🆕📝 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.

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. 👌

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)

🆕📝 Mesh Baselayers Beat Traditional Ones

It both defies logic and makes perfect sense.

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!

🍿 Watched (back in May 2022): The Matrix (1999)

🍿 Watched (back in May 2022): Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)

Don’t mind me, just clearing out some old reviews in Drafts that I never got around to posting until now. 😅

🍿 Watched (back in May 2022): Explorer: The Last Tepui (2022)

📺 Finished watching: Slow Horses (Season 2)

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.

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:

1. Trying
2. Severence
3. For All Mankind
4. Ted Lasso
5. Dark Matter

And their best movie: CODA

If you subscribe, what are your top 5?

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

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…

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!

There may not have been many, but each were quite good!

🍿 Just watched: Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

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. 🙄

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.

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.

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

🆕📝 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. 😳 🎙️

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.

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.

🔗 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.