind on this, but they really did this movie dirty. Great characters and actors, just a shamefully poor storyline. 👎

Thu, 27 Nov 2025 20:04:27 -0500

Watched: Stranger Things S5E4, Chapter Four: Sorcerer 📺

Definitively yell-at-the-TV-the-whole-time-because-of-plot-holes kind of show. But that didn’t stop us from binging all four episodes released today. Some genuinely good moments too. Won’t be too sad when things wrap up next month. 👍

Thu, 27 Nov 2025 07:27:21 -0500

Finished reading: Dirtbag Billionaire by David Gelles 📚

Though it lionizes Chouinard and glosses over some of his distasteful qualities more than necessary, this book made me appreciate Patagonia as a company and it sure wouldn’t be the same without him. It’s been through the wringer over its 50+ years, and still sticks to its values and purpose. 👍

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 23:35:07 -0500

Apple’s recent Newsroom post on how it’s now 3D-printing its titanium Apple Watch cases is fascinating. When it was announced during the September event, I wondered if I’d be able to discern any difference in quality. I absolutely cannot. It’s as precise and premium as any Apple Watch I’ve ever had.

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 23:13:48 -0500

Nicolas Magand noticed an odd phenomenon when reading his old blog posts:

First, that I seemingly forget about 85% of what I write. Reading these articles didn’t feel like reading something completely new — I remember the topic and the gist of what I said — but I was surprised at how much I forgot about these topics, rants, and comments. Writing makes me refine my thoughts, but I think publishing makes my brain click the “Move to bin” command for these now-safely-backed-up thoughts.

You and me both, brother.

Tue, 25 Nov 2025 21:30:23 -0500

Watched: Masters of the Air 📺

Much like Chernobyl, I think this is a series that everyone should see. 👍👍

Mon, 24 Nov 2025 23:04:43 -0500

Watched: La La Land 🍿

It may not be the world’s best musical movie, but gosh do I enjoy it. Both Stone and Gosling do so well. The ending is clever, if not totally satisfying. And the tunes are sure to be in my head for weeks. 👍👍

Mon, 24 Nov 2025 21:57:10 -0500

Watched: Masters of the Air S1E6, Part Six 📺

After some time away from this show, I binged a few episodes today. Truly gripping stuff that showcases the horrors of being on a fighter plane in WW2. Gonna need some time to process it for sure.

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 21:55:45 -0500

This comparison of iPhone models to car models by @joesteel@duck.haus is quite apt:

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 13:37:37 -0500

You’ve heard a lot about Tom from us over the last year. Let us just say that it was an honor to be trusted by him along his 46er journey, and we can’t wait for the next one. Thanks, Tom! 🙌

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 12:05:56 -0500

Started reading: Dirtbag Billionaire by David Gelles 📚

I’ve long been fascinated by Yvon Chouinard’s story from, well, dirtbag climber to luminary billionaire who started Patagonia and what would become Black Diamond.

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 11:51:29 -0500

No Bingo for me, but a fun trip down memory lane from BasicAppleGuy. Totally forgot about the iPod nano Tubes!

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 08:01:35 -0500

🆕📝 Grandma Beck

My maternal grandmother, Laureen Ann Beck, passed away recently. We had a memorial service for her yesterday, filled with family and friends. Here are the reflections of her that I shared at the service.

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 19:38:48 -0500

Well done to all the competitors at Mt. Van Hoevenberg’s boulder comp today! It was great to see all the stoke in the room! Big thanks to the staff who put it all together. 🙌

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 22:14:36 -0500

Robert Birming: ‘Your blog, your home’

Maybe you’ve thought about launching a blog. Maybe you’ve felt a bit overwhelmed when looking at other blogs.

Don’t be. We all start with an empty home. Then we add a little paint here, hang a picture there, and decorate it with things we like.

A blog becomes a home, that’s the beauty of it, and I’m looking forward to visiting yours.

I recently received compliments on my blog’s design. It gave me a sense of pride that eclipses compliments of my home — perhaps because my blog is all me. I’ve customized nearly every nook, and then filled it with my words.

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:39:00 -0500

What a gift, ice season has come early! We worked hard for those first swings, skinning 5 miles up the toll road and leading in gusty winds with sub-zero wind chill. But so worth it to get that good ice! Thanks to Corey for the company on this fun adventure. 🎿 🧊

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:34:39 -0500

McDonald’s isn’t wasting any time in phasing out the penny here in the U.S. I actually snapped this photo at the drive-through a couple days ago, before we stopped minting pennies:

The U.S. ended production of the penny Wednesday, abandoning the 1-cent coins that were embedded in American culture for more than 230 years but became nearly worthless.

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:23:44 -0500

The iPhone Pocket has already made it into the general zeitgeist. During today’s stop at a gas station, I heard a local radio host talking about it — well, chuckling at it for its outlandish price tag. I actually think it looks quite nice and could have had wide appeal, but not at $150/$230.

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:06:33 -0500

It’s when you’re least expecting it, that’s when they getcha! 😆 Glad to see it’s got some traction — hopefully leads to more folks taking control of their spot on the web.

Oh cool, Jarrod Blundy’s blog post about Micro.blog Studio made it on Hacker News.

manton www.manton.org/2025/11/12/oh-cool-jarrod-blundys-blog.html

Louie Mantia: ‘A Long Train of Abuses’

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:59:26 -0500

I can’t say I’m completely comfortable with all of Mantia’s argument, but it’s certainly got me thinking. A few bits that caught my attention:

In the Declaration of Independence, the founders wrote a long train of abuses by the King to justify their actions. Some may feel …unfortunately relevant today:

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone […]

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us […]

[…] For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world

And

And so, believing that violence is never justified only makes you vulnerable to those who believe it is.

That’s how it’s always been. If the government successfully convinces civilians that violence is never justified, then it gets to maintain its own monopoly on violence, legalizing the atrocities it commits itself, while punishing everyone else for what civilians have always had the right to do.

It’s right there, in the founding document of the nation, that it is the right and duty of civilians to overthrow any government that systemically infringes on its rights.

By all rights, I’m a firmly non-violent person. I even sometimes bristle at the notion that the best thing to do with a Nazi is punch them. It seems so barbaric, sure to escalate, and unnecessary when words and logic exist. But I have to admit that when words, logic, and compassion fall on intentionally-deaf ears, other options start to look more reasonable.

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 23:43:22 -0500

John Voorhees has some great recommendations (🔒) for developers offering in-app subscriptions, such as using consumables rather than time to limit their free trials, as Notion does with their Notion AI trial:

As my setup grew, I started exploring more advanced features and asking Notion AI for help implementing my setup. The Notion AI trial didn’t begin until I was ready to try it, and the free query allotment was enough to convince me of the feature’s value. The experience felt so natural that by the time I’d run out of free Notion AI queries, I was happy to start paying.

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 22:37:53 -0500

🎿 Ski season has begun in the Adirondacks! Coverage is great on the @whiteface_mt Veterans’ Memorial Highway — it was a good way to spend some time on Veterans’ Day. Thanks to @bbrianandersonn for joining and helping to scope out some ice! 👀

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 13:40:00 -0500

🆕📝 Micro.blog offers an indie alternative to YouTube with its ‘Studio’ video hosting plan

What was at first going to be a quote post about the new feature turned into an essay about how this fits with Micro.blog’s ethos and why it’s good for the open web.

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:11:32 -0500

Rewatched: The Queen’s Gambit 📺

What a show! I had a hankering to watch this again after a few years, and so glad that I did. Marathoned it over two days. It’s a masterclass in growing empathy for nearly every character, and showing dull things dramatically. And a triumph in set and costume design.

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:38:16 -0500

He did it! In only 18 months, and just a few weeks shy of his 70th birthday, Tom Sagers became the newest Adirondack 46er by summiting Seymour Mountain! Tom and I hiked 42 of the 46 high peaks together, and in that time, I have come to know him as a capable, enthusiastic, and dedicated hiker — and as a friend. It’s been incredible to see his skills progress over that time, and we battled some pretty challenging conditions together. 🏔️

If I can still handle hiking these peaks in icy conditions at Tom’s age, I’ll consider myself quite fortunate indeed. 💪

A rough estimate of what it takes to become a 46er is 300+ miles and 70,000+ feet in elevation gain worth of hiking these unforgiving “trails”. Please join me in congratulating Tom on this monumental achievement! 👏

Until the next one… 🥾

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 10:49:17 -0500

Watched: Pluribus S1E1, We Is Us 📺

My wife and I watched the first two episodes yesterday and are hooked. We had to pause multiple times to debate the implications and moral quandaries of what was happening on-screen. The mark of a good show! (And Severance-esque 👍)

Fri, 07 Nov 2025 16:00:53 -0500

Ryan Christoffel: ‘iOS 26.1 lets you close Activity rings even if you forget to start a workout’

Inside the Fitness app, tap the Workout tab, then hit the icon in the top-right to add a new workout.

You’ll be able to choose from any workout type, then manually log several parameters:

Duration

Start Time

Active Calories

Effort

After you choose a workout type and duration, iOS 26.1 will automatically populate the ‘Active Calories’ field with an estimated number. This estimate takes into account your personal health details.

Very happy to see this after a decade of working out with Apple Watch!

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 22:38:09 -0500

Winter conditions on Colvin and Blake today for Tom’s 46/46! We did Colvin earlier this year, so that was a repeat peak, but Blake was new for him. Wind and snow made it feel very real up there, but trail conditions were much more forgiving than our last few hikes. 14 miles, 4000’ elevation gain, 11 hours. ONE PEAK LEFT!!

One year as an independent guide

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 22:38:00 -0500

Today marks one year since my first client took a chance on Onward Mountain Guides as a brand-new guide service and we climbed two mountains together. Since then, we’ve hiked 40 peaks together, and I couldn’t be more grateful to him or the dozens of other awesome folks I’ve been able to share the outdoors with as an independent guide this year.

I didn’t have high expectations going into this first year. It’s a fairly crowded space with excellent guides who have been here much longer — but something has clicked, and I’m delighted and proud to share that with over 100 days in the field, OMG operated “in the black” all year and business is accelerating! I probably won’t ever get rich off guiding, but that has never been the goal. I feel rich to be able to spend my days in the outdoors with so many different people, and sharing what I know about climbing, hiking, camping, paddling, and skiing with others. I’m so fortunate to be living my dream.

There are many family, friends, and mentors who I owe a debt of gratitude for helping me get to where I am today. You know who you are. The Adirondack community, too, has been so kind, welcoming, and supportive. But, I’d be remiss if I didn’t directly mention my wife, @jo_marie07 , who was on board from the first minute of me suggesting that we start this new business. She’s been my biggest supporter, my patient sounding board, and she shouldered immense responsibility to keep us housed and fed while the business found its legs. Thank you, I love you.

Here’s to many more years of adventuring in the mountains. 🧡

—J.B.

By the way, that first client? It was Tom. A year ago, he had no aspirations of climbing all 46 high peaks — he was just in it for the views. But the mountains took hold, as they often do, and he’s now on the cusp of completing the 46er challenge. We’ll be hiking his final two peaks this week. Big thanks to him for kicking this whole thing off! 🙌

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:40:13 -0500

Cliff & Redfield packed a punch for Tom’s 43rd and 44th high peaks. More snow AND more water made conditions quite challenging in both the low and high elevations. Getting to the Uphill Lean-to from the Loj via Lake Arnold and the floating logs took about 5.5 hours, then up and down Redfield (nice views, and snow 6-inches deep!) in about 3.5 hours, and Cliff (the cliffs weren’t too icy yet) in about 2.5 hours. About 6 hours for the return hike in headlamps (incredible full moon!) put us at around 17.5 hours of constant movement — our longest yet. We head into the mountains to test ourselves, and Tom continues to impress!

Just two peaks left on his #46er journey: Blake and Seymour. Thankfully, both should be shorter days.

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 22:38:22 -0500

18 miles and about 5,000 feet of elevation gain. 😅 Tom proved his mettle on this hike through snow and lots of ice. We broke trail up Gray, experienced otherworldly views on Skylight, and incredible cloud inversion on Marcy. A very memorable day for Tom’s 41st and 42nd high peaks. Only 4 left!

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 14:02:13 -0500

TIL (also) that Apple TV has an official Giphy presence with collections of GIFs from their shows.

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 14:00:55 -0500

The new Apple TV animation (or “mnemonic”) is cool, though it doesn’t feel nearly as timeless as the original. The accompanying audio, credited(!) to FINNEAS, is pleasant and ethereal. But the original (Mac startup chime-inspired) thrum was perfect and I’ll miss it. Here’s a comparison.

New Apple TV Intro
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Mon, 03 Nov 2025 13:12:27 -0500

TIL that Scott Forstall (yes, that one) created WordArt while he was an intern at Microsoft. 🤯 (Via Louie Mantia)

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 20:30:19 -0500

Rach Smith: ‘A letter to myself: Strategies’

Do you recall all those years you were a hot mess? Life was a series of chaotic mistakes and mishaps until out of necessity (having dependants) you developed an extensive set of strategies. The strategies work well, but are annoying to manage, so you are sometimes tempted in to thinking you’re a fully functional adult now who can “just remember” to do important things. This is folly, and will only lead to disappointment and burnt potatoes.

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 19:38:22 -0500

For our longest hike together yet, Tom and I tackled Haystack and Basin. Each are around 4900’ and have steep, challenging sections — made trickier with a good amount of ice above 4000’! But they were absolutely worth it for the amazing views we were blessed with as the skies cleared. ☀️

Layering is difficult this time of year as temperatures vary greatly between sun and shade, and trees go from frozen to dripping. So with 15 hours on the trail, and many layer changes along the way, we got Tom into the 40s for his high peak count. Hard to believe he only has six left! 🏔️

(Congrats to the fella who was celebrating his 46/46 summit as we arrived on Haystack! 🙌)

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 13:38:38 -0500

Kevin brought so much enthusiasm to his time rock climbing with us and left the day itching for more! We talked about getting his kids into so that climbing can be a family adventure for them. Can’t wait to meet the rest of the family next time!

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 13:38:23 -0500

It took us a couple attempts, but we got the Santanoni Range done bringing Tom’s high peak count to 38/46! We did Panther on Friday, but rainy and freezing conditions prevented us from feeling good about going for the full range. We returned on Sunday with full winter gear in tow and summited Santanoni & Couchsachraga in a 14-hour push. Next up, Haystack & Basin. 🥾

These early winter conditions can be some of the most difficult to deal with, as you’re faced with ice, snow, and wet mud all at the same time. Tom is an inspiration — if you’re ever hiked the Santas, you’ll know how impressive it is for him to be out there at 69 years old! 💪

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 18:54:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#181]

Hey, looks like there are at least 7 new things on the internet since last time!

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:14:06 -0500

A Very Good Tweet™

I’ve heard of time travel but this is ridiculous
BenRiceM https://mastodon.social/@BenRiceM/115419104697248984

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 10:18:32 -0500

I challenge you to look at this baked potato jacket that Aldi made without laughing. 😂 (Via Jason Kottke)

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:33:09 -0500

Wanna get a peek at what Allen Mountain looks like after a day of rain? The opalescent is knee-deep again, but that couldn’t stop us from getting Tom’s 35th high peak done! Allen is always an adventure, and today was no exception.

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:34:46 -0500

As I told @bigbrando66 when he and the guys were here, it’s so special to see friends or family do these outdoor adventures together. The camaraderie, support, and trust that comes from doing challenging things together is spectacular to see! All wrapped up with jokes and laughter, of course! Thanks for an awesome couple days, guys! 🙏

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:34:35 -0500

Tom has set up shop in Lake Placid for the next few weeks to knock out the last of his ADK High Peaks. We kicked off his hiking residency with a trip up Mt. Marshall (4,360’) via the Calamity Brook trail. It was a fine fall hiking day for Tom’s 34th High Peak, and the best conditions I’ve had on Marshall all year. It was a great warm up for our longer hikes coming up — namely Allen and the Santanoni Range later this week!

As an aside and a general PSA, venturing off trail looking for shortcuts is not a great idea — especially late in the day or when you’re on your own. We picked up a new friend when Tom and I faintly heard him yelling for help off in the woods somewhere. He’d fallen behind his friend and tried to beeline off trail through the forest toward the trailhead to make up time. He quickly realized his mistake, but after 30-40 minutes of wandering on his own, he became worried he wasn’t going to find the trail again and yelled for help. Tom and I just so happened to be within earshot at the time, were able to locate him on the wrong side of Calamity Brook, and guide him back to safety. It all turned out okay, but could have been a very different night had we not been traveling through that section of trail at the time. In short: stay with your hiking buddy, stay on trail (bushwhacking is hardly ever a shortcut), and if you feel that you’re lost, stop. Call out for help right away if you don’t recognize your way back — don’t go wandering further!

@lakeplacidadk @saranaclake @tupperlakeny @adirondack46ers_ @hike.adk @mountaineerbandana @newyorkoutdoorguides #Adirondacks #PerfectDayADK #HireAGuide

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 09:46:20 -0500

Dang, I’ve been using the ‘Speak Screen’ accessibility option as my ad-hoc (and free) narrated article feature for two years now! I use it every day and highly recommend this method.

Sun, 19 Oct 2025 20:57:34 -0500

Rewatched: Agatha All Along Season 1 📺

Even better the second time through, as I was able to keep up with the twists and turns and weirdness. And catch all the foreshadowing. Worth a rewatch! 👍

Sun, 19 Oct 2025 00:33:41 -0500

The boys are back in town! Brandon, Kevin, Shane, and Brian all came upstate for a weekend of camaraderie and adventure — and they sure got it! We spent yesterday rock climbing and doing a rappelling clinic at King Philip Spring Wall, and then this evening the main event: a stunning sunset rappel down Roaring Brook Falls. It was so great to hang out with these guys and swap stories. Their firefighter training gave them all a great base for learning technical systems, so moving into the rock world was a logical step. Can’t wait to have them back!

Message us with your grand idea, and we’ll do everything we can to bring your adventure to life.

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 22:15:21 -0500

A Very Good Tweet™

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the cable bundle.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-and-nbcuniversal-introduce-the-apple-tv-and-peacock-bundle/?1760630412
Stephen Hackett https://eworld.social/@ismh86/115384706681889653

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 21:58:50 -0500

Nick Heer does the work regarding that MacBook charger brouhaha:

It is not just countries that use the Euro receiving cuts. In Norway, the new MacBook Pro starts at 2,000 krone less than the one it replaces, and a charger is 849 krone. In Hungary, it is 50,000 forint less, with a charger costing about 30,000 forint. There are some exceptions, too. In Switzerland, the new models are 50 franc less, but a charger is 59 franc.

Rumors of the charging-brick-less-yet-more-expensive MacBooks have been greatly exaggerated.

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 21:46:57 -0500

I so appreciate this note at the bottom of an email from Upgraded:

And hey, if you don’t need a new device, don’t get one. We’re just having fun in this email. Never over extend yourself financially for something you don’t need. 👊

Marketing, but with humanity. More of this, please!

A better way to pull your rap cord

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 21:33:07 -0500

One helpful tip I’ve learned from painful experience over the years is how valuable it is to bring a hand ascender whenever I do long rappels with a pull/rap cord. Instead of wrapping the cord around your hand, suffering through rope burn, or messing with a wrapped carabiner, the ascender is worth its weight in gold for efficiency and comfort in getting your rope down. It firmly grabs the rope and gives you a nice big handle to pull down more ergonomically.

Plus, you’ll start to identify other great uses for the ascender, like more easily pulling slack or giving yourself some mechanical advantage with a GriGri when belaying from the bottom.

Oh, and don’t forget your gloves!

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 22:25:54 -0500

The Imperfectionist: ‘How to forget what you’ve read’

The second reason – a universal law of personal productivity – is that the more effort a technique requires, the more likely you’ll be to engage in self-defeating avoidance instead. If your system requires you to take detailed notes on everything you read… then you won’t.

This is a lesson that is easy to understand while the habit is devilishly difficult to break.

(Via Ratika Deshpande)

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 18:12:33 -0500

Not gonna lie, the back display on the Xiaomi 17 Pro Max does look pretty sweet. Marques Brownlee is right, looks like they took the iPhone 17 Pro series and just basically tried to one-up every spec they could.

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 17:18:22 -0500

Watched: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 🍿

My wife and I enjoyed disussing the benefits and detriments of having a whole book/series as source material when making a movie. But we agreed that they did a great job playing to the book fans on this one. I give it a 👍

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 15:32:41 -0500

That’s so kind of you to say, Dan! It was a joy to get out climbing with you. And yes — can’t wait to show you the ropes on ice! 🙌

I work very hard to make sure my clients have a great experience. From first contact through hugs and high fives goodbye, you’re due the best. 😁

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 12:20:16 -0500

Ratika Deshpande shared some of her rules for writing today. This one resonated with me:

4. Focus on what is beautiful in this world.

There’s a lot of ugliness in the world. It’s easy and feels perversely good to share. But sharing what’s awesome, uplifting, beautiful, kind, or curious — the world needs more of those things.

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 10:35:03 -0500

Ryan Christoffel: ‘Apple explains why iPhone 17’s selfie camera changed so much’

Nash also highlights how the final product will be better than ever, not just the process of taking the photo.

For example, she mentions how keeping the iPhone in portrait orientation means subjects’ eyes will always be looking in the right place. With landscape selfies, that’s often not the case.

This is a really good point that I hadn’t considered. Landscape selfies do often have the group looking awkwardly off to the side.

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 08:59:22 -0500

Sarah Cascone: ‘Humans of New York’ Transforms Grand Central Into a Monumental Photo Show

For the first time possibly ever, there is not a single ad to be seen in Grand Central Terminal. “Humans of New York,” Brandon Stanton‘s popular social media art series of photographs of people he’s interviewed on the city’s streets, has taken over each and every one of the 150 video billboards in the grand concourse, as well as the subway ads below in Grand Central Station for “Dear New York.”

This is so very cool!

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:51:16 -0500

I scored 10/21 on e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:30:39 -0500

I love this business card design, and appreciate its simplicity every time it makes the rounds on social media. It highlights the importance of consistent branding. Email, website, and social handles — all in sync.

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 10:55:00 -0500

🆕📝 It’s on Apple TV

The madness just got madder. 'Apple TV+' is now just 'Apple TV'.

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 09:10:27 -0500

Ratika Deshpande: ‘Write it right now.’

And don’t worry about hoarding ideas. Don’t save the precious idea that you think you will tackle later in a separate piece–you’ll never do it. Write it right now. You won’t one day suddenly stop having thoughts and ideas and opinions. New ones (to you) will keep cropping up. And they will be built upon the ideas you think about right now by writing about them.

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 08:50:05 -0500

If you know, you know. 😜

Sat, 11 Oct 2025 17:28:04 -0500

Love this! 🤣

I love my local vidya-games store 😅
gabz :verified_pill_bottle2: https://social.lol/@gabz/115357632970953716

Sat, 11 Oct 2025 16:02:59 -0500

🫣 Feeling a bit called out by Annie Mueller in her post, ‘Encourage Meaningful Friction’:

For example, having a frictionless to-do app means I end up with too many fucking tasks. Some things need to be unsaved, neglected, forgotten, ignored, left undone so better things can be done. Or so I can spend more delightful moments at ease, not doing but being.

Sat, 11 Oct 2025 15:10:04 -0500

Manu Moreale: ‘My issue with the two sides’

The problem I see with this, though, is that the internet is a weird place. A lot of people aren’t vocal. Most of them are just lurking around, absorbing content and forming ideas in their head and maybe discussing things in person with close friends and family. And amongst them, there probably are a lot of people who would be more than happy to support and join the good one of the two sides, but are probably kept at a distance because of the insanity they see unfolding.

Been noodling on this. What we see of each other online is not our whole selves.

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 16:37:56 -0500

“Relationships, like plants, need fresh water to grow.”

— Oak Jones in Family Ties, The Dirtbag Diaries

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 16:02:34 -0500

I’m learning about too many bad things on the internet. Three strikes and you’re out. I should take a break.

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:35:09 -0500

Yours truly, back in December 2023: ‘I Made a Bookmarklet That Runs a Shortcut on a URL’

Holy smokes, I can’t believe I never thought about doing this before. Probably because I never thought I would know how to write a bookmarklet. To be fair, I still don’t, but ChatGPT does!

🤣 I totally bought a janky app on the App Store recently to run a specific shortcut on the active webpage, and I wasted a ton of time trying to get it to work right. It never did. I just rediscovered this post that I wrote, and it works perfectly. Brains are funny.

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 13:35:39 -0500

Something in my house just made a powering down noise, and I’ve no idea what it was. I fear I never will.

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 13:24:24 -0500

Yay!! Launched podcast by @charliemchapman@mastodon.social is coming back!

So… some personal news
(watch till the end)
Charlie Chapman https://mastodon.social/@charliemchapman/115345302909194280

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 13:05:32 -0500

Yup, it’s time that Apple no longer be the sole gatekeeper for apps on iOS. Consider me in the pro sideloading camp.

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 12:18:31 -0500

Okay, this trailer for Pluribus on Apple TV+ has peaked my interest. Looks like a real ride. Oh, and you can call this number for some unconventional marketing for the show: 202-808-3981 🤪

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 11:54:23 -0500

Finished reading: The Sharp End of Life by Dierdre Wolownick 📚

Y’all know Alex Honnold of Free Solo fame. His mom’s book recounts her life — difficult marriage, self-doubt, and her incredible tenacity through it all. In pursing her own outdoor adventures later in life, she found clarity and purpose.

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:57:35 -0500

This is exactly how I’ve been thinking about the new iPhone 17 Pro design, that it shares so much in common with the Apple silicon-era MacBook Pro — right down to their rounded edges. And yes, the iPhone Air as the dazzling jewel made room for the Pro phones to go hard on functionality over flashiness.

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 03:33:31 -0500

Rounded out a superb Rocktober weekend of climbing by leading Cure Cottage (5.8) at Baker Mtn with my wife (got her climbing too, but no pics unfortunately!), and then an evening ascent of Chapel Pond Slab with Brian, lit by the full moon! Checked out the Lil Sebastian finish, ‘twas awesome!

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 21:34:23 -0500

Helping others to build up their skills has always been one of my favorite parts of climbing. Our climbing community is at its best when we share our knowledge, opening up opportunities for more folks to explore new heights with confidence and support.

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 21:34:16 -0500

It was pretty awesome to get back on The El (5.8) today with my buddy Shane. I linked the first two pitches via The Lonely (5.6) variation, and then took the plum line up P3. What an exhilarating route! 🤩

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 21:33:26 -0500

Today was awesome! I volunteered with the Adirondack Mountain Club, Adirondack Climbers’ Coalition, Skylight Mountain Guides, and other guides for The Mountaineer’s Mountainfest to get the ski trails at Heart Lake ready for winter. Trails are clear and beautiful! ⛷️

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 21:33:02 -0500

I’ve been climbing with Alex for a while now, and it’s infectious the enthusiasm he’s got for scaling rocks! We enjoyed a perfect fall day and hit up some classic 5.7 routes on his tick list: Pete’s Farewell on Pitchoff, Tilman’s Arete at Chapel Pond, and Rum Doodle at The Aquarium.

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 20:59:19 -0500

Kudos to Taylor Swift for getting me to purchase an album of music for the first time in about a decade. Pricing it at $5 and having a 24 hour availability window was genius marketing. Cheap enough to make it an easy rash decision.

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 00:16:29 -0500

Finished reading: Hangdog Days by Jeff Smoot 📚

These true stories of early climbers, their feats, and their feuds read like fiction. But people are incredible!

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 20:00:28 -0500

Yesterday was a perfect day to visit the top of New York State! Andrew visited from Toronto on his east coast tour, and, despite having never been up a mountain before (let alone one in the ADK) made a blistering hike up to the summit of NY’s tallest peak in under 4 hours. And that was with dodging ice that’s now on the trail near the top. We rested on top, enjoying the splendidly clear and sunny view, and chatted with fine folk also out for a hike — including a couple working on their 50 state high points, of which Mt. Marcy was their 47th! They’ll finish up in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine in the next few days.

Big thanks to Andrew for the delightful conversation and joy of just being in the mountains. Hope to see you back in the winter!

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:26:44 -0500

The new dropdown text editing menu in iOS 26 is getting even better in 26.1, according to Ryan Christoffel at 9to5Mac:

As discovered by X user Beta Profiles, you can now swipe left to make the dropdown menu appear even faster.

I like the dropdown, but the abrupt change to my swiping muscle memory was a bummer. This is the right solution!

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 07:28:13 -0500

Started reading: Hangdog Days by Jeff Smoot 📚

Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:40:29 -0500

Nick Heer: ‘On Liquid Glass’

Apple justifies these decisions by saying its redesigned interfaces are “bringing greater focus to content”. I do not accept that explanation. Instead of placing tools in a distinct and separated area, they bleed into your document, thus gaining a similar level of importance as the document itself. […] But, in my experience, the more the interface blends with what I am looking at, the less capable I am of ignoring it. Clarity and structure are sacrificed for the illusion of simplicity offered by a monochromatic haze of an interface.

A fair and cogent review.

Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:44:54 -0500

Ryan Christoffel brought the iPhone Air to Disney World — with its harsh environment for smartphones — and came away thoroughly impressed:

Battery life was similarly a champ. I brought the Air’s new MagSafe battery with me, fully expecting to use it every day.

I didn’t use the MagSafe battery once.

He also didn’t miss the telephoto lens. Your mileage may vary, but I think Apple may have finally made a good mid-tier iPhone that will actually appeal to folks.

Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:11:44 -0500

Amazon’s new Search Party feature sounds very cute and helpful… until they update it to track down anything (anyone) other than pets. Aren’t they already well-known for being super police-friendly? I’m not thrilled with regular citizens contributing to a CCTV-like situation.

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 23:01:59 -0500

There are big adventures to be had within an hour of the road, and Prelude to Overture (5.8) is one of them! The positioning is wild with so much air under your feet. And Upper Washbowl is offering some of the most stunning views of our peak fall foliage here in the ADK. 🧗🍁

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 17:00:28 -0500

Okay, I’ve been procrastinating rope cleaning day for a while, but it actually went pretty quick! Can’t wait to get these freshly scrubbed beauties back on the rock. Thanks @beal.official for the easy rope wash!

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 23:00:50 -0500

Today was a special day guiding Fern and Kevin up the classic Pete’s Farewell (5.7) on Pitchoff. Why? It’s their honeymoon! 😍 It’s wonderful to see partners in climbing be partners in life — full of encouragement and support. They crushed the climb, despite some wet conditions, and got to enjoy peak Adirondack fall foliage. Best wishes (including many more pitches together) for the happy couple! 🥂

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 15:27:11 -0500

Hold onto your hats, things are about to get a lot more generative and a lot more advertise-y. Ben Thompson discussed how Google is barreling toward endless generated videos and auto-tagged products in every video and picture you see.

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 21:14:45 -0500

Roxane Gay: ‘Civility Is a Fantasy’

Within this framework, incivility is refusing to surrender to hatred, refusing to smile politely at someone who doesn’t consider you their equal, refusing to carve away the seemingly unpalatable parts of yourself until there is nothing left. To be uncivil means pointing out hypocrisies and misinformation. It means accurately acknowledging what people have said, with ample documentation and holding them accountable for their words and deeds.

Well-written, and well-worth reading.

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 20:55:28 -0500

I’m onboard with Jason Snell’s prediction that the iPhone Air will see more sales with in-store shoppers outside of Day 1 upgraders:

I guess we’ll have to wait and see, but I’m inclined to believe that the iPhone Air, with its lack of cameras and a heavy lean toward design, will have broader appeal over the course of the entire year. The fall is, in many ways, for iPhone Pro users who will scoff at most of the specs of the iPhone Air. But over time, as iPhone Airs get out into the world, people will see them and feel them, and I think the Air will get a lot of sales pick-up from word of mouth.

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 16:53:41 -0500

It’s too bad Shortcuts doesn’t allow you to choose which lens/zoom in the ‘Take Photo’ action. I wanted to build one that would take a 0.5×, 1×, 2×, 4× and 8× all in quick succession to compare from the same angle and framing.

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:56:48 -0500

Oh boy, if this super-thin iPhone Fold rumor is true and it comes in at that magical 5.5-inch folded size, sign me up!

Model
Depth

iPhone 17
7.95mm

iPhone Air
5.64mm

iPhone 17 Pro
8.75mm

iPhone 17 Pro Max
8.75mm

iPhone Fold (unfolded)
4.5-4.8mm

iPhone Fold (folded)
9-9.5mm

Cutting around 20% off the size of the already-very-thin iPhone Air will be impressive.

Ryan Christoffel, 9to5mac.com

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 14:01:38 -0500

Manton Reece proposes swapping the Fediverse to domain-based handles:

Right now, the clear convention is Mastodon / WebFinger-style handles:

@manton@example.com

There are two problems with this: it looks like an email address, even with the “@” prefix, and it implies identity is usually tied to a server that someone else is running. There is no natural progression for solo instances in the way there is with subdomain → domain name .

I would love to see a gradual transition to:

@manton.example.com

And simply:

@manton.org

Seems like the correct endgame. Let’s see it on Micro.blog first! 😉

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 14:00:48 -0500

Back to the Seward Range for our group backpacking trip this week! Jess and Jeff joined us to get all four peaks done in one go — Seward, Donaldson, Emmons, and then Seymour. We adapted our plan due to the forecasted rain, opting to stay in the Ward Brook lean-to. That meant for a longer Day 1 doing the SDE loop, but then we were able to knock out Seymour early on Day 2 and avoid most of the rain. Big kudos to Jess and Jeff for being flexible and up for the challenge. We worked well as a team to get them done, and marveled at the stunning fall foliage. (Extra props to Jeff as these were his first #46er high peaks!)

Check out our other upcoming group hikes on our website.

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 10:03:22 -0500

Finished reading: On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder 📚

Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.

This book is short, but I can’t call it sweet considering the political climate in the U.S. It offers a sobering look at the similarities between Soviet & Nazi regimes, and the first Trump term. It’s shorter than some of your favorite tech podcasts and you should give it a read or listen.

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 23:02:16 -0500

Started reading: On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder 📚

Do not obey in advance.

Defend institutions.

Beware the one-party state.

Take responsibility for the face of the world.

Remember professional ethics.

Be wary of paramilitaries.

Be reflective if you must be armed.

Stand out.

Be kind to our language.

Believe in truth.

Investigate.

Make eye contact and small talk.

Practice corporeal politics.

Establish a private life.

Contribute to good causes.

Learn from peers in other countries.

Listen for dangerous words.

Be calm when the unthinkable arrives.

Be a patriot.

Be as courageous as you can.

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 23:00:47 -0500

Tom and I spent a few days on the trail last week, plugging away at his remaining ADK high peaks. We summited Sawteeth on a gorgeous day for 30/46, and then cruised through the three peaks of the Seward range to bring his total to 33/46. It’s the best time of year for hiking here in the Adirondacks!

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 10:52:25 -0500

What’s happening with the sizes of these icons in this context menu??

Tue, 23 Sep 2025 21:35:26 -0500

It feels good, for some reason, to know that my phone beats out @siracusa@mastodon.social’s 2019 Mac Pro from just six years ago.

Sun, 21 Sep 2025 23:01:21 -0500

Such a fun weekend watching dear friends pledge their love to one another. I love weddings! 💍 Congrats to @tyler_schlesier.1 and @lauren_schlesier! And thanks for the tip about the balloon festival; it was so cool! 🎈

Sun, 21 Sep 2025 17:05:14 -0500

Ooh I should have looked at @robb@social.lol’s Donation Treats page before donating to St. Jude. So many people are offering neat little rewards to accelerate the cause. Check it out!

Sun, 21 Sep 2025 11:01:30 -0500

Hey y’all, cancer sucks so for the next 24 hours, I’m matching donations to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, up to $250.

Even $1 helps. I hope you’ll join me, and our little tech community, in the fight against children’s cancer. 💪

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 11:00:10 -0500

We 🧡 doing all the outdoor things and are so fortunate to be somewhere where they’re all so accessible! Come adventure with us!

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 02:02:27 -0500

7 pitches, 800 vertical ft, 4 long rappels, 10 miles of hiking, 12.5 hours car-to-car. Just getting all the way out to Wallface — NY’s biggest backcountry wall — is an adventure. Revisiting The Diagonal (5.8) made for an awesome #Sendtember Monday. It’s hard to beat that wilderness exposure. ⛰️

Big thanks to Casey for joining me on this scouting mission. It was fun dialing in those systems! 🧗‍♀️

Wanna get up something big? Book a guided climb at the link in our bio. 🤘

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 11:53:57 -0500

Zack Beauchamp: ‘Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel’

What just happened, in short, shows how far down the authoritarian road the United States has traveled in just eight months. […]

Kimmel’s aside – in a monologue mostly focused on mocking President Donald Trump – did not justify what came next. During a Wednesday podcast appearance, FCC head Brendan Carr threatened to revoke the broadcasting licenses of any stations that continued to air Kimmel’s content. […]

Carr’s threat should have been toothless. The FCC is prohibited by law from employing “the power of censorship” or interfering “with the right of free speech.”

The jig is up. If you were fooled that Conservatives cared about “free speech”, hopefully you’ve seen the light. If you haven’t, I don’t think you can’t be helped.

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 11:40:38 -0500

Okay, this might be the perfect lock screen photo for Liquid Glass and spatial scenes. 😍

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 11:07:26 -0500

Getting a new iPhone tomorrow? Cases at my store are 50% off with code Sweet17. Enjoy!

Sat, 13 Sep 2025 00:00:35 -0500

Couldn’t have asked for a nicer day to go up Saddleback for Tom’s 29th high peak! We made such good time that we paid an extra visit to Gothics via the cable route just for the fun of it. Fall colors are certainly coming in!

@lakeplacidadk @saranaclake @tupperlakeny @adirondack46ers_ @hike.adk @mountaineerbandana @newyorkoutdoorguides #Adirondacks #PerfectDayADK #HireAGuide

![A person holding a white sign stands smiling on a rocky mountain summit with tree-covered hills in the distance under a clear blue sky.

Text on the sign: “Saddleback Mtn Elevation 4515' #29/46”.](https://jb.heydingus.net/uploads/2025/18059569631123103.jpg)

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 15:05:41 -0500

🔗 Michael Burkhardt, 9to5mac.com: ‘Seven iPhone Air details you might’ve missed during yesterday’s keynote’

I hadn’t realized about the uncentered USB-C port, the further in-cut Dynamic Island, the single speaker in the earpiece, or all the extra camera features you lose when you only have one lens.

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 08:07:36 -0500

Looks like @imyke@myke.social and @matt_birchler@mastodon.social were having a brainwave this morning.

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 03:54:12 -0500

Devon Dundee: ‘Apple Introduces AirPods Pro 3’ macstories.net

The other Apple Intelligence feature coming to AirPods Pro 3 (as well as AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4 with ANC) is Live Translation. When the user is having a conversation with someone speaking a supported language other than their own, AirPods will play real-time audio translations of the phrases being spoken while using ANC to lower the volume of the speaker so the translation is clear.

I didn’t realize this was coming to my AirPods 4 too! Gonna have to find someone to test this with…

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 23:59:04 -0500

Another awesome evening on the ropes with Brian. I had the pleasure of showing him around Pitchoff for his first time on the cliff, and we got a send on the three-pitch uber classic, Pete’s Farewell (5.7). Loving these beautiful fall climbing days!!

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 22:48:14 -0500

Dan Moren was wondering about satellite connectivity today:

I found myself thinking about satellite connectivity during today’s Apple event, during which the company announced that the Apple Watch Ultra 3 would include the feature. Back when the feature debuted on the iPhone 14 line, Apple said it would remain free for two years. When that period was up, Apple extended free coverage for another year. Which brings us to this year! Will people have to finally start paying?

The short answer? No, not yet.

When Apple said the Ultra 3 watch came with free satellite connectivity but didn’t mention for how long, I wondered if it meant they gave up on the idea that the feature might eventually require a subscription. But, alas, a footnote in the Newsroom post tells us it’s free for two years, just like the iPhone. I wonder how long this two years will last!

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 21:03:09 -0500

Anil Dash: ‘How Tim Cook sold out Steve Jobs’

The son of an immigrant, a child of the counterculture, a man offering an unmistakable fuck-you to Big Brother, and a person who, above all, would never kiss the ass of someone who had absolutely awful taste. This was Steve Jobs.

Solid reading to go along with my post from earlier today.

(Via Manton Reece)

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:46:16 -0500

So it looks like this is shipping in macOS 26… 😬

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 14:49:10 -0500

Okay, logging off to go outside and climb some rocks. It’s good for the soul. 🙂

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 14:41:00 -0500

🆕📝 Post-Apple Event Gadget Waffling

Thinking through what's going in the shopping cart this time.

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 13:25:25 -0500

Oh wow, the Air is lighter than my current 16. That orange color and amazing cameras are tempting, but I don’t know if I want the drastically heavier phone of a Pro.

Weights:
iPhone 13 Mini: 141g
iPhone Air: 165g
iPhone 16: 170g
iPhone 16 Pro: 199g
iPhone 17 Pro: 206g
Marco Arment https://mastodon.social/@marcoarment/115175713023384553

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 12:12:00 -0500

🆕📝 Live Thoughts on Apple’s September Event

Refresh the page to follow along! Or don't. Up to you. 😉

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 12:02:00 -0500

🆕📝 Rapid-Fire Pre-iPhone Event Thoughts

Can I publish this in the 4 minutes before the keynote starts??

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:54:00 -0500

🆕📝 On Tim Cook, Cowardice, and Leadership

This will probably get lost in the hubbub of today's iPhone event, but I had to get it off my chest before participating in the excitement of new gadget season.

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 09:43:20 -0500

Amit Gawande has come to embrace imperfection in blogging — something I’m still trying to learn:

I have a bad habit while blogging – my posts need to have a structure. Context first. Lead to the main point next. Follow that with as many supporting points as I can think of. And then I finally hit the whole point of writing the post.

This is foolish. I am not writing perfect prose. I am not writing to meet a particular word count. I often write to convey a thought. One thought. I should write just that one thought.

It doesn’t matter if it takes 10 words. Or 500.

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 23:59:18 -0500

Jules has attended summer camp in Old Forge the past few summers and got bit by the #46er bug. He and his dad booked us for a 2-day backpacking trip in which we knocked out three more peaks: Big Slide and the Wolfjaws, with Yard Mountain tossed in for good measure. It was so cool to help them dial in their hiking and camping skills, and we shared so many stories, riddles, and brain teasers on the trail. These two aspiring 46ers are well on their way!

Sun, 07 Sep 2025 21:39:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#180]

I might be biased, but I think this issue is chock full of pretty great stuff. 😉

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 20:58:38 -0500

Hanging out with Jim and @imjessicakahler and helping them on their @adirondack46ers_ journey was one of the highlights of my summer. Thanks for all the wonderful memories, guys, and I can’t wait till the next one! 🙏

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 14:58:51 -0500

Our clients are just the best! Just got a special delivery as member of the #SlothHikingTeam. 😁 I’ll wear it with pride. Thanks Jim & @imjessicakahler! 🦥

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 10:59:37 -0500

Okay, I’m done with the doom and gloom posts for today. Time to go be productive.

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 10:56:33 -0500

‘Twas a bad choice for folks to elect Trump. Don’t let voters ignore it.

The latest jobs report came in short, from AlterNet:

A federal jobs report released on Friday showed the US economy added a mere 22,000 jobs in August in yet another signal of weakness in the US labor market.

Economists had projected the economy would produce 75,000 jobs on the month[.]

Rep. Brendan Boyle says it plainly:

“Donald Trump inherited an economy built on years of steady job growth,” he said. “In just seven months, he’s managed to screw it up—just like he’s screwed up everything else in his life.

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 10:40:45 -0500

It seems the Trump administration’s guiding principle is to simply choose whatever side of an issue that will hurt the most people.

This time, they’re rolling back plans to make airlines compensate travelers for major disruptions and cancellations. But why?

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 10:22:59 -0500

🔗 macOS Icon History — Basic Apple Guy:

The new Apple Books icon might be the only one I like more than its predecessor. Good on BAG for putting this together, but it honestly makes me a little sad to scroll through. It’s like perusing a junk yard full of old masterpieces that were chucked aside.

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 10:13:19 -0500

Numeric Citizen: ‘While We Wait for the Next Apple Infomercial’

The consequences go beyond presentation style. The mythos of the Apple keynote—once a cornerstone of the company’s brand identity—risks fading into irrelevance. Once communal experiences, these events are now solitary viewings.

True. Though I’ve always watched the keynotes alone from my Mac, the feeling of being part of the crowd that was lucky enough to attend in person is gone. Producing a slick video takes skill, and Apple arguably does it best. But it doesn’t carry the same clout as nailing a live keynote, as they used to do.

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 08:52:23 -0500

Weird weather stuff this year. During the first few months, Upstate New York had something like 30 weekends in a row of rain or snow. Now we’re in a drought due to lack of rainfall for the last 90 days. No bueno! ☔️☀️

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 19:02:55 -0500

A sneak peek at an update to one of my most popular shortcuts…

(Oh, On-Device Apple Intelligence, bless your heart.)

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 17:49:08 -0500

I just installed the macOS 26 beta and yikes. I’ll reserve real judgment for when it’s actually released, but wow, the design has not made a good first impression. So many years of polish thrown out the Liquid Glass window for what feels—right now—like an unfinished and ill-considered desktop OS.

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 10:19:37 -0500

Kagi News looks awesome. And of course they have RSS feeds for everything. They’re doing the yeoman’s work for the web over at Kagi.

Kagi’s new news portal is wild. It’s like Ground News, but free. It cites multiple sources for each entry and you don’t even need a paid Kagi account, or an account at all to access it.

gar https://gary.onl/2025/09/04/kagis-new-news-portal-is.html

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 09:55:43 -0500

Kevin Wammer: ‘Polar launches Polar Loop, a subscription-free wearable’

The Loop has no screen and is designed for 24/7 wear, weighing only 29 grams. It tracks steps, workouts, heart rate, calories, sleep stages, and recovery using “Polar’s Precision Prime sensor”. It automatically detects training sessions, syncs data to the Polar Flow app, and runs for up to 8 days on a single charge.

For folks wanting the activity tracking of the Apple Watch, but without the watch part or a subscription, this looks pretty good at first glance. (Via Club MacStories 🔒)

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 09:38:11 -0500

Nick Heer: ‘Tech CEOs Take Turns Grovelling at Feast of Embarrassments’

At least nobody gave him any solid gold statues this time, as far as I know.

Heer should get a gold statue for that headline.

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 21:00:01 -0500

Every hiker’s journey is different, so although this was the second #46er finish I was part of this week, it was totally unique! Jim started his 46er challenge years ago with a friend, but when they couldn’t do it this summer, his daughter @imjessicakahler stepped up!

Getting to spend so much time with them was a blast, and on this trip we enjoyed awesome weather, tasty food, and even of the lean-to we wanted. Conditions on Skylight were just amazing, and two others were celebrating their 46er completion at the same time. Wild!

Congrats, Jim. It’s been a challenge, but you found yourself equal to it.

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 20:59:14 -0500

Catching up on some recent trips, here’s @imjessicakahler and her dad, Jim, on our overnighter to snag Mt. Marshall last month! We had a wet start, but enjoyed a dry night in the famous ADK lean-tos, and an awesome day up the Herbert Brook trail. Check back tomorrow to see Jim finish out his 46ers!

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 11:37:14 -0500

Paul Kafasis: ‘Another Shameful Part of American History’

There’s room for debate when it comes to immigration policy, but there must be no tolerance for abuse. Regardless of their immigration status, we’re talking about human beings, and placing them in concentration camps should be unacceptable to every American.

I’m ashamed to share a country, or even a species, with people capable of reveling in the misery of others. Let us all try to be better than that.

How are we back to rounding up people and putting them in inhumane conditions? This is a cycle the U.S. should never be in. 🤮

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 11:21:57 -0500

Ugh. I wish Instagram made it easier to get posts out. I’ve got a Make.com setup to crosspost them to my blog for safekeeping, but I keep hitting free-plan limits. Hard to justify paying more for the automation than for the blog itself. A fruitless wish, I know.

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 11:16:19 -0500

TIL that in the Messages app on Mac, if you hold down ⌥ and then cycle with the up/down arrow keys with the message field highlighted, it’ll autofill your previous messages in case you need to rewrite something quickly for whatever reason. 🧠

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 09:17:43 -0500

Just a quick appreciation post for how impressive generated alt text has gotten. From my recent post with lots of cat pictures, using a prompt that’s basically as simple as “write alt text for this image.” I rarely need to make edits anymore.

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 21:38:47 -0500

The Sparks family really packed in a full day at King Philip Spring Wall for their first time climbing outdoors together! We climbed on three different walls, practiced a bunch of new techniques, did a primer on top rope anchors, and got in a gorgeous rappel!

The whole family had a blast, and it was another gorgeous early autumn day with the crag all to ourselves. #Sendtember is just around the corner!

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 20:45:41 -0500

Matt Birchler: ‘+ My text-based social media thoughts mid-2025’

There was a joke a few years ago about how Avatar was the highest grossing movie of all time, but no one talks about it and it doesn’t have any major cultural impact. I think that’s being a bit unfair to Avatar, but I think that general idea applies to Threads as well. Apparently tons of people are using it, tens of millions more people every month, but it doesn’t seem to have any “juice”.

I was bullish on Threads, and now actively avoid it. I only think about it when it annoys me by sneaking posts into my Instagram feed.

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 20:20:24 -0500

Just wanna shout out @keenan@social.lol and @cygnoir@social.lol for their great discussion in a recent episode of their new Friendship Material podcast regarding their feelings and decision-making around not having kids. ‘Twas a vulnerable, thoughtful, and validating conversation. Loving the show!

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 16:44:41 -0500

Paul Kafasis: ‘We Used to Be Very Friendly’

Sure enough, each and every person mentioned in the article rightly assigns the blame for this drop [in foreign tourism] to Trump. I guess the headline uses “some” only because they didn’t have a chance to speak to everyone.

Local word on the street here in upstate New York is a roughly 30% drop in tourism — primarily from our Canadian neighbors. I had a Canadian hiking client tell me point blank that I was “lucky to make the cut” as she had canceled a trip to Disneyland in response to Trump’s bullying her country.

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 18:36:51 -0500

Coaching Aurelia the past number of months and try her out on different crags has been so fun, and today Aurelia got on the classic North Country Club Crack (5.6)! The conditions were perfect and Jewels & Gems crag empty. 🤯 It was awesome to see her put together lots of different techniques we’ve practiced. And, as usual, she put her own spin on the route. 😉

Grandma and Grandpa were there to cheer her on, and be part of the belay team. These experiences spent together are the best!

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 11:00:29 -0500

My other tech task today: downgrading my iPad mini from the iPadOS 26 beta back to iPadOS 18. For one, it simply wouldn’t update past the second public beta — it was stuck verifying the update no matter what I tried. Second, and more importantly, I really miss Slide Over and Split View on the Mini.

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 10:53:53 -0500

Great success! I finally got Time Machine backups going over the network to a new external drive on my old Mac mini. I tried so hard to get it to work with the same drive that the Mac mini itself uses for Time Machine, but no dice. Now they each have their own drive and my MacBook Air’s data is safe!

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 20:25:36 -0500

We had to say goodbye to Ollivander, the world’s snuggliest, purriest, and bestest two-scoop cat there ever was. 💔 The end came too soon and too sudden, but Ollie let us know it was time. We gave each other 10 wonderful years together.

My favorite memory of Ollie will forever be the daily face rubs he gave and collected, coupled with his endless purrs. He purred from the minute we chose him from PetSmart right up to his final moments. I’ve never known a cat like him.

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 23:20:28 -0500

John Gruber: ‘Apple TV+ Subscription Price Increasing From $10 to $13 Per Month, but the Annual Price Remains Unchanged at $99’

Apple TV+ has been reported to have higher than average churn. So I think today’s price hike, affecting only the monthly price, is about dealing with that. If you want to subscription hop, Apple TV+ is going to cost a bit more. If you want to stay subscribed to Apple TV+, you really ought to subscribe annually (or subscribe to Apple One and get Music, Arcade, and additional iCloud storage bundled together).

The unchanged bundle price perplexed me, but this is a good take.

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 23:18:12 -0500

Nick Heer: ‘Jay Blahnik Accused of Creating a Toxic Workplace Culture at Apple’

The behaviours described in this article are deeply unprofessional, at best. It is difficult to square the testimony of a sizeable portion of Blahnik’s team with an internal investigation finding no wrongdoing, but that is what Apple’s spokesperson expects us to believe.

If true, this is super shitty of Blahnik. I noted his absence in the WWDC keynote. I wonder if he’ll make an appearance in September…

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 21:37:13 -0500

Y’all have asked so we’re answering the call! OMG is now offering group hikes tailored for folks working toward their #46ers. The fall is a gorgeous time to be in the High Peaks, so we’re excited to offer at least one group hike every week in September and October.

We’re soft-launching with Street/Nye on 9/3 and then Colden on 9/10 and 9/11. That’s right, two opportunities to hike Colden — one for hikers who prefer a slow to moderate pace, and one for the speed demons. You choose, and then there’s no surprise on the pace! (Is this a good idea? Bad idea? Let us know in the comments!)

Stay tuned to the Group Events page on our website for the rest of the schedule coming out next week.

@newyorkoutdoorguides @lakeplacidadk @saranaclake @adirondack46ers_ #Adirondacks #PerfectDayADK #HireAGuide

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 21:37:00 -0500

It’s a truly special day when someone finishes their 46er journey. Maigann certainly put in the effort with a final push of 45+ miles over three days to complete Allen (go get it now, conditions are ideal!), Sawteeth, and Lower & Upper Wolfjaw.

Every journey is unique, and Maigann’s was full of wonder, positivity, and love for the trail. Congrats to her on amazing accomplishment!

@newyorkoutdoorguides @lakeplacidadk @saranaclake @adirondack46ers_ #Adirondacks #PerfectDayADK #HireAGuide

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 12:13:59 -0500

13 minutes from order placed to shipment and tracking information received. Must be some sort of record! 📦

Mon, 18 Aug 2025 17:29:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#179]

All the great links!

Sun, 17 Aug 2025 21:36:20 -0500

Families who adventure together…have awesome memories together? Is that the saying? Either way, I love seeing kids and their parents do rad things together and cheer each other on. It warms my heart. 😍

Fri, 15 Aug 2025 11:25:41 -0500

Enjoyed a grand adventure yesterday with @jmhaas73 checking out the South Face of Gothics and climbing the Original Route. Getting in and out is bushwacky, but the climbing is pure fun. What it lacks in difficulty, it more than makes up for with its spectacular setting. Can’t wait to go back and do more there!

(Final pic is of the anchor on top of South Face Direct, not Original Route. We just went to check out its condition, which is good!)

Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:37:35 -0500

Went for the extra credit peak yesterday on a scouting mission for an upcoming guided trip. MacNaughton, and therefore all the ADK 4,000-footers, are in the bag! ⛰️

The first 5 or so miles are super enjoyable! The last 2 are a bushwhack during which you get to play hide and seek with the “trail” (not a trail). A fun adventure on a hot day, capped with visit to Rocky Falls and dip in Heart Lake. 8.5 hours car-to-car. 🥾

Wed, 13 Aug 2025 10:21:58 -0500

Pretty killer deal for this Slim 120W 4-port power adapter with Find My from Twelve South. Usually $120, I just bought it for nearly half off with the on-page coupon. (via The Verge)

Mon, 11 Aug 2025 23:24:32 -0500

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

Sat, 09 Aug 2025 22:38:00 -0500

🆕📝 I just don’t feel like blogging today

Sat, 09 Aug 2025 15:37:00 -0500

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

Fri, 08 Aug 2025 19:20:00 -0500

🆕📝 One Small Improvement

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

Fri, 08 Aug 2025 19:20:00 -0500

🆕📝 One Small Improvement

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

Fri, 08 Aug 2025 16:48:21 -0500

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.

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 21:29:00 -0500

🆕📝 Your Time, Our Time, All Time

This video has really stuck with me.

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 21:29:00 -0500

🆕📝 Your Time, Our Time, All Time

This video has really stuck with me.

Wed, 06 Aug 2025 22:24:00 -0500

🆕📝 Burning the Candle

At both ends.

Wed, 06 Aug 2025 22:24:00 -0500

🆕📝 Burning the Candle

At both ends.

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 22:59:00 -0500

🆕📝 Oasis Is No Longer So

What are you doing, Amazon??

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 22:59:00 -0500

🆕📝 Oasis Is No Longer So

What are you doing, Amazon??

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 21:28:42 -0500

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!

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:36:39 -0500

Name that classic climb!

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 23:32:23 -0500

🔗 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.

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 22:52:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#178]

Get yer links! Get your links over here!

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 22:52:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#178]

Get yer links! Get yer links over here!

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 13:38:49 -0500

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.

Sun, 03 Aug 2025 20:00:58 -0500

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.

Sun, 03 Aug 2025 19:45:00 -0500

🆕📝 Keep Calm and Carry a Towel

Among many other things.

Sun, 03 Aug 2025 19:45:00 -0500

🆕📝 Keep Calm and Carry a Towel

Among many other things.

Sat, 02 Aug 2025 21:36:20 -0500

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. 💪

Sat, 02 Aug 2025 17:25:12 -0500

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)

![A person stands smiling and gesturing peace signs beneath a sign for “Big Slide Brewery & Public House” near a grassy area with Adirondack chairs and trees in the background.

Text: BIG SLIDE BREWERY & PUBLIC HOUSE BIG SLIDE PARKING.](https://jb.heydingus.net/uploads/2025/17982291632845206.jpg)

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 23:00:00 -0500

🆕📝 Some Sounds From My Backyard

Sound is a lovely sense.

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 23:00:00 -0500

🆕📝 Some Sounds From My Backyard

Sound is a lovely sense.

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 11:30:34 -0500

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.

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 23:00:00 -0500

🆕📝 Oh Shit, It’s Blaugust

Here we go again!

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 23:00:00 -0500

🆕📝 Oh Shit, It’s Blaugust

Here we go again!

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 21:38:54 -0500

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.

Tue, 29 Jul 2025 23:26:46 -0500

John Gruber:

Back in March I linked to and recommendedTimothy Snyder’s On Tyranny, a cogent collection of 20 short essays. I was never a big e-book reader, both because I love printed books so much and because I welcome any respite from reading on screens of any sort. But if e-books are your thing, note that Apple Books currently has it for just $2. Amazon’s Kindle edition is also $2 — and the paperback edition, which is the lovely little thing I own, is an oddly but low-priced $7.31.

Kobo’s got it at the same price too.

Tue, 29 Jul 2025 21:41:05 -0500

Dang! That was quick. I’ve only had these shoes for a few months, but they are indeed showing their mileage age. If past is prologue, I’ll eek out a few hundred more miles before retiring them…

Tue, 29 Jul 2025 20:19:42 -0500

Sarah visited us from Vegas and Red Rocks for two laps up and down the Chapel Pond Slab. She brought the sun with her for a beautiful day of rock climbing! We ticked about 9 pitches over two classics, Regular Route (5.5) and Empress (5.5), for Sarah’s biggest day out in 15 years. 🤘 Finding shady belays might have been the crux of the day! 😜

We chatted about rope management, anchor building, and the overlap of the climbing and canyoneering worlds. And we shared a mutual love for Tri-cams. 😁

Tue, 29 Jul 2025 09:01:11 -0500

🔗 Cash App lets you pool money from friends through Apple Pay:

One of the most popular uses for the Cash App is collecting payments from groups of friends, whether that’s an immediate need like paying a restaurant bill or a future one, like collecting money for a shared gift. […]

But what’s more notable is that not everyone in the group needs to use the app. If they don’t, you can send them a request for payment via Apple Pay or Google Pay, and all they need do is tap the link and make the payment. There’s no need to install the app.

Handy!

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 22:32:55 -0500

I published three blog posts and tinkered with Shortcuts today. I won’t say I’m back, but won’t not say that I felt compelled to write and enjoyed my computer time more than I have in a while. 🙂

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 22:17:00 -0500

🆕📝 Upgraded Introduces an iPad Pro Upgrade Program That Beats Apple’s Own Prices

I was already going to recommend this program even before I saw that they’re cheaper than Apple.

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 22:17:00 -0500

🆕📝 Upgraded Introduces an iPad Pro Upgrade Program That Beats Apple’s Own Prices

I was already going to recommend this program even before I saw that they’re cheaper than Apple.

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 20:24:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#177]

Been a little while...

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 20:24:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#177]

Been a little while...

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 17:32:33 -0500

Just used my own blog post’s instructions to fix the keyboard shortcut not working to bring up ChatGPT’s chat bar on macOS. 💪 (Enable the Menu Bar icon.)

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 16:58:00 -0500

🆕📝 Kobo Plans a Hot Swap of Pocket for Instapaper (And Pocket Lives on as Folio)

Looks like I made a good choice when choosing a replacement for Pocket. 😁

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 16:58:00 -0500

🆕📝 Kobo Plans a Hot Swap of Pocket for Instapaper (And Pocket Lives on as Folio)

Looks like I made a good choice when choosing a replacement for Pocket. 😁

Sat, 26 Jul 2025 16:07:51 -0500

🎵 “The Gift” by Aselin Debison remains one of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard. Something about it gets my eyes to tear up no matter what time of year it is. Such joy in her young voice. It lives comfortably in my “Perfect Songs” playlist.

Let me know if it makes your heart happy too. 🥹

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 18:18:42 -0500

lol @robb@social.lol hooked his printer up to social media. 👏

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 18:03:02 -0500

No Sidebar: ‘An Open Letter to Those Who Need to Find Motivation Today’

Remember, you are not defined by this moment of struggle. You are defined by your resilience, your ability to push through, to rise from setbacks, and to keep going. The journey may be challenging, and the steps may be small, but as long as you are moving forward, you are making progress.

[…]

Keep going. You’ve got this.

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 15:18:43 -0500

Apple Newsroom:

“At Apple, we’re focused on creating and delivering exceptional experiences,” said Bob Borchers, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing.

I really get a kick out of seeing Bob Borchers quoted in Apple media, which happens more these days as he’s risen to vice president level. I’ll always remember him as the talent in Apple’s guided tour videos showing off the iPhone back in 2007. I watched them incessantly back in the day.

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 15:36:30 -0500

Love these high and tight, super simple anchors. Allows for great positioning to see your follower — a must on this gorgeous, exposed climb!

@ryan_baker_zo6 on the Sword (5.6) at the Beer Walls

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 14:30:19 -0500

Requiem makes the 36th member site of the One a Month Club! We aim to make it easy, inexpensive, and accessible to support the sites you love. Access/support for as little as $1 a month.

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 21:24:49 -0500

🔗 People & Blogs: BSAG:

I have read Susanna Clarke’s book ‘Piranesi’ twice already and am currently strongly tempted by a third expedition into her startlingly vivid, unsettling world. If you ever need a perfect example of the way that books can insert a complete and yet completely unfamiliar world into your brain, this is it.

Yes yes yes. Piranesi lives full-time and rent-free in my brain.

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 17:29:44 -0500

Catching the sun’s last rays atop Chapel Pond Slab 7.11.25

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 17:18:13 -0500

🎵 This is your periodic reminder that ~How I’m Feeling~ by Lauv is the best album you’ve never heard. If you think I’m wrong, hit me with yours!

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 21:37:47 -0500

David Sparks blogs about families missing moments of joy with noses buried in screens:

We often talk about how people can’t put their phones down while in line at the market, but what about during moments of joy? When taking in a theme park with your family, at the beach, or on vacation? Those moments are found solely in your immersion in the now.

Pay attention the next time you are at a place like Disneyland. Notice how many people are remarkably, yet unremarkably, not even there.

I’m surely guilty of this too from time to time, but it’s not hard to leave the phone in my pocket.

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 00:37:24 -0500

Gorgeous day to be out on the rock. The boys followed up our hike yesterday with rock climbing today. We learned ADK and Swiss route ratings don’t always line up, but climbing is fun no matter where you do it! 🤘

@newyorkoutdoorguides @lakeplacidadk @saranaclake #Adirondacks #PerfectDayADK #HireAGuide

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 00:36:53 -0500

We love showing off the beauty of the Adirondacks to visitors to our amazing park. The Baudins, hailing from Switzerland, took a waterfall hiking tour with us yesterday, and we got to enjoy water from above (river), below (waterfall), and within (rain shower) all in a 4-hour period!

#PerfectDayADK @newyorkoutdoorguides @saranaclake #HireAGuide

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 23:22:05 -0500

🔗 ‘Moft’s MagSafe-Compatible Snap-On iPhone Stand and Wallet’ daringfireball.net

Here’s a product recommendation long in the making. Four years ago this month, Matthew Panzarino was my guest on The Talk Show and at one point he recommended Moft’s Snap-On iPhone Stand/Wallet. It uses a very clever origami-style folding design. Folded flat it kind of just looks like a leather MagSafe wallet. But folded open it works as a stand — and as a stand, it works both horizontally and vertically.

I’ve been using this as my one and only wallet for years, and I love it. Fun fidget toy in my pocket too.

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 15:42:31 -0500

I, too, have been trying to avoid the news. But if you like Apple News Games, this shortcut’s for you.

I really love the Apple News Crossword experience. Native keyboard, nice clue UI, Game Center support… But I’ve made an effort to avoid the app to reduce my anxiety.
So here’s a shortcut to open the app straight to the Puzzle’s section. Only one instruction!
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/55c13ff1b3e34a7c939c31ef89b03e6c
Kyle Starr https://mastodon.social/@kylestarr/114819318303977603

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 15:16:00 -0500

🆕📝 Pouring One Out for Pocket

The app that’s helped me save and read thousands of articles has bitten the dust.

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 15:16:00 -0500

🆕📝 Pouring One Out for Pocket

The app that’s helped me save and read thousands of articles has bitten the dust.

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 13:19:15 -0500

I feel like I’m pretty good at email already, but I found a few things to learn from this video even just skipping around in it. (Bonus was the joy the guy had in learning about keyboard shortcuts and Things task capturing.)

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 12:52:17 -0500

Peregrine Falcons are just the coolest.

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 12:36:21 -0500

Thanks Jim! 🫶 It was a great way to spend the 4th of July, with two new friends out in the woods! Can’t wait to do Marshall together soon!

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 09:37:17 -0500

A quiet morning at Lake Colden 6.5.25

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 09:37:11 -0500

Our 3-day backpacking trip to summit Cliff & Redfield was a super success! Jim has had a few years off hiking high peaks, but he’s determined to become a #46er this summer with only 3 peaks left now that we’ve crossed off the formidable Cliff and Redfield! And to do them with his daughter, @imjessicakahler (peaks 10 and 11 for her!), is something special. We enjoyed two picturesque nights at Lake Colden, and as ideal trail conditions as you can expect for the ADK. There were many challenges — we had to doctor up both of Jess’ boots! — but found ourselves up to the task. Can’t wait for our next ones!

@newyorkoutdoorguides @lakeplacidadk @saranaclake @adirondack46ers_ #Adirondacks #PerfectDayADK #HireAGuide

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 21:36:52 -0500

A superb day to be above Chapel Pond on Tilman’s Arete. Today, Aurelia took a big step in her climbing career by proving she’s competent belayer for both top rope and lead. This opens up new climbing venues for us as she continues along her progression. And, of course she made quick work of the variations on Tilman’s first pitch. Can’t wait to see what she sends next!

@newyorkoutdoorguides @lakeplacidadk #Adirondacks #PerfectDayADK #HireAGuide

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 21:36:46 -0500

Congrats to Derrick who started his @adirondack46ers_ journey today on Cascade & Porter! These quintessential starter peaks give a great taste of the views and adventures (and mud) to come. We enjoyed bluebird skies and even sunnier conversation on hiking, goals, and life. I can’t wait till we hit the trail again!

Sun, 29 Jun 2025 21:37:26 -0500

When the forecast is wrong about the sunshine, you supplement it was sunny smiles! Diane and Kevin did awesome on our hike up Tabletop Mountain today, tagging another peak on their #46er journey. The miles flew by with our conversation and camaraderie. I already can’t wait for our next one!

Sun, 29 Jun 2025 21:36:52 -0500

Well, Scott, I think you achieved everything you set out to! Climb on real rock. ✅ Solidify lead belay technique. ✅ Study up on basic multi-pitching skills like cleaning trad gear, efficient belay changeovers, and rappelling. ✅ Get a taste of the classic Keene routes and crags. ✅ It was a roaring success and your positive attitude and eagerness to learn and try new things made our time together an absolute joy! Until next time, my friend!

Get a first-person view of our climb up the Regular Route on Chapel Pond Slab and a few climbs at Jewels and Gems. Both spots are real treats with their quality and quick approaches right off the road!

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 20:24:25 -0500

🍿 Just watched: F1 The Movie

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 11:26:24 -0500

Sorry it’s low-res, but I was pretty impressed with Apple’s Clean Up feature in Photos today. I wanted a more professional version of this image for my website, and Apple Photos did a great job removing my clients being goofy in the background with no fuss. 👍

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 08:21:14 -0500

David Smith: ‘Considerations for New iOS Versions’

My general approach is to only increase my requirement once the new download rate drops to a percent or so. The technical and practical benefits become justifiable to me once I’m only loosing that many users. Otherwise it feels like I’m doing something to make my technical life a bit easier but my business meaningfully worse.

I love David’s analytical, measured approach to these things. Makes good sense. Check out his charts!

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 18:36:50 -0500

I’m so proud of Scott who had a mega day on his first outing going from gym climbing to real outdoor rock. He got a taste of everything, soaking up as much knowledge as possible about working up different rock textures, crack climbing, following and cleaning trad gear, and rappelling. Today was a primer for our main objective: a long multi-pitch climb on Friday. We explored many picturesque and popular climbs like Seven Ounces, Afternoon Delight, and Shipton’s Voyage!

For our educational courses, we always meet our guests at their level, providing a solid foundation of risk management and technical skills, and then we follow their lead on whatever they want to learn more about. Scott got in a little extra gear placement theory and anchor building practice so he could understand how our belay transitions will flow as we head up the Chapel Pond Slab on Friday. What an awesome day!

Book your own guided rock climb or skills course on our website!

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 05:31:35 -0500

Nick Heer, pxlnv.com:

This is not the only time Apple has promoted its services through push notifications and in-app banners, and it is far from the only company doing this. It is tacky — yet the only surprising thing about it is how it is possible for a multi-trillion-dollar company to still feel like a sellout.

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 00:36:20 -0500

Let’s chat about this Bowline on a Bight master point anchor! What do you like about it? What could be improved?

🏅Bonus points: Can you name the climb and pitch?

🪢 I like this setup because it’s quick and easy to build (can be preset on the ground), makes efficient use of material, and is easy to adjust with the clove hitch to share the load. The master point is obvious and easy to clip, and it works particularly well with offset bolts like this. I don’t do fixed-point lead belays often, but it would be ideal for that use case as well.

⏫ One downside is that the shelf is less obvious and easy to use.

✅ Oh, and it’s easy to get undone at the end of the day.

How to tie: youtu.be/3N930_jt5… Or learn hands-on with us: onwardguides.com

#anchoroftheday

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 20:21:04 -0500

Post-storm rainbow over some cloudy peaks. Peak beauty.

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 15:36:29 -0500

They survived!! Kudos to @raybanmeta on their glasses being surprisingly rugged. Mine took a 30-meter (~100-foot) tumble down a rock face when I was out guiding a multi-pitch rock climb. (Totally my fault, I perched them on my shirt collar and then leaned over the edge.) Neither lens was damaged, and after a little rest and recharge in their case, they work perfectly fine!

BTW, these are my secret weapon for capturing awesome moments while my guests are climbing, all while keeping my hands safely on their rope. And you get a copy of all the shots when you book an adventure with @onwardguides.

📸: @baker_media24

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 00:36:55 -0500

Another fun (sweltering 🥵) morning at Tilman’s Arete, followed by a refreshing jump in Chapel Pond! We got Matt on his first multi-pitch and trying out Top Rope Soloing. Thanks for the great time, Matt and Ryan!

@newyorkoutdoorguides @lakeplacidadk @adirondackclimberscoalition #Adirondacks #PerfectDayADK #HireAGuide

Sat, 21 Jun 2025 21:38:51 -0500

Two great days of climbing at Chapel Pond with @saw_dust_ery! The Slab, Shipton’s Arete, and Tilman’s Arete all provided lovely routes and opportunities for fun onsights. Summer rock is a gooo! 🤘

Sat, 21 Jun 2025 21:36:53 -0500

Michael and Alex has such a great time backpacking that they wanted to experience the Adirondacks through another medium: rock climbing! We had an excellent morning at Tillman’s Arete above Chapel Pond!

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 10:24:14 -0500

Blogging from Raycast. The future really is here. www.manton.org/2025/06/1…

— Sent from Raycast

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 18:36:49 -0500

It was an honor to guide Michael & Alex on this Intro to Backpacking Trip, fulfilling a dream on Father’s Day weekend. The Nun-Da-Ga-O Ridge was in great shape, and offered plenty of adventure along its 5-mile trail, including stunning vistas, rock scrambles, and so many Pink Lady Slippers! We camped overnight at Gulf Brook, then hiked up Hurricane Mountain for a real icing-on-the-cake finish to a wonderful weekend. From the fire tower, we could view the entire range we traversed the day before.

So many firsts for this father/son team on the trip: first time in the Adirondacks, first time carrying fully-loaded backpacks, first backcountry camping, first time filtering water, and proving that, yes, our legs can get us that one more mile. It was amazing to see these guys cheer each other on throughout the experience.

Here’s to new friends, and exciting adventures, and lasting memories. ⛰️

Make your own dream a reality with an Adirondack adventure by booking a trip right here.

Sun, 15 Jun 2025 20:53:38 -0500

National Treasure absolutely holds up as a capital-G Great movie!

Sun, 15 Jun 2025 18:23:26 -0500

This looks so cool!! Magic Move from Keynote has really grown up.

Do yourself a favor and turn on Debug > ”Slow Animations” in an iOS 26 simulator and then bounce around within an app. It really lets you get a sense of the fun merging effects they are doing with Toolbars and generally how so much "life" the system is imbued with.
The way the glass droplets combine and separate is gorgeous.
_Davidsmith@mastodon.social https://mastodon.social/@_Davidsmith/114672299271437499

Sun, 15 Jun 2025 16:16:04 -0500

My nephew, Ian, got to cut the ribbon on the opening of a new accessible park in his hometown!

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 16:13:15 -0500

At first, I was hard-core team old Finder icon. Viewed alone, I still think it looks a little goofy. But alongside the rest of the system UI and other Dock icons, the new one is growing on me.

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 16:09:18 -0500

I haven’t installed any betas yet, but even with just watching the keynote and scrolling through screenshots of Liquid Glass I’m already giving side eye to iOS 18, which now looks sort of dated. 👀

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 12:34:50 -0500

Looks like I’ll need to make an update to my Alt Text Generator shortcut! 🤞that it’ll accept images!

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 12:15:29 -0500

Oops! Apple published all its newsroom posts at once instead of as they appear in the keynote! www.apple.com/newsroom/

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 11:46:56 -0500

Happy WWDC to everyone who celebrates! I hope all your OS wishes are granted. My “coverage” will be more subdued this year. I’m excited to see what’s in store for us, but not in the same way as years past. I’ll contain my hot takes to this thread. 🧵

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 00:37:24 -0500

Sundays are for friends and a great day for up, particularly out on Cloudspin Cliff in Wilmington! We enjoyed splendid views of @whiteface_mt all day as we topped out climb after climb. Thanks Dakota, Louisa, and Bill for such a fun day.

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 00:36:47 -0500

Wright, Algonquin & Iroquois Peaks

So many stories and laughs were shared on this amazing day in the mountains. @sekoshan rocked it out all day, summiting three more high peaks in her training for a trek in Peru. I know she’ll do great!

Sun, 08 Jun 2025 21:15:00 -0500

Nick Heer: ‘Apple ‘Fandom’ in 2025’

I am, as ever, looking forward to seeing what is being announced tomorrow, albeit with the understanding I will be watching a slick infomercial possibly containing concept videos. It is hard to see how one could be a fan of a multi-trillion-dollar company. I am just a customer, like a billion-plus others.

Heer nails it.

Sat, 07 Jun 2025 00:37:16 -0500

Giant Mountain via the Ridge Trail - 6/6/25

Today was Day 2 with @sekoshan as she prepares for a long hike down in Peru. I guided her up Giant Mountain along the Ridge Trail today. Compared to yesterday, today was far more humid, wet, and cloudy. But we still had a great time on the trail!

5.8 miles, 3000 ft of elevation gain, 6 hours car-to-car.

No warm-up like we had yesterday on Colden! This trail is steep from the beginning, rising 600 feet in the first .5 miles to a lookout. You do nearly 1000 feet of elevation gain for each of the 3 miles to the summit, popping in and out of the woods onto the rocky ridges. It’s one of my favorite routes because you get views all the way up!

The trail was in superb condition on the way up. Mud and blowdown was basically a non-issue. We were way more wet from sweating in the muggy weather than any water/mud on the trail.

Clouds rolled in just as we were reaching the summit, but we got a short window view down into the valley before getting socked in. We knew rain was imminent and that the descent would be harder on wet rock, we opted not to continue to Rocky Peak Ridge, saving our legs for the McIntyre Range tomorrow.

Rain did indeed start coming down about halfway back to the car. It soaked the rock quickly, and we took our time to avoid slipping. Rain coats went on to avoid getting chilly and it was quite pleasant.

Bugs were out, but not too bad. Some swarms knew the summit, but nothing a little bug spray couldn’t handle. The mosquitos kept biting through the rain.

We saw 17 people on the trail, with a few still headed up as we were coming down.

Timeline:

6:45am - Started from Route 73
7:30am - Giant’s Washbowl
9:00am - Roaring Brook/Ridge Trail Crossover
9:45am - Giant Summit (3 hours)
10:15am - Left the summit
11:00am - Roaring Brook/Ridge Trail Crossover
12:15am - Giant’s Washbowl
12:45am - Returned to the trailhead (6 hours)

Sat, 07 Jun 2025 00:36:51 -0500

Colden from Loj, 6/5/25

I had the pleasure of guiding Shannon and Susan up Colden yesterday from the Loj. We had a splendid day with great views despite Canadian wildfire smoke, and the rain even held off for us!

We opted to do it as an out-and-back via the Lake Arnold Trail. ~13 miles, 2734 ft of vert, 10 hours car-to-car.

Trails were in really good condition — some of the best I’ve seen for this hike. Basically no blowdown left, and even the trail near Lake Arnold wasn’t as muddy as usual. Some slick rock near the summit was our only challenge, and only when coming down.

Trails were quiet for most of the day. We saw two people headed out to Skylight, and another couple we leap frogged with up and down Colden. Once returning, more groups were headed to the Avalanche Campsites and Marcy Dam.

Timeline:

6:45am - Departed from Loj
7:45am - Marcy Dam
8:30am - Avalanche Camps/Lake Arnold Crossover
10:00am - Lake Arnold
11:15am - Little Colden
11:45am - Colden Summit (5 hours)
1:30pm - Lake Arnold
2:45pm - Avalanche Camps
3:30pm - Marcy Dam
4:30pm - Loj Trailhead (~10 hours)

Fri, 06 Jun 2025 21:37:26 -0500

These three peaks provide lots of technical challenge. Steep climbs, exposed rock faces, and lots of winter blowdown. But the incredible views from the heart of the lower great range made it all totally worthwhile. It’s amazing what our bodies can do with a little gumption! Congrats to Meg on peaks 40-42 on her 46er journey!

Fri, 06 Jun 2025 21:36:51 -0500

Strong legs and great conditions turned our two-peak day turned into a four-peak day! Gotta love those long days in the mountains. Congrats to Meg on peaks 37-40 on her 46er journey!

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 15:16:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#176]

Pretty classic list this time.

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 15:16:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#176]

Pretty classic list this time.

Sat, 31 May 2025 21:37:11 -0500

Is there a better way to spend the first sunny day in a while than questing up Chapel Pond Slab? We think not! Empress (5.5 X) was a total joy with Shane. We even spied the incomparable Will Roth on Regular Route!

It’s the summer of sending! Book your own climbing adventure today — both group instruction and private climbing days available on our website. Link in bio.

📸: Gripped Photo

@newyorkoutdoorguides @lakeplacidadk @adirondackclimberscoalition #lifeisbetterwhenclimbing #Adirondacks #PerfectDayADK #HireAGuide

Fri, 30 May 2025 05:09:42 -0500

John Gruber:

Ever since I started doing these live shows from WWDC, I’ve kept the guest(s) secret, until showtime. I’m still doing that this year. But in recent years the guests have seemed a bit predictable: senior executives from Apple. This year I again extended my usual invitation to Apple, but, for the first time since 2015, they declined.

I’m so curious if Apple had declined before or after Gruber wrote ‘Something is Rotten in the State of Cupertino’. Either way, rotten indeed.

Thu, 29 May 2025 20:21:27 -0500

I had the pleasure of guiding Bill and Bev up Mt. Marcy for them to reach the top of New York State for their high point journey! We lucked out with incredible weather with spectacular views clear across to Vermont. Bill regaled us with tales of their climbs across the world. He and Bev are so impressive and dedicated, showing us how it’s done into their 70s. I can’t wait to hear about their next adventures, including Mont Blanc this fall. Wow!

@rockandriver_official

Thu, 29 May 2025 18:36:52 -0500

Tom and I nabbed the rest of the Dix Range (Dix and Hough) yesterday to tick his 27th and 28th high peaks! The weather was glorious, though the black flies are officially out in full force. But even those little buggers couldn’t keep the smiles off our faces as we traversed that gorgeous range. We summited via the Beckhorn trail and then went down Lillian Brook for a 12.5 mile day in just about 11 hours.

Big thanks to Curt, a volunteer herd path maintainer who we met on top of Hough and who was continuing to clear the significant blowdown in the range!

@newyorkoutdoorguides @lakeplacidadk #Adirondacks #PerfectDayADK #HireAGuide

Thu, 29 May 2025 12:55:16 -0500

Looks like Mac Virtual Display uses Sidecar tech from the iPad. You can’t connect to both the Vision Pro and iPhone Mirroring at the same time.

Mon, 26 May 2025 20:29:37 -0500

📺 Finished watching: The Last of Us (season two)

Mon, 26 May 2025 20:22:52 -0500

🍿 Finished watching: Fountain of Youth

Fri, 23 May 2025 15:51:00 -0500

🆕📝 ‘Sam and Jony skepticism’

Fri, 23 May 2025 15:51:00 -0500

🆕📝 ‘Sam and Jony skepticism’

Jason Snell brought words to the feelings I’ve been feeling about the OpenAI + io partnership.

Wed, 21 May 2025 18:36:50 -0500

Tom and I only planned on hiking Macomb, but it was so nice that we went out to South Dix and Grace Peaks as well! He’s well on his way to becoming a #46er with these being 24-26/46 summits for him. Great way to spend the 133rd anniversary of the Adirondack Park. 👌

@newyorkoutdoorguides #nysoga @lakeplacidadk #Adirondacks #PerfectDayADK #HireAGuide

Wed, 21 May 2025 13:32:34 -0500

I’d love to see an org chart of how people and responsibilities flow between OpenAI, Lovefrom, and io. Sounds like some folks are heading directly to OpenAI via io (Hankey, Tan, Cannon), while Ive remains independent yet oversees all design at OpenAI’s via LoveFrom. It’d make an excellent Decoder.

Mon, 19 May 2025 20:19:16 -0500

🔗 Apple unveils powerful accessibility features coming later this year:

Accessibility Reader is a new systemwide reading mode designed to make text easier to read for users with a wide range of disabilities, such as dyslexia or low vision. Available on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro, Accessibility Reader gives users new ways to customize text and focus on content they want to read, with extensive options for font, color, and spacing, as well as support for Spoken Content.

I have high hopes that this will be a big upgrade to the ‘Speak Screen’ and ‘Speech Controller’ features.

Mon, 19 May 2025 16:51:49 -0500

Finished reading: Brian’s Hunt by Gary Paulsen 📚

Thus ends the Hatchet Adventure series. They sure do make you want to escape to the woods.

Mon, 19 May 2025 14:57:41 -0500

Fewer podcasts. More audiobooks. 👍

Mon, 19 May 2025 13:01:25 -0500

Om Malik blogs about censorship being a core goal in Chinese AI development:

Pete’s assessment suggests that Chinese authorities have shifted their focus from simply blocking information to creating sophisticated models that provide alternative narratives. You can’t filter these models, for they have finessed and developed evasion techniques and thus will be offering alternative sanitized versions of history that align with government narratives. This represents a fundamental shift from previous censorship approaches.

The sinking feeling in my gut tells me it won’t only be that government.

Mon, 19 May 2025 12:40:08 -0500

Finished reading: Brian’s Return by Gary Paulsen 📚

Food for the soul.

Sun, 18 May 2025 21:36:22 -0500

What a pleasure it was to help Shane review technical skills ahead of his Single Pitch Instructor exam! I should have taken more pics, but we were too busy practicing belayed rappels, knots and hitches, rescue techniques from above and below, creative anchors with limited gear, and much more.

I love hearing from climbers that it’s mastering the skills that they value most. That they want to feel more confident and competent when cragging with their friends, even if they never formally instruct with their certification. Climbers looking out for one another — this community rocks. 🤘

Thanks, Shane, for a great day and smiling through the rain!

Want to shore up your own technical skills? Book a private day with us, or keep an eye on our group events calendar for upcoming clinics! Link in bio.

Sun, 18 May 2025 18:37:23 -0500

I had the pleasure of guiding Tom up his 22nd and 23rd High Peaks this past week. That’s makes that 19 we’ve summited together! The weather wasn’t certain it was going to give us great views, but it smiled upon us in the end.

And the mountain gifted us with some rare trailside wildlife sightings — a fox and a snake! These mountains give and give.

@newyorkoutdoorguides @lakeplacidadk #Adirondacks #PerfectDayADK #HireAGuide

![A metal plaque embedded in rock commemorates Esther McComb’s first recorded ascent of Mt. Esther at age 15. Text reads:

1839 MT ESTHER 1939 4270 FEET TO COMMEMORATE THE INDOMITABLE SPIRIT OF ESTHER McCOMB AGE 15 WHO MADE THE FIRST RECORDED ASCENT OF THIS PEAK FOR THE SHEER JOY OF CLIMBING TROY N.Y.](https://jb.heydingus.net/uploads/2025/17953004720954229.jpg)

Sat, 17 May 2025 15:37:26 -0500

Finished reading: Brian’s Winter by Gary Paulsen 📚

Fri, 16 May 2025 22:00:25 -0500

Finished reading: Hatchet by Gary Paulsen 📚

I’m enjoying going back through books I loved as a kid. This is one that shaped me.

Sun, 11 May 2025 22:05:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#175]

Heavy nostalgia in this one.

Sun, 11 May 2025 22:05:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#175]

Heavy nostalgia in this one.

Fri, 09 May 2025 17:08:38 -0500

Jason Kottke shared another platform-agnostic music linking service with a catchy name, but my favorite is album.link. It’s more full-featured, and has a great URL. (And does songs and podcasts too.)

Fri, 09 May 2025 16:18:36 -0500

🔗 Trump illegally fires Democrats on Consumer Product Safety Commission:

On Friday, Donald Trump abruptly removed the three sitting Democrat appointees on the five-person U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission – the independent watchdog agency that issues recalls and regulates everyday products, including consumer electronics. With no apparent cause for removal, the firings violate existing Supreme Court precedent dating back to 1935, as did Trump’s removals of the Democratic commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) back in March.

It feels hopeless when nothing comes of it.

Fri, 09 May 2025 15:51:34 -0500

My short but wild ride reading this @matt@isfeeling.social article:

“Nice, Matt’s found a new font!”

“Wait. No, he likes a new game.”

“Wait. No. He likes a new show that sounds like a game!”

“Oh wait, he did find a new font.” 🤣

Fri, 09 May 2025 15:31:47 -0500

John Siracusa makes another Apple stalwart critiquing how it’s lost its way, and he’s calling for new leadership:

The best leaders can change their minds in response to new information. The best leaders can be persuaded. But we’ve had decades of strife, lawsuits, and regulations, and Apple has stubbornly dug in its heels even further at every turn. It seems clear that there’s only one way to get a different result.

