🔗 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.

🔗 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.

🆕📝 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.

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

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.

📷 #mbApr Day 01

A tool, or toy?

No joke, Apple’s been around for 48 years as of today! And Gmail for 20. Goodness.

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.

🆕📝 7 Things (Which Are My Favorite Routes I Climbed in Red Rocks) This Week [#138]

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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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🆕📝 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.

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. 👍

🆕📝 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!

🆕📝 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.

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?

Here we are again… 🥱 Gonna be the first person American Airlines sees when they come to work. ✈️

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?

1. Catch up on Crashing Clockwise blog posts
2. Watch Killers of the Flower Moon
3. Release my ‘Markdown Memes’ shortcut
4. Finish For All Mankind

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. ✈️

🔗 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.

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.)

🔗 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.

🆕📝 My Wishes for AirPods (4th gen)

Mostly, I just want the 2nd gens…but better. 😅

🔗 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.

🔗 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.

Some example photos and videos from the Meta Ray-Bans in my recent posts. (Pretty good, I must say!)
/cc: @ericmwalk