🔗 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?

🔗 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.

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.

It really tickles me when text-to-voice readers pronounce Bluesky as “blue-ski”. 🤭

🔗 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.

🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #533: ‘I’m the App’

Kind of short and sweet this week. 😊

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#123]

Two podcasts, three articles, and two videos this week, plus a game if you Take a Chance this week.

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.

🔗 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.

🔗 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.

🔗 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

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³ The comments section can be found by clicking the Trash icon on your computer’s desktop.

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🔗 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.

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.

Also, potentially new options (or at least new iconography) for a long-press on a Reminders notification.

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.

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.

Ugly!? These are just gorgeous.

Ugly Christmas Sweater Wallpapers 🎄🎅🏻
https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/ugly-christmas-sweater-wallpapers

🔗 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!

The sky from the other evening was unreal. I can’t get enough of imposing cloud shapes. 📷

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.

I needed to hear that.

🔗 “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.

🔗 Add CIVIL WAR to my most hyped movies of 2024 list – blast-o-rama.

I fear this one will feel very real.

🔗 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.

So Apple has done real emoji Tapback-style reactions...

...for collaborative playlists in iOS 17.3 🙃

Can we have these in iMessage too, please?

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.

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.