In every healthy entity, whether it’s an organization, an institution, or an organism, the old is replaced by the new: CEOs, sovereigns, or cells. It’s time for new leadership at Apple.

Fri, 09 May 2025 08:51:55 -0500

Robin Rendle discussed his blogging flow on Manuel Moreale’s People & Blogs series. The whole interview is quite good, but this bit stuck out to me:

But heed this lesson: your blogging tech stack should not be smart. That’s the most painful thing I’ve learned over the years. We need to take out all the complex build tools and fragile parts that slow us down and prevent us from doing the writing. It doesn’t matter if you’re using the coolest new tech thing, what matters is this: how fast can you write and publish something?

All my little shortcuts and tools are in service of this.

Fri, 09 May 2025 08:23:26 -0500

🔗 A literary history of fake texts in Apple’s marketing materials:

One rule of Dimension Apple is that there is no cross-over: The people who populate any given update are all new to that update, and never appear again in future marketing materials. “Rich Dinh” and “Trev Smith” are unique to iOS 17; “Sarah Castellbanco” and “Eden Sears” to iOS 8; etc.

With one exception: John Bishop.

What an amusing trip down the rabbit hole.

Tue, 06 May 2025 11:35:05 -0500

MacOS Keyboard Shortcuts to Get Things Done | Matt Langford

A few weeks ago, I decided (finally) to embrace some custom keyboard shortcuts on my Mac. I’ve tinkered a bit over that time, but I’ve landed in a place where I’m happy with the results. I’m going to detail every custom keyboard shortcut I’ve created and the apps required to make them work.

Matt’s got a really helpful list here. I’m going to have to copy a few and make better use of the Hyper Key!

Tue, 06 May 2025 11:19:00 -0500

🆕📝 Two bits of good Apple TV+ news

New seasons are coming for two great shows

Tue, 06 May 2025 11:19:00 -0500

🆕📝 Two bits of good Apple TV+ news

New seasons are coming for two great shows

Sun, 04 May 2025 09:38:15 -0500

We wrapped up April and kicked off May with 3 more summits on Tom’s tick list! Dial and Nippletop provided challenge and beauty with the miles and elevation gain. Tabletop’s approach was more pleasant, but the last half mile proved particularly dicey with a shark’s fin of snow taking up the narrow trail. Tom crushed it both days, always with a smile and a chuckle at the hard bits, reveling at the payoff views of the high peaks. 25 miles and 6000 feet of elevation gain over two days is not for the feint of heart this time of year, but Tom proved himself!

@newyorkoutdoorguides @lakeplacidadk #Adirondacks #PerfectDayADK #HireAGuide

Sun, 04 May 2025 09:36:27 -0500

Last weekend, I escaped the rainy ADK to climb with some friends in the rainy Red River Gorge in KY! Miguel’s and RRG was our usual weekend getaway back in the CMU days, but it’s a longer haul from NY now! Still, mega fun weekend ticking off some classic routes that I hadn’t done in years, and trying hard on new ones.

Sat, 03 May 2025 21:06:10 -0500

📺 Finished watching: The Residence

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 11:21:03 -0500

Apple’s got a new ‘Snapshot’ page (tool?) on their site. Curious. (Via 9to5Mac)

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 08:06:15 -0500

Finished reading: Frightful’s Mountain by Jean Craighead George 📚

Another solid entry in the series. One more to go.

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 07:49:22 -0500

This new Maggie Rogers single rules! 🎵

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 11:38:00 -0500

🆕📝 HeyDingus Now Runs on iCloud

It's been a long time coming.

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 11:17:51 -0500

🆕📝 HeyDingus Now Runs on iCloud

It's been a long time coming

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 11:06:35 -0500

Welcome @kyleford@hachyderm.io, his site houseofkyle.com is a new member site of the One a Month Club!

Sun, 20 Apr 2025 20:21:48 -0500

When the weather’s warm and sunny down south while it’s wet and dreary up north, you go to the Gunks! A perfect weekend spent with good friends from @adkclimb.club! Finally tagged Ken’s Crack (5.7+) on this trip — what a great little route.

Sun, 20 Apr 2025 18:55:17 -0500

This cabinet is full of clowns. But dangerous, dangerous clowns. 🤡

Sun, 20 Apr 2025 18:36:37 -0500

Let’s nerd out on some anchors I used this weekend at the Gunks! Let me know your favorite one and any questions. 🤘

A: I use this for the top out whenever possible because it sets us up for an efficient rap back down, and using the rope makes for a strong-yet-stretchy anchor.

B: When the anchor’s gear is close together, this classic setup is quick and clear. And getting the rack ready for your second to easily grab is just polite, plus reduces the chance of a dropped piece during a handover.

C: Make your master points high and tight! But then don’t be afraid to extend it to better position the rope and yourself to give an effective belay. Your tether being part of the anchor can complicate things if leading in blocks, but this was the top out so it was ideal.

@newyorkoutdoorguides @lakeplacidadk #gunks #climbing #HireAGuide

Sat, 19 Apr 2025 00:36:30 -0500

All of the fun today with @adkclimb.club friends at Jewels & Gems! Dustin’ off the cobwebs for a glorious rock season. Come climb with us! (Link to book a trip in bio)

Fri, 18 Apr 2025 17:04:00 -0500

It won’t be for a long while, but the Subaru Solterra EV will probably be my next vehicle.

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 23:27:16 -0500

Finished reading: My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George 📚

This book was formative for me back in my middle school years and is precisely why Peregrine Falcons are my favorite bird. A quick read, but certainly makes me want to run away to the woods. I’d forgotten the disappointing ending, though.

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 22:56:17 -0500

Pratik writing about a curiosity with his workplace’s X account:

Today, during our check-in, she mentioned a very curious thing about the site. Our account hardly follows anyone out there so the timeline when she logs in is all Musk. Naturally, she prefers not to read his tweets either so she muted him.

Curiously after that, she wasn’t able to post any tweets. No error but just that random “Something didn’t work. Please try again.” message. She tried logging out and logging back in, tried it from her phone and then from a private browser window but nothing worked.

She even thought, muting Musk wouldn’t be the issue, right? Right? But just to test it out, she umuted him and suddenly everything started working just fine and she was able to post.

Super duper gross.

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 15:29:10 -0500

Apple is making its trove of demo devices at its stores charge a little greener. Here’s Joe Rossignol:

In its 2025 Environmental Progress Report released today, Apple revealed that it plans to expand its Clean Energy Charging feature to iPhone and iPad demo units on display at Apple Stores and other retail stores across the United States.

This feature makes the device wait to charge until the time of day that the grid’s power is comparatively cleaner.

These little changes don’t make the biggest difference, but they do add up. I’m surprised it’s not already been on, but this is a good change.

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 11:52:48 -0500

Come on, U.K., not you too. 👎 People can be whoever they want to be, and it’s not up to anyone else to tell them otherwise. The world seems to have forgotten the golden rule, and — to vastly understate it — that’s a huge bummer. 🏳️‍⚧️

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 00:36:56 -0500

🚨 Merch Drop! Check out our wide selection of new shirts, hats, stickers, pins, drinkware, and more featuring our logo and the new ‘Clicky Clicky No Die’ design. Always double-check those carabiners! onwardguides.com/shop

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 15:54:22 -0500

I’m a big ol' fan of usernames that are actually website domains. It started with my Instagram and Bluesky profiles at heyjb.me, and now I’ve whipped up adkclimb.club for a new meetup group I started!

Sun, 13 Apr 2025 20:24:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#174]

Come check out my linky wares!

Sun, 13 Apr 2025 20:24:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#174]

Come check out my linky wares!

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 18:36:17 -0500

A little solo hike up Saddleback from The Garden yesterday. Trailhead says spring, but the peak’s still in winter with fresh snow. 14.3 miles, 3157 ft elevation gain, 9.5 hours.

Sat, 12 Apr 2025 12:36:21 -0500

We’re psyched to support @vanhoevenberg’s bouldering comp today (2pm) with prizes in the pool for competitors. You could win 50% off a guided climbing experience with us! Hope to see you there climbing or cheering on! 🤘

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:08:35 -0500

Finished reading: My Murder by Katie Williams 📚

Ooh this is a good one. An intriguing premise that morphs, twists and turns unexpectedly, and ultimately delivers.

Sun, 06 Apr 2025 23:53:21 -0500

Finished reading: Becoming Steve Jobs by Brent Schlender 📚

Goodness, what an extraordinary person. This recounting of his life is the best I’ve read, and certainly reveals more humanity than the rest.

Sun, 06 Apr 2025 14:43:29 -0500

Finished reading: Penric’s Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold 📚

A decent little tale, but I don’t think I’ll continue the series.

Sun, 06 Apr 2025 14:41:23 -0500

Finished reading: The Push: A Climber’s Search for the Path by Tommy Caldwell 📚

Fantastic story, expertly written. Tommy Caldwell’s desire for excellence and perseverance to get there is an inspiration!

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 08:49:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#173]

Quite the variety this week!

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 08:49:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#173]

Quite the variety this week!

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 15:36:32 -0500

A little personal trip down to the Gunks to get ready for rock season! Feels great to be pluggin’ cams and pulling on rock. Book a trip of your own! Single and multi pitch, learn to lead, anchoring clinics — we do it all.

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 15:36:25 -0500

Todd and I completed a mega day out in the High Peaks (18 miles, 6000 ft elevation gain, 13.5 hours) tagging his 20th-23rd winter summits. Our first truly warm hike together this winter, we battled steep ascents, deteriorating snow, and high winds. But it was all smiles all day with incredible views throughout the day. What a way to close out the winter hiking season!

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 14:22:28 -0500

March ended in a flurry! I scurried down to the Gunks for a few days of nice weather to climb with @coppertop217 (we stayed in a school bus AirBnB!), who then followed me back up north for a very successful @adkclimb.club and skiing at @whiteface_mt. I hunkered down for a couple days while an ice storm made everything slippery and then back to Whiteface for an open-to-close laps day with the man, the myth, the legend @willclimbz for his birthday. Great way to round out the month, and now I’m back to dreaming about rock climbing!

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:39:12 -0500

Finding it hard to get motivated to tackle my work to-do list… Small goals, I guess. #1: Social post about climbing. #2: Blog post about a great podcast I heard. #3: Blog post about packing for winter hikes.

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:10:48 -0500

Jason Snell: ‘My unsuccessful journey into Netflix’s ad tier’

While the ads played on, I began creating a thought experiment: There’s a $10 difference between the ad and ad-free plans. If Mr. Netflix (he wears a top hat) came to my house and said, “Jason, I’ve got a great deal for you. I’m going to pay you $120 a year, and all you have to do is watch ads while you watch Netflix,” what would I do? When I started thinking about it, I thought it might be an interesting intellectual question. What would I accept in exchange for having Mean Mr. Netflix beam ads into every show I watch?

🤔

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 18:38:54 -0500

I’ve had my M4 MacBook Air for all of a couple of hours, and I already love it. Maybe it’s the fact that I’m setting up as new and haven’t loaded it down with years of data and apps yet, but it feels notably faster than my M1 Mac mini. 😍 (I have to say, though, I already wish they made a 12" version.)

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:36:55 -0500

Tried out an (unclimbed?) ice flow off of the Jay Mountain ridge today! T’was thin-but-in! The 3-mile uphill walk to get there was a bit of a bear, but nabbing an extra day of climbing was well-worth it. Thanks for the invitation, Jim!

Sun, 23 Mar 2025 20:21:03 -0500

Today was my final shift for the season as a Ski Instructor at @whiteface_mt. What a privilege to help people learn or progress in such an awesome sport — and get to free ski in the off times! Great crew working there, each talented instructors who made everything fun for our students. ⛷️

Sun, 23 Mar 2025 17:49:32 -0500

I played myself so well. At a local film festival last year, I arrived “on time” (late) and got a terrible seat at the back. This year, I was running late again and rushed in at 6:30pm to find a mostly empty theater. Thought the date change led to empty seats. Checked my ticket, it says 7pm. Thank you Past Me for putting it in my calendar 30 minutes early so I could get a good seat!

Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:07:26 -0500

Unless the weather changes drastically or I do some surprise adventures, looks like I nabbed 18 days of ice climbing this season. It felt like more, and it was a great season with massive progression in skills and confidence, but I’m determined to climb even more next year. Aiming for 30 days minimum!

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 13:48:00 -0500

🆕📝 ‘I’m a season 1 sorta guy’

Matt Birchler and I are on the same wavelength on this one.

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 13:48:00 -0500

🆕📝 ‘I’m a season 1 sorta guy’

Matt Birchler and I are on the same wavelength on this one.

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 09:36:52 -0500

We’re excited to bring the Adirondack climbing community together with weekly climber meetups. We visit different spots every Thursday at 5:45pm, year-round, at crags near Lake Placid! Boulders, rock, ice, and gyms are all in play. Bring your gear (or borrow some from our sponsor, @onwardguides), a post-climb beverage, and tell your friends!

We welcome climbers of all skills levels, but please note that these are meetups, not guided experiences. Climb at your own risk.

(@onwardguides would love to take you on guided climbing trip for more personal instruction!)

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 21:30:01 -0500

My wife saw that the Severance finale was over an hour an decreed that we wait until morning to watch it. So no spoilers! 🙏

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 10:05:08 -0500

🔗 Woot’s Big Apple Watch Band Sale Returns With Solo/Braided Loops at Up to 70% Off

If you missed out before, now’s a second chance at super discounted Apple Watch bands. I picked up a few last time and have enjoyed having the variety!

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 21:36:43 -0500

The rock season starts with Pitchoff! The Lonely (5.6, onsight) → Pete’s Farewell (5.7) was the perfect way to kick things into gear with @saw_dust_ery. Let’s go climbing: onwardguides.com

Mon, 17 Mar 2025 00:36:22 -0500

I’d forgotten how much tread these @lasportivagram TX3 approach shoes came with! 😅 Glad I nabbed a fresh pair before they’re discontinued.

Sun, 16 Mar 2025 18:38:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#172]

Fancy Unicode text, an incredible performance, a better t-shirt, a whimsical app, a Shortcuts tip, Severance merch, and an amazing climbing accomplishment in New Zealand.

Sun, 16 Mar 2025 18:38:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#172]

Fancy Unicode text, an incredible performance, a better t-shirt, a whimsical app, a Shortcuts tip, Severance merch, and an amazing climbing accomplishment in New Zealand.

Sun, 16 Mar 2025 17:21:07 -0500

My wife and I have never been ones to fly flags at home. But the sickening attack happening on LGBTQ+ folks has compelled us to be more visible and outspoken in our support for them and other marginalized communities. Simply flying a flag isn’t much, but I hope you know you have friends in this house.

Be kind. Treat everyone with dignity and respect. That’s what we believe it is to be an American. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸

Fri, 14 Mar 2025 21:36:54 -0500

Finally ticked Central Pillar with Jim and @saw_dust_ery! Both pitches were so much fun today. I led up the right side with some big traverses. Then top roping the steeper left side was one of my favorite pitches of the season. Hope to get back to lead that one soon!

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 21:36:22 -0500

Squeaking in perhaps our last climb on Multi Gully for the season, @izzolp33 and I had a grand time on the fat and sticky second pitch (first pitch is definitely deteriorating). Great day in the Adirondacks!

@newyorkoutdoorguides @lakeplacidadk #Adirondacks #PerfectDayADK #HireAGuide

Wed, 12 Mar 2025 21:36:32 -0500

Sneaking in a few pitches with @ben_k_ and @andrew_jarvis05 before the next big warm-up. North Side of Pitchoff seems like it’ll hold on for a bit longer. 🤞

Book your ice trip before it’s too late!

Wed, 12 Mar 2025 21:36:27 -0500

Hiking Marshall and Cliff mountains together meant we could cut out an extra drive to Newcomb, but, boy, 20-mile days are long! Spring is knocking at our door with wet snow conditions, and rivers opening back up. But the peaks are still plenty snowy and gorgeous. Another couple winter peaks checked off the ol’ list!

Wed, 12 Mar 2025 10:14:14 -0500

Anna Betts: ‘US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms’

The United States has been added to the Civicus Monitor Watchlist, which identifies countries that the global civil rights watchdog believes are currently experiencing a rapid decline in civic freedoms.

Civicus, an international non-profit organization dedicated to “strengthening citizen action and civil society around the world”, announced the inclusion of the US on the non-profit’s first watchlist of 2025 on Monday, alongside the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Italy, Pakistan and Serbia.

Oh joy. 😞

Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:31:18 -0500

Wait a second. Do I really still have to sign in to replay.music.apple.com to get my Replay playlists added to my music library? I just realized that I never even had my 2024 one added, let alone the 2025 one that’s now available! 🤪

Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:14:28 -0500

HowNot2 is an amazing resource for the climbing community. They make videos and guides about gear and how it will/won’t break, AND they’ve made a world-class store with great prices and better shipping. Orders ship same day or it’s free! I placed this like 30 minutes ago and it’s already shipped.

Tue, 11 Mar 2025 13:56:21 -0500

As foretold, I just placed an order for an M4 MacBook Air! 😁 I decided to try out Upgraded, the company that does 36-month 0% interest financing with upgrade options after 2 years (similar to the iPhone Upgrade Program), that I mentioned back in December. I’ll let you know how it goes! 🤞

Fri, 07 Mar 2025 21:37:17 -0500

Did a little recon of ice conditions this afternoon, March 7. Pics 1-4 are Lock Ness (sketchy, had to jump over a stream to get there). Pics 5-7 are Little Moscow (fat and fun). Pic 8 is Pitchoff Right (looked better than I hoped, but I didn’t look up close).

Three Flows (right side) and Buster/Bowser still looked good as I stole looks while driving the Cascade Pass. Will Roth told me NSOP was “really good” today too.

Fri, 07 Mar 2025 21:36:26 -0500

A little impromptu High Peak ski this morning with @izzolp33, snagging Esther Mountain after skinning up the Wilmington Trail at @whiteface_mt. Conditions were better than we hoped! (Forgot the summit pic! 😭)

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 12:51:54 -0500

Just gotta reiterate that I love reading my social timeline (Micro.blog via @sod’s experimental feeds) through the new Reeder app. Super fast, timeline position sync, great design and conversation view…it’s awesome!

Wed, 05 Mar 2025 20:40:12 -0500

I’m pretty psyched about the new M4 MacBook Air! It’s very likely my next computer—my first MacBook Air ever!

It’s missing just two things that I was hoping for: a nano-texture display option and the C1 cellular modem. The modem was a longshot, but it would’ve future-proofed this Mac well for me.

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 21:37:21 -0500

A little guide’s day off action on Three Flows with @joewagnerphoto. Right line is still fat! Killer blue ice across the pass too.

Winter’s still roaring in the ADK. There’s still time to book a trip to climb some ice in March!

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 20:21:14 -0500

It was a distinct pleasure to climb and film with @joewagnerphoto, @karl, and @blakecort for @arche.productions on Three Flows today! Superb conditions and stoke from the crew gave me the confidence I needed to lead my first WI4 when the easier lines to the left didn’t look as good. What a fun route!! (You’ll have to wait for the official footage to see me on the sharp end. 😉)

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 20:21:08 -0500

Trekking with Todd up Allen Mountain for @highpeaksmountainguides on Sunday was a joy! 14 miles on skis, 4 miles in snowshoes. The crystal-clear bluebird views made the bitter cold 1000% worth it! (And the best butt-slide in the ADK. 👌)

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:08:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#171]

Two socials, four blogs, and one video for you (belatedly) this week.

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:08:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#171]

Two socials, four blogs, and one video for you (belatedly) this week.

Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:40:30 -0500

It just occurred to me that I’ve not seen blog posts from a few folks in my RSS reader since they moved hosting house. I dunno how many others I’m missing out on. This is your periodic plea to maintain your own RSS URLs (with redirects if necessary). 😘

cc: @pratik@writing.exchange @maique@social.lol

Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:28:19 -0500

Today’s goal: install the new propane heat stove. Success! But at the cost of my cook stove being disconnected for a potential leak—and nearly my water heater refusing to relight. 🤦‍♂️ Between those, major roof water damage, and recent purchases, this is shaping up to be an expensive home year. 🏠

Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:17:07 -0500

🔗 iOS 18.4 adds tons of new Shortcuts actions, hints at Siri’s future upgrades

Inside the updated Shortcuts app, you’ll find new actions to change settings for various Apple apps. And within each action there’s an extremely granular deeper layer of actions you can perform.

[List of example Safari actions.]

All of this clearly isn’t here just to benefit the Shortcuts app.

Rather, these more fine-grained actions lay the groundwork for new powers Siri will gain in a future update.

It’s about time that Shortcuts got some love!

Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:11:53 -0500

Jason Kottke:

America Alone. That really sums up America’s current foreign policy. Trump is remolding the United States in his own image — bigoted, confrontational, erratic, reactionary, greedy, belligerent, vindictive, petty, friendless, authoritarian — and he won’t be content until the US is as lonely and isolated as he is.

Sat, 01 Mar 2025 21:36:21 -0500

Winter weather fuels Adirondackers in their favorite outdoor pursuits! The 3P Race (Pole, Pedal, Paddle) is an awesome community event here in @saranaclake that showcases the joy in outdoor movement, no matter the sport. 13.4 miles of alpine skiing, biking, Nordic skiing, paddling (the still partially frozen river), running, and flat-out fun.

Thanks to the dozens (hundreds?) of folks who made this happen! I already can’t wait for next year.

Fri, 28 Feb 2025 17:30:40 -0500

Via Jason Kottke:

“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions.” Because the US is a Russian ally (or satellite?) now I guess.

If you voted Trump, you had to know this was coming. And ought to be ashamed. Our alignment with Russia (against long-standing allies) is some of the scariest stuff this administration is doing.

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 08:46:45 -0500

Cory Dransfeldt says it’s okay that we self-segregate on socia media:

Self-segregation is a fair description of what we’re seeing, but fleeing a toxic space for one that — well — is a perfectly reasonable course of action. We should be less worried about echo chambers and more worried about harassment and user safety.

“Free speech” advocates have and will continue to have free speech. What they often want — and need not be granted — is a captive audience to harass.

I tend to agree.

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 08:41:26 -0500

Zac Hall: ‘Amazon’s Alexa+ includes a feature that Siri has always needed’

Not only is Siri on your Apple Watch unaware of what you’ve discussed with Siri on your HomePod or Siri on your Apple TV, but the “improved” version of Siri doesn’t even run on any of those devices.

[…] That means the Siri experience is as good as it will ever get on products without Apple Intelligence. Siri’s performance on devices with Apple Intelligence is another story.

In a world with Private Cloud Compute, why can’t every Apple device do Apple Intelligence? Put it in an iMessage chat!

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 20:22:28 -0500

Sunday’s warmer temps made climbing Giant & Rocky Peak Ridge a joy with Todd. We had the trail to ourselves for most of the day and was even gifted a view here and there! Some epic butt slides on the way down kept things fun and fast. ~8 hours round trip

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 20:04:00 -0500

🆕📝 The Keen is pricy, but exactly what I wanted

It was worth the year-long wait.

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 20:04:00 -0500

🆕📝 The Keen is pricy, but exactly what I wanted

It was worth the year-long wait.

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 18:50:56 -0500

Kagi Search is quite good. I really like how you get an AI answer only when you add a question mark.

If you want to try it out, here’s a link for 3 months of Kagi Pro for free. https://kagi.com/p/TREATC2611328 🚨 It’s only good for 3 users, so click fast!

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 18:36:50 -0500

Dial in your winter systems with a ski tour through the beautiful High Peaks region in the heart of the Adirondacks! Extend the adventure by camping out with our experienced, knowledgeable, and friendly guides.

@newyorkoutdoorguides @lakeplacidadk #Adirondacks #PerfectDayADK #HireAGuide

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 18:36:42 -0500

There’s nothing quite like climbing these spectacular frozen formations, especially when illuminated and sparkling on a dark winter’s night! Come climb with us on Thursday evenings or book a private trip!

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 12:48:38 -0500

Is it just me, or will the Mac App Store not let you use Touch ID to purchase an app?

Mon, 24 Feb 2025 20:37:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#170]

After a few weeks hiatus (sorry!), I'm back with a pretty good haul, I think!

Mon, 24 Feb 2025 20:35:07 -0500

🏠 Two steps forward and one step back in home maintenance today. Got a dishwasher installed (hours of time back, yay!) and propane stove (backup heat, yay!) hooked up. But also discovered a water leak issue from the roof, which led to noticing notable damage to some ceilings and walls. Woof.

Mon, 24 Feb 2025 07:27:16 -0500

🔗 Apple will spend more than $500 billion in the U.S. over the next four years

What a specific, purely coincidental, I’m sure, span of time! 🙄

This is good news, but still comes across as licking the boot.

Sun, 23 Feb 2025 23:56:45 -0500

Today closes out my busiest span yet as a full-time guide. 17-days straight of booked climbing, skiing, or hiking — including an overnighter! I had two cancellations, but still spent those days skiing 20-miles and shoveling endless snow. What a privilege it is, this life my wife and I have built. 😌

Sun, 23 Feb 2025 23:31:00 -0500

📺 S2E7 and E8 of A.P. Bio had me snort laughing. This show is pure gold.

Sat, 22 Feb 2025 23:03:32 -0500

😋 Certainly these are the best flavors of chips that I’ve tried in quite a while. All Mixed Up takes the top spot. cc: @ruminate@macstories.net

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:22:11 -0500

Bluebird morning on Pitchoff Right, getting Michael and Jeri, two longtime rock climbers, onto ice for the first time for @highpeaksmountainguides! They braved the cold and bullet-hard ice to emerge victorious!

Tue, 18 Feb 2025 22:29:06 -0500

No shit, Hans Zimmer??

Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:55:57 -0500

Jay Peters, theverge.com:

Humane is selling “key AI capabilities” to HP for $116 million and will stop selling AI Pin, the company announced today.

For all the money spent to spin up Humane, I think HP’s getting a steal. But I also can’t help but feel they’re purchasing out of pity.

Ai Pin customers seem to be getting pretty well shafted:

AI Pins that have already been purchased will continue to function normally until 3PM ET on February 28th, Humane says in a support document. After that date, Pins will “no longer connect to Humane’s servers.”

Less than two weeks’ notice.

Mon, 17 Feb 2025 23:43:37 -0500

🍿 Just watched: The Gorge

Mon, 17 Feb 2025 14:03:33 -0500

🔗 iPhone Design to Change ‘Significantly’ This Year:

In a new post, the user known “Digital Chat Station” said that the iPhone‌'s design is “starting to change significantly” this year. The “iPhone 17 Air” reportedly features a “horizontal, bar-shaped” design on the rear, likely referring to an elongated camera bump. On the other hand, the Pro models purportedly adopt a “large horizontal matrix design.”

I’m all for going to a camera bar. Let’s leave the wobble behind!

Sun, 16 Feb 2025 23:23:49 -0500

📺 Helly was wearing a watch in S2E5, the same episode in which severed workers were described as not wearing watches — instead telling time only by the clock on the wall. There’s definitely something strange about time passage happening for Innies… I just can’t figure out how it affects Outies!

Sun, 16 Feb 2025 17:59:00 -0500

🆕📝 An update to my Alt Text generator shortcut

Now with bulk image support and a simplified prompt.

Sun, 16 Feb 2025 14:21:25 -0500

🤔 I swear I cleared all this just a couple hours ago…

Sun, 16 Feb 2025 14:21:18 -0500

🐶 Phin decided chewing fire logs was more fun than helping me shovel. Can’t knock it till I try it, I s’pose!

Sun, 16 Feb 2025 14:21:14 -0500

Gettin’ hammered with snow! 😍 First pic is the pile I moved twice. I pushed it off the porch roof for fear of the weight, then had to reshovel it from the driveway. The second pic shows our deck — you can see from the corner box how deep it was before I shoveled. 😳 About to go do round 2!

Sun, 16 Feb 2025 12:36:28 -0500

Yesterday, I cheered on Sarah and Dan skiing the formidable Johansen’s Last Call. I joined for Marcy (NY’s highest point) and the long ski out Mr. Van trail. It was a 20-mile, 4,180-foot vertical gain day for me (they did 30 miles!). The beer, fire, and music capped an epic day with best friends.

Sun, 16 Feb 2025 12:21:03 -0500

My Valentine and I had a wonderful V-Day with incredible food, great conversation, and fun games. She’s the best. 🥰

Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:16:55 -0500

I’ve long wanted an RSS feed for my Strava activities. Tonight, I finally did a search for how to get one. The top result, Feed My Ride, seems to work great!

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 19:34:41 -0500

🔗 Apple Launched the MacBook Pro 19 Years Ago Today:

What a beauty, still to this day.

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 02:21:02 -0500

Conditions couldn’t have been more different than yesterday! The wind was brutal! But still made it in ~6 hours while breaking trail both up and down Street & Nye Mountains with @highpeaksmountainguides. And still bunches of fun! 🏔️

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:36:37 -0500

Thank you, thank you! 🙌 Your support warms my heart, and has helped me fill up the rest of February with trips to get more folks out into the great outdoors! 🧡

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:36:31 -0500

T’was re-waterproofing day for some of my most-used layers. They say you should wash and re-DWR them every handful of wears, but I think 1-2x per season is plenty. Basically whenever I notice water not beading up so well (or da stink 😭). @nikwax gets them back in action!

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 21:29:22 -0500

🔗 The Venn Diagram of Trump’s Authoritarian Actions

This is a whole fucking lot of harm that could have been avoided had a few more percentage of people had voted with kindness and hope in their heart rather than hate and fear. We’re 23 days in. 1436 to go.

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 20:21:28 -0500

Well that’s not what you want. 😨 Just yesterday I took a photo of the massive icicle forming above this small auxiliary roof on the side of our house. When I came home today, the whole thing had ripped right off. Amazingly, no major damage done to anything below, but now I have a roof in my yard. 😬

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 13:49:16 -0500

🍿 Watched: The Wild Robot

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 13:46:32 -0500

🍿 Watched: Here

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 13:36:59 -0500

🔗 Tim Cook Teases an ‘Apple Launch’ Next Wednesday:

“Get ready to meet the newest member of the family,” he said, with an #AppleLaunch hashtag.

#AppleLaunch is a new one. #AppleEvent has a lot of cache. I wonder if it’s something they’ll reuse for Newsroom-only product reveals.

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 13:22:23 -0500

🔗 Use Calibre to Back Up Your Kindle Books Before February 26:

Amazon just announced that you have until February 26, 2025, to download your Kindle content. After that date, you will no longer be able to access the books you’ve paid for if you have a legacy device or a Kindle that has experienced wireless issues. The only way to load what you’ve paid for onto a device will be through wireless sync.

That’s a big ol' bummer. Lou Plummer gives the details on how to save your books from complete lockdown.

(You don’t need to do anything if you only ever plan to read on your Kindle/Kindle app.)

Wed, 12 Feb 2025 23:21:52 -0500

Just a stupidly gorgeous day climbing Cascade Mountain with Luis and Tasha for @rockandriver_official! It’s so fun helping new folks discover the majesty of these mountains and the self-accomplishment of summiting them!

Wed, 12 Feb 2025 21:36:48 -0500

Can you believe the alpenglow this morning skinning up @whiteface_mt and the powdery goodness on the way down?! I couldn’t even see my skis! 😍

Sun, 09 Feb 2025 21:36:39 -0500

Got in a few extra laps after work at Pitchoff Quarry with some new friends from @sportrock! The Quarry’s a little bonier lately, but still tons of fun to burn the arms out on. A perfect conclusion to @mountaineerbandana Mountainfest 2025. Can’t wait till next year!

@adirondackclimberscoalition @newyorkoutdoorguides @lakeplacidadk #Adirondacks #PerfectDayADK #HireAGuide

Sun, 09 Feb 2025 02:21:05 -0500

Was thrilled to represent @adirondackclimberscoalition at the @mountaineerbandana Mountainfest gathering tonight. Very thankful for all our new members and advocates!

Sun, 09 Feb 2025 00:36:21 -0500

Ticked off another killer climb today with @saw_dust_ery during @mountaineerbandana Mountainfest! Green Gully was open for the taking while The Cascade had a congo line next door. I love ice climbing!

@adirondackclimberscoalition @newyorkoutdoorguides @lakeplacidadk #Adirondacks #PerfectDayADK #HireAGuide

Sat, 08 Feb 2025 00:36:42 -0500

Kicked off the @mountaineerbandana Mountainfest by finally leading this ADK Classic, Multiplication Gully. What a stellar route! 🤩 Saw the incomparable Doug Fergalicious up there too. Can’t wait for more pitches tomorrow.

@adirondackclimberscoalition @newyorkoutdoorguides @lakeplacidadk #Adirondacks #PerfectDayADK #HireAGuide

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 19:43:13 -0500

Ever wanted to live in a Pixar movie? It’s coming! You gotta check out this Apple research video of an expressive robotic lamp they’re cooking up. It took all of 30 seconds for me to want one dearly.

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 19:15:08 -0500

I just put a couple of new climbing things up for sale! A Petzl Pur Line great for rappelling so you can use the full length of your climbing rope. And Escape Drytooling Picks for Petzl Tools.

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 18:36:25 -0500

Went out for a solo recon mission of Marcy and Whale’s Tale. With the howling wind and blowing snow, I was unsurprised by the empty trails. Pretty cool to put in fresh tracks both up and down the mountain!

Both trails are in great shape. Only a couple of small obstacles on Marcy Trail above Indian Falls — both easily avoidable. I turned around near Little Marcy due to whiteout, so I can’t give you beta past there! Ski trail was mega fun.

@newyorkoutdoorguides @lakeplacidadk #Adirondacks #PerfectDayADK #HireAGuide

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 09:49:00 -0500

Go home, Reminders, you’re drunk. (FB16446212)

Mon, 03 Feb 2025 16:25:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#169]

I've been laid out by another sickness 🤧, so your 7 things are a day late.

Sat, 01 Feb 2025 17:21:29 -0500

Harlot (2/1/25) Fat, plastic ice today! Great conditions.

Fri, 31 Jan 2025 16:25:31 -0500

Had my first very funny Apple Intelligence notification summary today. 😆

Fri, 31 Jan 2025 12:37:05 -0500

I love the @whiteface_mt uphill program for starting the day with a great morning workout even before lifts are going! Pretty awesome to ski the mountain with wide-open runs.

Fri, 31 Jan 2025 12:36:58 -0500

Steep ice and smiles last night at Pitchoff Quarry for Thursday Night Ice Club! Thanks to everyone who came out and put in some laps. ⛏️

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 15:30:10 -0500

B-T-dubs, for anyone suffering through using a Squarespace site (🙋‍♂️) and growing ever-more frustrated by the limitations of its iPadOS app, adding it to the Home Screen as a web app works surprisingly well. Now I’ve got an Invoices “app” that shows up that shows up in Spotlight/App Switcher!

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 15:19:00 -0500

🆕📝 Quick Tip: I just saved over $100 by checking a subscription’s hidden plan options

Apps often have way more, and cheaper, subscriptions plans than what's shown to you in the app. Check the app's subscription management page in the App Store to switch to something more affordable.

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 11:23:15 -0500

😮‍💨 And with that, I’m finally caught up on my timeline from the past week or so. Much of it was bleak and not super fun to read, but also filled with lots of gems and good people. I’d best get out of bed now.

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 09:31:05 -0500

I used to be frustrated by Micro.blog’s way of doing replies — it only tags the one person whose post you’re commenting on, rather than a “reply all” like Twitter did and Mastodon does. But I’ve come all the way around on it. Now it seems rude and unnecessary to auto-tag everyone on the thread.

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 22:38:27 -0500

📺 Finished watching: A.P. Bio (Season 1) on Netflix

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 22:28:01 -0500

My nature as a completionist extended tonight to the jar of ghost pepper salsa. My pride is satisfied, but my taste buds and intestines would like to have some words. 🥵

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 21:52:25 -0500

🎶 I’m obviously biased, but I can highly recommend my Heavy Rotation playlist. It’s got some real bangers in it right now! 🤘

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 02:20:59 -0500

Got out for my first run of the year (I know, I know, I’m behind!) with the floofiest buddy in his little booties. Got in 7 miles in the 0-degree temps this morning. 🥶🏃‍♂️

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 00:29:42 -0500

🎙️ Oooh thanks @ChrisLawley@mastodon.social for this Shortcuts tip! I’d wondered if you could open web apps with it somehow.

overcast.fm/+ABI6NTFM…

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 23:48:01 -0500

Pretty stoked to say that I’ve already booked over 20 days of my own guided trips for this year, with a bunch of day trips and some overnighters! I’ll have to tally up each month to see how much I’m doing for Onward Mtn Guides vs. other outfits. This small business thing might work out after all! 🤞

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 22:03:04 -0500

🔊 Want a no-hassle wireless surround sound setup at 50% off? I’ve got a Sonos Beam (gen 2) and two Sonos One (gen 2) speakers up for sale. You’ve got a day or so head start (and free shipping!) before they go up on eBay and Marketplace. Everything’s in great shape and sound fantastic. 🙂

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 10:15:32 -0500

📺 Finished watching: Silo (Season 2) on Apple TV+

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 10:09:03 -0500

🍿 Watched: Fly Me to the Moon on Apple TV+

Sun, 26 Jan 2025 20:15:51 -0500

After 12 days straight of outdoor activities (mostly work, but also personal trips), I have to confess I’m pretty stoked to have tomorrow off. This stretch has been super fun, but also super cold and exhausting. Time for some recovery and to catch up on indoor projects. 👍

Sun, 26 Jan 2025 19:32:42 -0500

Well, I’ve been ghosted by the CPA I was going to be working with. 😕 Anybody have one (licensed in New York State) that they could recommend for my small guiding business? Ideally they’d work well with me just saving a bunch of receipts into a shared folder and double-checking my QuickBooks work.

Sun, 26 Jan 2025 16:42:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#168]

Don't forget your recommended weekly dose of links!

Sun, 26 Jan 2025 00:36:33 -0500

Perfect conditions made for a quick and fun jaunt up Street & Nye with Petra! ‘Twas cold, but moving fast kept us warm. That’s peaks #2 & #3 done on Petra’s ADK 46er journey.

@newyorkoutdoorguides @lakeplacidadk #Adirondacks #PerfectDayADK #HireAGuide

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 17:29:03 -0500

🎵 “A Little Space” by Pentatonix is really hittin' well right now. 👌

song.link/i/1581640…

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 21:59:25 -0500

Spaces constantly rearranging themselves on macOS is a blight, and I finally thought to check if there’s a setting. Finally, sanity. 😮‍💨

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 20:21:07 -0500

Today’s chilly shenanigans at @whiteface_mt. Wind chill at -16°! My 2025 map is filling in nicely!

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 18:52:02 -0500

Victoria Song: ‘Meta’s next smart glasses may be with Oakley’

The Oakley-branded glasses, internally referred to as “Supernova 2”, would be based on the brand’s Sphaera glasses. Instead of housing the cameras on the side, the Supernova 2 would shift the camera to the center of the frame.

I’m less thrilled with my Meta Ray-Bans after Meta reminded us of its true colors. But a version of smart glasses in this style frame and with better battery life to hold up against cold winter temps would be appealing to me.

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 18:46:26 -0500

🔗 Jason Koebler: ‘Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy’ 404media.co

There is now no major corporate-owned social media platform that is not aligned with Trump or beholden to him in some way, and nearly every American is on at least one of these platforms.

A sobering fact that I hadn’t yet recognized. Get your own website and domain. Micro.one is $1/month. Now is the time.

(Via Jason Kottke)

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 18:28:08 -0500

🧗‍♂️ Whoa, the Beal Backup Line is cheaper, thinner, and lighter than the Edelrid Rap Line Protect. It doesn’t have any dynamic qualities like the Edelrid, so I think I’m still happy with my recent rope purchase… but 1/3 lighter and physically smaller is very appealing.

Mon, 20 Jan 2025 23:22:13 -0500

Superb day at @whiteface_mt with good buddies yesterday. Started with uphill skinning in the morning and stuck around to get in some lift laps! The sunrise and clear viability was wild! 🤩 🎿

Mon, 20 Jan 2025 21:46:00 -0500

Ski Day #22 (2025) - Frigid Wright Peak 🥶 Skylight Mountain Guides kindly invited me along on their guide training day! Surprisingly good conditions, and fun folks! Hiking trail was skinnable, ski trail was good, and we booted back down the hiking trail. Temps hovered around 0° before wind chill.

Mon, 20 Jan 2025 21:00:20 -0500

📺 How come none of you told me that A.P. Bio is effing hilarious?!

Sun, 19 Jan 2025 22:52:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#167]

A classic collection.

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 23:21:38 -0500

Harlot - 1/18/25 Guided a super fun group of guys and made the best of the warm conditions. We ended up snagging the driest line and everyone made huge progress while cheered on by their supportive friends. Good times!

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 21:46:00 -0500

A perfect dawn at Whiteface Mountain getting in some uphill vert mileage. 👌

Fri, 17 Jan 2025 23:52:59 -0500

🎙️ This episode of the Severance podcast might be one of the best episodes of any podcast I’ve ever heard. They got Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard on to talk about an episode — they’re superfans of the show — and I’ve never wanted to be friends with anyone more than I want to be friends with them. 🤣

Fri, 17 Jan 2025 21:45:00 -0500

With Onward Mountain Guides, you get to demo brand-new, high-quality gear on your adventure! Book a trip today. Thanks @lowaboots and @highpeakscyclery

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 21:45:00 -0500

We had a great time tonight swinging tools and swapping stories at Thursday Night Ice club! See you next week 🙌

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 17:21:47 -0500

Said goodbye to a real one. My original Petzl helmet that I purchased around summer 2010 for working the climbing tower at Gerber Scout Reservation. That helmet (and long-ago retired harness) helped launch my love of climbing (and career!) and it’s protected my noggin on countless adventures. 🫡

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 11:16:04 -0500

TIL you’re supposed to stick toe warmers to the bottom of your sock, not the inside of your shoe. I can already tell it works much better! 🧠

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 07:11:25 -0500

The Bowsers in Cascade Pass made for a lovely, chill day, even with the raging winds. 👌

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 02:21:20 -0500

Three weekends in a row in the Seward Range with three completely different winter conditions. But we got ‘em done with no injuries — just loooong days. 😁

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:28:51 -0500

Finished reading: Stuck in neutral by Terry Trueman 📚

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 14:43:00 -0500

Go home, Control Center, you’re drunk.

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 14:21:44 -0500

Just look at this cutie! 😍 I love his tight little nap curl-ups.

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 12:50:32 -0500

I’ve always been frustrated that @things@mastodon.online’s share sheet extension on iOS doesn’t allow you to do, well, much at all. You can’t set a start date, deadline, tags, or checklist items—only the title, notes, and project can be set from there.

I finally thought to solve it with Shortcuts:

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 11:17:05 -0500

🎶 I’m determined to listen to more music this year. To that effect, I’ve set up an automaton to have Apple Music’s Feel Good station play in the living room whenever the first person arrives home. So far, I dig it! Also, my Get Up Mix is on point this week.

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 11:05:20 -0500

🔗 Manton Reece: ‘Automattic and .blog’ manton.org

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 09:44:58 -0500

A 128GB 7th-gen iPad mini (with A17 Pro) for $400 is a heck of a deal. I continue to adore the Mini’s size and that it doesn’t compromise on power.

(Via MacRumors)

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 09:38:06 -0500

Speaking of companies with strong morals, Mastodon is headed to a new nonprofit org:

Simply, we are going to transfer ownership of key Mastodon ecosystem and platform components (including name and copyrights, among other assets) to a new non-profit organization, affirming the intent that Mastodon should not be owned or controlled by a single individual.

(They used to have nonprofit status in Germany, but it was stripped last year for bureaucratic reasons.)

Ceding individual control of a major social network is huge in the context of Musk’s X and Zuckerberg’s Meta. Good on CEO Eugen Rochko.

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 09:15:15 -0500

Herman Martinus:

If I’m to be incredibly reductive, there are two kinds of writers: One kind can’t help but write. Words flow from them into the world. The other kind pull words into the world, kicking and screaming. Like getting out of bed too early after a late night.

Which are you?

Me? Depends on the week, but lately the first.

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 02:27:38 -0500

🕜 As I was making some changes to my site tonight, I was bummed that Dropbox (where its files are synced) didn’t have more than a 30-day version history and I needed to reference back farther. Then I remembered I have Time Machine always running and found what I needed in a flash. 👍

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 02:13:19 -0500

I finally (after nearly nine months) sat down to finish up my site’s redesign with the new sidebar, including on the homepage!

I still have some tweaks to make, but I’m quite happy with how it’s turned out — especially the new dynamic bits. I hope you like it too. 😁

Sun, 12 Jan 2025 21:00:47 -0500

📺 I just finished my rewatch of Severance and, my god, did they ever nail that finale. Every scene a cliffhanger, with the ultimate one at the very end.

Though so much was left a mystery, I’d still have been happy if the series ended right there. But I’m overjoyed that season 2 picks up in a few days!

Sun, 12 Jan 2025 16:34:00 -0500

🆕📝 My favorite gizmos of CES 2025

Some of this is sure to be vaporware, but I feel good about a lot of products from CES this year — which isn't always the case.

Sun, 12 Jan 2025 15:28:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#166]

A visionOS 3D-drawing app, a calculator keyboard, a tool to subscribe to old podcasts as if they're new, a podcast of mini stories, a speedy studio tour, an inspiration, and micro-adventures.

Sun, 12 Jan 2025 15:08:36 -0500

🧠 Quick tip: If you double-tap on the Top Level Domain (TLD) of a link (like “.com” or “.social”) when editing text on iOS, it will highlight the entire URL.

Sat, 11 Jan 2025 19:21:16 -0500

On Connected, @viticci@macstories.net made a risky pick: Apple might launch an AI Siri app with multi-modal input and chat history. It got me wondering—what if it’s a Shortcuts revamp? Siri & Shortcuts are deeply linked—doubly so with Apple Intelligence. Wishcasting? Maybe. But Shortcuts needs TLC.

Sat, 11 Jan 2025 17:21:28 -0500

Univershuffle sounds like a lot of fun. Here’s what Michael Burkhardt had to say on 9to5Mac:

Univershuffle is a new music discovery app that shuffles all of the songs on Apple Music, completely at random – no AI or algorithms involved. […]

Once you have an Apple Music account linked, you can shuffle through songs as you please. You can exclude certain genres, that way you can better suit your music tastes.

There are display ads after the first 10 songs, but to can go ad-free for $5.

Could be great! Could be terrible. I’m downloading now to try it out.

Sat, 11 Jan 2025 13:43:02 -0500

Annie Mueller:

Trying to make things what they are not can get you in a lot of trouble.

Cauliflower is not rice, for example. Codependency is not love.

This bit made me chuckle, but the rest is worth reading too.

Sat, 11 Jan 2025 13:34:03 -0500

I’m psyched about these “Paper Apps” mini notebook games! They’re easy and cheap, and can all be played with the notebook and Pencil Dice. They’ll be perfect for camping trips and to distract kids during bad weather. And I’m gonna try the TO•DO one for physical task management. (Via Brendon Bigley)

Sat, 11 Jan 2025 12:11:59 -0500

I can appreciate Rodrigo Ghedin’s silver lining perspective on Meta’s reprehensible updates to their moderation policies:

If we take X (former Twitter) as an example, the relaxation of moderation there accelerated the discarding of Elon Musk’s platform as a habitable place, leading to losses in revenue, users, and relevance in public debate.

It would be great if this were repeated with Instagram, Facebook, and Threads.

Sat, 11 Jan 2025 11:42:39 -0500

John Gruber: ‘Zuckerberg Disses Apple With Joe Rogan: ‘They Haven’t Invented Anything Great in a While’’

What’s really rich about Meta and Zuckerberg’s incessant complaining about being restricted by Apple’s rules for third party software on Apple’s platforms is that Meta doesn’t allow third parties any sort of access to their successful platforms. There are no third-party clients for Facebook, Instagram, Threads, or WhatsApp. It is very hard to get any information out of them let alone integrate with them bi-directionally.

Good point, worth remembering.

Sat, 11 Jan 2025 11:26:12 -0500

🧠 Nope, Aaron, I didn’t know this about Chip, Skip, and Trip nicknames! Neat.

Sat, 11 Jan 2025 10:54:39 -0500

🚨 Woot has an awesome sale right now on Apple Watch Solo and Braided Loop bands. I just bought one of each for a total of $50 — half the normal cost of a Braided Loop! 🤯 Act fact, some sizes are selling out. MacRumors' article has direct links to all the colors.

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 21:36:00 -0500

🆕📝 An unexpectedly tense but productive day in homeownership

The day didn't go as planned, but that's okay.

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 21:03:53 -0500

Heyo! Supercharge is now available to install via Setapp. It’s chock full of great little tweaks for your Mac.

Does anyone else reinstall apps they’ve already purchased when they show up on Setapp? I like that the developer gets a little more money from me. 😁 Congrats @sindresorhus@mastodon.social!

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 19:31:32 -0500

😮‍💨 Spread the word! Developer Garrett Murray has made Breathable, his air quality index tracker with excellent widgets, free of charge, forever:

In light of the awful fires and air quality in Los Angeles, I’ve made Breathable free and app will remain free permanently. I charged for the app prior only so I could donate the proceeds to climate change charities, but paying Apple 15% for that privilege is silly. breathable.app

(Via Daring Fireball)

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 16:36:06 -0500

📺 If you got hooked on Severance during Apple’s free TV+ streaming weekend, you should definitely get on finishing season one for free on the Roku Channel before its second season debuts on January 17. I’ve been rewatching and am completely captivated once again. The official podcast is great, too.

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 15:37:58 -0500

Calling all ADK ice (and ice-curious) climbers! Thursday night ice climbing is back in session. Meet the crew at Pitchoff Quarry at 6pm for a couple of hours of fun and fellowship. Some extra climbing boots (select sizes), crampons, and ice tools will be available (free of charge) courtesy of @onwardguides. (DM us early if you will need to borrow gear!) Bring your own harness, helmet, and warm beverage. See you there!

(Note this is not a guided experience. Climb at your own risk.)

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 11:04:26 -0500

🎙️ Dammit @biff@zeppelin.flights, how did you get me to tear up just listening to you talk about Logan, which I haven’t seen in years. What a powerful film. (@Gte@mastodon.social calling back to Logan “dying with his heart in his hands” really got me.) 🥹🫡

overcast.fm/+AASHL1Cy…

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 09:42:26 -0500

Aquilino Gonell: ‘I Was Nearly Killed on Jan. 6th. Four Years Later, I Feel Betrayed All Over Again.'

I feel betrayed by the Department of Justice for not moving faster and with more purpose to hold accountable those who inspired the riot that day. […] I feel betrayed by the U.S. Supreme Court, which chose to declare presidents criminally immune for all “official acts” even if they threaten our constitutional and democratic institutions. I feel betrayed by those people who claim that they support the rule of law but gladly cheer on the people who violently attacked police officers.

And I feel let down by the members of Congress who turned their backs on us even as we saved their lives. And yes, we saved their lives that day.

Wed, 08 Jan 2025 22:01:28 -0500

Apple really doesn’t want you to think that just because they settled the Siri privacy lawsuit that it means they are guilty of spying on you or selling your data. From today’s Newsroom post:

Apple has never used Siri data to build marketing profiles, never made it available for advertising, and never sold it to anyone for any purpose. We are constantly developing technologies to make Siri even more private, and will continue to do so.

Here’s how Siri protects user data.

They go on to detail practices such as using random device identifiers instead of user accounts and Private Cloud Compute.

Wed, 08 Jan 2025 19:41:00 -0500

🆕📝 MacPaw’s aiming to out-Siri Siri with third-party-enabled Eney macOS assistant

I don't doubt MacPaw's experience and solid reputation for working well with third-party developers through Setapp will give them a leg up here.

Wed, 08 Jan 2025 19:08:43 -0500

Juli Clover, macrumors.com:

Delta today announced that it is partnering with YouTube for a new in-flight Delta Sync entertainment experience. Delta SkyMiles members who log into their accounts will be able to watch their favorite creators, podcasts, and music artists ad-free while on board most Delta flights.

I think this will prove to be very popular — much more so than other TV streaming services. People love YouTube. And it’s smart on YouTube’s part. I can attest that once you’ve tried an ad-free YouTube, you don’t go back. I expect they’ll sell a bunch of Premium memberships this way.

Wed, 08 Jan 2025 02:19:34 -0500

My apologies for the timeline bombardment. I finally fixed my Instagram → Micro.blog auto-crossposter and it caught up with my posts since December. I figured changing the publish dates to the past would move them back in the timeline too, but alas. 🙃

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 16:51:15 -0500

Brendan Leonard: ‘Make 2025 The Year Of Maximum Enthusiasm’

In 2025, I urge you to notice when something is awesome, as it often is, and exclaim or murmur or just make a mental note of it. Isn’t it just goddamn fantastic that you have your health, for example? Or running water, or electricity? Or that you have enough money to actually pay someone else to make you a cup of coffee? Or if you want ice cream, you are at any time in America probably only 5 or 10 minutes away from a place that sells some form of it? (Trust me on that one)

Sounds good! No notes.

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 15:10:13 -0500

Whoa, I just got my first cold email press release and media kit for a tech product — some DJ gadget from CES that’s supposed to work well with Algoriddim’s djay app — that someone wants me to write about. I’m flattered, but that’s not really what I do here, and I don’t know shit about DJing. 😅

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 14:54:00 -0500

🆕📝 Quick Tip: Get ChatGPT’s global keyboard shortcut working again in 5 seconds flat

Continuing my trend of posts that coulda been tweets. TL;DR - Enable the menu bar icon, and it'll start working again. And yes, I timed it.

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 13:33:59 -0500

🎙️ A couple of podcast recs for you today:

First, The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller & Adam Scott launched today. They’re recapping S1 leading into the new season, and then will keep going with S2. I love hearing the talent and creatives discuss how and why the show turned out the way it did. 🧵

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 13:17:11 -0500

And then use all the money you’re saving from more expensive blogging platforms and get yourself a custom domain to truly own your spot on the web!

I don’t think there’s ever been a more important time to really own your online presence than now. Seriously, go blog. Micro.one offers amazing blog hosting for just $1 a month. Manton is a legend for making this happen. Go sign up before he changes his mind!

Pedro Corá https://blog.pcora.eu/2025/01/07/i-dont-think-theres-ever.html

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 11:29:08 -0500

🔗 Ryan Christoffel: ‘PSA: It’s your last chance to return Apple products before holiday deadline expires’ 9to5mac.com

Don’t forget if you were using the holiday period for an extended trial!

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 11:15:00 -0500

🆕📝 Using HomePods for home theater audio is pretty great

If I knew it would solve so many of my issues with so few downsides, I would have done this years ago.

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 08:17:54 -0500

Manton Reece:

This thread from Mark Zuckerberg could’ve been written by Elon Musk. The last thing we need is X and Threads adopting the same perspective on moderation. I’ve read it through a few times and I feel worse about it each time.

Agreed. This makes me angry. Threads was made as an alternative to what X had become, but it’s gone to shit already and is about to get so much worse.

Basically, Zuck said, “We’re good with the disinformation, and the vitriol directed toward diverse groups. Open the floodgates!” Fuck that and him.

Bluesky and (🤞) Micro.blog are gonna get new folks.

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 07:55:23 -0500

A new Very Good Tweet™ has landed:

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 07:45:45 -0500

Sheena Vasani, theverge.com:

Philips Hue’s new generative AI lighting assistant lets users create personalized lighting scenes based on occasion, mood, or style. They can do so by typing commands like “Give me a scene for a garden party” into the Hue app and also by using their voice. The assistant will then either recommend scenes from the existing Philips Hue gallery or create a new one entirely.

A great idea — getting all the colors right is too fiddly, but this needs to be at the infrastructure/Home app level. I have lights from many different brands that I want to match to a scene.

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 07:01:00 -0500

🆕📝 My Big-Number Fitness Goals for 2025

I like goals that will take the whole year to complete. Hopefully, this'll keep me motivated every month, week, and day. 💪

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 23:50:38 -0500

Sounds like people are going to need longer games because they’ll be playing them so fast with Nvidia’s new hotness. 😏

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 22:06:37 -0500

Ella: ‘Write Books With the Block Editor’ wordpress.org

All this inspired me to wrap our editor in an app that can read and write local files–just as other document editors do. It turns out that EPUB is the best file format to store the content, because EPUB is an open standard for e-books that is essentially a ZIP file containing HTML and media–HTML like your WordPress posts!

Having recently praised wrapping exported files up in locally-browsable HTML, this caught my eye. I could see doing a ‘Best of the Blog’ ebook someday.

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 21:30:19 -0500

Andrew Liszewski, theverge.com:

Dell’s new 32-inch 4K OLED display uses an infrared sensor and five speakers located below the screen to track your head and beam sound directly to your ears. The feature eliminates the need to keep your head positioned in a sweet spot for optimal sound, and it could be ideal for gamers who are constantly moving around in the heat of battle. The monitor also features a 120Hz refresh rate, a 0.03ms response time, and will launch in the US on May 22nd, 2025, for $799.99.

Now that’s some cool, human-centered tech!

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 21:19:06 -0500

Jason Snell: ‘Apple Intelligence summaries might get warning labels. That’s not enough.'

Apple is shipping these AI-based features rapidly, and marketing them heavily, because it fears that its competitors so far out in front that it’s a potentially existential issue. But several of these features simply aren’t up to Apple’s quality standards, and I worry that we’ve all become so inured to AI hallucinations and screw-ups that we’re willing to accept them.

We shouldn’t be. Apple’s shipping a feature that frequently rewrites headlines to be wrong.

Jason makes good recommendations, too.

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 18:58:19 -0500

🔗 This ‘Features of Adulthood’ comic is shockingly accurate. xkcd.com

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 18:51:39 -0500

I’ve made the realization that I’ve done a poor job following blogs and accounts by women. The ratio is truly shameful. I’d love your recommendations for your favorite female friends. I’m into tech, outdoor adventures, and blogging, but I’ll read anything well-written. Always open to new interests!

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 18:29:49 -0500

🆕📝 My Blogging Origin Story & Other Questions: A Blogging Challenge

Sorry it's so long, Kev, but you did ask for it!

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 16:56:25 -0500

David Smith: ‘Four years after mob violence, Kamala Harris hands power – peacefully – to Trump’

Like Vice-Presidents Gore and Mike Pence before her, Harris did her duty on Monday. America has returned to a peaceful transfer of power. Yet the unpalatable truth was that the candidate who tried to overturn the previous election is legitimately returning to power. Democracy had prevailed to elevate a man who spits in its face.

That she didn’t gag while certifying the results proves she’s made of tougher stuff than me.

(Via Dave Winer)

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 15:17:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#165]

An alternate Genmoji app, a Shrinking creator interview, a passkey vs. magic link login blog post, how to kill spam messages online, an MKBHD year-end recap, a beautiful media year-end recap, and a sobering look at the sum total of human creation.

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 15:11:33 -0500

If given the choice, I’ve decided that I’d prefer a 3x telephoto lens to a 2x one as second camera on my iPhone. But I guess that wouldn’t work out as nicely to get a sharp crop from the 48MP main lens. Still, it’d be nice if I could choose the zoom of that extra button on the Camera’s interface.

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 14:25:21 -0500

Matt Birchler: ‘Sign up for X to see that amber alert. Yikes’

I believe it’s a good thing to meet your constituents where they are […]. However, it is very bad for them to put essential information on a private website they don’t own and that blocks access from logged out users. [And] zero logged out users would see a thread, since for a year or so X has only shown one post at a time to logged-out visitors.

This is why it’s important for people to own their presence on the web, especially when it comes to government agencies that need to communicate with people.

👏 Own 👏 Your 👏 Web 👏

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 14:20:55 -0500

🔗 Joe Rossignol: ‘Satechi’s New Mac Mini Hub Solves the Power Button Problem’ macrumors.com

With the extra frontside ports and built-in external storage for backups, I continue to think these made-specially-for-Mac-mini stand things are a great investment.

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 14:08:00 -0500

🆕📝 Some personal news: I’m an unpaid volunteer editor at The Verge (at least until they’re better at linking to things)

Or, 'Jarrod got grumpy and made a mountain out of a molehill' 🤪

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 12:09:00 -0500

🆕📝 I’m switching from Raindrop to Apple Notes for saving my shopping links

It sounds inconsequential, but I think it's going to make an outsized difference. I've been toying with the idea of 2025 being The Year of Small Improvements, and this plays nicely with that theme.

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 11:43:19 -0500

Tom Warren: ‘Microsoft is using Bing to trick people into thinking they’re on Google’

If you use Bing right now without signing into a Microsoft account and search for Google, you’ll get a page that looks an awful lot like… Google.

[…] The Google result includes a search bar, an image that looks a lot like a Google Doodle, and even some small text under the search bar just like Google does. Microsoft even automatically scrolls down the page slightly to mask its own Bing search bar that appears at the top of search results.

That’s really something. Microsoft, your lack of taste is showing.

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 09:51:16 -0500

🔗 All we have is a tiny portable propane grill, and I’m no grillmaster. So the $400 price point on this Brisk It grill is attractive, as is the assistive cooking AI — if it actually works as advertised. theverge.com

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 09:42:38 -0500

🔗 2025 will be the year — and perhaps this Schlage Sense Pro Pro Smart Deadbolt (what a mouthful!) will be the unit — that I invest in a smart lock. I’ve spent too many years fumbling with my key in the bitter cold and my arms full of gear. 9to5mac.com

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 09:05:52 -0500

🔗 ‘Shazam Fast Forward predicts 50 breakthrough artists in 2025’ Ben Lovejoy / 9to5mac.com

I’m looking forward to their 2025 Predictions playlist, presumably available after the 5-day countdown.

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 08:54:30 -0500

🎁 Folks who share gift links to paywalled articles, I appreciate you. 🙌

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 08:49:25 -0500

Or, for this crowd, “The Constitution is all very well up to a point, but the needs of [Apple] must come first.” Fuck that sentiment. theatlantic.com

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 08:44:06 -0500

🔗 It speaks to Lutron’s rock-solid performance that I now unreservedly covet $400 smart window shades. casetawireless.com

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 07:21:55 -0500

‘Blogging: you’re doing it right’ manuelmoreale.com

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 07:12:50 -0500

Chris Welch:

The Frame Pro is also getting the same litany of AI-powered features as Samsung’s other 2025 TVs. AI is such a focus this year that there’s a dedicated button on the remote for activating Click to Search, which can show you “who the actors are in a given scene, where that scene is taking place, or even the clothing the characters are wearing,” according to Samsung’s press release.

And it’ll get you recipes for foods on-screen, as well as do live translations for captions. The future is coming fast and furious. But I wonder how much of this will still be included in five years.

Sun, 05 Jan 2025 21:03:08 -0500

Adam Newbold poses a great question on syndicating posts vs. pages that he’ll answer with Neato:

Our websites have pages that don’t get syndicated (what we think of as “static” pages) and things that do (what we think of as “blog posts”). But… why? Why not just syndicate everything? If you have an “About” page and you change it, why wouldn’t you want to add that to your feed and let your readers know about the update? If you make a nice new static page, why should you have to announce it and link to it in a separate blog post when having that page appear in your feed does the job for you?

Sat, 04 Jan 2025 23:54:57 -0500

James Thomson reveals the secrets — and his role — in how the Mac OS Dock came to be. Make sure to read to the very end! 🔗 tla.systems

Sat, 04 Jan 2025 23:44:34 -0500

‘Friction is a Feature’ 🔗 Steve Ledlow / tangiblelife.net

Sat, 04 Jan 2025 23:42:01 -0500

‘Intentional Web Manifesto’ 🔗 Steve Ledlow / tangiblelife.net

Sat, 04 Jan 2025 23:37:10 -0500

Lou Plummer describes his perfect day (and it, indeed, sounds super nice). 🔗 amerpie.lol

Sat, 04 Jan 2025 22:34:55 -0500

I should probably start listening to Zane Lowe’s show on Apple Music, because I always love artist interviews when I happen across them. This one with Maggie Rogers on NPR Fresh Air was short, sweet, and wonderful. Hard to believe she’s my age. 🎙️ overcast.fm

Sat, 04 Jan 2025 17:20:55 -0500

Celeste Davis: ‘Why aren’t we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping?'

For every 1% increase in the proportion of women in the student body, 1.7 fewer men applied. One more woman applying was a greater deterrent than $1000 in extra tuition!

This post is long, and I won’t pretend I read every word, but I got the gist and was nodding along. Our institutional disregard, dislike, and devaluation of feminism will continue to bite our ass as a society. The only way it’ll change is by teaching kids by example to accept and celebrate people as they are.

(Via Patrick Rhone)

Sat, 04 Jan 2025 16:39:28 -0500

🤧 I spent week 1/52 of 2025 as sick as a dog. Thankfully, it was a light week, and I could shift responsibilities around. But it was a harsh reminder not to procrastinate on yearly vaccines. My much smarter wife got hers — just one day of feeling lousy before her body bounced back. Lesson learned.

Sat, 04 Jan 2025 16:10:32 -0500

Jason Becker: ‘Banning Books that are “developmentally inapporpriate”'

“Developmentally inappropriate” is largely a term used to mean, “A topic that a child brings to an adult that they feel uncomfortable talking about with a child of that age.”

Most exposures to content that somehow becomes traumatic is only much more so when the world signals to a child that they should never talk to an adult about what they saw and how it made them feel because they were wrong to have come across it in the first place.

Hear, hear.

Sat, 04 Jan 2025 13:39:36 -0500

Manton Reece: ‘The long goodbye for Tim Cook’

Tim Cook has led Apple to incredible success, but his words are hollow. Even the principles he seems to care most passionately about, like user privacy, are in doubt. I’m increasingly thinking it’s an act.

I used to consider Tim Cook with nothing but admiration. From graceful filling the impossibly big shoes Steve Jobs left behind, to recognizing the responsibility his role gave him and coming out as the first and most prominent openly gay CEO, to his advocacy for user privacy.

The shine’s worn off over the years. Actions speak louder than words.

Sat, 04 Jan 2025 13:27:00 -0500

🆕📝 Experimenting with link posts on my microblog (and “the how” with Shortcuts)

This was gonna be a short post about emulating Dave Winer's link posts, but it, uh, grew into a peek behind the curtain.

Sat, 04 Jan 2025 11:01:01 -0500

Tired of managing screenshots in my photo library, I’ve put together this shortcut that takes a screenshot, automatically frames it with Shareshot, and sends it to the share sheet where I can save it or upload for sharing. All without littering up my library. 👌

Sat, 04 Jan 2025 10:06:52 -0500

Pixelfed is doing data exports right by offering a local HTML site to browse your photos and data like a webpage. Along with the raw files, they include a JSON file for easier imports elsewhere. More self-contained, interactive exports like this, please! mastodon.social (Via Numeric Citizen)

Sat, 04 Jan 2025 00:59:00 -0500

🆕📝 Mesh Baselayers Beat Traditional Ones

It both defies logic and makes perfect sense.

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 23:56:41 -0500

Even as a Robb Knight superfan, it slipped me by that his Lantern tool for reviewing media on Micro.blog exists. 🤯 I’m pretty content with QuickReviews.app, but this sure is handy!

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 22:08:26 -0500

🍿 Watched (back in May 2022): The Matrix (1999)

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 22:03:30 -0500

🍿 Watched (back in May 2022): Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 22:02:28 -0500

Don’t mind me, just clearing out some old reviews in Drafts that I never got around to posting until now. 😅

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 21:56:45 -0500

🍿 Watched (back in May 2022): Explorer: The Last Tepui (2022)

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 21:50:06 -0500

📺 Finished watching: Slow Horses (Season 2)

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 19:18:41 -0500

Nick Heer: ‘Tim Cook Becomes the Newest Big Donor to the Trump Inaugural Fund’

Call this what you want: bipartisanship, diplomacy, pragmatic, or “the spirit of unity”. But do not call it principled.

Or bribery.

I love Nick’s writing just as much as I hate all the boot licking.

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 17:37:15 -0500

In case you haven’t heard yet, Apple TV+ is available to everyone to stream for free this weekend! It’s by far my favorite TV service. Here are my top five show recommendations:

Trying
Severence
For All Mankind
Ted Lasso
Dark Matter

And their best movie: CODA

If you subscribe, what are your top 5?

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 17:00:14 -0500

Master of CSS Chris Coyier lightly redecorated his website, and it looks great. There are so many concepts here that I hope to dig into someday. chriscoyier.net

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 10:04:05 -0500

Pratik, writing.desipundit.com:

In general, even in 2024, the layperson is still intimidated by a “custom domain.” My wife’s firstname.com is available and yet she isn’t interested in getting it. Perhaps if we focused on the cool factor and owning a piece of the Internet (instead of data portability) […] it would get more traction.

He’s probably right. Most people don’t care about data portability. But more of them are impressed by cool URLs. And we know what they say about cool URLs…

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 09:38:06 -0500

Spending 30 minutes working around Shortcuts bugs wasn’t how I intended to start my morning, but it sure did make me appreciate apps (@1writer@mastodon.social) that offer multiple avenues for automation. Thank you @agiletortoise@mastodon.social and @marcoarment@mastodon.social for x-callback-url!

Year in books for 2024

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 00:59:17 -0500

There may not have been many, but each were quite good!

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 00:52:26 -0500

🍿 Just watched: Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 21:33:13 -0500

It’s been 0 days since an app that I rarely open but use almost every single day via its share sheet extension or Shortcuts actions was offloaded from my device. 🙄

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 21:13:52 -0500

Congrats to @manton for shipping Micro.one! It turned out to be more full-featured than I expected, which is to say it’s most of Micro.blog at just $1/month. With most blogging platforms starting at around $4/month and offering much less, Micro.one is quite the deal.

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 19:00:08 -0500

It’s a very good app, but I just canceled my subscription to Day One. I haven’t written in it quite a while. My IFTTT actions for saving blog posts there got turned off for some reason, so I don’t even have a full history there now. But I do like having that automation… I may change my mind.

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 17:59:09 -0500

In case you (somehow) hadn’t heard, you should definitely uninstall Honey, the coupon-finding app that’s been scamming both you and creators. youtube.com/watch

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 12:20:00 -0500

🆕📝 Overcast Podcast Listening Stats for 2024

I waited till the end of the year to share my total stats. It's...a lot of hours. 😳 🎙️

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 10:52:14 -0500

I’ve been impressed with the Meta Ray-Bans' new adaptive volume — it’s perfect for biking as it adjusts with speed and ambient noise. Meanwhile, the AirPods 4’s version? Not so much. It’s so finicky and distracting that I turned it off yesterday.

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 13:21:40 -0500

Jason Becker: ‘What hardens and what falls away– experiencing tech as we age’

As we get older, some ideas become things we cannot let go of, whereas other ideas become less and less important. That’s not to say this is good or bad– I’m not saying someone like Riccardo isn’t keeping up with the times or any such nonsense. I’m saying that each of us, uniquely, has a set of ideas, principles, routines, and desires that become hardened while others wither away. Depending on the mix of things you care about, you can end up deeply satisfied or unsatisfied as the world continues on its own path.

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 13:11:04 -0500

🔗 The Back Page: Getting the carbon out (Dan Moren / sixcolors.com 🔒)

Regardless, we’ve made great strides in the last year, introducing a carbon-neutral version of the Apple Watch Series 10; releasing our first carbon-neutral Mac, the new Mac mini; and eliminating spaghetti carbonara at Caffe Macs. We’re not sure if it had carbon in it, but better safe than sorry.

😆 Well done, Dan.

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 17:00:00 -0500

🆕📝 2024 Apple Product Tier List

Thanks to Basic Apple Guy for inspiring and enabling this ranking!

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 16:41:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#164]

Usually I'd like to theme the final *7 Things* of the year in some way, but I'm feeling pretty under the weather, so I'm keeping it casual to close out 2024. I hope you're all feeling better than me and have a happy new year! 🎊

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 16:34:00 -0500

🆕📝 Grading my 24 Apple predictions for 2024

Did I make good bets? Bad bets? You bet I did! 🛎️

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 15:05:17 -0500

🍿 Just watched: Carry-On (2024)

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 14:47:00 -0500

🆕📝 PSA: Best Buy’s Upgrade+ program didn’t even last long enough for users to get a single upgrade, but Upgraded is another option

Best Buy is out before upgrading anyone's laptop (LOL), Apple isn't offering their own MacBook Upgrade Program, but maybe Upgraded is good?

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 12:40:30 -0500

John Gruber:

Not only is using Apple Intelligence for automation more accessible (in every sense) than writing a programming script or creating a Shortcut, it’s also something we’re all much more likely to do for a one-time task. I often create scripts, shortcuts, and macros to automate tasks that recur with some frequency; I seldom do for tasks that I’m only going to do once. But why not use Apple Intelligence and ChatGPT to save a few minutes of tedium?

I do often make shortcuts for one-off tasks—either for accuracy or cause it’s the only way I can connect the dots. AI could disrupt this.

Mon, 30 Dec 2024 08:47:37 -0500

Lou Plummer:

Since Jimmy Carter left the white house, his basic goodness and humanity has never, ever wavered. He has represented the US admirably and performed with unmatched wisdom in advocating for world health improvements that have saved millions of lives. The pictures of him volunteering for Habitat for Humanity into his 90s are famous.

I’m sad tonight to know that I’m going to be on a planet without Jimmy Carter on it for the first time ever.

Thu, 26 Dec 2024 00:00:51 -0500

📺 Restarted Severance tonight, too, in anticipation of its second season. S1E1 is such good television! Mystery after mystery. So compelling.

Wed, 25 Dec 2024 23:52:34 -0500

📺 Just finished: Shrinking (Season 2)

Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:04:00 -0500

Waiting till Christmas morning to put up the ornaments wasn’t necessarily the plan, but it might be a fun new tradition! The day was too beautiful not to get out for a little ski on the rail trail. Happy Holidays from us to you!

Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:03:00 -0500

Calling all ADK ice (and ice-curious) climbers! Thursday night ice climbing is back in session. Meet the crew at Pitchoff Quarry at 6pm for a couple of hours of fun and fellowship. Some extra climbing boots (select sizes), crampons, and ice tools will be available (free of charge) courtesy of @onwardguides. Bring your own harness, helmet, and warm beverage. See you there!

(Note this is not a guided experience. Climb at your own risk.)

Wed, 25 Dec 2024 09:21:37 -0500

A new Very Good Tweet™ has landed:

Wed, 25 Dec 2024 09:11:13 -0500

The great and terrible thing about humankind is simply this: we will always do what we are capable of.
— Ray Nayler, The Mountain in the Sea

Tue, 24 Dec 2024 19:45:14 -0500

Jason Koebler: ‘I Went to the Premiere of the First Commercially Streaming AI-Generated Movies’

“The Best Day of My Life” is a mountaineering documentary in which a real man talks about an avalanche that nearly killed him and led to his leg being amputated, with his narrated story being animated with AI.

This example is the only one that feels okay to me.

Tue, 24 Dec 2024 19:30:30 -0500

Gosh, I wish my screen reader could use the excellent digital voices that Apple already offers to authors to create audiobooks out of their works.

Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:43:58 -0500

🔗 These emoji and acronyms are no longer cool, says study:

Overuse is a common theme to other emoji and acronyms now considered to be past their sell-by date, reports Becextech, which commissioned the study. Here’s the rest of the top 10 least cool […]

LOL

Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:16:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#163]

New iOS volume-control tips, a stark statistic on pregnancy and homicide, a Genmoji collection, a call for dedicated journalism ownership, WordPress reflections, a creative About-page feature, and an app for comparing movie and TV credits.

Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:02:34 -0500

A new Very Good Tweet™ has landed:

Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:15:07 -0500

Artemis, the calm web reader by James, got some great updates. Here’s just one:

You can create a public version of your feed that you can share with others from your account settings (like this one).

I like this trend of being able to publicly share your personal reading list.

Mon, 23 Dec 2024 07:39:13 -0500

Loura has a fascinating idea for her blog:

The other theme idea I’ve been thinking on, is how to make my blog more interactive. I have the beginnings of an old school RPG plan where you explore my blog (as a character) and “find” the post. It’s still in the very beginning stages. Something on the lines of using the URL as an identifier that can then be used to seed a level. You can wander around, face little monsters, and go on the hunt to find the blog post. Lots of different angles to consider.

I love the weird and wonderful web.

Sun, 22 Dec 2024 22:55:16 -0500

Nick Heer last year:

The problem with the free market is that it rarely rewards artistic integrity, and that maximizing revenue often means trying to appease the widest possible audience. If a studio want to include a market of a billion people where personal expression is not seen with the same standards as in the U.S., it may need to make some changes. That is especially true for Apple as it risks losing access to its manufacturing engine. The problem these lawmakers have is with capitalism, not Apple specifically, but that is not really something they are able to admit.

Sat, 21 Dec 2024 20:16:13 -0500

Lou Plummer:

Other wonderful adult privileges I appreciate to this day or deciding when I want to go to sleep and when I wish to wake up. […] I love to read, and being able to continue a book at night in a dark house while everyone else is sleeping is just divine. […]

Oh – there’s food too. I grew up in one of those “you have to eat everything on your plate” houses. There were only a few things I didn’t care for, but my Mom made them anyway. I haven’t had to eat a serving of green English peas since 1979. I’ll never eat them again, either.

Co-signed. Adult freedom is the best.

Sat, 21 Dec 2024 00:43:57 -0500

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, theverge.com:

If you’re considering adding smart features to your front door, 2025 is shaping up to be an excellent year to do so.

It me! Ultra-wideband support, better battery life, wider smart home interoperability, and more is all coming next year. Sounds promising.

Fri, 20 Dec 2024 15:31:55 -0500

Annie Mueller:

I enjoy dipping into Micro.blog and Mastodon, and I’ve gotten to meet and interact with people I wouldn’t have encountered otherwise.

But I think we’re putting an undue amount of pressure on the fediverse to provide community for us. No platform can build or provide community. People are the only ones who can build community, and we do it by nurturing individual connections with each other.

We can use the fediverse as a tool for this, just like we can use our own blogs, and email, messaging, phone conversations, video calls, streaming interactions, and in-person visits.

Fri, 20 Dec 2024 15:23:06 -0500

Hey @micr0@fuzzies.wtf, @altbot@fuzzies.wtf is amazing. I built a shortcut to generate descriptions for images before I post them online, and I’m curious if you have a prompt that you feed to Gemini along with each image that you’d be willing to share? Just hoping to further improve my tool. Thanks!

Fri, 20 Dec 2024 15:04:00 -0500

🆕📝 Leaping Onward

The story of how and why I started Onward Mountain Guides this year. 🧭

Fri, 20 Dec 2024 12:14:00 -0500

🆕📝 Delta of the Defaults (2024)

Taking stock of the apps I'm using these days. 📱

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 15:14:43 -0500

Dan Moren on one of his favorite hardware picks of 2024:

We’d previously put in Lutron Caseta switches when we did our renovations after buying the house, and while they’ve been great, my one complaint was they look a bit nerdy with all the various buttons. Good news: Lutron is now also offering the Diva Smart Dimmer, which works just as well as the classic Caseta switches, but looks like your standard “paddle rocker” switch. I love these; they’re way easier to use by feel and they have a far sleeker look

I concur; the Divas are a notable upgrade in look and feel!

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 14:45:37 -0500

Not that I think anyone will actually join them, but I had some fun putting together “One a Week” and “One a Day” tiers for my supporter page to go along with the prototypical “One a Month”. You get the same stuff (incl. a yearly custom shortcut), but we love each other more. 😆 heydingus.net/club

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 14:04:48 -0500

Why do executives (or regular people, for that matter) continue to post their communications to X? I literally cannot open the links. It’s 2024, loading a webpage should not be this difficult. Post to your own domain! (From this article, btw.)

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 12:24:30 -0500

Federico Viticci: ‘iPad Pro for Everything: How I Rethought My Entire Workflow Around the New 11" iPad Pro’

If you told me years ago that a future story about my iPad Pro usage would wrap up with a section about a pillow and HDR, I would have guessed I’d lost my mind in the intervening years. And here we are.

As he teased this story for months, I couldn’t understand what took so long for Ticci to write up how he does video and audio podcasts from the iPad. Turns out this piece is so much more. Fascinating read.

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 08:42:45 -0500

Chris Murphy descibes the precipice upon which US democracy stands:

[W]hen you start to put a couple of the regime’s political opponents in jail, there are literally just thousands of people who say, You know what, forget it. It’s just not worth it. I think this is important, to oppose Donald Trump, but I got a family at home. I just don’t want to put my name in the mix. And all of a sudden, the bodies that are available for the political opposition are cut in half. […] So even if it’s just Liz Cheney—and it may not be just Liz Cheney—the chilling effect that it has on speech could be fatal.

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 08:09:39 -0500

🔗 Apple Released the Original AirPods Eight Years Ago Today (Hartley Charlton / macrumors.com)

At the time, wireless headphones were already on the market but had not yet reached true mass popularity. AirPods helped redefine the category through their convenience and seamless integration with Apple devices.

AirPods handily best all other accessories, and hold their own on my list of best Apple products of all time.

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 00:25:53 -0500

This internal Shortcuts action appears to have flown the coup! cc: @matthewcassinelli@mastodon.social

Wed, 18 Dec 2024 23:31:50 -0500

I super hope this fixes my issue with missing time chunks in my Micro.blog feed! It’s very close to being my favorite timeline reader. If that bug really is fixed, my final request will be for an option to sort newest posts to bottom. Why don’t all timelines offer this? We read from top to bottom!

Wed, 18 Dec 2024 18:15:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#162]

3D-printable Mac mini designs, gift-wrapping tips for odd-shaped items, a hilarious video, a reminder about disability and design, stunning Earth photography, Doom running on Apple’s Private Cloud Compute, and a case that boosts AirTag battery life.

Wed, 18 Dec 2024 16:08:27 -0500

TIL The Verge is newly available via Apple News+. Maybe I won’t need their subscription after all. 🤷‍♂️

Wed, 18 Dec 2024 15:04:56 -0500

🔗 ‘Bloomberg: Apple scraps plans to offer iPhone hardware subscription service’ (Chance Miller / 9to5mac.com):

Apple also offers the iPhone Upgrade Program, which is backed by Citizens Bank and splits iPhone purchases into installments across two years, with the option to upgrade after one year. You can also finance iPhone purchases with Apple Card Monthly Installments.

But these programs require you to connect the phone to a major carrier at checkout. No smaller (cheaper) carriers allowed, which is a big ol' bummer.

Tue, 17 Dec 2024 23:20:31 -0500

🔗 Iconic Flint Center undergoes demolition five years after closing (Stephanie Lam / mercurynews.com)

An iconic performing arts theater where Apple co-founder Steve Jobs unveiled the first Macintosh computer in 1984 is being reduced to rubble, five years after the college district that owns the space closed it down due to high renovation costs.

‘Twas also the stage upon which the Apple Watch debuted. I feel just a little sad about this little bit of history going away.

Tue, 17 Dec 2024 17:24:00 -0500

New gear day!! 😍 Book a trip and you could be the first to swing them into ice! Thanks @petzl_official

Tue, 17 Dec 2024 14:36:19 -0500

Alright, I’ll share my Raycast stats too. I’m definitely not taking full advantage of it.

Tue, 17 Dec 2024 14:07:29 -0500

Well… our wood stove is “unsafe”, and our roof, which we were told had been recently replaced when we bought the house last year, is “terrible” per the chimney sweep. Oh, and the pest guy won’t return my texts about the squirrels in my roof. 2025 is shaping up to be a pricey year for home repairs.

Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:40:52 -0500

It’s weird how much people’s kids look like them. A bit narcissistic, don’t you think? I mean, c’mon, have a little imagination.

Mon, 16 Dec 2024 13:22:02 -0500

Victoria Song: ‘Meta rolls out live AI, live translations, and Shazam to its smart glasses’

Live AI allows you to naturally converse with Meta’s AI assistant while it continuously views your surroundings. For example, if you’re perusing the produce section at a grocery store, you’ll theoretically be able to ask Meta’s AI to suggest some recipes based on the ingredients you’re looking at. […]

Meanwhile, live translation allows the glasses to translate speech in real-time between English and Spanish, French, or Italian.

Roughly 30-minute battery life with Live. Not great, but’ll be fun to try!

Mon, 16 Dec 2024 12:55:30 -0500

🔗 Apple TV+ renews hit, world-building drama “Silo” for seasons three and four

Great news! I liked season one, and I love season two! Can’t wait to see more unfold.

Sun, 15 Dec 2024 21:36:24 -0500

Kushaiah Felisilda: ‘A Calendar Shift Experiment’

I’ve always set my calendar to start on Sunday, simply because it’s the default setting on most calendars, both paper ones and digital. Now, I’m experimenting with setting Monday as the start of my week for the next two weeks. I’m curious to see if this change will affect my perspective on the week’s structure.

Sun, 15 Dec 2024 18:55:41 -0500

🎙️ Having heard you say how much you wanted to be a parent someday, I couldn’t be more excited for you, @imyke@myke.social (and Adina). I’ve loved hearing all the baby talk. It really has been quite the year! 🥹 Good luck! 🤞 overcast.fm/+AADAvLi-…

Sat, 14 Dec 2024 22:24:00 -0500

Kicked some ice tonight with @ben_k_

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 18:50:13 -0500

🎙️ One of the best explainers for the three types of fun I’ve heard to date. And I like what he says at the end; it’s in type 3 that you really grow. dirtbagdiaries.com

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 14:03:00 -0500

Got out for a little ski scouting for future projects. It was a bit rockier than I expected. Sorry skins! 😬 Gorgeous day though.

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 03:38:54 -0500

🍿 Watched: Wicked: Part I (2024)

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 03:38:47 -0500

📺 Finished watching: What We Do in the Shadows (Season 6)

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 02:44:00 -0500

🆕📝 ‘Dictate a Note’ is my new favorite shortcut (and that’s saying something)

I'm dictating ideas and tasks left and right, with gloves on, while hiking, without looking. Nothing escapes me! 🎙️

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 00:07:00 -0500

🚨 New shortcut! Don’t be like me and be too slow to make your Very Good Joke. Use ‘Whispering to Date’ Meme Maker to be the fastest draw in all the land.

Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 23:06:00 -0500

🆕📝 First Impressions of Artemis: James’ ‘Calm Web Reader’

I didn't think I'd be adding another feed reader to my arsenal, let alone liking it so much despite its (intentional) lack of bells and whistles.

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 22:17:43 -0500

John Gruber, on the new Mozi app for coordinating with friends when you’re/they’re in the vicinity:

New app, spearheaded by Ev Williams:

Mozi is a private social network for seeing your people more, IRL. Add your plans, check who’s in town, and know when you overlap.

iOS only at the moment, with “Sign in with Apple” as the only supported authentication method. One clever idea is that you can share travel plans and your location, and Mozi will coordinate when you might be in the same area as a friend.

Alright, I’ll bite.

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 19:23:00 -0500

🆕📝 I launched a ‘For Sale’ page 🛍️

Help me get rid of my gadgets and gizmos aplenty!

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 19:08:59 -0500

As Twitter’s spiritual successor, Bluesky has potential to also take up the mantle of “UI design playground”.

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 15:43:22 -0500

🎙️ I snorted so hard it hurt. Thanks @rebound@hachyderm.io. 🤣 overcast.fm/+AADe1njn…

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 14:14:00 -0500

Big year! Going bigger in 2025. 💪 #StravaRecap

P.S. Thanks for all the kudos @lame_letters, and all the fun times @rech310, @sgardnerdpt, @klister_the_cat! 🙌

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 14:07:36 -0500

I placed a big, scary equipment order today. And will place bigger, scarier ones soon. 🫣 Please book a trip or tell your friends! 😆

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 13:51:24 -0500

I was perfectly happy with my resort skis until this moment. 🤤

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 13:44:21 -0500

🔗 Apple now selling medical expert-designed Vision Pro accessory that solves top user complaint (Zac Hall / 9to5mac.com)

ResMed, a medical solutions company with over three decades of experience designing anthropometric accessories, is announcing a new Apple Vision Pro strap specifically designed for extended use.

