Jarrod Blundy
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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. 😍
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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.
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.)
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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:
altandfigcaption. 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.
🔗 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.
If there’s one thing I learned about Napoleon tonight, it’s that he loved to play with his cannons. 🍿
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. 🎙️
🔗 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.
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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.
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. 🎙️
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. 🎙️
🆕📝 50% Off Phone Cases from the HeyDingus Store
The title pretty much says it all. Just use code FIFTY50 at checkout.
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"
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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.
Loved this @Launched@mastodon.social episode with @neiljhaveri@mastodon.social about Mimestream. You could hear the smile on his face the whole time. 🎙️
After 5+ miles and 3000 feet of elevation gain, I was surprised he still had this much gas left in the tank. 🐶
🆕📝 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.
🆕📝 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.
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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. 👀🤔
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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!
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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.
