🆕📝 Shortcuts Tips: Size Doesn’t Matter
How small can a task be and still be worthwhile to automate?
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!
🆕📝 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.
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.
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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?
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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.
📷 #mbApr Day 09
A throwback to my crispy tiger-striped sunburn, a result of an unfortunate application of sunblock. 🐯 🥵
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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.
Anyone else participating in CSS Naked Day? Let’s see those bare blogs!
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!
📷 #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.)
My website is streaking for the next day. Care to join? 😉
🔗 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.
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?
Taxes: filed ✅
Left it a bit late this year, but looks like we’re actually getting a refund, which is nice.
🆕📝 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.
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. 😅
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-shortcutURL 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.