It looks and is priced ($120) like it was designed by Apple. ResMed’s video (a really good one that actually shows which straps to adjust to alleviate pressure spots) even looks like it’s trying to recreate the space from Apple’s introduction video. So many head strap choices now!

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 13:23:42 -0500

A new Very Good Tweet™ from @agiletortoise@mastodon.social from has landed:

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 13:18:01 -0500

Jason Snell explains how you can generate images of generic people with Image Playground using skin tones and collections of pseudo-people as foundation:

This is where it gets a little weird: Rather that building a person, Memoji style, you choose from three different collections of thumbnails, which are the various Appearances that might come up when you generate an image. They appear to be weighted by gender, so the leftmost is (mostly?) women, the rightmost men, the middle more of a grab bag—but there’s a lot of variation between each collection of Appearances.

What a strange interface.

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 11:57:00 -0500

🆕📝 The Magic Keyboard with Touch ID Rules

Yeah, I should have gotten one a long time ago.

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 08:56:56 -0500

Jim Eagar on saying goodbye to someone(thing) beloved:

Just last month, I wrote a blog post about doing things for the last time. Yesterday, my wife and I talked about times when we did some activity with Gina that was the last time. […]

I want this sad episode to help me not take the things and people I care about for granted. This includes my relationships with our other cats, my wife, family, and friends. The realization that all of them will, at some point, die, as will I, gives me a heightened sense of value and appreciation for each of them.

My heart goes out to your family, Jim.

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 08:49:13 -0500

Yesss, bring on the camera bar! I’m ready to get rid of the wobble. Though this would interfere with Apple’s new best friends, Spatial Photos and Videos.
(Image via 9to5Mac)

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:12:36 -0500

“Eats their own dogfood” is kind of a revolting phrase. I propose “test pilots their own rockets” when describing developers using and testing their own software on the daily.

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 18:15:23 -0500

Headed back to that Indian grill tonight, followed by Wicked for date night!

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 16:58:00 -0500

Super glad I got out yesterday for a ski before all the rain blew in. It was so good out at @whiteface_mt. Hope we get a new covering soon!

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 16:29:19 -0500

🔗 Apple Original Films lands “All of You” starring and written by Brett Goldstein:

Apple Original Films today announced it will expand its film slate with “All of You,” a humorous and heart-wrenching romantic drama starring and written by Emmy Award winner Brett Goldstein (“Ted Lasso,” “Shrinking”), written and directed by Emmy Award winner William Bridges (“Black Mirror”), and hailing from MRC.

I think Apple’s given Brett Goldstein a blanket go-ahead for all his projects. So far, so good!

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 15:44:32 -0500

Brendon Bigley: ‘Panic Inc. Announces Blippo+'

Panic Inc. — creators of the PlayDate console and publishers of games like Thank Goodness You’re Here_ — announced some kind of FMV… thing… at Day of the Devs today called_Blippo+. There’s no real information here beyond the above trailer and the ability to wishlist it on Steam, but this is one of those things I saw and immediately thought: Yeah, I’m gonna love this thing.

Boy that video was unsettling though.

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 15:21:36 -0500

🔗 Voice Memos update brings Layered Recording to iPhone 16 Pro lineup

With iOS 18.2, users will be able to play their original instrumental ideas through the iPhone speaker while simultaneously recording vocals using the new studio-quality microphones on iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max.

Michael Bublé thinks very highly of it!

Sure seems like a UI tailored for musical artists’ needs and these additional features would go well in a dedicated app, though. Let’s call it Music Memos. Oh wait.

Maybe Apple couldn’t get enough artists to download an app that wasn’t preinstalled. Shame though.

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 15:03:47 -0500

Matt Birchler (🔒):

The election was 5 weeks ago, and I’d say at least half of the houses in my neighborhood that put out Trump signs and flags before the election still have them up today. Maybe some are waiting for the inauguration on January 20, but something tells me a lot of these are staying up for the next 4 years (at least).

But yeah, I don’t get it, and I just don’t get how I’d ever want to walk out my front door each day and see a sign sucking up to the current (or former) President.

I fear many of these will stay up until they’re too faded to recognize. Then they’ll be replaced.

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 14:39:37 -0500

Jason Snell blogged about Mic Drop, a handy utility that mutes and unmutes your microphone, system-wide, with a global hotkey:

Mic Drop literally does everything I expected from it. It lives in your menu bar and has support for global hotkeys or AppleScript, optional audio and multiple visual notifications of mute status, the ability to choose which mics are muted and which ones aren’t, and even an optional push-to-talk toggle mode.

I don’t do many video calls anymore, but I always hated hunting for the mute key. The visual status in the menu bar and pop-ups are nice touches.

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 12:59:42 -0500

I have real trouble remembering the correct usernames for folks now that we’re all spread across networks and servers. Autocomplete often shows outdated accounts, leaving me unsure which to pick. As a proud Text Replacements power user, though, I’ve found the perfect workaround.

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 12:51:04 -0500

Anyone else seeing this issue where you can no longer copy a web address from the Safari View Controller? I use this all the time, and I think it stopped working during the 18.2 beta. I hopped off the beta train, but there’s no new public update for me in settings. Still broken out there?

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 11:45:27 -0500

I don’t use Sketch, but I very much enjoyed @rafa@mastodon.design’s recap of what they shipped in the app this year. 🤣

mastodon.design/@rafa/113…

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 11:36:59 -0500

I so grateful to have received two pairs of Mack Weldon slippers for Christmas a few years ago. So when my original pair went missing this week — and were, frankly, getting a bit ratty anyway — I could just pull out a fresh pair! They’re so cozy.

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:20:01 -0500

Jason Kottke made an ask of his readers to point out things only they have noticed:

Anyway, I was wondering if any of y’all have any bugaboos like this where you feel like you’re the only one who knows this is happening.

While I didn’t notice this weirdness personally, I happened upon it via a Reel, I think it fits the theme:

Why on earth would the wizarding world so extravagantly celebrate Christmas? Wouldn’t Jesus just be a normal dude in their eyes? “You turn water to wine? Yeah, we all do that here!” Even returning from the dead isn’t so special with horcruxes and everything. 🙃

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:02:02 -0500

TIL you can navigate complex interfaces from within a Messages notification. I expanded this one, long-pressed on an email address sent, and was able to tap and swipe through the UI for adding the address to a contact in the tiny viewport. What if I chose to add a new one? Mini keyboard!?

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 09:51:00 -0500

🆕📝 The App Store Awards unexpectedly brightened my day (and my Today View)

A calculator app wasn't on the list, but the Awards still led me to it and its wonderful widget.

Tue, 10 Dec 2024 18:09:11 -0500

Re: @kottke@mastodon.social’s microwave game challenge. 10,000! (Also, I have thoughts about microwaves and their buttons.)

Tue, 10 Dec 2024 16:57:00 -0500

Today was a perfect day at @whiteface_mt! Incredible views, soft snow, good weather, and great friends. Thanks to the whole team there! (And maybe let someone know that your ski patroller made their escape with a Christmas tree down the slopes! 🤣)

Tue, 10 Dec 2024 15:24:57 -0500

🔗 Apple Watch Ultra 3 Will Support Texting via Satellite (Juli Clover / macrumors.com)

Apple is hoping that the satellite feature will encourage Apple Watch owners to update to a new Apple Watch Ultra, with the third-generation model set to come out in September 2025. Satellite connectivity would also allow Apple to better compete with companies like Garmin that manufacture dedicated satellite hardware for use in off-grid emergencies.

This alone would be a worthwhile update for me. Add in the fresh battery gains and other usual improvements and we’ve got ourselves a banger watch upgrade. 🤞

Tue, 10 Dec 2024 13:57:00 -0500

Look at their little snow hats! 😍

Mon, 09 Dec 2024 19:34:18 -0500

Shoutout to Simple Scan which was the runner-up as Best New App in the MacStories Selects awards. I love this thing and it gets 3(!) spots in my Control Center for super easily scanning documents to the right place in Files.

(Also to Shareshot, which framed this screenshot and earned Best Design.)

Mon, 09 Dec 2024 19:24:00 -0500

Swinging into early ice season at Harlot on the north side of Pitchoff! (Is it still early with flows this thick?) It sure feels good to kick into vertical ice again.

Book your trip to learn the pure joy of climbing frozen waterfalls. No experience needed! Or get out onto new flows with us.

@newyorkoutdoorguides @lakeplacidadk #Adirondacks #PerfectDayADK #HireAGuide

Mon, 09 Dec 2024 19:01:49 -0500

🎙️ On an episode of one of my new favorite podcasts, The Sharp End, from about five years ago, I heard a shout-out to someone I know in real life! Another local climber and hiker, Matt Baer, apparently won a climbing helmet giveaway back then. Makes the world feel a little smaller, in a good way.

Mon, 09 Dec 2024 18:23:00 -0500

Winter has well and truly arrived in the ADK.

I’m so proud of Petra as she completed her first-ever High Peak, Phelps, on Saturday! Although she was nervous about the cold and all that mileage in snowshoes, she absolutely rocked it out all day! The weather even cooperated, and we got a stunning view of the Great Range, Colden, the McIntyres, and more just as we poked out of the trees, and no wind to speak of!

We couldn’t have asked for better conditions for Petra’s first winter hike in the Adirondacks, and we’re already planning her next trip to the mountains. 1 down, 45 to go!

@newyorkoutdoorguides @lakeplacidadk #Adirondacks #PerfectDayADK #HireAGuide

Mon, 09 Dec 2024 08:40:13 -0500

The Daley family thru-hiked 1300 miles of the PCT — with three kids under five 🤯:

On the PCT, none of the wrong distractions existed. The little ones found multiple purposes for everything around them. Rocks transformed into plates and jumping platforms, trees became resting places and climbing toys, and sticks turned into all the things. Their imaginations went wild, but so did the need for practicality and focus. They became partners in looking for good shade or where they all might sleep for the night–empowering tasks that helped the family function. And the parents transformed, too.

👏

Mon, 09 Dec 2024 02:14:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#161]

Apple’s holiday ad, a personal web project, an Apple News tip, a magic song, an exciting trailer, an AppleScript, and a wild single-use timer. Are you getting it? These are not seven different things— oh wait, yes they are. 😆

Mon, 09 Dec 2024 00:45:16 -0500

Here’s a note to myself that I just found, dated May 17, 2024. So a few weeks before WWDC this year:

AI Idea: LLM chatbot trained on the Apple Knowledge Base of support documents

And what was one of the universally praised features of Apple Intelligence introduced at WWDC? A supercharged Siri with “expansive product knowledge.” Calling that a win! 💪

Mon, 09 Dec 2024 00:32:21 -0500

New list just dropped

Sun, 08 Dec 2024 22:40:13 -0500

I just discovered that the ability to hide the window of an app you’ve set to open automatically upon login was removed from macOS some time ago. Boo! Luckily, third-party developers come to the rescue! This app was an easy $1 spent as it restores that functionality and adds other advanced options.

Sun, 08 Dec 2024 20:37:37 -0500

Test driving a new app in the coveted Dock real estate. ✌️

Sun, 08 Dec 2024 15:25:34 -0500

🔗 Apple reportedly collaborating with Sony to bolster VR gaming on Vision Pro (Michael Burkhardt / 9to5mac.com)

Reportedly, Apple is also interested in working with Sony to integrate the PlayStation VR2 controllers, and they’ve been making progress on that partnership[.] […]

It hasn’t been perfect, however. Apple and Sony apparently aimed to announce this support last month, but the feature has apparently been postponed. Gurman reports that we should still expect the introduction, “unless it gets abruptly scrapped.”

👀 Yes please! The VR2 controllers are a bit chonky, but it’s a first step!

Sat, 07 Dec 2024 00:08:00 -0500

🆕📝 Microsoft hinges away from the Surface Studio

So long svelte Studio, you big, beautiful beast. 🖥️

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 22:22:00 -0500

The snow and conditions were just too perfect to not go exploring through untouched trails tonight! ❄️

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:58:24 -0500

I’m quite happy with how this auto-emojifier bit turned out in an update to my 7 Things shortcut! 😄

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 15:46:56 -0500

🔗 Bloomberg: Apple ‘investigating’ bringing cellular to the Mac for the first time (Chance Miller / 9to5mac.com)

Apple is expected to debut the first version of its cellular modem next year in the iPhone SE 4, the iPhone 17 Air, and the base model iPad. The following year, it will debut a higher-end version of the chip with faster 5G connectivity for the iPhone 18 Pro.

As part of this transition, Apple is also investigating bringing cellular to the Mac as soon as 2026

That timeframe is less than ideal. I plan to buy a MacBook Air when it gets an M4 chip (early 2025?) but I so want cellular!

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 11:49:00 -0500

🆕📝 MacStories Unwind’s Best Music of 2024

🎵 I made a playlist and a Raindrop collection with all the featured albums!

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 10:15:21 -0500

Matt Birchler: ‘How Flight Simulator helped my flying anxiety (members post)'

But from the third person perspective, I was able to see that while landing, the plane is actually going very slow relative to its size. It’s not a perfect analogy, but if you’re an ant in a car, it might feel like it’s going impossibly fast and slowing at a remarkable rate, even if the car’s just casually slowing down for a stop sign on a residential road. In a plane, I’m the ant and I’m in an 80 ton machine — it feels impossibly intense to me, but at the plane’s scale, it’s not a huge deal.

I like the analogy. 👍

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 01:31:52 -0500

S2E9 of Shrinking (“Full Grown Dude Face”) is one of my favorite episodes yet. And that’s saying something for this Very Good Show. 🥲

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:17:53 -0500

Big day. After many years of sending typos to Gruber, I got one in return. 😅 (I hope he doesn’t mind my sharing this DM. Just found it very funny and surreal.)

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 14:29:43 -0500

Alright, with the Release Candidate of iOS 18.2 installed, I’m finally getting off the beta train. I can wait for the new features to get fleshed out before I give them a spin, and betas don’t always play well with my apps.

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 14:25:00 -0500

🆕📝 A few Apple features that I was super excited for, but have yet to ever try

What are yours?

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:42:09 -0500

🔗 iOS 18.2 Lets You Use Natural Language Search in Apple Music and Apple TV (Juli Clover / macrumors.com)

In the Apple TV‌ app, you can use casual language search terms to find exactly what you’re looking for, typing in genres, actors, and moods. Searches like “movies about natural disasters,” “movies with cats,” “movies with Zendaya,” and “exhilarating movies” all bring up relevant results.

The Apple Music‌ app supports similar searches, and you can look for genres, moods, activity, decades, and more.

Cool! Now do it for playlists and radio stations.

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 10:36:15 -0500

🔗 This new smart thermostat from Meross works with Matter (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / theverge.com)

The Meross Matter Smart Thermostat costs $99.99, works over Wi-Fi, and features a white glass panel with a touch screen, smart scheduling, and can track system usage through the Meross app.

Meross makes great smart home stuff. With Apple Home automations, you really don’t need learning smarts from the likes of more expensive options from Nest and Ecobee. This thing looks nice, covers the basics, and is only $70 at launch. I’d probably go with this if I didn’t already have an Ecobee!

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 10:27:25 -0500

David Pierce: ‘Twos is a handy to-do list app with exactly the right amount of AI’

AI turns Twos into not just my to-do list but the jumping-off point for all my tasks. Since the app works across platforms — it’s fundamentally a web app, but there are versions for Android and iOS, Windows and Mac, and more — it’s easy to just dump information into. […] You can store and organize things inside of Twos, but I find myself using it transiently, just for the small things in day-to-day life. I need to make bread: click the sparkles, bread recipes appear.

Intrigued! But on first launch, it’s a lot.

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:51:52 -0500

I’ve started keeping a list of things that I’d personally like to see improved at Micro.blog. It’s not to take a shot at @manton about issues. It’s a utility for me to keep track of things I want, and to revel in crossing items off when they get implemented — as they often do. I wish cause I care! 😘

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 23:13:00 -0500

🆕📝 Deck your Dock with holiday lights with Simon Støvring’s Festivitas app

I'm so happy that this app exists! 🎄

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 21:41:07 -0500

A new Very Good Tweet™ has landed:

(Via John Gruber)

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 21:18:44 -0500

If you’re annoyed at my recent uptick of posts and replies, you have @jsonbecker (👋) to blame. He got me back onto keeping up with my timeline using RSS. I don’t miss things now, and replying is all too easy with @sod’s experimental feeds that include links to open posts on the web or in the app.

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 21:13:32 -0500

Jeff Bezos today on Donald Trump: “You’ve probably grown in the last eight years. He has, too.”

https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/4/24313549/bezos-trump-optimistic-dealbook-summit-doge
alexheath@threads.net https://www.threads.net/@alexheath/post/DDLQmvKRNCa

I loved @gruber@mastodon.social’s take:

Next up after Bezos at DealBook Summit was Charlie Brown, who professed optimism regarding his next attempt at kicking a football held by Lucy Van Pelt. What the fuck did they put in the water at this conference?

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 20:27:00 -0500

🆕📝 The media starts to fold

Do not take Trump's complaints and threats against the media as inconsequential. The consequences are happening before our eyes.

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:40:00 -0500

🆕📝 OpenAI’s 4o model cost me a whopping 62 cents last month

And I use it a lot! If you’re paying $20/month for ChatGPT Plus just to use the API, you’re vastly overpaying.

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 13:48:11 -0500

🔗 Threads takes an important baby step toward true fediverse integration (Wes Davis / theverge.com)

You can now follow fediverse accounts on Threads, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced.

While fediverse posts won’t show in feeds, Instagram head Adam Mosseri says their profile and posts do appear on Threads, and you have the option to get notifications when they publish. That’s something, at least. Mosseri posted a video of what the process looks like…

A baby step indeed, but one step closer to getting to ditch my Threads account and point people toward @jarrod@micro.blog. 🤞

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 11:40:32 -0500

My wife is leading the charge on tough contract negotiations for her ER team after receiving disrespectful (hostile?) offers. It seems they scheduled her meeting first as the youngest, newest member, but they’ll find she’s not to be trifled with. Send her some good vibes while she holds her ground!

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 11:15:29 -0500

🔗 Disney+ app debuts new ESPN tile, adds free Hulu and sports content (Ryan Christoffel / 9to5mac.com):

To get all of the content available inside the Disney+ app’s ESPN and Hulu tiles, you’ll need to subscribe to the three-service bundle.

However, Disney is offering a nice perk for standalone Disney+ subscribers too.

Line 10: Bundle
Line 20: Unbundle
Line 30: GOTO Line 10

(I don’t mind the integration, though.)

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 11:10:18 -0500

Alex Heath: ‘Xreal’s new glasses are a surprisingly good TV for your face’

The Xreal One uses a custom birdbath lens system to achieve what the company says is equivalent to a 1080p display with a 50-degree field of view. Practically, based on my experience watching Netflix’s Rebel Ridge from my plane seat (a very good movie), that translates to a fairly immersive viewing experience.

I think these kinds of dedicated, personal display glasses have some legs (well, arms, I s’pose) while the AR/VR wars wage on.

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 11:01:42 -0500

🔗 Guess What Apple Paid to “Buy” the Firefox Extension for iCloud Keychain (Erlend / havn.blog):

“But now Apple has managed to scrape together the cash to build one themselves??"

Not quite… Apple reached out to Aurélien, through Mozilla, to ask if Apple could simply get the code of the unofficial plugin. (Source)

“Ah, so instead of starting from scratch, they instead bought a good starting-point. Smart."

Well, not quite…

The developer asked for a $1 GitHub sponsorship in recognition of the “sale”. Apparently, it’s been crickets.

Gross, Apple, your cheapness is showing.

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 09:37:41 -0500

PSA for Micro.blog app users: If you can’t scroll to see the text you’re composing (🤯), try showing the title field (in post settings). That’ll allow you to scroll for some reason. Until you hit a character limit, then you need to tap into the title field and back out to reenable scrolling. Wild.

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 09:27:54 -0500

Emma Roth, theverge.com:

Max is joining the growing list of streaming services that offer 24/7 cable-like channels. On Wednesday, Warner Bros. Discovery announced that it’s testing a set of always-on channels with collections of HBO shows, movies, and documentaries and it’s rolling them out to a small group of ad-free subscribers in the US.

Max is launching five channels to start, including one called HBO Comedy for original series like Curb Your Enthusiasm, documentaries about comedians, and comedy films.

I’ve not tried one of these themed, always-on streaming channels, but I like the idea!

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 09:21:45 -0500

Paul Kafasis:

We’re now learning that China has penetrated America’s telecommunications systems deeply, in a breathtaking hack whose scope is still being revealed. It appears this was accomplished using backdoors mandated back in 1994 for use by law enforcement. This should not be surprising. When it comes to backdoors being exploited maliciously, it’s a matter of “when”, not “if”.

As a result of this hack, government officials are making an abrupt about-face. Americans are now being urged to use encrypted communications whenever possible. That is a good idea.

😳 I did not hear about this.

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 23:52:05 -0500

David Sparks, on Apple’s AI Writing Tools:

Another problem with the text tools is the implementation of recommended changes. You can have it either replace your text entirely (without any indicator of what exactly was changed) or give you a list of suggested edits, which you must implement manually. Other players in this space, like Grammarly, highlight recommended changes and make it easy to implement or ignore them with a button.

He’s right. Not only is the proofreading not good enough despite being text-based (AI’s bread and butter), but the interface (Apple’s bread and butter) sucks too.

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:04:24 -0500

PSA: For many truncated RSS feeds, most RSS clients have the option to try to pull an article’s full text from its webpage. In Reeder Classic, for example, simply right-click (long-press) a feed and enable the automatic reader view. Works on the newly truncated Verge feed!

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 14:46:48 -0500

🔗 Simply Piano now lets you learn to play through Apple Vision Pro — no keyboard required (Zac Hall / 9to5mac.com)

Oooh I can’t wait to try this out!

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 13:57:00 -0500

A couple days late, but here we are trimmed up after no-shave November. Decided not to go baby face after all. 🥸

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 12:34:00 -0500

🆕📝 The Verge (finally) gets a subscription

I'm not mad about it, but I am curious to see where they draw the line for metered stories. (And the second "finally" in one day!? December 3rd's got some mojo.)

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 12:05:15 -0500

A perfect scene in Illumination’s The Grinch with superb music from Pentatonix that makes me laugh every single time. 😂

youtu.be/zVTh3SN6u…

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 11:36:49 -0500

🔗 Manton Reece: ‘Wrapstodon’

Good points throughout. I appreciated the bits Manton quoted from others in the community. People can like different things, but I encourage folks to question whether post stats are actually doing them any favors.

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 11:20:18 -0500

For years, I’ve said Apple should’ve put the Touch Bar above the function row, not replaced it. I think that one tweak would’ve made it a hit. Now, someone’s done it with the Flexbar, a standalone plug-in accessory I, frankly, wouldn’t buy—but it’s nice to see the idea in action.

(Via The Verge)

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 10:06:29 -0500

Tim Hardwick, MacRumors: ‘Apple Raises Indonesia Investment Offer to $1B Amid iPhone Ban’

The negotiation stems from Indonesia’s October ban on iPhone 16 sales after authorities determined Apple had not met the country’s requirement for 40% domestic content in smartphones. The government previously rejected Apple’s initial $10 million offer, followed by a $100 million proposal that included plans for research and development facilities and developer academies.

Play a little hardball and Apple will raise their offer 100-fold! 😯

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 09:51:00 -0500

🆕📝 Holy smokes, Apple finally brought Replay to the Music app*

They finally brought the might of their engineering talent to bear... to add a web view. 😆

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 01:47:00 -0500

🆕📝 Where do we go from here?

People have ideas. I'm mostly worried.

Mon, 02 Dec 2024 19:02:11 -0500

I’m feeling pretty good about the business cards and thank you postcards I’ve made for Onward Mountain Guides! Any suggestions before I send them off the printer?

Mon, 02 Dec 2024 18:17:24 -0500

Charlie Chapman is checkmating in chess while we’re all playing checkers. He instructed ChatGPT’s advanced voice to translate his natural language requests into ones a HomePod can understand. It totally works!

He’s tongue-in-cheek about it being a preview of LLM Siri, but it will be pretty great.

Mon, 02 Dec 2024 18:04:43 -0500

🔗 Apple TV+ announces “Lucky,” new limited series starring Anya Taylor-Joy:

In “Lucky,” Taylor-Joy stars as a young woman who left behind the life of crime she was raised in years ago, but must now embrace her darker, criminal side one final time in a desperate attempt to escape her past.

Sign me up! ATJ is great in everything, and we know she kills it in book adaptations. Its to be produced by Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine media company and will be an Apple Studios production.

Mon, 02 Dec 2024 17:54:31 -0500

Ryan Christoffel, at 9to5Mac, on Pat Gelsinger’s ouster at Intel and how Apple has avoided repercussions with its move to Apple silicon four years ago:

However, even though Apple can’t actually take much responsibility for its former partner’s decline, this story is a big win for Apple silicon nonetheless.

Why? Because not only has Apple silicon revitalized the Mac like Intel never could—it has also safeguarded Apple against being harmed by Intel’s rough patch.

It’s true. I never worry* about how Intel is doing anymore.

*Not that I ever lost sleep over the behemoth chipmaker’s prospects.

Mon, 02 Dec 2024 11:44:32 -0500

Bluesky’s notification settings are notably lacking over a year into their service. Even Threads has pretty good granular control. I want to trim down to notifications for replies only, Micro.blog-style.

Mon, 02 Dec 2024 10:49:08 -0500

Donald G. McNeil Jr.:

And while he’s at it, President Biden should also pardon himself, for every act he’s ever committed — or may commit up until January 20, 2025.

One way or another, the question of whether the President can pardon himself is going to be tested in front of the Supreme Court this decade. It might as well be decided based on the case of an innocent man — and it will force the Trump Justice Department to argue that a President can’t pardon himself.

It’s beyond disappointing that “strike first” is where we are with our judicial system. But it might work.

Mon, 02 Dec 2024 10:07:31 -0500

Well, shit. There goes my automatic Instagram → Micro.blog (& Threads & Bluesky) cross-poster. I can’t be too mad—I knew Meta was a fickle, closed-web-loving beast when I made it. But it let me post to Instagram (where my friends are) and my microblog (where I wish they were) without any hassle. 🙁

Mon, 02 Dec 2024 09:37:00 -0500

🆕📝 A new Dia for web browsing?

The Browser Company is taking another big swing. I admire their creativity and think their vision is mostly on-point. I just don't know if it's going to revolve around the web browser.

Mon, 02 Dec 2024 08:32:40 -0500

Ben Lovejoy: ‘Future iPhones could get multiple Action buttons; iPad and Mac too’

An Apple patent has revealed that future iPhones could effectively get multiple Action buttons, as all three buttons on the left side of the phone become user-configurable.

Yes, please! Let’s user-configurable all the things. The Action Button is one of my favorite features of my new phone. It would be doubly cool if I could configure multiple actions with double- and triple-click actions.

Mon, 02 Dec 2024 00:07:53 -0500

The Whiteface Veterans Memorial Highway was in great shape today! It’s an awesome spot to work on your uphill skinning skills and transitions in a low-risk environment before hitting the real backcountry trails.

Not sure how to get started? Hit us up for an intro to backcountry touring trip!

@newyorkoutdoorguides @lakeplacidadk #Adirondacks #PerfectDayADK #HireAGuide #backcountryski

Mon, 02 Dec 2024 00:06:16 -0500

Nick Heer: ‘Google’s iOS App Inserts Its Own Links Into Webpages – Pixel Envy’

For Google to believe it has the right to inject itself into third-party websites is pure arrogance, yet it is nothing new for the company. It has long approached the web as its own platform over which it has control and ownership. It overlays dialogs without permission; it invented a proprietary fork of HTML and it pushed its adoption for years. It can only do these things because it has control over how people use the web.

Not a fan. Hyperlinking is an art, and this is Google splashing paint onto my canvas.

Sun, 01 Dec 2024 22:13:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#160]

I’ve done 160 of these things? Jeeze!

Sun, 01 Dec 2024 00:07:36 -0500

The ice is forming, are your muscles? Conditioning your forearms and shoulders for ice climbing season can take as little as 4 minutes with the Tabata method: 20 seconds hang, 10 seconds rest, repeated 8 times. Best done with your ice tools and gloves.

Learn more on our Pro Tips blog, and book your ice climbing adventure today! onwardguides.com (Link in bio)

@newyorkoutdoorguides @lakeplacidadk #Adirondacks #PerfectDayADK #iceclimbing

Sun, 01 Dec 2024 00:07:11 -0500

Final No-Shave November check-in. 🥸 Tomorrow you get to see baby face. 👶

Fri, 29 Nov 2024 18:07:53 -0500

🔗 Discover Wallace & Gromit. Shot on iPhone:

Wallace and Gromit star in a festive stop-motion animation, shot on iPhone 16 Pro. Discover how Academy Award-winning creators Aardman used the powerful camera system to turn their 23-centimetre characters into a 101-metre projection for Battersea Power Station.

What a delightfully neat treat. I hope they make a recording of the projection available for everyone to watch.

Fri, 29 Nov 2024 13:56:26 -0500

A new (Black Friday-themed) Very Good Tweet™ has landed:

Fri, 29 Nov 2024 11:47:05 -0500

In case you’re feeling trigger-happy on shopping sites today, I do have some fun designs for sale. Free shipping through Monday, Dec. 2 with code: EXTRAGRAVY

heydingus.net/store

Fri, 29 Nov 2024 11:22:10 -0500

I spy something new in Micro.blog’s Mentions 👀

Fri, 29 Nov 2024 10:50:35 -0500

Great hack.

It's pretty simple and evident who cares about people in the US.
amerpie@social.lol https://social.lol/@amerpie/113566810811716108

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 21:46:06 -0500

Andrew Bosworth: ‘Inbox ten’

For those who are curious, my system is Inbox Ten. That means I aim to end every day with fewer than ten emails in my inbox. I also have fewer than ten open chat threads across all interfaces. I’ve also read all relevant notifications in internal tools, read all relevant posts in internal groups I care about, and started rough drafts of any relevant proactive communications I intend to produce.

Email is the backbone of my system and I treat every email I receive as an action to be taken.

I prefer Inbox Zero, but reality these days is Inbox Ten, and it works well.

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 21:01:44 -0500

Some intriguing advice from Derek Sivers: Write one sentence per line

It helps you see first and last words.

First words punch. Last words linger. Seeing your sentences vertically helps you notice your beginnings and endings. Chop the weak beginnings, like “I think” and “Whether or not”. Start with powerful subjects and verbs.

He lists a bunch of other benefits too, including the ease of varying sentence length, judging each one on its own, and physically moving them around. And since Markdown will combine separate lines into a paragraph, it’s a breeze to do. I’m trying it now!

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 20:51:42 -0500

Derek Sivers, in his People & Blogs interview:

Do you have an ideal creative environment? Also do you believe the physical space influences your creativity?

Space matters, but when you’re really inspired and driven, it’s almost like going into a trance. You don’t care where you are or how comfortable the chair.

This is so true. Most of my best writing happens in wildly uncomfortable places and positions, with the least ergonomics. It doesn’t matter if the words are flowing.

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 20:31:34 -0500

Manu Moreale:

I was listening to a podcast episode the other day while I was driving and in there there was a thought that stuck with me: the idea that the web is moving from a creator economy to a curator economy. […]

Anyway, now more than ever, if you find value in curated blogs, newsletters, zines, or any other type of curated material, consider supporting the people who create and maintain them, because the vast majority of the time they don’t do it for the money, they do it because they think it’s important.

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 20:26:24 -0500

My list of Very Good Tweets™ was already starting to be degraded by linkrot, so I’ve rescued them with screenshots. Eliminates a bunch of gross embed code on the page too!

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 19:49:17 -0500

A Very Good Tweet™

So you’re telling me season 2 isn’t called Silos? Missed opportunity.
Matt Birchler https://isfeeling.social/@matt/113563425781784949

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 19:40:40 -0500

Manu Moreale: ‘Small scale is the best scale’

Scale matters. Send 1$ to a very small creator and you’ll make their day. Send 50$ to a famous YouTuber and they’ll barely notice it. Send an email to someone who wrote a post that resonated with you on their small personal site and you might start a friendship. Send a message to a famous celebrity and there’s a high chance they won’t even see it.

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 15:04:21 -0500

Firmin DeBrabander: ‘The Freedom of an Armed Society’

But furthermore, guns pose a monumental challenge to freedom, and particular, the liberty that is the hallmark of any democracy worthy of the name — that is, freedom of speech. Guns do communicate, after all, but in a way that is contrary to free speech aspirations: for, guns chasten speech.

This becomes clear if only you pry a little more deeply into the N.R.A.’s logic behind an armed society. An armed society is polite, by their thinking, precisely because guns would compel everyone to tamp down eccentric behavior, and refrain from actions that might seem threatening. The suggestion is that guns liberally interspersed throughout society would cause us all to walk gingerly — not make any sudden, unexpected moves — and watch what we say, how we act, whom we might offend.

This is how I’ve felt for a long time. Guns = fear. And fear does not promote healthy conversation, debate, or civility. The freedom of speech and expression can only go so far when you know someone who doesn’t like what you’re saying can extinguish you with the pull of a trigger.

(Via Jason Kottke in a post I recommend you read in full.)

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:46:13 -0500

Om Malik, in an old post, on a massive transition that I hadn’t ever considered:

These days, we want to carry the contents of our homes with us wherever we go. Photos, once housed in beautiful frames and curated in albums, are now stuffed into our iPhones, and our relationships are nurtured on social networks via electronic address books from anywhere on the planet. I know Coltrane, Miles, Dizzy, Ella and Thievery all come for a walk with me whenever I pull the door behind me. Thanks to the rise of place-shifting and devices such as Sling Media’s SlingBox, even my television travels with me.

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 09:17:52 -0500

Jan-Lukas Else, jlelse.blog:

Aren’t starter packs also just a new form of blogrolls?

Hmmm. Yeah, I suppose they are! Maybe more like public Twitter lists (RIP) or an OPML file you can subscribe to. But a good observation.

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 09:08:36 -0500

Saranac Lake Turkey Trot! It was magical with our fresh layer of snow. ❄️🏃‍♂️🏁

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 10:58:16 -0500

Ivan Penn: ‘Vermont Utility Plans to End Outages by Giving Customers Batteries’

Many electric utilities are putting up lots of new power lines as they rely more on renewable energy and try to make grids more resilient in bad weather. But a Vermont utility is proposing a very different approach: It wants to install batteries at most homes to make sure its customers never go without electricity. […]

“Call us the un-utility,” Mari McClure, Green Mountain’s chief executive, said in an interview before the company’s filing. “We’re completely flipping the model, decentralizing it.”

Makes sense!

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 10:18:41 -0500

Chance Miller, on the Channels app’s whimsical new Theater Mode:

Finally, this month’s Channels update also adds a brand new Theater Mode feature. When enabled, Theater Mode will “play multiple trailers and a feature presentation pre-roll before starting your movie.” It’s basically a way to replicate more of the movie theater experience without leaving the comfort of your own house.

Unnecessary, and not for everyone, but fun nonetheless!

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 09:45:21 -0500

Nicolas Magand, thejollyteapot.com:

What I like about my blog is that it feels like home, while social platforms are more like a bar or a restaurant. You go there to get a drink or to have dinner, you have a good time, you socialise, you meet friends and feel energised by the crowd around you, you eventually pay the bill, and then you go home.

Once at home you can finally relax and be more like yourself, the real you. For instance, you can wear whatever you want, do whatever you feel like doing, the way you like doing it, without worrying of what a stranger […] might think.

Tue, 26 Nov 2024 14:37:30 -0500

Finished reading: Endurance by Alfred Lansing 📚

Tue, 26 Nov 2024 12:43:28 -0500

What an absolutely riveting tale of human survival. Wow. 🥶😮

Tue, 26 Nov 2024 12:29:02 -0500

One day later and now AirPods Pro 2 are even cheaper than AirPods 4 with ANC! $154 vs $169 🤯

www.amazon.com/dp/B0D1XD…

Tue, 26 Nov 2024 09:02:10 -0500

I really like the sound improvements, addition of ANC, and other little upgrades of my AirPods 4. But, after several months of use, I have to conclude that the AirPods 1 (& 2) design still fits my ears best.

Tue, 26 Nov 2024 08:30:11 -0500

David Sparks is frustrated by the slow adoption of passkeys. Me too. And he pointed out why sites hedging their bets and letting you set up both a password and passkey can be dangerous, which I hadn’t considered:

When a site offers both options, it creates a tempting target for bad actors. Imagine this: You try to log in with your shiny new passkey, and a fake prompt tells you it failed. Next thing you know, you’re asked to log in with your password instead. Guess what? You just handed over your credentials to the bad guys.

It works directly against the promise that passkeys are unphishable.

Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:26:48 -0500

After handling a friend’s 14-inch M3 MacBook Pro this weekend, I’m settled on holding out for an M4 MacBook Air. It was just beyond the size and weight that I’d want for a “take everywhere” computer. 🤞 for a nano-texture option and not too long of a wait!

Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:17:08 -0500

Nick Heer: ‘How Sports Betting Has Changed the U.S. – Pixel Envy’

It is strange to me how the world of sports gambling is now just an open business like any other. It makes sense to me that it is legal, but to integrate it so tightly with every aspect of athletics is something I admit to being confused about and a little troubled by.

I was at a friend’s house this weekend and his whole family, it seemed, had taken up making a bunch of small (~$10) bets on a variety of games. Sounded like they had good fun with it, but it was novel dinner conversation to me.

Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:04:34 -0500

Wes Davis: ‘Meta’s mixed-reality attempt at a Wii Sports knockoff is coming’

Like Nintendo’s simplistic motion control-based sports series, Home Sports offers several games: hockey, badminton, pickleball, mini-golf, and bowling. It’s playable solo and multiplayer, where your Meta avatar represents you in a match. Meta says the game can adapt to your play space, but it also uses the Quest boundaryless mode for those with access to wide-open spaces.

They couldn’t have changed the logo to at least hide their shame?

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 22:08:54 -0500

David Sparks is calling his Black Friday sale a “Gratitude Sale” and I really like it. Especially as these things have trended toward a week or more of discounts, “Black Friday sale” doesn’t really make much sense anymore. But “holiday sale” or “gratitude sale”, those sound better.

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 22:06:23 -0500

You learn something new every day! Today it was all the ways your phone is significantly more secure before its first unlock after a reboot.

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 21:28:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#159]

A good quote, a Lego reenactment, a tool for alt text, an awesome Action Button shortcut, a feel-good climbing film, a fully monospaced website, and a new (short) podcast.

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 17:21:10 -0500

Here’s your periodic reminder that, with just a simple automation in Shortcuts, you too can have Taylor Swift welcome you back to New York as you cross the border. It’s delightful. 😁

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 17:16:14 -0500

Turns out you cannot use Type to Siri when connected to CarPlay. Good idea if you’re the driver, but a little annoying if you’re the passenger.

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 11:03:16 -0500

Wow. Both are great.

AirPods Pro 2 are $1 more than AirPods 4 ANC right now on Amazon...just $170!
AirPods Pro 2: https://geni.us/R8s79dB
AirPods 4 ANC: https://geni.us/AikMWPo
(Affiliate links)
stephenrobles@mastodon.social https://mastodon.social/@stephenrobles/113544342196360756

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:42:12 -0500

Matt Birchler: ‘More Birchtree is on sale this week’

Just a quick post today to say that I am running what I expect to be my only sale of the year on More Birchtree. If you sign up for a year from now through Friday November 29, you can get a yearly for $35. […]

Click here to sign up and thank you for supporting the site!

Heck of a deal! Good writing, great guy.

Sun, 24 Nov 2024 21:07:13 -0500

No-Shave November check in, day 24

Sat, 23 Nov 2024 16:54:01 -0500

Michael Burkhardt: ‘Indie App Spotlight: ‘Pestle’ is the ultimate recipe manager, and it just got a big update - 9to5Mac'

Pestle 2.0 adds two big features – TikTok support, and support for recipe notes.

Using an on device AI model, Pestle is now able to save recipes from TikTok by transcribing the captions and processing it on device, and its able to do all of that in under a second. If you happen to see a cool recipe on TikTok, Pestle will now be able to save it fast and privately.

Clever clever.

Sat, 23 Nov 2024 16:45:52 -0500

Joe Rossignol, on the Wolfs sequel cancelation:

In an interview shared by Deadline today, Wolfs director Jon Watts said he canceled the sequel because he “no longer trusted” Apple as a creative partner. He told the publication that Apple made a last-minute decision to pivot away from widely releasing the movie in theaters without discussing that decision with him in advance.

Watts also said that Apple ignored his request to not mention the planned “Wolfs” sequel in its press release […].

Good movie. Bad look for Apple.

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 23:43:01 -0500

TIL the “closed” of ‘closed captions’ refers to your ability to hide or “close” them, as opposed to open captions, which are always shown.

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 21:12:24 -0500

If you find yourself flummoxed by the, to be clear, abhorrent way Donald Trump moves through the world, this podcast episode is doing a pretty good job at providing words to describe his behavior.

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 15:44:54 -0500

Just had a nice use for Apple Intelligence’s writing tools where you can describe the change you want to make. I stream-of-consciousnessed some app feedback for a developer using dictation and then selected it all and asked writing tools to “fix it up and format it as an email.” Worked like a charm.

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 15:08:27 -0500

Said another way, an adventure without challenges is no adventure at all.

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 15:08:11 -0500

E.B. White knew what was up.

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 14:20:19 -0500

I’m starting a new experiment where I use Ticci Tabs by @refactoredd@mastodon.online to be my dedicated Micro.blog app. There are things that are just better about MB in the browser and having its own dedicated one seems nice. Not sure how long this will last! cc: @viticci@macstories.net

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 13:23:27 -0500

I’m in the midst of trying to decide which accounting software to use for my small business. I’m leaning toward QuickBooks because it seems the most established and it has all the integrations, but I’m open to suggestions. Anybody have strong feelings about accounting software they’ve used?

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 12:17:41 -0500

Wow, I guess November 21st is just always going to be a prolific writing/sharing day for me. (This link won’t work on the 22nd.)

jb.heydingus.net/on-this-d…

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 12:07:40 -0500

Since it’s now cool to do so, I should mention that I do have a Bluesky account if you’re social networking over there. I’m @heyjb.me, and everything I post to my microblog gets crossposted there. I can even see and respond to replies using my blog because @manton’s worked some real magic with it.

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 12:01:22 -0500

Just tested the waters of going all-in on Micro.blog with a titled blog post, and then checked my stats. This will be my 2001st micropost!

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 11:03:31 -0500

Stephen Hackett made a keen observation in his (just superbly titled) blog post about Apple ending its butterfly keyboard repair program: ‘The Eeeend d of an Eraa’

It’s wild to think about how much about this generation of MacBook Pros has been erased from the product line. The Butterfly keyboard is gone, as is the Touch Bar. The Thunderbolt-only future that these machines promised didn’t pan out, and the current MacBook Pro design brought with it the return of MagSafe, HDMI, and even the SD card slot.

I hadn’t realized this, but he’s right.

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:47:17 -0500

John Gruber has had some good hits lately, but this one was a miss. This bit, in particular, rubs me the wrong way:

What I can say, personally, is that I read and pay for several publications on Substack, and for the last few weeks I’ve tried using their iOS app (more on this in a moment), and I’ve never once seen a whiff of anything even vaguely right-wing, let alone hateful. Not a whiff. If it’s there, I never see it. If I never see it, I don’t care.1

Just because you don’t see it, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t care. Erland made a good analogy.

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:38:48 -0500

Wow, @sindresorhus@mastodon.social is killing it with Supercharge. Its rapid development is making it a must-have utility.

mastodon.social/@sindreso…

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:36:03 -0500

Ben Lovejoy, 9to5Mac: ‘Satechi M4 Mac mini stand and hub supports up to 4TB extra storage’

A Satechi M4 Mac mini stand and hub promises to let owners of the new ultra-compact desktop Mac add up to 4TB of fast SSD storage, together with an SD card slot and three USB-A ports.

These stand/hub things are really cool. I debated getting one for my M1 Mac mini, but it would have made it too tall for the riser it’s in.

But what would really seal the deal for this version is (1) a headphone jack on the back, and (2) somehow, a pass-through power button back there too.

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 09:39:33 -0500

Jason Becker: ‘Four issues without ambiguity’

[A]nd our incoming government is wrong on all four at once.

We must support Ukraine against Russian invasion

Israel is murdering Palestinians with impunity and support.

Climate change is a serious, immediate threat

Trans rights are human rights. Just fucking respect people.

[…] Whether we’ve entered the end of America’s leadership on the international stage as a matter of projected force, I do not know. But whether we’ve absolutely failed the moral leadership test? There’s no question.

Yup. 😔

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 09:28:50 -0500

Google Research is working on wildfire detection and modeling:

FireSat is a constellation of satellites dedicated entirely to detecting and tracking wildfires. After it launches, it will provide global high resolution imagery that is updated every 20 minutes, enabling the detection of wildfires that are roughly the size of a classroom.

It strikes me that Apple tackles problems from the human scale (AirPods as hearing aids, crash detection, etc.), and Google tackles problems from the global scale (FireSat program, Project Loon’s internet access, flood forecasting, etc.).

(Via kottke.org)

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 08:52:06 -0500

Another banger from Jason Snell: ‘The App Store era must end, and the Mac is the model’

But over time, the inevitable happened: Apple used the exclusivity of the App Store and its total control over the platform to extract money through rent-seeking and to bar businesses from admitting that the web existed outside their apps. Perhaps worst of all, the App Store’s exclusivity allowed Apple to essentially treat app developers as Apple employees, forcing them to follow Apple’s guidelines and please Apple’s approval apparatus before their apps would be allowed to be seen by the public.

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 08:28:08 -0500

I’m apparently not the only one waffling. Jason Snell, sixcolors.com:

But… this also means I would need to travel with a 14-inch MacBook Pro. They are great, don’t get me wrong, but I’m a refugee 11-inch MacBook Air user now accepting life with a 13-inch MacBook Air. Do I want to travel with a larger laptop? (Or, if I mostly use the iPad when I travel, does it not matter?)

Personally, I can’t decide between an M4 MacBook Pro (that screen and nano-texture!) or waiting out for an M4 MacBook Air (that thin, fanless design!).

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 08:01:11 -0500

A worthy piece from Paul Kafasis:

I had been describing myself as disgusted by this result, but I eventually realized that was incorrect. What I actually am is disillusioned. America was a dream, and now that dream is gone from me. Holding on to beliefs like “good triumphs over evil” and “justice will be served” has always required taking a long view. But now, when a convicted felon has yet again managed to evade consequences and scam his way into the presidency, I find my faith in my country shattered. It lies in pieces at my feet and I am unsure what I’m going to do about that.

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 03:07:27 -0500

I didn’t have high expectations for my performance, but I entered my first-ever climbing competition last weekend…and came in second place for the Intermediate division! It was a ton of fun, way lower pressure than I expected, and brought together a bunch of local climbers. Thanks Mt. Van Ho!

Wed, 20 Nov 2024 18:13:09 -0500

And Re: the terrible Apple Intelligence ads, @gruber@mastodon.social spotlights an example that I didn’t, but that I totally agree with. The ads make everyone look super dumb and rude.

Wed, 20 Nov 2024 18:04:01 -0500

Re: Overcast’s update, I really appreciate the thought that went into the privacy angle of its history/sharing feature:

Wed, 20 Nov 2024 16:19:51 -0500

I asked ChatGPT, “Based on what you know about me, draw a picture of what you think my current life looks like.” Not too bad. It nailed the outdoor mountain theme, included @onwardguides, and even got Phin! I’d love to have that little cabin.

Wed, 20 Nov 2024 12:29:34 -0500

Overcast version 2024.11.1:

New Overcast Premium features:

Listening stats: See your top podcasts by year, month, or day, with stats going back to the start of 2023!

48-hour History and Undo: Accidentally seek too far, leave your phone playing overnight, or delete the wrong episode, podcast, or playlist? Just undo it!

These are two features I’ve wanted forever and I can’t wait to dig in!

Mon, 18 Nov 2024 15:20:50 -0500

Hank Sanders, nytimes.com, on the jaw-dropping effect of introducing Nerds Gummy Clusters:

The effort seems to have worked. In 2018, Nerds products brought in $40 million in sales. In the past calendar year, the company said, that number jumped to $800 million, a 20-fold increase in about six years. The company declined to specify its profits. The new product’s following also led to the first Super Bowl ad in Ferrara’s history, and the company said it planned to release a second Super Bowl ad in 2025.

It’s true; they’re DaBomb.com and seriously addictive. I can’t resist. (Via kottke.org)

Mon, 18 Nov 2024 01:10:13 -0500

Back to Street & Nye (I promise we guide other mountains!) with @hikingwith_diane for the best weather and conditions of the past two weeks!

The weather was crisp, which gave us nice firm trails for most of the day, and the sunny view at Street was amazing! Even microspikes colluding with tree roots trying to trip us up couldn’t keep our spirits down. And learning a new skill to hike the frozen trails with them was a highlight of the day.

We had a great time in the backcountry, with big props to Diane as she completed the 9th and 10th peaks of her 46ers. 🤞 for good weather the rest of the week!

Sun, 17 Nov 2024 05:55:02 -0500

Same! Thanks to Micro.blog.

You can find me on the web.

So much chatter lately on leaving social platform this to go to social platform that.

The new thing.

The better thing?

What is everyone chasing?

I’ll be right here on the web.

Same place I was before.

Same place I’ll be in the future.

Jamie Thingelstad, www.thingelstad.com

Sat, 16 Nov 2024 23:38:06 -0500

It strikes me that everyone seems to remember the “scribble a fish on your Apple Watch to let a buddy know you want sushi for lunch” example. The feature didn’t pan out, but that demo sure stuck with folks. 🤔

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 08:31:47 -0500

Oh come on, this book is awesome! I can think of at least three people who would laugh their asses off pulling it out of a stocking.

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 08:21:21 -0500

Tim Hardwick shared a good tip that I wish people never needed, but unfortunately do from time to time: ‘Hide iPhone Find My Location Without Raising Suspicion’

To hide your actual location, you’ll need to have at least two Apple devices signed in to your Apple Account with Find My enabled. This method works by telling Find My to use a stationary device’s location instead of your iPhone’s.

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:10:41 -0500

Hey friends, I need some advice. I started an Instagram for my new solo guiding service, but I’m already torn between posting there or on my personal account. Should I just stick to one? Thoughts on using your personal for everything vs. keeping a business account too? I’ve seen both work well.

Thu, 14 Nov 2024 20:50:38 -0500

Tom and I had the whole mountain to ourselves today as we took on Street ( ft) and Nye (ft)! After our 11-hour hike yesterday, we moved a little slower up the trail while navigating our boots carefully through each icy step.

We reached the summits before the clouds rolled in, giving us pristine views over the McIntyres, Santanonis, and Sewards. We even caught a glimpse of Gothics, which we summited yesterday. With temps warming, we had to be extra careful on the descent, trying to avoid punching through the ice into mud and water below.

Crossing back over Indian Pass Brook was our final challenge, which we dispatched with ease, and were rewarded with a fantastic view of the moonrise on our drive out from the Loj. Another perfect day in the peaks.

@newyorkoutdoorguides @lakeplacidadk #Adirondacks #PerfectDayADK #hireaguide 📷

Thu, 14 Nov 2024 17:07:36 -0500

A bit of happy capital ‘N’ News, for a change:

‘The Onion wins Alex Jones’ Infowars in bankruptcy auction'

The Onion plans to shutter Jones’ Infowars and rebuild the website featuring well-known internet humor writers and content creators, according to a person with knowledge of the sale. About an hour and a half after the announcement of the sale, Infowars' website was shut down.

I hope this is featured on The Good News Podcast tomorrow.

Thu, 14 Nov 2024 16:53:07 -0500

Mythic Quest returns along with spin-off Side Quest (great name) soon!

Fantastic show. Can’t wait.

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 22:19:09 -0500

~4 more new miles (and 2 more peaks!) explored today on our 12-mile journey. 🏔️ 📷

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 21:42:24 -0500

Uh-oh. I tried the wide/ultra-wide Mac Virtual Display through visionOS, and now my regular 28-inch monitor looks small. 😬

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 21:34:18 -0500

I have a great many to add, but I finally made a space for my favorite quotes on my website: https://heydingus.net/lists/quotes

(Thanks to shoutouts.page)

P.S. They should each probably be blog posts, but I like how this works.

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 01:19:03 -0500

No-Shave November check-in. 📷

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 23:44:57 -0500

I really dig this kind of charger for the bathroom. But I can’t seem to find one that’s compatible with fast-charging a modern Apple Watch. Anybody know of one?

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 23:35:11 -0500

Gruber, writing for persnickety, eagle-eyed readers (🙋‍♂️):

Earlier today I linked to this Apple Newsroom post, regarding the new “Share Location” feature[. It] contains this sentence on iOS 18 compatibility:

Share Item Location is available now in most regions worldwide as part of the public beta of iOS 18.2, which will soon be available to all users as a free software update for iPhone Xs and later.

Is that the iPhone XS, styled with a lowercase s? Or are they referring to 2017’s iPhone X, and pluralizing it with the lowercase s?

I 🧡 a good style guide.

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 17:11:00 -0500

🆕📝 Apple is straight-up telling us to lie

Is this the first time that an Apple ad has actively promoted lying to one another?

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 16:17:00 -0500

🆕📝 Artinoise Makes a Hardware Version of Smule’s Ocarina (Yes, the app from 2008)

Did anyone else see this and immediately think of Ocarina?

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 13:04:13 -0500

Jo and I tried a new local Indian restaurant the other night and it was incredible! Beautiful setting, great service, and delicious food. We’re determined to work through their menu in the coming years. Indian Heritage Grill in Lake Placid, if you’re interested. (Please don’t let them go under!)

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 11:58:50 -0500

Alright these Apple Intelligence notification summaries are objectively hilarious. I might leave them on just for the laughs!

www.theverge.com/2024/11/1…

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 21:41:22 -0500

🚨 New list added to my list o' lists! Got any other favorites I should add?

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 15:49:47 -0500

This. Looks. So. Sick. 🤘 Can’t wait to see it in Immersive.

The Weeknd’s “Open Hearts” will be the next immersive experience arriving on Apple Vision Pro beginning November 15.
Noteworthy, as customers will also have the chance to be immersed in the experience at select Apple stores✨
Sigmund Judge https://mastodon.screentimes.net/@sigmund/113466164182156500

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 15:45:32 -0500

Ryan Christoffel, on Apple’s latest hardcover book:

Apple Music picked its 100 Best Albums earlier this year. But it seems the digital celebration was only part of the story. Apple Music has announced that it’s publishing a new hardcover book to commemorate the album list. Here’s the kicker: it will set you back $450. […]

The new book will be limited to 1,500 copies, and it’s available for pre-order now. It’s expected to ship by November 29.

It looks to be the same handsome quality as the Designed by Apple in California book. Now if they re-released that book, I’d jump at it this time.

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 15:11:32 -0500

I will someday walk every mile of trails on these maps. Each one has something new to discover. 🗺️🥾

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 13:33:01 -0500

What’s old is new again.

Mountain Dew has been my favorite soft drink for as long as I can remember (although Dr. Pepper has been creeping up on it). I’ve liked each logo rendition, this one included!

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 13:28:59 -0500

Jason Kottke, quoting Slate:

Delete Your Account. For Real This Time.“There’s no need for any Trump opponents now to be on X for the same reasons that they’re not on Gab, Gettr, Truth Social, or wherever else.”

It’s well beyond time. You know it.

If you don’t want to delete your account because you hate link rot, I get it. At the very least, change your bio to explain where and why you’ve gone, and then change the password and destroy your record of it. Log out and move on.

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 08:41:57 -0500

Speaking of Steve Jobs' leadership, Lisa Melton wrote a nice post of her memories of working at Apple with him: ‘Memories of Steve’

Steve expected excellence. Which is why he so often got it.

He knew when something was right, but he didn’t always tell you what he wanted when it wasn’t. And he was very clear when he didn’t like it. Some misinterpreted this behavior as being overly critical, but it was actually time-saving clarity, albeit uncomfortable on occasion.

Sun, 10 Nov 2024 17:45:18 -0500

You know your task management has gotten out of control when you start linking projects from one to-do app in another. 😬

Sun, 10 Nov 2024 16:57:09 -0500

Nilay Patel’s conversation with Airbnb’s Brian Chesky on Decoder was fascinating. Now there’s a guy — well, two guys — who think fast and talk faster. Really whip-smart conversation. Lots of talk about Steve Jobs-style leadership (maybe a little too much?), and well worth your time.

Sun, 10 Nov 2024 16:48:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#158]

Stepping into a 2004 time machine, fun sound stuff, an unfathomable amount of money, wowza robots, a pretty camera, and two home projects that make me want a new Mac mini.

Sun, 10 Nov 2024 12:40:52 -0500

I’ve realized I’m in an odd position where not having notifications has led to more distraction and lack of focus. Micro.blog only notifies for comments, which is perfect. But since it’s broken for me, I find myself opening the app to check the Mentions tab throughout the day and losing more time.

Sun, 10 Nov 2024 11:08:47 -0500

The Mac has been on Apple silicon for 10% of its lifetime already. 🤯

The first Apple Silicon Macs were unveiled four years ago today.
BasicAppleGuy https://mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy/113459514055530825

Sun, 10 Nov 2024 11:06:32 -0500

Uh-oh, a new lists app, Listy, has entered onto my scene. It has potential to take the cake with its clean design, category-specific interface/details, ability to add brief notes, attractive pricing, and fun extras like sharing an image of list items. Via @davidpierce@mastodon.social on Installer.

Sun, 10 Nov 2024 08:33:38 -0500

Victoria Song: ‘Mobvoi Home Walking Treadmill review’

At this point, I had to take a good hard look in the mirror. The whole point was to use this device to relieve stress. Instead, all I’d done was overcomplicate a walking pad. I ended up anxious and dreading my imperfect, messy metrics. I was so concerned about doing something “the right way” that I ended up not doing it at all. Looking back, I’ll be the first person to tell you that’s absurd. And yet, I’ve also been part of enough running and fitness communities to know that this is a common trap that even the best of us fall into.

☝️☝️☝️

Sun, 10 Nov 2024 08:05:01 -0500

I, of course, think you should create (and proofread) a good alt-text description for every image you publish online. But not every app and service makes it easy to include them. If you’re on the Fediverse, @altbot@fuzzies.wtf can help fill the gap and make your posts more accessible for everyone.

Sun, 10 Nov 2024 07:49:58 -0500

This might be John Gruber’s best work: ‘How It Went’

But he’s an optimist at heart. You’d like him. I, of course, don’t know who you are, dear reader, but I know you’d like my dad, Bob Gruber, because everyone likes Bob Gruber. He can tell a good joke and he loves to tell them. There’s a quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln, that I was reminded of, just the other day, from of all things a garbage can: “I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.” I don’t share Lincoln’s there’s-something-to-like-about-everyone optimism about our fellow men, but my dad does.

Sat, 09 Nov 2024 20:49:50 -0500

Winter is sneaking back into the Adirondacks! I had a wonderful time with Jason and Henry as we conquered Street & Nye Mountains today. The frost flowers were in full bloom, and we broke out the microspikes for the first time this season. Although they were capped with clouds when we started, both summits greeted us with crystal clear views of the snow crystals atop the rest of the high peaks. 8.1 miles and 2600 ft elevation gain. 🏔️ 📷

Fri, 08 Nov 2024 12:47:22 -0500

Does anyone out there publish to Micro.blog with Ulysses? Thinking about trying it out, but I’m curious about how things are kept in sync. Do posts published or edited elsewhere—like from the web, for example—reflect back in Ulysses? They do with @danielpunkass’s MarsEdit, but it’s not on iOS.

Fri, 08 Nov 2024 11:43:15 -0500

🔗 Apple’s Extended Return Policy Now in Effect for 2024 Holiday Season // Joe Rossignol // macrumors.com

If there are any Apple products that you wanted to do an extended trial of, now’s the time! Their holiday return period is very generous, with no questions asked.

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 17:11:58 -0500

Sorry to my followers out there on Mastodon if my posts look weird, like they’re missing words and stuff. I put a lot of time into them to get them just so, and it sucks that they’re mangled for you. But also not sorry because your instance/app should play better with open web standards. 🙃

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 14:10:28 -0500

Brendan Caldwell on a game developer doing their part:

[The multiplayer fishing game] also lets you customise your character with clothing. Mostly simple hats and shorts, but some options let players celebrate their sexuality, such as a rainbow-adorned t-shirts, or titles that hang above your character which simply say “Trans” or “Bi”. All this led one player to complain there was no “Straight” title. So, the developer added one. It costs 10 grand.

[…] What’s funnier is that the title comes in quotemarks. So you’re not straight, you’re “straight”.

👏👏👏 (Via Robb Knight)

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 13:51:44 -0500

Sometimes I just have to get a blog post out of my head. Last night it was this one. It was late, and I was tired. Still, I was compelled to roll out of bed, grab my iPad, sit on the toilet seat lid, and let the words flow from my mind to yours through this letter to the world.

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 22:18:00 -0500

🆕📝 Leading By Example

Be the one — of many.

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 17:49:46 -0500

Instead of doomscrolling today, I went outside with the dog and sunk my anxious energy into splitting a whole bunch of wood, and started listening to Endurance (the Shackleton book). Then my wife and I went for a walk. Getting away from current events was good for the soul. 📷

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 17:49:38 -0500

Josh Kovensky:

Special Counsel Jack Smith is reportedly in talks with officials at the Department of Justice to “wind down” his two prosecutions of President-elect Donald Trump; one over January 6, and the other over his retention of classified documents from his first term.

At issue, per NBC, is the long-standing DOJ policy we became so familiar with in Donald Trump’s first term: that a sitting president cannot be prosecuted.

Our justice system simply cannot be allowed to move this slowly. Otherwise, what even is the point?

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 17:08:51 -0500

There are some days that this button really frustrates me, not being able to read back through all the posts I may have missed. Today is not one of those days.

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 15:56:04 -0500

Tim Cook:

Congratulations President Trump on your victory! We look forward to engaging with you and your administration to help make sure the United States continues to lead with and be fueled by ingenuity, innovation, and creativity.

I understand why he would 💋🍑 but still, it leaves me disappointed.

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 08:17:12 -0500

Same 😔

I was trying to come up with some clever thing to toot but I just have no words. I'm upset, angry, and scared.
zmknox https://snailedit.social/@zmk/113435894711586509

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 02:29:20 -0500

Chris Coiyer: Email for Newborns | Email is good.

I’ve heard of people picking up a decent @gmail.com email address for their newborn child. […]

Me, I’d get a domain name before anything else.

If you get the email address, another cute idea is to write them emails every once in a while, then when you give them the email address, the inbox will be filled with letters from you over the years.

I love the idea to write them little notes and letters before handing over the email address. How sweet. Oh, and just set up an email address with the domain you got them!

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 01:54:44 -0500

Apple News:

Another popular-vote update: It’s mostly the same. Trump is still leading Harris by around 5 million votes, with about 4 percentage points between them. Trump has made resounding leaps among large swaths of the electorate and is on track to get a wider margin than his 2016 win.

😔 wtaf

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 01:35:19 -0500

Just in case you need some lighthearted election thing to allow you to sleep tonight (🙋‍♂️), this did the trick. Thank you The Onion. 😂

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 01:22:45 -0500

I’m unplugging, taking some melatonin, and hitting the hay. Will check back in the status of “the free world” in the morning. Good luck, US of A. 🤞🫡

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 01:17:44 -0500

Whelp. I refuse to be distraught until it’s officially called, but suffice to say I’m wildly disappointed in so many—a bit over half, it seems—of my fellow citizens for refusing to see what’s in front of their eyes: a man who threatens our right to vote at all—you know, the whole point of the USA. 💔

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 00:47:35 -0500

Maybe kicking off Onward Mountain Guides' Instagram page on election night wasn’t the best idea. But at least it’s out there now. 🤷‍♂️ If you want to watch me try to be more social-savvy, or keep up with my adventures, give it a follow! I’d be just tickled. 🫶

www.instagram.com/onwardgui…

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 20:34:57 -0500

Had a lovely day out in the mountains today hiking with my first client for my own guide service. 10/10 would recommend going offline for most of Election Day. (Also, I love these new workout share cards from Pedometer++!)

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 20:13:55 -0500

So, uh, I just realized that I’ve sat down for dinner to eat my Factor meal while wearing my Mack Weldon slippers and Cortex Subtle Sweater. 🙈 I’m a good @relay@relayfm.social podcast boy?

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 19:44:54 -0500

Jason Becker: Campaigns and tactics are not the story

I think if she wins the popular vote, but loses the electoral college, it will be about how our system doesn’t work when we have partisan, geographic sorting.

If she loses outright, it will be about how we failed to convey the danger of Trump. It will be about how we have lost a shared notion of truth. It will be about how we’ve lost a common information architecture and with it, our common reality.

Well said.

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 19:32:10 -0500

Same 😬

I thought I could handle the Live Activity thing from Apple News. I can’t. Bailing at 0-0.
John Siracusa https://mastodon.social/@siracusa/113432853928938066

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 19:28:25 -0500

Oh no! 😧 @adam@social.lol what have you done!?

The anxiety multiplier. https://election.omg.lol
Nick Heer https://c.im/@nickheer/113433083032130410

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 19:23:20 -0500

Glad to see Micro.blog praised in (a footnote of) John Gruber’s post about the art of hypertext:

Mastodon technically allows web-style hyperlinks on words, but few instances support it, and thus almost no client apps support it in their editors for writing posts. Micro.blog is an exception.

It’s one of my very favorite features of Micro.blog that I can make social network posts (they’re just blog posts!) with hyperlinks, and I hope more clients will support it.

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 23:54:26 -0500

I did some redecorating for the occasion!

But now I’ve really got to go to bed because—what’s that?—oh yes, I have my very first client hike for Onward Mountain Guides tomorrow! 😁

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 23:32:00 -0500

🆕📝 Vote for Kamala Harris & Tim Walz

Kamala is the only choice—but also the right choice—for our free and democratic values, and basic human rights, to be upheld. And it's well past time that we ask a woman to lead us. 🇺🇸

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 22:40:36 -0500

This has me rethinking some things on my lock screen…

Always enjoy reading @nashp and I like this idea of the Lock Screen being the Home Screen. https://nashp.com/134
David Brown :prami_retro: https://social.lol/@superdavey/113427904938368472

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 19:57:59 -0500

My 1-hour review of this silicone cover for AirPods Max: I was skeptical pulling it out of the package, but so far so good! It’s totally fixed my problem with the all-stretched-out headband fabric. Way more comfy again. Plus the red color pops and feels like an homage to my beloved red iPhone mini!

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 18:47:04 -0500

Wes Davis at The Verge tallies up his Apple product usage, comparing to Tim Cook’s routine:

Final count: 15 devices, nine services, 26 apps, and eight accessories.

Describing all of that made me feel like I’ve stared into the abyss only to find it staring back at me. But it still leaves out countless other Apple apps, non-Pro iPads, the iMac, and the Mac Pro. How would someone, even the CEO of Apple, fit those in?

I rarely stop to consider just how many Apple devices and services augment my daily life. It’s a high number, to be sure, but I’m not sad about it.

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 18:11:42 -0500

Related, you can call me old-fashioned, but I much prefer hyperlinks to have underlines regardless of the rest of their style. When they’re only differentiated by color, you can’t tell when adjacent words have different links! Who’s with me?

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 17:58:17 -0500

Jason Kottke, maker of “fine hypertext products”, points out how hyperlinks bring the receipts:

What makes this piece so effective is its plain language and its information density. This density is a real strength of hypertext that is often overlooked and taken for granted. Only 110 words in that paragraph but it contains 27 links to other NYT opinion pieces published over the last several months that expand on each linked statement or argument. If you were inclined to follow these links, you could spend hours reading about how unfit Trump is for office.

It struck me reading that piece too.

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 17:33:35 -0500

Happy to see The New York Times Editorial Board’s succinct urging to vote against a Trump presidency:

Mr. Trump’s corruption and lawlessness go beyond elections: It’s his whole ethos. He lies without limit. If he’s re-elected, the G.O.P. won’t restrain him. Mr. Trump will use the government to go after opponents. He will pursue a cruel policy of mass deportations. He will wreak havoc on the poor, the middle class and employers. Another Trump term will damage the climate, shatter alliances and strengthen autocrats. Americans should demand better. Vote.

They endorsed Harris in September. 🇺🇸

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 16:23:04 -0500

Find My Gains Option to Share Lost Item Location With an ‘Airline or Trusted Person’ in iOS 18.2 // Juli Clover // macrumors.com

Choosing the Share Item Location option creates a link that allows someone to see the location of a lost item when they open the link. The link can be opened on a non-Apple device, so people without an iPhone or Mac can help you find something that’s lost. Find My‌ links that you share expire after a week and you can see how many people visited the link.

It remains to be seen if an airline employee will do anything with that link to try to find your lost luggage.

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 16:18:55 -0500

🔗 Apple removed iMac option to buy color-matched trackpad and mouse together // Ryan Christoffel // 9to5mac.com

This means that if you want a trio of color-matched Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse, and Magic Trackpad, you’re simply out of luck.

Buying a Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad separately will limit you to the standard black and white color options. Thus, your accessories won’t match.

Boo! 👎

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 14:19:49 -0500

👀 Amazon’s got the M2 MacBook Air with the new 16GB RAM and 256GB storage standard at $200 off (down to $799). That’s quite the deal. (Via MacRumors)

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 14:10:24 -0500

Just ran across this Verge article from October 2023 in my reading queue:

SpaceX has published a new webpage to promote its upcoming “Starlink Direct to Cell” service that plans to offer cellular connectivity to “existing LTE phones” via satellite. The website, which PCMag reports went live earlier this week, notes that the service will initially be limited to texting services in 2024, with voice and data functionality following in 2025, alongside support for IoT devices.

This would be a big leap for connectivity, but 2024 is running out. Beware Musk timelines. ⏳

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 14:02:28 -0500

📺 Agatha All Along was really good (if not great) and I’m excited to see where they go with the story next.

Sun, 03 Nov 2024 14:35:50 -0500

🍿 Just Watched: The Truman Show

Sat, 02 Nov 2024 16:07:09 -0500

Matt Birchler, in a member post, points out that Call of Duty has both massive computing requirements and a complex interface, and still “normal” folks figure it out just fine:

None of this is to say that good user interfaces don’t matter, of course they do. I do think it’s a good reminder of two things:

The “average user” is more capable than we give them credit for

People will tolerate a bad UI if they enjoy the product as a whole

A good reminder for all of us pontificating about the average user.

Sat, 02 Nov 2024 09:37:26 -0500

🍿 Just watched: BlackBerry

Sat, 02 Nov 2024 09:18:36 -0500

🍿 Watched: Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 00:36:14 -0500

Dan Moren’s The Back Page column this month, ‘Tim Cook’s busy schedule’, is worth the Six Colors membership price all on its own:

4:30pm: Afternoon stroll to close rings and use iPhone 16 Pro to track down AirTag that Phil Schiller hides daily on Apple Park campus. […]

11pm: Wake from dead of sleep to fumble for bedside Mac Studio and Pro Display XDR. Check email. Breathe sigh of relief and go back to sleep.

🤣🤣🤣

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 23:23:29 -0500

Joe Rosensteel masters the sub-tweet with this post throwing shade at Apple’s rollout strategy for Apple Intelligence, which is to get everyone talking about the next upcoming beta features just as the current stuff gets released.

‘The Pre-Taped iOS Call-In Show’:

Okay, okay, there you go. That’s boo-boo number one. If you wanted to talk about iOS 18.1, you should have called last week during the iOS 18.0 show. We’re talking about iOS 18.2 now. If you see me talking about the genmoji and Image Playgrounds waitlist then it’s too late to talk about those. We’ve moved on.

Chef’s Kiss

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 23:12:50 -0500

🔗 M4 Pro Chip Benchmark Results Reveal an Extremely Impressive Performance Feat // macrumors.com

What this means is that you can now purchase a Mac mini with a 14-core M4 Pro for $1,599 in the U.S. and get similar to faster peak performance than a Mac Studio with the 24-core M2 Ultra, a configuration that starts at $3,999.

As for year-over-year performance improvements, the M4 Pro is up to 45% faster than the highest-end M3 Pro chip in terms of multi-core CPU performance, based on the Geekbench 6 results that are available so far.

Not bad when that beats the fastest chip in a Mac Pro, too.

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 19:50:09 -0500

I totally missed the 2-minute sketch at the end of today’s MacBook Pro video. So worth watching. 😆

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 23:27:48 -0500

Greg Morris on modern apps:

If I am a power user, I might also demand Shortcuts support, Siri integration and even a fancy API if the app calls for it. There are widgets to think about, live activities and in the near future, Apple Intelligence integration. Great apps don’t just exist as a square on your Home Screen, they extend into numerous areas and through different interaction methods. We expect them to be available everywhere we are, and still moan because the developer wants to make an income from their work. Worth bearing in mind next time an app you love asks you for a contribution.

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 23:17:09 -0500

🍿 Watched: Memento (2000) directed by Christopher Nolan 👍👍

It’d been a while since I saw this, and I got my wife to view it with me. Doing so while high really kept things interesting! We love a good time-based plot device.

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 23:13:06 -0500

Imagine being in a gym where accidents happen—maybe a stray elbow here, a bump there. Aurelius notes that in these moments, we don’t hold grudges; we simply acknowledge the mishap as part of the process and remain vigilant without bearing ill will. He suggests taking this approach into our everyday lives, dealing with emotional and social bumps with the same nonchalance. […] In the close quarters of life, just like in a gym, people might ‘collide’ with us unintentionally. According to Aurelius, we should view these incidents as neutral events, not personal attacks.

Greg Morris

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 12:38:09 -0500

Is this the most expensive that you’ve ever been able to price out a Mac mini? $4699 for the works.

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 12:22:05 -0500

I’d both love and hate an M4 MacBook Air announced tomorrow. Love because I’m pretty sure that’s going to be my next computer as I slim down to a MacBook Air/iPad mini/iPhone setup. Hate because I was expecting it in the spring and need time to save up! 😂

Going for the hat trick tomorrow. M4 Pro/Max MacBook Pros, with a wild card M4 MacBook Air possible 👀

✅ Monday: M4 iMac and iOS 18.1
✅ Tuesday: M4 Mac mini
⬜️ Wednesday: M4 Pro/Max MBP

RE: https://www.threads.net/@stephenrobles/post/DBrMPpSxTRJ
Stephen Robles https://www.threads.net/@stephenrobles/post/DBttmbaRxMv

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 10:46:37 -0500

Mac Week Day 2: It’s Mac mini’s turn with its third-ever redesign! Now it looks even more like Mac Studio’s little brother, with some serious performance to match. 🧵

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 08:47:43 -0500

Nick Heer, pxlnv.com:

The rollout of Apple Intelligence is uncharacteristically piecemeal and messy. Apple did not promise a big Siri overhaul in this version of iOS 18.1. But by giving it a new design, Apple communicates something is different. It is not — at least, not yet. Maybe it will be one day. Nothing about Siri’s state over the past decade-plus gives me hope that it will, however. I have barely noticed improvements in the things Apple says it should do better in iOS 18.1, like preserving context and changing my mind mid-dictation.

Siri remains software I distrust.

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 08:25:35 -0500

John Voorhees tested the AirPods Pro 2’s new Hearing Aid feature and was thoroughly impressed:

My brief experience with hearing assistance has been wild and surprising in a very good way. I’m fortunate that my hearing loss is mild. At the same time, though, the difference from using hearing assistance is so noticeable that I don’t want to take my AirPods out of my ears. I’m sure the novelty of hearing assistance will wear off and become the ‘new normal,’ but I won’t forget the experience of those first hours using it. It was remarkable.

The “I’ll probably never need it” features stack up.

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 16:01:31 -0500

John Gruber loves his nano-texture display:

As a don’t-know-how-I-lived-without-it fan of the nano-texture Studio Display, I’m glad to see a nano-texture option available for the M4 iMacs. (It’s a $200 upgrade.) Fingers crossed that they offer a nano-texture option for the M4 MacBook Pros.

I’ve not seen any rumors for nano-texture on MacBooks, but they absolutely should do it! If an iPad can get it, it should be offered everywhere. I remember when getting “Glossy” instead of “Matte” on your MacBook was the new hotness for better colors. Now we’re back to wanting less reflective screens.

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 14:12:50 -0500

Paul Kafasis skewers WaPo for their spinelessly withheld endorsement:

Even in your piece, you said “in 1976 for understandable reasons at the time, we changed this long-standing policy and endorsed Jimmy Carter as president.”. What, in your mind, were those understandable reasons? Was Gerald Ford a fascist? Did he claim he would be a dictator on day one? Or seek to have generals like Hitler’s? Did he provoke an attempted coup? Did he do any of the incredibly long list of horrendous things Donald Trump has done? You know the answer, and I suspect in your heart, you know that this is wrong.

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 11:35:51 -0500

A quick reminder to folks on macOS Sonoma/Sequoia that using Discord as a Safari web app is so much better than their “native” app because it never has to install an update. Granted, I’m not a Discord power user, but I’ve found no downsides, and it never interrupts to update when I launch the app.

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 11:04:24 -0500

It’s been 1784 days and Apple still won’t sell a compact keyboard with black keys. I’m done waiting. I’ve got an orange one in my eBay cart. If something better doesn’t come with the Mac mini this week, I’m pulling the trigger. Lightning and white keys be damned.

Also, what the hell is this key?!

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 10:19:51 -0500

Holy smokes this finish on the Studio Neat pens/pencil looks amazing! I don’t need another, but wow!

Limited Edition 013 is here! Red has been one of the most requested colors, so we went all out with this edition. It’s vibrant, glossy, and has embedded metallic flakes for a glimmering effect. Available on all our writing instruments, for one week only! https://www.studioneat.com/products/limited013
Studio Neat https://mastodon.social/@studioneat/113385696753623292

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 10:09:26 -0500

New iMacs! But are those colors actually new? They look great, but I would have missed that they changed. I guess they definitely didn’t have pink before, swapped in from red. 🧵

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 09:40:00 -0500

🆕📝 PSA: Beware certain AirPods Max stands

My very expensive and already-not-the-most-comfortable headphones just got even more uncomfortable.

Sun, 27 Oct 2024 20:00:01 -0500

I just saw the use of “priority neighborhoods” instead of “troubled” or “impoverished” and, gosh, that’s so much better. Language is so important. 👍

Sun, 27 Oct 2024 13:06:50 -0500

I love the iPhone mini and this is exactly how Apple should prioritize for a new one. Battery life is paramount, regular performance is fine, and fit the best cameras you can with the space left. I’d love a Pro version, but it’s probably impossible to cram everything into a smaller chassis.

Sat, 26 Oct 2024 07:15:33 -0500

iOS 18.2 has a new ‘Copy Link with Highlight’ action in the text action menu! Via Federico Viticci:

I’m very happy to see this:

It’s a little hard to find, but Safari in iOS 18.2 beta now supports links with Text Fragments!

This feature has been in Chrome for a while, and it lets you link directly to a specific part of a webpage with a highlight.

I was going to try making a shortcut to do this, but built-in is much better! An example: heydingus.net/blog/2021…

Fri, 25 Oct 2024 23:50:06 -0500

Just watched: The Alpinist (2021) directed by Peter Mortimer & Nick Rosen 🍿🧗⛏️

Fri, 25 Oct 2024 12:26:21 -0500

Thanks to @connected@relayfm.social, I can’t stop thinking about this Mokibo keyboard which has keys that double as a trackpad. I don’t need it…I don’t need it…

Fri, 25 Oct 2024 11:30:25 -0500

Zac Hall recounts the impact of spatialized photos in visionOS 2:

I had to share this visceral experience with someone else. My son’s great grandfather lost his wife over the summer after 50 years of marriage. I used the spatial effect in visionOS 2 on photos of our visits with them from the past decade, then created an album of those photos for him to view. “There she is,” he said as he reached his arm out to her.

I concur, they’re really something.

Wed, 23 Oct 2024 20:49:13 -0500

Having passed my assessment (🎉), I must insist that you refer to me using my official certification: Jarrod Blundy, SPI. 😜

(Unfortunately, that’s not a cert in espionage, merely a Single Pitch Instructor with the American Mountain Guides Association. BUT WHAT IF IT WAS!?)

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 16:49:35 -0500

‘Dropped iPhone Causes Woman to Be Trapped Upside Down in Rock Crevice for Hours’

“Come get me! Don’t leave me down here!” her iPhone demanded, probably.

Apple forgot to document the Mind Control feature where iPhone compels people to do silly and dangerous things. 🙃

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 20:18:46 -0500

The Swanson Pyramid of Greatness shirt. Get it. Or don’t. This is America, so I can’t tell you what to do.

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 18:46:35 -0500

James questions if blogs should change with the seasons:

[C]ould a website be different as time passes? Could a website adapt to nighttime so that readers have an easier experience perusing information? In this same vein: how, more broadly, could a website adapt to the passage of time? How could a website adapt to the seasons?

This has me pondering. I go through different seasons of writing, for sure. During parts of the year, I’m perfectly happy to be parked in front of my computer, typing away. At other times, my interest wanders elsewhere. Perhaps the design should reflect that somehow.

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 18:21:36 -0500

From Make Something Wonderful, published by the Steve Jobs Archive:

Six Pixar films won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature during this third act of Steve’s life. And when he resigned from Apple, six weeks before his death from pancreatic cancer in 2011, his beloved company, with its sixty thousand employees, seasoned leadership team, and clear mission guiding its future, was the most valuable in the world.

I sometimes forget the role that Steve played at Pixar. That third act of his life was really something. 📚

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 18:11:41 -0500

Someone told me that I “brought good vibes” and it made my whole day. 😎

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 09:21:00 -0500

🆕📝 A passage from Ratika Deshpande’s ‘The Sky Zine’

She shipped it!

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 16:41:05 -0500

🔗 Automattic offered workers another chance to quit over WordPress drama // Emma Roth // theverge.com

I think I’d be accepting the nine months of severance and taking my talents elsewhere. This whole WordPress thing is smelling more rotten by the day.

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 11:37:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#157]

A cute bear, a window tiling tip, impressive iPhone audio, those glasses, an iPod with a camera, Lonely Island is back, and a must-see talk.

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 09:13:01 -0500

Jason Snell, sixcolors.com:

On the one hand, the fact that you can get noise cancellation on base AirPods is amazing. Their hard plastic body means that they can’t make a soft seal like the silicone tips on the AirPods Pro can, so there’s more outside audio leakage to compensate for. However, there’s a huge advantage there: If you can’t stand silicone ear tips sticking into your ears, maybe the AirPods 4 will let you finally use ANC AirPods for the first time.

That’s me! Tried the AirPods Pro a few times but they didn’t work for my ears. I love the AirPods 4 and their ANC is plenty for me.

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 00:49:17 -0500

Jay Peters, theverge.com:

Amazon has discontinued the Kindle Oasis, which was the only Kindle still available with physical page-turn buttons. The company announced a new Kindle lineup earlier today, but Amazon confirmed to The Verge that it’s moving on from the Oasis.

The old non-metal version of the Kindle Oasis is my favorite e-reader size and design of all-time, and it’s the one my wife still uses every day. I’ve since settled into my Kobo Libra 2, but I miss the incredible thinness and featherweight of the Oasis, not to mention its svelte leather battery cover. Pour one out…

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 00:36:00 -0500

🆕📝 Chief People Officer Left the Chat

I was rooting for her, but Carol Surface apparently wasn’t meant to last at Apple.

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 23:37:35 -0500

“Is it time to wake up so that we can go to bed?”

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 23:32:32 -0500

I’ll have more to say about this soon, but I’m thrilled to finally reveal that my big leap this year is to start up my own guiding service. I’m nervous and excited, but most of all I’m eager to share more outdoor adventures in this beautiful place. Coming soon to an Adirondack Park near you. Onward!

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 18:01:11 -0500

Cory Doctorow, pluralistic.net:

Did you know that, by default, your email sends information to mailing list platforms about your reading activity? The platform gets to know if you opened the message, and often how far along you’ve read in it. On top of that, they get all the private information your browser or app leaks about you, including your location. This is unbelievably gross, and you get to bypass all of it, just by reading in RSS.

I think I’m down to just one newsletter delivered via email (from someone I trust!). All the rest come in through RSS, and it’s the way to go for sure.

Tue, 15 Oct 2024 23:57:00 -0500

🆕📝 ‘Call me, maybe’: Neatnik’s New Phone Support

Of course Adam is doing this. He can’t help but do right by his customers.

Tue, 15 Oct 2024 23:35:15 -0500

Annie Mueller wrote up some excellent (and timely) advice on being more confident:

Mess it up badly.

I mean, just fuck it up completely. Do irreparable damage. Leave things a total mess, preferably bloody. Look back on your prior crashing-and-burning with a certain fondness. How petty it seems in comparison to the absolute destruction you’re standing in now. How easy it was, in retrospect, to recover. How small a mess, really.

Mon, 14 Oct 2024 17:01:40 -0500

Fighting with Amazon Customer Support was not what I planned for today. Even over email, I’m pretty sure it’s an LLM responding using the prompt, “Keep asking for the same information until he gives up.”

I’ve even tried to set up a phone call, but it won’t give me the field to enter my number. 😤

Mon, 14 Oct 2024 14:50:14 -0500

Currently reading: Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills by The Mountaineers 📚

It’s about time I got to “the bible” of climbing tombs.

Mon, 14 Oct 2024 14:01:27 -0500

Tom Jones, sherwood.news:

We’re often told with virtual and augmented reality that the possibilities are almost endless. On the $3,499 Apple Vision Pro headset, however, the amount of new experiences for users to explore seems to have already slowed to a near standstill.

According to data from Appfigures, cited recently in The Wall Street Journal, there were 300 new apps released for the Vision Pro in February, its official US launch month. In September, there were 10.

If Apple put out AVP early for a head start on AR apps, they’ve got a lot of work to do. (Via @amerpie)

Mon, 14 Oct 2024 13:33:28 -0500

My keyboard’s modifiers suddenly went haywire—Command-A (⌘A) gave me å instead of Select All. No tab switching, no copy/paste. Yikes! I reset it, checked settings, searched online, even asked ChatGPT. Then I remembered — it’s got a physical switch for Windows mode! Flipped it back. Problem solved. 🤦‍♂️

Mon, 14 Oct 2024 09:59:08 -0500

Speaking of Matt Birchler, here are two more excellent posts from him about the Orion headset. Or, well, about talking about the Orion headset. Shot and chaser. (Yes, I’m catching up on my read-later backlog. Almost done with Birchtree!)

Mon, 14 Oct 2024 09:23:53 -0500

Matt Birchler:

Consumer Affairs has some data on smartphone use and ownership in the United States that’s interesting, and SellCell has some good data on how often people around the world upgrade their phone. While the most common upgrade cycle is 2-3 years (40%), and a similar amount (39%) upgrade in 4 or more year cycles, a full 21% of people upgrade their phone at least once per year. Given an estimated 316 million smartphone owners in the US today, that’s 66 million Americans who buy a new phone every year.

The “nobody does this” rhetoric bugs me too, but wow, 20% is more than I expected.

Sat, 12 Oct 2024 10:25:52 -0500

Nick Heer on Tesla’s recent We, Robot event:

Public transit, which is available today, is the very definition of democratized transportation, especially if it has been carefully considered for the needs of people with disabilities. It is inexpensive, requires less space per person than any car, and has a beneficial feedback loop of safety and usage. I am not arguing the two cannot coexist; perhaps some of this stuff makes sense in low-density sprawl. But I have little confidence the future will look like Musk’s vision, or that Tesla will be delivering it. Why would anyone still believe this too-rich carnival barker who lies all the time?

Sat, 12 Oct 2024 08:42:53 -0500

📚 Finished reading: Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in his own words by Steve Jobs 👍👍

What a uniquely remarkable person.

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 18:21:06 -0500

I would watch the heck out of any show with this music. song.link/i/1454371…

Sun, 06 Oct 2024 15:27:24 -0500

I like to go back to Walt Mossberg’s rememberance of Steve Jobs from time-to-time. Surely I read it through rose-tinted glasses these days, but he really was one-of-a-kind:

But I can honestly say that, in my many conversations with him, the dominant tone he struck was optimism and certainty […]

At times in our conversations, when I would criticize the decisions of record labels or phone carriers, he’d surprise me by forcefully disagreeing, explaining how the world looked from their point of view, how hard their jobs were in a time of digital disruption, and how they would come around.

Sun, 06 Oct 2024 14:51:42 -0500

Wow, hard to beat this price if you just need a basic iPad:

Looks like Best Buy is trying to clear out 9th gen iPads. $199 is a crazy good deal and frankly, the iPad is probably the last product in Apple’s lineup that really needs the AI tools since it’s a consumption first device.
— @parkerortolani@mastodon.social

Sat, 05 Oct 2024 21:50:18 -0500

I’m quite regretting going back to Squarespace for a new project. Even more so that I, like a cuck, paid for a year upfront. I hope this setup tedium will be worth it once things are up and running, but I wish I would’ve looked around more before committing. Their new ‘fluid engine’ is anything but.

Sat, 05 Oct 2024 08:16:27 -0500

TIL about “digital” watch faces from @gruber@mastodon.social

Fri, 04 Oct 2024 19:46:20 -0500

I’ve “downgraded” from an iPhone 16 Pro to an iPhone 16. 🙃 AMA

Fri, 04 Oct 2024 19:05:43 -0500

I just updated my Amazon Affiliate Linker shortcut to version 1.5. It’d been buggy lately, but after streamling a bit, now it’s working like a charm:

Simplified actions to use a regular expression to match the ASIN, which should also be more accurate.

Clarified how the starting URL is gotten.

Cleaned up the final built URL.

When opening the final URL, it also copies it to the clipboard.

Tested for macOS Sequoia and iOS 18.

Get it for free from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 22:47:58 -0500

Finished reading: States of Adventure: STORIES ABOUT FINDING YOURSELF BY GETTING LOST by Fitz Cahall 📚

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 12:06:59 -0500

👀 A new season of Ted Lasso, you say? I’d love to see those characters together again!

Exclusive: #TedLasso S4 is set to begin pre-production in January. According to our sources, the football drama is now confirmed to return next year with a fourth instalment, with London shoots beginning in early 2025!
— Sigmund Judge, Magic Rays of Light

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 09:28:42 -0500

I’m trying to switch from a left-phone-pocket-guy to a right-phone-pocket-guy and, boy, 17 years of muscle memory is tough to break.

Sat, 28 Sep 2024 16:47:00 -0500

🆕📝 Lynn Hill: Climbing comes down to cleverness and perseverance

Lynn, one of the GOATs, lays it all out on Climbing Gold

Sat, 28 Sep 2024 13:56:19 -0500

Greg Morris doesn’t mince his words:

As Mark’s shirt from Connect proudly claimed it’s Zuck or nothing. He can try to hide the reality in an ancient Latin, or meanness company statements about connecting people. The reality is they only care about advertising revenue, and it has always been about the company before anything else.

Sat, 28 Sep 2024 11:32:10 -0500

What do we think the likelihood is that Apple releases a Product RED iPhone 16 in the spring…?

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 00:48:41 -0500

It’s like Manton Reece peered into my brain before writing his post concerning Meta and their Connect 2024 event today:

I’m not exactly rooting for Meta. I dedicated major sections of my book to the problems with massive, ad-based social networking, with Facebook and Instagram as prominent players. But nevertheless I’m caught up in some of the excitement of new technology at Connect. There’s a refreshing change of pace and tone compared to decades of Apple keynotes.

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 00:40:40 -0500

Just discovered that you can scroll down with the Digital Crown from your watch face to pull down Notification Center. Pretty sure that’s new on watchOS. ⌚️

Wed, 25 Sep 2024 22:50:30 -0500

Do I know any logo designers who might want to work with me on a fun project? 🕵️ (Or anyone who knows a good logo designer who could make a recommendation?)

Wed, 25 Sep 2024 22:01:00 -0500

🆕📝 Farewell, iMore

Another Apple blogging outfit bites the dust.

Wed, 25 Sep 2024 14:16:29 -0500

🔗 Meta’s going to put AI-generated images in your Facebook and Instagram feeds // Emma Roth // theverge.com

At the Meta Connect event on Wednesday, the company announced that it’s testing a new feature that creates AI-generated content for you “based on your interests or current trends” — including some that incorporate your face.

This gets a big “no thanks” from me. Especially if it’s putting my face in there. 👎

Mon, 23 Sep 2024 17:02:51 -0500

8GB of memory on iPhone 16 series is no joke. An app I hadn’t opened in over 24 hours was still loaded up in memory. Dunno what the GBs on my 13 mini was but I can assure you this has never happened before.

It was handy too; I didn’t have to go searching back for the right spot. It was right there.

Sun, 22 Sep 2024 22:23:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#156]

Just your weekly recommended serving of links.

Sun, 22 Sep 2024 21:58:00 -0500

🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #572: ‘Fight, Fight, Fight!’

Instagram teen account restrictions, phone charging setups, favorite and least favorite new Apple software features, favorite teachers, and stock app redesign wishes.

Sun, 22 Sep 2024 20:38:23 -0500

Man, I gotta say, the noise cancelation with these AirPods 4 is ✨magic✨.

Sat, 21 Sep 2024 21:02:34 -0500

So I signed up for a certification examination about a month ago, and it cost $500. It was supposed to run at the end of this week, but I guess I was the only one to fully register, so they’re canceling it. I’ll get a refund, but less $20 for “PayPal’s processing fees”.

Am I out of line for thinking it’s a bummer to pass that $20 onto me when I didn’t cancel? I understand a fee or losing my deposit if I canceled on them last-minute, but they’re canceling on me. Now I’ll need to scramble and pay up-front for a new examination while I wait for the (check) refund.

I’m not going to throw a fit because I’m midwestern and I’d rather lose the $20 than be rude. But it will make me think twice about registering with this company for other things in the future.

Sat, 21 Sep 2024 17:25:00 -0500

🆕📝 Six-Sentence Reviews of My New Apple Stuff

If you already read these last night, you're still treated to a little bit of extra waffling / early buyer's remorse.

Sat, 21 Sep 2024 14:41:00 -0500

🆕📝 The Sound of Silence Rules

Fri, 20 Sep 2024 22:21:01 -0500

My several-sentence review of the AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation (after about 60 minutes):

They seem to fit well and are comfy! 🥳
Sound is great! 🔊
Noise Cancellation is quite good! 🔇
Stem-squeeze controls aren’t so bad. 🤌
Case is tiny! ◽️
Contenders for Best AirPods Yet! 🥇

Fri, 20 Sep 2024 22:14:45 -0500

My several-sentence iPhone 16 Pro review (after about 30 minutes):

Screen is amazing! 🤩
Device is so big and heavy! 🙁
Rails are shinier than I expected/wanted. 😕
But the rounded edges feel great. 🙂
Action Button & Camera Control quick-access will be nice. 👍
Undecided on white color. 🤷‍♂️

Fri, 20 Sep 2024 22:02:53 -0500

We just made our Marco Offset™ donation to St. Jude. That leaves just $185.88 left to reach my campaign’s goal of raising $500! 🙏 (Thanks @rsilvernail!)

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 06:14:31 -0500

“Sick as hell” eh?

Sliding it on for a photoshoot, I feel something wash over me. No longer am I a sleep-deprived tech reviewer hunched over an overpriced coffee. I’m a leather-clad vampire assassin calmly sipping espresso on a cobblestone street. With the new Reflections watchface in black, I immediately level up 1,000 mystery points. When I switch to the Flux watchface, I’ve morphed into a tech-savvy corporate goth. A grown-up former emo gal who, by day, files taxes on time but still spiritually sticks it to the man because, look, I wore my combat boots to work.

Victoria Song theverge.com

Wed, 18 Sep 2024 22:47:04 -0500

Ahhh… Sweet, sweet inbox zero. 👌

Wed, 18 Sep 2024 22:35:47 -0500

Got out and enjoyed the sunshine at Sunshine City crag today with a new friend. Got in 7 or so pitches. Good day! 🧗

Wed, 18 Sep 2024 21:32:02 -0500

Oh hey, I’ve got my first pledgee for my St. Jude fundraiser! $5 per blog post I write this month. Moms are the best. 🥰

Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:53:04 -0500

I’ve been trying iCloud Passwords over 1Password for about a year, but even with the new Passwords app it’s not (yet) quite what what I need. I’m headed back to 1Password for the time being.

Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:51:42 -0500

🔗 PayPal has a new logo that makes it look just like everything else // Sean Hollister // theverge.com

Roughly 25 years after it launched payment processing, PayPal is “ushering in a new era for customers” with some generic black text. The company has a new logo, designed by Pentagram, that looks incredibly plain — especially compared to previous iterations of the logo that featured a rakish slant, two shades of blue, and prominent PayPal P’s.

Yikes. Really lost all its flavor and personality here. I wonder when this trend will turn around.

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 22:45:46 -0500

It’s the end of an era as we say goodbye to @jamesthomson@mastodon.social’s excellent old-school PCalc widget. It’s been a staple in my Today View for six years as the most convenient way to do quick calculations. Let’s pour one out for the little guy who was early in pushing widget boundaries.

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 22:26:00 -0500

🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #571: ‘I Am My Own Robot’

iPhone camera capturing methods, new Apple products purchases, robotic smart speaker appeal, a hypothetical third new iPhone button, our favorite kind of transportation, and task management.

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:30:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#155]

Some mind-blowing stuff this week.

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:17:06 -0500

It’s finally time…

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:55:35 -0500

🔗 Apple’s Visual Intelligence could be a step toward Apple glasses

It’s not hard to imagine how Visual Intelligence could help you out on a device that sees everything you see. Take the idea of learning more about a restaurant, like Apple showed for Visual Intelligence on an iPhone: instead of fishing your phone out of your pocket to look up information about a new spot, with glasses, you could just look at the restaurant, ask a question, and have the glasses tell you more.

My Meta Ray-Bans do this but I never use it. Maybe if the info was actionable (add to a reminder?), that’d change.

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:34:48 -0500

A heartfelt congratulations to Jason Snell (and Dan Moren) at Six Colors for a decade of top-notch independent writing:

What I’m saying is, my last ten years in this business have been entirely happy. I didn’t need to take time away to go from purely miserable to happy. That iPhone 6 review, which was originally just a way to keep myself connected to the one work thing I actually liked, transformed into the whole thing. […]

I’m happy to be here. And happy you’re reading this. Thank you for the last ten years. Here’s to thousands of new posts and links and podcast episodes to come.

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:35:24 -0500

After last week’s keynote, the usual unimpressed reactions followed. John Gruber outlines why by comparing the Jobs and Cook eras:

Jobs was driven to improve the way computers work. Cook is driven to improve the way humans live.

The delight is still there, but there’s less amazement. It’s by design. They’re not trying but failing to reach the heights of the Jobs era’s ecstatic design novelty, because those peaks had accompanying valleys. Apple today is aiming for, and achieving, utterly consistent excellence. Quirkiness no longer fits.

Cook has patience where Jobs would grow restless.

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 08:08:51 -0500

Hey @HemisphericViews, we’re seeing some Wollongong love from @mkbhd@threads.net in his new AirPods video! 👀

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 07:33:23 -0500

This sounds promising! 😃

But the AirPods 4 with ANC are far and away Apple’s most compelling take on this open design yet. The noise cancellation isn’t on par with more expensive in-ear alternatives, but it’s easily good enough to ensure you can enjoy your music at a normal volume no matter where you might be. You can tell a difference when the ANC is working, which I can’t say of other open earbuds that have advertised noise cancellation. That, combined with the wireless charging, is the biggest reason I’d steer most people toward the more expensive model.

Chris Welch, www.theverge.com

Sun, 15 Sep 2024 20:00:31 -0500

I’ve not written my Crashing Clockwise or 7 Things posts yet for this week, but I’m on the couch and not particularly motivated…so it’s going to have to wait at least one more day. Sorry if you’re waiting on them…

Sat, 14 Sep 2024 23:56:59 -0500

I haven’t seen anyone mention this, but it looks like folks like the guys on @connected@relayfm.social got their wish and 18.0 will ship with the old Siri orb UI while the glowy perimeter UI will wait for 18.1 and Apple Intelligence. Per MKBHD’s hands-on video at the event.

Sat, 14 Sep 2024 20:24:38 -0500

🎵 Hey this music thing is pretty great. Here are four singles I enjoyed tonight:

“I Can Do It With a Broken Heart (Dombresky Remix)” by Taylor Swift & Dombresky
“First Heartbreak” by Lauv
“Cleats” by FINNEAS
“Dancing In The Flames” by The Weeknd

Sat, 14 Sep 2024 09:12:50 -0500

Thank you @amerpie and @ericmwalk for your generous donations to my St. Jude campaign! 🥰🙏🎗️ I just figured out how to download the incentive reports, so Eric I’ll start working on your shortcut, and Lou, for sure you can bank it for whenever you have a need. You guys rock!

Sat, 14 Sep 2024 08:05:40 -0500

It wouldn’t be another week in Apple without some kind of EU-related action, would it? Apparently not.

“Apple told to pay Ireland €13bn in tax by EU”

That’s a lot of scratch, but as Dan noted, the money is already in escrow, leading me to wonder “Where is this ‘Escrow’? How securely is it guarded? How quickly can I assemble a team of elite misfits to infiltrate ‘Escrow’? Do I have to go to the airport to convert euros to dollars? Where do you do that now?” etc.

— John Moltz, Six Colors

🤣🤣🤣

Fri, 13 Sep 2024 09:21:33 -0500

For maybe the first time ever, iPhone order day was totally chill. I put together the pre-preorder last night, woke up as normal for work this morning, realized at 8:08am that pre-orders had started, opened the Apple Store app on my phone (no wait), and like three clicks later I was done. No drama.

Mon, 09 Sep 2024 20:37:56 -0500

🔗 Maybe I’m Not a Pro Anymore // Brendon Bigley // macstories.net

It occurred to me watching today’s presentation that this is the first year where the iPhone’s Pro models feel like they were actually made for professionals. The “extras” Allison is referring to used to be the marquee features of the newest lineup — the Dynamic Island, the Action button, etc — but are now seriously professional features. The latest additions and the reasoning behind their inclusion all felt completely alien to me.

I felt this too. I’m glad for others to use them, but many “Pro” features are likely lost on me.

Mon, 09 Sep 2024 18:20:30 -0500

🔗 iOS 18 RC adds the ability to pause video recordings in the Camera app // Jeff Benjamin // 9to5mac.com

This feature opens up a few creative possibilities, but the most obvious use case is the ability to create simple jump cuts within the same video, eliminating the need to edit the cuts together in post. By pausing a video and changing the framing, you’re performing the edit during the shoot instead of in post. This could significantly speed up turnaround time for rough videos shot using iOS 18’s default Camera app.

Ooh, nice!

Mon, 09 Sep 2024 15:34:11 -0500

🆕📝 First Thoughts on ‘It’s Glowtime’

I'll probably watch it again to see what I missed, but here's my first impression. TL;DR: It was a fun Apple Event with thinner, lighter, better gadgets. Nothing "blowaway" — except perhaps some sweet health features — but pretty good iterations overall.

Mon, 09 Sep 2024 13:49:28 -0500

Hold up, gotta go pre-order some AirPods. I’m so intrigued by their no-ear-tips-but-still-noise-cancelation magic. 🎧

Mon, 09 Sep 2024 11:59:44 -0500

‘It’s Glowtime’  Event Day! The command center is ready and I’ll be reacting live in this thread. You can also refresh this page to follow along! 🧵

Mon, 09 Sep 2024 10:21:42 -0500

I can’t wait to see more photos of the new “The Observatory” at Apple Park from folks there today. Their architecture is so beautiful and timeless. Hoping we’ll get some analysis from @michaelsteeber@mastodon.social too! I like that we see the campus grow every few years. (Via MacStories)

Mon, 09 Sep 2024 09:23:20 -0500

New friends, new climbs, and mega fun at the Rumney Craggin’ Classic this weekend, put on by the @americanalpine! 📷

Mon, 09 Sep 2024 06:43:07 -0500

🔗 How to Get Lots of Internet Points // Lou Plummer // louplummer.lol

My technique for getting Internet points through blogging is to try my best to be interesting and prolific. I want to meet real people and have real conversations. I like it when I write something that is measurably popular because it increases the chances of those things happening. I also take pride in writing what I hope are helpful technical articles with the hope of helping someone find a useful tool or technique that makes their work easier.

Mon, 09 Sep 2024 00:22:07 -0500

I saw two different rainbows on my drive home today! (Three if you count the double rainbow) 🌈 📷

Sun, 08 Sep 2024 23:36:00 -0500

🆕📝 ‘It’s Glowtime’ Apple Event Bingo, HeyDingus Edition

Wanna play along? You could get your name immortalized on my site! I hope all your iPhone-related dreams come true today.

Sun, 08 Sep 2024 22:26:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#154]

A manifesto, a review's review, a YouTube channel launch, a couple of podcasts, a rock climb, and a way to get a custom shortcut and save kids from cancer all in one!

Sun, 08 Sep 2024 18:14:02 -0500

Remember when we heard about the rumor that Shortcuts was going to get a natural language-based editor? That hasn’t appeared in the Shortcuts app itself, but it’s kinda what Apple Intelligence is going to be once Siri and App Intents are pieced together into it. 🤓

Thu, 05 Sep 2024 23:54:00 -0500

🆕📝 Humility Is Better Late Than Never

Overcast's Marco Arment reflects on the negative feedback he received about its relaunch, and how he's been resolving his mistakes.

Thu, 05 Sep 2024 23:10:00 -0500

🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #570: ‘It’s a Worm’

External storage preferences, favorite collaboration tools, smartphone upgrade enticement, Skynet predictions, old clothing, and our future tech support needs. This week *really* ran the gamut.

Thu, 05 Sep 2024 02:19:15 -0500

🔗 How writing can help you solve problems // Eric Gregorich // blog.ericgregorich.com

As we write out the potential options to solve the problem, we typically eliminate specific options based on what we know about the situation. Perhaps it is a budget issue or an infrastructure limitation. The more we can get down on paper (digital or analog) the more likely we are to come up with the best options.

Yup. Slowing down and thinking through things logically to get them on the page helps me to organize and solidify my thoughts.

Thu, 05 Sep 2024 00:36:44 -0500

It’s not done yet, but I’ve got a fresh design going at heydingus.net. You’ll see what’s new if you click into a specific page or post, like here! There’s tweaking to do, but I’m excited about where it’s going. Let me know if you see any weirdness. (And check it out on different screen sizes! 😉)

Thu, 05 Sep 2024 00:21:00 -0500

🆕📝 HeyDingus for Relay for St. Jude for Ending Childhood Cancer for 2024

Yo. You can get custom shortcuts for donations made to my campaign, or join my blogging pledge drive for St. Jude. Check it out…for the kids!

Mon, 02 Sep 2024 21:22:12 -0500

🔗 Konfetti Explorations // Marisabel Munoz // marisabel.nl

When, exactly, did reading become about quick digestion instead of deep reflection? When did we stop savoring beautifully crafted sentences, inhaling their ephemeral essence? What happened to the celebration of beautiful prose? When did practicality overshadow our appreciation for writing as an art form, rather than merely a tool for sales? When did we sell ourselves to the corporate machine, diluting our language to attract those who have no time? The answer to all these questions, it seems, is this: “It was all for the money.”

Mon, 02 Sep 2024 21:16:59 -0500

Gruber was right, this George Clooney and Brad Pitt interview with GQ is a good read.

Mon, 02 Sep 2024 09:31:00 -0500

🆕📝 Gratitude Comes From the Top

An illuminating show of character from Steve Jobs back in the day could be instructional to Apple today.

Sun, 01 Sep 2024 08:15:06 -0500

🔗 Please please please please please please share your big dumb beautiful self with the world // Keenan // gkeenan.co

Creativity is how we make sense of the world around us. We only have one you and one chance to know the world you know.

Is this getting a little too “live, laugh, love”? Fuck it. Embrace the cringe. Stop blowing out your own candle. You know whose opinion about your art is more important than just making it?

Fucking no one’s.

Sat, 31 Aug 2024 12:16:00 -0500

🆕📝 Blaugust 2024 Retrospective

The final one. [Whew!]

Sat, 31 Aug 2024 11:53:00 -0500

🆕📝 Back to Ohio and Wedding Bound!

After three years away, I'm finally heading back to visit the old stomping grounds.

Sat, 31 Aug 2024 11:31:00 -0500

🆕📝 Simple Scan Aped My Shortcut

And I'm not even mad about it.

Sat, 31 Aug 2024 10:40:00 -0500

🆕📝 Effortlessly Scheduling My Work Shifts with Shortcuts

🚨 New Shortcut Alert! This is how I get my inconsistent work schedule onto my calendar with ease and accuracy.

Sat, 31 Aug 2024 09:25:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#153]

What's this? An issue of 7 Things early instead of late? What a treat! #Blaugust2024

Fri, 30 Aug 2024 23:45:07 -0500

Yesterday was a four blog post day. But today will need to be a five blog post day for me to reach my Blaugust goal. Let’s do this. ✍️ (But first, sleep.)

Fri, 30 Aug 2024 23:37:00 -0500

🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #569: ‘Average Mid-Sized Sedan of a Dog’

Reading Apple Books, pet gadgets, regularly-used accessibility features, a tech wish, favorite Muppets, and first apps. #Blaugust2024

Fri, 30 Aug 2024 22:13:00 -0500

🆕📝 The Perfect Album

I might be late to this Hemispheric Views call-to-action, but I couldn't resist sharing what I think is the most perfect start-to-finish album in my library. What's yours? #Blaugust2024

Fri, 30 Aug 2024 13:14:00 -0500

🆕📝 Snapchat’s Notifications Are the Worst

This one has been brooding in the back of my mind for years. #Blaugust2024

Fri, 30 Aug 2024 07:27:00 -0500

🆕📝 Small Life Improvement: Turn Off Your Microwave

There's a better way to live. #Blaugust2024

Mon, 26 Aug 2024 20:19:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#152]

A few videos, a few podcasts, a great tip, and a scary future. #Blaugust2024

Fri, 23 Aug 2024 20:40:00 -0500

🆕📝 Re: Places on the web

When you think of your blog, social networks, and other online communities, what do you picture in your mind? #Blaugust2024

Fri, 23 Aug 2024 17:56:30 -0500

Hey Overcast users, if you moved to other apps because streaming was removed from the newest version, you might be happy to hear that it’s back!

Version 2024.8.2 is now live in the App Store:
STREAMING IS BACK!
Also in this update:
- Smart Speed now displays its current speed
- Podcasts can now have different sort order for Unplayed and All modes
- Other minor fixes
Overcast https://mastodon.social/@overcastfm/113013568869422787

It wasn’t a big deal for me, but it was for other people.

Thu, 22 Aug 2024 18:21:00 -0500

🆕📝 Wrapping Up PenPals with Steve Ledlow

Bringing our "month" of conversation to a close with a little dad pride and internet shop talk. #Blaugust2024

Thu, 22 Aug 2024 16:00:39 -0500

Just saw a Tesla Cybertruck for the first time on the road. I let out an audible “ugh” with how terrible it looked. God I hope I don’t see more of those atrocities around. (Also, it was brown, which, odd.)

Wed, 21 Aug 2024 22:56:00 -0500

🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #568: ‘The Canonical Answer is Dan’s TV’

Must-have third-party apps, morning apps, faltering tech, tech that's changed our minds, best vacation meal, and favorite features that were ripped from our grasp. #Blaugust2024

Wed, 21 Aug 2024 18:22:46 -0500

Getting to spend a few days climbing with these guys from Frost Valley YMCA was a joy. It was so cool to see their skills progress as climbers and their teamwork flourish as they learned to belay each other. All after getting off a week of backpacking! Rock on, dudes. 📷

Wed, 21 Aug 2024 16:53:29 -0500

Saturday found me guiding Jim and Matt up their first High Peak. Whiteface was a formidable choice for their first, especially as we opted for the more adventurous up-and-over route via Whiteface Landing. (What a great route!) Their preparation paid off and even ascending into rain clouds couldn’t dampen our spirits! Things cleared up for a gorgeous descent. Here’s to many more father/son hikes in the ADK. 🥾 📷

Sun, 18 Aug 2024 21:25:01 -0500

🚨 New shortcut alert!

If you’re like me, you sometimes struggle to fit your witty and very cool social media post within the character limit. It can be a fun game to trim it down, but sometimes it’s a hassle. For those tough times, here’s Rewrite Shorter, powered by ChatGPT and Shortcuts.

Sun, 18 Aug 2024 13:09:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#151]

Reworked podcasts, hot takes, blogging joy, and an old (yet still relevant) climbing video. #Blaugust2024

Sun, 18 Aug 2024 12:07:41 -0500

A buddy asked me about replacing his 2015 15” Intel MacBook Pro with a 14” M3 Pro. I said the massive upgrades in screen quality, processor speed and battery life would make it well worth it. He texted later saying the laptop makes him happy every time he opens it. I’ve rarely felt so validated. 💪

Sun, 18 Aug 2024 11:22:15 -0500

Ah yes, August 2024, the perfect time to sit down and read @viticci@macstories.net’s iOS & iPadOS 17 review. Gotta get caught up on all those brand-new features! 😋 (Wonderfully written, as always.)

Sat, 17 Aug 2024 21:05:00 -0500

🆕📝 Mid-Blaugust 2024 Check-In

Today is August 17th, so we're over halfway through Blaugust 2024 and I thought I would just let you know how it's going. Bonus, it counts for my blog post for today. #Blaugust2024

Sat, 17 Aug 2024 20:35:36 -0500

So this is on everyone’s ‘Perfect Songs’ playlist, right?

song.link/i/1590368…

Any other contenders I should audition?

Fri, 16 Aug 2024 22:15:00 -0500

🆕📝 License Plate Game: Long-Distance Family Edition

Reviving a childhood classic with a twist.

Fri, 16 Aug 2024 13:53:50 -0500

Successful rescue mission to recover some gear I left at Cloudspin Cliff when bailing in an unexpected thunderstorm! 📷

Fri, 16 Aug 2024 13:53:19 -0500

Matthew and I had a grand time hiking up Phelps Mountain yesterday. It was his (and Gideon’s) first high peak! Great conversation the whole way, and a fantastic view at the summit — better than we expected considering the wildfire haze. Gideon definitely earned his nap afterward. 🐾 📷

Thu, 15 Aug 2024 21:22:00 -0500

🆕📝 On Doing Scary Things

Much like I think it's important to do hard things, I also think it's important to make yourself do scary things from time to time.

Wed, 14 Aug 2024 22:02:00 -0500

🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #567: ‘That’s Not How Capitalism Works’

Mini-er Mac minis, Apple vs. Patreon, notifications habits, Rivian adding Apple Music instead of CarPlay, go-to travel snacks, and origin story tech interactions.

Tue, 13 Aug 2024 22:47:00 -0500

🆕📝 An Incomplete Recounting of My Day

A day in the life of a climbing guide who lives in a pretty neat area. Not that I'm biased or anything.

Mon, 12 Aug 2024 18:31:00 -0500

🆕📝 Uninvited Guest (Or, The Black Bear Snack Bar)

A(n admittedly cute) reminder that, yes, I do live right on the edge of wilderness. 🐻

Mon, 12 Aug 2024 14:35:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#150]

Wow, have I really done 150 of these things? I probably should have done something special, but it's your regular interweb roundup this week! Thanks for reading!

Mon, 12 Aug 2024 03:44:00 -0700

Watched: Station Eleven 📺

At first, I found this series kind of hard to get into. I’m all about the post-apocalyptic series, and I liked the angle this has following the Traveling Symphony. But it didn’t click with me right away. In fact, it wasn’t until the finale that I was sure if I even liked the show. But I found myself yelling at the TV, desperately wanting resolution to some of the arcs. And my heart ached in some of the outcomes. I realized how much I’d grown invested in the story its characters. I’ll be thinking about this one a lot in the years to come, I think. 👍

Sat, 10 Aug 2024 22:02:35 -0500

🍿 Just watched: Deadpool & Wolverine

Sat, 10 Aug 2024 14:27:46 -0500

Oh no. I’m hearing the Siren’s call for the Boox Palma. 😭

Sat, 10 Aug 2024 14:18:00 -0500

🆕📝 Google’s New Home Gadget Refresh Gets a Thumbs Up From Me

I don't own any Google Home products and they're a real pain to set up at my parents' house, but I'll admit they've done a few things really well this time with the Streamer Box, Nest Thermostat, and Gemini Intelligence. #Blaugust2024

Sat, 10 Aug 2024 01:06:44 -0500

🍿 Just watched: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

I’m nearly caught up with the MCU!

Fri, 09 Aug 2024 21:47:39 -0500

🍿 Just watched: Thor: Love & Thunder

Fri, 09 Aug 2024 21:29:00 -0500

🆕📝 Two New Home Gadgets

At my core, I'm a gadget lover. Here are the latest ones I'm geeked about having in our home. #Blaugust2024

Thu, 08 Aug 2024 21:35:00 -0500

🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #566: ‘That’s My Shredder Sound’

A gadget you should get, air travel tech, Apple's new Distraction Control impressions, anticipation for controlling more apps with Siri, space or sea, and permission prompt problems. #Blaugust2024

Thu, 08 Aug 2024 18:36:28 -0500

🔗 ’We don’t do God’ and massive ad spends: How British election races differ from American ones // Holly Ellyatt // cnbc.com

You will never hear a British politician — at least not a mainstream one — mentioning God in a political speech or campaign. Ever.

These are really notable differences. Maybe it’s just “the grass is always greener” situation, but this sure does sound like a saner way to do elections.

Thu, 08 Aug 2024 18:02:28 -0500

I gotta say, I’m excited for Apple’s Writing Tools when Apple Intelligence rolls out later this year. I’ll probably rely on the Proofread option more than anything. I use Grammarly now, but it’s so distracting and I don’t enjoy it.

But at the moment, my only AI-capable device is my Mac…

Thu, 08 Aug 2024 17:49:15 -0500

🔗 Humane’s daily returns are outpacing sales // Kylie Robison // theverge.com

Between May and August, more AI Pins were returned than purchased, according to internal sales data obtained by The Verge. By June, only around 8,000 units hadn’t been returned, a source with direct knowledge of sales and return data told me. As of today, the number of units still in customer hands had fallen closer to 7,000, a source with direct knowledge said.

Thu, 08 Aug 2024 17:37:51 -0500

🔗 Apple’s permissions features are out of balance // Jason Snell // sixcolors.com

Apple’s recent feature changes suggest a value system that’s wildly out of balance, preferring to warn (and control) users no matter how damaging it is to the overall user experience. Maybe the people in charge should be forced to sit down and watch that Apple ad that mocks Windows Vista. Vista’s security prompts existed for good reasons—but they were a user disaster. The Apple of that era knew it.

Oh how I love a spicy take! (Emphasis is mine.)

Thu, 08 Aug 2024 10:54:23 -0500

Long days in the mountains are always good days in the mountains! Thanks Lewis family for all the laughs! 📷

Wed, 07 Aug 2024 22:54:00 -0500

🆕📝 You (And I) Can Do Hard Things

An important reminder for today and every day. #Blaugust2024

Tue, 06 Aug 2024 22:21:00 -0500

🆕📝 I was wrong about the AirPods Max Smart Case

It's really not so bad. Might be good?

Mon, 05 Aug 2024 23:40:54 -0500

It seems that if I happen to stay up until midnight, I’m very likely to stay up until at least 1 a.m. 😣

Mon, 05 Aug 2024 22:58:00 -0500

🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #565: ‘Friendship Dots’

Blogging fodder on Find My friendship or foe-ship, un-upgraded tech, Siri's second coming, tech travel lessons, time spent abroad, and AI friendship or foe-ship. #Blaugust2024

Mon, 05 Aug 2024 19:42:02 -0500

Jason Sattler, writing for FrameLab, gets so close to jumping on the POSSE train in suggesting that campaigns deprioritize X in order to sap its power and influence:

Go “Twitter Last." Campaigns from Harris for President on down should clarify that they will post to Twitter only after updating other platforms. Steering the media away from Twitter helps democracy. Announcing you will make news elsewhere will send reporters and users to these other platforms, as will every announcement the media makes that says, “As the campaign noted on BlueSky…” etc. Political strategist Murshed Zaheed calls this going “Twitter Last.” A huge announcement – like naming a vice presidential nominee – would be a great time to try this strategy.

I know news outlets don’t feel like they can leave X, but this seems like a good strategy to ween themselves off. But instead of pointing to other social networks as where the news breaks, I suggest campaigns post to their own websites first and then share the link.

(Via Jason Kottke)

Sun, 04 Aug 2024 18:55:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#149]

Just your recommended weekly dose of weblinks! #Blaugust2024

Sat, 03 Aug 2024 23:49:17 -0500

🔗 One Task Minded // gregmorris.co.uk // Greg Morris

That not to say your iPad can’t do much more, and you’re thinking how stupid I am for not having Stage Manager float windows all over my screen, so I can edit videos and listen to background music. I think it’s remarkable that a tablet, albeit a ridiculously expensive one, can be all of these things to different people — but mine is just a full window machine, thank you very much.

My iPad is my favorite writing machine. I use multitasking, but not that often. Likewise to Greg, Stage Manager is too much for how I want to get stuff done here.

Sat, 03 Aug 2024 23:23:00 -0500

🆕📝 Belatedly Grading My Predictions for Apple’s May ‘Let Loose’ iPad Event

It didn't feel right that I never got around to reviewing how I did with my guesses. #Blaugust2024

Sat, 03 Aug 2024 22:37:00 -0500

🆕📝 Overcast’s 10th Anniversary Update

I'm sympathetic to Marco's reasoning behind and results of the foundational rewrite, I still love using Overcast, and, yes, I have some likes, dislikes, and wishes. #Blaugust2024

Fri, 02 Aug 2024 22:41:00 -0500

🆕📝 The Waterhole

Kicking off #Blaugust2024 with a post about one of my favorite places in town.

Wed, 31 Jul 2024 00:00:59 -0500

I finally buckled down and put in the work for the task looming over me for the past month. I’ll probably have to do more to it, but I think I got 85% of the way there tonight. 🤞

My reward? The next big, scary task on the to-do list. But it’s at least, I think, not as big, nor as scary. #LeapYear

Sat, 27 Jul 2024 22:07:11 -0500

Currently reading: Alone on the Wall by Alex Honnold 📚

I’ve read this before, but am enjoying it a second time (as an audiobook this time). Honnold’s soloing and character might not be for everyone, but I appreciate his zero-bullshit demeanor and respect the hell out of his passion for climbing. If you want to know why he solos, it’s hard to beat going straight to the source.

Wed, 24 Jul 2024 20:49:32 -0500

You know how sometimes you look forward to a rainy day because it gives you an excuse to do all the things you’ve neglected at home? But then Mother Nature pulls a fast one and it’s actually a super nice day out and you’re so tempted to go outside and play? Today was one of those days.

Wed, 24 Jul 2024 20:39:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#148]

Apps, music, some hot (but good) takes, and even a gadget. This issue's got it all!

Wed, 24 Jul 2024 20:28:00 -0500

🆕📝 Summer PenPals with Justin and Steve

Chatting with Justin and Steve has been so nice, even if I've been slacking as the host.

Wed, 24 Jul 2024 20:12:09 -0500

I just updated my ‘Generate Alt Text with OpenAI Vision’ shortcut to version 1.2:

Updated to use the gpt-4o model (the gpt-4-vision-preview model is being deprecated by OpenAI)

Substituted a simple ‘Copy to Clipboard’ as the final action instead of ‘Stop and Output’ because it was creating new text files in the file system for users running it as a Quick Action

Updated the instructional prompt to try to cut down on unnecessarily wordy transcriptions

Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Tue, 23 Jul 2024 00:22:00 -0500

Working moves on Roaches tonight. Devilishly tricky crux, and the top out remains thoughtful. 🧗 📷

Sun, 21 Jul 2024 22:52:34 -0500

Guides’ day off with @andrew_jarvis05 at Poke-O-Moonshine. We snagged a couple of fun onsights in perfect weather (The Sting, 5.8+ for me). Thanks for showing me around, can’t wait to go back! 📷

Sun, 21 Jul 2024 16:15:35 -0500

It tickles me that I often learn country-shaking news first from That Gay Guy Candle Company. The assassination attempt on Trump, and now Biden’s endorsement of Kamala Harris are two of the most recent that I discovered from TGGCC in my email inbox. (Their store is chock full of great designs, btw.)

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 14:02:32 -0500

🔗 Google solves its Pixel 9 Pro leaks by just showing the phone early // Jay Peters // theverge.com

Google has revealed the Pixel 9 Pro following a series of leaks that revealed the phone in great detail, including hands-on videos and comparisons to other recent devices.

Image credit: Google

I’ve been a fan of the Pixel’s camera bar design for years, but this just looks all wrong. Weird proportions, and it really should be a round-rect.

On the plus side, if Google’s design looks this bad now, I think it opens the door for Apple to do a better version without it being a rip-off. 🙏

Wed, 17 Jul 2024 23:58:38 -0500

🔗 Everybody’s Free (To Write Websites) — Sara Joy

Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your site. The most interesting websites don’t even have an introduction, never mind any blog posts. Some of the most interesting web sites I enjoy just are.

What fun! Sara’s excellent blog post is further enhanced by Robb’s and Keenan’s video/voiceover shenanigans. Love it. 🧡

Wed, 17 Jul 2024 22:41:00 -0500

🆕📝 Jeff Perry: ‘It is time to slow down’

For the biggest news event in a while, my old habits had been broken without me even realizing.

Wed, 17 Jul 2024 22:14:32 -0500

A couple of injuries have set me back this summer, and have served as a cruel reminder about how dependent my line of work is on me being strong and healthy. It’s got me bummin’.

Tue, 16 Jul 2024 23:32:46 -0500

📺 As far as sci-fi “what if” series go, Dark Matter is way up there with Severence in my opinion. I’m a couple episodes from the end and simply riveted.

Thu, 11 Jul 2024 16:29:18 -0500

I don’t mention it often, but I do have some fun (I think, you decide) t-shirts for sale. You can get free shipping on them today with code HBDCB11! heydingus.net/store

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 12:24:50 -0500

A Wi-Fi network I saw at work yesterday. 😂

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 12:21:59 -0500

I’ve never seen this data detector before. On iOS 17 it recognized I was being asked for a photo, so clicking on “picture” opens the photo picker. Nice!

Tue, 02 Jul 2024 22:23:44 -0500

🍿 Just watched: Flora and Son on Apple TV+

Tue, 02 Jul 2024 22:07:19 -0500

🍿 Just watched: Sharper on Apple TV+

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 22:11:53 -0500

🔗 Straight Old White Guy’s Guide to Talking About Race, Abortion, Feminism and LGBT issues | Living Out Loud // Lou Plummer // louplummer.lol

Do your imperfect best every day to learn about other people’s struggles. Listen to your friends who are POC or LGBT. Listen to your mom, wife, daughter and female co-workers. Try to put yourself in spaces where you can grow your understanding. Making a better world starts with you because it is an inside job.

Clever title; important message.

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 21:56:58 -0500

You know that sinking feeling you get when you know something bad is about to happen?

Supreme Court Rules That Presidents Have Absolute Immunity for “Core Constitutional Powers”

From Justice Sotomayor’s dissent:

Let the President violate the law, let him exploit the trappings of his office for personal gain, let him use his official power for evil ends. Because if he knew that he may one day face liability for breaking the law, he might not be as bold and fearless as we would like him to be. That is the majority’s message today.

Even if these nightmare scenarios never play out, and I pray they never do, the damage has been done. The relationship between the President and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably. In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law.

Gulp

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 21:37:26 -0500

🔗 I am adamantly opposed to urgency // Annie Mueller // anniemueller.com

I need to shower, start laundry, do chores, start work, get the day moving forward. Where is the pause button? I’m competent and I can do so much but I don’t want so much to do. I want to sit here longer, to move unhurried, to glide, to breathe, to be ordered but not scheduled, to release into reverie, to let my mind wander, my shoulders loosen, my being melt and flow with curiosity, delight, warmth, ease.

Preach it, Annie.

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 21:19:58 -0500

This is fun!

social.lol/@jason/11…

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 21:07:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#147]

A return to your regularly-scheduled links. 🙂

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 19:44:49 -0500

Apple chose all my favorite iPhone models for their repair timeline!

Wed, 26 Jun 2024 18:50:32 -0500

Whoop whoop! Some notable improvements coming for the Meta Ray-Bans. 3x longer videos (1 minute was just too short), and smoother conversations with the AI about what it can see. 😎

Wed, 26 Jun 2024 18:23:00 -0500

🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #560: ‘I Don’t Like It When I’m Disappointed’

Jumping into Clockwise, "the tech podcast that uses half an hourglass for timekeeping", with my own answers and opinions that no one asked for.

Wed, 26 Jun 2024 16:37:42 -0500

I love release notes that make me chuckle. 🤭

Wed, 26 Jun 2024 12:15:09 -0500

If this whole gross spectrum of behavior seems familiar to you, it’s probably because AI shares a certain DNA with crypto, NFTs, and the blockchain in that they are all trendy, usually touted by people you wouldn’t want to be stuck in an elevator with and, in a weird coincidence, all happen to drive up both Nvidia’s stock price and worldwide temperature averages. The Macalope doesn’t consider himself someone prone to conspiracy theories, but he would not be surprised to find out years from now that Nvidia has been running a powerful psychological ops campaign that dreams up technologies that require its boards to run and then convince venture capital firms to invest in them.

Great writing. 🤣

🔗 AI is a mess and Apple is here to clean it up // The Macalope // macworld.com

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 19:18:54 -0500

📺 Finished watching: Sugar (2024) on Apple TV+

Goodness, Colin Farrell nailed his role here. Enthralling from start to end. And the twists kept things interesting. Great addition to the ATV+ lineup, and I’m hoping for a second season.

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 18:34:41 -0500

Half-drunk now. AMA 😉

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 18:17:19 -0500

I’d recognize that corner radius anywhere. IYKYK

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 18:14:02 -0500

Where do you fall on the spectrum from Over-sharing to Under-sharing? For me, the amount I want share seems to depend entirely on (1) How comfy I feel in my current “situation”, and (2) If I’m in that sweet spot of buzzed-but-not-quite-drunk-yet. Guess which ones I’m at now.

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 18:08:21 -0500

I’m a sucker for any live performer who includes “Valerie” in their set list. 👌

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 17:47:55 -0500

Here’s an AI glasses idea for the future: Live lyrics for live music performances

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 11:10:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#146]

Sat, 22 Jun 2024 22:23:05 -0500

20 miles, 2 peaks, 15 hours, much wetness, happy heart. 😁 (Sad feet. 😭) 🥾

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 18:05:41 -0500

I’m feeling like it’s a “lose yourself in fun, upbeat music” sort of night. Send your best recommendations! 🎵

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 13:29:54 -0500

Woof. Lots of news happening. Might need to take a couple days off the internet and check back in when tempers have subsided. Haven’t felt that need in, well, about four years. Folks are (understandably) riled up, but it’s bumming me out. Good luck out there.

Mon, 17 Jun 2024 16:19:31 -0500

Do I know anyone who’s a Notion magician and wants to drop some knowledge? I’ve been trying all afternoon to put together some databases that link to each other so I can (1) Keep properties and notes on local mountains, and (2) Log each time I climb one with additional properties. It’s thwarting me.

Thu, 13 Jun 2024 18:06:55 -0500

I love this distinction.

I’ve often said in this space that although convenience and accessibility are the closest cousins, they are not one and the same. Everyone loves convenience, whether identifying as a disabled person or not, but accessibility is the difference between agency and autonomy and dependency and the lack of control. That’s why accessibility exists: be it digital or tangible, accessibility is a declaration of independence in a society decidedly undesigned for people with disabilities everywhere.
Steven Aquino [forbes.com](https://forbes.com)

Thu, 13 Jun 2024 17:04:17 -0500

No, Apple, please do this! My Vision Pro spends plenty of time sitting plugged in and unused. This is exactly what I want it to do with that otherwise wasted time and power.

It takes about 15 seconds to spatialize a photo, so it’s unlikely that Apple will ever ask the Vision Pro to churn in the background through every single photo in your library, but I’ve yet to see a photo that failed to become more interesting after being converted.
Jason Snell https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/06/visionos-2-offers-small-but-promising-steps-forward/

Thu, 13 Jun 2024 16:43:33 -0500

This is what I love about the web — you can build what you want, what you want to use, maintain it (or not), have fun with it, throw something out as a novelty or dig deep and keep adding to it. There's underlying infrastructure — that's hard to avoid — but the tools are there and you can build whatever you'd like. It doesn't have to be a blog — it can be — and that can take whatever shape you want it to.
Build what you want and have fun doing it.

Cory Dransfeldt https://coryd.dev/posts/2024/its-not-just-a-blog/

Tue, 11 Jun 2024 21:39:07 -0500

Having a front row seat to @gruber@mastodon.social’s live The Talk Show with the Theater app on Vision Pro is pretty fantastic. After just a few minutes, it’s easy to forget that I’m across the country on my couch. It’s very cool!

Tue, 11 Jun 2024 14:13:49 -0500

I know nothing about chip or server arctitecture, but it would be pretty sweet if Apple is actually using all the chips that didn’t meet standards for selling in a product yet are totally fine if used in aggregate for their own server farms. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

@kevin @reppep @gruber @atpfm Could be where all the really binned M2 chips have gone!
Jason Snell :zeppelin: https://zeppelin.flights/users/jsnell/statuses/112599463721876838

Tue, 11 Jun 2024 12:24:45 -0500

I’m very into all the new ways to launch shortcuts coming in iOS 18! I’ll definitely be swapping out the camera launcher too. And I’m thinking about a full page of shortcuts in control center, accessible anywhere with a long swipe.

With iOS 18 you can replace the flashlight and camera Lock Screen buttons with a Shortcut!

I’ve kept my Action Button as a “skip forward 3 minutes” for listening to podcasts, but will def replace the camera with a Shortcuts menu. I typically swipe for camera anyway.
Stephen Robles https://www.threads.net/@stephenrobles/post/C8FPjIHRXh-

Mon, 10 Jun 2024 19:57:16 -0500

New thread with little bits I find in Apple’s new OSes. 🧵

Mon, 10 Jun 2024 14:15:23 -0500

Micro.blog’s timeline officially can’t keep up with Apple keynote days. I like to watch the event, and then go back and read the hot takes and jokes later, but I can only scroll back so far (not very far) before ‘Show More’ isn’t an option. Not even the RSS feed seems able to hang. 😞 cc: @help

Mon, 10 Jun 2024 11:40:17 -0500

Oh boy, we’re hardly out of follow-up, and @connected@relayfm.social is already way off the rails. 😂 Gonna be a great one! 🎙️

Mon, 10 Jun 2024 09:45:00 -0500

Happy DubDub day! I’ve got the day off (🥳) and will watch and spew out unasked for opinions about all the announcements! I’ll do my best to keep them in this thread, and (if I remember) add the #WWDC hashtag so you can mute if you’re uninterested. But I encourage you to embrace the optimism! 😁 🧵

Sun, 09 Jun 2024 22:37:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#145]

Serving up hot and fresh links!

Sun, 09 Jun 2024 18:14:52 -0500

“You’re On Your Own, Kid” has really been speaking to me lately. Midnights has historically not been a favorite of mine, but I’m giving it another shot.

song.link/us/i/1689…

Sun, 09 Jun 2024 18:11:28 -0500

Currently turning off basically all notifications on my Mac. I really only need notifications in one place: my phone. Dunno why it took this long for me to realize.

Sun, 09 Jun 2024 11:35:00 -0500

🆕📝 My WWDC24 Wish List

This would make for a monumental event. 🤞

Sun, 09 Jun 2024 11:22:14 -0500

I hardly ever do titled posts on Micro.blog, so I find myself befuddled on how to add a title to a post that’s fewer than 300 characters long. I surely don’t need to add filler text just to reveal the title field (and then delete the filler), right? cc: @manton

Sun, 09 Jun 2024 11:06:18 -0500

If you’ve got a minute, go check out the app animations at www.apple.com/privacy/ under the ‘Our apps mind their business. Not yours.’ header. They’re fun and clever.

Sun, 09 Jun 2024 08:30:49 -0500

Optimism rules!

So yeah, I’m going to be critical of things Apple does for the rest of my days, but I’m also going to remember that I got into this because it was fun. I strongly believe that the online discourse can make it so people fall into a rut where people get angry all the time about everything. I genuinely love Apple’s products a lot, and this week is like Christmas for me, so I’m going to have fun during WWDC — there are 51 other weeks this year to be salty, so unless WWDC is an absolute dumpster fire, expect to get Glass Half Full Matt this week. ✌️
Matt Birchler birchtree.me

Fri, 07 Jun 2024 22:43:11 -0500

🔗 #3 - On First Drafts | Kadambari

But here’s the thing: when you finish things, you become more confident, because you understand the most important step of writing: have a first draft. A first draft is messy, but it is complete. Once you have this mess, you can tidy it up. […]

You can’t do anything with an incomplete draft, except complete it. And when you’ve been away from a story for long, when you’ve lost enthusiasm for an idea, finishing drafts is an incredibly difficult thing to do (though it’s not impossible)

There’s so much good advice in this chapter. 📖

Fri, 07 Jun 2024 22:13:51 -0500

🔗 The spectre in the rearview (or: “Fast Car”)

My entire life up until then, I wanted to be a famous author. I loved writing. I loved showing off my writing. I loved being seen in the way that quiet dorks do, the way that gets you sent home with the scarlet letter on your homework. I was such a little slut for school, and I was proud of it.

My entire life up until then, all I craved was to be told I did a good job. Do that and you had me, hook, line, sinker. Reel me in and gut me, you’ll find the glut of old report cards.

I’m so glad that there are writers like Keenan in the world.

Fri, 07 Jun 2024 21:48:59 -0500

🔗 Defensive and Skeptical // david-smith.org

Rather than being “Hungry and Foolish” it was now the prudent course of action to instead be “Defensive and Skeptical”. To be incredibly circumspect of which opportunities are worth the risk. To take actions which provide stability and preserve what you already have. To become comfortable with slow, measured growth.

I have no idea if this is what Steve Jobs meant in his commencement speech. He could have simply meant it in the positive, motivational sense. But increasingly I wonder if he may have also meant it in the cautionary sense as well.

Thu, 06 Jun 2024 17:24:05 -0500

🔗 Apple to Launch Standalone ‘Passwords’ App in iOS 18 and macOS 15 // Juli Clover // macrumors.com

The app includes logins and passwords for websites, Wi-Fi network passwords, and Passkeys, a feature that uses Face ID or Touch ID to log into websites instead of a password. Data from the app can be automatically inserted into websites and apps when a user logs in.

For the last year, I’ve tried iCloud Keychain instead of 1Password, but I’ve been meaning to switch back. With family on 1P and all the other stuff it syncs, it’s just better for me. But we’ll see what Apple does on Monday! 👀

Thu, 06 Jun 2024 13:07:09 -0500

🔗 U.S. Audiobook Sales Hit $2 Billion in 2024 // Ed Nawotka | // publishersweekly.com

The audiobook market in the United States continues steadily growing, with revenue increasing by 9%, to $2 billion, in 2023 […]

The survey also found that 38% of American adults listened to an audiobook in the last year, up from 35% reported in 2023.

Just the other day, I walked by a group of painters all listening to an audiobook together while they worked. Thought it was pretty cool!

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 12:21:56 -0500

🔗 Feature Request: Make HomeKit truly smart, with AI features // 9to5mac.com // Ben Lovejoy

One simple next step would be that, instead of me manually checking that every other light was out, I could simply tell it to switch on low lighting in the bedroom and switch off all other lights – without having to explicitly add them all to the scene.

But a true AI approach would be if I could give HomeKit my intent and have it figure out what is necessary to achieve that.

Yes please!

Wed, 29 May 2024 19:04:18 -0500

Finished reading: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir 📚

After being in and out of loans for over a year, I finally marathoned my way through 80% of this book in the last few days. And sprinted through hours of reading today, both because the story was compelling and because my loan ended today.

I loved how imaginative this book was while still being (somewhat) rooted in reality — at least scientific constructs. I spotted many holes in the logic, but none were so glaring that they detracted from the overall story of survival, ruthless ingenuity, and friendship. And (spoiler) I appreciate a tale in which alien contact is curious and cooperative, rather than confrontational.

I recommend it!

Wed, 29 May 2024 09:41:38 -0500

Today I (re)learned that light’s speed remains constant no matter the velocity of the observer. Wild. Which also means that light “experiences” no time nor distance. Everything that happens along its path of travel, from creation to absorption, light “experiences” instantaneously. Physics is cool. 🧠

Tue, 28 May 2024 20:32:40 -0500

I really like my Kobo, but 8 years later and the original Kindle Oasis with the leather battery cover is still the best eReader design I’ve ever used. Flush 6" screen, incredibly light, genius magnetic wraparound battery cover, 300 ppi resolution. It was so good.

Tue, 28 May 2024 09:26:59 -0500

🔗 WOLFS — Official Teaser Apple TV+ // Apple TV // youtube.com

Whoa, Apple’s got a new film coming starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney?! That totally snuck by me.

Tue, 28 May 2024 09:23:24 -0500

🔗 OpenAI has a new safety team — it’s run by Sam Altman // Emma Roth // theverge.com

For its first task, the new team will “evaluate and further develop OpenAI’s processes and safeguards.” It will then present its findings to OpenAI’s board, which all three of the safety team’s leaders have a seat on. The board will then decide how to implement the safety team’s recommendations.

I don’t know much about the inner workings of OpenAI, but I can say that Altman’s reputation makes this seem like a farce. I literally laughed out loud when I read this headline.

Sun, 26 May 2024 22:26:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#144]

After a few weeks off, I'm back with them good links.

Thu, 23 May 2024 11:51:50 -0500

Thanks to @matt@isfeeling.social’s video, I just created a BetterTouchTool sequence that copies the current URL from my Safari window with just a ⇧⌘C keyboard shortcut. And a second one that runs my ‘URLs Menu’ shortcut with ⇧^⌘C. 👍👍

Wed, 22 May 2024 13:07:04 -0500

🔗 Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses will post Instagram stories for you // Emilia David // theverge.com

The Instagram support will allow users to prompt the glasses to post to the app before or after taking a picture. They can say, “Hey Meta, share my last photo to Instagram” after taking a photo or tell it to “post a photo to Instagram” before taking a new picture.

Ooh, well now that’s interesting.

Tue, 21 May 2024 22:50:27 -0500

📺 I finally finished season 4 of For All Mankind and, oh boy, that finale had me sweating. Lots of things are going to be different in season 5, I’m sure. I didn’t connect as much with S4, but still great television. (By the way, watching it on a massive screen with Vision Pro was pretty sweet.)

Tue, 21 May 2024 20:59:19 -0500

📺 So happy for the triumphant return of Trying on Apple TV+. It’s one of my all-time favorite shows, and season 4’s opening schtick was superb. Can’t wait to see how the rest of the season goes.

Tue, 21 May 2024 20:57:02 -0500

Been in kind of a publishing funk lately. Hoping to find the motivation again soon; maybe it’s been hiding under or behind something.

Mon, 20 May 2024 22:45:02 -0500

Finally got @adk_traplordz out on some rock 👊 Regular Route, Chapel Pond Slab 📷

Sat, 18 May 2024 13:38:34 -0500

Finished reading: Down by Andy Kirkpatrick 📚

Getting down from a mountain is often more complicated and riskier than climbing it in the first place. Andy wrote the essential book of techniques to do so safely. I learned more than a few new things, and will review it regularly to stay up to speed.

Sat, 18 May 2024 00:48:00 -0500

Got a nice hike/run in to clear my head and scout out a new (to me) trail. Super fun route up and over the Pitchoff Ridge and then up Cascade Pass. 🥾 📷

Fri, 17 May 2024 14:31:50 -0500

Uh, so I played a few rounds of Cut The Rope on — checks notes — YouTube, of all places, today. Anybody else seeing mini games pop up there yet?

Wed, 15 May 2024 16:13:40 -0500

🔗 Samsung mocks Apple’s iPad Pro ad; ‘Creativity cannot be crushed’ // Ben Schoon // 9to5google.com

Now, Samsung has stepped in with an ad of its own, showing a musician walking through the aftermath of Apple’s hydraulic press and picking up a partially destroyed guitar. Then, sitting on an easel, is a Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra with musical notes, and the musician strums along.

I’ll freely admit that Apple’s ad lacked class. But so does piling onto someone when they’ve already apologized.

Tue, 14 May 2024 13:46:25 -0500

By the way, for folks using my Generate Alt Text with OpenAI Vision shortcut, you can update it to use the new gpt-4o model super easily by just changing the name of the model in this action:

It’s supposed to be faster and cheaper than the regular GPT-4 model, which is always nice! 🤖

Tue, 14 May 2024 13:19:15 -0500

It seems like every presenter thought they would be the one to announce that Gemini is going to 2 million tokens. It’s not as effective after the 4th time… #GoogleIO 🧵

Mon, 13 May 2024 21:35:25 -0500

It’s totally not the point, but it’s still exciting to see one of my blog posts on Federico Viticci’s Starred list in his (excellent) not-an-iPad-Pro-review. 👀

Mon, 13 May 2024 12:52:12 -0500

‘Next iPad Mini Still Not Expected Before Late 2024 at the Earliest’

I can’t be the only one struggling to parse this MacRumors headline, right? 🙃

Sat, 11 May 2024 11:01:57 -0500

Too true.

Which brings me to today. My world is not as exciting as it once was. The technology that I love is now in a very different spot. It no longer sits idle until called upon like any other tool, it muscles its way into every corner of our lives. There is a lot to be excited about, but also a lot to be wary of.
Greg Morris https://gregmorris.co.uk/2024/05/11/tech-and-me.html

Thu, 09 May 2024 12:39:00 -0500

🆕📝 Starting up PenPals with Justin Wong

One conversation ends, and the next begins. Justin and I got started with some introductions and discussed the pros of living in Florida or elsewhere with more distinct seasons, career changes, and eating habits.

Thu, 09 May 2024 10:39:00 -0500

🆕📝 Wrapping up being PenPals with Ratika

Ratika was my eighth PenPal so far, and she got me to stretch my writing style trying to keep up with her beautiful prose.

Wed, 08 May 2024 13:37:52 -0500

Funnily enough, the Apple Event has me reconsidering a new iPad at all. Maybe my 2020 iPad Pro gets passed to my wife, and I swap out for a MacBook Air/macOS instead (plus iPad mini). Two sticking points: (1) No cellular option (still!) on Mac, and (2) the MacBook Air config I’d want is $1900. 😳

Tue, 07 May 2024 08:56:32 -0500

I might be able to sneak in watching the ‘Let Loose’ #AppleEvent while working on my work’s newsletter. 🤫 This’ll be my hot takes thread. 🧵

Mon, 06 May 2024 23:17:00 -0500

🆕📝 10 Last-Minute Predictions for Apple’s ‘Let Loose’ Event

It's finally time for new iPads! Here's what I think we'll see.

Mon, 06 May 2024 22:05:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#143]

I was busy at a climbing instructor course this weekend, so I’m a day late, but here’s your weekly dose of random stuff from the web!

Sun, 05 May 2024 06:30:33 -0500

I spent more time wearing my Vision Pro in a dream last night than I have in the last couple of weeks in real life. 😓

Sat, 04 May 2024 22:00:27 -0500

Gotta hand it to them, this is a really rad ad. Happy May the Fourth!

youtu.be/yk6UVnMn9…

Sat, 04 May 2024 21:53:35 -0500

I’ve been kind of obsessed with this video. These kids have incredible voices, and it looks like they’re having the time of their lives performing. 👍👍

youtu.be/aUxGRjgpg…

Thu, 02 May 2024 21:39:20 -0500

📷 #mbApr Day +2 (32)

Ollivander is the quintessential unputdownable critter.

Thu, 02 May 2024 20:36:52 -0500

🔗 Rabbit R1 review: an unfinished, unhelpful AI gadget // David Pierce // theverge.com

The Meta Smart Glasses are doing a really good job of extending your smartphone’s capabilities with new inputs and outputs, and I hope we see more devices like that. But until the hardware, software, and AI all get better and more differentiated, I just don’t think we’re getting better than smartphones. The AI gadget revolution might not stand a chance. The Rabbit R1 sure doesn’t.

Oof.

Thu, 02 May 2024 20:15:38 -0500

🔗 A Bit Of Resistance Does Wonders // Greg Morris // gregmorris.co.uk

Sometimes, we look at people who seem to be advancing rapidly and wonder about their secret. What we often don’t see is the “shelter” around them—whether that’s privilege, support, or resources—that might be helping them but also potentially weakening them in ways not immediately visible. They’re missing out on the “winds” of challenge that help strengthen and prepare us for the real world.

Yup.

Thu, 02 May 2024 20:05:28 -0500

🔗 How “AI” is helping my writing process // Om Malik // om.co

With the right prompts, I can get the interview to a place where I can start editing it manually. The entire process, which would have taken a few days in the past, now takes between two to three hours. To me, that is what this new augmented intelligence is all about helping me get the work done faster and more efficiently.

I’m not too fond of sleepless nights. I will let others lose sleep over AGI — while I can get to sleep longer, by finishing my writing sooner.

Wed, 01 May 2024 07:22:10 -0500

📷 #mbApr Day +1

Kinda like a massive structural bubble.

Tue, 30 Apr 2024 20:23:29 -0500

📷 #mbApr Day 30

When I think of my hometown it’s this image of the local theater along our red brick Main Street that comes to mind. (Image credit: Billy Strings)

Mon, 29 Apr 2024 20:57:47 -0500

📷 #mbApr Day 29

Can’t wait to drift back down this river. Soon enough!

Mon, 29 Apr 2024 16:40:53 -0500

Finished reading: Rock Climbing: The AMGA Single Pitch Manual by Bob Gaines 📚

Pretty much all review concepts, but a great brush-up for my Single Pitch Instructor course this weekend. 🧗

Mon, 29 Apr 2024 11:06:17 -0500

Squircle Spotter (via Michael Steeber via @bkfujita)

Sun, 28 Apr 2024 21:43:00 -0500

🆕📝 ‘Climbing Is Inherently Dangerous’

Gravity doesn't care who you are or what you're doing — it will deck you if given the opportunity.

Sun, 28 Apr 2024 21:03:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#142]

Small web shoutouts, a Siracusa fan site, Papyrus 2, an Apple Maps tip, a neat tripod, some satire, and apps! Plus No.17 of my 52 Albums Project and a hilarious mystery link.

Sun, 28 Apr 2024 20:16:04 -0500

📷 #mbApr Day 28

Gathering for totality felt like being a member of the community of Earth as much as our local town.

Sat, 27 Apr 2024 21:26:23 -0500

🏕️ First night in a tent this year. 🧡

Sat, 27 Apr 2024 19:37:05 -0500

So annoyed with Apple. I’ve been hit with the account lock out since last night. But I’m on the road and it’s a huge PITA to reset all my passwords/app-specific passwords on mobile. But that means no email, full-res photos won’t download, etc. Why won’t they acknowledge it?! At least iMessage works.

Sat, 27 Apr 2024 19:30:23 -0500

📷 #mbApr Day 27

Surprise! Upon reaching the summit, we popped above the clouds and were gifted with incredible sun rays.

Fri, 26 Apr 2024 23:08:00 -0500

🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #551: ‘Clippy Vibes’

Meta's AI Assistant, feed preferences, finding software, banning apps, favorite animals, Holodeck dreams.

Fri, 26 Apr 2024 20:24:51 -0500

📷 #mbApr Day 26

Little Pine Marten critter was SO CUTE! 😍

Fri, 26 Apr 2024 18:28:48 -0500

If you’ll permit me a Large Round Number Milestone, I’m pretty jazzed about my blog reaching 100k views since June of last year! I missed it turning over while I was climbing today, but I’m not sad about that—t’was a gorgeous day to be outside instead of online. Big thanks to everyone who reads! 🤯

Thu, 25 Apr 2024 13:02:39 -0500

I don’t have much to say about the TikTok divestment/ban. I don’t use the app. However, I’d be happier if the our representatives pursued data privacy laws instead if data privacy is what they’re concerned about. But we don’t really know the core issue because it seems to have remained classified. 🙃

Thu, 25 Apr 2024 11:10:59 -0500

Instead of participating in JavaScript Naked Day, instead I experimented with adding a little bit yesterday. 👀

Thu, 25 Apr 2024 08:16:10 -0500

📷 #mbApr Day 25

Star spine.

Thu, 25 Apr 2024 07:00:03 -0500

🎵 I’m a day late, but happy ‘New Lauv Single Day! to those who celebrate!

album.link/i/1736636…

Wed, 24 Apr 2024 20:55:18 -0500

I’ve struggled to see the point (beyond general accessibility) of using an AI to describe things I’m already looking at, which is the go-to demo. But then iJustine uses the Rabbit R1 to determine if it’s legal to park in a spot with a confusing sign and it’s like a world of possibilities open. 🤯

Wed, 24 Apr 2024 19:20:00 -0500

🆕📝 Apple Watch + Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses make the perfect running combo, and more on why I love these glasses

I suppose you could call this my review.

Wed, 24 Apr 2024 18:13:03 -0500

Humane is really dropping the ball. Not with their Pin this time, but by leaving the humane.ai domain available for just anyone to buy!

Wed, 24 Apr 2024 18:00:17 -0500

(I’m trying to be low-key about it, but I’m pretty geeked about one of my favorite sites linking to one of my blog posts.)

Wed, 24 Apr 2024 17:55:00 -0500

🆕📝 ChatGPT Makes a Good Teacher & Quizmaster

I've been using ChatGPT to answer all my questions about CSS and HTML, but then I thought to have it question me.

Wed, 24 Apr 2024 15:08:14 -0500

🔗 Airlines will soon have to pay you back if they cancel or delay your flight // Sheena Vasani // theverge.com

Airlines must pay passengers back either in cash or in the original form of payment, no matter the reason they cancel their flight. Alternatively, passengers can choose to accept travel credit, other kinds of transportation, or another flight offered by the airline.

Awesome! I just went through a refund process with an airline, and it…wasn’t fun.

Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:22:50 -0500

🔗 How I fell in love with LEGO (members post) // Matt Birchler // birchtree.me

The final, and maybe most important point for me is that LEGO is a great chance to simply hang out with my wife and enjoy something together. My wife likes to say that her love language is “quality time” and LEGO is a great chance to do something together that we both enjoy.

Aww ☺️

Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:19:00 -0500

📷 #mbApr Day 24

Goodbye light.

Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:39:22 -0500

📺 Finished watching: Foundation (seasons 1 and 2) on Apple TV+

Game of Thrones meets centuries-spanning space opera. I dig it! Is it perfect? Nope. But it sure is entertaining and I’m more invested in the storylines (silly though some are) with every episode. Can’t wait to see how it evolves.

Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:35:09 -0500

📺 Started watching: Invasion on Apple TV+

Whoa there’s a lot going on here. They’ve certainly set themselves up with a full season’s worth of questions to answer. Which, I suppose is good! Anyone else get The Leftovers vibes from the title sequence music?

Tue, 23 Apr 2024 21:18:10 -0500

📷 #mbApr Day 23

Dreamy

Tue, 23 Apr 2024 15:03:01 -0500

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. 🤩

Tue, 23 Apr 2024 13:58:58 -0500

📺 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

Tue, 23 Apr 2024 12:48:00 -0500

🆕📝 My Favorite Alpine Draw Slings

The smooth bar tack makes all the difference, and I'm surprised other brands haven't copied it!

Mon, 22 Apr 2024 20:31:40 -0500

📷 #mbApr Day 22

Many blues.

Mon, 22 Apr 2024 15:55:35 -0500

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! 😉)

Mon, 22 Apr 2024 09:38:21 -0500

🔗 The future of AI gadgets is just phones // theverge.com

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!

Sun, 21 Apr 2024 20:35:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#141]

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.

Sun, 21 Apr 2024 07:55:01 -0500

📷 #mbApr Day 21

Improbable mountain.

Sat, 20 Apr 2024 15:32:34 -0500

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 💪
Federico Viticci https://mastodon.macstories.net/@viticci/112304711506286209

Sat, 20 Apr 2024 07:16:48 -0500

The Internet Explorer logo is not one I expected to see representing a webpage in the 2024. 😵‍💫

Sat, 20 Apr 2024 07:14:00 -0500

📷 #mbApr Day 20

Climbing ice at night. Probably not something our ancestors predicted we’d do with our free time. 😅

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 21:48:21 -0500

🔗 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?

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 19:51:00 -0500

🆕📝 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.

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 17:56:35 -0500

📷 #mbApr Day 19

A birthday cake, what else?

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 17:31:07 -0500

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!

(via Cabel Sasser)

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 14:22:57 -0500

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.

Herman Martinus herman.bearblog.dev

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 14:15:20 -0500

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.
BasicAppleGuy https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/clear

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 14:10:22 -0500

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.
Noam Bardin https://post.news/@/noam/2fJw4PYRFjya343RpiToiyEQr0x

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 09:35:09 -0500

Whoa. It wasn’t until 2020 that macOS market share eclipsed that of Windows 7. I would have pegged it sooner.

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 07:03:38 -0500

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?!
BasicAppleGuy@mastodon.social https://mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy/112289583922060506

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 06:51:12 -0500

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. 😝

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 00:13:22 -0500

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.

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 23:58:54 -0500

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.

🎙️ Via Rec Diffs #232

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 23:27:58 -0500

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? 😘

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 18:57:01 -0500

📷 #mbApr Day 18

Night mode mountain was a real mood.

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 18:38:09 -0500

🔗 U.S. Court Rules That Police Can Force a Suspect to Unlock Phone With Thumbprint // daringfireball.net

My advice is to internalize the shortcut to hard-lock an iPhone, which temporarily disables Face/Touch ID and requires the passcode to unlock: squeeze the side button and either of the volume buttons for a second or so. I wrote an entire article about this two years ago. Don’t just learn this shortcut, internalize it, so that you don’t have to think about it under duress. Just squeeze the side buttons until you feel the phone vibrate. […] Tell everyone you know how to [do it].

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 16:45:54 -0500

🔗 Getting The Shot // Andy Kirkpatrick // andy-kirkpatrick.com

CATCH PEOPLE OFF GUARD

I hate the shots in mags where the climber knows they are being shot. What you see isn’t the real climber, it’s what the climber wants you to see. […] Give me a break. A good example are the images from Steve Houses ‘s ascent of Nanga Parbat. Basically you need to shoot people when they are at their most pissed off, scared or vulnerable. So no saying cheese.

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 11:39:33 -0500

Two residents of this corner of the web were linked to or featured by large publications today. Pretty pretty neat! 🙌 to @robb@social.lol and @stephenrobles@mastodon.social!

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 07:07:39 -0500

Random thought: I wonder if true cobblers resent the modern connotation of “cobbled together” more or less meaning “to haphazardly assemble”. I would hope my cobbler isn’t cobbling together my shoes!

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 00:46:53 -0500

First Baker climbs of the year. Love this crag, and loved introducing Brendan to it. 📷

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 23:42:00 -0500

🆕📝 PenPal with Ratika: Sleep, Routines, and Short Stories

If Ratika's emails are this good, just imagine what her books are like!

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 22:24:39 -0500

📷 #mbApr Day 17

The clouds flaunted their transcendence without a care in the world.

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 21:39:01 -0500

I wasn’t happy with how buttons on my site weren’t acting like buttons (you had to click the button’s text for it to work as a hyperlink). I learned I should style an <a> tag as a button to get that effect, not using the <button> element. But that was its own rabbit hole…

This helped fix things:

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 17:46:41 -0500

Apple is renewing For All Mankind and making a spinoff series, Star City:

A robust expansion of the “For All Mankind” universe, “Star City” is a propulsive, paranoid thriller that takes us back to the key moment in the alt-history retelling of the space race — when the Soviet Union became the first nation to put a man on the moon. But this time, we explore the story from behind the Iron Curtain, showing the lives of the cosmonauts, the engineers and the intelligence officers embedded among them in the Soviet space program, and the risks they all took to propel humanity forward.

Oh hell yeah!

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 17:18:16 -0500

🔗 iOS 18 Rumor: Notes App to Offer New Voice Memos and Math Features // macrumors.com

First, the report claims that iOS 18 will allow iPhone users to record voice memos directly within the Notes app, and these recordings could then be embedded in notes. Audio recordings can already be copy and pasted from the Voice Memos app into the Notes app for playback, but this step would no longer be necessary starting with iOS 18.

Speaking of voice messages in more places, voice memos in Notes makes a lot of sense. I know very few people who go into the Voice Memos app, but tons who use Apple Notes.

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 14:53:07 -0500

🔗 Acapulco — Season 3 Official Trailer Apple TV+ // Apple TV // youtube.com

Stoked for this show to return; it’s great! And do I spy a one Dani Rojas? 👀

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 08:12:35 -0500

I’d be down for Apple bringing Threads-style voice messages to iMessage. I love the transcription (in case you’re in a noisy place) and the follow-along animation. I’d use voice messages way more often.

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 07:45:06 -0500

🔗 Logitech wants you to press its new AI button // Emilia David // theverge.com

Tomorrow’s AI PCs may not only have a Copilot key on their keyboards — Logitech is introducing its own way to summon ChatGPT, too. It’s called the Logi AI Prompt Builder, and it’ll use a dedicated button on your mouse or keyboard.

The Logi AI Prompt Builder doesn’t just present you with a chatbot, it gives you preset “recipes” to help you prompt it, too.

Year of the A(i)ction Button? Action Buttons all the way down?

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 00:02:57 -0500

Since the first design of my site, I’ve stuck with blue text for my hyperlinks because that always seemed canonical with the web. Links = blue text, blue underline. But I’ve grown less certain with its readability with all that blue text interspersed. I’m considering a change. What do y’all think?

Tue, 16 Apr 2024 22:28:00 -0500

🆕📝 PenPal with Valerie: Climbing, Crafts, and Wrap-up

A big ol' thanks to @val for opening their inbox to me.

Tue, 16 Apr 2024 21:08:12 -0500

📷 #mbApr Day 16

If a flâneur is one who doesn’t do much but observe those around them, then these two are the best there ever was.

Tue, 16 Apr 2024 20:12:41 -0500

🔗 Beatbox with Tom @tomthummer talent unexplainable // Tik Tok 🔥🔥 // youtube.com

Likewise, this beatboxing video is captivating. I recently saw a beatboxer perform live here in town and he was easily the most talented one I’ve ever seen. Just wild what some people can do with their voices and mouths. 😯

Tue, 16 Apr 2024 20:03:46 -0500

🔗 Olivia Rodrigo, Noah Kahan - “Stick Season” (Live from GUTS world tour at Madison Square Garden) // Olivia Rodrigo // youtube.com

I found this at lunch and it’s been stuck in my head ever since.

Tue, 16 Apr 2024 18:52:53 -0500

🔗 Everything New in the iOS 17.5 Beta // Juli Clover // macrumors.com

There are references to an Apple Pencil“V4” in the iOS 17.5 code, and there are also mentions of a “squeeze” feature that could perhaps add support for completing actions with a squeeze on the new Apple Pencil‌.

Paired with the rumor about an Apple Pencil for Vision Pro, my strong suspicion is that you will squeeze to interact with virtual content there.

Tue, 16 Apr 2024 18:31:05 -0500

🔗 iPods as AI devices // David Pierce // threads.net

Her: He’s probably thinking about other girls…

Me: Isn’t it wild how basically every iPod Nano and Shuffle design would actually make for a perfect AI device

Oh, the wave of nostalgia! Also, he’s not wrong.

Tue, 16 Apr 2024 15:28:25 -0500

🔗 Advice for How To Make Sure You Never Create Anything

If you get an idea while writing a post, you should always finish this new idea before finishing the original one. This, of course, cascades to new ideas you get while working on the second one, etc.

This also applies to expansions within an idea. You can always increase the scope of a project!

If your website’s code requires work, this has to be completely rewritten before you can post anything new. It doesn’t make sense to add new content to an imperfect platform.

Kinda rude of @havn to call me out like this. 😂 Superb post

Tue, 16 Apr 2024 14:00:41 -0500

Alright, Verizon, you’ve redeemed yourself a bit. I canceled my service months ago, but haven’t been able to connect my watch to Spectrum. Spectrum told me it was because Verizon marked it as lost/stolen and I needed to talk to them to get it unlocked. It’s not lost nor stolen. 🙄 But Monica from Verizon’s support center followed up with me multiple times over the course of two days, across dropped calls, to make sure it was taken care of, and was just the best.

I just connected successfully! ⌚📶

Tue, 16 Apr 2024 06:43:58 -0500

When I start dreaming in code, I know I’ve been on the computer a little too much lately. 😬

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 22:59:19 -0500

🎵 The new Maggie Rogers album rules. Listened all the way through twice today! I get Sara Bareilles vibes from this one if you’re into that.

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 14:31:10 -0500

Does anyone know of an app that provides a Shortcuts action for escaping text for JSON? I’m scheming…

// cc: @matthewcassinelli@mastodon.social @simonbs@mastodon.social

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 14:05:42 -0500

📷 #mbApr Day 15

These veins may be small, but they are bringers of life.

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 11:42:20 -0500

So… is anyone still trying to #CloseYourRings on your Apple Watch? I gave up on my streak long ago and, although I feel good about the days that I do close them all, it’s not something I specifically aim for anymore.

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 10:01:00 -0500

I totally forgot about the blooming flower motif of the original Apple Watch. The watch face and these displays were quite stunning. (via @michaelsteeber@mastodon.social)

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 09:26:14 -0500

🔗 What if password managers were never allowed on iOS?

“Do you really want to trust anybody with that? No thank you, it’s actually good that Apple maintains absolute control over how our passwords are stored. If we let other companies do it, all we’d get are trashy apps that are only out to scam me and keep my passwords insecure. After all, you just said Apple’s Keychain is good, so why are you complaining?”

Based on [the] responses I’ve gotten to my pieces about wallets, I 100% guarantee the above argument would be made about password managers if they hadn’t been allowed forever already.

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 09:09:57 -0500

🔗 A tardy assessment of the Apple Sports app

Apple’s designers decided to put the headers only at the top of the Starters portion of the table, which I would applaud if they’d aligned the columns of the Bench portion of the table with the columns of the Starters portion. But they didn’t. Bench rebounds, for example, are more or less under the PTS header. This is not how you present a table of numbers, and it’s inconceivable to me that anyone would look at this mess and give it a pass.

Take a look. It’s a pretty damning issue for a design company known to consider all the details.

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 08:58:17 -0500

🔗 Senator Elizabeth Warren claims TurboTax ‘relentlessly’ upsells customers in letter to FTC // Emma Roth // theverge.com

…found that the company attempted to upsell the customer eight times during the tax filing process.

I got gotten by TurboTax again this year. Their “guide” said I’d need premium live help service because I bought a house. I didn’t use any live help features, the house purchase barely came up, and I was still charged over $300 to file. I’d already put in all the time and effort, so I paid it to be done, but it stung. I’ll be looking at other options earlier next year.

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 07:39:45 -0500

🔗 You can choose to be kind // Cory Dransfeldt // coryd.dev

I struggle with the be kind to yourself bit — I’m extremely self critical and I find it hard to get past that, I always have. I imagine it’s a blend of imposter syndrome and the lack of confidence that that stems from.

I have a friend who, whenever someone puts themselves down by saying, “I suck at this,” or similar, will respond, “Hey! Why are you talking bad about my friend like that?”

It’s a good reminder to treat yourself as you would treat a good friend. And good friends don’t disparage each other.

Sun, 14 Apr 2024 20:36:52 -0500

📷 #mbApr Day 14

Cactus.

Sun, 14 Apr 2024 18:12:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#140]

Sun, 14 Apr 2024 15:07:33 -0500

The fediverse is getting a bit messy for me over in Micro.blog-land. No fault of the platform, but when people have and use both a MB account and a Mastodon one (or now Threads), I have to follow them all to not miss their replies to other people. And when they crosspost, I see everything twice. 😑

I’m not opposed to people using both, but it’d be better (for me) if they chose a primary place from which they do all their interactions. And if they told people which account they should follow/mention.

(By the way, I’m a proponent for the option in Micro.blog to limit what you see on the timeline to people’s original posts and their replies only to accounts that you follow. It cuts way down on the busy-ness of the timeline. 👍 But I do want to see all the replies to and from my online friends, which is tricky when they have multiple accounts.)

Sun, 14 Apr 2024 14:42:26 -0500

Heads up to Micro.blog users: For a while, I resisted @-mentions because I didn’t want those posts to end up on my blog/RSS feed. I knew replies to other posts wouldn’t, but I thought original posts would. But MB is smart and if you start a post with an @-mention, it won’t be a regular blog post. 🧵

Sat, 13 Apr 2024 22:01:36 -0500

📷 #mbApr Day 13

My favorite kind of page these days.

Sat, 13 Apr 2024 21:46:47 -0500

Sorry everyone vying for the cutest dog pic today, I didn’t expect him to just steal the show like that! 🥹 🐶 📷

Sat, 13 Apr 2024 15:22:21 -0500

Doing things for simple pleasure.

I just do it because it soothes me. By copying a drawing, I inadvertently observe the final piece in much more detail than I would just by looking at it. It makes me pay attention to the artist's choices and techniques with much more interest and love. I don’t have to create anything, I don’t have to overthink it.

No pressure, no high expectations, just lines. and appreciation.

Simone Elisabete https://simoneelisabete.com/copy-your-darlings/

Sat, 13 Apr 2024 10:48:32 -0500

In the department of Things It Took Me Too Long to Realize™, it just occured to me that “Howdy” is probably a compressed and slangified version “How do you do?” and not just some made up cowboy greeting. 🤦‍♂️
// cc: @hotdogsladies@mastodon.social @siracusa@mastodon.social

Sat, 13 Apr 2024 10:42:25 -0500

Despite the reviews, (original iPhone software keyboard creator, Humane team member, and Micro.blog user) @kocienda remains firm in his convictions about the Humane Ai Pin:

I feel like I can trust my intuition. Years ago, I made the autocorrecting keyboard for the first iPhone. There was considerable doubt about the very concept of the touchscreen keyboard. And yet, when I built the tech, I felt that it was learnable. I saw how there were people among that initial cohort inside Apple when the product was still a deep dark secret: they got it. It became easy for them with just a little time and effort. Obviously, in time, this also became easy for most humans on the planet. Then this effort opened up with whole phone screen to them, since the keyboard could disappear when they weren’t using it. This same kind of disappearing act takes place all the time with the Ai Pin. Find the touchpad, ask a question, listen to the response, put the answer to use, keep going with your life. Using the Ai Pin is so simple and free of friction. My intuition tells me that we are on track. People will get it with a little time and effort. This model will win.
Ken Kocienda https://kocienda.micro.blog/2024/04/11/humane-ai-pin.html

I think there’s something there, but it needs more time and advancement in the foundational tech. I’m not ready to count them out.

Sat, 13 Apr 2024 09:51:06 -0500

A year of average workouts in one go? Yeah, that sounds about right. 😲

Damn. This is fantastic data https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/12/apple-watch-marathon-heart-movement-study/

Choosing to run a marathon is literally adding a year of basic movement to your life in one day
Matthew Cassinelli https://www.threads.net/@matthewcassinelli/post/C5tIoe_Lbja

Sat, 13 Apr 2024 03:35:59 -0500

Okay, super time for bed. I’m going to regret staying up so late again in a few hours, but I did cross a few things off my todo list. 🙂🥱 Hopefully ~~tomorrow~~ later today will be an easy day at work.

Sat, 13 Apr 2024 03:31:59 -0500

I just updated my ‘🤣 Markdown Memes’ shortcut to version 1.1:

Swapped ‘Micro.blog Multimedia Uploader’ shortcut for ‘Simple MB Image Uploader’ so there would be fewer menus and interactions to get through

Added an opportunity to edit the Markdown’s alt text before it’s saved

Clarified some menu text

Get it for free from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Sat, 13 Apr 2024 03:17:00 -0500

🆕📝 Making a dynamic auto-sorting list in Shortcuts to easily deploy memes

Come down the rabbit hole with me and see how I built one of my favorite shortcuts to date!

Sat, 13 Apr 2024 03:06:48 -0500

I just released my ‘Simple MB Image Uploader’ shortcut version 1.0:

No frills or menus to tap through. Just get an image into the shortcut and it spits out Markdown. Works great when run as a function from other shortcuts, like when building a blog post with an image, since it requires minimal interaction.

Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 18:05:28 -0500

I just realized that my source feed which usually auto-posts links to my blog posts stopped working a couple days ago. I don’t want to double-hit the timeline in case @help resolves it, but if you usually follow my stuff here and not RSS, you’ve got some goodies waiting for you at heydingus.net. 🙂

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 17:01:49 -0500

Made a bunch more little improvements around the site today. It’s fun gleaning more about CSS. But I need to stop tinkering with design and get more actual writing done!

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 11:35:49 -0500

If you’re following me on Mastodon and wondering how those link posts I did this morning (and have made for months) have hyperlinks and styling, they’re all done with this shortcut and Micro.blog. It plays nicely (if not perfectly) with Mastodon and all lives on my own website. (Try the permalinks!)

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 11:27:11 -0500

Alright, that’s pretty good. 😆

We also have a shirt inspired by @marcoarment’s recent nostalgic foray into Palm hardware and software. If you know, you know.
http://atp.fm/store
(Available in many colors, plus long-sleeve, sweatshirt, and tank top.)
siracusa@mastodon.social https://mastodon.social/users/siracusa/statuses/112259096744575829

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 11:25:21 -0500

Not perfect, but progress.

Great news coming from Germany: today, the Bundestag adopted the gender self-determination law, which will allow trans people to change their gender on their official papers with a simple declaration at the civil registry. Gone are the medical requirements. 🏳️‍⚧️
https://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2024/kw15-de-geschlechtseintrag-997406
nileane@nileane.fr https://nileane.fr/@nileane/112258972090740164

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 11:15:59 -0500

I’m thrilled to see the Duel of the Defaults continue to rage, stewarded by @robb@social.lol, over five months on. The teeny-weeny-web is so cool. 😎

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 11:04:14 -0500

I kind of lost my morning hanging around waiting for a call from pest control who said they would ring me up Friday morning. But, (more) credit due, the phone rang at 11:55 AM. 🤷‍♂️

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 11:02:00 -0500

🆕📝 Humane pinned their launch date, if not their pin

Forgive my pun, but I’m just oh-so-clever. 😜

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 09:09:30 -0500

🔗 We’ve stopped making things anyone wants // Cory Dransfeldt // coryd.dev

We start out building valuable devices, move into services, capture users and step on developers.

We spin up streaming media, drop prices, increase availability, wait for collections to whither and then safely hollow out libraries, squeeze creators and raise prices.

Ooh, cutting to the quick. 😬

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 09:05:07 -0500

🔗 What do you want? // Greg Morris // gregmorris.co.uk

The rather depressing fact is, much of what I do online is because I like interacting with other people. As I wrote about a few days ago, I have zero friends and rely heavily on platforms to provide this for me. More than this, though, is my love of getting replies. In many ways, the reason I take pictures and write blog posts is for other people’s reactions, and not hearing them sucks.

I wouldn’t say not getting replies sucks, but it sure is a thrill when I do hear from readers.

Follow that siren’s call, Greg, back to Micro.blog. 😉

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 08:25:56 -0500

🔗 Why I carry two phones? // merecivilian.com

No other foldable has this form factor and I really like it. It is almost like it brings everything a lot closer to you and gives you just enough space to be comfortable. Sometimes using the iPhone Pro Max, I feel the phone isn’t the right device for this task and I wait till I get to my MacBook. These instances occur far less on the Pixel Fold.

This—forgive me—flexibility to cover a wider use-case area is why I’m eyeing the Pixel Fold with jealously. I think they nailed the form factor and now just need to refine the experience.

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 08:20:13 -0500

🔗 Automattic Acquires Beeper, Will Merge With Texts // daringfireball.net

I don’t get a ton of [X] DMs, and I get fewer now than ever before, but Texts offers a better interface to them than [X] itself does. I also have my Instagram, WhatsApp, and Signal accounts connected to Texts. If I used any of those platforms heavily, I’d rely on their dedicated apps. But I don’t, so a universal messaging inbox is better. I’m more interested in having one central place to check than anything else for those platforms.

It’s why I signed up for Beeper too. I’d rather just one spot for my infrequent chats.

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 08:07:58 -0500

🔗 What Are the Odds? // Jason Kottke // kottke.org

There are so many mind-blowing things about eclipses but the one I can’t stop thinking about is the nearly impossible coincidence that the sun and the moon are the same relative size in the sky. If the moon were a little bit smaller or farther away, we wouldn’t have total eclipses where you can look directly at the sun, see the corona, the sky goes dark, you see a sunset effect all around the horizon, etc. That is some spooky magical shit.

I love coincidences like this. On a grand enough scale, sometimes things just work out.

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 08:02:02 -0500

🔗 It was 23 years from Macintosh to iPhone. It’s been 17 years since the iPhone. // Matt Birchler // birchtree.me

It’s not unreasonable to think that we could be on the verge of a breakthrough computing change that changes the world. Is the Vision Pro that product? I don’t know, and I haven’t exactly been shy about how the current version of the hardware and software hasn’t clicked for me like I’d hoped, but Apple has a pretty remarkable track record here and I’m taking a leap that maybe this will make more sense to me in the next year or two.

And @matt@isfeeling.social with a similar take.

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 07:57:39 -0500

🔗 The Vision Pro isn’t a flop, it’s an ongoing experiment // sixcolors.com

This is what happens with early, evolving platforms in categories that basically didn’t exist before. We’re so used to Apple being a well-oiled machine that it’s hard to look at the Vision Pro and not judge it by all the same rules as the other products Apple produces.

But we can’t. The Vision Pro is about learning, trying things, figuring out new stuff, and hoping it’ll evolve into something new and different and relevant (and hopefully much more affordable!) in the future.

Jason with the long view of Vision Pro.

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 01:48:05 -0500

🔗 Eclipses Should Be Celebrations of Science, Not Pseudoscience // John Gruber // daringfireball.net

We were informed by astronomers, years in advance, exactly when and exactly where the eclipse would occur — down to the second, down to the meter — and everyone in the path of totality could literally see how exactly right those predictive calculations were. We should be celebrating and emphasizing this to laypeople, because these same scientists are the same people who’ve been telling us for decades that we’re destroying our climate with carbon emissions.

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 01:21:18 -0500

I just released my ‘🤣 Markdown Memes’ shortcut version 1.0:

This shortcut helps you to reuse memes saved as Markdown without having to re-upload the image to your Micro.blog account (or wherever you store your image files) or re-write the alt text over and over again. It presents a list of memes saved to a text file for you to choose from, or allows you to upload a new one and save it to that same text file.

Some niceties:

Auto-setup to create and update the necessary text file
Auto-sorting to put your most used memes at the top of the list

Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 00:21:34 -0500

📷 #mbApr Day 12

Would you believe this was taken inside at Caesar’s Palace? It’s like magic!

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 23:40:16 -0500

I just updated my ‘MB Photoblogger’ shortcut to version 1.2:

Adjusted the composition of the final text to display better in Mastodon clients (image on the bottom, thanks @burk)

Split up the RSS results to make it easier to determine the day’s prompt, and double-check that it’s for the correct day

Simplified how to customize the title of each photoblog post, which is done upon first setup but can be changed at any point

Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 22:48:53 -0500

📷 #mbApr Day 11

My heart lives at the intersection of rock and sky.

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 22:11:00 -0500

🆕📝 Edelrid’s Design Team Is at the Top of Their Game

When you trust your life to your climbing gear, it's nice to know that someone's put a lot of thought into how it works.

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 21:20:26 -0500

I’ve been using Things for — goodness — 7 years now and every time I save a task with the share extension I think, “Surely @things@mastodon.online will add ‘When?’ menu so I can set a due date on this task soon.” And yet, here we are! Line me up for that football kick again, Lucy!

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 17:30:31 -0500

And one more change that I need some feedback on… I figured out how to do the gradient blockquote style I’ve been trying to implement. But I’m afraid it might be “too much”. What do y’all think?

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 16:39:52 -0500

Been playing with CSS today and tidying up some corners of the website.

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 14:30:07 -0500

Very thankful to @garritfra@fosstodon.org who posted about how to implement a DuckDuckGo search bar on your website. I’ve never been happy with Blot’s search tool and wanted to use DDG for a while, but never figured out how. This was drop-in perfect.

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 13:54:22 -0500

Let’s try this again! I just updated my ‘📣 Publish Quote’ shortcut to version 2.1:

Fixed a couple of bugs related to variables incorrectly converting between text and URLs (thanks @pratik and @ericmwalk!)

Cleaned up the final actions by reusing the text-to-publish variable so it’s more clear what’s getting updated and shared

Vastly simplified formatting the source’s hyperlink during setup

Fixed a bug regarding checking for the user’s preference for including the author’s name and checking if it’s being run on a Mac to make sure the author-name variable is passed along correctly

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 18:46:46 -0500

Took Phin for a walk today and surprised him with his first swim of the year! Water dog = happy dog. 😁 📷

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 17:53:00 -0500

🆕📝 Shortcuts Tips: Size Doesn’t Matter

How small can a task be and still be worthwhile to automate?

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 16:50:58 -0500

📷 #mbApr Day 10

My favorite kind of train: The musical people kind!

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 16:47:47 -0500

I’ve been making some improvements over at oneamonth.club. You’ll see new short descriptions of the member projects there. Thanks to everyone who has sent me one so far. Oh, and we’ve had over 2,000 views on the site, powered by @tinylytics!

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 14:16:00 -0500

🆕📝 I Didn’t Hate Apple’s Immersive MLS Highlights Reel

It wasn't perfect and left me wanting more, but it also wasn't as bad as you might have heard.

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 09:34:56 -0500

🔗 FineWallpapers — basicappleguy.com // BasicAppleGuy

🤣 BasicAppleGuy made a “scratched & stained” collection of FineWoven wallpapers last year.

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 08:47:02 -0500

🔗 Daring Fireball: From the Department of Spending Tim Cook’s Money: Online Photo Storage Is Surely Expensive to Offer, but Apple Should Offer More — daringfireball.net // John Gruber

It’s very easy for me and you to just declare that Apple ought to just foot the bill to offer more storage for over a billion users worldwide, but we’re not the ones making new TV commercials telling iPhone 15 users they needn’t worry about photo storage. If Apple really wants iPhone users not to worry about photo storage, they should offer more with iCloud, cost-to-Apple be damned.

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 08:40:58 -0500

🔗 A retrospective on a year without streaming music — coryd.dev // Cory Dransfeldt

It was hard enough to make a living as an artist before streaming and it’s nearly impossible to now. Recorded music has become a loss-leader for tours and touring is grueling[2].

Artists were better off when we were toting around iPods, Zunes, Dell Digital Jukeboxes and buying mp3s one at a time. I think we were too.

With all of humanity’s music at my fingertips, I find myself listening to less of it than ever. That can’t be good, right?

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 06:55:59 -0500

🔗 You’re a Blogger, Not an Essayist — bjhess.com

You don’t need to labor over your posts. You don’t need to have perfect grammar or spelling. You don’t need to leave a post in draft for seven months, pouring over research. (Though you can if you want!) You don’t really need to have an idea.

Just write. Then share.

I feel seen.

Also this:

You don’t have to be an essayist. (Though you can be one if you want!) Don’t let those essayists discourage you from blogging.

Just write. Just blog.

Tue, 09 Apr 2024 22:04:14 -0500

📷 #mbApr Day 09

A throwback to my crispy tiger-striped sunburn, a result of an unfortunate application of sunblock. 🐯 🥵

Tue, 09 Apr 2024 18:08:46 -0500

🔗 Apple AI paper details how its multi-modal ‘Ferret-UI’ LLM can interpret phone UIs. — theverge.com // Wes Davis

The company has been steadily releasing research papers on its AI work for years. With Ferret-UI, the company seems to be looking at how AI can help with smartphone navigation

This isn’t the same thing, but it sounds quite similar to the Rabbit R1-style of teaching computers how to use human interfaces. I think it’s super smart.

Tue, 09 Apr 2024 12:58:04 -0500

Anyone else participating in CSS Naked Day? Let’s see those bare blogs!

Tue, 09 Apr 2024 08:34:10 -0500

The Solar Eclipse totality had BIG bouncing-DVD-Video-screensaver-finally-hitting-the-corner energy. 🤣 There’s just something about things lining up that humans simply go wild for!

Mon, 08 Apr 2024 12:12:42 -0500

📷 #mbApr Day 08

Equal parts prevention and welcome.

Mon, 08 Apr 2024 12:10:25 -0500

📷 #mbApr Day 07

The mountains fuel my well-being. (Gah! Can’t believe I missed yesterday. The 30-day photoblogging pin will remain out-of-reach.)

Mon, 08 Apr 2024 11:08:00 -0500

🆕📝 CSS Naked Day

My website is streaking for the next day. Care to join? 😉

Mon, 08 Apr 2024 10:14:51 -0500

🔗 Apple’s Presto system is even more sophisticated than it appeared // 9to5mac.com

When a customer buys a particular SKU (one example of a particular iPhone model, storage tier, and color), then the system prompts staff to update another one. This ensures that no matter what a customer wants to buy, there is always at least one up-to-date model in stock at any given time.

I was very curious about how stores would handle keeping the whole stock updated. One at at time for each SKU certainly seems more managable.

Sun, 07 Apr 2024 12:04:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#139]

Back to your regularly scheduled programming.

Sat, 06 Apr 2024 21:27:59 -0500

I just heard the idea of being an “internal processor” versus and “external processor”, which I hadn’t thought about in those terms before. I’m for sure an internal processor. How about you?

Sat, 06 Apr 2024 18:32:34 -0500

📷 #mbApr Day 06

Windy? Couldn’t tell.

Sat, 06 Apr 2024 10:48:08 -0500

Taxes: filed ✅

Left it a bit late this year, but looks like we’re actually getting a refund, which is nice.

Fri, 05 Apr 2024 22:42:00 -0500

🆕📝 PenPal with Ratika: What does the sky look like where you are?

I'm going to have to work a little harder to keep up with Ratika's poetic prose this month.

Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:16:07 -0500

📷 #mbApr Day 05

A SERENE anchor, 700 feet above the canyon floor, connects me to the mountain.

Fri, 05 Apr 2024 10:08:00 -0500

🆕📝 RE: ‘Goodbye Micro.blog’

I didn’t plan on getting hung up on a particular blockquote and end up writing 1100 words on my phone in bed this morning, but here we are. 😅

Fri, 05 Apr 2024 01:53:00 -0500

🆕📝 Digital Toolmaker

In which I wax poetic about what's probably my favorite app of all time.

Fri, 05 Apr 2024 01:23:16 -0500

I just updated my ‘🔗 Get URL to Run Shortcuts’ shortcut to version 1.3.

Suppose you’re building a shortcut and just want to quickly get its run-shortcut URL without having to filter through your library for it. Now you can:

Added a new option to share a shortcut’s title to this shortcut to generate its run-shortcut URL on the spot

As part of that new functionality, it presents a menu of formats from which you can select to copy to the clipboard

Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 22:34:45 -0500

I just released my ‘% URL Encode Text’ shortcut version 1.0:

This shortcut simply transforms text shared to it into its URL-encoded version.

For the 30th(!) entry to my Shortcuts Library, I kind of expected to release something rather more grand. But sometimes simple and utilitarian does the trick. I’ve been using it all evening to add run-shortcut URLs to all my shortcuts. I even added a little surprise for PopClip users to this one. 😉

Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 20:32:29 -0500

📷 #mbApr Day 04

This foliage is more prickly than pretty. Which speaks to its excessive prickliness because it is still quite pretty.

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 16:40:42 -0500

A Very Good Tweet™:

Trying to celebrate 404 day but I keep getting redirected.
Christina Warren https://mastodon.social/@film_girl/112215108787219313

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 16:32:27 -0500

🔗 Apple notifies winners who will attend WWDC 2024 in-person event — 9to5mac.com // Filipe Espósito

As we previously reported, Apple announced WWDC 2024 on June 10-14. Although the event will be streamed online with pre-recorded sessions, developers had the chance to sign up to attend an in-person event at Apple Park. Now Apple is notifying the winners of the WWDC 2024 lottery who will have the chance to watch the opening event right from Apple Park.

I didn’t get an invite. 😔 Of course, I didn’t apply, but that’s a minor detail. 😝

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 16:27:15 -0500

I just updated my ‘📢 Publish Quote’ shortcut to version 2.0:

Now you copy the quote before sharing its URL, meaning the shortcut is far more flexible and can be run from anywhere (like RSS reader apps!), not just Safari

This is a massive update with a bunch of new niceties, like options to include author attribution, saving copies of each post to Drafts, and much more.

Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 15:58:22 -0500

I’m kinda bummed that @macstories@macstories.net isn’t doing the Shortcuts competition for Automation April this year. 🙁 I missed the deadline last year, and vowed to get them in on time this round. I had some pretty cool stuff saved up for it too!

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 15:36:22 -0500

So far, my attempt to use my ‘Publish Quote’ shortcut on the Mac has resulted in:

Two updated shortcuts
A brand-new shortcut
A started-then-scraped shortcut
A purchased domain name
One published quote

And now I’m inching toward releasing a huge update to ‘Publish Quote’. Stay tuned.

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 15:27:00 -0500

I’m getting sassier in my Shortcuts' comments. 😅

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 14:47:38 -0500

I just released my ‘ℹ️ Get YouTube Video Info (HeyDingus' Version)’ shortcut version 1.0:

This shortcut gets the Channel, Video Title, and URL from a YouTube video and packages them up in a Dictionary action to be used in other shortcuts.

I simplified it from the version shared in MacStories Weekly Issue 304.

Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 14:15:04 -0500

🔗 Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads — lowpass.cc // Janko Roettgers

Your Roku TV may one day show ads when you pause video on your Apple TV

Roku is exploring ways to show consumers ads on its TVs even when they are not using its streaming platform: The company has been looking into injecting ads into the video feeds of third-party devices connected to its TVs, according to a recent patent filing.

Ugh, so gross. 🤮

Wed, 03 Apr 2024 23:45:11 -0500

🔗 No Joke, Yahoo Buys Artifact — spyglass.org

Ultimately, what killed Artifact was the fact that the founders just thought there were probably better problems on which to spend their time. […] But Artifact also filled a void left by Twitter. Unfortunately, they probably filled it a bit too much, as the app went from early but compelling to sort of a bloated mismatch of features. A lot of them were compelling on their own, but as a part of one app and vision, they were just too much, too soon. Yahoo, as a large company, is necessarily going to slow that roll. So again, maybe this makes sense.

Wed, 03 Apr 2024 23:39:33 -0500

🔗 5 ways I’d like iOS 18 to improve the iPhone home screen — birchtree.me // Matt Birchler

It’s been 3 whole years since I made this video where I proposed even smaller widgets than the current small size class. The thumbnail above really says it all, but currently the smallest widget uses a 2x2 grid on your home screen, and I would like to see 2x1 widgets be possible.

This is my favorite idea from Matt’s list. I wanted it three years ago when I first saw his concept, and I still want it now!

Wed, 03 Apr 2024 23:17:48 -0500

🔗 Welcome to the AI gadget era

The promise of AI — and I want to emphasize the word _promise _because nothing we’ve seen so far comes remotely close to accomplishing this — is to abstract all those steps and all that friction out of existence. All you need to do is declare your intentions — play music, navigate home, text Anna, tell me what poison ivy looks like — and let the system figure out how to get it done. Your phone contains multitudes, but it’s not really optimized for anything. An AI-optimized gadget can be easier to reach, quicker to launch, and alert to your input at all times.

Wed, 03 Apr 2024 23:17:14 -0500

I was honored to assist Mike and Jane in finishing up their Saranac Lake 6ers today with summits on Haystack & McKenzie! We were the only folks on the trail…can’t imagine why! 💨 🥾 📷

Wed, 03 Apr 2024 23:14:01 -0500

🔗 Every Failure is an Opportunity — caseyliss.com // Casey Liss

I know this isn’t a new thought, but it struck me so strongly after getting off the phone with Sonos: when a product fails, the company that sold it has an incredible opportunity: they can sour the opinion of a super-fan, or they can absolutely cement it in place.

Wed, 03 Apr 2024 22:43:44 -0500

You’re likely familiar with the Navy SEAL mantra of “Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast.” I propose one more line: “And fast is fun.”

I like being efficient and safe in the mountains, but moving quickly out there is undeniably fun. I think they’re all closely related; not at all mutually exclusive.

Wed, 03 Apr 2024 22:22:54 -0500

Here was my photo library totals as of a few days ago. A very pleasing milestone that I just happened to notice! What are you at?

Wed, 03 Apr 2024 22:06:11 -0500

I just updated my ‘MB Photoblogger’ shortcut to version 1.1:

Added the ability to share a photo to the shortcut via the share sheet in case you already found the perfect image for the day’s prompt

Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Wed, 03 Apr 2024 21:58:46 -0500

I’m just so happy with the result of my colorful hover effect for links on my site. 🤩 I never tire of sliding my mouse over them to see them burst to life.

Wed, 03 Apr 2024 21:49:13 -0500

📷 #mbApr Day 03

A deck of cards is required gear for any backpacking trip. (circa March 2014 😳)

Tue, 02 Apr 2024 21:30:41 -0500

📷 #mbApr Day 02

Snow flowers?

Tue, 02 Apr 2024 17:47:40 -0500

Okay, now that is pretty awesome!

Spatial Stephen beat me at Battleship.
Jason Snell :zeppelin: https://zeppelin.flights/@jsnell/112203951093349803

More impressions from @ismh@eworld.social here.

Tue, 02 Apr 2024 09:15:57 -0500

🔗 Yahoo is buying Artifact, the AI news app from the Instagram co-founders — theverge.com

Artifact, the app, will go away once the acquisition is complete. But Artifact’s underlying tech for categorizing, curating, and personalizing content will soon start to show up on Yahoo News — and eventually on other Yahoo platforms, too. “You’ll see that stuff flowing into our products in the coming months,” says Downs Mulder. It sounds like there’s also a good chance that Yahoo’s apps might get a bit of Artifact’s speed and polish over time, too.

I probs won’t use Yahoo News, but better than death.

Tue, 02 Apr 2024 01:01:23 -0500

🔗 Action Button as Game Launcher — Initial Charge

I’m accomplishing this by checking the device’s volume at the beginning of the shortcut and then checking it again two seconds after the Global Variable app is launched. […]

The way it works in practice is, I press the Action Button, the most recent game opens. If I’d like to play something else, I have a two second window to press either of the two volume buttons. If I do, I’ll get a menu that lists the other games and emulators on my device and I can choose one to launch.

An ingenious method to get more from the Action Button or Back Tap.

Tue, 02 Apr 2024 00:50:59 -0500

🔗 Pay per scroll – Manu — manuelmoreale.com

Reflecting on books made me think about what the web would look like if it was some sort of pay-per-scroll platform. Not a place where virtually everything is free but a place where everything has to be purchased in order to be consumed. Which sites would I be willing to pay for?

An interesting thought experiment.

Mon, 01 Apr 2024 23:03:00 -0500

🆕📝 PenPaling With Valerie: Ramadan Updates, Crampons, Photoblogging, and More on Worldly Travel

It tickles me to chat with people whose day-to-day lives are so different than mine, and yet invariably find how very much we always have in common.

Mon, 01 Apr 2024 22:24:33 -0500

Hey, if you—like me—need all the help you can get to remember to post a photo every day for the Micro.blog Photoblogging Challenge, you might like my newest shortcut: MB Photoblogger.

It shows you the day’s prompt (via RSS 😎), asks you for an image, and lets you write a comment before posting.

#mbApr

Mon, 01 Apr 2024 22:20:04 -0500

I just released my ‘MB Photoblogger’ shortcut version 1.0:

This shortcut helps you post to Micro.blog for its Community Photoblogging Challenge. It handles everything from setting up the text of the post following a consistent format, to selecting and uploading a photo and publishing it to your blog.

Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Mon, 01 Apr 2024 21:16:47 -0500

📷 #mbApr Day 01

A tool, or toy?

Mon, 01 Apr 2024 14:53:07 -0500

No joke, Apple’s been around for 48 years as of today! And Gmail for 20. Goodness.

Sun, 31 Mar 2024 22:49:09 -0500

I’m floored, touched, and so grateful for the lucky number 7(!) people who have chosen to support my online meanderings via the One a Month Club. 🥰 Y’all are a bunch of dinguses and I love you.

Sun, 31 Mar 2024 22:12:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things (Which Are My Favorite Routes I Climbed in Red Rocks) This Week [#138]

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Sun, 31 Mar 2024 13:11:31 -0500

Alright, I finally checked out Lex’s games (at its cool new domain name: lex.games)

I solved Mini #9 in 3 minutes, 37 seconds!

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I solved Six Appeal #2 in 3 minutes, 14 seconds.

Real words guessed: 2 × 100 = 200
Remaining guesses: 2 × 200 = 400
Time bonus: 106

Total score: 706

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Sun, 31 Mar 2024 12:35:00 -0500

🆕📝 Micro.blog is becoming the fabric of the open social web of your dreams

Everything should begin and end on your site at your domain name, and Micro.blog is the best place to help you do that.

Sun, 24 Mar 2024 22:23:50 -0500

I’m about a third of the way through the “John Siracusa Windowing Method” video and, so far, even though it’s not how I use my Mac, I’m on board. 👍

Sun, 24 Mar 2024 18:50:00 -0500

🆕📝 Scott Yu-Jan’s Macintosh Studio

You may have heard of Viticci's MacPad, but how about a desktop version with...an iPad mini? This thing looks awesome!

Sun, 24 Mar 2024 18:24:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#137]

Blogrolls, weird and wonderful tech that reminds me that we're in the future, old-school tech that's still awesome, a couple of wild websites, and that one jazz album.

Sun, 24 Mar 2024 12:05:00 -0500

Alright friends-with-long-hair, I’m going for it for the first time. Should I be doing anything special during this awkward mid-length phase? Get a trim? Just let it go?

Sun, 24 Mar 2024 04:23:53 -0500

Here we are again… 🥱 Gonna be the first person American Airlines sees when they come to work. ✈️

Sat, 23 Mar 2024 17:52:30 -0500

I’ve found myself with some unexpectedly free hours in a tiny hotel room in the middle of a blizzard…so…Ask Me Anything!

Or help me decide… What I should do first?

Catch up on Crashing Clockwise blog posts
Watch Killers of the Flower Moon
Release my ‘Markdown Memes’ shortcut
Finish For All Mankind

Sat, 23 Mar 2024 17:42:38 -0500

Welp, my travel plans are well and truly bungled. Was supposed to fly out at 3:40pm today. Canceled. Rebooked for tomorrow at 5:11am. Canceled. Now the earliest seat they could find is 5pm on MONDAY. I took it, but you can bet I’ll be at the airport at 5am tomorrow to snag any seat that opens up. ✈️

Sat, 23 Mar 2024 06:01:39 -0500

🔗 Time To Make The Donuts — canneddragons.net // Robert Rackley

Someone from the soup kitchen (one of the staff — not a volunteer) made a statement about not letting the guests have too much choice. Too much choice, I thought, these people barely have any choices. The least I could do was offer them some agency in what donut they would get!

Let’s not default to denying people the dignity of choice where we can. A little autonomy goes a long way when you feel like you have none elsewhere in your life.

Fri, 22 Mar 2024 23:27:56 -0500

Experiencing Moon Hooch tonight without any prior knowledge about their band was such a treat. Masters of their craft.

(A few videos are in my Instagram story.)

Fri, 22 Mar 2024 15:38:49 -0500

🔗 Digital wallets and the “only Apple Pay does this” mythology — birchtree.me

I hope what you take away from this post is that while Apple Pay is a great way to pay for things and that Apple did a great job mainstreaming digital wallets like this, what they do is not unique in the industry. DPANs are great for making it harder to track one person’s purchases across multiple merchants and they make customers less at risk in the event of a data breach of payment card info.

@matt@isfeeling.social has the deets only an industry insider would know and only a blogger could explain to this crowd.

Fri, 22 Mar 2024 13:37:00 -0500

🆕📝 My Wishes for AirPods (4th gen)

Mostly, I just want the 2nd gens…but better. 😅

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 22:04:22 -0500

🔗 Why I redesigned my home page? — om.co // Om Malik

And of course, I still blog. In other words, I write posts. I ponder on things. I link to good work around the Internet. I curate as much as I create. In my early days as a blogger, my day job was writing for magazines. My features and interviews, what is now known as long reads, were published by them. Today, my essays and interviews find home on my website.

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 17:28:48 -0500

🔗 U.S. DOJ Sues Apple Over its “Monopoly” on iPhone, the Device Apple Created

If you want to buy and use a smartphone, you never have to give Apple a dime and still participate in the vibrant economy of modern apps and services available today[…]. You can read ebooks, purchase digital movies, buy sleazy in-app game upgrades, and watch Netflix, all on a device not made by Apple.

How is this possible? You can use an Android phone on any of the same U.S. wireless carriers that power the iPhone. You can live your entire life participating in the modern tech world and never use an Apple product.

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:15:24 -0500

Some example photos and videos from the Meta Ray-Bans in my recent posts. (Pretty good, I must say!)
/cc: @ericmwalk

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 15:49:17 -0500

Took advantage of stellar weather last week to climb at The Gunks! I was very fortunate to meet some new friends willing to take on an orphan climber into their gang. Got on a bunch of new climbs and shook off the rust. Ended the day with delicious pho. 10/10 would recommend. 🧗📷

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 15:49:03 -0500

I think people overplay the “I’m 30 now so my body is breaking down and I’m old” to a frustrating degree. But I can’t deny that my body is jittering uncomfortably after a single (small!) caffeinated beverage today. I used to pound Mountain Dew like it was going out of style.

Probs a good thing, TBH

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 15:47:26 -0500

I had the distinct pleasure of summiting Giant Mountain with Hector and Renata this past weekend. And because they were such awesome hikers, we tossed in Rocky Peak Ridge for good measure! There’s still snow in those hills, folks. Stellar day out with great views and even better company. 🏔️ 📷

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 15:46:49 -0500

Our new favorite restaurant in the ADK, the underappreciated @thewoodshedonpark, has an excellent duck dish special this week. Superb service, amazing atmosphere, and delicious food and drink. Perfect date night location. 😉 📷

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 15:30:20 -0500

Great use case for Vision Pro: keeping an eye on baby monitors while watching other media. www.threads.net/@shabzco/…

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 15:16:05 -0500

Another “ugh.” I’ve procrastinated making these posts because they required going through a bunch of photos and framing them just right. And then Instagram pulls this shit. (Been stuck for 20+ min.) Gonna have to do it all again. Glad I at least composed the captions in Drafts.

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:24:27 -0500

If you’re gonna move over to your Threads account for Fediversing, it’d be awesome if you make a post like this so we know to follow you there!

PSA: I have started federating my Threads posts via @alexheath, which means they should now be visible on here, though I can’t reply to / follow Mastodon users from Theads yet.
My posts will be at that profile going forward, and hopefully I’ll soon be able to redirect this account to avoid any confusion.
Alex Heath https://mastodon.social/@alexeheath/112135297011429419

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:01:00 -0500

🆕📝 All eBooks Are Not Created Equal

I got a nasty surprise when I purchased an ebook version of a climbing manual this week.

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 09:18:00 -0500

🆕📝 Now, March 2024

Taking a page out of Maique's book and trying a more bite-sized /now update.

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 12:50:08 -0500

Whoa! Slick new place that Apple is linking to all their products' documentation.

😍 https://support.apple.com/en-us/docs
Mikah Sargent https://mastodon.social/@mikahsargent/112129240280644890

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 10:01:13 -0500

Blue Ice makes some of my favorite climbing gear and they just redesigned my go-to cragging backpack, the Moonlight. Redesigns are always nerve-racking because you don’t want them to screw up something you love. But in this case, every change looks good and they address my small quibbles with v1. 🎒

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 09:46:39 -0500

I’m kicking the tires some more with Micro.blog’s new Blogroll/Recommendations feature. My main site has a more complete list of sites I follow, but I’m starting with my must-reads on this list. Just five folks on there now, but I’ll be adding more. 👍

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 09:33:29 -0500

Anyone else curious what the rest of that help text for the ‘About’ field says? 😆 /cc: @manton

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 08:13:00 -0500

🔥 First bonfire of 2024 last night. I think it’s going to be a good friends-by-the-fire year.

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 21:38:32 -0500

🔗 Apple Is Not the Reason I’m Buying Apple Products - These People Are — havn.blog

I like all my Apple hardware. Heck, I even love some of it! I also like the operating systems, the general focus on privacy, and the way the different parts of the ecosystem work together. But I think I could enjoy a Framework laptop, Asus phone and some Sony earbuds as well! The things Apple makes and does isn’t the main reason I keep buying Apple products. It’s all the fantastic third-party developers, mostly indie, who make great software for the Apple platforms.

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 09:54:27 -0500

Congrats to @robb@social.lol and @johnvoorhees@macstories.net on bringing Ruminate to MacStories. It’s a super fun show with the best artwork, and even better hosts. 😁

🍕 Ruminate is Joining to MacStories https://rknight.me/blog/ruminate-is-joining-to-macstories/
Mine and John's podcast we've been doing for over 7 years is now part of MacStories! All the same nonsense with a new home. Check out the post on MacStories too: https://www.macstories.net/news/ruminate-joins-macstories/
Robb Knight https://social.lol/@robb/112122739225364588

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 08:32:55 -0500

🔗 The best blog posts are genuine - rubenerd.com // Ruben Schade

These are good, and certainly entertaining. But the best are ones written with interest, passion, and enthusiasm. I’ll take something that’s rambling, hastily written, and genuine, over something shallow but smart.

I get hung up on trying to polish blog posts before they see the world and as a result, many do not. I’m not saying quanitity over quality, but I’m not running a media empire over here. I think I’d feel better getting more of my enthusiastic writing out the door rather than let drafts pile up and wilt.

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 00:06:01 -0500

Alright, I think that fixes all my current shortcuts for Micro.blog that I introduced a bug to earlier this week. 😪 I’m glad I caught my incorrect assumption about how the API worked fairly early, and that these didn’t sit for weeks with their newest feature being all wrong. 😬

Bedtime! 😴

Mon, 18 Mar 2024 23:59:43 -0500

I just updated my ‘Micro.blog Multimedia Uploader’ shortcut to version 1.1.1:

Fixed a mistake related to setting a persistent blog destination (now it uses your Micro.blog subdomain, not the numeric site ID)

Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Mon, 18 Mar 2024 23:46:23 -0500

I just updated my ‘Publish to Micro.blog’ shortcut to version 1.2:

Fixed a mistake related to setting a persistent blog destination (now it uses your Micro.blog subdomain, not the numeric site ID) (Thanks @manton!)

Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Mon, 18 Mar 2024 23:34:02 -0500

I just updated my ‘UpShare MB’ shortcut to version 1.1:

Added an option to set a persistent upload destination in case you have multiple sites with Micro.blog. Just add your Micro.blog subdomain (i.e. https://jarrod.micro.blog) in the ‘Setup Stuff’ to always upload to a particular site. If left blank, it will default to uploading to the last site you used on Micro.blog.

General spit and polish

Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Mon, 18 Mar 2024 23:22:42 -0500

I just updated my ‘Bulk MB Image Uploader’ shortcut to version 1.3:

Fixed a mistake related to setting a blog destination (now it uses your Micro.blog subdomain, not the numeric site ID) (Thanks @manton!)

Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Mon, 18 Mar 2024 22:22:51 -0500

A long-winded way of saying “We don’t have a solution for free apps yet”, but a promising exchange overall. Nice to hear from a human speaking for the behemoth Apple brand in this proceeding.

The full exchange between @rileytestut and Apple re the Core Technology Fee, since the full context is important (and I see nothing telling me I can't/shouldn’t post clips from the stream, so… 😅)
Steve Troughton-Smith https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/112118127201793072

Mon, 18 Mar 2024 22:02:17 -0500

🆕📝 Study Abroad, Hobbies, and Blogging Origins with Valerie V

"Being a PenPal with someone in Kyrgyzstan" is not something that I would have had on my Bingo card a couple of years ago.

Mon, 18 Mar 2024 11:18:20 -0500

I realized today that, as of this month, my /now page is, in fact, a “year ago” page. I’d love to automate it with what I’m watching, bookmarking, listening to, etc. a la @robb@social.lol, but I’m afraid I don’t have the code chops yet to figure it all out. I’d settle for some iframes from services!

Mon, 18 Mar 2024 10:54:37 -0500

Holy smokes, the new Apple Store in Shanghai is a real stunner. Just look at that double-curved ceiling guiding toward the “oculus” light! There are so many incredible stores around the world that I want to visit purely for their aesthetic architecture.

@michaelsteeber@mastodon.social has the details:

A detailed look at Apple Jing'an, Shanghai's eighth Apple Store. This location is filled with spectacular architectural details that make it incredibly unique: https://michaelsteeber.substack.com/p/exploring-apple-jingan
Michael Steeber https://mastodon.social/@michaelsteeber/112117206387536835

Sun, 17 Mar 2024 19:12:51 -0500

I just updated my ‘Micro.blog Multimedia Uploader ’ shortcut to version 1.1:

Added a setting to always upload to a particular site (if you have multiple ones) instead of just the most recently used site

Bug fixes (thanks @pratik!)

Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Sun, 17 Mar 2024 18:54:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#136]

I did it. I found the best of the web for you this week. 😉

Sun, 17 Mar 2024 08:45:15 -0500

The joys of a decade+ friendship are quips like this on @atpfm@mastodon.social. 🤣 🎙️

Sat, 16 Mar 2024 16:47:41 -0500

That’s odd. I don’t think I’ve done a single Fitness+ cycle ring workout and yet I’m only one more away from an award! 🏅

Sat, 16 Mar 2024 16:36:49 -0500

How many of y’all are using swipe-to-type on your phones still? (Me! 👋)

Fri, 15 Mar 2024 14:18:42 -0500

Today was apparently “bring treats to work day” and I’m here for it! 😋

Fri, 15 Mar 2024 13:48:16 -0500

I just updated my ‘Bulk MB Image Uploader Shortcut’ shortcut to version 1.2:

Added setup step to specify which blog the images should be uploaded to. If left blank, it will default to the last used blog on your account.

Added a blank line so that the list of images has some separation (for @pratik 😉)

Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Fri, 15 Mar 2024 11:42:48 -0500

Had to play this milestone!

Wordle 1,000 🎉 5/6

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Thu, 14 Mar 2024 06:30:22 -0500

My sleep has been all over the place lately 😵‍💫

Monday night: slept till 8:30a, stayed in bed till 11:30a
Tuesday night: literally zero sleep; pulled all-nighter and then caught a few hours midday Wed.
Wednesday night: drove 10p to midnight, slept in car from 2a-6a

I feel surprisingly good though!

Thu, 14 Mar 2024 00:44:47 -0500

Well, I did it! I got the Meta Ray-Ban glasses tonight. So far,

Good fit
Intuitive setup
Speedy voice control
Transitions make indoor/evening use nice
Speakers/microphones are very good
Battery life might lack for all-day wear

Can’t wait to test the cameras while climbing tomorrow!

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 19:53:59 -0500

Last post about the oneamonth.club tonight, I promise. I just added some guidelines, and also some relevant quotes about funding small creators. If you know any other good articles on the topic (even if they’re yours!), my inbox is open.

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 19:33:17 -0500

✅ Used the blog ID URL technique to fix up my Make.com workflow that auto-posts from Instagram to Micro.blog to make sure it’s always posting to the correct blog rather than the one I happened to last use.

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 19:24:18 -0500

Clever, functional, AND fun!

This was accidental but it's worked out tremendously well.
How to name external drives: find those random stickers you've got in a drawer. You got them with some other stickers or as part of a promo or you've just had them for ages or whatever.
1. Stick on drive.
2. Name drive.
May I introduce:
- beachball
- rollerskate
- xstate
Superbly memorable. I've had lots of data move between these drives the last few days (don't ask) and it's never been confusing as to what was where.
Johnny ‘Decimal’ Noble https://hachyderm.io/@johnnydecimal/112090742784119922

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 19:19:24 -0500

Things were getting boring, so Phin found a new thing to be perturbed by: reflections on the ceiling that he cannot chase. 📷

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 19:15:28 -0500

They said the promised day would never come, but arrived it has.

New member special!
ATP Insider: John's Windows
https://atp.fm/atp-insider-johns-windows
In this special VIDEO episode, @siracusa finally reveals his window-“management” techniques.
Accidental Tech Podcast https://mastodon.social/@atpfm/112091073219473617

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 18:10:02 -0500

ChatGPT is a really good teacher. I’m still learning how to ask the right questions — it’s hard to break search engine habits of just using keywords. Spelling everything out like I’m talking to a person has been quite effective.

I just learned how to use white-space: nowrap; for oneamonth.club.

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 17:16:22 -0500

The response to oneamonth.club has been very positive, and it’s so exciting to have folks jump aboard. 😊 I really hope that more people will choose to give ongoing support to their favorite small web projects because it’s inexpensive and easy. And of course I made a shortcut for adding members.

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 04:46:41 -0500

I didn’t really intend to pull an all-nighter, but when you make it far enough into the morning and have an early start anyway, it just doesn’t make sense to get in bed for a couple of hours and then wake up groggy. I’m looking forward to hopping in bed after this morning’s workout though! 🥱

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 04:40:00 -0500

🆕📝 Shortcuts Tips: Creating Fallbacks

As far as advanced Shortcuts techniques go, employing the 'If' action can get you a long way toward creating more accommodating and user-friendly shortcuts.

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 03:28:19 -0500

I just updated my ‘Publish to Micro.blog’ shortcut to version 1.1:

Added a setup step to specify your microblog’s ID number so that posts always get sent to the right blog. (Handy if you accidentally leave Micro.blog set to one of your other blogs.) If left blank, it will default to the last blog you used on your account.

Added a fallback if no input is passed to the shortcut. It will show your clipboard contents and allow you to edit them and continue or cancel.

Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 02:37:34 -0500

If you hover over linked text on my site, you’ll get a nice new surprise. CSS is fun! 😁👨‍💻🎨

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 01:29:00 -0500

🆕📝 One a Month Club

How and why the One a Month Club came to be.

Tue, 12 Mar 2024 22:53:48 -0500

Made a small change to my Replies page tonight to fix something that’s been bugging me for ages. The solution was a lot easier than I expected. Wrote up what I did and how I righted it here. Scratching your own itch is so satisfying!

Tue, 12 Mar 2024 21:47:22 -0500

I was about to swap from Buy Me a Coffee to Ko-Fi for my tip jar solely because I hated how I had to wait to log in with a slowly emailed code rather than a password. It irked me every time. The service was otherwise great. Luckily, I finally found the setting to let me set a password. 🎉 Close call!

Tue, 12 Mar 2024 12:32:08 -0500

Watch out y’all, I’m back in a blogging mood. 📝

Tue, 12 Mar 2024 08:49:31 -0500

This whole thing smelled off from the beginning. Gruber’s timeline clears it up significantly.

I.e., while Apple as an institution granted, revoked, and under public pressure reinstated Epic’s new account, from the perspective of Apple leadership, they only revoked a new account that had been created through an automated system — not for criticism, per se, but for the same reason Epic’s Fortnite developer account remains revoked and Fortnite remains unavailable on Apple platforms worldwide: for the 2020 Fortnite IAP Trojan horse stunt. The “colorful” tweets Schiller quoted and which Apple’s attorney cited were mentioned as proof that Epic hadn’t changed, not as the reason for revoking the new account.
John Gruber daringfireball.net

Tue, 12 Mar 2024 07:53:00 -0500

🆕📝 The whole Apple vs. DMA thing has me feeling unenthusiastic, and it could have been so much better

I’m an Apple enthusiast, but this whole saga has me feeling anything but enthusiastic.

Tue, 12 Mar 2024 00:32:19 -0500

🔗 Airbnb is banning indoor security cameras — theverge.com // Emma Roth

The change comes after numerous reports of guests finding hidden cameras within their rental, leading some vacation-goers to scan their rooms for cameras.

Airbnb’s new policy also introduces new rules for outdoor security cameras, and will now require hosts to disclose their use and locations before guests book a listing. Hosts can’t use […] them in “certain outdoor areas where there’s a great expectation of privacy,” such as an outdoor shower or sauna.

A win in my books.

Mon, 11 Mar 2024 23:52:59 -0500

🔗 The end of ice climbing?

Mellor, 70, another long-time Adirondack climber […], points out that the Adirondacks have seen numerous warm spells. He recalls rock climbing in summer clothes during a January thaw in the 1980s. Yet he observes that the long, deep cold spells that used to define the Adirondack winter are long gone.

“With the worry about climate change, ice climbing is so irrelevant to the things that matter,” he said. Yet he envisions a day when Adirondackers will say: “‘They used to ice climb around here.’”

Scary for someone in a budding, weather-dependent guiding career.

Mon, 11 Mar 2024 23:28:54 -0500

🔗 Did I Read That? — gregmorris.co.uk // Greg Morris

This raises the question: Did I read a book if I can summarize it? If I skipped the book entirely and opted for Cliff Notes, does that count as reading? Following my rationale above, it could be the case. I’m not suddenly going to hack my reading and get AI to summarize them for me - but I might consider it for some dull books.

The completionist in me compels me to only count a book as “read” if I’ve gone cover to cover. But to each their own.

Mon, 11 Mar 2024 23:23:41 -0500

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that the rumored “AirPods with cameras” aren’t earbuds at all, but instead are Apple’s take on the Meta Ray-Bans: camera smart glasses that also have great personal speakers.

Mon, 11 Mar 2024 18:52:00 -0500

🆕📝 First Letters with Valerie

Starting off a new month of PenPal letters with @val.

Mon, 11 Mar 2024 15:12:35 -0500

It’s getting easier and easier to recommend Micro.blog to anyone in open web blogging. Auto-OPML files and webmentions too? We’re spoiled by @manton:

Today we’re introducing a new feature: blog recommendations. This was inspired by recent interest in bringing back blogrolls, including posts from Dave Winer, his service FeedLand, the recommendations feature in Ghost, and feedback from Micro.blog users asking for new ways to discover people to follow. It’s a way to curate a list of favorite sites to link to from your blog.
Manton Reece manton.org/2024/03/11/recommendations-and-blogrolls.html

Mon, 11 Mar 2024 01:54:39 -0500

Too tired to write a proper introduction post, but I’m happy to say that oneamonth.club is now a thing that exists! It’s something I’ve wanted to put together since being inspired by @manuelmoreale.com. Please send me more sites to feature! And you can support my site for $1/month at heydingus.net/club. 🫶

Sun, 10 Mar 2024 22:59:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#135]

Ideas for blogs and weird hardware, computer pain points in the year 2024, and talented artists. Plus a new album and a 'Take a Chance' link that had me chuckling all week.

Sun, 10 Mar 2024 10:26:59 -0500

Go read Bradley’s piece on finding better balance with an iPod. These are things I know I’m struggling with as well.

We all know something is wrong. We all know that this can’t continue. We need to disconnect. We need long periods away from connectivity. We need a break. We need a break for the sake of our mental health.

I knew I needed this, so I started thinking about a change. I wanted to go back in time. I wanted to get lost in the music. Music, Tim, is at the core of who Apple used to be.

Bradley Chambers https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/10/dear-tim-its-time-to-get-lost-in-the-music/

Sun, 10 Mar 2024 00:02:08 -0500

🔗 Federico Viticci’s self-made Mac convertible — sixcolors.com // Jason Snell

Some people will call this a silly stunt, but the truth is that for years Federico has been exploring (and pushing) the edges of Apple’s platforms so the rest of us don’t have to. He’s an ergonomic astronaut, floating away into strange places where no one (outside of rooms in Cupertino with blackened windows) has gone before.

And I’m quite jealous of his escapades! Seriously, the MacPad is tempting.

Sat, 09 Mar 2024 23:58:51 -0500

🔗 AI Is Strip Mining the Web — club.macstories.net

Think about what it would be like for that to be the default view in Arc. It’s not a MacStories.net webpage. It’s an auto-generated page that’s an answer to a question. It’s also a page that’s so far removed from the notion of browsing the web that I’m not sure Arc could even be called a web browser anymore if that were the default view. Instead, it’s a parallel, auto-generated web built on top of the existing web that acts as a gatekeeper to the source material.

I didn’t realize this was what felt icky about AI summarizers, but it is.

Sat, 09 Mar 2024 16:31:24 -0500

What can I say? I, too, like to use nice tools.

And when compared to hardware, good software is much more affordable. The price difference between a Lexus and a Suzuki is significant. The price difference between excellent software and basic software is not that significant. After all, there is no software equivalent of Rolex.
Nicolas Magand https://thejollyteapot.com/2024/03/9/on-quality-software

Sat, 09 Mar 2024 00:01:17 -0500

🔗 Apple Releases iOS and iPadOS 17.4 with Major Safari and App Store Changes in the EU, Transcripts for Podcasts, New Emoji, and More — macstories.net // Niléane

iOS and iPadOS 17.4 include two new shortcut actions. Using data from your device’s sensors, the ‘Get Physical Activity’ action can return a description of how you are currently moving — such as “Stationary,” “Walking,” and “Running” — and the ‘Get Orientation’ action can return your device’s current orientation, as either “Portrait” or ”Landscape.”

These’ll be nice for conditionals when running from Back Tap or the Action Button.

Fri, 08 Mar 2024 18:50:37 -0500

Another perfect (March!?) day guiding atop Owl’s Head Mountain. We were supposed to climb ice for Levi’s bachelor party, but the rock was pretty great too. 📷

Fri, 08 Mar 2024 07:26:29 -0500

🔗 My Enjoyment Is Always Last — gregmorris.co.uk

[M]y personal enjoyment starts when the kids are tired and my wife is content doing something else, I can then relax.

This is enjoyment for me, and just one of the things I ‘signed up for’ when I became a father. I put the whole world first, and I am ok with that.

I see a lot of myself in this post. Not only as a husband, but as a professional and just as a person.

Thu, 07 Mar 2024 20:33:09 -0500

I don’t usually have multiple books going at once, but in an effort to maximize March is Reading Month, I now have a bedside book, a downstairs book, and an iPad book. 📚

Thu, 07 Mar 2024 20:32:06 -0500

Currently reading: Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in his own words by Steve Jobs 📚

Thu, 07 Mar 2024 20:27:34 -0500

Currently reading: Self-rescue by David J. Fasulo 📚

Thu, 07 Mar 2024 20:26:50 -0500

Currently reading: Accidents in North American Climbing 2023 by American Alpine Club 📚

Thu, 07 Mar 2024 18:45:52 -0500

I make a fair number of shortcuts for Micro.blog. I finally got around to making a post that lists them all in the Micro.blog Help Center, in case you want find them all in one place. I’ll do my best to keep it updated!

Thu, 07 Mar 2024 18:30:06 -0500

I just updated my ‘Bulk MB Image Uploader’ shortcut to version 1.1 (sorry to early adopters!):

Added support to optionally generate image descriptions with the ‘Generate Alt Text with OpenAI Vision’ shortcut

Added option to copy the uploaded images as HTML

Added an error check if no images are found on the clipboard for input

Other spit and polish

Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Thu, 07 Mar 2024 15:15:49 -0500

I just released my ‘Bulk MB Image Uploader’ shortcut:

This shortcut helps you to upload sets of images to your Micro.blog account and copy the resulting image URLs (optionally as Markdown) to the clipboard for easy sharing or editing. Get items from the share sheet, or run it without input to choose from sources like Files, Photos, the clipboard, and the camera.

Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Tue, 05 Mar 2024 15:08:37 -0500

I wish more places offered round-ups for local charities. I’ll almost always say yes.

Tue, 05 Mar 2024 10:39:09 -0500

🔗 The MacBook Air’s wedge is truly gone — and I miss it already // V. Song

But I also have an M1 MacBook Air that I use for work. Recently, jumping back and forth between the two, I’ve come to appreciate the wedge more than I thought I would. Maybe it’s just my imagination, but I find it easier to type on. When I’m writing a draft, the sloped edge is more comfortable under my palms. When I tuck it under my arm while walking through the office, it just feels better. […] I still feel the same fuzzy feeling when I unzip my backpack and see that wedge waiting in the laptop sleeve.

Me too 🥺

Mon, 04 Mar 2024 23:20:35 -0500

Whelp, got out guiding rock today, March 4th. What a strange, strange winter. Hard to say goodbye to ice season, but with a Red Rocks trip quickly approaching, it felt good to plug some gear and pull on rock. 🧗 📷

Sun, 03 Mar 2024 23:50:11 -0500

🔗 Childfree.txt // the library of alexandra

it’s deeply ingrained in all of us that having children is what we’re “supposed” to do, when our need to repopulate has been overstated for some time. i’d much rather folks be enthusiastic about having children than being ambivalent and doing it anyway.

I don’t face a ton of scrutiny for choosing not to have children, but if I do, this might become my go-to response.

Sun, 03 Mar 2024 23:13:30 -0500

🔗 Internet gardening | James' Coffee Blog — jamesg.blog

I sometimes like to use the term “weave the web” to describe people who publish on their personal website. While web-themed, “weave the web” speaks only to one aspect of the web: its interconnectivity. Internet gardening evokes thoughts of the other side of the web: where you are on your own land, cultivating the thoughts on your mind. Letting ideas grow.

🌱🌱🌱

Sun, 03 Mar 2024 22:51:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#134]

Along with the usual smorgasbord of links, this week marks the 9th album entry for my 52 Albums project. Any other dodie fans out there?

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 21:27:32 -0500

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

Today was the first time I’ve ever heard this quote, and it’s sticking with me. It’s quite practical advice! (Origins are apparently unclear.)

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 06:58:26 -0500

🔗 Apple TV+ adds a limited time library of 50 movies to stream for free — 9to5mac.com // Benjamin Mayo

The collection includes big name titles like The Wolf of Wall Street, Saving Private Ryan, Mad Max: Fury Road and more.

There’s actually a pretty good number of movies on this list that I’ve been meaning to watch. Might be just the extra push I needed!

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 21:03:52 -0500

I was feeling pretty motivated earlier to get a couple of blog posts out of my head. But losing a draft really took the wind out of my sails, and I don’t much feel like forcing it. I’d rather one in particular was published today, the 29th, but I dunno.

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 12:48:58 -0500

LOL I love @dmoren@zeppelin.flights’s writing

What a difference eight months makes. That’s in no small part due to Whisky, an app that wraps both Wine, the tool that translates Windows API calls to their Unix-like equivalents, and Apple’s game porting toolkit into one very friendly interface. That removes pretty much all of the work out of the process, to the point where all I had to do was download Whisky and drag it into my Applications folder. It installed all the necessary under-the-hood software, leaving me with nothing but time on my hands.
Dan Moren sixcolors.com

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 11:59:00 -0500

🆕📝 30

Reflecting on my 20s, and getting pumped for my 30s.

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 11:52:06 -0500

What a fascinating concept. You might hit the limit and then ask people not actually reading to unsubscribe to open spots for new readers.

The public incentives of social media — likes, hearts, reblogs, follower counts, the metrics that platforms enthusiastically refer to as “engagement” — didn’t exist in email, and especially not on TinyLetter. The platform itself had no built-in recommendations or ways to self-promote, quashing any aspirations for virality. Even subscriber counts were originally capped at 2,000. You couldn’t even pay to raise the limit.
Kevin Nguyen theverge.com

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 11:32:22 -0500

You can usually tell from where I’m microblogging based on the type of blockquotes I use. If it’s a Quoteback, probably I’m committing minor time theft when it’s slow at work. If it’s a ‘🔗 Title - domain // Author’ format with a traditional blockquote, I’m likely using my Publish Quote shortcut.

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 10:35:08 -0500

Yesterday, @rsilvernail wished me a happy 30th birthday by congratulating me on “reaching a new high score” and it totally made my day. 🥳 Gonna keep gunning for the next high score! 😂

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 09:45:18 -0500

What will you take the leap on today?

Every four years, we have a worldwide holiday to celebrate this sort of leap. The leap of choice. Not to suddenly get from here to there, but to choose to go on the journey.

It’s only once every 1,460 days, you can do it.

Leap today.

Seth Godin https://seths.blog/2024/02/the-leap-2/

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 09:29:25 -0500

I’m gonna call a #MykeWasRight to say that “Apple Enthusiast” is my preferred term for my interest and coverage of the company and its products. I am enthusiastic about what they make, and it does color what I think and share. But my enthusiasm also makes me wish for them to do better and more.

Wed, 28 Feb 2024 22:30:29 -0500

🔗 Blog What You Like

[The internet] has enough hot takes, perfect websites, and thoughts on the latest [news] stories. Write about you, write about the person behind the screen who wants to be seen and heard. Write about what makes you tick and what makes you happy. That’s the blog I want to read and that’s the type of blogs we need if we want to make a better internet. We don’t need another news blog, we need something folks can relate to and you can show your not so techy savvy friends that makes them think, “Wow, the internet can be something more than just [scrolling social media.]”

Wed, 28 Feb 2024 22:16:58 -0500

🔗 writing promptly — wordplay.bearblog.dev

To feel that being a “writer” is one of the markers of my identity, I need to be writing often. The word identity was originally derived from the Latin words essentitas, which means being, and “identidem, which means repeatedly. Identity is literally “repeated being" — I am a writer because I write repeatedly.

You must read this. Another bit:

The more I wrote with prompts, the less I needed them. Prompts gave me the push I needed to build a habit, a ritual. Now, life and its gifts and grievances are generally all the prompting I need.

Tue, 27 Feb 2024 23:21:14 -0500

🔗 Towards a quieter, friendlier web — coryd.dev // Cory Dransfeldt

Be kind, be honest and engage on your own terms. Walk away from anything that doesn’t serve you and don’t be afraid to craft a browsing experience that best suits you. A healthier web is one that’s slower, friendly and serves you. Eschew things that make demands of you, insist or impose upon your time and attention.

Cory’s post is full of good rules of thumb when it comes to being a happy and healthy internet citizen.

Tue, 27 Feb 2024 08:54:47 -0500

🔗 My Complete 2023 Six Colors Report Card Replies

2023 marked the end of the transition to Apple silicon. It may have taken longer than Apple anticipated, but it’s hard to argue with the results. Macs are running faster, cooler and longer than they ever could with Intel inside.

All it cost was the Mac Pro’s dignity, which it just regained in 2019. The last Intel model was everything a Mac Pro should be — expandable, upgradeable and more powerful than anything else in the line. The new one is a Mac Studio with slots and optional wheels.

A banger of a line from @ismh@eworld.social. 😂

Tue, 27 Feb 2024 08:41:40 -0500

Thanks to @arne@spezi.social for the good list of articles I perused this morning!

Tue, 27 Feb 2024 08:20:02 -0500

🔗 Multi-layered calendars — julian.digital // Julian Lehr

Calendars, on the other hand, cover the entire spectrum of time. Past, present and future. They are the closest thing we have to a time machine. Calendars allow us to travel forward in time and see the future. More importantly, they allow us to change the future.

I was already thinking of how I can better use my calendar to log things like a journal, but this post unlocked more imagination. I’d love to be able to look back at how I actually spent my time!

Tue, 27 Feb 2024 08:11:37 -0500

🔗 Every self-help book ever, boiled down to 11 simple rules — mashable.com // Chris Taylor

But hey, if it’s all pretty much the same stuff — and it is — why stop at distilling it into a single book? Why not condense the repeated lessons of an entire genre into one article? That’s what I’ve attempted here, after reading dozens of history’s biggest bestsellers so you don’t have to. Here is the essence of the advice I’ve seen delivered again and again.

Good reminders, concisely summarized.

Tue, 27 Feb 2024 07:59:50 -0500

🔗 You’d Be Happier Living Closer to Friends. Why Don’t You?

“What if I were neighbors with all of my friends? Every day [during the pandemic], as I took long walks through North Vancouver that were still nowhere near long enough to land me at a single pal’s doorstep, I would reflect on the potential joys of a physically closer network. Wouldn’t it be great to have someone who could join me on a stroll at a moment’s notice? […] How good would it be to have more spontaneous hangs instead of ones that had to be planned, scheduled, and most likely rescheduled weeks in advance?”

Tue, 27 Feb 2024 07:19:18 -0500

🔗 The science of why you have great ideas in the shower — nationalgeographic.co.uk // Stacey Colino

During the day, doing something easy and familiar, often involving some kind of movement, is likely to facilitate the flow of spontaneous thoughts. When you’re in the shower, for example, “you don’t have a lot to do, you can’t see much, and there’s white noise,” notes Kounios. “Your brain thinks in a more chaotic fashion. Your executive processes diminish and associative processes amp up. Ideas bounce around, and different thoughts can collide and connect.”

Mon, 26 Feb 2024 23:27:25 -0500

🔗 Does gear matter? — arun.is // Arun Venkatesan

The problem is with the question itself. It’s one of those questions that can’t be answered with much aside from “it depends”. It depends who is using the gear. It depends what they are using it for.

To the novice me, believing that gear mattered and accumulating it helped me come to my own conclusion. Along the way I tried a wide variety of cameras — old, new, cheap, expensive, film, digital, fixed lens, interchangeable lens, etc. This variety of gear helped me build up of a wide library of skills.

Mon, 26 Feb 2024 20:20:50 -0500

It’s my wonderful wife’s birthday and we celebrated doing all Jo’s favorite things! 🥳 Including a hunt for 30 balloons hidden throughout the house. Phin might have had the best time of all of us! 🐶🎈 📷

Mon, 26 Feb 2024 17:21:51 -0500

Had the best time summiting Algonquin and Wright Peaks with Jeanne and Jessie yesterday. Our stoke was as high as the wind speeds, which is to say “quite high”. And we met a furry friend! 📷

Sun, 25 Feb 2024 23:05:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things (Which Are My HomeKit Tips) This Week [#133]

Sun, 25 Feb 2024 22:18:00 -0500

🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #541: ‘Peripherereral Free’

In which I turn one of my favorite podcasts into blogging fodder each week.

Sat, 24 Feb 2024 17:35:08 -0500

🔗 A Conspiracy To Kill IE6 • Chris Zacharias — blog.chriszacharias.com

One of their engineers testing in IE6 had noticed the YouTube banner pretty shortly after it went live and immediately took it to their manager as evidence as to why they should do the same. Shortly thereafter, the Google Docs engineers whipped up their own IE6 banner and pushed it into production, presumably under the mistaken assumption that we had done our diligence and had received all of the necessary approvals.

This story is just the best. Should we? Could we? We did. Now everyone is!

Fri, 23 Feb 2024 17:20:37 -0500

Warm weather had the usual spot looking sketchy but we still found some ice for @adkiceclimbermeetup last night. Thursday nights, 6ish to 9ish at Pitchoff Quarry (or Pitchoff Right in this case). Keep 🤞 for ice regrowth in March! 📷

Thu, 22 Feb 2024 15:14:17 -0500

🔗 A decade of working remotely | Lynn Fisher

I’ve seen execs point to a super productive off-site as proof that in-person is better. But in reality it showed what the team could do when they’re able to focus on one thing, uninterrupted, and with the usual decision blockers removed.

An excellent point and good reminder that interpretation matters.

Wed, 21 Feb 2024 20:14:08 -0500

Micro.blog just got 5x more valuable and was already leading the way. Love this service.

Today that’s changing. We are getting rid of the per-blog pricing. Instead, there will be three simple plans, and Micro.blog Premium will now include multiple blogs.

$5: one blog with all the basic features

$10: Micro.blog Premium, all the advanced features and up to 5 blogs included

$15: Micro.blog Family, same as Premium but up to 5 users can post to any of your blogs

Manton Reece https://www.manton.org/2024/02/21/simplified-pricing-in.html

Wed, 21 Feb 2024 11:37:27 -0500

In which Apple isn’t quite the price hog it’s thought to be.

That leaves the Mac Studio. The [best Ultra model comes] with the RAM and storage spec I want, but it is $5,000. With a display, it will be over a thousand dollars above my inflation-adjusted target. But hang on, because the CPU upgrade is $1,000 on its own; with the base Ultra SoC, I am just above the inflation-adjusted budget. That is close enough for my books, and a surprising result: you can now get the second-best SoC available on any Mac with a display for basically the same as the highest-end 2017 iMac.
Nick Heer pxlnv.com

Sun, 18 Feb 2024 23:32:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#132]

Don't skip the 'Take a Chance' link this week. Well, don't skip any of them, but especially not the TAC. 🤭

Fri, 16 Feb 2024 15:49:00 -0500

🆕📝 Apple Return Policy PSA

A note for folks looking to get the most out of a generous return period/policy.

Fri, 16 Feb 2024 15:02:00 -0500

🆕📝 So Much To Do

In which I don't follow my own advice, but I feel okay about it.

Thu, 15 Feb 2024 11:28:20 -0500

Uh oh, time is already so easy to lose in Vision Pro. Watch out TikTokers. If Reels debuts, I’m doomed.

Apple’s Vision Pro headset now has a native TikTok app, the shortform video service has announced.
The interface will look relatively familiar [...], with a vertically oriented player for videos as well as buttons to like, comment, favorite, and share. But the company has taken advantage of the increased screen real estate [...] to spread out other interface elements, showing comments and creator profiles on a pane [...] so they don’t obscure the main video player.

Jon Porter theverge.com

Thu, 15 Feb 2024 10:36:05 -0500

Busywork isn’t always bad. I turn to it when I can’t deal but still need to get shit done.

A web designer told me busywork serves as “productive procrastination” when she’s avoiding more complex tasks. A woman in sales and marketing said she values the solitude of rote tasks, and retreats into spreadsheets “when everybody’s annoying and I’m peopled out and my bullshit meter is filled.” A senior research program manager at a nonprofit explained that she values how data cleaning [...] creates an intimacy with the information she’s processing.

Lauren Larson theverge.com

Thu, 15 Feb 2024 09:52:49 -0500

This is so tempting. I can’t imagine Apple will make a “headless” laptop, but they should.

Luke Miani (who runs a great YouTube channel I’ve been following for a while) has created the sort of beautiful monstrosity I would absolutely consider for my own workflow: he was able to remove a display from an M2 MacBook Air and use the remaining “macOS slab” as a fully functioning computer for the Vision Pro’s Mac Virtual Display mode.
Federico Viticci https://www.macstories.net/linked/can-you-use-a-headless-macbook-air-with-a-vision-pro/

Wed, 14 Feb 2024 11:59:57 -0500

I just made one, and you should too!

St. Jude lets you send a digital Valentine's Day card to kids receiving treatment. It takes seconds and could brighten someone's day ❤️
https://www.stjude.org/get-involved/send-virtual-cards-online-to-childrens-hospital-patients/valentines-day.html
Matt Birchler https://isfeeling.social/@matt/111930862440019523

Wed, 14 Feb 2024 11:54:51 -0500

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You get an email, blog, mastodon instance, all sorts of stuff and @adam is great too
Robb Knight https://social.lol/@robb/111930199149158684

Wed, 14 Feb 2024 11:06:51 -0500

🔗 Apple Music launches new personalized ‘Love’ and ‘Heartbreak’ stations — 9to5mac.com // Benjamin Mayo

The ‘Love Station’ has a romantic theme featuring songs about falling in love, whereas ‘Heartbreak’ features tracks about heartbreaks and sad love. Apple says these stations are deeply personalized to select the best music for each user, drawing from Apple Music’s catalog of more than 100 million songs.

I’m a heavy user of the personalized stations. Glad to see they’re rounding them out with more moods and things — keep ‘em coming!

Tue, 13 Feb 2024 22:58:00 -0500

🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #540: ‘I Did Something Bad’

Tue, 13 Feb 2024 12:28:41 -0500

For months, I’ve wanted to get the heyjb.me domain for my links because it’s easy to say and, unlike my name, easy to spell. But when I’ve checked for it on Hover, it’s been taken. Bummer. Today, when glancing down the list of domains I own, what do I see? I already own heyjb.me. 🤦‍♂️

Mon, 12 Feb 2024 08:36:53 -0500

So which superb owl won last night? 🦉

Mon, 12 Feb 2024 00:50:57 -0500

Mountainfest was a joy this weekend! So many quiet badasses here, ready and willing to share their knowledge. I feel so fortunate to live somewhere that an event like this exists to bring climbers and other outdoor adventurers together. 💪 📷

Sun, 11 Feb 2024 23:07:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#131]

Sun, 11 Feb 2024 17:43:14 -0500

🤔 Super curious that I got offered this “loyal customer” discount only after transferring my line away from Verizon last night. 🙄

Sat, 10 Feb 2024 09:49:35 -0500

Noticed that Verizon turned on 5G in my town. The blazing-fast networking future we were promised is here, my friends. 🙄

Thu, 08 Feb 2024 07:37:51 -0500

🔗 Contextual Computing with Vision Pro: My Writing Cabin // MacSparky

When I’m not writing, I don’t go to Yosemite to watch a visionOS movie, or check email, or play with some other aspect of visionOS. My brain is already figuring out that Yosemite Valley equals writing. My Mac is far away, back at my studio, along with the the cognitive load that comes with the work I do on my Mac. That’s all a distant memory here in Yosemite Valley. My brain is successfully duped.

Sparks is the king of contextual computing, so I’m not surprised he found another way to trick his brain into productivity.

Wed, 07 Feb 2024 23:16:35 -0500

🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #539: ‘You Folks Need Some Help’

🎙️: 🇪🇺🧑‍⚖️🍎, 🧳🖥️, 🌐, 🔗🪣, 🕑🔁, and 🖱️.

Mon, 05 Feb 2024 23:32:23 -0500

I’ve never watched an MKBHD video from this angle before!

Sun, 04 Feb 2024 23:18:12 -0500

🔗 Because what the world needs is one more post about their initial reactions to using Vision Pro, here’s mine. // tyler.io

I could hit a baseball wearing this; the pass-through responsiveness is so high. But cameras are cameras, and unless you’re in excellent, balanced lighting conditions, the real world looks like motion-blur through a very fine screen door with sharp, crystal-clear floating windows on top.

I’ll have more to say soon as I wade through my many thoughts about using the Vision Pro, but Tyler nails many of my initial impressions in this piece.

Sun, 04 Feb 2024 22:41:40 -0500

🔗 If you’d bought Apple shares instead of iPhones, you’d now have $147,000 — techcrunch.com // Haje Jan Kamps

I figured a more fair way of calculating it would be to imagine buy a top-of-the-line iPhone every time Apple releases a new iPhone, or spend the same amount on Apple stock. If you had done that, by my calculations, you’d have spent around $16,000 on iPhones over the years (that’s around $20,000 in today’s dollars). If you’d bought Apple shares instead, you’d today have $147,000 or so – or a profit of around $131,000.

😳 📱 💰

Sun, 04 Feb 2024 22:11:07 -0500

🔗 OpenCase: MagSafe Perfected — kickstarter.com

OpenCase is an iPhone case that significantly reduces the issues with MagSafe accessories. It does this by creating an “open” space that holds the MagSafe accessories (we call this the “Accessory-Hold” area). It makes accessories thinner, it makes the case lighter, and it holds MagSafe accessories much more securely.

It’s a really good idea! I don’t typically use a phone case, but this seems like a solid solution to MagSafe fiddliness.

Sun, 04 Feb 2024 21:32:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#130]

A real hodgepodge this week!

Sun, 04 Feb 2024 18:03:42 -0500

🔗 The iPhone Mini’s long goodbye is complete — but it’s not all bad news — theverge.com // Allison Johnson

But have you ever thought to yourself, “Oh no, I forgot my phone,” and then experienced pure joy as you realized that, no, you did not forget your phone — it’s just so small that you couldn’t feel its weight in your pocket or bag. That happens to me over and over when I switch from a big phone back to my iPhone 13 Mini, and it is a thrill.

I sure will miss my iPhone 13 mini when it comes time to replace it. But it’s hanging on for now with a replaced battery!

Sat, 03 Feb 2024 18:51:05 -0500

Incredible day in the high peaks to summit Wright Peak! Honestly, best conditions I’ve ever seen it with clear skies, minimal wind, and great trail. Hanging out with Hank and Madonna was an absolute delight! @highpeaksmountainguides 🏔️ 🥾 📷

Fri, 02 Feb 2024 10:58:31 -0500

Looks like there was at least one @rebound@hachyderm.io fan at Fifth Avenue this morning. Tim seemed to love the shirt! @Moltz@mastodon.social @lexfri@hachyderm.io @dmoren@zeppelin.flights

Wed, 31 Jan 2024 13:40:13 -0500

I wonder if I’ll be able to control my upstairs Mac mini with the Vision Pro while downstairs on my couch if I have a keyboard/trackpad there. If so, and if the latency isn’t horrendous, I see that being a huge portability upgrade for my desktop. cc: @gruber@mastodon.social @jsnell@zeppelin.flights

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 17:22:50 -0500

🔗 Joanna Stern wears Apple Vision Pro on Live TV — matthewcassinelli.com // Matthew Cassinelli

@joannastern@mastodon.world is an absolute legend. 😎

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 16:25:08 -0500

🔗 Best laptop of 2024 – Manu

I don’t care about laptops. I don’t even know which laptops came out in 2024. I do know people are interested in knowing which laptop is the best laptop in 2024 which is why I just wasted some of your time (I’m sorry) making you read a silly post about the best laptops in 2024 that has nothing to do with laptops.

Will google pick this one up? […] Who knows! But if for some reason you landed on this blog post searching for the best laptop of 2024 send me an email. I promise you I’ll do my best to help you figure out what’s the best laptop for you.

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 14:05:28 -0500

🧵 I’m reading and watching Vision Pro reviews. Here’s what’s catching my eye…

Tue, 30 Jan 2024 09:53:01 -0500

🎵 I just heard this song in our shop and looked around to see who was watching the Vision Pro ad. It was just the song playing on the radio.

Mon, 29 Jan 2024 10:12:09 -0500

🧗‍♂️ You know those cool climbing movies you’ve seen recently? They, and safe recreation for climbers in wilderness areas are at risk from a bolt prohibition proposed by the US Forest Service and National Park System.

These policies would overturn nearly 60 years of sustainable Wilderness climbing precedent and impact some of America’s most iconic climbs in Yosemite, Rocky Mountain National Park, Joshua Tree, Linville Gorge, the Wind Rivers, Sierra Nevada, and many others.

Please help me to preserve safe climbing by submitting a comment here before tomorrow. (You can copy and paste.) Thank you.

Sun, 28 Jan 2024 21:29:00 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#129]

👕, 👩‍💻, 🏚️, 🧑‍🍳, 🕹️, 🌐, and 📧. Plus 5️⃣2️⃣💿, and 🧑‍🎨.

Sat, 27 Jan 2024 20:57:51 -0500

🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #538: ‘If I Lose It, I’ll Die’

A 🚀 reunion, 📱 widgets, 🐻 controversy, 🔐 features, 🤑 for 📺, and 🚸📺 favorites.

Fri, 26 Jan 2024 20:38:21 -0500

I just updated my ‘Stand Goal Cheater’ shortcut to version 1.6:

Changed the ‘Log Workout’ action’s distance and calorie amounts from decimals to integers (1 inch and 1 calorie) to avoid errors when run in regions where a different symbol is used to designate the decimal. (Thanks Dave!)

Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Thu, 25 Jan 2024 01:20:17 -0500

🔗 PSA for iPhone Users:

After updating to iOS 17.3, consider enabling Stolen Device Protection for iPhone for increased security.

Pedro Corá https://blog.pcora.eu/2024/01/24/psa-for-iphone.html

Thu, 25 Jan 2024 00:51:11 -0500

🧗❄️ What an incredible first time over at Poke-O-Moonshine! Positive Thinking was taken, so we hopped on The Waterfall and Goat’s Foot. Both were astounding lines. Technique is slowly improving. Followed up both with no takes, but all the stoke. 📷

Thu, 25 Jan 2024 00:20:58 -0500

Hey Micro.blog users, are you looking for a Dropshare Cloud replacement or just an easy way to quickly share files? I just released my ‘UpShare MB’ shortcut which helps you do just that:

It has several clever features (if I do say so myself) including an optional upload history so that you can easily reshare the items without uploading them again (using a self-managing text file), and a check to make sure the file being shared is supported by Micro.blog (and a fallback to upload it as a ZIP archive if it isn’t).

See it in action and get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Wed, 24 Jan 2024 23:36:36 -0500

🆕📝 Happy 40th, Mac

A birthday message to the good ol' Macintosh as it completes its 4th decade. 🥳

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 14:08:10 -0500

Welp, I dicked around on my phone for too long today and missed out on chance to complete some outdoor objectives. Good lesson. Do the important stuff first.

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 13:12:06 -0500

🔗 Gov. pledges $13M for Adirondack rail trail — adirondackexplorer.org // James Odato

The bulk of the newly announced $13.1 million will pay for construction of the final leg of the trail. About $3 million will help support the Saranac Depot project and $4 million in improvements to the sections already opened. The whole trail is expected to cost $38 million. […]

The governor has also committed $300,000 for Lake Placid to help pay for rail trailhead parking, restrooms and a bike maintenance station.

So glad to see help come from NYS to improve and finish this 🔥 project in my backyard.

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 11:59:55 -0500

Cute! 🔋🤳

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 11:54:26 -0500

Collaborative playlists in Apple Music are here. We’ve been waiting almost 10 years (a full quarter of the Mac’s life) for this, but I’m just glad it’s finally available. This was a fun intro video by the Apple Music Radio team.

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 11:47:52 -0500

Well hot damn, the trailer for Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender actually looks quite good and (🤞) faithful to the animated series.

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 11:15:13 -0500

🔗 Barbie Oscar Nominations — kottke.org // Jason Kottke

Ryan Gosling getting an Oscar nom for Barbie while Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie were snubbed… well, it looks like the plot of Barbie II is all set then.

I haven’t seen the movie, but this feels both wrong and totally predictable. 🤦‍♂️

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 11:10:31 -0500

🔗 Macintosh 40th anniversary: Watch live as team members convene — 9to5mac.com // Ben Lovejoy

Macintosh 40th anniversary celebrations continue tomorrow with a live event bringing together many key members of the original project team.

This oughta be great! Can’t wait to watch.

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 11:05:46 -0500

🔗 Apple Maps errors show small businesses as closed down — 9to5mac.com // Ben Lovejoy

Apple Maps errors have reportedly been costing small businesses thousands of dollars, by incorrectly showing them as permanently closed.

The restaurant said the mistake cost them around AU$12,000 (almost US$8,000).

A stark reminder that our reality is already augmented by the apps we use. If Maps says it’s closed, the reality almost doesn’t matter. You’re probably not going to check.

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 10:54:54 -0500

🔗 Macintosh 40th anniversary: Remembering my own love affair with the original Mac — 9to5mac.com // Ben Lovejoy

It smiled at you as it started-up. You didn’t have directory listings, you had images of folders. You didn’t type the name of an application or file to open it, you used this strange new thing called a mouse to double-click it. When you made a word bold, it appeared in bold on the screen. You had different typefaces! It could talk to you! […]

I immediately knew this was what computers were supposed to be like. I wanted one.

Oh the delight in going from command line to GUI!

Mon, 22 Jan 2024 15:44:04 -0500

🔗 Apple Music will now pay 10% higher royalties to artists for Spatial Audio music - 9to5Mac // Benjamin Mayo

Apple will pay up to 10% more per play in royalties for tracks where a spatial version is available. This is starting with January’s payouts.

Crucially, Apple Music users do not necessarily have to listen in Spatial Audio for the artist to be rewarded with the bonus payout.

Good. To shepard someone toward what you want them to do, you must reward them. Behavioral psychology at its most basic!

Mon, 22 Jan 2024 14:28:40 -0500

▶️ Peek Into the Emmys Night Afterparty with Apple TV+

You’re invited to the Emmys afterparty with the stars of Apple TV+

Can you say “star power”?

Mon, 22 Jan 2024 11:26:22 -0500

🔗 Introducing More Birchtree // Matt Birchler

More Birchtree is a way to get more Birchtree writing, ad-free browsing, and the fuzzy feeling of supporting indie writing. Member posts will be more personal pieces, as well as more raw feelings about the tech news of the day before I’m ready to share with a wider audience. I’ll also have little sections shouting out other creators I love, apps I’m loving, and more.

Congrats to @matt@isfeeling.social on launching More Birchtree! His is one of my favorite blogs on the web, and I’m excited for, well, more!

Mon, 22 Jan 2024 00:01:00 -0500

🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #537: ‘All I Found Were Three Apple TV Remotes’

This week, “we” contemplate *Clockwise* topics such as App Store drama, Apple Watch drama, Vision Pro excitement, physical media collection tendencies, snow as a concept, and iPad usage.

Sun, 21 Jan 2024 16:47:50 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#128]

▶️, 🍿, 🫨, 🧑‍🍳, 🪟, 🔍, and 🍎. Plus 5️⃣2️⃣💿, and 🐍📦.

Sat, 20 Jan 2024 20:02:51 -0500

🔗 It’s time for a nationwide ban of right-on-red turns // David Zipper

The good news is that U.S. cities are starting to recognize these downsides, which are particularly troubling at a time when pedestrian and cyclist deaths have hit their highest levels in 40 years. Several local governments have recently adopted no-turn-on-red policies, and others are considering doing the same. This trend should be encouraged. Right-on-red is an ill-conceived traffic rule that needs to die.

The uncertainty and pressure of turning right on red sucks. Selfishly, I just hate getting honks for not turning.

Sat, 20 Jan 2024 11:20:52 -0500

T’was a bit brisk on my run this morning. 🥶 But loving the winter weather wonderland. 📷

Sat, 20 Jan 2024 09:42:58 -0500

I’ll take your papercut and raise you one cardboard cut…under the fingernail. 😖

Sat, 20 Jan 2024 08:53:40 -0500

🆕📝 Overcast’s Breakout “New” Feature Is Play With a Purpose

I bet you weren’t expecting to find a game in your watch’s podcast app. (Now that’s a sentence that proves we’re truly living in the future!)

Fri, 19 Jan 2024 22:46:48 -0500

Vision Pro pre-order
Couch delivery
Car lease negotiations and travel
Rock climbing
More travel
Prep for early morning ski before work
Been a big day.

Fri, 19 Jan 2024 10:43:13 -0500

Just thinking about how they’re rendering that interior image at all the correct angles and projecting it out to look natural no matter how you look at it is mind-boggling.

First new look at EyeSight for Vision Pro since June 2023?
From Apple's Vision Pro guided tour video.
https://www.apple.com/apple-vision-pro/guided-tour/
Federico Viticci :ticciseal: https://mastodon.macstories.net/@viticci/111782988166484805

Fri, 19 Jan 2024 08:23:14 -0500

Welp, Apple squandered another opportunity to introduce redone Magic Keyboards and Trackpads with USB-C (and multi-device pairing?) in the correct color and size. 😞

Fri, 19 Jan 2024 08:05:30 -0500

Success! 😁🥽

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 23:21:10 -0500

🔗 Artifact’s killer feature was rewriting bad headlines — sixcolors.com // Jason Snell

Back in the day, when I learned how to write headlines (for newspapers!), the goal was to give the reader enough information to decide if they wanted to read that article. […]

But in the era of the web and news aggregators, headlines that give away pertinent information have become a lost art. Whole generations of editors have been trained to write coy headlines that will earn a click, even if the people who are clicking will be immediately disappointed by the truth of the story.

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 14:58:04 -0500

⛷️ Waking up early, the chill, and effort to skin up to the top is easily worth it for the magical sunrise ski down on fresh runs. 📷

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 13:12:09 -0500

🔗 The one feature that would make an OLED iPad Pro worth it for me – sixcolors.com // Jason Snell

There are some things I just can’t do on my iPad Pro because of limitations in iPad software. Adding optional support for [macOS] would solve that problem in one swift stroke.

I’m not saying it will happen. I’m not saying even that it might happen. I’m just saying that among all the things that are even technically feasible, it’s the single feature that I can think of that would make the iPad Pro immediately worth whatever its much higher price tag might be.

Tue, 16 Jan 2024 14:31:21 -0500

🔗 Be loud about the things you love — robinrendle.com // Robin Rendle

But there is only one way to love something; earnestly, without forgiveness or apology. So be loud about the things you love!

Mon, 15 Jan 2024 23:27:33 -0500

📺 Finished watching: Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

Mon, 15 Jan 2024 22:10:15 -0500

🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #536: ‘Spay and Neuter Your Pets’

🎙️: 🖥️, 📱, 🐰, 🖱️, 📺, and 📧.

Mon, 15 Jan 2024 20:25:56 -0500

🆕📝 Letters Project becomes the PenPals Project

It’s the same project where I email back-and-forth with a reader for a month, just under a new name and with fancy new project page and better pages for each penpal. Check it out, and maybe be my penpal sometime this year? 💌

Mon, 15 Jan 2024 20:21:00 -0500

🆕📝 Letters Project Becomes the PenPals Project

Sun, 14 Jan 2024 22:31:19 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#127]

Must be Sunday! Includes #2/52 of my 52 Albums Project.

Sat, 13 Jan 2024 22:36:35 -0500

🔗 The Automattic Creed

I will never stop learning. […] I know there’s no such thing as a status quo. […] I will never pass up an opportunity to help out a colleague, and I’ll remember the days before I knew everything. I am more motivated by impact than money, and I know that Open Source is one of the most powerful ideas of our generation. […] I am in a marathon, not a sprint, and no matter how far away the goal is, the only way to get there is by putting one foot in front of another every day. Given time, there is no problem that’s insurmountable.

Sat, 13 Jan 2024 22:08:22 -0500

🆕📝 The Best Top Rope Setup Video I’ve Ever Found (And Why I Think It Makes an Superb Example of an Instructional Video in General)

🧗 This is the one I keep coming back to, for good reason!

Fri, 12 Jan 2024 21:54:50 -0500

Possibly my new favorite meme! 🤣 (I love that you can see Chris Pratt almost break into a smile.)

Deciding how to spend my money: 🥽
BasicAppleGuy https://mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy/111746140382561887

Fri, 12 Jan 2024 20:04:20 -0500

It’s not my primary method of reading my timeline, but going through it via RSS instead of the app has advantages beyond knowing that you’ve seen everything and it won’t lose your place, such as long-press for link previews!

Fri, 12 Jan 2024 18:47:31 -0500

🆕📝 Artifact Shuts Down Just as I Was Getting Into It

The world isn’t big enough for the [many] of us [Twitter replacements].

Fri, 12 Jan 2024 14:50:35 -0500

I just updated my ‘Generate Alt Text with OpenAI Vision’ shortcut to version 1.1:

Added an option to show the generated description at the end — a “test mode”, if you will.

Added a step to convert .heic images to .jpeg before uploading them since the Vision API doesn’t support those.

Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 10:03:41 -0500

Hmm. Micro posts? Microposts? Micro-posts? And what’s its mirror?! Macro-posts? Essays? Stories? Long posts?

I’m a guy who likes a style guide, and I can’t decide. Send help!

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 09:53:49 -0500

TV Forecast is stepping it up to vie for all my TV/movie tracking. It’s got After Credits and where-to-watch info front-and-center, inline trailers, and cast info that rivals Callsheet — all in such a clean design. I’ve been doing reviews with Quick Reviews, so I’m wondering why I need Letterboxd.

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:48:32 -0500

She asked if I liked Friends, I guess that that was the test

I said, “Hell yeah, and Phoebe’s the fuckin' best”

🎵 I’ve heard this song god knows how many times and only just now did these lyrics click. I snorted loud enough to wake my sleeping wife. 🤣

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:27:50 -0500

🎵 “Baby, don’t run me ‘round and ‘round”

‘Mean It’ by Lauv & LANY

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:06:40 -0500

The Rabbit r1 is intriguing.

your pocket companion

Haven’t quite wrapped my head around it yet, but the teachable “large action model” feels like a solid step forward. I don’t really want another gadget to carry around in my pocket though. It’s the sort of thing that embodies “you’re a feature, not a product” and it’s gotta be coming to smartphones soon enough.

Wed, 10 Jan 2024 23:45:46 -0500

I’m all for constraints — I think they’re where creativity sparks — but so often I’m slamming against the 300 character limit on microposts that feel appropriate for the Micro.blog timeline. They’re hard to edit without losing context. A 500 character limit, consistent with Mastodon, is so enticing.

Wed, 10 Jan 2024 22:46:43 -0500

Thanks @imyke@myke.social for giving me fresh perspective on Frozen 2, which I did not originally enjoy, but now have a new appreciation for.

overcast.fm/+DAvKuT9G…

Wed, 10 Jan 2024 22:40:22 -0500

🔗 Curb Cuts // Steven Aquino

As to what a “curb cut” is, it’s the cut-out in sidewalks so wheelchair users can cross the street. Colloquially, the so-called “curb cut effect” references how accessibility aids like curb cuts not only help disabled people, but they also help an abled person more easily push a stroller across the street.

For me and my reporting, the “curb cuts” phrase is meant to show people that covering accessibility and assistive technologies deserves a permanent and utterly relevant place in mainstream tech news coverage.

Wed, 10 Jan 2024 00:40:24 -0500

Blogging is a lifeline, a connection to people and a world that might not be possible offline because of the reticence to interact and the fear doing so generates. I can’t think of a better reason to do it.

— @colinwalker // colinwalker.blog

Tue, 09 Jan 2024 04:28:06 -0500

⛷️ Got Jo out on her skis in all this beautiful new snowfall. So fun! Then spent the day de-Christmas treeing the house and getting the place back in order after the holidays. 📷

Tue, 09 Jan 2024 03:34:59 -0500

🔗 Inside Apple’s Massive Push to Transform the Mac Into a Gaming Paradise — inverse.com // Raymond Wong

From what I can tell, the company does seem genuinely serious this time about getting new games simultaneously (or very shortly after launch date) released on Mac alongside PC and consoles.

“We’re innovating at this tremendous pace,” says Martin. “When you look at this from a macro level, it becomes much easier to see how all these pieces are coming together in a way that hasn’t happened before.”

I wish them the best of luck.

Tue, 09 Jan 2024 03:01:45 -0500

I s’pose now is as good a time as any to remind you that if you’ve been enjoying my shortcuts and want one built specifically to solve one of your own tech annoyances, I’d love to help! I do commissions for custom shortcuts. (You can find an example on my Library page)

Tue, 09 Jan 2024 02:34:51 -0500

I’ve been thrilled with the response to my two latest shortcuts. Seems like everyone’s pretty jazzed to get help with crafting alt text (🥳 for a more accessible web), and Micro.bloggers really like new ways to get their images on the web in Markdown. It’s a joy to build tools for this community. 😁

Tue, 09 Jan 2024 02:13:16 -0500

I think I really missed the mark on my Vision Pro launch predictions. I now presume, since nothing was mentioned in today’s press release, there won’t be another preview “event” prior to pre-orders at all. I expect units are now in the hands of reviewers and we’ll see embargoes lift early next week.

Mon, 08 Jan 2024 22:25:32 -0500

I’ve been doing a lot more writing than reading lately, which certainly isn’t a bad thing, but it does leave me feeling a bit… lacking? I love reading my favorite writers, and I’ve just left them behind.

Mon, 08 Jan 2024 20:58:46 -0500

🔗 This Philips door lock turns your palm into a key - The Verge // Emma Roth

Philips created a new smart lock that doesn’t require a key or a code — all you need is your hand. The company showed off its new $359.99 Wi-Fi Palm Recognition Smart Deadbolt during CES 2024, which comes with a built-in palm scanner that unlocks your door when it detects your unique palm print.

Interesting…but not a super helpful feature for places like here where we wear gloves outdoors for like 5 months of the year.

Mon, 08 Jan 2024 20:40:15 -0500

🔗 Basecamp Resubmits Its Calendar App, Includes Dates in Apple History to Get Past App Review – 512 Pixels // Stephen Hackett

It’s a real bummer to feel like I’ve been ripped off by a much bigger company, seeing them pitch something I’ve worked hard on as a free feature in their app. There’s some irony there.

Yeah, Basecamp certainly could have done this without making it look like you’re getting such a deal compared to Stephen’s physical calendar. Unfortunate framing, I’d say. (His 2024 retail calendar is great once again, btw.)

Mon, 08 Jan 2024 11:09:28 -0500

🔗 Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2

Apple today announced Apple Vision Pro will be available beginning Friday, February 2, at all U.S. Apple Store locations and the U.S. Apple Store online. Vision Pro is a revolutionary spatial computer that transforms how people work, collaborate, connect, relive memories, and enjoy entertainment. […] Pre-orders for Apple Vision Pro begin Friday, January 19, at 5 a.m. PST.

Well, my first few predictions were off by a whole month. But I’m not too upset since it means (hopefully) getting my hands on a Vison Pro that much earlier!

Mon, 08 Jan 2024 10:44:04 -0500

I’m unsurprised and a little tickled that, right on schedule the at the end of the first week of a new year, my post about how to save your Apple Watch stand goal streak has regained the top spot in my site analytics leaderboard.

Mon, 08 Jan 2024 03:42:19 -0500

Alright, that’s probably enough computering for one night. Gotta go catch some Z’s. Goodnight world!

Mon, 08 Jan 2024 03:22:45 -0500

Entry #25 to the Library is a doozy. Introducing my ‘Micro.blog Multimedia Uploader’ shortcut:

This shortcut helps you to upload any file(s) to your Micro.blog account and then copy the resulting URL(s) in the format of your choosing — including Markdown for images, HTML for videos and audio, or a plain URL for other files.

It includes niceties like allowing you to choose to upload images as either JPEGs or PNGs […], recursive encoding of videos […], and an optional function to use another shortcut to auto-generate image description[s].

Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Mon, 08 Jan 2024 02:46:55 -0500

A pretty normal number of windows for a Shortcuts coding night.

Mon, 08 Jan 2024 02:20:52 -0500

I just released my first new shortcut of 2024, and it’s one I’ve been dreaming of building for months. Here’s version 1.0 of the ‘Generate Alt Text with OpenAI Vision’ shortcut:

This shortcut helps you to generate a quality image description to use as alt text for images you upload to the internet. […]

You can pass an image file or URL as input to this shortcut, and it will send it through OpenAI’s Vision API along with a specific prompt to generate a unique description for the image, including any text found in it.

Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Sun, 07 Jan 2024 23:56:58 -0500

📺 Finished rewatching: Trying (seasons 1-3) created by Andy Wilton

Sun, 07 Jan 2024 23:39:14 -0500

📺 Finished watching: Letterkenny (2016-2023) created by Jared Keeso

Sun, 07 Jan 2024 19:24:54 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#126]

Humans are just so creative and make the coolest tools and things. Oh, and the launch of the 52 Albums Project. 🎵 Enjoy!

Sun, 07 Jan 2024 18:42:13 -0500

I don’t use it, but I continue to think the omg.lol is one of the coolest, most value-laden services on the web. Its ever-growing services (blog, Mastodon instance, photo sharing, pastebin, and much more) cost only $20/year and are created by a single (super nice) guy.

Sun, 07 Jan 2024 11:21:24 -0500

I can’t help but notice good typography. 📷

Sun, 07 Jan 2024 08:57:59 -0500

I think that might’ve been nubble’s best performance yet. They bring together the best crowd with the best energy. Perfect end to one of the best days in a while. (And I loved the Avett Brothers cover — can’t wait to hear more!) 📷

Sun, 07 Jan 2024 08:29:59 -0500

🎙️ Thanks @coreint for the reminder that big goals can start small — even ones that you used to be pretty good at so now it feels silly to start over. I did 5 push-ups this morning and will do at least 5 before I go downstairs each morning. 💪

overcast.fm/+KxFHh5a4…

Sat, 06 Jan 2024 19:28:15 -0500

❄️ Big outdoor day with friends! Woke at the buttcrack of dawn to ski alllll the way up the mountain with Dan & Sarah (who hardly broke a sweat at my slow pace) and then back down on fresh runs. Then climbing adventures with Dan & Dakota on bullet-hard ice. Cherry on top was the hot tub dip after. 📷

Fri, 05 Jan 2024 23:57:24 -0500

🆕📝 24 Apple Predictions for 2024

The cards have been laid and challenge made. Who will be swayed?

Fri, 05 Jan 2024 21:23:13 -0500

The absolute values don’t ultimately matter, but it is very cool to see the trend over time coincide with the effort put in.

Fri, 05 Jan 2024 21:00:17 -0500

Man, I thought Drafts made it easy to blast off posts at the speed of thought. But I have to admit that MarsEdit’s micropost window is unrivaled on the Mac.

Hotkeys for launching and posting, and now it even has image support (with alt text!). This is dangerous.

Fri, 05 Jan 2024 20:56:43 -0500

I had a set plan for my Internet Playtime tonight, so — naturally — I’m working on something else instead.

Fri, 05 Jan 2024 20:12:22 -0500

I haven’t seen this beauty since at least October! 😮‍💨

Fri, 05 Jan 2024 19:48:48 -0500

I flipped my desk setup to put my iPad on the right side. Everything was going great until I realized that my macOS Dock is also on the right. Now I’m dragging through the Dock to get to the iPad and I don’t think I can abide. Even though I like my phone charger and drink coaster on the left better.

Fri, 05 Jan 2024 17:02:43 -0500

Heads up for Kagi users:

Huge yikes.
Kagi is now partnering with Brave to power its search results — and they seem to be dismissing their users’ concerns regarding this partnership with a company that’s notorious for being led by a proud anti gay rights supporter.
Just as I’ve consistently advised against using Brave’s products, I now advise against using Kagi as long as it contributes to a homophobic business.
There can be no neutral politics when it comes to people’s rights and lives.
https://mspsocial.net/@vkc/111704531526843982
Niléane https://nileane.fr/@nileane/111705532073853768

Fri, 05 Jan 2024 01:14:53 -0500

🆕📝 Please, Own Your RSS Links

You’ve bought your own domain name, so you might as well get the most out of it and make things easy for your audience at the same time.

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 20:44:31 -0500

Not sure if this is useful, but it is at least interesting (to me): You can view the contents of your clipboard on macOS by going to Finder → Edit → Show Clipboard

(Via macmost.com)

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 19:36:42 -0500

I’ve got a couple of hours. Do I

write a blog post?
work on the site’s design?
start a new project?
get distracted and complete nothing?

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 19:12:15 -0500

Whoa. The ‘Download Template…’ feature of @danielpunkass’s MarsEdit is wild. Within a few seconds, it made a temporary post to my blog and used it to download the CSS. Now post previews look exactly like they will online. With a MarsEdit for iOS, so many of my blogging nitpicks would be solved. 🤞

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 18:55:04 -0500

I’ve heard a notable number of podcasters say recently that they expect the Vision Pro announcement part deux to be imminent. I’ve been thinking it would be late in January, but perhaps they’re ready to show it off sooner? My spidey-sense is tingling.

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 14:34:59 -0500

I missed this iPhone ad when it came out a few weeks ago:

youtube.com/watch

It’s so good. Very creative. I almost felt bad for the power outlet.

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 10:35:29 -0500

🔗 Chip Wilson, lululemon founder, says company doesn’t want “certain customers coming in” — Connect the Watts // Laura Rosenberg

This is not the first time Wilson has aired his problematic opinions as he has frequently received backlash for fatphobic, anti-Asian, and sexist comments. Famously, when speaking of Japanese people, Wilson said he named lululemon as such because:

It’s a tough pronunciation for them. […] I was playing with Ls and I came up with Lululemon. It’s funny to watch them try to say it.

Sounds like a real piece of work.

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 07:53:08 -0500

🔗 Microsoft’s new Copilot key is the first big change to Windows keyboards in 30 years - The Verge // Tom Warren

Microsoft wants 2024 to be “the year of the AI PC,” and it’s kicking things off with a significant change to the keyboard on new laptops and PCs. A new Copilot key will ship on a variety of new PCs and laptops from Microsoft’s partners, providing quick access to Microsoft’s AI-powered Windows Copilot experience straight from a keyboard button press.

Yeah, I guess this makes sense. Will there still be a Copilot key in 10 years? I’m not sure, but I’d guess at yes.

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 00:03:45 -0500

Come on. So good.

Think of every email you send as a pebble. To you, it may seem like a comically small thing—almost non-existent in size and weight. But, to a recipient already holding hundreds of other people's pebbles, receiving even one more tiny pebble is not without a cost.
Merlin's Wisdom Project https://botsin.space/@merlinwisdom/111688836855183861

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 23:11:44 -0500

🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #535: ‘It’s Even Embarrassing in Metric’

A new guest and news of a new human (currently in beta)? What a great way to start off 2024!

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 19:42:44 -0500

🔗 I learned to love cooking, and all I had to do was destroy my entire life — Keenan

This happened enough times that I felt broken. Clearly, I was incapable of handling a simple task like cooking, and the friction of me struggling wasn’t something my partner could tolerate. The miasma of frustration obfuscated reason or calm. I would retreat with my shame, sitting with it until it settled into another stratum. What was so wrong with me that I couldn’t get this right?

Back then, I didn’t realize how much shame informed how I operated in the world.

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 19:01:45 -0500

🔗 Holiday Break Projects | Devon Dundee

Looking back on it, I actually had a productive break. I did everything I set out to do and then some. It was rejuvenating, creatively satisfying, and fun—a beneficial time for my heart, my mind, and my body. I’m thankful for the time away and glad that I used it wisely.

The week between Christmas and New Year’s used to be one of my favorites of the year in my salaried job. Everyone took the week off, so it was like a free week. I don’t have that now, but I’m super happy for those like Devon who got to tackle their personal projects.

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 18:02:23 -0500

🎙️ Ooh I do like this thesis of Robert Caro’s (of The Power Broker fame):

Power doesn’t corrupt, power reveals.

overcast.fm/+yIOzKLkG…

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 04:32:16 -0500

🆕📝 Year-End Surprise Product Launches Can’t Come Cheap

That Apple Watch snafu didn’t just cost them money in sales.

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 03:38:23 -0500

A recent chilly excursion to Avalanche Lake. ❄️ 📷

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 03:31:37 -0500

Question for the peanut gallery: when using emoji as hashtags (tagmoji) to categorize a post, should they be at the beginning of the post or the end?

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 02:59:38 -0500

It’s no wonder Apple spokespeople are guarded with their statements. The “just buy your mom an iPhone” phrase has been so weaponized against Tim Cook. If he’d said something more along the company line like, “We think you get the best messaging experience with iMessage and an iPhone,” I don’t think we’d still be hearing about it today.

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 02:47:19 -0500

After many hours and many, many trials, I’ve finally figured out how to automate crossposting my Instagram posts over here to my microblog. I made a version a while back, but it couldn’t handle multi-item posts. But now it works with everything and it auto-generates Alt Text for each image. 🎉

Tue, 02 Jan 2024 15:33:12 -0500

Oh how I wish I could order a few of these, they look so good! 🤩

In December, Apple Park Visitor Center launched a new range of white and black t-shirts inspired by vintage Apple designs. Some popular picks from previous seasons have also returned. My two favorites, “Hello Screen” and “Macintosh Drawing,” taken from the Macintosh 128k box, seem fitting for the Mac’s upcoming 40th anniversary. It’s my understanding that, for a few more weeks, these same shirts are also available at Apple Infinite Loop.

Michael Steeber https://michaelsteeber.substack.com/p/clearing-the-table

Tue, 02 Jan 2024 15:05:31 -0500

This has become a rule in my life. If I don’t immediately see something on the menu that catches my eye, I’ll order the thing with their name on it.

Almost always order the specific food that is mentioned in the name of the restaurant. If you go to "Sally's Sirloin Shack" and order the sushi sampler, you're probably not hooked up right.
Merlin's Wisdom Project https://botsin.space/@merlinwisdom/111686005682839652

Tue, 02 Jan 2024 14:07:11 -0500

Oh shit! I just found out there’s a unique RSS (well, JSON) feed for my bookmarks on Micro.blog (because of course there is.) Now I might actually remember that I’ve bookmarked things there!

Find it here: https://micro.blog/account/feeds

Tue, 02 Jan 2024 13:38:38 -0500

🆕📝 The Impossible List

I’m dreaming big at /impossible. You should too!

Tue, 02 Jan 2024 12:17:37 -0500

🔗 Temporal vs. Fundamental Content | Hacker News // @nomilk

I’m trying to read less temporal (things that matter now) and more fundamental (stuff that mattered 1+ year ago and will still matter in 1+ year, with even wider intervals for non-tech content).

Yes. This is why I’m going to turn the dial back on blogs a bit and up on books this year. (Via Garrit Franke)

Tue, 02 Jan 2024 12:02:23 -0500

🔗 Thoughtful People Summarise Links Before Sharing Them // Ellane

If you’re having a busy day and I send you this message —

So cool! Check it out! www.nature.com/articles/…

— you’ll probably set it aside for a later that never comes.

But if the message looks like this —

Hey, thought this might help S with that homework assignment. They’ve mapped the brains of fruit flies, and it’s helping research on degenerative brain diseases. www.nature.com/articles/…

— you’ll know exactly why I think you should take a look

Tue, 02 Jan 2024 11:48:28 -0500

I just updated my ‘Get URL to Run Shortcuts’ shortcut to version 1.2.1:

Updated bookmarklet maker so that it doesn’t open a new tab each time (Thanks zsbenke)

Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Tue, 02 Jan 2024 10:31:37 -0500

🆕📝 Quick Tip: Check the Laser of Your Magic Mouse

This flummoxed me for too long.

Tue, 02 Jan 2024 00:45:13 -0500

🆕📝 52 Things I Learned in 2023

I like to practice ABL: Always Be Learnin’

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 23:07:31 -0500

I know I shouldn’t have enjoyed that hour+ Reels dive I just subjected myself to, but I sure did smile and laugh a lot. No regrets.

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 21:19:24 -0500

I didn’t realize doing a New Year’s Day polar plunge was a thing.

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 18:53:25 -0500

That you can scroll away from the search field in the Mac’s Music app is profoundly weird. The whole thing needs a major rethinking and probably a modern rewrite.

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 18:09:06 -0500

I was today years old when I finally saw the “U” in the @upgrade@relayfm.social logo.

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 14:49:24 -0500

I think I’m done with selling on Facebook Marketplace except for free stuff I want to get rid of locally. 90% of the messages I get about stuff listed there are people trying to run Zelle scams. Back to eBay and OfferUp, I guess.

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 12:48:21 -0500

🔗 Out of my Comfort Zone | Canion dot Blog

Lisa’s presence in my life makes me a better person. She makes my life better. This past year has been a doozy in so many ways, but upon reflection, I am not sure where I’d be if I hadn’t benefited from the steadfast care, attention, and honest love that Lisa has bestowed upon me.

There’s been enough of me prevaricating about how to express my relationship situation. It is thus. I am in a relationship. I am in love. I love Lisa.

I love love. 🥰

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 12:43:00 -0500

🔗 Greg Morris - A Living Rss // Greg Morris

It is only when services like Threads, and previously Twitter, make a mess of their algorithm they use and show you terrible content that you realise the true beauty of a bare-bones service.

It’s certainly a safe harbor to return to.

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 08:11:24 -0500

🆕📝 A Breakout Year for HeyDingus

Thanks for reading. 🥰

Sun, 31 Dec 2023 18:20:48 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things (Which Are Seven of My Favorite Numbers Because It’s New Year’s Eve and I Have Company Over and No Time) This Week [#125]

Sun, 31 Dec 2023 16:04:34 -0500

🆕📝 My Desk as We Round Out 2023

Presented without sanitization or explanation.

Sun, 31 Dec 2023 15:58:32 -0500

🆕📝 Letters with Austin #3, December 2023

Thanks so much, Austin, for being my pen pal this month! This project has been one of my favorites of the years, so it feels right that it’s one of the last things that will go on my site for 2023.

Sun, 31 Dec 2023 01:17:11 -0500

🔗 Daring Fireball: Apple’s Next Magic Trackpad Should Have a Touch ID Sensor (But Probably Won’t)

So I wish that either (a) Apple would add a Touch ID sensor to the Magic Trackpad; or (b) someone would start selling pre-assembled Touch ID sensors in a nice case, repurposed from Magic Keyboards. It’s a bit of a waste to destroy a Magic Keyboard just to repurpose the Touch ID button, but I’d happily pay for it.

Same here; I so want a standalone button. Then I could stop waiting for this guy. I’m on the verge of tackling this snazzy project.

Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:33:26 -0500

🎙️ Very much enjoyed this episode of Scriptnotes with Christopher Nolan. I’ve never read a movie script and know very little about film-making. Still, his thoughts on how a script should come together and translate onto the screen are fascinating. Great interview by @johnaugust@mastodon.art!

Sat, 30 Dec 2023 14:32:40 -0500

I’m incredibly proud of my sister, brother-in-law, nephew, and niece as they work to get better access for people of all needs and abilities. One small step that you can take? Use person-first language. (Here’s a good starter guide, and a great illustrative graphic) 🙂

Sat, 30 Dec 2023 02:52:26 -0500

My post gushing about my love for the iPad’s T-Mobile data plan has sprung up to the top of my hit list lately, according to @tinylytics. I wondered if I was getting linked to by some listicle. Maybe, but this could also be it (in my admittedly non-scientific test of a search term in private mode).

Sat, 30 Dec 2023 02:41:28 -0500

I got a really nice email from a reader who found my post about making sure your PlayStation is actually using that ethernet cord you plugged into it. So I figure it’s probably a good time to remind you to make sure your PlayStation is actually using that ethernet cord you plugged into it.

Sat, 30 Dec 2023 02:34:44 -0500

Help! Between @snazzyq@mas.to’s video and @viticci@mastodon.social’s gushing, I’m growing ever more interested in Nreal glasses. 😎

Sat, 30 Dec 2023 01:46:52 -0500

🆕📝 I Made a Bookmarklet That Runs a Shortcut on a URL

Ever been frustrated by trying to run a shortcut on a URL in Safari? Here’s an old-school bookmarklet to the rescue! Plus some companion shortcuts and my awe of ChatGPT’s helpfulness.

Sat, 30 Dec 2023 01:01:23 -0500

I just released version 1.0 of my ‘Save for Later’ shortcut — one that I use all the time to direct the traffic of links into different apps:

This shortcut processes URLs shared to it from the share sheet or clipboard and saves them to separate apps depending on their content.

It can process a bunch of different URLs at once and send them off to a media-saver like Play or MusicBox, a task manager like Things, or a catch-all/read-later app like GoodLinks.

Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

And let me know if you adapt it!

Fri, 29 Dec 2023 23:48:13 -0500

😆 Turns out I not only already had this idea, but I implemented it and promptly forgot about it too.

Fri, 29 Dec 2023 23:44:22 -0500

🆕📝 The Secrets App Makes a Good iCloud Passwords Companion and Is Free Today Thanks to Indie App Santa

I wanted to be thorough in this post, but that means you might have less than an hour to go get this massive discount for what seems to be an ideal app for those who are iCloud Passwords-curious.

Fri, 29 Dec 2023 19:28:09 -0500

🆕📝 Current writing progress…

A simple project never is.

Fri, 29 Dec 2023 19:18:58 -0500

I just updated my ‘Get URL to Run Shortcut’ shortcut to version 1.2:

Added option to create a bookmarklet that runs the selected shortcut with the current webpage URL as its input

Fixed the Rich Text option on macOS

Added it to the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library

Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Fri, 29 Dec 2023 15:43:48 -0500

This was a stunning way of telling me that I wasn’t using Raycast’s power features nearly as much as I thought. I’m satisfied with my decision to cancel my Pro subscription. But its lightning speed and AI contextual awareness are probably the best we’ll see until Apple builds in its own AI thing.

Fri, 29 Dec 2023 10:16:25 -0500

Welp, the Nazis have made it to Threads. Just spent the last five minutes reporting an awful number of awful people posting swastikas as replies to what I thought was going to be a fun Thread.

This is why we can’t have nice things. Hope Meta can get it under control.

Fri, 29 Dec 2023 10:05:28 -0500

🆕📝 ‘The Too-Slick Apple Event’

Sometimes, all it takes is pointing out one small observation to completely change my mind. “Strong opinions, loosely held” I think is what they call it.

Fri, 29 Dec 2023 03:27:31 -0500

You know those obnoxious sites that pop up dialogs when they think you’re about to leave, asking you to subscribe to their email newsletter? Well that won’t do for Scripting News readers […]. So here I am at the bottom of the page quietly encouraging you to sign up for the nightly email. It’s got everything from the previous day on Scripting, plus the contents of the linkblog and who knows what else we’ll get in there.

Love this from Dave Winer’s newsletter plug. Reminds me of Micro.blog’s ethos, but here we have weekly and monthly roundup options. @manton, what do you think about daily?

Fri, 29 Dec 2023 03:04:38 -0500

🔗 The Web is Fantastic // Robb Knight

The real web, the small web, the indie web is amazing. Don’t give Facebook and the rest of these clowns your content. Don’t give them the time or your attention. Get a blog, a website, a Mastodon account, something you control, and share links to cool things you find. Make a list of your favourite blogs or websites or photos of cats. Write about a pizza you had that was delicious. Share a recipe. Go down a rabbit hole for hours on end adding weird stuff to your site. Just do it somewhere you control because the real web is fantastic.

Hear, hear!

Fri, 29 Dec 2023 02:54:44 -0500

🆕📝 RSS as Mastodon? Maybe not. But RSS on Mastodon? Maybe!

Thu, 28 Dec 2023 23:51:54 -0500

🔗 Beep Beep — Daring Fireball // John Gruber

If Beeper were granting its users free access to Centurion Lounges, I’m not sure how anyone could defend it, because everyone can see how a premium airport lounge costs a lot of money to run: leasing the space, hiring staff, and all the free food and beverages. But that’s exactly what Beeper is doing with iMessage: granting free access to a premium perk intended solely for Apple’s device owners while they’re using those Apple devices.

It’s not a perfect analogy, but Gruber makes a cogent and compelling case for Apple’s defense against Beeper.

Thu, 28 Dec 2023 22:47:03 -0500

Raycast’s one-keystroke access to ChatGPT is worth the price of admission to the Pro subscription all on its own. I know there are many similar solutions, but it being just ready in my quick launcher is so nice.

I meant to post this back in July. By November, I’d already canceled my subscription. 😬

Thu, 28 Dec 2023 00:31:25 -0500

🔗 Leaving the Nazi bar // Ben Werdmuller

I also get to decide which rooms I want to be in, and which rooms I want to invite other people into. I don’t have any interest in hanging out in a room with Nazis, and I certainly don’t have any interest in inviting my friends to hang out there with me. If I find that the owner of the living room allows people who make me or my friends feel unsafe — or, as is true in this case, pays them to hang out there, and makes money from their presence — I can use the law of two feet to leave.

Well worth reading in full and bookmarking.

Wed, 27 Dec 2023 23:58:47 -0500

Mastodon has most of the internet people I know, Bluesky has a subset of people I’m interested in, Threads has the highest quality algorithm for discovery and is reaching the least technical audience. Micro.blog is where I have a (small) sense of community. It could be worse.
— Jason Becker

Same. Especially that bit about Micro.blog.

Wed, 27 Dec 2023 19:03:22 -0500

🔗 So You Just Found Out Amazon Is Greedy // Joe Rosensteel

Whine and kick and scream, of course, but you’re trying to make a logistics center feel ashamed. Good luck.

Thanks to how they account for things we’ll never be able to make it unprofitable for them - because it was always unprofitable. There’s nowhere to go but up, to ads, and profit.

Wed, 27 Dec 2023 16:26:14 -0500

Thanks to @maique I remembered Indie App Santa is a thing that exists this time of year!

🎅🏼 Christmas is in the past now, but #indieAppSanta keeps going. Today’s app is a nice one…

If you need countdown (or up) widgets, that also work on your Apple Watch, and come in a few cool designs, you might like this. Lifetime unlock free today.

Countdown - Pretty Progress

maique madeira https://maique.eu/2023/12/27/christmas-is-in.html

Wed, 27 Dec 2023 00:32:35 -0500

Finished reading: The Narrow Road Between Desires by Patrick Rothfuss 📚

Pat’s writing envelopes my mind like a warm embrace. The prose is so unique. I really enjoyed this small story about Bast, and the ‘Author’s Note’ bit at the end nearly as much.

Wed, 27 Dec 2023 00:25:10 -0500

🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #534: ‘Live From the North Pole’

🎄🎄🎄

Wed, 27 Dec 2023 00:13:53 -0500

🆕📝 ‘An update on Prime Video’

“Value” is like a joke. If you have to explain it in detail, it might not be good.

Tue, 26 Dec 2023 22:36:06 -0500

🔗 Gurman: Tang Tan, Apple’s Departing VP of iPhone and Watch Design, to Join LoveFrom to Work on ‘AI Hardware’ With OpenAI — Daring Fireball // John Gruber

More designers from Ive’s team at Apple now work at LoveFrom than remain at Apple.

A true changing of the guard.

I’m not particularly worried for Apple. Honestly, I’m just more excited to see what comes out of both design groups.

Mon, 25 Dec 2023 18:22:50 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things (Which Are My Favorite Christmas Movies in No Particular Order) This Week [#124]

Merry Christmas!

Mon, 25 Dec 2023 00:08:20 -0500

🔗 The surprising challenge to run the best web apps locally // Matt Birchler

I think it’s fun to think about the first few decades of computers where people were skeptical that desktop software could be made to run well in the browser. Photoshop was often brought up as neigh impossible to ever run as a web app, for example. Today we’re wondering how long it will be until the cutting edge web apps of today can run locally.

Well spotted! Intriguing trend…

Sun, 24 Dec 2023 01:20:42 -0500

🔗 A merging of Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount would be very bad - The Verge // Alex Cranz

It’s the smaller projects that would be threatened, projects often helmed by people of color and queer folks. […]

We know this because it has already happened quite a bit in 2023. Paramount canceled Ziwe, the source of countless viral interview clips starring Black comedienne Ziwe, and entirely removed Rise of the Pink Ladies — a surprisingly good Grease prequel centered on the experience of a butch lesbian in the 1950s.

I confess I hadn’t considered this angle.

Sun, 24 Dec 2023 01:08:10 -0500

🔗 I’m always happy I use Ghost and not Substack, but I’m extra happy today // Matt Birchler

To sum up, Nazis can fuck right off and private companies who write posts that say, “we don’t like Nazis, but we’ll keep taking their money,” are going to have to deal with the fact people are going to see them as the place that welcomes Nazis.

@matt@isfeeling.social said everything on this matter that I wanted to, so you should go read his whole post.

Great explanation, too, about how companies can (and should) limit what they chose to host, but you can still say whatever you want by self-hosting.

Sun, 24 Dec 2023 00:26:34 -0500

🔗 NYT: Apple Explores Licensing Deals With Publishers for Large Language Model Training – Pixel Envy // Nick Heer

If it were necessary to license published materials for training large language models, it would necessarily limit the viability of those models to those companies which could afford the significant expense.

As opposed to the “usual” way of training with data scraped from the web…a legally-contested practice.

It reminds me of when Craig Federighi said something like “We don’t need to train ML algorithms on our users’ photos when we can just buy images elsewhere.”

Me? I approve.

Sun, 24 Dec 2023 00:10:44 -0500

It’s so annoying how beautiful and perfect @nickheer@c.im has made his site.

Sat, 23 Dec 2023 23:21:45 -0500

🔗 Ugly Christmas Sweater Wallpapers (Mac Edition) — Basic Apple Guy

Do that for each band, and I’d be done in a few minutes. Wrong! Because each thread is its layer, the total number of layers in this project quickly grew to over 63,000 (63,158, to be exact), which hammered the Mac’s memory. Oddly enough, my MacBook Air (MBA) handled the project more efficiently than my Mac Studio, which has more cores and memory, making me think something was happening in how the software was optimized for that chip.

Just wild, both in the complexity and which computer performed better. Look great too!

Fri, 22 Dec 2023 11:04:19 -0500

🆕📝 Letters with Austin #2, December 2023

My next letter with Austin!

Thu, 21 Dec 2023 14:29:53 -0500

Found an oopsie.

FB13483727

Thu, 21 Dec 2023 12:03:59 -0500

🔗 My Handwriting Can’t Keep Up // Greg Morris

In reality, I didn’t need to speed up my writing to match my thoughts; instead, I needed to slow my thoughts to match my writing pace.

Thu, 21 Dec 2023 11:35:20 -0500

🔗 GoodLinks Adds Even Deeper Shortcuts Integration […] - MacStories // Federico Viticci

[T]his shortcut gets the current article you’re reading in GoodLinks and extracts different properties from it, such as the title of the story, its author, and URL. Using another action, GoodLinked can see if you’ve selected any text in the article and, if so, save it as your selection. By retrieving the article’s selection as Markdown, I don’t have to do anything else to prepare a blockquote for MacStories.

This, but for Reeder would be so good. Pretty please @rizzi@gloria.social?

Wed, 20 Dec 2023 13:30:39 -0500

🔗 Apple’s Next Generation CarPlay Shown with Aston Martin and Porsche - COOL HUNTING // Josh Rubin

This version of CarPlay appears the moment the car is turned on and combines locally rendered content with features powered by the iPhone’s wireless connection to the car. Today Apple announced the first two partners on board to integrate this new generation, Aston Martin and Porsche, and showed us preliminary screens.

Well, I’ll be! They got next-gen CarPlay out the door before the end of the 2023. I really didn’t think they’d get it done.

Tue, 19 Dec 2023 08:25:43 -0500

Superb app alert! I love TextSniper and have it mapped to cmd-shift-7. Get it for free today.

🎅🏼 TextSniper is free today, thanks to IndieAppSanta.

Code, in case it doesn’t get applied automatically is FREEFOR24H.

Thank you, Marco, for the tip.

maique madeira https://maique.eu/2023/12/19/textsniper-is-free.html

Mon, 18 Dec 2023 19:02:12 -0500

It really tickles me when text-to-voice readers pronounce Bluesky as “blue-ski”. 🤭

Mon, 18 Dec 2023 11:03:22 -0500

🔗 iOS 17.2 and tvOS 17.2 Kills TV Show and Movie Wishlists - Initial Charge

A warning on this would have been nice, but I hate that they’re doing it regardless. If I want to browse TV shows or movies to purchase on my Apple TV, all the iTunes Store content is commingled with media that’s only available on streaming. Even if you stick to the “Store” section, you’ll see plenty of movies and shows that require Apple TV+ or another streaming app and subscription to view.

I haven’t played with the new Store section myself, but this sounds crappy. It should be purchasable stuff only.

Sun, 17 Dec 2023 23:57:41 -0500

🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #533: ‘I’m the App’

Kind of short and sweet this week. 😊

Sun, 17 Dec 2023 22:52:27 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#123]

Two podcasts, three articles, and two videos this week, plus a game if you Take a Chance this week.

Sun, 17 Dec 2023 18:38:17 -0500

Reading a social timeline that doesn’t have threaded conversations from top to bottom, newest to oldest, is bananas in my mind. Makes absolutely no sense. I’m reading conversations in reverse, Memento-style. But without a timeline sync, it’s a fool’s errand to try to find where I last left off.

Sun, 17 Dec 2023 12:42:34 -0500

🔗 Adam Mosseri on the Threads’ Fediverse Rollout

Second, threads posted by me and a few members of the Threads team will be available on other fediverse platforms like Mastodon starting this week.

I’m fascinated by how Threads is dogfooding their Fediverse rollout. Not with fly-by-night test accounts, but with the head of the platform’s personal account — one of the more popular and watched ones on all of Threads. Kudos to them.

Sun, 17 Dec 2023 00:47:30 -0500

🔗 Happy Monday! Enjoy this dumpamine from the past week — Keenan

Anyway, Astronaut Time. It’s a system, I suppose, an agreement between two or more people to easily inform the other(s) of when you anticipate being in the zone (like I am right now, I’m in Astronaut Time) and just need minimal distractions. Particularly helpful if you […] work from home […]

The solution my wife and I decided to try was setting up automations on our phones. We created a Focus in iOS called “Astronaut Time” that would automatically send an iMessage to the other person when it’s enabled/disabled.

Sun, 17 Dec 2023 00:39:49 -0500

🔗 Here are a bunch of games I played this year to distract me from the fact that one day the Sun will swallow our planet whole — Keenan

This is the end of the post. Tell me which games you think I missed in the comments section.³

[…]

³ The comments section can be found by clicking the Trash icon on your computer’s desktop.

🤣

Sat, 16 Dec 2023 01:19:20 -0500

🔗 Artifact’s new Links feature brings more than news to the reading app - The Verge // David Pierce

Systrom says the idea for Links came out of conversations about what Artifact might do with food blogs, or photo essays, or video, none of which felt quite right next to news articles from news publications. […] He cites Delicious, the social bookmarking app, as [an] example. There was plenty of news in the mix, but mostly people just shared stuff they liked on the internet.

If I didn’t already have RSS dialed, I think I would turn to Artifact for my news source / web discovery engine.

Fri, 15 Dec 2023 17:47:37 -0500

I had a premonition that I would poke a hole through my climbing pants with my crampons today, and sure enough… Luckily just a scratch underneath.

Fri, 15 Dec 2023 17:15:11 -0500

Also, potentially new options (or at least new iconography) for a long-press on a Reminders notification.

Fri, 15 Dec 2023 17:14:10 -0500

New options for Ambient Sounds? I don’t remember all these in iOS before. I’ve always been a ‘Rain’ guy myself, but might have to try something new tonight.

Fri, 15 Dec 2023 11:52:49 -0500

Speaking of deals, my sister put me onto this one. A $250 solar-powered bird feeder with smart identification camera for just $80 after a $170 discount code (70ZCYUN7). There’s probably something terribly wrong with it, but I’ve wanted to try one, so I guess I’ll find out! Coupon expires Dec 18.

Fri, 15 Dec 2023 11:36:47 -0500

Ugly!? These are just gorgeous.

Ugly Christmas Sweater Wallpapers 🎄🎅🏻
https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/ugly-christmas-sweater-wallpapers
BasicAppleGuy https://mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy/111585059673111984

Fri, 15 Dec 2023 11:23:17 -0500

🔗 Nanoleaf’s smart holiday string lights are over half off - The Verge // Sheena Vasani

If you’ve got a holiday party or gathering coming up, Nanoleaf’s Essentials Matter Smart Holiday String Lights will help set the mood without putting a dent in your wallet. Typically $119.99, right now, the 65-foot string lights are only $44.99 at Best Buy, which is significantly cheaper than they were on Black Friday and a new all-time low.

Damn, now that’s a good deal!

Thu, 14 Dec 2023 23:39:58 -0500

The sky from the other evening was unreal. I can’t get enough of imposing cloud shapes. 📷

Thu, 14 Dec 2023 23:31:47 -0500

One of the best pieces of writing advice is not to overuse the word “that.” If a sentence still makes sense without it, don’t put it in. It’s glorious.
Steven Aquino (he/him) https://sfba.social/@steven_aquino/111577044550994817

I needed to hear that.

Thu, 14 Dec 2023 15:46:24 -0500

🔗 “Alexa, thank my driver,” again. - The Verge // Thomas Ricker

It won’t cost you a thing, but that simple phrase sends $5 to your most recent Amazon delivery person and will ultimately require the company to pay its fleet of US drivers an extra $10,000,000. The return of Amazon’s tipping program began a few days ago and will continue until it gathers two million thank yous. You can also type “thank my driver” in the search bar on amazon.com or the shopping app.

Very cool! Just did it.

Wed, 13 Dec 2023 23:58:15 -0500

🔗 Add CIVIL WAR to my most hyped movies of 2024 list – blast-o-rama.

I fear this one will feel very real.

Wed, 13 Dec 2023 23:15:38 -0500

🔗 Threads really is joining the Fediverse. - The Verge // Jay Peters

A Threads user, Kevin Beaumont, shared screenshots of Adam Mosseri’s account on the Mastodon client Ivory, and on Mastodon, Beaumont shared screenshots of following Mosseri’s Threads account from his Mastodon account. It’s happening!

Good on Meta for making good on their promise. I can’t wait for all this stuff to work together.

Wed, 13 Dec 2023 21:21:42 -0500

So Apple has done real emoji Tapback-style reactions...
...for collaborative playlists in iOS 17.3 🙃
Can we have these in iMessage too, please?
Federico Viticci :ticciseal: https://mastodon.macstories.net/@viticci/111573515693496101

Hard to overstate how pointed this feels after all the consternation about emojis/tapbacks in Messages. Hopefully the Messages team will get the (heh) message that this is a way better solution.

Wed, 13 Dec 2023 17:54:09 -0500

It’s winter again, so it’s time to remind you that you’re doing yourself a disservice if you live somewhere snowy and don’t have one of these. You’ll be glad you don’t have to stretch across the car anymore and other drivers will be glad you actually pushed all the snow off your roof before driving.

Wed, 13 Dec 2023 17:47:07 -0500

My Subaru’s software updated this morning (lol) and they did a great job with it. More stuff can be done with just one tap on the screen (seat warmers and other climate controls), and they unburied the Auto Vehicle Hold from the car settings. Total win.

Tue, 12 Dec 2023 14:02:47 -0500

🔗 Beeper Mini’s iMessage fight with Apple is about platforms, protocols, and power - The Verge // David Pierce

What’s odd about this story is that you have two sides completely at odds, both saying entirely correct things. Beeper CEO Eric Migicovsky has been telling anyone who will listen that SMS is insecure, that Apple is doing its users a disservice by requiring them to use such old and crummy tech to communicate with the vast majority of the world’s smartphone users, and that Beeper’s solution is both a better user experience and a better privacy solution. […]

But here’s another way to look at it […]: Who the hell is Beeper? This tiny company has effectively hacked a closed protocol, and now millions of iPhone users are potentially having their messages handled by a company they’ve never heard of. What’s worse, since they’re sending blue-bubble messages, those users will assume they’re sending encrypted messages through a trusted source — Apple — and they’ll never know about this intermediary that promises it’s trustworthy, but who really knows?

David’s piece here is a nuanced look at what’s happening with Beeper, and echos my thoughts on why it’s difficult to choose a side here.

Tue, 12 Dec 2023 11:20:20 -0500

🔗 You can now subscribe to Max and stream its content right from YouTube. - The Verge // Chris Welch

It still costs the same $15.99 per month that you’d pay anywhere else, but the key benefit is that you can stream Max shows and movies right from YouTube itself after subscribing — no need to open the Max app anymore.

I wonder if they’ll go back to being an Apple TV Channels partner too. That was the best HBO/Max experience so far with it all in the TV app.

Mon, 11 Dec 2023 23:25:05 -0500

Spent most of the day with the power out, but luckily our wood-burning stove was up to the task of keeping us warm enough. Even got out to play in the snow a bit, making a snow penguin and tossing snowballs for the pup! ❄️

Mon, 11 Dec 2023 23:03:16 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#122]

Late, but not forgotten!

Mon, 11 Dec 2023 06:38:35 -0500

🔗 This Baylor alumna (and ovarian cancer survivor) just climbed Mount Everest

In late May, Wedel became the first ovarian cancer survivor to summit Everest. Her team raised more than half a million dollars for research, but she says hearing from other cancer survivors might have been the best part of the experience. For instance, one woman said she followed Jess’ journey while in the hospital completing her own treatment; watching Jess gave her strength and hope to keep going. For Jess, having that impact is an honor.

Jess was my guide up Rainier, and she was an inspiration there too!

Sun, 10 Dec 2023 23:24:09 -0500

Things feel a little better in the world after a long-overdue airing of the grievances about the Apple TV interface from @hotdogsladies@mastodon.social and @siracusa@mastodon.social on RecDiffs. It’d sure been feeling off-kilter over here. 🎙️

Sun, 10 Dec 2023 07:51:13 -0500

IKEA's blue *FRAKTA* shopping bags are one of life's low-key power tools. They fold ridiculously small, so they can live unobtrusively in places like automobiles or even other bags, like suitcases. Because, some day you may suddenly wish you had *freaking nineteen gallons* of extra bag with you.
Merlin's Wisdom Project https://botsin.space/@merlinwisdom/111554357255580424

Slipping one into a suitcase is next-level genius.

Sat, 09 Dec 2023 23:57:43 -0500

🔗 iA Writer in Paper

We wanted [the] guidelines [to serve as] temporary scaffold to support your writing without causing distraction. The design had to reflect the core spirit of iA Writer: simple, clean, uncluttered. The use of ink had to be exclusively reserved for the owner’s handwritten text. After exploring different approaches, the decision to adopt delicate watermark guidelines became clear, even though its implementation demands high technical expertise and attention to detail.

Is this a bit much? Yes. But does it reflect a software company’s core principle made physical? Also yes.

Sat, 09 Dec 2023 23:15:59 -0500

🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #532: ‘Oh, My Poor Nose!’

In which I shamelessly bum off the Clockwise podcast (one of my favs) for blogging ideas.

Sat, 09 Dec 2023 23:08:25 -0500

🆕📝 Letters with Austin #1, December 2023

It’s a new month, which means a new pen pal to chat with!

Sat, 09 Dec 2023 19:40:29 -0500

🔗 The struggles of the web browser・The Jolly Teapot // Nicolas Magand

Imagine having to use not one, but two or three extensions just to make any other app work the way it’s supposed to. Imagine having to click on cookie banners every time you open a new Finder window. Imagine the Instagram app becoming slow or behaving differently on some account pages. Imagine your email client obstructing your view with a banner when you write back to someone. Imagine your text editor looking like this.

I don’t necessarily agree that all web browsers are shit. But he paints an evocative scene.

Fri, 08 Dec 2023 14:48:19 -0500

🔗 Google is reportedly working on a project that lets AI models tell someone’s “life story.” — The Verge

Project Ellmann […] will take users’ search results and photos to […] present a “bird’s-eye” approach to a person’s life. […] For example, the “college” chapter or the “becomes a parent” chapter. People could use Ellmann to ask questions like “did I have a pet,” or “when did my sibling last visit.”

Personally, […] I have a good enough memory of my life that I wish I could forget certain moments.

My memory is terrible so I could use this but the method makes me supremely uncomfortable.

Fri, 08 Dec 2023 09:35:52 -0500

🔗 The Imperfectionist: You can’t hoard life

Sure, you can have a hundred tea ceremonies. You can eve[n] have them all with the same people. But you can only have that ceremony, that cup of tea, once. Then the moment evaporates forever.

On the days I let myself move through life in this unclenched way, things tend to feel much more naturally enjoyable. Not because I’m trying to make myself appreciate them, or self-consciously “feel grateful” for them – but simply because I’ve (temporarily) suspended the other agenda that was getting in the way.

Thu, 07 Dec 2023 15:15:35 -0500

TIL that if you don’t release from a long press to bring up a context menu in iOS, you can move your finger up and down to a menu item and it will select it on release. In use, it feels pretty close to 3D Touch, which makes me happy.

Wed, 06 Dec 2023 11:57:03 -0500

This analogy checks out. 🎙️

overcast.fm/+QN1q5gCC…

Wed, 06 Dec 2023 11:48:21 -0500

Not gonna lie, it was pretty cool to see this bit on the big screen. 🍿

Wed, 06 Dec 2023 09:21:08 -0500

🔗 My Words When I Am Gone // Greg Morris

I love writing, publishing, and interacting with people about my thoughts and ideas. Many of them are formed, flexed and even broken through online discourse and I value all the time and effort it takes. Writing changes you, it helps form ideas, and I find so much about myself just by typing out my internal monologue. So much so that when the time does come to cross the rainbow bridge I think I would miss it most of all.

Wed, 06 Dec 2023 00:20:12 -0500

Hot Take Incoming: Avatar 2 was a terrible movie. A disgrace of a storyline.

Tue, 05 Dec 2023 19:52:19 -0500

🔗 theunderground.blog

theunderground.blog is an experimental blog that is only available to read through a feed reader.

If you would like to read the latest posts, you can subscribe to the feed at https://theunderground.blog/feed.xml, using the feed reader of your choice.

Consider me intrigued. 👀

Tue, 05 Dec 2023 14:14:37 -0500

Thanks, Shortcuts, super helpful.

Tue, 05 Dec 2023 13:13:11 -0500

🔗 Reverse-Engineered iMessage Comes to Android With Beeper Mini – Pixel Envy // Nick Heer

I am not defending Apple’s revenue or its likely stance; I do not much care either way. For what it is worth, I do not think Beeper Mini will actually make much of an impact because iMessage interoperability concerns are localized to the United States and a handful of other countries. But I do think Apple is protective of its network and will treat this reverse engineering exercise as a security problem. If it wants to launch iMessage on Android, it will do so on its own terms.

Tue, 05 Dec 2023 10:53:28 -0500

🔗 The Twelve South Butterfly 2-in-1 charger is what Apple’s MagSafe Duo should have been - The Verge // Antonio G. Di Benedetto

If you stare at it long enough, you realize that it kind of looks like Apple’s discontinued MagSafe Duo charger if you cut away all the ugly floppy bits.

This thing looks great, can be a stand, won’t be thwarted by a large camera bump, and might just make it into my travel bag (rather than swiping my MagSafe Duo from the bedside table for trips). Interestingly, while it’s only available as a pre-order directly from Twelve South, you can buy it right now from Apple.

Tue, 05 Dec 2023 08:05:11 -0500

🔗 Shot with Kino

When the Lux guys said on The Talk Show last month that Halide would “never, ever, ever” support capturing video, I had a funny feeling that they had something up their sleeve. Well, they did. It’s a video app called Kino and they’re building it in public over the next few months.

Mon, 04 Dec 2023 00:08:56 -0500

🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #531: ‘I, Too, Like You’

Books, health data, household chores tech, nostalgia for old software, holiday traditions, and accessibility features are all covered this installment!

Sun, 03 Dec 2023 22:21:11 -0500

🔗 The Great iMac Realignment – 512 Pixels // Stephen Hackett

Apple said it was the first Mac designed from the ground up for Apple silicon, and it showed. I adore the design of this machine:

I think the 24-inch iMac will go down in history as one of the most special computers Apple has ever made, earning a right to sit next to my G4 Cube and 20th Anniversary Mac.

Yeah, I’d say he’s right. 😍

Sun, 03 Dec 2023 22:03:19 -0500

🔗 Archive Your Old Projects // Arne Bahlo

Occasionally, you’ll need to move to a different domain, for example when re-doing a website. When talking to Ollie about this, he told me that some people leave their old websites online at <year>.<domain> and I love that idea3.

You can look up old content and redirect links, so your URIs stay cool. And in ten years it’ll probably still be online.

I don’t know how one would go about doing this, but I do think it’s a swell idea.

Sun, 03 Dec 2023 20:27:25 -0500

I’m not the only one who can’t help but notice when the logotype is in the wrong font (anything other than San Francisco), right? (The “e” is a dead-giveaway.)

Sun, 03 Dec 2023 20:17:49 -0500

🔗 Alt vs Figcaption - thoughtbot

Images, however, have one more thing to consider: Assistive technologies need words to interpret an image. People sometimes need words to better understand why an image is being displayed.

Luckily we have a few ways to describe them in a human readable manner: alt and figcaption. These items house very different writing patterns though, and can be used both together and apart, depending on the conditions.

I’ve used these HTML tags for years, and still I learned some new things today.

Sun, 03 Dec 2023 19:48:16 -0500

🔗 Reliving that Snow Leopard Magic - MacStories // Stephen Hackett

Enthusiasts of all types always have that one special obsession. For muscle car people, maybe it’s one particular year of Ford Mustang. Photographers always have a favorite lens, while baseball players may have a favored bat or glove.

Ask almost any macOS fan, and they’ll tell you that Snow Leopard is their favorite version of all time.

Sun, 03 Dec 2023 14:08:22 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#121]

Sat, 02 Dec 2023 22:35:13 -0500

If there’s one thing I learned about Napoleon tonight, it’s that he loved to play with his cannons. 🍿

Sat, 02 Dec 2023 18:26:57 -0500

Just some wildly diabolical stuff you aren’t taught about the United States' pro-Nazi bits in the lead up to our involvement in WW2. 🎙️

overcast.fm/+4Ny82jL1…

Sat, 02 Dec 2023 14:06:10 -0500

🔗 Inside An Apple Lab That Makes Custom Chips For iPhone And Mac - CNBC

In November, CNBC became the first journalists to film inside an Apple chip lab, where it tests its latest M3 chips that replaced Intel processors in all new Macs. We also got a rare chance to talk with Apple’s head of silicon, Johny Srouji, and Apple’s senior vice president of hardware engineering, John Ternus, about geopolitical risks in Taiwan, slowdowns and what’s next in AI.

CNBC did their homework for this opportunity.

Sat, 02 Dec 2023 02:20:09 -0500

🔗 iA Writer 7 - iA

When you copy and paste a conversation from ChatGPT, the copied text contains “You” before every question, and “ChatGPT” before every answer. We recognize this pattern and offer to automatically mark authorship.

iA Writer offers shortcuts, menus and right clicks to get it done and keep the authorship working even when you edit your texts elsewhere. We think that the extra second is more than worth it.

An interesting idea, but I’m not convinced everyone will find that extra second on every paste to be worth it.

Sat, 02 Dec 2023 02:08:44 -0500

🔗 Writing with AI - iA

Why should someone bother to read what you didn’t bother to write?

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 23:54:44 -0500

You know, I hadn’t considered that when you allow people to say and follow terrible things on your ad-driven platform, almost by necessity will ads be served up next to that terrible content for those users. As Ben says, it does put ad-supported (vs. subscriber-only) networks in a pickle. 🎙️

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 23:36:27 -0500

Holy smokes, the lengths the Planet Earth crew went to for getting both the shot and to take care not to disturb the critters nor their habitats are jaw-dropping and heartwarming. 🎙️

overcast.fm/+QN1qRPOO…

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 23:25:07 -0500

🆕📝 50% Off Phone Cases from the HeyDingus Store

The title pretty much says it all. Just use code FIFTY50 at checkout.

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 22:56:25 -0500

No-Shave November to Fresh-Face December. Photos were taken minutes apart. 😳📷

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 10:44:42 -0500

I haven’t had this happen yet, but it sounds huge for general accessibility! Sure, we should be able to add alt text to photos we send, but, as @matt@isfeeling.social has been saying, our devices filling the the gaps is good news for everyone.

I was today years old when I learned Siri tries to announce the content of a photo when messages come through. 🤯
The photo below was announced as:
"a white & black analog clock on a white surface"
BasicAppleGuy https://mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy/111505839936760221

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 00:06:51 -0500

🔗 Why We’re Dropping Basecamp - Duke University Libraries Blogs // Will Sexton

So when we encounter a tech company boss who takes in a nationwide movement of organized protest against police brutalization and systemic racism, led by Black activists, and amplifies the rare incidents of violence, much of it instigated by the police or right-wing counter protestors, using the mendacious language of extremists to refer to it as “riots,” we have a good idea what we’re looking at.

A worthwhile read.

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 23:46:06 -0500

Loved this @Launched@mastodon.social episode with @neiljhaveri@mastodon.social about Mimestream. You could hear the smile on his face the whole time. 🎙️

overcast.fm/+WB3_ZlQL…

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 23:31:06 -0500

After 5+ miles and 3000 feet of elevation gain, I was surprised he still had this much gas left in the tank. 🐶

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 23:24:04 -0500

I completed the pre-December trifecta by getting in my first Nordic ski of the year today. All the way up and down Whiteface Mountain Memorial Highway with my best furry buddy. 🐶⛷️🏔️📷

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 23:05:26 -0500

🆕📝 Letters with Kev, November 2023 [#3]

For our final letter this month, @kev@fosstodon.org and I got into blog backends, crises versus low-stakes details, the News, and listening to audiobooks and podcasts. I had so much fun getting to know Kev over the past few weeks.

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 11:34:34 -0500

🆕📝 Personal Voice: A triumph (and a request)

I felt so compelled to write this blog post this morning, that I’ve yet to leave my bed and have been hammering it out on my iPhone for the past couple of hours. I can’t tell you why I feel so strongly about it, but I do.

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 08:48:14 -0500

🔗 Blogging is where it’s at, again — Chris McLeod

The really cool thing about OPML files, that some feed readers and clients support, is that you can subscribe to the OPML file itself. This means that you’ll not only get the posts of anyone included when you subscribed, you’ll also get the posts of anyone who is added to the file at a later date. As the list of of feeds grows, so does the number of blogs and posts you’ll see.

I was not aware of this. 👀🤔

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 21:58:09 -0500

🔗 10-year-old Teddy petitions Apple to redesign the ‘nerd face’ emoji: ‘It’s making me feel sad and upset’ - 9to5Mac // Chance Miller

Teddy has taken matters into his own hands and designed a new emoji that he refers to as the “genius emoji.” The design shows a smiling emoji wearing glasses and without the “horrible rabbit teeth.”

You know what? I think Teddy is right. The nerd emoji is a caricature, and I agree it could be better. Good on Teddy for speaking up!

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 21:45:33 -0500

🔗 Ex-Apple employees new startup wants to bring AI to the desktop - The Verge // Alex Heath

In a world where venture capital money is drying up […], it’s a feat to raise that much before you even have a product, though the trio’s past success certainly helps. “I met Ari on the platform formerly known as Twitter when we were both in high school,” Field tells me. “He is one of the most talented people I know, and I would back anything he does.”

Their exit has sadly coincided with more bugginess in Shortcuts. But I’m surely looking forward to whatever they come up with next.

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 21:24:11 -0500

🔗 In a sign of the times, podcast app Castro may be dying – Six Colors

Which is to say, if Castro really is not long for this world, I fully expect that most of its users won’t go to Overcast or Pocket Casts, but will retreat to Apple or Spotify, companies that are unlikely to fail them, even if the cost is a little less customization or functionality. And a little more of the unique, open podcast ecosystem will be lost forever.

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 20:44:51 -0500

Got in my first ice climb of the year, and before December 1st! Felt great to swing some tools again — it’s gonna be a great season. ⛏️❄️📷

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 11:14:12 -0500

🔗 I Made a Podcast 100% in Shortcuts // Stephen Robles

Discover how you can integrate both ChatGPT and ElevenLabs voice generator to create an entire podcast directly in the Shortcuts app!

Whoa! @stephenrobles@mastodon.social made a shortcut that uses ChatGPT and ElevenLabs to automatically create an entire podcast episode, soup to nuts, in his voice without having to record a single word. 🤯 As a proof of concept, this is super impressive. It’s got my wheels turning, considering a podcast version of my blog for people who’d prefer to listen to articles as a podcast, Stratechery-style.

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 10:47:33 -0500

Enjoying the new Play 2.0 but need a way to move over your channel subs? I just released my ‘Follow List of Channels in Play’ shortcut version 1.0 to do just that!

The shortcut helps you follow a channel in the Play app by allowing you to send a YouTube channel’s URL, or list of URLs, to it.

But its best use is to copy all your YouTube subscriptions over at once. Just selext the whole list of your channel subs in YouTube, copy the text, and then run this shortcut. It will extract the channel URLs and follow them one-by-one in Play.

Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 08:33:04 -0500

🆕📝 Apple is Accused of Censorship Again in the TV+ Department

I sure hope this is all a misunderstanding, but two points of data form a trend.

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 01:01:43 -0500

I just released my ‘YouTube Launcher’ shortcut version 1.0:

Use Apple Shortcuts to launch directly into specific parts of the YouTube app without distraction.

(Thanks to @matthewcassinelli@mastodon.social, whom I’m pretty sure I got the original idea from. I’ve been using a version of this for years!)

Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library, which is now up to 20 shortcuts!

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 00:56:15 -0500

If you make it through Trying S02E08 without a happy cry, or at least a few solid happy tears, you’ve got tougher emotional walls than me, my friend. 🥹📺

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 00:43:57 -0500

Don’t mind me, I’m just testing a thing and hoping I’ll get a notification over at @HeyDingus@mas.to.

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 00:38:25 -0500

🆕📝 Marcos Tanaka’s Play 2.0

@mactanaka@mastodon.social continues to knock it out of the park with Play.

Tue, 28 Nov 2023 22:23:59 -0500

It was also Apple Music Replay Day. I don’t have much to say about it this year, but I do stand by its top picks for me. 🎵

Tue, 28 Nov 2023 22:19:25 -0500

It was Christmas tree hunting day, one of my favorite days of the year. We got a real honker to fill up our new tall ceilings, and the house has never smelled better! David Sparks’ ‘Yule’ playlist served as background for the festivities. 🎄📷

Tue, 28 Nov 2023 17:13:57 -0500

Today I was reminded that I’ve found the right life partner. I’d been sheepishly dreading broaching my desire to spend that ridiculous sum of money on a Vision Pro. I’d buy it with “extra” income (tips & side projects), still—it’s huge. Her only question: “Would it make you happy?” She’s the best. 🥰

Tue, 28 Nov 2023 00:21:39 -0500

I just updated my ‘How Much Do I Have to Save for Vision Pro?’ shortcut to version 1.2:

Added a congratulatory message when you reach your savings goal, and the math and checks necessary to know when you’ve done so.

Removed the dashes from the list of need-to-save amounts so they don’t look like negative numbers.

Added import setup questions for the cost of the Vision Pro you want, the local tax rate, and the launch date.

Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Mon, 27 Nov 2023 22:57:24 -0500

Holy shit. Stripe’s real-time Black Friday weekend stats: bfcm.stripe.dev 🤑

Mon, 27 Nov 2023 22:51:40 -0500

🆕📝 Two-Sentence Reviews of Some Gizmos I Got

None of these were Black Friday deals, but I still wanted to get in on the fun. (Is it fun?) Instead of long-winded, extensive reviews that I’ve put off writing of all these gadgets, you get just a couple of (sometimes run-on) sentences for each.

Mon, 27 Nov 2023 19:27:08 -0500

I just discovered Blogit from Yuexun’s App Defaults blog post. It looks like a super simple way to make a blog out of your Notion database. I don’t use Notion, but I imagine it’d be appealing to people who entrust their life to that app. And I’m all for more folks blogging!

Mon, 27 Nov 2023 19:02:29 -0500

Since the Vision Pro was announced in June, I’ve been dutifully stashing away any tips I’ve made from guiding, plus proceeds from selling off stuff and Shortcuts commissions. Today, my savings tracker shortcut returned negative numbers, so I had to update it to account for that surprise. 😁

Mon, 27 Nov 2023 14:41:13 -0500

🔗 Monokai Inspired Mona Theme - acn.lol

I’ve already shared this on Mastodon earlier today, but thought it would be worth sharing here also.

The theme is avaialble as dark mode theme only, for now, but should you want to use it yourself, open THIS which should open Mona on your device and apply the theme.

I don’t even use Mastodon very often (occasionally for the @HeyDingus@mas.to account) and I’m still probably going to pay to unlock Mona’s pro features just so I can use @andyn@social.lol’s gorgeous theme.

Mon, 27 Nov 2023 08:14:05 -0500

You’ll never guess where I left my shoes last night. 🤦‍♂️

Sun, 26 Nov 2023 22:30:49 -0500

Love this town. 📷

Sun, 26 Nov 2023 22:02:45 -0500

🔗 Hot take: It’s okay if we don’t consume all of the world’s information before we die // Keenan Schneider

I know I just said that I love ‘Smart Speed’ in Overcast, but I’ll be damned if Keenan doesn’t have me rethinking things.

Sun, 26 Nov 2023 21:57:50 -0500

🔗 ktool.io

I’ve been getting great use out of Kobo’s native Pocket integration. But if you’re using a Kindle, this KTool app looks pretty good for getting articles, newsletters, and RSS feeds over to your e-reader.

Sun, 26 Nov 2023 18:42:45 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#120]

Great haul this week!

Sun, 26 Nov 2023 16:22:30 -0500

I thought that the Defaults fad was dying down after about 100 posts. Oh how wrong I was. Today alone there were 13+ new entries, and now 188 posts in total catalogued in the trend. The snowball keeps growing…

Sun, 26 Nov 2023 15:57:22 -0500

🔗 Clear the cache of single website in Safari - Eric Gregorich

I find that Safari tends to cache websites aggressively. Other browsers recognize the change immediately when I publish updates to my site’s CSS, but Safari often does not.

Great little tip from @ericgregorich!

Sat, 25 Nov 2023 23:34:40 -0500

🔗 ChatGPT just blew me away (again) // Matt Birchler

The experience was absolutely delightful, and it was really exciting to be able to get this sort of feedback in a conversational format. I was naturally able to pick up on something the bot said and then ask a follow up question to dig down a little deeper or to get it to clarify something it said. This is one way that LLMs are different from a blog post or a book and they’re more like choose your own adventures where you get to choose where things go.

Great idea to use conversational LLMs to dive into what specifically you want to learn.

Sat, 25 Nov 2023 21:55:35 -0500

🔗 Mountain Dew VooDEW 2023 Zero Sugar: The Dewfinitive Review — Keenan

Shame on the folks at Mountain Dew. Shame on PepsiCo. Shame on Elon Musk, because this shit is so bad that he must be involved somewhere along the line. If there is any greater indication that we’re speeding head on into full societal collapse, I don’t know what it is.

This is the most fun I’ve had reading a blog post in quite a while. I could almost taste the disgust in their voice.

Sat, 25 Nov 2023 21:18:11 -0500

🔗 Buying DRM-Free Audiobooks - Flamed Fury

That’s it. Nine steps to audiobook freedom. Also, shoutout to Libro.fm for being cool and a not-so-friendly “sup?” to those annoying publisher restrictions. Who needs borders on stories, anyway?

Bookmarking this for later use. 📚 🎧

Sat, 25 Nov 2023 19:15:37 -0500

Got the first ski of the season in today and, boy, are those legs in protest! One day earlier than last year’s start, so maybe an even longer ski season this year. 🤞⛷️❄️

Sat, 25 Nov 2023 00:44:05 -0500

🎙️ The first half of Connected this week had me giggling like an idiot. One of the highlights of every week. (Out of respect for @ismh@eworld.social’s strong feelings, this will not be cross posted to Threads 😝)

Fri, 24 Nov 2023 23:24:30 -0500

Robb Knight’s website is a work of art. 😍 I could (and probably have) spend hours exploring through it in each of its many design refreshes. Gotta say it’s quite the thrill to find my name on both his blogroll and podroll pages.

Fri, 24 Nov 2023 20:58:50 -0500

🔗 “Pooping With The Quest 3 Is Magical.” - The Verge // Umar Shakir

OK, there are clear benefits to taking the new Meta Quest 3 to the bathroom, though. As Redditor Tall_Whole_5777 describes: You don’t need to touch screens or buttons to watch and control a YouTube video.

I guess I can’t disagree, even if I want to. 😂

Fri, 24 Nov 2023 19:51:28 -0500

Empathy requires each of us to never ever forget that we should treat fellow humans like human beings and not human-shaped objects. No exceptions and no excuses.
— Andy Ihnatko

Fri, 24 Nov 2023 19:30:04 -0500

🔗 Blog Envy // Greg Morris

Jealousy is not a bad emotion to have about the results of someone’s hard work and years’ worth of effort. However, the response is emulating the effort put in and not worry about the design or the way they do things. Not least because if you do finally achieve the emulation you desire, it won’t be yours anyway.

Thu, 23 Nov 2023 22:22:49 -0500

🔗 Apple Watch Crash Detection saves another life: mine // Daniel Eran Dilger

With the amount of blood that I was losing, I couldn’t have laid there very long before I would have died. Loss of consciousness and blood is a bad combination for threatening brain damage, too.

I am grateful that I’m living in the current future where we have trusted mobile devices that volunteer to jump in to save us if we are knocked out.

Make sure this is turned on for you and your loved ones.

Thu, 23 Nov 2023 22:15:33 -0500

🔗 The kids are okay // Annie Mueller

It’s like asking if the ocean concerns itself with the ongoing fate of a singular drop of saltwater. The ocean isn’t mean; it’s just so big.

Thu, 23 Nov 2023 21:57:50 -0500

🔗 The new iOS 17 notification sound is quieter, and there’s no way to change it back - 9to5Mac // Benjamin Mayo

Alongside the dozens of new iPhone features found in iOS 17, Apple also took the opportunity to update the collection of ringtone and alert sounds. There’s a bunch of new tones to choose from in the Sounds setting for incoming alerts, text alerts and more.

I just got around to listening to these and I quite like the new ones. They sound modern and nice. 👍

Thu, 23 Nov 2023 15:20:00 -0500

🔗 @daddy@bugle.lol

Scrub Daddy, Donation Daddy, Bot Daddy. Are you getting it yet? These are not three different daddies.

NSFW maybe? Depends where you work.

@robb@social.lol, you made me snort/spit take my drink. 🤭

Thu, 23 Nov 2023 13:48:03 -0500

🆕📝 Mac Reincarnation Diary: The Plan Pays Off

TL;DR: The fresh install of macOS in July went well, it’s (somewhat) faster now, and I’ve got a checklist you can follow to see how I personalize my Mac.

Thu, 23 Nov 2023 13:19:44 -0500

A few weeks ago, I started to type out a new post expressing my love for the ‘Smart Speed’ feature of @overcastfm@mastodon.social because I had crossed 1000 hours of silence stripped from what I’ve listened to. It ended up being a rehash of what I wrote back in February 2022 when I reached 30 days of silence saved:

So, instead of those 724 hours of silence, I’ve been able to listen to 724 more hours of my favorite podcasts, without adding any extra time over the last six years.

You can probably just substitute “1000 hours” for “30 days” and get the same effect. What a great feature!

Thu, 23 Nov 2023 13:11:01 -0500

🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #530: ‘The Noise of the Youth’

Happy Thanksgiving! Here’s a little podcast side quest in case you need a few minutes to yourself.

Thu, 23 Nov 2023 13:08:17 -0500

I’ve been trying Kagi for a few days, but my quick searches via Keyword Search not playing nice with it might be a deal breaker. Both use Safari Extensions (necessary for Kagi as the default engine), which I think crosses the wires. Might have to wait for Kagi to become a built-in default option.

Update: Kagi has its own quick searches.

Wed, 22 Nov 2023 23:55:05 -0500

🔗 Sure, Trump Is an Authoritarian Grifter, but at Least He’s Three Years Younger Than Biden - McSweeney’s

Trump was impeached twice, openly colluded with hostile foreign dictators, was found liable for sexual assault, and is currently facing four separate criminal investigations related to unlawful document retention endangering national security, campaign finance violations, and state and federal charges for his attempted insurrection. […]

But don’t forget, when Biden was a senior in high school, Trump was just a mere freshman.

Wed, 22 Nov 2023 23:14:26 -0500

🔗 I moved from my self hosted Mastodon instance to a micro.blog account // Rach Smith

I recently learnt that micro.blog accounts can federate with Mastodon, so I decided to try it. It only costs $5 USD/month and creates no sysadmin/ops work for me. I am technically storing my data with “someone else”, which is what I was trying to avoid by running my instance, but the company seems like a small group of people trying to make a product people like, and as someone who works in a small group of people who trying to make a product people like… that appeals to me.

Wed, 22 Nov 2023 22:49:37 -0500

🆕📝 A Few Rambly Thoughts About Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour Movie

So, I went and saw the Eras Tour movie a few weeks ago. There were things that happened on that stage that I didn’t think was possible.

Wed, 22 Nov 2023 08:38:10 -0500

🆕📝 Letters with Kev, November 2023 [#2]

In our latest exchange, @kev@fosstodon.org and I chat about Scouts, ambitions, wristwatches and distractions, and — of course — blogs.

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 22:53:52 -0500

Parks & Rec is so goddamn funny every single time. S3E2 (Flu Season) and S3E3 (Time Capsule) are two absolute banger classics, and it’s such a treat that they’re lined up one after the other. You probably don’t even need me to link to those episodes; I’m sure you can picture them already.

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 19:44:25 -0500

If you're on the edge of subscribing to shoutouts, I have some good news, and it's running until the end of the month, you can get 40% off on the yearly (usually $20) using OMGWHATAREYOUDOING. Use it, share it, print it on T-Shirts 😋

It'll help keep the lights on if you're able ✌️❤️
Vincent Ritter https://vincentritter.com/2023/11/22/01-06-33

Shoutouts is so good that I’m using it for two different projects. Go get it!

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 13:36:44 -0500

Dropshare Cloud is sunsetting on January 31st, 2024. As an existing Dropshare Cloud customer, you are eligible for special pricing when purchasing a Dropshare for macOS license to use the app with any of the over 27 supported storage providers.

Damn. I love Dropshare and have used their cloud sharing feature for years because it was easy, well-done, and free with Setapp. This is yet another reminder that you should own your space on the web. Looks like I might have to build some shortcuts to replicate it for Micro.blog uploads.

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 11:50:41 -0500

The ad that stole my heart and put it in Apple’s pocket: youtu.be/sIHmj2lL3…

These Nanos still look so rad nearly 20 years later.

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 11:37:46 -0500

🔗 A Look At Artifact // Andy Nicolaides

One thing that really stood out for me was the interaction and engagement I was seeing. I thought I’d try sharing a recent link to one of my blog posts, the fun default apps trend. […] [M]y posts generally get little to no engagement. After sharing it to Artifact, however, it received way more hits than I’d ever generally get

Interest = piqued. I test drove the app and it’s well-done. I’m not hurting for things to read, but it might make a good discovery engine, both for new blogs to follow and my own posts.

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 10:02:16 -0500

🔗 When Was the Last Time Tech Blew Your Mind? // Kev Quirk

The first time I sent an email was really cool. The performance and battery life of my M1 Mac was (is) very impressive; far better than any laptop I’ve ever had before. But I’m not talking about impressive. I’m talking about the kind of impression that makes you say, “holy shit, that’s fucking incredible!”

For me, it was the Vision Pro introduction. The interaction model, the visuals, and the use cases were utterly compelling, and the raw technology necessary left me astonished. Can’t wait.

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 09:22:03 -0500

🔗 The Search For A New Interface // Greg Morris

A new interaction method takes time to find its space in society, like the smartphone. Some never reach that place and die out like Google Glass, and it remains to be seen how long Humane can hang in there. Working to persuade people that the learning curve is worth it. Voice first and lasers seems like an interesting proposition, but new doesn’t always mean good.

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 08:39:50 -0500

Do good by buying Gui’s apps.

My dad's home was destroyed by a massive flood in the city where I grew up and where he currently lives. It’s the worst flood in over 100 years, and he lost almost all of his possessions, including the equipment he uses for work. I'm trying to help him out as much as I can, so all of my income in the following months will be going towards helping him. If you'd like to help, you can do so by getting any of my products listed here: https://buddysoftware.tech or here: https://insidegui.gumroad.com
Guilherme Rambo https://mastodon.social/@_inside/111448401043771045

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 08:17:50 -0500

🔗 The Mop Will Always Be Your Friend // Andrew Canion

I don’t really care what others think of me, or what status is assigned to my job. I’m enjoying the effort of being a good manager. As a manager I have an ethos of never asking somebody to do something that I wouldn’t do myself (if I have the requisite skill and capability).

Mopping. I know this. 30 years later, the mop is still as friendly as ever. I feel no embarrassment about being a manager that mops.

When I was a camp director and people asked what I did, I always said, “I take out the trash and turn off the lights.”

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 02:09:07 -0500

I’ve been meaning to watch that OpenAI dev keynote, but now I can’t help but feel that its relevance is seeping away.

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 01:17:32 -0500

You’ve got to listen to the conversation in this Vergecast episode with Spotify’s Gustav Söderström. I’m an Apple Music guy myself, but I sure like his ideas around AI-facilitated recommendations. He’s clear-eyed about the challenges that entails, and focused on finding us our next favorite music. 🎙️

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 00:32:27 -0500

🆕📝 Got your PlayStation plugged into Ethernet? You might still be getting Wi-Fi speeds. Here’s how to fix it.

Ours went from 80 Mbps to 530 Mbps. It took one minute of work that I wish I knew to do 3 years ago. 🤦‍♂️

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 23:01:38 -0500

I had an idea from my blog remixed for the first time (I think) today. Shariq Raza Qadri is starting their own ‘7 Things This Week’ series. I was awfully confused when I saw it pop up in my feed reader — I thought something had gone dreadfully wrong with my publishing workflow.

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 21:23:43 -0500

🔗 Free at-home COVID-19 tests

We realized we ran out of tests a few weeks ago. Good timing to get a few more free kits.

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:01:20 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#119]

Published just in the nick of time! 😮‍💨

Sun, 19 Nov 2023 17:45:44 -0500

🎙️ ‘Norah Jones is Playing Along’ with Dave Grohl

This warm and wide-ranging episode gives an intimate peek into the mind of one of modern rock’s most beloved legends.

I’m a Norah Jones fan, but have never been into the Foo Fighters. That said, this session with Dave Grohl was one of the best listening experiences I’ve had in ages. It was like eavesdropping in on two friends just hanging out chatting and occasionally jamming out a song — they just so happen to be world-class musicians and performers. Got an hour that needs some background listening? Do yourself a favor and throw this on.

Sun, 19 Nov 2023 17:19:29 -0500

🔗 It’s the endgame for Sam Altman’s potential return to OpenAI. - The Verge // Nilay Patel

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella is reportedly mediating the discussion between Altman, former OpenAI president Greg Brockman, and the four current board members as they attempt to select a new board. We’re also told Microsoft would very much like to wrap this up before the stock market opens tomorrow morning.

There’s something very funny to me picturing Satya Nadella being the parent in the room, forcing the kids to work out their problems before going to work.

Sun, 19 Nov 2023 15:19:22 -0500

It’s the best day of 2023, the day I received my Apple History Calendar for 2024! Just look at those cute-as-can-be stickers that @ismh@eworld.social included. 🥹

Sun, 19 Nov 2023 14:30:16 -0500

🎙️ Holy smokes, great tip @viticci@macstories.net! Our PS5 has been plugged into Ethernet for…3+ years and I never knew it was falling back to Wi-Fi. 60 seconds to go through the settings and set up the wired connection and now it’s getting 6x the download speed! Sony should revisit that default.

Sat, 18 Nov 2023 20:16:06 -0500

This is exactly the out-of-the-box thinking I like to see from big companies. I’d totally sign up for those services and I wouldn’t pay for Netflix in my car. This CEO knows they should own the car experience, and it’s a different goal than owning everything people do in their car. Great interview.

Sat, 18 Nov 2023 17:24:57 -0500

Does anyone know of an ‘Open in Apple News’ extension or something? Or a URL scheme to open a link in News? I have News+ so there are articles like @joannastern@mastodon.world’s columns that are paywalled on the web but I could read in full in the app. Right now I search for the title in the app.

Sat, 18 Nov 2023 17:12:22 -0500

Some existing products I’m keenly interested in that I probably would have already bought if Apple made them:

Pixel Fold
Ray Ban Meta Smart Glasses
Humane Ai Pin

Sat, 18 Nov 2023 08:06:28 -0500

I know I’m behind on this Apple Event Quiz from The Verge, but ya boy’s still got it! 💪

Fri, 17 Nov 2023 17:22:22 -0500

For the rest of the Hannah Waddingham/Ted Lasso fans out there: youtu.be/C4LlimNcl…

A throwback to this Jason Sudeikis gem.

Fri, 17 Nov 2023 17:12:44 -0500

Why is it often so alluring to write about the tools we use to write instead of, you know, anything else?

It is for me too, but it makes me wonder how much time I’d reclaim if I just accepted the tool as it is. If I didn’t feel compelled to tinker and make workarounds. But then what would I write?

Fri, 17 Nov 2023 17:01:29 -0500

Could we make a sensor that determines what temperature a specific person is feeling, not the ambient air temperature around them? For example, let’s say it’s 72 degrees but one person is hot and one is cold. Imagine if a heating/cooling system could automatically account for that.

Fri, 17 Nov 2023 16:49:42 -0500

🎙️ Legacy Series: Yvon Chouinard, Founder of Patagonia, Muses About His Early Days of Climbing

You probably know Yvon Chouinard as the founder of the Patagonia clothing company. But that man sure has lived a full life outside of selling outdoor sportswear, and done a lot of good. 🧗

Fri, 17 Nov 2023 16:29:25 -0500

🔗 OLED iPad mini with larger screen, new iPad Air, and more in development - 9to5Mac // Chance Miller

A new report from ET News today offers more details on the future of the iPad. One of the most notable tidbits to me: an iPad mini with a larger 8.7-inch OLED display is in the works.

Pair it up with a Magic Keyboard and I’m all in. I generally find the 11-inch iPad Pro a little too big, but the Mini a lttle too small to pair with a comfortable keyboard cover. I’d try an in-betweener to replace them both.

Fri, 17 Nov 2023 16:13:11 -0500

🔗 OpenAI announces leadership transition

Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities. The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.

I didn’t have ‘OpenAI mutiny’ on my Bingo card for this Friday, particularly after all the success they’ve been enjoying. But a “deliberative review process” makes it sound like he really fucked something up. I’m curious to learn more.

Fri, 17 Nov 2023 16:00:11 -0500

🔗 Unauthorized “David Attenborough” AI clone narrates developer’s life, goes viral | Ars Technica // Benj Edwards

On Wednesday, Replicate developer Charlie Holtz combined GPT-4 Vision (commonly called GPT-4V) and ElevenLabs voice cloning technology to create an unauthorized AI version of the famous naturalist David Attenborough narrating Holtz’s every move on camera. As of Thursday afternoon, the X post describing the stunt had garnered over 21,000 likes.

This video is amazing. I so want David Attenborough to narrate my life.

Fri, 17 Nov 2023 14:09:59 -0500

🔗 Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year - 9to5Mac

Apple has announced today that it will adopt the RCS […] messaging standard. The feature will launch via a software update “later next year” and bring a wide range of iMessage-style features to messaging between iPhone and Android users.

Heyo! Good timing on the part of Clockwise. I got my thoughts down on this topic just last week when I crashed their show. I’m surprised but glad to see Apple jump aboard. Hopefully they can influence the global standard to be more secure for iOS and Android users alike.

Fri, 17 Nov 2023 12:35:28 -0500

🔗 Excuse Her Dust | Outside

In the interest of testing herself one more time, in late August she traveled to France to run the UTMB again. She won that race too, becoming the first person in history to win all three races in a single summer. “She’s one of those humans who defy even the concept of an outlier,” says Clare Gallagher, a former Western States winner who has raced against Dauwalter in the past. “I look at her summer and I have no words. It’s truly hard to conceptualize.”

These race distances and the times that Courtney Dauwalter is putting up on them boggles the mind. 🤯🏃‍♀️

Fri, 17 Nov 2023 12:11:09 -0500

🔗 Should You Exercise While Sick? // Heather Eastman

There are a number of infections we can pick up throughout the year, some worse than others. While we’ve always been told to avoid working out while sick, it’s tempting to ask how sick is sick, and what counts as “working out”? Is a light walk OK, or should you avoid any activity altogether? Can you do weights at home? Here’s the real question: When (if ever) is it OK to exercise while you’re sick?

I overdid it recently and have been facing the consequences for a couple of weeks now. It’ll make me think twice next time.

Fri, 17 Nov 2023 03:00:39 -0500

🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #529: ‘Dear Tim Apple, You Fix It’

If you’re not on the recording, but you still answer all the questions afterward…are you considered part of the podcast?

Fri, 17 Nov 2023 02:54:09 -0500

I just released version 1.0 of my ‘Make Spoken Audio of Text’ shortcut.

This shortcut creates an .m4a audio file from any text that you pass into it. By default, it’ll generate an audio clip with one of the default Siri voices, but you can change the voice to any one loaded on your device. It will ask you for a filename, and then will save the audio file to your Downloads folder.

Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Fri, 17 Nov 2023 01:12:56 -0500

🔗 Interpreting Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino Based on Recent Events – Pixel Envy // Nick Heer

Yaccarino is proud that Twitter extends its permissiveness to the limit of local laws, which means it would rather censor users in Turkey than withdraw its services in protest. Also, it is only to happy to censor posts worldwide critical of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi. Also, its owner threatens lawsuits in the U.S. against legal speech. That is the kind of free expression Yaccarino is proud of for Twitter.

Nick Heer, as usual, cuts through the bullshit with a honed knife.

Fri, 17 Nov 2023 01:02:10 -0500

🔗 IBM pulls X ads as Elon Musk endorses white pride - The Verge // Jacob Kastrenakes

Why do some people insist on sucking so bad? Also, I’m quite disappointed that this headline doesn’t read “IMB and Apple pull X ads…” Come on, Apple.

Fri, 17 Nov 2023 00:52:42 -0500

🔗 Amazon announces online car sales for the first time, starting with Hyundai - The Verge // Andrew J. Hawkins

Starting next year, you’ll be able to buy a car on Amazon for the first time. The company announced a deal with Hyundai that will allow dealerships to sell cars through the site.

Okay, but does it arrive with free Prime shipping?

Fri, 17 Nov 2023 00:47:14 -0500

Someone should probably mention to Apple’s gift guide team that they haven’t sold an iMac with an Apple logo on the chin for over two years now. Not even on the Refurbished store.

Fri, 17 Nov 2023 00:33:48 -0500

🔗 Windows is now an app for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and PCs - The Verge // Tom Warren

Microsoft has created a Windows App for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, Windows, and web browsers. The app essentially takes the previous Windows 365 app and turns it into a central hub for streaming a copy of Windows from a remote PC, Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows 365, Microsoft Dev Box, and Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Services.

I kind of think this is going to be Microsoft’s preferred solution instead of Windows for ARM via Boot Camp on Apple-silicon Macs.

Fri, 17 Nov 2023 00:29:08 -0500

🔗 tvOS 17.2: Apple TV app upgrades its preshow trailers with ‘add to queue’ button - 9to5Mac // Benjamin Mayo

But now, the skip button has been joined by a new ‘Add’ button. Pressing Add directly adds the title to the user’s Up Next queue, allowing them to keep track of it and get notified when new episodes drop.

A small logotype of the show is also displayed above the buttons, which helps contextualize the action.

Better would be an option to turn off those trailers, but if they’re sticking around then they might as well be more useful.

Fri, 17 Nov 2023 00:22:45 -0500

🔗 YouTube previews AI tool that clones famous singers — with their permission - The Verge // Jon Porter

Google is testing new generative AI features for YouTube that’ll let people create music tracks using just a text prompt or a simple hummed tune. The first, Dream Track, already seeded to a few creators on the platform, is designed to auto-generate short 30-second music tracks in the style of famous artists. The feature can imitate nine different artists, who’ve chosen to collaborate with YouTube on its development.

Oh boy, here we go!

Thu, 16 Nov 2023 14:17:32 -0500

🔗 watchOS 10.2 Beta Reintroduces Option to Change Apple Watch Faces With a Swipe - MacRumors // Juli Clover

Users can now choose to use a swipe gesture to switch the active Apple Watch face by enabling the option in the Apple Watch Settings app. With the feature turned on, swiping left or right on the watch face scrolls through the available watch faces that have been set up.

Horray! I’ve been using way fewer watch faces since watchOS 10 made it harder to swap them.

Thu, 16 Nov 2023 14:08:35 -0500

🔗 Apple Vision Pro gets new onboarding videos with visionOS beta 6 // Filipe Espósito

Another video added to the beta shows us a more detailed look at how users can create their 3D “Persona” for FaceTime calls using the headset. The process is similar to registering a new face to an iPhone or iPad with Face ID. Users must hold and point the Vision Pro at their face, then move their face sideways, up and down, and then smile and wink.

The video looks pretty slick. I hadn’t considered that the outer front screen could be used for showing stuff other than your passthrough expressions.

Wed, 15 Nov 2023 18:31:32 -0500

Orange is the best color. That’s it. That’s the tweet.

Wed, 15 Nov 2023 08:59:14 -0500

You might be tempted to pick up a hot pocket from the gas station because you fancy a warm morning meal and they have a microwave. Do not do it. It will not taste good and you will regret it.

Tue, 14 Nov 2023 23:07:34 -0500

The more I think about my blog as my personal-but-public online journal and less as a “capital-W” Website, the more I appreciate (and long for) Tumblr’s tools for easily dumping just about anything onto a webpage at your own domain and having it look pretty good.

Tue, 14 Nov 2023 22:58:36 -0500

I’ve been intrigued by the Johnny Decimal system since hearing about it first on Hemispheric Views and then again on Ruminate. I think I would love it. But I struggle with the idea that I’d have to recreate the system in all my apps that have their own data organization structure. And that I’d have to make the upfront time investment to move all my existing stuff into that system. I should probably do the workbook.

Tue, 14 Nov 2023 22:24:15 -0500

I’ve always considered myself an app-first guy. But I might be turning into a web-first devotee. I still think native apps offer the best experience for creating and consuming, but I’ve come around to the idea that the “one true source” should live online where everyone can get it. Still pondering…

Tue, 14 Nov 2023 15:08:43 -0500

🔗 Make Something Wonderful // Arun Venkatesan

Pick any idea Steve mentions and you’ll find it again and again throughout his life. What you see in Make Something Wonderful is Steve’s process of observation, learning, and revision. His world view and vision of a brighter future sharpen as he tries and makes mistakes.

Add to that the sheer amount of time covered in the book. Many of Apple’s breakthrough ideas like the iPhone were there in Steve’s words, but took decades to come to fruition.

Another poignant observation.

Tue, 14 Nov 2023 10:10:05 -0500

🔗 Make Something Wonderful

This book taught me that my life is just a blip in the timeline of humanity. It is up to me to decide how I will use it. Steve’s words show not just what can happen if I dedicate myself to making something wonderful. They also show the tremendous amount of hard work and time that it can take.

Make Something Wonderful will remind me to follow my curiosity and to keep trying and failing.

Tue, 14 Nov 2023 01:08:09 -0500

Today’s adventure: 5 pitches of über-classic Gunks routes with a dear friend. A crisp, late fall day with gorgeus views but surprisingly few folks at the cliff to share them with. Few things can quiet my mind while simultaneously requiring intense focus and intricate movement like climbing.🧗

Tue, 14 Nov 2023 00:14:40 -0500

🆕📝 AI Idea: Catch Up on RSS

All this talk of custom GPTs has my mind racing with plausible ideas for how AI/ML could solve specific problems that I face — using tech that seems entirely possible in the near future.

Mon, 13 Nov 2023 09:43:39 -0500

Well done, People

Mon, 13 Nov 2023 08:33:47 -0500

🔗 My Defaults

Since all the cool kids are doing it, I’m jumping on the bandwagon in my first Hey World blog post!

Scratch that @burk, you have changed blogging. You guys inspired someone to write their very first blog post!

Mon, 13 Nov 2023 08:09:36 -0500

I just released version 1.0 of my ‘Create Task with Drafts Notes’ shortcut, inspired by @viticci@macstories.net and @johnvoorhees@macstories.net on AppStories:

Use Apple Shortcuts to automatically create both a Things to-do and a Drafts note with links back to each other.

Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Sun, 12 Nov 2023 23:34:21 -0500

Home sweet home for the night. 🚙⛺️

Sun, 12 Nov 2023 15:39:51 -0500

🔗 Duel of the Defaults

What happened next was not standard issue Hemispheric Views. We slowly began to see people in the Hemispheric Views community create blog posts listing their default apps. This first spread slowly, then quickly to people who had never heard of the podcast but wanted to blog about their defaults as a movement […] to join in on. […]

We didn’t change blogging, the internet, or the world. But it sure made for an excellent side quest from this thing we call life.

🥰 A heartfelt post from @Burk about the silly fad he inadvertently started with @martinfeld and @canion.

Sun, 12 Nov 2023 14:39:14 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#118]

Sun, 12 Nov 2023 14:20:05 -0500

Nilay is onto something here.

Said another way, a wearable product has to be way more useful for you to tolerate it being on your face. But I’d also posit that the threshold of necessary usefulness goes down the more inconspicuous the gadget is compared to “normal”, non-smart accessories.

Sun, 12 Nov 2023 08:57:38 -0500

What’s the over/under on every Apple event being filmed on iPhone from now on? I’m thinking it’s quite likely that we’ve seen our last one done with traditional camera. It’s so big a flex (and helps inform them of its shortcomings) that I’d give it an 80% chance.

Sun, 12 Nov 2023 08:51:25 -0500

How long before Squarespace (Wordpress, Ghost, etc.) works a personalized GPT into their built-in site search? Instead of searching for terms, visitors could ask questions that are informed specifically by everything you’ve posted to your site and read the generated text instead of your blog posts.

Sun, 12 Nov 2023 01:21:40 -0500

🔗 So Far, A.I.-Generated Images of Current Events Seem Rare in News Stories – Pixel Envy

And seeing those posts changed my mind about the use of these kinds of images. When I first wrote about this Crikey story, I suggested Adobe ought to prohibit photorealistic images which claim to depict real events. But I can also see an argument that an image representative of a tragedy used in commemoration could sometimes be more ethical than a real photograph. It is possible the people in a photo do not want to be associated with a catastrophe, or that its circulation could be traumatizing.

Sun, 12 Nov 2023 01:12:59 -0500

🔗 “One of the world’s oldest continually publishing blogs” – Ideapad

When I reflect on what twenty-five years of blogging means, mostly it’s the persistence: my blog is still here, still publishing new content, at the same URL as when it was launched, and with almost all of the archives intact and readable. It’s not hard to do, but few do it, and when I’m blogging I’m continuing my commitment to digital longevity.

A worthwhile goal. He says it’s not hard, but I’m just a few years into blogging and, several migrations later, I can tell you that it’s not easy either.

Sun, 12 Nov 2023 00:50:06 -0500

🔗 Tinylytics Is a Simple, Privacy-Focused Alternative to Google Analytics - Opus

Other features include uptime monitoring, extensive filtering controls, and some fun items like old-school hit counters and webrings as well as the ability to track kudos (i.e., page “likes”). On top of everything else, Tinylytics respects user privacy. Tinylytics doesn’t store anything that could be personally identifying, such as IP addresses and user agent strings (more info), nor does it set any cookies.

So happy to see the private and simple @tinylytics start to get the attention it deserves!

Sun, 12 Nov 2023 00:27:32 -0500

🔗 Pushy checkout screens are helping ‘tipflation’ - The Verge

And now, checkout screens everywhere, from in-person stores to delivery apps, have added buttons designed to make it easier for you to tip.

That’s convenient, until it’s not. According to a new Pew Research Center report, tipping culture in America has seen a shift in recent years. Seventy-two percent of Americans say tipping is expected in more places than five years ago. Not all of that is tech-related, but it’s hard to deny the role checkout screens have in tipflation.

I’m still unsure, should a non-waitered meal be tipped?

Sun, 12 Nov 2023 00:13:27 -0500

🔗 The Future of My Computing // P. I. Moore

In 2007 I made my official — and what I thought would be permanent — switch to the Mac platform when I got my 24-inch iMac, and Windows became my new legacy OS. It felt somewhat weird but also cathartic to use a system that I didn’t have to mess around with. It had a powerful UNIX base which I could get my hands dirty on, but only if I wanted to. Unbeknownst to me there was a huge paradigm shift happening around this in my computing life, even if it was only subconscious at the time.

Sun, 12 Nov 2023 00:06:56 -0500

Head up! We have entered the holiday return period for Amazon when you have until Jan 31 to return most products. Or, as I call it, the “2.5-month free trial period”. This will be great for some new experiments.

Sat, 11 Nov 2023 22:57:30 -0500

Credit where it’s due, I’m finding tons of cool stuff on Threads. The concentration of great writing, photos, and videos is perhaps the best I’ve seen on any platform. I’m eager for ActivityPub support so that I can interact from my own domain, but (🙊) that For You feed might be hard to give up.

Sat, 11 Nov 2023 22:40:44 -0500

🆕📝 On TV+ and the Cunning Strategy of the Apple One Bundle Pricing

I couldn’t decide on which of these two quips to use, so you get both of them: “Did you notice when Apple sent in its Trojan Horse?” and “I daresay Apple’s done the math.”

Sat, 11 Nov 2023 11:00:01 -0500

🔗 App Defaults – Manu

I’m a stan for iA Writer too, but looks like Manu has really gone all-in.

Sat, 11 Nov 2023 09:47:32 -0500

😅 I know this is mostly because the rest of the years (currently) contain only my old Instagram posts. But it still makes me laugh. jb.heydingus.net/stats

Sat, 11 Nov 2023 09:30:22 -0500

📺 Lessons in Chemistry S1E2 (barely spoilers): 😨😬😐🐶☺🥰😒😙😱

Sat, 11 Nov 2023 01:19:44 -0500

An apt analogy from The Dirtbag Diaries describing how outward peace and balance often mask inner turmoil and a sense of being pulled in all directions.

dirtbagdiaries.com

Sat, 11 Nov 2023 01:10:34 -0500

A thought I’ve had more than once lately: If I had to replace my iPad Pro (which I use mostly as a laptop in the Magic Keyboard case), would I replace it with another iPad or with a MacBook Air instead? The power of macOS in that superlight design sure is appealing.

overcast.fm/+QN1qX9sO…

Sat, 11 Nov 2023 00:59:32 -0500

I created this note by navigating my watch with a series of gestures clenching my hand and tapping my fingers together, and then talking to it. I never touched the screen. We’re living in the future and technology is amazing.

Fri, 10 Nov 2023 23:13:23 -0500

🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #528: ‘The Jeweled Dung Beetle’

🎙️ tap, tap Is this thing on? Time for something completely different.

Fri, 10 Nov 2023 21:38:17 -0500

I wrapped up another fun Shortcuts commission yesterday. This time I got to play around with parsing JSON from an API request and putting that into a Charty chart to display data in a widget on the Home Screen. I love that these get me into learning new little tech skills.

Fri, 10 Nov 2023 21:30:02 -0500

🔗 Deaf People Teach Us Bad Words | Deaf People Tell | Cut

This was a fun watch. I’ve long been fascinated by ASL, but I hadn’t appreciated at how graphic — meaning how literal many of the signs look like the thing they’re describing — it can be. Also the expressions.

Fri, 10 Nov 2023 18:28:24 -0500

First impressions of this Magic Mouse Grip/Qi Charging Base: It’s quite comfortable, though not as night and day as I had expected. I s’pose never disliked the feel of the naked mouse anyway. The extra weight is taking some getting used to. Left it overnight on a Qi pad and it charged right up. 👍

Fri, 10 Nov 2023 18:14:28 -0500

Hey @vincent, while I’m thinking about @tinylytics today, I wonder if you’d consider throwing in an ‘All-time’ quick filter option. It’s fun to see the full history.

Fri, 10 Nov 2023 17:18:17 -0500

🔗 The new Apple Watch Double Tap gesture is useful, sometimes - 9to5Mac

Sometimes, Double Tap is simply more convenient than reaching over with your other hand. In cases where you are merely glancing down at your watch, rather than proactively doing something, fairly often it’s a good opportunity to Double Tap and get on with your day. And the accuracy of the watch sensing the gesture is very good, so you don’t get burned by failed detection attempts that often.

My favorite uses for the similar AssitiveTouch for older watches: dismissing notifications, and snoozing my alarm. 👌

Fri, 10 Nov 2023 16:26:32 -0500

Here another special Puzzmo link that gets you access if you solve the puzzle, even if access keys for today are gone (they are). It expires at midnight, so don’t dally.

Fri, 10 Nov 2023 14:33:09 -0500

TIL that this page that tracks all the active promo codes for @relay@relayfm.social sponsors exists.

I’ve been known to search back through show notes to figure out where I heard about a product and get the latest code…well, this is much better. (Related, I think I’m going to try Rocket Money…)

Fri, 10 Nov 2023 00:32:20 -0500

🔗 First thoughts on the Humane Ai Pin

I know this isn’t what Humane wants, but I kept thinking, “wow, this would be so much more compelling if it was paired to my phone,” as they showed features. One example, the camera looks decent for a very specific sort of photo or video, but I bet you it’s going to be manual work to get those into my actual photo library, which is a pain. Another is the separate phone number.

Maybe it’s exactly what they want? Get acquired so their tech can spread its wings, integrated with a fuller ecosystem. It’s the only way I see their ambitions being realized.

Fri, 10 Nov 2023 00:08:39 -0500

you can see the media strategy pretty transparently in the articles that were written off of access.
there's no deep diving on the hardware or user experience, the only story Humane wanted to tell was about its origins and ambitions.
if the product was a slam dunk, the product would be the story.
dan seifert https://mastodon.social/users/dcseifert/statuses/111382092146798039

It’s true. People are interested in your origin story only after you’ve already wowed them.

Thu, 09 Nov 2023 23:14:11 -0500

🔗 The Real Personal (AI) Computer – On my Om

If you think of Humane’s AI Pin as just another device, it is easy to shrug your shoulders. However, when you place it in the context of the development of computing, you can see we are at the start of thinking about computing differently.

I feel this too. The Ai Pin may not be the device, but it’s certainly where our devices are going. I’m thinking iPhone + Watch + AirPods + Glasses will make a powerfully extensible and flexible platform if powered and glued together with a (vastly improved) Siri OS.

Thu, 09 Nov 2023 22:21:40 -0500

Them mountains be looking frosty. 📷

Thu, 09 Nov 2023 22:08:16 -0500

Woohoo! 🇺🇸 I’m heartened that voters are getting out and clawing back their rights. overcast.fm/+eaddsIsl…

Thu, 09 Nov 2023 22:02:29 -0500

🆕📝 First Impressions of Humane’s Ai Pin

I had Thoughts™.

Thu, 09 Nov 2023 01:31:24 -0500

🆕📝 Time to take the pin out of what Humane’s been up to

Some brief reactions to that Verge scoop on Humane’s upcoming AI Pin.

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 23:59:19 -0500

🔗 Just Don’t Remove the Function Keys

Old ideas have a way of coming back, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Touch Bar come back in some new form down the road, and I hope that if it does it will take lessons from the Stream Deck.

@matt@isfeeling.social said everything I wanted to about the Touch Bar in this post. I like how we’re all converging on this idea that Touch Bar plus the Function Row could have been great.

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 22:25:51 -0500

Thank goodness for granularity in Threads notifications. I just remembered that you can turn off notifications for likes and reposts. I’ve switched it to only notify if they’re done by people I follow. I think that’ll be good enough.

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 22:16:37 -0500

I didn’t realize that you could put widgets arbitrarily around the iPad’s home screen grid when there are no other icons there. I thought they would still snap to upper left first.

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 21:58:42 -0500

I just updated my ‘Count Characters for Micro.blog Timeline’ shortcut to version 1.1:

Added an option to continue with post containing too many characters to be displayed in full on the timeline. Feel free to publish posts as long as you want! Just note that it will be truncated on the timeline.

Included the character limit in some prompts as a reminder of what to aim for. (Example: 787/600)

Changed the icon to use the calculator glyph.

Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Thanks @pratik!

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 20:34:16 -0500

I hope @dobyfriday@social.lol have their royalties set up because I think XKCD just accidentally reinvented Big Tennis. 🤣🎾🏓

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 18:10:23 -0500

I’m sorely tempted to buy a pair of backup 2nd-gen AirPods while they’re nearly half price. Yep, 2nd-gen, not 3rd and not Pros. They’re the only version that’ve fit my ears so far. (Via The Verge)

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 14:27:07 -0500

The moment when Nilay recognizes his next hard-hitting, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism topic: The injustice of shipping computers that require a wired keyboard for setup, but don’t include them in the box, in 2023. overcast.fm/+QN1pA_VZ…

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 14:16:29 -0500

🔗Taylor Swift is Apple Music’s 2023 Artist of the Year

The tour not only broke sales records (estimates already place it at the billion-dollar mark) and catapulted her catalog back into the charts—65 of her songs reached Apple Music’s Global Daily Top 100, more than any other artist—it was an industry unto itself. Local economies were galvanized at every stop, and the big-screen document, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour-self-financed and self-distributed at the peak of the rancorous, paralyzing strikes in Hollywood—became the highest-grossing concert film ever.

Self-financed and distributed? 😯

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 13:30:27 -0500

I’m picking up a theme for Apple’s Newsroom today…

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 08:02:01 -0500

🔗 One Sentence News / November 8, 2023

A 62-year-old man living near Bordeaux, France who has lived with Parkinson’s disease for nearly three-decades can now take long walks and climb stairs for the first time since his diagnosis thanks to a device implanted in his spinal cord.

Technology is amazing. 🤩

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 00:44:49 -0500

🆕📝 Letters with Kev, November 2023 [#1]

Can you believe it? I’ve somehow conned the prolific @kev@fosstodon.org into being my pen pal this month. 😁 We’re chatting about web hosting and newsletters, histories and homes, collections and enthusiasm, and, of course, blogs.

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 00:33:23 -0500

🆕📝 Letters with Robert, Fall 2023 [#2]

@rsilvernail and I are both procrastinators so it’s no longer October, but that won’t stop us. You’ll find tales of squirrels, juggling, volunteering, and DST this round.

Tue, 07 Nov 2023 21:06:27 -0500

I am, once again, here to express my love for the Lofi Garden app. One click in the Menu Bar to start my “thinking music” that doesn’t impact my music recommendations. How I wish it were available for iOS as well.

Tue, 07 Nov 2023 18:46:31 -0500

🔗 Something Special is coming. Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas – Streaming November 22- YouTube

You better watch out… Hannah Waddingham: Home For Christmas premieres November 22 on Apple TV+ apple.co/_HannahHomeForChristmas Ring in the holidays with Emmy®-winning star Hannah Waddingham as she welcomes special guests for a musical extravaganza at the London Coliseum.

Oh boy, can’t wait! 😁 🎤

Tue, 07 Nov 2023 17:44:49 -0500

🔗 Daring Fireball: iOS Tip: ‘Smart Activation’ for Do Not Disturb Turns Off Notification During Screen Recordings

Go to Settings → Focus → Do Not Disturb, and under “Set a Schedule”, tap Add Schedule and enable Smart Activation. Now, when you start a screen recording, Do Not Disturb turns on automatically, and it turns itself off a few seconds after you finish recording. I’m not sure what else triggers Smart Activation — the description in Settings is pretty vague — but for screen recordings this is just what I wanted.

As a frequent screen capturer, this gets a 👍.

Tue, 07 Nov 2023 17:00:58 -0500

Apple would release a whole new update the day after I finally get all my devices squared away. Here we go again!

Tue, 07 Nov 2023 16:27:40 -0500

Round 2. I’ve canceled my Readwise Reader subscription. I should have months ago, but now I have a deadline of Dec 6 when my plan expires to finally read (or not) all the articles I saved up there.

Tue, 07 Nov 2023 02:37:28 -0500

I just released my ‘Publish Quote’ shortcut version 1.0:

This shortcut provides a quick and easy way to publish a quote from a Safari webpage, with or without commentary, to Micro.blog. Just select the text you want to quote, hit the share button in the toolbar, and run this shortcut. It’ll even send a Webmention if you add your own comment.

Learn more, see it in action, and get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Thanks @gr36!

Tue, 07 Nov 2023 01:50:38 -0500

🔗 Greg Morris - New Journalling App In iOS17.2

When tapping the plus action button, you can choose between using AI-generated prompts to fuel your entry or to be greeted with a blank entry waiting for your thoughts. You can add in pictures, locations, and even voice notes, but there is a distinct lack of styling options. There is no way to add in subheadings, quotes, or anything other than basic text.

I’m a(n infrequent) Day One user, and will probably stick with that. But my wife has been looking for a place to do a gratitude journal and I think this might be perfect.

Tue, 07 Nov 2023 01:04:06 -0500

I just released my ‘Count Characters for Micro.blog Timeline’ shortcut version 1.0:

This shortcut converts Markdown text to Rich Text and then counts the number of characters. If it is over the character limit to be displayed in full on the Micro.blog Timeline, it allows you to edit the text to be within the limit to avoid truncation. If the edited text still has too many characters, it will continue to rerun this shortcut until it is within the limit.

Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Tue, 07 Nov 2023 00:01:46 -0500

It’s nothing fancy, but I just released my ‘Publish to Micro.blog’ shortcut version 1.0:

This shortcut uses the Micropub API to publish text passed into it to the default blog on your Micro.blog account. It’s best used as a function that is run from another shortcut.

Take note that there is no preview of the published text with this shortcut so that it can be as streamlined as possible. Check over your post before running the shortcut, or use a preview action in whichever workflow sends text to it.

Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 22:39:57 -0500

I hadn’t really expected Phil to reply to my post. I’m thrilled he did, and it’s been kinda fun to see the other responses trickle in — even one from Walt Mossberg! My watch has been buzzing nonstop with likes and reposts. It’s a very different experience than what I usually get here on Micro.blog.

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 16:30:58 -0500

I can’t be the first person to notice that @pschiller@mstdn.social, the Mr. Courage, uses a picture of himself wearing headphones that plug into the 3.5mm headphone jack on an iPhone 3GS for his Threads/Instagram profile pic. Can’t be by accident, and I love it. 😆

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 16:12:14 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#117]

A store, a Threads post, two videos, screensavers, keyboard book games, and bars. Are you getting it? These are not 7 different things. It is 7 Things This Week!

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 12:07:56 -0500

Hmm. Today’s Logic Pro update keeps the pricing and purchase of the Mac app and the iPad app separate. The Mac app still costs $199 upfront, and the iPad is still a subscription of $4.99/month or $49/year. I kind of thought that they would merge them into one subscription plan, but apparently not (yet).

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 11:48:49 -0500

Apple MixC Wenzhou opens - by Michael Steeber - Tabletops 🔗

Here’s something else to consider: would aggressively updating existing stores actually be antithetical to Apple’s larger conservation and environmental efforts?

I’m anxious for the new store design to roll out everywhere, but @michaelsteeber@mastodon.social makes a keen point. That’d be a huge environmental cost and should probably start with the oldest stores that are in need of upgrades anyway, rather than perfectly functional stores. I am curious about how the Vintage E design will adapt to flagship stores.

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 11:33:13 -0500

Apple TV+ is coming out with an adaptation of ‘The Velveteen Rabbit’ starring, [checks notes] Helena Bonham Carter? Consider me intrigued!

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 11:19:53 -0500

Please, Expose your RSS 🔗

Earlier this week I had a need to manually find a bunch of people’s RSS feed links. It seemed simple enough: go to their website and look for an RSS/Subscribe link but I was surprised to find that a lot of people don’t have a link anywhere to their feed.

Even if people only ever add your website into their feed reader and let the app find the RSS feed (see below for more info on this), showing an RSS link reminds people that RSS exists, a win for the open web.

Hear, hear! I’ll raise you a ‘Subscribe’ or a ‘Feeds’ page that describes what each one contains.

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 11:08:59 -0500

Greg Morris - Just Don’t Remove The Function Keys 🔗

Honestly, I think it’s a shame that poor implementation ruined a semi-good idea. Apple clearly thought that this was going to catch on because the life span indicates so. […] The design and production of the Touch Bar would make a great story, one we will continue to talk about for years to come. I can only dream of what would have been had they just put it above the function keys instead.

I, too, can’t shake the idea that the Touch Bar would have been a beloved hit had they included it with the function keys rather than in place of them.

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 10:51:03 -0500

🆕📝 The iMac Pro will not rise phoenix-like from the ashes after all. Maybe.

Apple never does something until it does do it. But they are saying they won’t. Uh, got it?

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 10:29:03 -0500

The day was August 25, 2023 when the Apple empire made its move against the @MacStories@MacStories.net rebels, and none of us noticed: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/apple-stories/

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 07:27:57 -0500

Hello nice to meet you, what do you do for a living | Meadow 🌱

But is it actually the best question that we can ask? What does it tell about our society that our go-to question when we’re getting to know someone is to ask them what do they work on.

I questioned this very thing many years ago and switched to asking, “What sorts of things do you like to do?” and, “What are you most proud of lately?” They’ve proved to be great conversation starters.

Ideally, someone’s work would be something they like and are proud of, but it’s not always. What people do “for fun” usually gives better insight.

Sun, 05 Nov 2023 14:55:30 -0500

I’m in the market for a HomeKit-capable space heater for our bedroom (read: fairly small and quiet). Anyone out there have one that they particularly like?

Sun, 05 Nov 2023 11:30:32 -0500

Regarding @Denny’s plea for a more diverse and “full range” Micro.blog:

Micro.blog feels like a community of 50 users. While the human curated Discovery timeline sometimes does feel like a feature and a benefit it’s also true that it might be biased by the curators which is only three people. Regular users don’t have access to the full timeline. I feel like a child being babysat and over protected.)

I don’t feel the same desire for a more chaotic timeline. If I wanted to see something different, I’d follow more/different users from across the social web (or just go for a full Mastodon account). But I do see value in an option to see the “firehose” full timeline as a release valve for the limited discovery features here.

Sun, 05 Nov 2023 10:46:38 -0500

Alright, I’ve done it. Voting with my dollars and downgraded our Netflix plan in a 🖕 to their price increase. Not much of a 🖕 though, since they’ll still be getting $15.49 out of me every month. But we’ll save $4.50 from what we’re paying now, and $7.50/month off what it would have gone up to.

Sat, 04 Nov 2023 22:02:23 -0500

🆕📝 Duel of the Defaults!: Jarrod Enters the Ring

I present my defaults as a challenge to the reigning Mr. Default. Inspired by @hemisphericviews@social.lol.

Fri, 03 Nov 2023 21:54:38 -0500

Are you an aspiring Puzzmonaut? I just got in, and now I’ve got this link to share. Solve today’s puzzle there and you’re guaranteed an entry key, even though all the public keys are gone for today. The link expires around midnight ET, so you’ve only got an hour-ish to solve it.

Get puzzling!

Fri, 03 Nov 2023 20:05:24 -0500

I just released version 2.3 of the ‘De-News’ shortcut:

Due to a bug with the ‘Share’ action hanging and then silently failing, I added a new menu at the end to choose to either copy the article’s web URL or share it with the share sheet. I recommend ‘Copy’ option until Apple fixes the ‘Share’ action. (Thanks @rdelrossi@opalstack.social!)

Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Fri, 03 Nov 2023 14:46:16 -0500

Aw hell yeah! Can’t wait!

In addition to playing videos in-app, the macOS app will also get the ability to play in a new separate window.
Play 2.0 is going to be great!
Marcos Tanaka https://mastodon.social/@mactanaka/111347096421229757

Fri, 03 Nov 2023 00:13:40 -0500

Taylor Tomlinson to Host New CBS Late-Night Show after ‘Colbert’ - The New York Times

In a shake-up of the late-night television landscape, the stand-up comic Taylor Tomlinson, 29, will take over the time slot after “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” on CBS. The move makes her not just the only woman in the job on a late-night show on network television now, but also the youngest by two decades.

Very cool! I love seeing people my age killing it out there. What a start; she’s got a long, long runway of a career ahead of her.

Fri, 03 Nov 2023 00:06:24 -0500

Welp, I can tell you that setting up a replacement iPhone from scratch, downloading all the necessary apps, logging in, and rearranging my home screens takes about four hours. 😴 That’s about three hours longer than I expected, but at least I’m up and running and won’t need to skip a beat tomorrow.

Thu, 02 Nov 2023 12:35:15 -0500

Over a million children in schools where guns have been confiscated? Good god, that’s terrifying. They’ve gotta go.

overcast.fm/+eadeXRuE…

Thu, 02 Nov 2023 12:09:25 -0500

Modern landfill technology – Mike Crittenden

That 👆 whole post is about how there’s a pretty good chance that any recycled plastic will end up in the ocean, and throwing plastic in the trash is usually more sustainable than recycling it.

🫣 Oh no, don’t tell me that! It feels like ‘gotchas’ all the way down these days. Here’s the linked post that Critter is referring to.

Thu, 02 Nov 2023 11:58:00 -0500

‼️📚 A new Kingkiller Chronicle! It’s not the ever-elusive Book 3, but it’s sure to whet the appetite. The Narrow Road Between Desires:

From dawn to midnight over the course of a single day, follow the Kingkiller Chronicle’s most charming fae as he schemes and sneaks, dancing into trouble and back out again with uncanny grace.

The Narrow Road Between Desires is Bast’s story. In it he traces the old ways of making and breaking, following his heart even when doing so goes against his better judgement.

After all, what good is caution if it keeps him from danger and delight?

Thu, 02 Nov 2023 11:35:05 -0500

For an Internet-first bank, SoFi’s iOS app user experience is pretty garbage. It’s slower than my old regional bank’s, dark mode is inconsistently implemented, it takes many taps to get around, and it’s full of ad-like feature promos. The actual banking is good so I’m sticking around, but my word.

Thu, 02 Nov 2023 10:30:34 -0500

If a year had 13 months – Mike Crittenden

Every year has 13 months and every month has exactly 28 days The extra month is called “Sol” and it comes between June and July Every month begins on a Sunday and ends on a Saturday That means that “the 17th” for example is always a Tuesday, regardless of month or year.

The Type-A personality in me wants this so very badly.

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 22:08:34 -0500

I still think that POSSE has it right

I want to make it easy for me to write— so I write in one place. I want to make it easy for people to read— so I let my feed syndicate as widely as is feasible.

I’ve seen lots of folks with takes I just don’t get when it comes to syndicating posts. Mostly around some idea of implied reciprocity or presence, as though the idea of “bots” or “websites” versus “people” accounts haven’t been around for a long time. I don’t really get it myself.

I think @jsonbecker has it right.

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 21:05:03 -0500

Timeline read position syncing can’t come soon enough for Micro.blog. It pains me every single day.

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 20:47:23 -0500

Netflix’s ad-supported plan will reward binge watchers with ad-free episodes - The Verge

Netflix will soon start cutting down on commercials if you’re on a binge-watching kick. Starting at the beginning of next year, the streamer will toss in an ad-free episode after you’ve watched three episodes in a row.

This is kinda gross, but also a savvy idea. Will it affect usage patterns? I’m inclined to say yes. Netflix wouldn’t offer this if it didn’t help juice their numbers.

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 20:21:15 -0500

Trying continues to be the best show on Apple TV+. Yup, better than Severance. Better than Ted Lasso. It’s great, and if you haven’t watched it yet, you’re in for a (3 season!) treat. I started a rewatch, and I laughed just as much as the first time. It’s incredibly solid, heartwarming, and funny.

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 18:01:13 -0500

It’s pretty cool to see this credit card design used on the website of the bank launching with Tap to Pay on iPhone in Ukraine. Looks like an Apple-commissioned photo to me. (Via MacRumors)

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 21:51:23 -0500

With the M3 Ultra Mac Pro out the door and the final Intel version no longer for sale, Apple had no qualms in taking off the gloves and calling out Intel by name in their comparisons left and right.

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 21:30:34 -0500

🆕📝 Thoughts On (And Reactions To) Apple’s ‘Scary Fast’ Event

Here’s my (rapidly becoming traditional) roundup of reactions to the Apple Event, and more cohesive thoughts on what they presented. Turns out I had a lot to say about a short event!

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 18:30:16 -0500

Beware! The faceless jack-o-lanterns guard our door. Happy Halloween! 🎃👻💀

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 17:37:14 -0500

Sorry about the lack of USB-C on Apple’s peripherals, guys. They really wanted me to have a reason to try out this wireless charging base/grip for the Magic Mouse. Ordered! ✅

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 17:31:20 -0500

Anybody else revert to Kid Mode when they’re sick? It’s a spaghettios night. 🤒

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 13:03:13 -0500

I wonder if my Apple One plan will renew at $32.95 or $37.95 tomorrow. I haven’t received a notice about the price increase, which I believe would be a clear violation of their own rules.

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 12:54:31 -0500

It’s about time that they got the recognition they deserve.

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 10:45:31 -0500

A couple updates to my Apple wish/prediction list:

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 10:13:50 -0500

Touch Bar Fully Discontinued on New MacBooks After Seven Years - MacRumors

Just over seven years after it was introduced, the Touch Bar has now been fully discontinued on all new MacBooks sold by Apple, marking the end of an era for a hardware feature that was loved by some users and derided by others.

I only played with the Touch Bar in stores. I thought it was a neat concept, but imperfectly implemented and then left without iteration for years. Honestly, I think there’s still a spot for it today. Half-height function row keys PLUS the Touch Bar above it could have been a winning combination.

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 09:32:16 -0500

😓 I didn’t do so well on those predictions:

✅ M3 iMac
✅ M3 Pro and M3 Max MacBook Pros
❌ Accessories get USB-C and at least one surprising new feature
❌ Gaming focus (callout to Japanese viewers)
❌ At least one costume is seen
✅ Everything is filmed at night

Mon, 30 Oct 2023 23:51:59 -0500

Season 2 of Our Flag Means Death isn’t really doing it for me. There’s still time, though, and I did love the first season. 📺

Mon, 30 Oct 2023 22:53:28 -0500

😍 Those iMac colors still look drop-dead gorgeous. Especially in this lighting. (Video by The Verge)

Mon, 30 Oct 2023 21:28:46 -0500

Would you look at that? Space Black didn’t completely replace Space Gray in the MacBook Pro lineup. The plain M3 14-inch model comes in Silver/Space Gray. Space Black is only for the true professional chip Macs.

Mon, 30 Oct 2023 20:09:03 -0500

Note to self: For the next Apple Event, make the live blogging announcement post, and then thread highlights as replies to that post. Probably better than mucking up everyone’s timeline and easier too.

Mon, 30 Oct 2023 19:53:15 -0500

Come on Apple, I had but one wish. A black version of this keyboard. I wouldn’t even care that it still charges with Lightning. The count continues.

Mon, 30 Oct 2023 19:47:06 -0500

Holy smokes, they actually did it. They finally killed the Touch Bar. No more 13-inch MacBook Pro.

Mon, 30 Oct 2023 19:01:44 -0500

I’m live blogging again for the ‘Scary Fast’ Apple Event! heydingus.net/blog/2023…

Mon, 30 Oct 2023 18:58:20 -0500

My final ‘Scary Fast’ event predictions:

🖥️ M3 iMac
💻 M3 Pro and M3 Max MacBook Pros
⌨️ Accessories get USB-C and at least one surprising new feature
🎮 Gaming focus (callout to Japanese viewers)
🧛 At least one costume is seen
🌔 Everything is filmed at night

Sun, 29 Oct 2023 22:44:40 -0500

🆕📝 ‘Oh God, It’s Raining Newsletters’

I didn’t think reading this article was going to shift me over to the pro-newsletter camp, but here we are.

Sun, 29 Oct 2023 22:43:49 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#116]

Some fun stuff this week! 😁

Sun, 29 Oct 2023 18:02:49 -0500

TIL you can undo a misplaced widget movement. From Apple’s release notes:

Undo on Home Screen lets you undo where you placed a widget by shaking iPad or using a three-finger tap

Sat, 28 Oct 2023 23:03:32 -0500

Apple sends out gift boxes with AirPods Max and snacks to promote M3 Mac event — 9to5Mac:

Apple is sending out special gift boxes to select influencers, such as Lamarr Wilson. The boxes include a pair of AirPods Maxheadphones and some “sweet and spooky” snacks and drinks to consume while watching the event on Monday night.

Wow, what a treat box! I don’t recall any pre-event viewing goodies going out like this before. I wonder if they have too many AirPods Max in stock…

Fri, 27 Oct 2023 16:10:44 -0500

🆕📝 Finally “Clicking” with the Magic Trackpad

Or did I?

Fri, 27 Oct 2023 15:13:56 -0500

🆕📝 ‘The Aftermath of a Massacre Is Always the Time to Push for Gun Legislation’

We’ve had more than enough time to try fixing our problem any other way. We have to stop looking past the most obvious solution. The guns have to go.

Fri, 27 Oct 2023 14:57:53 -0500

Every trick Microsoft pulled to make you browse Edge instead of Chrome - The Verge

Microsoft Edge is actually good, way better than the old Internet Explorer — but you wouldn’t think so based on how desperately the company tries to shovel it onto your plate!

[…]

Here’s an updated list of the dirty tricks Microsoft has played — and the times it’s given up after getting significant pushback.

The thirst is real. Having them all lined up like this is just…wow.

Fri, 27 Oct 2023 14:54:40 -0500

No Scroll November | alternative

Quite easy. Don’t visit youtube, any social media — facebook, twitter, instagram and so on; leave aside youtube (be honest, that one valuable video is surrounded by over a dozen useless crappy montages), espeacially avoid tik-tok and other reels-based shit; confront yourself with your porn addiction and stop it; use SMS to prompt communication (with Short Messages, nomen omen) — don’t write endless streams of consiousness on Messenger, Whatsup etc. Just don’t use any scroll-based app or site.

Maybe. It could be time for a scrolling cleanse.

Fri, 27 Oct 2023 08:20:37 -0500

Happy Mountain Goats day to those celebrating! (Wait, there was another popular album coming out today?!)

Thu, 26 Oct 2023 10:49:05 -0500

Amazon ditched plastic mailers in one US fulfillment center - The Verge

Amazon is fulfilling a small part of its promise to switch from using plastic bubble mailers and air pillows to all recyclable paper packaging for its shipments. The company announced that it has outfitted one facility in Euclid, Ohio, with an upgraded packaging machine that can automatically fold custom-fit boxes to wrap some products, use paper mailers for small items, and slide in paper fillers instead of plastic ones in standard boxes.

At Amazon’s scale, every small improvement can make a huge difference.

Thu, 26 Oct 2023 10:41:08 -0500

“Happy Holidays” is a kindness

My family celebrates Christmas. We’re all varying levels of religious, but Christmas is the holiday we celebrate together as a family. I don’t walk in the door December 24th and yell, “happy holidays!” I say “merry Christmas.” Likewise, when I talk to friends who celebrate other things, I call those out.

But if I don’t know you well enough to know what you do, I generally say “happy holidays.” I don’t operate a business, but if I did I would 100% say “happy holidays” as well since my customers would surely have a bunch of beliefs.

This is the way.

Thu, 26 Oct 2023 08:42:54 -0500

Oh man, send help — I’m considering buying a Meta hardware product. The new Ray-Ban glasses look perfect for snapping pics and videos while out adventuring. They’d be a genuine safety improvement over trying to dig my phone out of my pocket while rock climbing with clients and friends. 😎

Wed, 25 Oct 2023 12:40:39 -0500

10 years at TechCrunch | TechCrunch

Most of our writers also have direct access to the publish button and generally write their own headlines, deks and ledes. You know, that trust thing.

Why would we hire people who were genuinely obsessed with a given technology or space and then not use their most potent asset: their sense of taste.

These days, you could argue that taste is the only moat. And when you apply that to everything from story sense to sourcing, you get a product that remains vital.

This is the way.

Wed, 25 Oct 2023 12:15:08 -0500

NotebookLM: hands-on with Google’s AI-powered note-taking app - The Verge

What if you could have a conversation with your notes? That question has consumed a corner of the internet recently, as companies like Dropbox, Box, Notion, and others have built generative AI tools that let you interact with and create new things from the data you already have in their systems.

Google’s version of this is called NotebookLM. It’s an AI-powered research tool that is meant to help you organize and interact with your own notes.

I’m all for personalized LLMs. I’d love to ask questions of my Apple Notes.

Tue, 24 Oct 2023 23:55:31 -0500

🆕📝 Considering Apple’s Oddball ‘Scary Fast’ Event Next Week

The more I think about this event, the more I feel like Charlie from ‘Its Always Sunny’ with his yarn-riddled Mail Room conspiracy wall.

Tue, 24 Oct 2023 16:10:52 -0500

🆕📝 macOS Sonoma Web Apps Save Me From Constant Discord Updates

Inspiration hit in the middle of another project, so of course I spent the last hour on this quick tip blog post. I hope you like it, Discord nerds. 😉

Now to try to claw my way back to focus.

Tue, 24 Oct 2023 11:44:06 -0500

🆕📝 Bight Gear is joining Black Diamond…get their stuff now while you can!

Their excellent, boutique-brand gear has been a favorite of mine. Get it at a discount before getting they’re subsumed by the big name brand.

Tue, 24 Oct 2023 11:21:51 -0500

Leaving Twitter — Benedict Evans

Meanwhile, beyond the chaos, there has been no sense for the actual users of where we’re going. There was a plan, both ruthless and chaotic, to reset a broken and grotesquely overstaffed company culture and turn it into a place that can execute, but no coherent sense of what it should be executing. What should those newly hard-core engineers be shipping? A ‘super app’? A universal content platform with no external links? Your financial life? Seriously?

And then, there are the Nazis.

Mon, 23 Oct 2023 18:13:58 -0500

🆕📝 You know, I think Apple won its bet on those gold watches

What if the gold Edition watches were about mindshare and not marketshare?

Sun, 22 Oct 2023 22:36:41 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#115]

Sun, 22 Oct 2023 21:21:56 -0500

I just watched the new Taylor Swift movie and don’t get the hype. The thing was riddled with plot holes!

Wed, 18 Oct 2023 23:38:59 -0500

🆕📝 ‘Speak Screen’ was the final piece to my ideal read-it-later setup

Turns out™ there was a much easier way than ‘Speak Selection’ to get articles read out loud using accessibility features. And then there was ANOTHER even easier way to kick off the narration. But now it all works super well. 😁

Wed, 18 Oct 2023 16:42:03 -0500

Hey @danielpunkass, say I was thinking about moving my Tweets onto my main microblog to live as equal microposts, but wanted to tag them all as “Tweets”. Is there a way to bulk-add tags to posts?

Wed, 18 Oct 2023 16:23:32 -0500

Here comes another Netflix price hike - The Verge

Netflix is getting another price increase. As part of the streamer’s third quarter earnings results, Netflix announced that starting today, users on its $9.99 per month Basic plan will now have to pay $11.99, and those paying $19.99 per month for Premium will have to pay $22.99. Netflix’s $6.99 ad-supported plan and $15.49 Standard tier will stay the same price.

Damn. $20 was pushing it. $23 feels over the edge just to get 4K quality out of the TV we own. But that’s easy for me to say as the relatively light TV watcher of my wife and me.

Wed, 18 Oct 2023 14:06:15 -0500

Weirdly enough, I think I’d be more likely to move my whole blogging experience to Micro.blog from Blot if @danielpunkass@mastodon.social’s MarsEdit came to iOS. Text files synced with Dropbox are my whole blogging UI with Blot, but that basically means 1Writer & iA Writer are my blogging apps. MarsEdit lets me have that same list of local text files on a Mac, but I’m less keen about having to dive through the web UI of Micro.blog to edit pages and old posts.

Wed, 18 Oct 2023 11:14:30 -0500

Flipped coins found not to be as fair as thought

The researchers found that Diaconis was right—there was a slight bias. They found the coin landed with the same side up as when it was launched 50.8% of the time. […]

The team concludes that while the bias they found is slight, it could be meaningful if multiple coin tosses are used to determine an outcome—for example, flipping a quarter 1,000 times and betting $1 each time (with winnings of 0 or 2$ each round) should result in an average overall win of $19.

Perhaps a (ahem) chance for @jamesthomson@mastodon.social’s unbiased(?) Dice by PCalc.

Wed, 18 Oct 2023 08:26:51 -0500

Teaching tax in school | ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman’s blog

Misunderstanding tax also leads to mistrust in government. And a healthy amount of mistrust is necessary in a functioning democracy, but when the system is too opaque, problems become harder to address. Most people have a vague notion that tax is used to pay for things like roads and other infrastructure. However, I think if people fully understood the purpose of taxation and the way that money is regulated and spent, they would be slightly less bitter about it. Maybe.

Tue, 17 Oct 2023 22:49:02 -0500

🆕📝 The Spiciest of New Apple Pencil Hot Takes

Let’s all thank @parkerortolani for the laughs today.

Tue, 17 Oct 2023 22:14:29 -0500

Oooh! Look what just arrived! I’m in for some light reading! 📚🧗

Tue, 17 Oct 2023 10:33:45 -0500

After the FineWoven charging port snafu, now I’m wondering how many USB-C cables are not going to fit in that sliding cap-revealed channel of the new Apple Pencil. Or how many people will try a charging-only, no data cable and have issues with pairing. Going all USB-C will have its own pains.

Tue, 17 Oct 2023 09:47:22 -0500

The will-they, won’t-they iPad mystery appears solved. We got a more sane USB-C Apple Pencil for the 10th-gen iPad that offers a slightly reduced feature set at a slightly reduced price, also good for the rest of the USB-C iPad lineup. MacStories has a good summary of the (lengthy) press release.

Tue, 17 Oct 2023 01:30:14 -0500

🆕📝 Letters with Robert, October 2023 [#1]

In which you meet the fantastic @rsilvernail and hear a few stories of our early escapades.

Tue, 17 Oct 2023 00:07:13 -0500

🆕📝 Letters with Jason, Belated [#3]

This one got a bit moody and abstract. But it was cathartic to finally stitch the thoughts together enough to get them out of my head. Sorry it took so long, @jsonbecker! You sent me a real thinker.

Mon, 16 Oct 2023 22:10:51 -0500

🆕📝 Has Google Safeguarded Its New AI Photo Features or Not?

With ease of use, the waters around AI photo edits have become murky. But I’d argue that Google hasn’t just tossed us in without floaties.

Mon, 16 Oct 2023 13:56:25 -0500

🆕📝 Panzarino on what happens if you cancel iTunes Match when you have Apple Music

TL;DR: You can cancel iTunes Match and not lose anything. Mostly. Kinda. You should probably read it. 😜

Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:00:08 -0500

🆕📝 Retail iPhone Updater Could Be Awesome — and an Awesome Pain for Employees

Minutes saved for many customers might mean hours added for few employees.

Sun, 15 Oct 2023 18:16:56 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#113]

Sat, 14 Oct 2023 13:21:07 -0500

Would you look at that! I’ve managed to run a little more each year since 2019. 🙂 🏃‍♂️

Sat, 14 Oct 2023 13:18:53 -0500

This hotel thinks we need professional-grade toilet paper.

Fri, 13 Oct 2023 07:29:20 -0500

Yes, thank you @manton! I much prefer when your RSS feed always points back to your own domain. Make the external link to whatever you’re highlighting obvious, but I subscribed to you. I want to be taken to your site first. It’s more clear, and clear is better.

Shop Talk #586

Wed, 11 Oct 2023 19:16:37 -0500

The diagonal iPhone camera lenses look waaaaay better than the stacked ones. And better than the 3-lens array on the Pro models. Fight me.

Wed, 11 Oct 2023 19:14:49 -0500

I’m feeling post-y and spicy tonight. AMA

Wed, 11 Oct 2023 19:12:00 -0500

“Not sleeping together is complicated.” I just saw this line from the trailer for ‘Still Up’, an Apple TV+ show about a couple of friendly insomniacs. It produced a chuckle. 😆 I love British comedies.

Wed, 11 Oct 2023 19:07:41 -0500

We need Snapchat-like quick sending of photos to multiple people for iOS messages. I could probably make a facsimile of it with Shortcuts, but the UI in Snapchat is great.

Wed, 11 Oct 2023 19:03:28 -0500

I’ve been using TopNotch.app for years and loved it. But now Bartender replicates the rounded screen corners feature, and (fingers crossed) it doesn’t look like it has the same buggy dynamic wallpaper limitations. As much as I liked TopNotch, this means one less app I need running on my system!

Wed, 11 Oct 2023 13:04:08 -0500

I think way too much about usernames and domains. Sometimes I wish I wouldn’t care so much and reclaim that brain time.

Tue, 10 Oct 2023 21:16:08 -0500

Whelp, now I feel silly. I’d been wondering why I couldn’t get my automatic starter to work for months. Turns out I never tried locking the car first. 🤦‍♂️

Sun, 08 Oct 2023 22:16:24 -0500

📺 Finished watching: BEEF on Netflix ★★★★

The ante just. kept. getting. raised!

Sun, 08 Oct 2023 21:54:44 -0500

🆕📝 Sean Hollister: ‘Google’s seven-year Pixel update promise is historic — or meaningless’

Actions speak louder than words.

Sun, 08 Oct 2023 21:53:10 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#113]

Quite the hodgepodge this week!

Sun, 08 Oct 2023 21:46:03 -0500

You might have thought that @burk was joking. He wasn’t joking. 🤣 https://overcast.fm/+hdKPtaH1s/35:36

Sun, 08 Oct 2023 16:59:21 -0500

Had a blast in the (very wet) Lake Placid Half Marathon yesterday! It was awesome to see so many people getting after it despite the rain and chilly weather. And I even placed pretty well, even though I really just wanted to finish without injury. 😁 🏃‍♂️

Sat, 07 Oct 2023 22:33:06 -0500

Uh oh. I’m getting the itch for alpinism. Also, just finished watching Race to the Summit. Awe inspiring human achievements.

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 00:55:41 -0500

🆕📝 (Rope) Solo

Tonight was a good climbing night.

Tue, 03 Oct 2023 22:10:10 -0500

Ugh. Experienced data loss today for the first time in ages. I knew better than to type a whole blog post into a web browser without copying it elsewhere, and yet… Now to decide if it’s worth rewriting.

Mon, 02 Oct 2023 11:17:50 -0500

🆕📝 My Appearance on ‘Really Specific Stories’

Would you look at that, I’m on a podcast! But not just any podcast, one of my favorites: the ever gracious @martinfeld’s Really Specific Stories.

Mon, 02 Oct 2023 08:28:48 -0500

🆕📝 T-Mobile’s $10 iPad cellular plan is the best deal in data

I never hear folks mention it, but I’ve been using this data plan for years. It’s time for more people to know!

Sun, 01 Oct 2023 22:20:19 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things (Which Are Great Limited-Run Podcast Series You’ll Love) This Week [#112]

Fri, 29 Sep 2023 16:53:57 -0500

Between the hint of a Thursday Apple briefing on the Six Colors podcast, and now something special coming next week on AppStories, my ears are perked and curiosity piqued. Any ideas?

Next week, AppStories+ and AppStories will be published a little later than usual on Monday, October 2nd around mid-morning Eastern US time for a discussion of a special review we’ve got coming the same day. We’ll have more to say soon, so stay tuned. [MacStories Weekly #387]

Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:45:08 -0500

You know, I heard on @upgrade@relayfm.social that the Podcastathon thing was pretty fun, but also good and tough. 😂

Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:36:29 -0500

Holy shit, really getting my money’s worth out of this bonus episode of @HemisphericViews. I don’t think I’ve laughed this hard in months! oneprimeplus.com

Tue, 26 Sep 2023 16:24:15 -0500

This seems like something @dmoren@zeppelin.flights, @Moltz@mastodon.social, and @lexfri@hachyderm.io would want to get hooked up ASAP 😂

youtube.com/watch

Mon, 25 Sep 2023 15:21:48 -0500

Big props to Lucas on crushing the lead of Roaches on the Wall (5.10) last night. Made it look easy, which it is not! It’ll be a few seasons before I’m ready to lead that, but his stoke on the send will keep me inspired to continue at it. 📷

Mon, 25 Sep 2023 14:25:42 -0500

If I had purchased a FineWoven case and the USB-C hole alignment was off, let alone how poor the quality and feel of the case seems to be, I’d be returning the case and looking elsewhere before I purchased new cables to fit this one oddball case.

Mon, 25 Sep 2023 05:45:38 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#111]

Sat, 23 Sep 2023 21:21:49 -0500

🧗 Led up this gem today with Gerry! The Disputed (5.8) is the hardest trad lead I’ve done since injuring my finger and, not gonna lie, I’m pretty proud of working through this onsight! (And I was treated to another beautiful sunset on the ride home. Autumn is just the best.) 📷

Fri, 22 Sep 2023 23:46:38 -0500

😲 It’s me! I’m Barrod J on @HemisphericViews! 👋 🎙️

overcast.fm/+hdKPtaH1…

Fri, 22 Sep 2023 22:18:58 -0500

Loving the love for the iPhone 13 mini on @HemisphericViews. It’s the best one. 🧡📱🎙️

overcast.fm/+hdKPtaH1…

Fri, 22 Sep 2023 11:58:56 -0500

It’s Podcastathon day! The Relay FM team is doing live japes and games for 12 hours straight to raise money to cure childhood cancer with St. Jude. Tune in and give. Not until it hurts, but until it feel really good.

Fri, 22 Sep 2023 10:45:41 -0500

It’s happening again! These awesome little 30W USB-C chargers are just $10 at Woot and $15 on Amazon. (Via The Verge)

Thu, 21 Sep 2023 10:34:42 -0500

🆕📝 These Are Not the Consoles You’re Looking For

Maybe the “gaming console”-capable A17 Pro is as destined to upgrade the Apple TV’s gaming cred as it is the Mac’s.

Thu, 21 Sep 2023 09:21:50 -0500

📷🧗 Got over to Cloudspin Cliff with Matt Oaks and @saw_dust_ery last night. Cool cliff with awesome views of Whiteface. Led up Sundays are for Friends (5.8) not clean, but felt good to test a piece again. Then top roped CCR (5.10a) after Oakcy put up the rope in the dark. Incredible climb. Can’t wait to get back there.

Wed, 20 Sep 2023 10:13:26 -0500

🆕📝 Call People (and Things) What They Ask To Be Called

It’s not that hard.

Wed, 20 Sep 2023 07:02:33 -0500

I just released version 1.5 of the ‘Stand Goal Cheater’ shortcut! Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Fixed an iOS 17 bug by adding minuscule distance and calories to the ‘Log Workout’ action (Thanks Robert W.)
Added iPad support

Tue, 19 Sep 2023 12:47:05 -0500

🆕📝 How I Automatically Include a Blog Description in My RSS Feed

This one gets a little extra nerdy with HTML, Mustache, and editing the RSS feed template.

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 23:26:22 -0500

🆕📝 HeyDingus for Relay FM for St. Jude for Ending Childhood Cancer

Join me, Relay FM, and the broader Apple community in donating to St. Jude. Because cancer sucks.

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 22:07:42 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#110]

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 22:06:36 -0500

🆕📝 So That’s What They Do With All the Old iMacs

And other observations from the CBS interview with Tim Cook.

Mon, 18 Sep 2023 21:12:48 -0500

🆕📝 Viticci’s Very Good™ Lede

Sun, 17 Sep 2023 21:21:54 -0500

lol 😂 Instagram suggested creating this Reel. 📹

Fri, 15 Sep 2023 22:51:49 -0500

Hopped up Empress → Greensleeves (5.6) at Chapel Pond Slab today with the great @saw_dust_ery. Always fun to get up on tops of things! And was treated to a gorgeous sunset on the drive home. 📷

Wed, 13 Sep 2023 07:50:31 -0500

Soooo…how ‘bout that next-gen CarPlay that Apple promised would come out this year, and then hasn’t said a peep about since? ⏳

Wed, 13 Sep 2023 00:18:40 -0500

🆕📝 Brief Thoughts After Apple’s Wonderlust Event

Alright, I finally got to watch the keynote.

Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:23:57 -0500

🆕📝 Gruber: ‘Apple’s Two-Pronged Annual iPhone Strategy’

There are a lot of new iPhones introduced each year. What they feature, and what sticks around is worth noting.

Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:20:39 -0500

🆕📝 Brief Thoughts Before Apple’s Wonderlust Event

It’s Apple Event day! I’m not at my most excited, but I do have Thoughts™ about what’s rumored to be introduced.

Mon, 11 Sep 2023 23:10:58 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#109]

Thu, 07 Sep 2023 18:25:10 -0500

I have great news for Stewart’s Shops customers in northern New York, at least in the Lake Placid region: they finally accept tap to pay again after a multi-year hiatus. Should be great for bikers and runners.

Thu, 07 Sep 2023 09:56:25 -0500

I did a new thing today and had an absolutely grand time with it. Can’t wait to share more. 😁

Wed, 06 Sep 2023 21:09:12 -0500

Hot Take™ , coming in 🥵: I don’t begrudge this transition to (essentially) email addresses as usernames for the web. If everyone had a domain to use instead, I think that’d be best, but user@domain.name is okay in my books.

Sat, 02 Sep 2023 19:07:55 -0500

The buildup of entire little worlds on the forest floor fascinates me.

Fri, 01 Sep 2023 22:20:03 -0500

Which is taller? Distance can abstract height.

Sun, 27 Aug 2023 20:10:50 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things (Which Are All Trust Clicks) This Week [#108]

Oops, all Trust Clicks edition!

Tue, 15 Aug 2023 13:51:49 -0500

Moving day 🥲 🙂 📷

Sun, 13 Aug 2023 10:44:58 -0500

Text replacement is one of my very favorite things across the Apple ecosystem. Add it once, it works everywhere. I must have hundreds by now. The only things missing for me is variables, like for the current date. (Settings → General → Keyboards → Text Replacement)

Sun, 13 Aug 2023 09:36:06 -0500

🆕📝 Yep, Everyone Is Right. Callsheet Is Great.

Congrats to @caseyliss@mastodon.social on the launch! I have a feeling this one is going far. 🚀

Sun, 13 Aug 2023 08:39:29 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#107]

Thu, 10 Aug 2023 20:53:39 -0500

Offshore wind potential in the US is huge but untapped // The Verge

Offshore wind resources are plentiful enough to generate up to a quarter of the nation’s electricity by 2050, in time to help meet global climate goals.

Harness the wind!

Thu, 10 Aug 2023 14:28:43 -0500

A thing that just happened. I wanted to light a candle, but my electronic plasma lighter was too low on battery. I searched through my car for a charger, but couldn’t find a micro USB plug. I walked away, defeated. Then I realized that I had moved a pack of matches out of the way while digging. 🤦‍♂️

Thu, 10 Aug 2023 10:39:39 -0500

🆕📝 Threads (Actually) Adds Auto-Generated Alt Text

Some tests were performed.

Wed, 09 Aug 2023 23:01:47 -0500

I’m testing out transitioning from 1Password to iCloud Passwords with help from Simon Støvring and Ricky Mondello. So far, so good. 👌

Wed, 09 Aug 2023 22:51:48 -0500

Looks like we’re gonna be New Yorkers for a bit…we bought our own piece of the Adirondacks! 😁 📷

Mon, 07 Aug 2023 20:12:05 -0500

Why my internet presence has been quiet this past week:

Sun, 06 Aug 2023 23:52:06 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#106]

Mon, 31 Jul 2023 21:45:53 -0500

So, I’ve been doing more tweaking to the Hello theme on my Micro.blog, but I feel a bit uncomfortable just editing the code in the browser. I got hosed once by updating the theme and losing all my changes. What are people doing for version control? Git’s kinda overwhelming.

Mon, 31 Jul 2023 19:04:27 -0500

I’m heading out into the woods tomorrow for a multiday trip and am wondering if I should update to Public Beta 2 from Beta 1. Does anyone with experience know if battery life is better, worse, or the same on B2?

Mon, 31 Jul 2023 13:58:35 -0500

🆕📝 ‘Google’s Reading Mode app for Android can save you from the worst of web design’

Based on The Verge’s description, Google is very close to nailing the reading/listening experience across its OS.

Mon, 31 Jul 2023 13:56:41 -0500

🆕📝 Alt Text Is (Maybe) Enabled on Threads

Threads’ alt text implementation could turn out to be the best yet, if only we could all try it.

Sun, 30 Jul 2023 23:58:28 -0500

Second Shortcuts commission done. 💪 That was a tricky one.

Sun, 30 Jul 2023 20:35:28 -0500

😳 CC: @ismh@eworld.social

Sun, 30 Jul 2023 18:55:39 -0500

And with the flurry of posts today, July 2023 has become my most prolific month on HeyDingus. And still I have so much that I haven’t found time to write!

Sun, 30 Jul 2023 18:16:44 -0500

🆕📝 Quick Tip: Get Visual Narration Anywhere There’s Text

There’s a narrator living in your phone, just waiting to be called upon.

Sun, 30 Jul 2023 18:14:53 -0500

🆕📝 ‘The past is not true’

You can’t change the past, but maybe the past isn’t quite what you thought it was anyway.

Sun, 30 Jul 2023 18:13:21 -0500

There are two neighbor children here, whose names I don’t know, that I always think of as Walker and Texas Ranger.

Sun, 30 Jul 2023 17:58:36 -0500

You learn (see?) something new everyday. Today it was two things. First, pricker weed taller than me. Second, a Tesla Model 3 towing a camper. Wish I got pics.

Sun, 30 Jul 2023 16:03:49 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#105]

Sun, 30 Jul 2023 14:53:34 -0500

For the Micro.blog fans: I just released version 1.0 of the ‘Open Micro.blog Reply’ shortcut! Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Ever have trouble getting back to the conversation from a reply you made that’s on your Micro.blog site? This shortcut will bring you right there!

Sat, 29 Jul 2023 22:05:05 -0500

Alex Cranz:

But the real reason we have to stop calling microblog posts tweets isn’t because the microblog itself is slowly shedding its micro or because X is changing the Tweet button. We have to stop using it because I’ve really tried for the last few weeks since I called for us all to call them tweets and it sucked. “Hey did you see that Thread tweet” sounds sillier than “hey did you see that Thread post” when its a 500-character screed about someone’s Diablo IV build. Ditto for “Can you believe what that lady tweeted on Mastodon?”

Vindicated. 💪

Sat, 29 Jul 2023 18:38:56 -0500

I’d really prefer for my header menu to not have this weird in-between phase where the items make a second row.

If the window is too narrow for them to be on one row, I just want it to collapse into this hamburger dropdown. Any CSS magicians out there who can help me out?

Fri, 28 Jul 2023 21:56:12 -0500

There’s something to @danielpunkass@mastodon.social’s framing here on @coreint. Maybe Musk did those of us who used to like Twitter a favor here… 🎙️ overcast.fm/+KxFFPJjw…

Fri, 28 Jul 2023 18:58:48 -0500

Wow, I hadn’t even considered real-time ad generation for each individual internet surfer before. The internet ad network is about to get even more weird and creepy. dithering.fm 🎙️

Fri, 28 Jul 2023 17:45:42 -0500

Did anyone else notice in the @atpfm@mastodon.social theme song this week where the contraction of “…and if you’re into Twitter, you can follow them…” changed from “you are” to “you were”? It was subtle, but I could tell. 😉

Thu, 27 Jul 2023 22:25:03 -0500

🎙️ It’s shit like this that makes @connected@relayfm.social the most consistently great (ostensibly tech?) podcast on the web. The japes are unreal. 🤣 Keep it up, boys. 🙌 www.relay.fm/connected…

Thu, 27 Jul 2023 13:16:35 -0500

🆕📝 “Reading” the Web Could Get Way More Intimate With Personal Voice

I can’t remember if I’ve mentioned this idea before, so I’m laying it all out here so it’s documented somewhere on this everlasting internet.

Thu, 27 Jul 2023 09:10:18 -0500

Does anyone else get a strange visceral satisfaction from using something up? The last bit of orange juice from the bottle. The final squirt of toothpaste from the tube. The last few noodles of macaroni from the box. There’s something pleasing about being able to get rid of the container.

Thu, 27 Jul 2023 07:18:25 -0500

🍿 Just watched: Oppenheimer ★★★★

It’s a far cry from The Dark Knight or Inception, but boy does Nolan know how to make a movie. I was riveted through the whole three-hour trial-that-wasn’t-a-trial.

I’m continually amazed by what humans can make, and what they can do to each other.

Wed, 26 Jul 2023 17:17:42 -0500

🆕📝 Shortcuts Tips: Use One-Action ‘Run Shortcut’ Shortcuts to Create Alternative Launch Phrases and to Build the Widgets You Want

How I get around some silly Shortcuts limitations.

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 16:54:53 -0500

🆕📝 Yet Another Opinion on X

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 14:47:42 -0500

🆕📝 Instapaper Has Reentered the Ring

My quest for the best read-later app continues…

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 14:46:04 -0500

Holy smokes, how come no one told me Avril Lavine’s new album last year was full of bangers? 🤘🎵

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 14:22:16 -0500

🆕📝 Threads Graduates to Being a Social Network Where You Can Actually, You Know, Follow People

Hey, I might actually check Threads every day again!

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 09:10:14 -0500

🆕📝 Joshua Benton: ‘If other media companies thought about brand equity the way Elon Musk thinks about Twitter’s (er, X’s)’

Gotta read to the end.

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 08:46:31 -0500

🆕📝 Ars Technica: ‘Fed’s new instant payment system could be trouble for PayPal, Venmo’

I’m hoping that more competition from the top will push these services to offer even better rewards and features as they vie, literally, for our money.

Mon, 24 Jul 2023 17:54:01 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#104]

Sat, 22 Jul 2023 21:44:23 -0500

I just released version 1.3 of the ‘Time Saved With Overcast’ shortcut! Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Ever wonder how many hours Overcast’s Smart Speed has saved you over time? This shortcut’ll help to track it. I’ve updated it with a new setup flow and checked OS compatibility.

Sat, 22 Jul 2023 20:53:38 -0500

Damn, navigating iPadOS with a mouse is so good! macOS + iPadOS with Universal Control is a powerhouse.

Fri, 21 Jul 2023 07:44:34 -0500

11% increase in Texas’s infant mortality rate from 2021 to 2022. 😳 11 percent. The wild thing is that I’m sure many Texans are perversely proud of that number. To those who are not, I am so sorry about them and for you. 😔 (Podcast link)

Fri, 21 Jul 2023 07:10:19 -0500

Has anyone else with a Peak Design Everyday Case for their iPhone mini noticed that the power button gets pressed unintentionally all the time? Thought I got a dud so I bought a second one, but no. The volume buttons are perfect, but the side button seems like it’s sized wrong. 😑

Thu, 20 Jul 2023 14:35:27 -0500

I’ve been Doing Too Much With Computers™ lately. Tendinitis in my mouse arm and swiping wrist is setting in. Gotta get outside more.

Thu, 20 Jul 2023 12:45:10 -0500

🆕📝 Letters with Jason, July 2023 [#2]

Chatting about pets, positions at work, and bringing a unique perspective to one’s site.

Thu, 20 Jul 2023 12:11:37 -0500

When you’re on hold and the music cuts out and you’re sure that someone is finally picking up…but it’s just the music loop starting again. And again. 🙄

Wed, 19 Jul 2023 21:46:36 -0500

So today I guided some clients from a large corporation on a hike. I ended up in the back, hanging with someone who wasn’t quite as fast as the others. Turns out this was, at age 65, her very first hike and, indeed, her first notable time in a forest. I was honored to summit the mountain with her. ⛰️

Tue, 18 Jul 2023 23:14:31 -0500

🆕📝 Alan Dye was interviewed on ‘Design Matters’, and it reminded me that he’s just a person

Engaging interview from start to finish. Although it doesn’t offer much “special insight” into Apple as one might hope (they never do), I left feeling like I knew Alan and his design process better.

Tue, 18 Jul 2023 21:44:30 -0500

While watching the first episode of The Afterparty Season 2, I was a little worried that it had lost its mojo. The setup seemed a bit ham-fisted, and I didn’t connect with any of the characters. But the second episode was an absolute delight. Really looking forward to the reset of the season now! 📺

Tue, 18 Jul 2023 12:23:41 -0500

If anyone is still looking to get into Bluesky, I’ve got a couple of invite codes you’re welcome to use. First come, first serve!

~~bsky-social-qddpp-ijcql~~
~~bsky-social-2f5yn-euewv~~

Mon, 17 Jul 2023 18:21:17 -0500

Oh no. I’ve just realized that I’ve been using en dashes (–) where I should have been using em dashes (—) for years and nobody told me. And I love en — well, actually — em dashes. I may never recover.

Mon, 17 Jul 2023 15:26:10 -0500

I just released version 2.0 of the ‘Save Podcast Show Notes’ shortcut! Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Nearly a complete rewrite! Now you can choose how to save the notes (task and/or note), and which apps to use (Things/Reminders and Drafts/Notes). Plus a sweet new setup flow.

Mon, 17 Jul 2023 07:14:28 -0500

🆕📝 Tiny Awards Wants Your Vote for the Slickest Mini Internet Project

There’s some seriously impressive stuff going on with these finalists. Voting ends Thursday!

Sun, 16 Jul 2023 21:19:11 -0500

🆕📝 Quick Tip: Use CleanShot X to Pin and Edit Any Image

TIL that I can start working with any image in CleanShot with a single right-click.

Sun, 16 Jul 2023 20:45:50 -0500

I just released version 1.1 of the ‘Convert Text and Post to Threads’ shortcut! Get it here from my Shortcuts Library.

Can’t stop, won’t stop. It now accommodates posts containing a single URL by relocating it to the bottom, where it can be removed in Threads while retaining its nice link preview.

Sun, 16 Jul 2023 16:36:09 -0500

🆕📝 Shortcuts Tips: Techniques Behind the ‘Convert Text and Post to Threads’ Shortcut

It took five hours to write and nobody asked for it, but here’s how I built my shortcut for posting to Threads.

Sun, 16 Jul 2023 14:23:58 -0500

Thanks to @rmondello@hachyderm.io, this video is my new (old) obsession.

Sun, 16 Jul 2023 09:53:54 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#103]

Sun, 16 Jul 2023 09:03:36 -0500

Big bro, little bro. But which is which? 📷

Sun, 16 Jul 2023 08:26:35 -0500

We don’t have kids, so our fur babies reap all the benefits of my wife’s and my nurturing instinct. An Instagram ad got me for this chase-around, problem-solving bowl for treats. Looks pretty fun!

Sun, 16 Jul 2023 00:08:37 -0500

I just released version 1.2 of the ‘Shuffle HEY World’ shortcut! Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

It pulls up a random blog post from a random HEY World Blog. This is an update to bring it in line with my new style guide for the library.

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 22:58:08 -0500

I just released version 1.4 of the ‘Amazon Affiliate Linker’ shortcut! Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Cleans up tracking-laden Amazon URLs and adds your Affiliate ID to the end. Minor update to bring it in line with my new style and remove the Amazon Smile bits since that’s dead.

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 21:44:30 -0500

Four really good previews:

Killers of the Flower Moon youtube.com/watch

Foundation, Season 2 youtube.com/watch

Wonka youtube.com/watch

Napoleon youtube.com/watch

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 19:46:24 -0500

You ever pull that muscle (two muscles?) that results in both your chest and upper back feeling super tight? Can’t lean forward, can’t lean back. Both hurt. 10/10 would not recommend.

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 07:00:10 -0500

🆕📝 Ongoing Sale at the HeyDingus Store

Want $5 off one of my shirts or phone cases, plus free shipping? Well, I want to give it to you! Use this code: K8QWSGPK47

Fri, 14 Jul 2023 23:58:57 -0500

Introducing the ‘Convert Text and Post to Threads’ shortcut! Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

For the Threadheads (sorry EU folks 😢) who post to multiple networks. This converts a Markdown-formatted post into a Threads-friendly one, complete with auto-threaded image descriptions.

Fri, 14 Jul 2023 20:30:16 -0500

🧵 iOS 17 (et al.) Beta Impressions Thread:

The new little growing text magnification loupe animating out of the text selection handles is delightful!

Fri, 14 Jul 2023 19:27:57 -0500

I cannot wait until we close on our house so that I can delete the Realtor.com app, and also all the hundreds of emails I have gotten from them. Multiple every day. 🙄 That will be my reward for buying a house. Along with the house, I suppose.

Fri, 14 Jul 2023 19:15:54 -0500

Not sure if this a MacStories Mastodon server issue (cc: @alex@macstories.net) or a Micro.blog one (cc: @help) but I feel like I need to follow both these accounts to see everything. Also, not sure which account to @ in order to reach their mentions. Any ideas?

Fri, 14 Jul 2023 17:35:12 -0500

I was today years old when I learned this emoji picker interface exists for the split keyboard on iPad (mini, at least).

Thu, 13 Jul 2023 15:14:08 -0500

Hey @viticci@mastodon.macstories.net any ideas why Apple Frames would leave the background transparent (preferred) for a group of three screenshots, but add a white background for pair of them? 🤔 Example in this post.

Thu, 13 Jul 2023 06:58:29 -0500

🆕📝 Might Threads Instigate Instagram’s Unraveling?

Some rumination on the future of Instagram in a post-Threads world.

Wed, 12 Jul 2023 23:32:17 -0500

Version 1.0 of the ‘Open Threads App’ shortcut has been released! Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

The first in a series of Threads shortcuts (stay tuned), this is a simple flow that opens the Threads app if run from an iPhone or iPad. It’s best used as a step in another shortcut.

Wed, 12 Jul 2023 22:27:53 -0500

🆕📝 The Best-Looking MagSafe Stand Out There

Stick a USB hub in there, Belkin, pretty please!?

Wed, 12 Jul 2023 22:19:52 -0500

My only Prime Day purchase was this pair of Crocs, which I’ve been meaning to buy for weeks anyway. My last (off-brand Walmart) Crocs have lasted me at least a decade.

Wed, 12 Jul 2023 19:02:50 -0500

🆕📝 Shortcuts Tips: Using ‘Show Alert’ for More Flexibility

It’s a doubleheader sort of day, so here’s a ‘Show Alert’ tip to go with the ‘Show Result’ one.

Wed, 12 Jul 2023 16:55:38 -0500

I’ve been patient, but now it’s beta time. Here we go! 😎

Wed, 12 Jul 2023 16:19:28 -0500

🆕📝 Shortcuts Tips: Use ‘Show Result’ for Troubleshooting

In which I enthusiastically share my belated discovery with the world.

Wed, 12 Jul 2023 13:44:11 -0500

These posts from @lexfri@hachyderm.io and @matt@isfeeling.social scurried through time and space, wires and waves, destined to arrive together in my timeline. 🤣

Wed, 12 Jul 2023 13:26:59 -0500

Most of my ChatGPT usage lately has been to satiate my tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon and double-check infrequently used phrases. Most people probably just type these into Google, but, frankly, ChatGPT excels here.

Wed, 12 Jul 2023 10:28:20 -0500

Horray! ‘The Afterparty’, one of of my favorite TV+ shows, is back!

It reminded me of that time I was (one of?) the first to report that Apple had posted the show’s pilot to YouTube – something they’re experimenting with other platforms these days.

Wed, 12 Jul 2023 09:15:18 -0500

Since when has the ‘Show Result’ action in Shortcuts provided a cancel button? I’ve been using ‘Show Alert’ like a fool for too long so I can stop the shortcut while testing.

Wed, 12 Jul 2023 08:06:52 -0500

Not to be too, ahem, centralized on Threads, it looks like the App Store is pointing folks toward Mastodon. I thought perhaps we’d gotten a glimpse of an ever-elusive author for one of these stories, but nope. Apple wields their secrecy with discipline. 🤫

Wed, 12 Jul 2023 00:35:32 -0500

For simplicity and consistency with Mastodon and Threads, I wonder if it’s time to reconsider upping Micro.blog’s character limit from 300 to 500. @manton and @jean (or anyone), what do you think?

Wed, 12 Jul 2023 00:31:46 -0500

I’m kind of leaning into the Threads algorithm by following way more accounts than on other social networks. See someone’s post that I like? Followed! If it’s going to show me random stuff anyway, I might as well tune it more to my liking. Micro.blog is where I follow folks who I don’t want to miss.

Wed, 12 Jul 2023 00:17:32 -0500

I, once again, stayed up way too late making shortcuts for the library. It’s always fun, but definitely time for sleep now. Will share them tomorrow. 😴 (Posted using one of said shortcuts.)

Tue, 11 Jul 2023 23:06:39 -0500

🆕📝 It’s a Prime Day to Try an Indie App

I know you’re already at your maximum for shopping event alerts, but you’ll kick yourself if you don’t check out this list of amazing deals for apps made by indie developers.

Tue, 11 Jul 2023 22:48:14 -0500

Proof that there are still good exchanges on the internet: microblog.pratikmhatre.com/2023/07/1…

This back and forth made me smile. 🙂
cc: @pratik and @jsonbecker

Tue, 11 Jul 2023 20:19:22 -0500

Uh, wow. 😯 youtube.com/watch

Tue, 11 Jul 2023 03:27:12 -0500

🆕📝 Mac Reincarnation Diary: I’m A Little Worried

Tue, 11 Jul 2023 02:26:49 -0500

🆕📝 9to5Mac: ‘Porsche unveils revamped CarPlay experience with climate controls and more’

Tue, 11 Jul 2023 02:26:48 -0500

🆕📝 Letters with Jason, July 2023 [#1]

Mon, 10 Jul 2023 16:27:36 -0500

Is anyone else super particular about keeping their photo library pristine? Screenshots get taken, used, and deleted in short order.

Mon, 10 Jul 2023 16:26:27 -0500

🆕📝 Kyle Bradshaw: ‘Threads readies handy explainer of Mastodon and the fediverse’

Mon, 10 Jul 2023 15:48:29 -0500

I’m starting a “nuke and pave” (erase and restore to factory settings and set up as new) of my Mac mini. Wish me luck. 🤞

Mon, 10 Jul 2023 11:33:56 -0500

In honor of the App Store’s 15th anniversary, here are the first 15 apps I ever downloaded (inspired by @basicappleguy@mastodon.social). So sad I wasn’t there on Day 1. In fact, I’m pretty sure I didn’t even have an iPhone OS compatible device. I think I just downloaded these from iTunes in preparation.🤓

Mon, 10 Jul 2023 07:22:57 -0500

Between climate change-accelerating emissions, animal cruelty, deforestation, and water shortage, the reasons are stacking up for getting on board with lab grown (real) meat. Sign me up. overcast.fm/+eadfwR4d…

Mon, 10 Jul 2023 00:26:53 -0500

🆕📝 Demystifying RSS and Other Subscriptions With a /Feeds Page

Sun, 09 Jul 2023 20:20:47 -0500

I just finished my first Shortcuts commission! 🤩 It was pretty cool to work on a shortcut specifically for someone else. Luckily they use my same blogging platform (Blot), so I had a head start on how it should work. If you have something you want to automate on your Apple devices, give me a shout!

Sun, 09 Jul 2023 20:08:05 -0500

Yesterday was an active outdoor day. Taking advantage of today’s rain for a computer day. 💻

Sun, 09 Jul 2023 16:27:12 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#102]

Sun, 09 Jul 2023 15:32:22 -0500

I’m looking for a MagSafe charger that also doubles as a USB hub, like this handy HyperDrive Qi charger I’ve been using for years. I want use it with my phone in landscape for the upcoming Standby feature. I don’t think this exists, but I’d love to be proven wrong! Anyone seen something like it?

Sun, 09 Jul 2023 10:16:06 -0500

I love the challenge of editing down a micropost to fit within the character limit. It’s a fun, nerdy word game to get it just right. If anyone was paying attention, they’d see that a ton of my posts are precisely 300 characters long. ✊ (My tells are when you start noticing “&“s and absent commas.)

Sun, 09 Jul 2023 08:24:45 -0500

Not that it should matter to you, but if you’re blogging on Micro.blog and don’t have an RSS feed for just your long posts, you probably won’t make it into my RSS reader. I recommend using automatic categorization + the Feeds plugin to make it super easy to subscribe to your long-form posts via RSS.

Sat, 08 Jul 2023 23:26:48 -0500

🆕📝 Threaded Thoughts

Sat, 08 Jul 2023 22:24:12 -0500

Another awesome day here in the ADK. 15 miles by bike, then a walk downtown to the local farmer’s market, followed by a couple of hours spent with the pup at a new favorite swimming hole. And this time I got to spend the day with my wife! 🥰

Sat, 08 Jul 2023 21:49:39 -0500

I’m hanging out on the porch and my cat is absolutely loving chasing around all the flying bugs that the lights have attracted. I think he thinks they’re all toys I’ve brought just for him. 🐱

Sat, 08 Jul 2023 20:26:56 -0500

🆕📝 I Can’t “Just Call Them Tweets”

Sat, 08 Jul 2023 00:26:52 -0500

🆕📝 Every Service Should Allow Domains as Handles

Fri, 07 Jul 2023 22:56:32 -0500

It is my dog’s tradition to join whoever heads into the bathroom first in the morning, no matter how early or how tired he is. Honestly, I love having the company. 🥰🐶

Fri, 07 Jul 2023 21:32:12 -0500

Introducing the ‘Emoji Meaning’ shortcut! Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Curious about an emoji, what it means, or even is? Simply share, paste, or type an emoji into the shortcut to pull up its official name, history, and different platform representations on Emojipedia.

Fri, 07 Jul 2023 20:06:40 -0500

I’m following @manton’s lead on an approach to Threads for now. Manually cross-post with the goal of consolidating back to my ActivityPub-enabled microblog when that’s possible. But I have to say that seeing more of my real-life friends’ posts again has been cool and I’m enjoying interacting there.

Fri, 07 Jul 2023 19:52:18 -0500

Regarding Taylor Swift’s first “era”, Speak Now has, by far, the most of my favorites. Some absolute bangers. So fun to revisit this album today. 🎵

Fri, 07 Jul 2023 14:07:50 -0500

Had an awesome day after work yesterday! Got in a bouldering session, went for a quick dip in a perfect temperature lake, and then rocked out at a local live music gig. I love it here.

Wed, 05 Jul 2023 19:26:58 -0500

Sure, I’ll kick the tires around.

🧵 threads.net/@hey.jarrod

Wed, 05 Jul 2023 19:09:53 -0500

Version 1.3 of the ‘WordleBot’ shortcut has been released! Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Updated the introduction actions to fit with the new Library, made the Setup Stuff area more distinct, checked for compatibility with iOS 16, and re-enabled the Share Sheet.

Wed, 05 Jul 2023 18:30:37 -0500

Version 1.2 of the ‘Play Wordle’ shortcut has been released! Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

It’s a minor update to fit in the new library, and I added comments that better explain the sections of the workflow.

Tue, 04 Jul 2023 19:35:04 -0500

Version 2.2 of the ‘De-News’ shortcut has been released! Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Added new About and Description comments, and a comment to show where it matches the original URL with Regex, re-enabled the Share Sheet input, and capitalized the title.

Tue, 04 Jul 2023 18:53:57 -0500

Version 1.1 of the ‘How Much Do I Have to Save for Vision Pro?’ shortcut has been released! Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

The update includes new Import Questions to set the price and tax rate, a cleaner flow, and new description comments.

Tue, 04 Jul 2023 07:26:37 -0500

🆕📝 ‘Maybe Zuck is Winning the Fight With Elon Anyway’

Tue, 04 Jul 2023 06:43:05 -0500

The @upgrade@relayfm.social boys are bringing the grins this morning. 😂 🧩 ⏯️

Mon, 03 Jul 2023 22:20:29 -0500

I didn’t think I was going to use @vincent’s kudos feature of @tinylytics cause I didn’t want a “like count” on my blog posts. But then I thought of an ideal use case! I’m transitioning my shortcuts library away from RoutineHub and onto my own site, so I added a 👍 button to each of those, like this.

Mon, 03 Jul 2023 06:35:52 -0500

Ooh La La! This will be extra helpful in apps like Reader and Matter where I like to listen to articles but they can’t parse paywall items. Their Safari web view is logged in, though, so I’ll just bring up Safari Reader and listen to it that way instead. Thanks @viticci@mastodon.macstories.net! ⏯️

Sun, 02 Jul 2023 23:26:38 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#101]

Sun, 02 Jul 2023 22:13:57 -0500

Oh damn, I just realized that you can swipe between stages in iPadOS Stage Manager using the 4-finger swipe gesture. It’s just like swiping between full-screen apps and it might have just gotten Stage Manger to click for me.

Sun, 02 Jul 2023 17:47:13 -0500

Is anyone not thinking that the new DockKit framework for iOS 17 is a major hint toward Apple’s smart home product goals? I’d put money down that a motorized stand will come sooner rather than later from Apple, hopefully for both iPhone and iPad.

Sat, 01 Jul 2023 22:26:55 -0500

🆕📝 Blank Page? Never Met Her.

Sat, 01 Jul 2023 15:26:30 -0500

🆕📝 Elon Thinks You’re Reading Too Many Tweets

Sat, 01 Jul 2023 15:26:29 -0500

🆕📝 A Short Ramble About Welcoming Meta to the Open Social Web

Sat, 01 Jul 2023 15:26:29 -0500

🆕📝 Letters with Chris V, June 2023 [#3]

Thu, 29 Jun 2023 09:51:51 -0500

Godammit. 😞 This was a huge part of why I went with a Kobo. An opportunity for Readwise to expand their Kobo integration to include Reader? But probably not.

Kobo ebook readers will be losing their ability to read web articles saved to the Pocket read-later service later this summer. Though Pocket integration has been available on Kobo devices for years, the functionality will stop working after August 15th, 2023, when Pocket will require all of its users to transition to Firefox accounts to log in.
Dan Seifert https://www.theverge.com/23778208/kobo-pocket-ebook-reader-integration-ending

Wed, 28 Jun 2023 23:12:54 -0500

Yup, MKBHD’s video has convinced me that I want an iPhone/iPad version of the Pixel Fold. 👍

Mon, 26 Jun 2023 00:26:37 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things (Which Are My Favorite 7 Things Posts Thus Far) This Week [#100]

Sun, 25 Jun 2023 20:19:33 -0500

It’s kinda fun how quickly an idea can go from just a spark to being published on the World Wide Web. Here’s a fresh list of some things that I’ve been waiting for… https://heydingus.net/lists/days-waiting

Sat, 24 Jun 2023 12:26:41 -0500

🆕📝 ‘Why Ford Betting on Tesla’s Plug is Bad News’

Fri, 23 Jun 2023 12:26:36 -0500

🆕📝 Letters with Chris V, June 2023 [#2]

Thu, 15 Jun 2023 18:53:52 -0500

Did I miss the Mac Pro reviews? I don’t think I saw any alongside the 15” Air and Mac Studio ones dropping. But here we are, after they’re available for customers to buy.

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 15:27:15 -0500

I don’t feel like it gets said enough anymore, so I’ll say it: Apple got so much right with the foundation of macOS and its UI is a joy to use to this day. I can have so much going on at once and never feel overwhelmed because of the myriad of ways to jump between apps. </appreciation>

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 13:27:01 -0500

🆕📝 In Praise of Apple Mail VIPs…from a Non-Apple Mail User

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 06:38:30 -0500

New Bluesky, who dis? (Thanks @maique!) I’m @heyjarrod.net over there, but don’t get too excited. I’ll probably just be cross-posting from Micro.blog tbh.

Mon, 12 Jun 2023 22:36:25 -0500

If I’m being honest, the inverted-T-arrows keyboard was a sideshow to the more significant keyboard issues that people identified the last few years. I think Apple overcorrected and full-sized left & right arrow keys would’ve achieved the visual symmetry they wanted without significant compromise.

Mon, 12 Jun 2023 06:26:31 -0500

🆕📝 Oh, Hey, My Mastodon Followers Have Surpassed Twitter Ones

Sun, 11 Jun 2023 23:50:21 -0500

A Chinese buffet restaurant reopened in our town this weekend and it brought me right back to being a kid and having the ability to shovel endless plates of delicious cuisine down my gullet. I can’t consume quite that much anymore, but I do still love me a good buffet. 🥢

Sun, 11 Jun 2023 23:01:46 -0500

Hey @viticci@mastodon.macstories.net and @johnvoorhees@mastodon.macstories.net, I’m putting together a Shortcuts library on my site and wondered if you’d mind if I reused some wording from the MacStories Shortcuts Archive? It’s been a huge inspiration, and I liked how you did the intro/legalese.

Sun, 11 Jun 2023 21:23:25 -0500

Uhh…just checked in on Reddark and over half of the subreddits have now gone private in protest of Reddit’s API decisions. This got way bigger than I expected and I’m very curious about how (if?) Reddit will respond.

Sun, 11 Jun 2023 21:09:42 -0500

Whoa, imagine a modern operating system update coming in under 30 MB. A majority of my apps have bigger file sizes than this.

Sun, 11 Jun 2023 16:01:42 -0500

Here we go again… 🏡 😬

Sun, 11 Jun 2023 15:26:06 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#98]

Sat, 10 Jun 2023 22:23:59 -0500

I realized today that because the Vision Pro lacks hot-swapping the battery pack for longer sessions, the best way to keep using it beyond 2 hours and not be tethered to the wall will likely be a battery pack for the battery pack. I LOL’d.

Sat, 10 Jun 2023 22:09:40 -0500

I competed in my first-ever organized trail run race today (and first organized race in many years). I had a ton of fun! Finished with a better time than expected, felt better while racing (the key: hydrate yesterday), and took 6th in my age group. Can’t wait till next year! 🏃‍♂️

Sat, 10 Jun 2023 20:28:45 -0500

It strikes me that Facebook changed their company name to Meta to tell the world they were committed to AR/VR as the future. Apple silently toiled away investing in a product so compelling and advanced that it has universally flabbergasted demonstratees to show how deadly serious they are about it.

Fri, 09 Jun 2023 23:26:49 -0500

🆕📝 WWDC23: Friday’s Tidbits

Fri, 09 Jun 2023 22:26:14 -0500

🆕📝 Apple Shows Its Star-Studded Strategy by Securing Messi for Season Pass

Fri, 09 Jun 2023 17:13:03 -0500

TIL that extensions can be called up with a keyboard command in Safari for iPad!

Fri, 09 Jun 2023 00:26:36 -0500

🆕📝 WWDC23: Thursday’s Tidbits

Thu, 08 Jun 2023 00:26:42 -0500

🆕📝 WWDC23: Wednesday’s Tidbits

Wed, 07 Jun 2023 23:03:53 -0500

It just occurred to me that because the Vision Pro battery pack is a separate part, the battery life could get better as battery technology improves and newer, bigger packs are released. Good call, Apple.

Wed, 07 Jun 2023 18:03:20 -0500

Just don’t call Apple’s journey to their AR headset a Vision Quest.

Wed, 07 Jun 2023 17:26:02 -0500

🆕📝 Grading My WWDC Keynote Predictions (And Introducing My Ongoing List of Apple Wishes)

Wed, 07 Jun 2023 12:27:09 -0500

🆕📝 A Couple of Podcast Recommendations

Wed, 07 Jun 2023 11:15:44 -0500

It must suck to be a kid in Florida these days. The bills that are becoming law are sickening. I fear the state will have a big problem down the road when even fewer young people choose to live there and its already-elderly population dies out. But I s’pose it’s always going to be a snowbird refuge.

Wed, 07 Jun 2023 09:26:51 -0500

🆕📝 Macs at WWDC Mean the Entire M2 Laptop Lineup Is Part of the Back to School Promo for Students

Wed, 07 Jun 2023 00:26:45 -0500

🆕📝 Letters with V, June 2023 [#1]

Tue, 06 Jun 2023 18:26:26 -0500

🆕📝 WWDC23: The Day After - Some Skepticism and Questions

Tue, 06 Jun 2023 18:26:26 -0500

🆕📝 WWDC23: Tuesday’s Tidbits

Tue, 06 Jun 2023 14:21:10 -0500

Do you, like me, like leaving your key behind when hiking or biking so you don’t lose it? This handy video shows how to set up the PIN unlock on a newer Subaru (mine’s a 2020) so you don’t have to leave the key outside somewhere. Tip: hold down the lock button the fob first, then the trunk button.

Tue, 06 Jun 2023 13:44:25 -0500

Whoa! It looks like Keynote for visionOS will let you practice your presentation as if you’re on stage at the Steve Jobs Theater. (Link via @rafa@mastodon.design)

Tue, 06 Jun 2023 09:27:10 -0500

Boy, it would be cool for Mike Rockwell to be a guest for @gruber@mastodon.social’s live Talk Show. 🤞

Tue, 06 Jun 2023 09:23:46 -0500

“This is the future of desktop computing.” Whoa. Ben is not mincing words here. That was the same feeling I got while watching the intro, and I’m thrilled to hear that’s coming across in the brief demos, too. ⏯️

Tue, 06 Jun 2023 09:10:36 -0500

Ben has a ton of experience with using VR setups for real work, and @gruber@mastodon.social is notoriously picky. Both approach things with a healthy amount of skepticism, so I was very much looking forward to their hands-on impressions. So far it sounds pretty pretty good! ⏯️

Tue, 06 Jun 2023 00:26:30 -0500

🆕📝 WWDC23: My Initial Keynote Reflection and the Features I’m Most Jazzed About

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 23:42:15 -0500

Nearly 5000 words written today. 🥱 I feel so fortunate live in such exciting times! Congrats to all the teams at Apple who made today possible. Y’all have done an amazing job.

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 23:32:50 -0500

Something doesn’t seem right here 🤔 (via @brain@toot.monster)

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 21:54:41 -0500

Wait a sec, are apps going to be able to send their custom workouts into the Workouts app?

WorkoutKit makes it easy to create, preview, and schedule planned workouts for the Workout app on Apple Watch. Learn how to build custom intervals, create alerts, and use the built-in preview UI to send your own workout routines to Apple Watch.
Apple Developer https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10016/

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 21:26:21 -0500

🆕📝 WWDC23: Monday’s Tidbits and Community Reactions

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 21:26:20 -0500

🆕📝 WWDC23: The Peanut Gallery’s Best Keynote Jokes

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 19:37:42 -0500

Congrats to @lexfri@hachyderm.io for their win today. Trophy will be in the mail. 🤣

The folks in my Micro.blog timeline are a witty bunch. One day I hope to quip as well as them. I’ve rounded up a collection of my favorite jokes from during the (most of) keynote.1 Unofficial Master of Mirth: Lex Friedman
Jarrod Blundy https://heydingus.net/blog/2023/6/wwdc23-the-peanut-gallerys-best-keynote-jokes

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 18:25:32 -0500

Oh no, I left going through my Timeline for too late! I didn’t know there was a limit on how far back it could go, and I was hoping at least early enough to catch keynote reactions (1pm). I wonder if @help has any solution?

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 16:38:41 -0500

In case you were wondering how much you have to save everyday between now and January 1st to get the Vision Pro.

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 13:42:43 -0500

You know what would be awesome? Being able to experience future Apple Keynotes from a virtual Steve Jobs Theater with Vision Pro. 🤯

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 12:43:47 -0500

My WWDC setup for live-blogging. 🤯

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 12:27:23 -0500

🆕📝 WWDC23 Liveblog

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 11:59:44 -0500

Here goes my first liveblog! 🤯

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 11:00:54 -0500

T-minus 60 minutes 🤯 Will I get out the two blog posts that I want to before the keynote?

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 10:00:06 -0500

T-minus 2 hours 🤯

Sun, 04 Jun 2023 12:26:58 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things (Which Are My Last-Minute WWDC23 Predictions) This Week [#97]

Sun, 04 Jun 2023 05:26:53 -0500

No Mow May was a success. I hope the bees and other pollinators enjoyed the head start in our yard this season. 📹

Sun, 04 Jun 2023 05:21:09 -0500

Just when you thought you had your ideas about todo lists all figured out, CGP Grey comes busting in to unlock a new thought technology! (Listen at timestamp) ⏯️

Sat, 03 Jun 2023 11:34:54 -0500

Looks like @matthewcassinelli@mastodon.social‘s site is gettin’ busy!

Fri, 02 Jun 2023 12:41:35 -0500

Alright @viticci@mastodon.macstories.net, you got a good snort out of me. That would have been something else! www.relay.fm/connected… ⏯️

Fri, 02 Jun 2023 12:11:58 -0500

I made a small update to my WWDC Wish List:

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 22:32:17 -0500

🆕📝 Why I Happily Spent $70 on an App I Almost Ignored

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 22:32:10 -0500

I took delivery of this wireless CarPlay adapter today and after a brief test, it’s better than I possibly hoped. It’s somehow even faster and more responsive than the built-in wired version in my Subaru. Colored me shocked! It’s got a $25 off coupon on Amazon right now (usually $99).

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 22:12:25 -0500

It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes a blog post just flows out like water from a spring. I’m pretty happy with how this one turned out. And, if I may, I think the content is noteworthy for app developers deliberating their pricing strategy to consider.

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 01:26:29 -0500

🆕📝 Letters with Jose: May 31, 2023

Wed, 31 May 2023 23:52:11 -0500

Always fun to hear about places I know on a podcast. I used to drive through Oberlin to go to my camp. It’s an awesome little college town and if you’re there you’ve gotta visit The Feve and get their tater tots. Super cool news about this using sheep to manage the mowing under the solar array. ⏯️

Wed, 31 May 2023 23:38:03 -0500

I want to say a big “thank you” to @josemunozmatos@mastodon.social for being the first correspondent on my Letters project. We just finished up our final exchange and it was super fun to break out of my normal writing topics and chat with another blogger. There are spots open if you’d like to chat!

Wed, 31 May 2023 22:50:08 -0500

I couldn’t say it any better myself.

Well, Ted Lesso ended very well. It was a brilliant show with many flaws, but it was always something special.
I’m here for it if it continues on in another form, but if not, that’s fine too. It’s been a special show.
Matt Birchler https://isfeeling.social/@matt/110466831691123528

I’d love there to be another story brewing, but I’m so glad that they got to tell the story that they wanted to. 📺

Wed, 31 May 2023 09:16:44 -0500

Off to do some more house hunting today… 😬 Wish me luck

Wed, 31 May 2023 09:15:48 -0500

Wearing my Coach Lasso shirt in honor of the S3 finale tonight! ⚽️ Can’t wait 😁 (No spoilers!)

Tue, 30 May 2023 21:28:25 -0500

Light Mrs. Maisel spoiler: My wife and I loved Mei, and her and Joel’s storyline in S4. So we were taken aback at her abrupt exit at the start of S5. Thinking about it again, we wondered if she’d landed a bigger role. Uh, yep. I’d say starring as Joy in Everything Everywhere All at Once counts!

Tue, 30 May 2023 07:26:17 -0500

🆕📝 Two of My Favorite Bits of Reader That I Wish Were Replicated in Every Other Reading App

Mon, 29 May 2023 23:18:57 -0500

I got back into some proper complex Shortcuts coding tonight. It felt real good. A little lofi helped me focus, and I had great success!

Mon, 29 May 2023 17:26:28 -0500

🆕📝 My WWDC 2023 Wish List

Mon, 29 May 2023 14:13:42 -0500

I’m weirdly getting an error page when trying to access Instagram on my Mac in Safari. It made me think that Make.com’s access had been cut off, but, no, it’s browser-wide even going to the base instagram.com domain. FireFox login worked just fine. 🤷‍♂️

Mon, 29 May 2023 14:02:11 -0500

New office addition 🥰 📷

Mon, 29 May 2023 09:53:17 -0500

It’s a beautiful Memorial Day weekend with a rare holiday off from work and I’m inside fighting off an illness. 🤧 I feel both proud of myself for not pushing my body, and disappointed that I’m missing out on perfect day for an outdoor adventure. At least I’m catching up on some writing and reading.

Mon, 29 May 2023 07:26:07 -0500

🆕📝 Apple’s Awesome Accessibility Animation

Mon, 29 May 2023 01:26:16 -0500

🆕📝 A Few New Experiments At HeyDingus

Mon, 29 May 2023 00:11:41 -0500

I couldn’t help myself, here’s where I’ve been. I love that seeing these pop up all day has felt like an ad-hoc Micro.blog community event. And it instigated me kicking off a few other little experimental projects. 👨‍🔬

Sun, 28 May 2023 23:26:46 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#96]

Sun, 28 May 2023 14:16:59 -0500

Is this app metadata layout new in App Store search? I kind of like its compactness.

Sun, 28 May 2023 11:26:32 -0500

🆕📝 Escaping the Bubble With Bear Blogs

Sun, 28 May 2023 01:32:54 -0500

This is often what happens when I try to catch up on sleep by napping during the day. I end up staying awake way too late afterwards and perpetuate the exhaustion.

Sun, 28 May 2023 01:31:15 -0500

Here it is 2AM again, long past when I should’ve gone to sleep. Instead, I spent a couple hours writing a blog post that I thought would be a quickie. And then retried to troubleshoot the video upload woes I’ve had with Micro.blog. I fixed the broken posts but am still unsure of what finally worked.

Sat, 27 May 2023 07:26:44 -0500

🆕📝 1Password Embraces No Passwords As I Consider No 1Password

Fri, 26 May 2023 13:26:43 -0500

Fri, 26 May 2023 13:05:32 -0500

Holy smokes, this privacy video from Apple in China is something else. I don’t think I’ve ever seen them have a person embody the Apple brand before. Even in the Mac vs. PC ads, the guy was a Mac, not Apple itself. Entertaining though, and seems bold to put out in notoriously un-private China.

Fri, 26 May 2023 02:26:01 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things (Which Are My Go-To Camping Essentials) This Week, 2023-05-26

Fri, 26 May 2023 01:26:09 -0500

🆕📝 CarPlay Customization Paper Cuts

Fri, 26 May 2023 00:43:00 -0500

Did macOS lose the animated Memoji option on the lock/login screen? My little guy used to shake his head at me when I typed my password wrong, and be overall more fun to interact with. If not, how do I turn that back on??

Thu, 25 May 2023 22:26:03 -0500

🆕📝 Is Ford the Goodie?

Thu, 25 May 2023 22:08:27 -0500

I wonder how weather app developers feel about Apple’s WeatherKit API being only halfway reliable. Maybe they don’t mind because it only costs half as much as the Dark Sky API did.

Tue, 23 May 2023 22:44:58 -0500

When I saw this from @robb@social.lol, I immediately thought of @alexcox@mastodon.social and @hotdogsladies@mastodon.social. So good! 😂

Sat, 20 May 2023 14:47:17 -0500

The Pixel Tablet’s dock should have been a Nest speaker - The Verge

At launch — words I’ll come back to — it’s just a dock. It charges the Pixel Tablet, and it has speakers that the tablet can use when it’s docked. And it enables that Hub mode I was talking about. When you take the tablet off the dock, it’s a tablet. But the dock is just clutter. You can’t cast audio to it, you can’t ask it questions, and you can’t even use it to charge your other devices. It just takes up space.

Yeah, that would have made more sense.

Thu, 18 May 2023 19:26:37 -0500

🆕📝 Letters with Jose: May 18, 2023

Thu, 18 May 2023 11:59:32 -0500

Apple weighs in on the “mice” versus “mouses” debate.

Tue, 16 May 2023 20:49:28 -0500

Also from the press release:

Shortcuts adds Remember This, which helps users with cognitive disabilities create a visual diary in Notes for easy reference and reflection.

I’m eager to see how this is implemented since it seems more like a Siri feature. Would also be perfect for that rumored journaling app.

Tue, 16 May 2023 20:39:08 -0500

Of course, even the microwave’s clock reads 9:41 in Apple’s accessibility announcement today.

Mon, 15 May 2023 06:23:41 -0500

Well, dang. All Consuming is possibly my very favorite current podcast. The show “ended” before, but came back in a different format for a second season. Maybe it’ll rise, phoenix-like, from the ashes once more. But you should still listen from the beginning. Thanks, Noah and Adam, for a great ride!

Sun, 14 May 2023 18:26:42 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week, 2023-05-14

Sat, 13 May 2023 21:59:24 -0500

Oh hey, look what just came in! Nothing too impressive, but I felt compelled to complete this challenge in my new hometown. Next up, the 46ers! 📷

Sat, 13 May 2023 21:59:22 -0500

Amazing day to be out on a big multi-pitch rock climb. It was my first time running up the Chapel Pond Slab on the Regular Route (5.6) with @saw_dust_ery. Big rock! 📷

Fri, 12 May 2023 23:29:22 -0500

I had such a good day! It was beautiful out. I had an excellent hiking client and took them on a really fun trail (Three Brothers). Got a long-overdue haircut. Got back on some rock after a couple of weeks off from climbing. Great Ahi Stack dinner. AND I’m going to bed early. 😁 📷

Thu, 11 May 2023 21:59:24 -0500

I love my town. 🧡 📹

Thu, 11 May 2023 21:43:02 -0500

I think I’m done with “fediverse” as a term. “Social web” sounds more approachable and accurate.

Thu, 11 May 2023 21:32:45 -0500

Does anyone else feel like launching a shortcut with the Action Button is conspicuously slow?

Thu, 11 May 2023 18:42:25 -0500

Whoa! Good on @manton and team at Micro.blog with this bonkers deal for the summer. Full Micro.blog experience (my favorite personal-yet-fediverse-compatible social network and blog!) for just $1 per month. Happy Summer of Blogging!

Thu, 11 May 2023 18:09:24 -0500

House purchasing is a terrifying experience that slingshots from being rush, rush, rush to a nerve-racking waiting period. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

Wed, 10 May 2023 23:26:27 -0500

🆕📝 What Even Is E2E Encryption, Then?

Wed, 10 May 2023 00:26:57 -0500

🆕📝 9to5Mac: ‘Apple’s former head of iCloud will be in charge of making GM EV software without CarPlay’

Wed, 10 May 2023 00:15:32 -0500

The universe was playing tricks tonight. I picked up my new Subaru Outback today(!) and then after visiting my wife at work, the only two vehicles in the lot were my new car (right), and an exact copy of my old Forester (left). It was just begging for me to get into the wrong one. 😆

Tue, 09 May 2023 21:39:07 -0500

Mariana Alfaro, for Washington Post:

Republican Party leaders are coming to terms with the fact that the leading candidate to be their next presidential nominee was just found guilty of sexually assaulting and defaming a woman in a Manhattan clothing store.

Should Trump be the party’s presidential nominee? Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) told reporters, “That’s a choice that the voters will make.” Hawley went on to say that he also thought that Trump will be the party’s nominee.

Wild times.

Tue, 09 May 2023 10:27:19 -0500

🆕📝 Some Quick Observations on Final Cut Pro & Logic Pro for iPad

Mon, 08 May 2023 18:29:08 -0500

I just got into the Raycast AI beta, and I’m already so sold. I don’t use Raycast for everything (I’ve liked Alfred better), but this could make me a convert. The killer feature is it living at the same keystroke I already use to search for everything. Watch @matt@isfeeling.social’s video for a great rundown.

Mon, 08 May 2023 11:20:17 -0500

Aw man, I cannot wait for this to come in! 😂

Mon, 08 May 2023 09:37:05 -0500

The Messages app on my Apple Watch Ultra has been crashing any time I receive a new message for over a week. As in it crashes before I can even see the notification. I don’t think it started with a software update, and a full un-pair/re-pair didn’t solve it. Has anyone else been experiencing this?

Mon, 08 May 2023 08:26:35 -0500

🆕📝 The Verge: ‘What’s it like on Bluesky right now, anyways?’

Sun, 07 May 2023 22:29:31 -0500

The good news has reached the “normies”! My wife, unprompted, said tonight, “Apple TV+ has really good shows!” We’d gotten sucked into their auto-playing previews after the latest Ted Lasso. I think she was amazed at how many of our favorites were from TV+, a good portion of which she chose for us.

Sun, 07 May 2023 22:26:46 -0500

🆕📝 I Pre-Ordered a Can of Worms

Sun, 07 May 2023 20:26:18 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week, 2023-05-07

Sun, 07 May 2023 13:36:01 -0500

Starting the morning with a walk (or run or ride) outside before work always makes my day more pleasant. Why, then, is it so hard to find the motivation to actually roll out of bed and do it?

Sat, 06 May 2023 19:17:48 -0500

Gotta say, car buying is tiresome. It takes way longer than I expect, and I’m completely drained after. But my salesperson was awesome! Super personable, very helpful in finding vehicles with the features I wanted, and went to bat for me to get it to the price I needed. I pick it up on Tuesday! 🤞

Sat, 06 May 2023 00:27:03 -0500

🆕📝 John Gruber on Dithering

Sat, 06 May 2023 00:27:03 -0500

🆕📝 Seeking Letters Project Correspondents!

Sun, 30 Apr 2023 19:27:26 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things (I Learned From Aunt Joan) This Week, 2023-04-30

Sat, 29 Apr 2023 11:45:11 -0500

Finished reading (again): Piranesi by Susanna Clarke 📚

Just as excellent on the second read through. This is one that sits with you, like a river-smoothed stone you can’t help but continue to turn over in your pocket.

Fri, 28 Apr 2023 21:46:13 -0500

Hmm. Pretty sure I popped a finger tendon tonight. I’d always hoped this climbing injury wouldn’t come for me, but come it has.

Thu, 27 Apr 2023 13:27:16 -0500

The most recent couple of episodes of Ted Lasso (S03 E06/07) have been a real joy. A return to the magic of season 1, IMO. 😊

Wed, 26 Apr 2023 17:46:21 -0500

If you haven’t yet listened to All Consuming, let this be the toe that gets you in the door.

Wed, 26 Apr 2023 15:29:12 -0500

Fuck cancer.

Sun, 23 Apr 2023 21:32:01 -0500

This was an excellent book. Consider my interest piqued. (Hugh Laurie! Mark Ruffalo!)

youtu.be/ePLIObDy_…

Sun, 23 Apr 2023 19:27:41 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week, 2023-04-23

Sun, 23 Apr 2023 06:59:21 -0500

Got in a bunch of rope work practice yesterday! Did my first rope solo on rock(!), rappelled using saddlebags method, and tried out hauling using a 3:1 pulley system. Success on all fronts! Practice makes better. 📷

Sat, 22 Apr 2023 14:26:41 -0500

I know they’re kinda silly, but I do like collecting these special event activity awards with my Apple Watch.

Sat, 22 Apr 2023 00:59:24 -0500

Felt a bit off today, but that didn’t stop me from onsighting ‘Bozeman Bullet’ (5.6). It’s so good, can’t wait to climb it again! (Also flashed ‘Space Cowboy’ (5.7), but no pics.) 📹

Fri, 21 Apr 2023 23:27:21 -0500

🆕📝 When the Fear Bites

Fri, 21 Apr 2023 09:26:10 -0500

🆕📝 David Smith: ‘Stretched’

Thu, 20 Apr 2023 20:05:15 -0500

It’s Reel Rock night!!

Thu, 20 Apr 2023 10:26:22 -0500

🆕📝 Apple Rides the ‘Ted Lasso’ Train Hard With New Apple Fitness “Workouts to Believe In”

Wed, 19 Apr 2023 09:26:19 -0500

🆕📝 Apple Card and Its Savings Account Are Great, And Why I’m Still Not Sold

Wed, 19 Apr 2023 01:06:43 -0500

The Macalope: If sideloading is allowed in iOS 17, someone will pay for it—and it won’t be Apple

Now, before you get all excited or hot and bothered or relentlessly stung by bees, remember that this is Apple we’re talking about here. The company has a strict policy of giving a millimeter when regulators legally mandate an inch.

😂

Tue, 18 Apr 2023 10:27:33 -0500

🆕📝 MacLife Magazine’s Ink Runs Dry

Mon, 17 Apr 2023 22:26:40 -0500

🆕📝 From Should Have to Could Have

Mon, 17 Apr 2023 15:36:54 -0500

As far as I can remember, this is the first time I’ve been able to pay for and download an app directly from the banner on its website, rather than being sent over to the App Store first. Is this new? (Extension is Magic Highlighter, found via Daring Fireball)

Mon, 17 Apr 2023 15:01:55 -0500

📺 Finished watching: The Last of Us (2023) on HBO, created by Craig Mazin & Neil Druckmann ★★★★

I don’t always get on board with the latest popular TV crazes, but this one definitely held up. I appreciated that while you certainly felt on edge for every episode, there weren’t as many jump and zombie scares as there could have been. I loved seeing the trust grow between Ellie and Joel, and how they helped each other become less broken over time — even while having to do horrific things.

And, yes, the ending is quite shocking.

Mon, 17 Apr 2023 08:04:04 -0500

The new Apple Store in Mumbai looks incredible. The lattice ceiling in particular is gorgeous. But I want to say that having a stand-alone Apple logo inside the store is a rarity, yes? Paging Apple Retail expert @michaelsteeber@mastodon.social.

Sun, 16 Apr 2023 21:05:21 -0500

Say you booked an adventure trip like hiking or rock climbing. Would you prefer to be referred to as a “client” or a “guest”?

I’ve always gravitated toward “client” but I’m reconsidering as “guest” conveys more fun and less formality. Also, it seems more like I’m welcoming them into the experience, rather than going over paperwork in an office. Thoughts?

Sun, 16 Apr 2023 18:26:14 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week, 2023-04-16

Fri, 14 Apr 2023 23:29:26 -0500

Spring be flowin’ 📹

Thu, 13 Apr 2023 23:29:30 -0500

Climbing The El at Pitchoff Chimney Cliff with @luke_crack_walker 📹

Thu, 13 Apr 2023 21:55:17 -0500

Said this in a group chat tonight, but it bears repeating for anyone who hasn’t taken a look yet:

Many of my favorite shows over the last 4 years have been on Apple TV+. (Trying, Ted Lasso, Shrinking, Severance, Dickinson, For All Mankind, Mythic Quest, Afterparty, Acapulco…I could go on). It’s where I look first for new stuff to watch because of their stellar track record, and I don’t need to wade through a bunch of shit to find the gold. And still I can’t keep up with everything they’re putting out.

Wed, 12 Apr 2023 22:05:53 -0500

This is going to be a game-changer! Making a playlist means not only can I enjoy continuous play instead of swapping back and forth between YouTube and Play, but a playlist can also be downloaded to a device for offline watching. Kudos to @mactanaka@mastodon.social for pulling this off!

Wed, 12 Apr 2023 11:27:39 -0500

🆕📝 Surprise Tesla Feature: Your Personal Car Videos Can Go Viral Around Their Offices. Cool, Right?

Tue, 11 Apr 2023 02:28:11 -0500

🆕📝 Apple’s Newsroom Blog Debuts New ‘Quick Read’ Post

Mon, 10 Apr 2023 08:31:11 -0500

🆕📝 Dark Noise Does the Subscription Transition Right

Sun, 09 Apr 2023 11:52:30 -0500

Don’t worry, I visited my place of worship on this most beautiful of spring days. 📷

And was rewarded with meeting this cutie adventure cat named Albert!

Sun, 09 Apr 2023 09:26:07 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week, 2023-04-09

Sun, 09 Apr 2023 00:47:33 -0500

I love my little 4,000+ page pocket notebook. 🧡

Sat, 08 Apr 2023 22:26:15 -0500

📺 Finished watching: The Climb (2023) on HBO Max, created by Chris Sharma and Jason Mamoa ★★★☆

I’m a climber who has always enjoyed the bromance between Sharma and Mamoa. So I was super interested in this series. I found it a bit pedantic and cringy early on and was disappointed that Mamoa had basically zero involvement with the climbers. But everyone was personable and showed up in a big way in the actual climbing. I grew to enjoy the series and was on the edge of my seat during the finale.

Sat, 08 Apr 2023 21:33:36 -0500

I just finished my first run using bone-conducting headphones, and it was the best exercise audio experience I’ve had in forever! No ear pain, no worrying that the earbuds would fall out, and I stayed totally aware of the world around me. I’m afraid this spells the end for my Beats Fit Pro.

Sat, 08 Apr 2023 14:27:12 -0500

🆕📝 Matt Birchler: ‘I’m Once Again Defending Like Buttons’

Sun, 02 Apr 2023 20:26:14 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week, 2023-04-02

Fri, 31 Mar 2023 20:20:45 -0500

The practice of rising early enough to greet the sunrise is not one that I’ve mastered. But I’ve never regretted it, either. #mbmar 31 📷 (timeline | grid)

Fri, 31 Mar 2023 17:26:21 -0500

🆕📝 The Best In-App Feedback System Yet

Thu, 30 Mar 2023 21:59:23 -0500

Cam cleaning day can only mean one thing…rock season is right around the corner!! 📷

Thu, 30 Mar 2023 19:26:43 -0500

🆕📝 Micro.blog Gains Automatic Podcast Transcripts (Yep, They Also Do Podcasts!)

Thu, 30 Mar 2023 18:52:13 -0500

The mirror reflections on still water always mesmerize me. And apparently my dog, too! #mbmar 30 📷 (timeline | grid)

Wed, 29 Mar 2023 13:19:15 -0500

Oh CARROT, well done.

Wed, 29 Mar 2023 11:24:00 -0500

I’ve got a real hankering for a slice of our Easter spicy maple-glazed spiral ham. #mbmar 29 📷 (timeline | grid)

Tue, 28 Mar 2023 11:16:00 -0500

Gotta be prompt for that wedding day! #mbmar 28 📷 (timeline | grid)

Tue, 28 Mar 2023 09:26:31 -0500

🆕📝 ‘The new normal’

Mon, 27 Mar 2023 21:59:00 -0500

It’s sometimes wild to think about the rope systems we climbers use to support our lives. #mbmar 27 📷 (timeline | grid)

Mon, 27 Mar 2023 08:26:17 -0500

🆕📝 ‘Rewind’s new feature brings ChatGPT to your personal information’

Sun, 26 Mar 2023 21:09:52 -0500

My instrument used to be my pride and joy. It’s time it has a place of honor again. #mbmar 26 📷 (timeline | grid)

Sun, 26 Mar 2023 20:58:28 -0500

30-Day Minimalism Game, Day 26

26 old forms, photos, unplayed games, craft supplies and empty boxes. (Had to switch the the 0.5x lens!)

Sun, 26 Mar 2023 19:26:22 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week, 2023-03-26

Sun, 26 Mar 2023 09:26:11 -0500

🆕📝 Know When To Fold Them

Sat, 25 Mar 2023 22:51:07 -0500

30-Day Minimalism Game, Day 25 📷

25 bits of stationary items that haven’t been touched in years.

Sat, 25 Mar 2023 22:40:03 -0500

This spice rack is one of my favorite things in our kitchen. It’s so much better than the drawer of jumbled containers we used to use. #mbmar 25 📷 (timeline | grid)

Sat, 25 Mar 2023 10:26:19 -0500

🆕📝 ‘Good conversations have lots of doorknobs’

Fri, 24 Mar 2023 23:14:38 -0500

Finished watching: Shrinking on Apple TV+ 📺

Right up there with Ted Lasso and Trying as a smart, charming, heartfelt, and laugh-out-loud funny show. Jason Segel, Harrison Ford, and the whole gang really pulled off something special here. It’s some of their best work and I loved every character.

Fri, 24 Mar 2023 22:40:27 -0500

30-Day Minimalism Game, Day 24

24 bits of old climbing webbing, boots, an Apple TV, a board game, an Apple Watch, and some more camping gear. (Some of these items can be purchased from my OfferUp page if you’re interested.)

Fri, 24 Mar 2023 21:45:03 -0500

There are few things more intimidating (nor as majestic!) as a snow leopard holding court. #mbmar 24 📷 (timeline | grid)

Fri, 24 Mar 2023 15:24:33 -0500

I’ve developed a habit of collecting domain names, but holy cow was this eye-watering! If anyone was considering a gift… 😂

Fri, 24 Mar 2023 00:51:58 -0500

It’s that beautiful time of spring when all the dog poops that folks didn’t clean up throughout the winter slowly reveal themselves out of the snow. I’m not saying I’m faultless here, but I at least don’t let my dog make a mess in a walkway. They don’t just magically disappear.

Fri, 24 Mar 2023 00:20:03 -0500

I don’t fault people who use the word, but ever since I realized the misogynistic etymology of “hysterical”, it grates on me every time I hear it.

Thu, 23 Mar 2023 23:51:03 -0500

A few shots from top rope soloing on spring ice the last couple of days. 🧗📷

Thu, 23 Mar 2023 22:19:05 -0500

We all have the chance to make a difference. And it’s not just a flip of the coin. #mbmar 23 📷

Thu, 23 Mar 2023 22:15:03 -0500

30-Day Minimalism Game, Day 23

23 long-held and rarely used camping items.

Thu, 23 Mar 2023 17:26:44 -0500

🆕📝 ‘Don’t be a knee-jerk’

Thu, 23 Mar 2023 13:22:12 -0500

When did Amazon start getting witty with their boxes?

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 23:42:58 -0500

Words I live by: If it won’t come off on your pants, it won’t come off on your food.

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 22:10:56 -0500

I’m not generally a fan of spiders, but this furry little insect is, to be fair, quite cute. And an impressive hider spider. #mbmar 22 📷

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 18:54:29 -0500

30-Day Minimalism Game, Day 22 (sorry for all the posts, but I’m caught up now! 😊)

22 cords and pencils that did not make it through the Great Cable Drawer Purge.

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 18:36:48 -0500

30-Day Minimalism Game, Day 21 (belated)

21 boxes, knives, clothes and other junk.

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 18:14:09 -0500

30-Day Minimalism Game, Day 20 (belated)

20 basement junk items.

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:49:29 -0500

30-Day Minimalism Game, Day 19 (belated)

19 more junk drawer items.

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:41:37 -0500

30-Day Minimalism Game, Day 18 (belated)

18 more junk drawer items.

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:34:46 -0500

30-Day Minimalism Game, Day 17 (belated)

17 junk drawer items

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:09:33 -0500

30-Day Minimalism Game, Day 16 (belated)

16 kitchen drawer items (plus an extra dog toy)

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 16:59:50 -0500

30-Day Minimalism Game, Day 15 (belated)

15 old dog toys.

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 07:22:28 -0500

I love that this sizing guide is realistic about what folks have on hand to measure things.

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 07:13:59 -0500

It looks like someone might have had a “ruff” night. 😂

Tue, 21 Mar 2023 22:31:32 -0500

My tiny turtle back when he was a wee babe. #mbmar 21 📷

Mon, 20 Mar 2023 22:59:00 -0500

Any houseplant of ours lives firmly in the cat’s domain. #mbmar 20 📷

Mon, 20 Mar 2023 16:43:42 -0500

Today, with the sun shining and blue skies, it felt like a step toward spring. But I’m not sure I’m ready to say goodbye to winter yet!

Sun, 19 Mar 2023 21:06:20 -0500

A young me, rockin' that analog goodness. #mbmar 19 📷

Sun, 19 Mar 2023 19:26:16 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things (Shared by ChatGPT) This Week, 2023-03-19

Sat, 18 Mar 2023 21:47:22 -0500

A foreboding portico. #mbmar 18 📷

Fri, 17 Mar 2023 20:23:35 -0500

I skied the Mt. Colden Coulier today, and I’m pretty proud.

Fri, 17 Mar 2023 20:06:28 -0500

An alpine start comes quite early. Seattle, seen in the distance from Mount Rainier. #mbmar 17 📷

Thu, 16 Mar 2023 21:54:33 -0500

Sometimes you’re on the road, looking at the view. Sometimes you’re in the view, looking at the road. #mbmar 16 📷

Wed, 15 Mar 2023 23:37:25 -0500

Happy Ted Lasso day to all who celebrate! I’m waiting to watch E1 with my wife, but I got a huge thrill out of Cotton Bureau featuring my design first in their AFC Richmond-inspired email!

Wed, 15 Mar 2023 22:47:46 -0500

Ollie has very little patience for laps that aren’t filled with cats. #mbmar 15 📷

Tue, 14 Mar 2023 23:18:35 -0500

30-Day Minimalism Game, Day 14 📷

14 random gizmos from my bedside drawer.

Tue, 14 Mar 2023 22:59:00 -0500

“What’s beyond that horizon?” is a question that continues to drive me. #mbmar 14 📷

Tue, 14 Mar 2023 00:06:02 -0500

30-Day Minimalism Game, Day 13

1 bathing suit, 1 magnet, 1 pack of cupcake holders, 1 set of headphones, 2 microfiber cloths, 3 old cords, and 4 USB flash drives.

Mon, 13 Mar 2023 22:57:17 -0500

Far away and alone, yet here is where some of the strongest connections are made. #mbmar 13 📷

Mon, 13 Mar 2023 00:26:25 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week, 2023-03-12

Sun, 12 Mar 2023 22:02:30 -0500

30-Day Minimalism Game, Day 12

12 more assorted pet toys and supplies.

Sun, 12 Mar 2023 21:26:09 -0500

Shiny. Enough said. #mbmar 12 📷

Sun, 12 Mar 2023 08:56:08 -0500

I don’t know why it is that some Share Extensions in iOS hang or refuse to load, but it sure makes me appreciate the Things extension that works every time, and quickly.

Sun, 12 Mar 2023 00:07:19 -0500

30-Day Minimalism Game, Day 11 📷

11 various cat toys. (Don’t worry, he still has plenty.)

Sat, 11 Mar 2023 23:59:00 -0500

This gimcrack wigwam is one of my favorite childhood accomplishements. #mbmar 11 📷

Sat, 11 Mar 2023 23:56:23 -0500

30-Day Minimalism Game, Day 10 (make-up) 📷

Lights
Knife
Gloves
Webbing
Lock
Bag
Another bag
Another bag
Another bag
Bag of tissues

Fri, 10 Mar 2023 23:33:20 -0500

Rappelling is a ritual that requires many precise steps. #mbmar 10 📷

Thu, 09 Mar 2023 22:15:57 -0500

Together forever. #mbmar 09 📷

Thu, 09 Mar 2023 22:07:50 -0500

30-Day Minimalism Game, Day 09

9 random basement items I didn’t know we had.

Thu, 09 Mar 2023 20:09:33 -0500

A very good toot:

guess it’s true what they say – you can’t get real classical music done on an iPad
– Federico Viticci

Thu, 09 Mar 2023 11:26:51 -0500

I gotta hand it to them, the playfulness in the treble clef makes for a lovely icon.

Thu, 09 Mar 2023 00:33:56 -0500

(An hour late, but still doing it) 30-Day Minimalism Game, Day 8

3 more Christmas gift, and 3 more articles of clothing, and 2 odd bags.

Wed, 08 Mar 2023 18:45:39 -0500

A few more photos that I could have used for today’s photoblogging challenge. Yesterday, I helped guide a client up a very snowy and windy Basin Mountain in the Adirondack High Peaks. 18 miles and 15 hours, car to car.

Wed, 08 Mar 2023 18:20:08 -0500

So you’re saying I should be able to walk here? #mbmar 07 📷

(These trail markers are typically placed above head height. 😳)

Wed, 08 Mar 2023 18:08:29 -0500

Heads up to @jean that the discover page is showing yesterday’s photoblogging challenge word!

Wed, 08 Mar 2023 17:26:44 -0500

🆕📝 The Yellow iPhone 14 Premiers at the ‘Ted Lasso’ Premier

Wed, 08 Mar 2023 17:04:08 -0500

Well done, Apple! 👏 Getting the new yellow iPhone 14 into the Ted Lasso premier photo did not go unnoticed. 👀

Wed, 08 Mar 2023 13:26:09 -0500

🆕📝 The Kindest Developer in the App Store Reaches 100 Million Downloads

Tue, 07 Mar 2023 23:45:56 -0500

30-Day Minimalism Game, Day 7

7 Christmas gifts that deserve better homes.

Tue, 07 Mar 2023 23:43:47 -0500

A whole lotta snow. #mbmar 07 📷

Tue, 07 Mar 2023 00:26:52 -0500

🆕📝 Apple’s iMessage Movie

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 21:53:55 -0500

30-Day Minimalism Game, Day 06 📷

6 items of old camping equipment from my gear trunk.

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 11:28:06 -0500

Some seriously impressive engineering goes into these toys. #mbmar 06 📷

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 00:36:32 -0500

Finished reading: Indie Microblogging by Manton Reece ★★★★ 📚

Wow, @manton really did a nice job laying out the history and building blocks of the web, and how they influenced his design and passion for Micro.blog. This book made me want to blog more. 😁

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 00:26:43 -0500

🆕📝 Switching It Up?

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 00:26:43 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week, 2023-03-05

Sun, 05 Mar 2023 22:45:05 -0500

30-Day Minimalism Game, Day 5 📷

5 more t-shirts

Sun, 05 Mar 2023 22:39:43 -0500

These cool tiles bring a certain warmth to our home. #mbmar 05 📷

Sun, 05 Mar 2023 13:52:26 -0500

Finished watching: Loot Season 1 (2022) created by Alan Yang & Matt Hubbard ★★★★ 📺

Just as funny as I expected, but with way more heart. A little cliché in parts, but still a fun and worthwhile watch. Maya Rudolph is a national treasure.

Sun, 05 Mar 2023 13:46:27 -0500

So I flew through the whole first season of Ted Lasso in two days. Even as someone who’s rewatched it multiple times and knows it very well, I still got the feels. ★★★★ 📺

Sat, 04 Mar 2023 23:27:43 -0500

30-Day Minimalism Game, Day 4

4 articles of clothing

Sat, 04 Mar 2023 13:27:15 -0500

A zip that’s loud and proud. #mbmar 04 📷

Fri, 03 Mar 2023 23:26:32 -0500

30-Day Minimalism Game, Day 3 📷

Sack spray
Foot stick
Nut rub

Let’s be real. I wasn’t ever going to use these.

Fri, 03 Mar 2023 23:21:12 -0500

There is but one true place of solitude. #mbmar 03 📷

Fri, 03 Mar 2023 21:22:52 -0500

I take it back. At least the first four episodes are perfect.

Fri, 03 Mar 2023 19:09:18 -0500

In case you’re wondering, the Ted Lasso pilot is still superb several rewatches later.

Thu, 02 Mar 2023 21:21:58 -0500

30-Day Minimalism Game, Day 2 📷

Too small baselayer pants
Too small baselayer shirt

Thu, 02 Mar 2023 20:54:32 -0500

I rarely feel so annoyed as when a “promotional period” ends and I subsequently pay more for the thing I was already getting. It doesn’t feel good, and makes me resent the company every single month thereafter. Not a great way to build brand value.

Thu, 02 Mar 2023 17:32:35 -0500

Weather. We have it. #mbmar 02 📷

Thu, 02 Mar 2023 12:21:17 -0500

It used to be that I was watching everything that Apple TV+ put out. But they’re producing so much, so quickly that I haven’t been able to keep up. And it’s all quite good. Kudos to them on ramping things up to make sure there’s always something new and something for everyone.

Thu, 02 Mar 2023 07:54:51 -0500

Go home, WeatherKit, you’re drunk.

Wed, 01 Mar 2023 23:26:03 -0500

🆕📝 29

Wed, 01 Mar 2023 22:40:09 -0500

30-Day Minimalism Game, Day 1:
Old, hole-filled comforter (duvet?) 📷

Wed, 01 Mar 2023 21:22:02 -0500

Secure? #mbmar 01 📷

Wed, 01 Mar 2023 14:58:20 -0500

Just watched: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) directed by Edgar Wright 🎥 ★★★★

Totally get why this is a cult classic! It’s super fun to see so many familiar, beloved faces in one film. Even if the storyline is a bit pejorative, it’s exquisitely shot and edited, and is a good watch.

Wed, 01 Mar 2023 14:53:56 -0500

Just watched: The Greatest Beer Run Ever (2022) directed by Peter Farrelly 🎥 ★★★☆

A story worth being told, with a good mix of cluelessness and courage. A reminder that friends are chosen family, and we’d do anything for our family.

Sun, 26 Feb 2023 18:26:57 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week, 2023-02-26

Fri, 24 Feb 2023 13:26:42 -0500

🆕📝 Steve Jobs in February of 1984

Fri, 24 Feb 2023 09:26:43 -0500

🆕📝 Underscore Underscores Scoring Not Scorching

Thu, 23 Feb 2023 09:26:49 -0500

🆕📝 Trying Out Being a Tech “Normy”

Thu, 23 Feb 2023 07:58:47 -0500

I’ve had this episode repeatedly redownload for weeks despite marking it as played, deleting it, and even unfollowing/refollowing the show in @overcastfm@mastodon.social. Anyone else seeing this, or know of anything I can do?

Wed, 22 Feb 2023 11:26:44 -0500

🆕📝 Spotify’s AI DJ Will Let the Recommendation Engine Explain Itself

Wed, 22 Feb 2023 08:52:27 -0500

Aw yeah, it’s gonna snow! ❄️🎿⛄️

Tue, 21 Feb 2023 17:26:14 -0500

🆕📝 ‘Putting Ideas into Words’

Tue, 21 Feb 2023 10:33:38 -0500

What I’m dreaming of: A well-designed, flush screen e-reader with page-turn buttons that runs Readwise Reader and integrates with Overdrive library books. Preferably with a 6-inch screen and battery cover like the original Kindle Oasis.

Sun, 19 Feb 2023 16:26:41 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things (I Learned From Grandpa) This Week, 2023-02-19

Sun, 19 Feb 2023 13:26:13 -0500

🆕📝 Relearning to Tie My Shoes

Tue, 14 Feb 2023 13:42:40 -0500

🆕📝 1Password 8 Gets a Quality of Life Update
https://heydingus.net/blog/2023/2/1password-8-gets-a-quality-of-life-update

Tue, 14 Feb 2023 13:42:40 -0500

🆕📝 ‘Ted Lasso’ Will Premiere on Wednesdays Next Month
https://heydingus.net/blog/2023/2/ted-lasso-will-premiere-on-wednesdays-next-month

Tue, 14 Feb 2023 01:57:46 -0500

And just like that, I can no longer say, “I’ve never backcountry skied before.” In other words, I’m now a backcountry skier! ⛷️📷

Tue, 14 Feb 2023 01:26:41 -0500

🆕📝 How to Get Blog Posts by Email
https://heydingus.net/blog/2023/2/how-to-get-blog-posts-by-email

Sun, 12 Feb 2023 23:32:14 -0500

I feel so privileged to live in a place where world-class athletes come to train and practice their craft for sports that I enjoy. The mountains and all they offer are so accessible here. 🏔️

Sun, 12 Feb 2023 22:26:39 -0500

🆕📝 7 Things This Week, 2023-02-12
heydingus.net/blog/2023…

Sat, 11 Feb 2023 23:17:57 -0500

Just watched: Office Space (1999) directed by Mike Judge 🎥 ★★★★

Yeah, so, this was the perfect combination of dumb, funny, and entertaining. Great movie for when you just want to turn off your mind for a bit. And so quotable.

Sat, 11 Feb 2023 09:46:47 -0500

🆕📝 ‘648 words about my one-word resolution’
heydingus.net/blog/2023…

Fri, 10 Feb 2023 22:10:28 -0500

My #5x5Friday of top albums from the last 12 months. Great stuff! 🎵

Wed, 08 Feb 2023 00:05:00 -0500

Finished watching: Acapulco (2021, season 1) directed by Richard Shepard ★★★★ 📺

A fun ride so far. Excited for seasons 2 and 3.

Mon, 06 Feb 2023 23:56:34 -0500

Just watched: Pretty Strong (2020) by Never Not Collective ★★★★ 🎥

Incredible climbing. Tangible stoke. All-female climbers and filmmakers. 👍👍 (Trailer)

Mon, 06 Feb 2023 16:29:23 -0500

I don’t hate it…

Mon, 06 Feb 2023 14:08:26 -0500

TIL how a sewing machine works, and how to install my own replacement car headlight! Accomplished, I feel.

Fri, 03 Feb 2023 11:42:31 -0500

Oof.

Wed, 01 Feb 2023 22:30:24 -0500

Just watched: Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) directed by the Daniels 🎥 ★★★★

In a word, wild. In two words, absurdly entertaining. In three words, just gotta watch.

Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:15:47 -0500

Did I get everything done from my to-do list today? No. But I got an impressive amount checked off! Normally I’d stay up and knock out a few more since I’m not dog-tired yet, but tonight I shall be responsible and head to bed. 🛌

Mon, 30 Jan 2023 23:09:39 -0500

🆕👕🚨 Don’t let them forget that you used to be someone on Twitter.

heydingus.net/store

Inspired by @dmoren.

Sun, 29 Jan 2023 20:50:27 -0500

Finished watching: The Menu (2022) directed by Mark Mylod 🎥 ★★☆☆

Quite strange. Perhaps engrossing? Sillier as it went on.

Sat, 28 Jan 2023 23:13:27 -0500

Sometimes at night, when the ice absolutely glows 📷

Sat, 28 Jan 2023 21:43:27 -0500

More ice 📷

Sat, 28 Jan 2023 20:13:27 -0500

Been climbing some ice 📷

Thu, 26 Jan 2023 11:13:28 -0500

New do, who dis? 📷

Thu, 26 Jan 2023 00:43:28 -0500

I’ve always been fascinated by glasses and always ask to try on my friends’ pairs. (I’ll probably need them sooner rather than later.) I liked these! 📷

Wed, 25 Jan 2023 23:52:18 -0500

Didn’t Gluon (and Micro.blog) app used to autofill usernames? Or am I imagining that? Paging @vincent

Wed, 25 Jan 2023 23:08:41 -0500

After @lexfri@hachyderm.io mentioned it in his daily podcast, I’m giving BeReal a try. I like things with small asks, and one picture per day seems small enough. My username there is pretty guessable if you’re interested…

Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:43:56 -0500

This was news to me, and welcome news at that. My wife and I listen to rain sounds through the HomePod every night. Now I can add that step to a ‘goodnight’ scene that also takes care of turning off lights and setting the sleeping thermostat temp.

Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:40:28 -0500

Skiing today was fantastic! ⛷️🎥

And I just love finding these impossibly balanced rocks out in nature. They’re so neat! 📷

Mon, 23 Jan 2023 23:46:53 -0500

🛎️🛎️🛎️ Another accurate premonition by @siracusa@mastodon.social a decade ahead. The M1 iMac is, indeed, striking. overcast.fm/+3EXotlYE…

It was extra interesting because later in the episode, John gets to bask in being right about predicting the Fusion Drive.

Mon, 23 Jan 2023 21:27:51 -0500

Finished reading: Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose 📚 ★★★★

I saw this movie years ago, but never read the screenplay until now. It’s a fascinating look into how a jury’s deliberation should work. I so appreciated Juror 8’s calm determination to examine the facts as they had been presented, and consider the question “Do I have reasonable doubt?” It’s hard to imagine I could stay that collected in such a situation, though I like to think I would.

The movie is going back on my to-watch list.

Sun, 22 Jan 2023 21:43:28 -0500

Closing ceremonies! 📷

Sun, 22 Jan 2023 00:16:25 -0500

It took some time, but tonight I got all my Instagram photos imported here to Micro.blog. Feels good to own those posts and bring them over to their new home.

I don’t have immediate plans to leave Instagram, and new photos get pulled in automatically. But still.

Sat, 21 Jan 2023 22:52:43 -0500

Damn, I do love this town. I argue there are few other places in the world where, just 10 minutes from your front door, could you be hiking, skiing, climbing, boating, biking, or watching world-class curling. Saranac Lake, NY rules.

Sat, 21 Jan 2023 18:26:48 -0500

Happy new Lukas Graham album day to those who celebrate! album.link/i/1655754… 🎵

Fri, 20 Jan 2023 21:43:29 -0500

You know how in The Santa Clause, Tim Allen’s beard grows back the moment he looks back at it? That just happened with the snow in my driveway. I got home and shoveled. It was not snowing. I open the door a short time later and BAM! A fresh inch of snow. Out of nowhere! 🫠 📷

Thu, 19 Jan 2023 15:43:29 -0500

Curling! At the FISU World University Games 📷

Thu, 19 Jan 2023 10:56:01 -0500

Somehow, even after spending weeks trying to read it down, I have more things saved to my read-later queue than ever. 500 of them to be exact. If every article took just one minute to read, it’d still take me 8 hours to finish. It’s too easy to save. Something’s gotta change.

Thu, 19 Jan 2023 08:50:51 -0500

I think I’ve fixed the issue with my Micro.blog posts not appearing in the Timeline. Apparently when you change to a custom domain, the built-in feed that sends posts over to the Timeline no longer works. I manually added my new feed, so hopefully this and previous posts show!

Wed, 18 Jan 2023 23:30:25 -0500

I started The Climb tonight. It’s…weird. The climbing is cool & people seem nice. But it dramatizes a sport that, despite its appearance, isn’t dramatic. It feels like watching satire. Oh, and a distinct lack of Jason Mamoa so far.

Wed, 18 Jan 2023 16:15:42 -0500

Currently reading: Indie Microblogging by Manton Reece 📚

Tue, 17 Jan 2023 00:07:28 -0500

Currently reading: Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose 📚

Mon, 16 Jan 2023 23:41:23 -0500

Had an absolutely wonderful day in the mountains climbing ice with a buddy. Got in around 800 feet of vertical climbing while surrounded by gorgeous landscape.

Mon, 16 Jan 2023 22:20:51 -0500

Have you always been able to buy a domain through the iCloud Custom Email Domain flow? It says the purchase will be made through Cloudflare.

Mon, 16 Jan 2023 00:29:33 -0500

I helped out at the ski jumps for the FISU World University Games tonight. Best seat* in the house! (*I was standing, and eyeballing where the jumpers landed as a backup in case of camera/computer failure.)

Sat, 14 Jan 2023 22:56:31 -0500

Okay @lexfri@hachyderm.io, you got me. 😂 🎥 🔊

overcast.fm/+De1mRjuu…

Sat, 14 Jan 2023 01:04:37 -0500

Tonight I played with shoutouts.lol, a neat tool by @vincent to share stuff you love. If you poke around on HeyDingus, you might see my start. One of these nights I’ll actually go to bed on time, but that night is not tonight. 😴

Fri, 13 Jan 2023 19:04:00 -0500

😦 Aghast – aghast I say! – that @manton’s Indie Microblogging doesn’t appear in his own app for book tracking on his own platform! 😉

Fri, 13 Jan 2023 00:13:59 -0500

Spent far too much time tinkering again tonight, but at least I’m happier with the direction and progress. Here’s a peak. It’s a reimagining of my now page by integrating Micro.blog. I figure if you want to know what I’m up to right now, that’s the place to look. Now time for sleep.

Thu, 12 Jan 2023 15:43:29 -0500

Saw the weirdest phenomenon driving back into town the other night. Every light appeared to be shining directly into the sky. We thought the city had set up spotlights they were so bright. 📷

Thu, 12 Jan 2023 08:10:17 -0500

Yup, was up way too late on already tired eyes.

Thu, 12 Jan 2023 01:19:57 -0500

The tinkering has been strong tonight. But with very little to show for it. Indecision…terrible indecision.

Tue, 10 Jan 2023 19:28:15 -0500

Finished reading: Cirque Du Freak #12: Sons of Destiny by Darren Shan 📚 ★★★☆ (Back to rating things with four stars, that way I can’t sit on the fence.)

Although nearly half the book was all explanation instead of action, I’m impressed with how the author pulled the pieces of the saga together. It betrays the telltale signs of a well-considered arc, which I appreciate.

Although this will likely be the last time I revisit the Cirque du Freak series, I’m glad I reread it. It was fun to sink back into the imagination of my youth. Overall, it’s got good, varied characters and a compelling story. And the Darren-Shan-as-both-author-and-protagonist schtick is a creative twist. 👏

Mon, 09 Jan 2023 11:52:48 -0500

Love that this tool exists!

Sun, 08 Jan 2023 14:04:39 -0500

Currently reading: Cirque Du Freak #12: Sons of Destiny by Darren Shan 📚

Wed, 04 Jan 2023 13:45:35 -0500

Finished reading: Cirque Du Freak #11: Lord of the Shadows by Darren Shan 📚 ★★★☆

I expected more out of this book, which really only boiled down to three or four pivotal scenes. And it seemed like Darren was avoiding responsibility for many of his actions, which grew tiresome. Too much of, “I wanted to do this, but this part of me wouldn’t let me do it.”

It’s saving grace was the big reveal at the end, and refusal to shy away from heinous acts in what could have ostensibly be considered a children’s book.

(By the way, I think I’m simplifying to a three star rating system.)

Mon, 02 Jan 2023 17:39:41 -0500

There are two types of people in this world: Those who delete trailing spaces, and those who do not. (Perhaps there’s a third who don’t know what a trailing space is.) (Also, those who say ‘delete’ to describe removing a previously typed character, and those who say ‘backspace’.)

Mon, 02 Jan 2023 16:01:27 -0500

This seems like an awful waste of space now, doesn’t it?

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 21:59:21 -0500

I’m digging this sunny disposition kicking off my January. Thanks @ismh! 📷

Fri, 30 Dec 2022 20:44:33 -0500

Cherries might be the best fruit.

Wed, 28 Dec 2022 23:17:06 -0500

Did my first ice climb in years today and was surprised by how smooth and solid I felt. Feeling good. 🙂

Mon, 26 Dec 2022 19:44:54 -0500

These slippers have spent three years on my wish list. They were were worth the wait. Thanks @gruber and Merlin!

Sun, 25 Dec 2022 20:46:21 -0500

Jo and I were silly and didn’t take any pictures together for our Christmas yesterday, so here’s a shot off our timelapse of opening gifts instead. 😅 ‘Twas a perfect day of love, games, good food, and snuggles. Happy holidays to y’all out there! 🎄 📷

Sun, 25 Dec 2022 20:06:22 -0500

This has had to have been the most active Christmas I’ve ever spent! Hope everyone out there had as much fun as I did today!

Fri, 23 Dec 2022 20:59:27 -0500

Spinning out in the middle of an icy, hilly road: two thumbs down, would not recommend. 👎👎 But no incident and got home safely. Be careful out there, y’all.

Thu, 22 Dec 2022 16:16:20 -0500

Enjoyed a beautiful day out Nordic skiing with a beautiful lady! ⛷️ 📷

Thu, 22 Dec 2022 12:41:00 -0500

Crossed 200 miles run for the year! 🥳 Next stop, 217 miles and 50 runs which would be a new annual record. 🏃‍♂️

Thu, 22 Dec 2022 08:42:22 -0500

Tried out a few new runs yesterday. Confidence is gaining!

Thu, 22 Dec 2022 01:23:31 -0500

Tis the season to clear out old stuff to make room for new stuff! I’ve got some things for sale: a couple of Apple Watches, a Roomba i6, and winter boots! All great quality, except for one watch has a cracked screen (makes a good night watch).

Sat, 17 Dec 2022 23:30:01 -0500

“My business is hyperlinks.”
– Jason Snell (Upgrade #435)

Sat, 17 Dec 2022 23:18:50 -0500

What’s one question you could ask to know if someone is on your level? For me, it’s “Do you write in Markdown?”

Fri, 16 Dec 2022 18:12:50 -0500

So thrilled with all this snow! ❄️

Wed, 14 Dec 2022 22:48:39 -0500

Here’s @siracusa@mastodon.social and Dan Benjamin talking 10 years ago about iPhone 5’s new lightning connector… I have bad news… overcast.fm/+3EXptJOd…

Tue, 13 Dec 2022 21:44:33 -0500

Had a pleasant run tonight through holiday lights with the nicest group in Lake Placid, the ADK Run Club. Followed by beer, cookies, and fellowship – I look forward to every Tuesday.

Tue, 13 Dec 2022 08:46:26 -0500

With so much interest and excitement around Mastodon clients coming from superb longtime developers, I wonder if @manton and team will reconsider Micro.blog compatibility?

Mon, 12 Dec 2022 20:27:55 -0500

For Micro Monday, I recommend checking out @gr36. He’s writing about, well, writing. But also small insights into his life, classic of personal blogs that I’ve gravitated toward lately. He’s also sharing handy tools for micro.blog itself.

Mon, 12 Dec 2022 13:53:06 -0500

Okay, this is pretty wild. Apparently macOS remains completely usable with Sidecar, even when in the iPadOS app switcher UI! Smallest Mac screen you’ve ever seen?

Sun, 11 Dec 2022 01:40:02 -0500

Release the Magic Keyboard with Touch ID in black/silver without the numeric pad, you cowards!

Sat, 10 Dec 2022 13:50:42 -0500

I’ve enjoyed short naps most afternoons this week. Gets me feeling refreshed for the evening. Then, of course, I’m up till 4 AM…so there’s that.

Fri, 09 Dec 2022 23:31:07 -0500

I’m so tired of fighting Pocket to display my name as the author of my posts. I’ve tried meta tags, rel=“me” links, everything. Right now, it thinks “good ol' email” is the author because I have that phrase linked to a mailto: address. 🤦‍♂️

Fri, 09 Dec 2022 20:49:59 -0500

You know you’re behind on podcasts when you’ve got two episodes of Cortex in the queue.

Fri, 09 Dec 2022 14:30:45 -0500

He likes to be involved. 📷

Fri, 09 Dec 2022 03:10:44 -0500

Rollin’! 📹 🚲

Fri, 09 Dec 2022 02:35:33 -0500

Sleepy dog. 📷

Fri, 09 Dec 2022 01:26:26 -0500

A thing of beauty atop a thing of horror. 😆 📷

Fri, 09 Dec 2022 01:05:34 -0500

Little family. 🥰 📷

Thu, 08 Dec 2022 22:51:06 -0500

It’s one of my favorite days of the year: Christmas Tree Chopin’ Day! 📷

Thu, 08 Dec 2022 00:57:51 -0500

Had some great runs today on a ghost town of a mountain. Finally skied from the Whiteface summit, and tested out a pair of DPS Wailers. Pretty surfy skis for the wet and compacted conditions, but still so much fun. Btw, you gotta check out the Slopes app

Wed, 07 Dec 2022 22:16:18 -0500

Alone on the lift.

Wed, 07 Dec 2022 10:00:07 -0500

I’m apparently very consistent in my photo-posting habits. 10 years apart, to the day. 😆

Wed, 07 Dec 2022 09:09:19 -0500

It’s probably not new, but this is the first I’ve noticed these little shortcuts in the Live Text view of a screenshot. Handy!

Tue, 06 Dec 2022 22:36:07 -0500

Just had my M1 Mac mini crash on me. First time ever. It was startling. 💻 😳

Tue, 06 Dec 2022 00:11:15 -0500

I resented the time change and its early darkness because it stole from my outdoor adventuring time. But I’m starting to appreciate the time it’s given back to me to focus on other projects, like jumping back into writing and coding. 📝

Tue, 06 Dec 2022 00:07:49 -0500

It’s too bad that the tool and community that so many of us loved has had to suffer to teach someone a very expensive lesson about the consequences of trolling.

Tue, 06 Dec 2022 00:05:39 -0500

Isn’t it funny that one of Jack’s final initiatives was to build a decentralized Twitter (Bluesky) and although he stepped aside, it seems that goal has been achieved in the form of Mastodon? It, and by extension ActivityPub, will take the helm as the decentralized social network that was foretold.

Mon, 05 Dec 2022 16:30:25 -0500

God I love the sunsets here. This doesn’t even do it justice. 📷

Sun, 04 Dec 2022 22:20:49 -0500

I finally found my totem! 📷

Sat, 03 Dec 2022 00:57:58 -0500

Introduce yourself with 5 TV shows 📺:

How I Met Your Mother
The Leftovers
Ted Lasso
Parks & Rec
Castle

Sat, 03 Dec 2022 00:29:34 -0500

I heard from our delivery worker that Tuesday was the busiest day in UPS history. Most packages delivered ever. And we’re not yet into the thick of the holiday season, it was all just from Black Friday sales. 🤯 Impending recession or not, we’re still buying ever more stuff.

Fri, 02 Dec 2022 00:32:51 -0500

A goal within reach: run 200 miles this year. 🏃‍♂️

Thu, 01 Dec 2022 23:47:15 -0500

I changed a bike tire today! Well, two of them, to be precise. You’d think that since I’ve been working in a bike shop for over 8 months, that wouldn’t be significant, but nope, today was my first ever! Getting the bike ready for winter rollers training. 💪 🚴‍♂️

Thu, 01 Dec 2022 11:10:29 -0500

just setting up my twttr

Tue, 13 Sep 2022 08:05:18 -0500

Jo is taking a big test this morning to advance her care for patients and be able to do more care on her own without supervision. She’s learned so much from UH Trauma and the last 6 months here in Saranac Lake Emergency that she’s been able to take it way ahead of most PAs. I’m so proud of my bad-ass wife, and hope you’ll join me in wishing her good luck! 📷

Sat, 27 Aug 2022 01:00:00 -0500

Finished reading: Cirque Du Freak #10: The Lake of Souls by Darren Shan 📚 ★★☆☆

So much tedium and travel. Very Lord of the Rings-esque in its (unnecessary?) detail. But a good payoff at the end!

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 22:20:50 -0500

Uncle-ing! 📷

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 22:20:50 -0500

First trip as a Guide! 📷

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 22:20:50 -0500

Rainier! 📷

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 22:20:50 -0500

Scarynac crack. 📷

Sat, 16 Jul 2022 01:00:00 -0500

Finished reading: Rock Climbing Anchors: A Comprehensive Guide (The Mountaineers Outdoor Experts Series) by Craig Luebben 📚 ★★★★

Sat, 25 Jun 2022 22:49:36 -0500

Summer climbing adventures! 📷

Sun, 22 May 2022 01:00:00 -0500

Finished reading: Artemis: A Novel by Andy Weir 📚 ★★★☆

Thu, 12 May 2022 01:00:00 -0500

Finished reading: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke 📚 ★★★★

Strange and wonderful, this book captured my imagination as thoroughly as a labyrinth. Piranesi’s goodness and awe brought me joy.

The idea of multiple minds sharing the same body seems to be all the rage lately, but it’s also oddly comforting. One can be whomever they choose – without losing who they were before – they just need to think it.

I think this won’t be the only time I read Piranesi.

Tue, 03 May 2022 00:47:00 -0500

Finished reading: Cirque Du Freak #9: Killers Of The Dawn by Darren Shan 📚 ★★★★

Sat, 23 Apr 2022 00:45:00 -0500

Finished reading: The Trad Climber’s Bible by John Long 📚 ★★★★

When I purchased this book, I thought it would be a classic how-to book full of anchoring and climbing techniques, diagrams, and tips. I was right that it was chock full of suggestions, but completely wrong thinking it would be anything but a “for dummies” type guide.

Legends John Long and Peter Croft use an interesting way of weaving best practices into anecdotes of when these two old-school climbers had to learn them for themselves back when they were pioneering great climbs in North America. I’m so glad that I started with this book in my re-entrance to trad. It reminded me that everyone starts at the beginning, and that’s okay.

Sun, 10 Apr 2022 07:55:04 -0500

Tea. Book. Dogs. Park. #Boston 📷

Fri, 08 Apr 2022 11:48:59 -0500

And with that, ya boy passed his rock climbing, hiking, and camping guide exams for New York State. Just gotta re-up a couple other certs and fill out some paperwork to be a Licensed Guide! 📷

Thu, 07 Apr 2022 00:44:00 -0500

Finished reading: Cirque Du Freak #8: Allies of the Night by Darren Shan 📚 ★★★★

Wow, I’d forgotten how much happens in this book! A return of so many old characters, plus love and betrayal? This is a good one. A little odd how much the trio gives in to the trap they’re clearly in, but hey, gotta keep it dramatic, right? We’re right at the edge of what I remember from my original read-through of the series, so the next few books should be a blast.

Sat, 26 Mar 2022 23:23:40 -0500

4th of the Saranac Lake 6ers 📷

Thu, 24 Mar 2022 00:40:00 -0500

Finished reading: Cirque Du Freak #7: Hunters of the Dusk by Darren Shan 📚 ★★★★

The time jumps in these books get me a little bit because it doesn’t seem like Darren matures (internally, not externally) as much as he should. But the author does a good job getting us up to speed and onto the next adventure quickly. I enjoyed the return to the Cirque, however short-lived, though the crux battle and reveal of the book really happens in a flash.

Sat, 19 Mar 2022 19:19:35 -0500

Happy muddy hiking buddy 📷

Sat, 12 Mar 2022 00:39:00 -0500

Finished reading: Cirque Du Freak #6: The Vampire Prince by Darren Shan 📚 ★★★★

Darren’s maturity in his attitude toward death and murder stuck out most to me in this book. He returns the prodigal son when he exposes the Vampaneeze, but there are consequences — dire ones. Darren finally becomes more self-dependent here, too. After all the action in the last book, The Vampire Prince sets us up for the next stage in Darren Shan’s story.

Wed, 02 Mar 2022 17:21:55 -0500

Birthday hike! 📷

Sat, 26 Feb 2022 23:34:55 -0500

Birthday! 📷

Thu, 17 Feb 2022 00:37:00 -0500

Finished reading: Cirque Du Freak #5: Trials of Death: Book 5 in the Saga of Darren Shan by Darren Shan 📚 ★★★★

The action really picks up here in Book 5! We see Darren with a thirst to prove himself and then have to hold his own in the Trials. I enjoyed the background and traditions during the festival and how Harkat became a more well-rounded character. The ending leaves me hungry for more and to see how Darren will fare beaten, betrayed, and on his own.

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 19:10:47 -0500

💘 my life buddy 📷

Thu, 03 Feb 2022 00:25:00 -0500

Finished reading: Cirque Du Freak #4: Vampire Mountain by Darren Shan 📚★★★☆

This felt like a setup book, with Darren getting to know more about vampire culture than ever before. The time jump (8 years!) was a little jarring, and though Darren doesn’t seem that much more mature, I appreciated the development of trust between him and Mr. Crepsely. As I recall, with things established nicely in this book, the story gets more exciting in the next ones.

Wed, 02 Feb 2022 23:13:30 -0500

The ice castle is coming along nicely. 📷

Wed, 02 Feb 2022 23:08:08 -0500

Phin had an excellent day out on the trail. He did great off-leash, loved playing the in the snow, and even met another Golden buddy! He thinks the #ADK is pretty okay. 📷

Sun, 30 Jan 2022 19:45:50 -0500

Ice skating on Mirror Lake! 📷

Sat, 22 Jan 2022 00:13:00 -0500

Finished reading: Cirque Du Freak #3: Tunnels of Blood by Darren Shan 📚 ★★★☆

On this re-read, I was struck by how enthralled I get in the story, despite it being written for teens and already knowing the plot. In this installment, Darren learns of the Vampaneeze, explores his boundaries for interacting with humans, and his relationship with Mr. Crepsley is tested in new ways.

I liked it, but it’s short and doesn’t push the overall story forward too much. I rate it 3 stars not because it was bad writing, but because it feels like it served as an explainer book more than anything.

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 23:17:00 -0500

Finished watching: Mr. Corman (2021) written and directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt 📺 ★★☆☆

It’s hard to wrap my thoughts about this show into a tight little bow because it was kind of all over the place. But I can say that it was masterful in bringing forth emotions from real everyday life. The last three episodes, which took place during 2020 pandemic, so accurately captured the fear and uncertainty of that time that I forgot for a moment that I wasn’t actually in lockdown in my house.

I can’t foresee a Season 2, which it sounds like there won’t be one, but I think it’s worth watching – even if just for it’s weirdness and rawness.

Oh, and it feels like this show was Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s demon dog. He wrote, directed, and starred in the show and wrote and performed the music. Pretty cool.

Sun, 09 Jan 2022 08:19:00 -0500

New home! 📷

Thu, 30 Dec 2021 11:17:50 -0500

Any time I sit in my desk chair the past month, the cat is in this spot within seconds. 📷

Sun, 26 Dec 2021 01:41:55 -0500

Merry Christmas! 🎄 📷

Sun, 14 Nov 2021 07:33:03 -0500

We’re back in the ADK… 📷

Tue, 05 Oct 2021 21:34:56 -0500

Lake Placid! 📷

Tue, 28 Sep 2021 15:51:37 -0500

Road trip! 📷

Fri, 30 Jul 2021 22:05:42 -0500

Dog park! 📷

Wed, 28 Jul 2021 09:50:16 -0500

Our tomatoes are coming along nicely! 📷

Mon, 26 Jul 2021 21:38:23 -0500

There’s been some beautiful nights for campfires this week. 📷

Sat, 17 Jul 2021 20:56:58 -0500

So it rained a lot this week… 📷

Sat, 10 Jul 2021 16:45:57 -0500

Washington! 📷

Mon, 05 Jul 2021 19:06:21 -0500

I got this decal off Etsy to put on the back of my iPad Pro, and I 🧡 it!! 📷

Thu, 24 Jun 2021 12:44:30 -0500

Impromptu buddy time. 📷

Sun, 20 Jun 2021 12:39:59 -0500

Another beautiful wedding for a beautiful couple. 📷

Sat, 22 May 2021 19:40:34 -0500

Wedding weekend! 📷

Sat, 22 May 2021 19:40:34 -0500

Bear hug! 📷

Sat, 22 May 2021 19:34:51 -0500

Birthday girl! 📷

Sat, 22 May 2021 19:33:16 -0500

Outer Banks! 📷

Sun, 09 May 2021 02:56:51 -0500

Thank you to all the wonderful friends and coworkers who made this a fun home! You are the best! 📷

Tue, 26 Jan 2021 11:20:22 -0500

Finally found a good spot for my sticker collection! 📷

Sun, 10 Jan 2021 14:22:12 -0500

Huzzah! I hit my daily Move goal for the 1,000th time! #CloseYourRings 📷

Fri, 08 Jan 2021 22:53:49 -0500

Momentum is a heck of a thing – both for activity and inactivity. Working to keep this streak going! 📷

Fri, 08 Jan 2021 22:43:51 -0500

To kick off 2021, I earned this award by closing all three rings for seven days in a row. #AppleWatch #CloseYourRings #2021 📷

Sat, 26 Dec 2020 12:17:23 -0500

Merry Christmas! 📷

Sat, 26 Dec 2020 12:05:07 -0500

Getting back on that horse! I earned this December Challenge award by doing nine 15+ min workouts! Thanks @applefitnessplus #closeyourrings 📷

Tue, 01 Dec 2020 20:49:23 -0500

Happy Thanksgiving! 📷

Sat, 06 Jun 2020 00:01:54 -0500

Our own tides. 📷

Tue, 28 Apr 2020 18:40:06 -0500

I’ll be doing the @boyscoutsofamerica National Good Turn Virtual 5K this weekend! I think I’ve done more 5Ks during the pandemic than any other time in my life. Hope you’ll join me. #CampIn #GoodTurn5K #ScoutingAtHome 📷

Mon, 13 Apr 2020 11:16:35 -0500

Happy Easter! 📷

Fri, 03 Apr 2020 11:30:35 -0500

A huge thank you from the bottom of my heart to all those who have been putting in the work to help keep our healthcare workers and first responders in the pandemic safe. Your efforts to source and make masks and other gear have been astounding, and you’re bringing peace of mind to many families like ours.

If you want to help, consider donating to our friends and family working in Michigan: is.gd/U0TLjf Or friends working in the Cleveland area: is.gd/uDqocL 📷

Thu, 02 Apr 2020 17:39:01 -0500

As a #ThrowbackThursday and #CampSpritWeek crossover for Honors Day, here’s a picture of me and my good friend @tyty.barker back in 2008, earning Arrowman and Honor Arrowman of the Year! Being a member of the OA has been one of the highlights of my scouting career! #CampFromHomeLEC 📷

Wed, 01 Apr 2020 19:54:33 -0500

Scout bottles. 📷

Tue, 31 Mar 2020 17:45:10 -0500

Fun socks. 📷

Mon, 30 Mar 2020 17:53:12 -0500

Scout shirts. 📷

Sun, 29 Mar 2020 11:16:53 -0500

A Scout is Helpful 5K 📷

Wed, 26 Feb 2020 09:22:41 -0500

The happiest of birthdays to the loveliest of ladies! @jo_marie07 📷

Fri, 14 Feb 2020 22:19:20 -0500

37 days strong! 📷

Sun, 19 Jan 2020 19:28:58 -0500

Huzzah! 📷

Sat, 28 Dec 2019 09:57:02 -0500

I don’t post often, but wanted to share this! Through years of careful budgeting and paying WAY more than the minimum each and every month, I’m very happy to out of student loan debt! This isn’t something I could have done on my own, and I have incredible parents, being in the right place at the right time for a fortunate job, and the most amazing and supportive wife, (plus a healthy amount of privilege) to thank for setting me on the right path…but it was a choice and hard effort to begin paying them down before graduation, and to continue to make getting out of debt a priorityï¿¼. Our family has a long way to go to be actually be out of debt, but I’m proud and happy to have hit this milestone after three years of focusing on this goal. 📷

Thu, 28 Nov 2019 20:35:04 -0500

Best friends 📷

Thu, 28 Nov 2019 20:35:04 -0500

No excuses. 📷

Thu, 31 Oct 2019 18:30:25 -0500

Halloween dinner shopping! 📷

Sun, 13 Oct 2019 12:40:02 -0500

LapPup 📷

Mon, 30 Sep 2019 22:16:46 -0500

The newest member of our little family. Hello, Phin! 🐶 📷

Sun, 29 Sep 2019 15:54:00 -0500

1st Anniversary 😘 📷

Wed, 10 Oct 2018 01:52:35 -0500

Goodbye, cool hotel! #atthemoxy 📷

Thu, 04 Oct 2018 11:24:56 -0500

Honeymooning in Ireland and Austria! 🫶 📷

Wed, 05 Sep 2018 11:29:21 -0500

I reached my Move goal 100 days in a row on my #AppleWatch. That’s my longest streak ever. Going strong! 📷

Mon, 03 Sep 2018 21:15:34 -0500

He would like to come with, please. 📷

Mon, 03 Sep 2018 20:36:38 -0500

Vacay! Last as an unmarried couple? 📷

Sat, 01 Sep 2018 12:26:45 -0500

After 10 years of thinking about it during hundreds of runs, I finally beat 8th-grade Jarrod running cross country. My best time for our 2-mile races back then was 16:02. Today, I cut about 30 seconds off that time and then continued on four more miles in the 80-degree heat. 📷

Tue, 28 Aug 2018 17:45:11 -0500

Love this office. 📷

Tue, 31 Jul 2018 10:47:21 -0500

It’s a good confirmation that running around camp for 18-hours a day for two months does, indeed, keep your body in decent shape. #CouldHaveKeptGoing 📷

Mon, 30 Jul 2018 08:45:47 -0500

Best summer, better friends. 📷

Sat, 30 Jun 2018 22:13:55 -0500

Ahhhh… 📷

Thu, 07 Jun 2018 19:37:53 -0500

#CapturedEarl at @fsrbsa #AdminAttacks @bergweav @acomusic19 @whall77 📷

Sun, 06 May 2018 18:43:38 -0500

My favorite Graduate! 📷

Sun, 18 Mar 2018 21:56:45 -0500

77/365: Just about 900 of my closest friends out to celebrate our newest Eagle Scouts! #jblundy365 📷

Sat, 17 Mar 2018 22:59:21 -0500

76/365: Great wedding! #jblundy36 📷

Sat, 17 Mar 2018 14:45:36 -0500

This is an excellent rectangle! 📷

Thu, 15 Mar 2018 21:16:44 -0500

74/365: First shipment of Scout’s Own Maple Syrup! Who wants some?! #jblundy365 📷

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 22:14:23 -0500

72/365: Late shift tonight #jblundy365 📷

Mon, 12 Mar 2018 21:30:54 -0500

71/365: Big fan of shoes! #jblundy365 📷

Sun, 11 Mar 2018 21:41:55 -0500

Great walk today! #jblundy365 📷

Sun, 25 Feb 2018 22:19:29 -0500

56/365: Cool cake! #jblundy365 📷

Sat, 17 Feb 2018 22:36:41 -0500

48/365: #SaturdayScouts #jblundy365 📷

Thu, 15 Feb 2018 22:37:51 -0500

46/365: Blue and Gold life #jblundy365 📷

Wed, 14 Feb 2018 21:54:42 -0500

45/365: Living Room fort! #jblundy365 📷

Sun, 11 Feb 2018 21:54:37 -0500

42/365: #SummerIsComing #jblundy365 📷

Mon, 05 Feb 2018 20:46:51 -0500

36/365: Sweater vest Monday #jblundy365 📷

Sun, 04 Feb 2018 22:54:31 -0500

35/365: Not quite 10 o’clock… #jblundy365 📷

Sat, 03 Feb 2018 19:47:30 -0500

34/365: Catering booked! #jblundy365 💍 📷

Fri, 02 Feb 2018 22:57:39 -0500

33/365: Post-work snack #jblundy365 📷

Fri, 02 Feb 2018 09:06:23 -0500

32/365: It’s a me! #jblundy365 📷

Wed, 31 Jan 2018 12:43:46 -0500

31/365: Work buddy #jblundy365 📷

Tue, 30 Jan 2018 22:04:06 -0500

30/365: Bonus: Cute cat! #jblundy365 📷

Tue, 30 Jan 2018 22:03:19 -0500

30/365: Back to BioLife #jblundy365 📷

Mon, 29 Jan 2018 22:40:22 -0500

29/365: I may have stayed at work too long… #jblundy365 📷

Sun, 28 Jan 2018 21:47:37 -0500

28/365: Got a good workout in at my favorite kind of gym. #jblundy365 📷

Sat, 27 Jan 2018 20:25:13 -0500

A happy (belated) birthday to a great friend! 📷

Sat, 27 Jan 2018 20:17:43 -0500

27/365: Great day as a wizard getting kids excited about camp! #jblundy365 📷

Fri, 26 Jan 2018 13:28:54 -0500

Goodbye, Petey. You were the best big brother cat. 📷

Fri, 26 Jan 2018 00:47:33 -0500

25/365: A solid movie #jblundy365 📷

Wed, 24 Jan 2018 19:02:35 -0500

He literally can’t handle not being touching when you get home… 📷

Wed, 24 Jan 2018 18:58:32 -0500

24/365: Camp life #jblundy365 📷

Tue, 23 Jan 2018 22:00:31 -0500

23/365: The cuddliest of bugs #jblundy365 📷

Mon, 22 Jan 2018 21:52:28 -0500

22/365: Last one at work after a long day. Good though! #jblundy365 📷

Sun, 21 Jan 2018 23:59:46 -0500

Chicago! 📷

Sun, 21 Jan 2018 23:59:44 -0500

Train ride 📷

Sun, 21 Jan 2018 23:59:43 -0500

Protest! 📷

Sun, 21 Jan 2018 23:59:42 -0500

Wedding! 📷

Sun, 21 Jan 2018 23:53:56 -0500

21/365: Visited a good friend, and his DOG! #jblundy365 📷

Sat, 20 Jan 2018 23:50:06 -0500

20/365: Great day in Chicago! #jblundy365 📷

Sat, 20 Jan 2018 08:31:08 -0500

19/365: Happy day #jblundy365 📷

Thu, 18 Jan 2018 21:32:28 -0500

18/365: Fun! #jblundy365 📷

Thu, 18 Jan 2018 00:18:05 -0500

17/365: Some big ideas. #jblundy365 📷

Tue, 16 Jan 2018 21:37:01 -0500

16/365: Some great Scouters giving their time! #jblundy365 📷

Mon, 15 Jan 2018 20:56:00 -0500

15/365: In bed, 8:50pm #jblundy365 📷

Sun, 14 Jan 2018 21:14:31 -0500

14/365: Hit the gym today! #jblundy365 📷

Sat, 13 Jan 2018 23:46:51 -0500

13/365: First DateBox! Good fun, thanks Jordan! #jblundy365 📷

Fri, 12 Jan 2018 17:50:53 -0500

12/365: Beauty of a Beast #jblundy365 📷

Thu, 11 Jan 2018 23:59:59 -0500

11/365: Busy day, no social time! #jblundy365 📷

Wed, 10 Jan 2018 21:52:55 -0500

10/365: Post-meeting thoughts collection and organization…at the gas station #jblundy365 📷

Tue, 09 Jan 2018 23:53:44 -0500

9/365: #excited #jblundy365 📷

Mon, 08 Jan 2018 21:16:32 -0500

8/365: I hid his mice up there. #MotivatedLearning #jblundy365 📷

Mon, 08 Jan 2018 00:09:36 -0500

7/365: Focused. #jblundy365 📷

Sat, 06 Jan 2018 22:11:14 -0500

6/365: Moments before this picture, he was cuddling wonderfully. #jblundy365 📷

Fri, 05 Jan 2018 20:36:00 -0500

5/365: Chinese for the win! #jblundy365 📷

Thu, 04 Jan 2018 23:19:36 -0500

004/365: Late night work. Don’t forget to take breaks! #jblundy365 📷

Wed, 03 Jan 2018 19:59:02 -0500

Evening nap buddy. #jblundy365 📷

Tue, 02 Jan 2018 20:14:40 -0500

Deer at our apartment complex tonight! #jblundy365 📷

Mon, 01 Jan 2018 18:58:36 -0500

Goodbye cabin, at least until next year! #jblundy365 📷

Sun, 31 Dec 2017 07:28:17 -0500

Winter! 📷

Sun, 10 Dec 2017 00:20:06 -0500

Meijer speed find challenge! 📷

Tue, 05 Dec 2017 09:33:35 -0500

Spreading that holiday cheer! 📷

Sat, 04 Nov 2017 17:26:35 -0500

Fall! 📷

Thu, 21 Sep 2017 15:38:25 -0500

A BIG thanks to supporters of Scouting who came out to the Sporting Clay Shoot! #ShareScouting 📷

Sun, 17 Sep 2017 23:02:39 -0500

Any box will do. 📷

Sun, 17 Sep 2017 22:57:00 -0500

Brings me back to all the campouts & troop meetings with these guys. They really shaped who I am! #ShareScouting 📷

Tue, 04 Apr 2017 12:41:20 -0500

@wizenedoakleather love my wallet, by the way! Probably didn’t know it was for me! Great craftsmanship, Maestro. Thanks! 📷

Sat, 15 Oct 2016 21:47:36 -0500

Plus apple fritters! #autumn #apples @jo_marie07 📷

Sat, 15 Oct 2016 21:45:06 -0500

Apple Day! Picked fresh and made from scratch! #apples #autumn @jo_marie07 📷

Wed, 05 Oct 2016 15:28:22 -0500

Delicious Fish tacos for #nationaltacoday #belated with @jo_marie07 📷

Mon, 03 Oct 2016 16:01:47 -0500

5 months without a haircut, before and after. #FeelsBetter 📷

Wed, 13 Jul 2016 00:58:19 -0500

It was a beautiful night to finally get my kayak in the water. 📷

Tue, 05 Jul 2016 17:20:34 -0500

#nofilter 📷

Sun, 19 Jun 2016 22:00:06 -0500

Wish I could have spent the day with this swell guy on Father’s Day. Instead, I spent the day climbing and reflecting on blessed I am to have such a wonderful and supportive Dad. Thanks for teaching me to aim high! 📷

Wed, 15 Jun 2016 10:09:26 -0500

Headed up #MontezumasTower in the #GardenOfTheGods. Incredible place and super exposed climbing. 📷

Thu, 26 May 2016 18:28:22 -0500

Can’t beat a personalized message! Great new business, with a great message, by great people. @unpluggedoutfitters 📷

Wed, 18 May 2016 22:54:41 -0500

I’ll never get my head out of the clouds! 📷

Wed, 11 Nov 2015 10:33:29 -0500

Post-exam reward :) 📷

Sun, 11 Oct 2015 11:44:28 -0500

Got me some new kicks! 📷

Fri, 07 Aug 2015 10:09:30 -0500

Before and after! 📷

Fri, 31 Jul 2015 00:16:16 -0500

Softly falls the light of day, as our campfire fades away… 📷

Fri, 24 Jul 2015 12:20:20 -0500

What a beaut'! 📷

Fri, 17 Jul 2015 01:34:10 -0500

Only at #AdventurePatrol www.michiganscouting.org/RKAdventu… 📷

Fri, 17 Jul 2015 01:30:51 -0500

Learning to be Super Leaders at #AdventurePatrol www.michiganscouting.org/RKAdventu… 📷

Fri, 17 Jul 2015 01:28:33 -0500

#AdventurePatrol “it’s the ultimate outdoor scouting experience.” www.michiganscouting.org/RKAdventu… 📷

Thu, 02 Jul 2015 15:10:25 -0500

3 DAYS!! Till #AdventurePatrol 📷

Tue, 23 Jun 2015 01:06:46 -0500

Missin' this girl right now, but I’ll see her soon! 📷

Thu, 18 Jun 2015 23:39:32 -0500

Getting pumped for #AdventurePatrol! www.michiganscouting.org/RKAdventurePatrol/ 📷

Fri, 22 May 2015 15:49:49 -0500

#solstice15 #experiencetheoutdoors 📷

Wed, 13 May 2015 21:44:05 -0500

Science lesson with @hannah_som_6 at @leadershape #cmu2015ls 📷

Tue, 12 May 2015 21:33:05 -0500

Balloon tower fun got us hyped about #vision at #cmu2015ls @cmu_leadership @leadershape 📷

Thu, 22 Jan 2015 23:10:16 -0500

From Kalamaboo! Thanks for the laugh, BWW! 📷

Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:03:00 -0500

A #frosty morning 📷

Fri, 26 Dec 2014 21:40:37 -0500

Merry Christmas and Happy Boxing Day from Remus and I! 📷

Sat, 20 Dec 2014 17:12:12 -0500

Best friend cats 📷

Fri, 26 Sep 2014 07:53:49 -0500

This is how I find my #turtle in the morning. “This is some niiiiice glass…” 📷

Thu, 24 Jul 2014 10:50:58 -0500

My name is Remus and I see a whole world to explore! #SmallTurtleBigWorld 📷

Sun, 08 Jun 2014 09:35:02 -0500

Nothing like getting out on the water again #peaceful 📷

Mon, 12 May 2014 11:03:42 -0500

Monday…back in class! 📷

Thu, 08 May 2014 12:00:12 -0500

One of my last meals in the place as a resident. It’s been awesome! 📷

Fri, 25 Apr 2014 15:26:54 -0500

The Parthenon in Michigan? #neat! 📷

Mon, 14 Apr 2014 15:17:00 -0500

Just became a part of the bone marrow donor registry. Please stop by the UC today before 5 to also sign up! 📷

Wed, 09 Apr 2014 11:51:48 -0500

#batman #nopants 📷

Sat, 15 Mar 2014 09:49:36 -0500

Petey has trained her well! 📷

Fri, 14 Mar 2014 00:28:57 -0500

I’ve been wearing the same athletic shorts and pullover fleece for 3 days returning home, and I think I’ve found my very #comfiest clothes! 📷

Fri, 14 Mar 2014 00:25:17 -0500

Back home and car #unpacked. What a great trip. 📷

Sat, 08 Mar 2014 08:51:58 -0500

Bags are packed, let’s go! 📷

Fri, 28 Feb 2014 07:29:11 -0500

Catching the sunrise on my birthday. =] #beauty 📷

Tue, 25 Feb 2014 16:24:45 -0500

#Moosejaw, you’re my favorite. 📷

Mon, 03 Feb 2014 16:20:38 -0500

I needed a moment #snickers 📷

Sun, 02 Feb 2014 23:04:24 -0500

My #fortune today! 📷

Wed, 29 Jan 2014 19:53:55 -0500

Between #running and #climbing and #iceskating and #7MinuteWorkout, today is an active day! 📷

Wed, 29 Jan 2014 19:38:17 -0500

This little guy is my other treasure from goodwill! 📷

Tue, 28 Jan 2014 22:54:35 -0500

For anybody who is stressed out and would also like a cold drink, I got you covered! #chillpill 📷

Sun, 26 Jan 2014 15:14:12 -0500

“Snowception” #DoYouWantToBuildASnowman 📷

Mon, 20 Jan 2014 23:16:16 -0500

What is this vegetable?? It tastes like a snap-pea and has the consistency/looks like an apple slice! Mystery vegetable! 📷

Tue, 07 Jan 2014 12:35:06 -0500

My book stack for this semester! Phew… And there are still two more on the way! #bookworm 📷

Fri, 03 Jan 2014 15:22:16 -0500

It’s not quite #svelty but I am ready for some cold weather #camping! #BoyScouts 📷

Tue, 31 Dec 2013 18:03:27 -0500

Petey really wants to come to the #NewYearsParty tonight! 📷

Thu, 19 Dec 2013 20:28:52 -0500

Always the boxes for #catnaps 📷

Sun, 13 Oct 2013 16:03:39 -0500

Sad füf 📷

Sat, 12 Oct 2013 18:08:58 -0500

I’m a sucker for #PrettySkies 📷

Sat, 12 Oct 2013 18:04:28 -0500

‘Tis #fall 📷

Sat, 12 Oct 2013 11:45:30 -0500

Boooooooo! 📷

Thu, 03 Oct 2013 08:12:14 -0500

Making new friends in the dorm #tbt #lifeatcentral @cmuniversity 📷

Sat, 28 Sep 2013 20:04:57 -0500

#climbing 📷

Sun, 08 Sep 2013 18:49:39 -0500

I love looking at the sky! 📷

Tue, 03 Sep 2013 14:44:42 -0500

Best seat in the house! #toilet 📷

Wed, 28 Aug 2013 14:46:51 -0500

Just as a fridge should look: full! 📷

Wed, 21 Aug 2013 10:31:39 -0500

Why indeed? 📷

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:42:53 -0500

Pokemon and paper writing… #summerlife 📷

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:03:26 -0500

Typing on the iPad actually keeps me pretty focused. I like it! 📷

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:26:37 -0500

Awesome sky! 📷

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 17:03:50 -0500

Very nice day out considering the recent weather! 📷

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:53:22 -0500

Procrastinating in the fuf 📷

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 12:31:11 -0500

Naked in the girls' dorm room…ahhh college… 📷

Sun, 02 Sep 2012 19:32:23 -0500

GM building at the Detroit Jazz Fest 📷

Sun, 02 Sep 2012 18:49:22 -0500

Canada across the Detroit River 📷

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 17:51:43 -0500

Home game 📷

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 18:30:27 -0500

Words to live by 📷

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 22:47:11 -0500

Over the water 📷

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:26:05 -0500

Burning skies 📷

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:07:58 -0500

Forgotten past 📷

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:13:58 -0500

Colorful Bass 📷

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:13:14 -0500

Beautiful sunset 📷

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:26:14 -0500

Reflections 📷

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:23:07 -0500

Brotherhood of Cheerful Service 📷

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 22:11:52 -0500

Sidewalker 📷