Well done, People
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Since all the cool kids are doing it, I’m jumping on the bandwagon in my first Hey World blog post!
Scratch that @burk, you have changed blogging. You guys inspired someone to write their very first blog post!
I just released version 1.0 of my ‘Create Task with Drafts Notes’ shortcut, inspired by @viticci@macstories.net and @johnvoorhees@macstories.net on AppStories:
Use Apple Shortcuts to automatically create both a Things to-do and a Drafts note with links back to each other.
Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.
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What happened next was not standard issue Hemispheric Views. We slowly began to see people in the Hemispheric Views community create blog posts listing their default apps. This first spread slowly, then quickly to people who had never heard of the podcast but wanted to blog about their defaults as a movement […] to join in on. […]
We didn’t change blogging, the internet, or the world. But it sure made for an excellent side quest from this thing we call life.
🥰 A heartfelt post from @Burk about the silly fad he inadvertently started with @martinfeld and @canion.
Nilay is onto something here.
Said another way, a wearable product has to be way more useful for you to tolerate it being on your face. But I’d also posit that the threshold of necessary usefulness goes down the more inconspicuous the gadget is compared to “normal”, non-smart accessories.
What’s the over/under on every Apple event being filmed on iPhone from now on? I’m thinking it’s quite likely that we’ve seen our last one done with traditional camera. It’s so big a flex (and helps inform them of its shortcomings) that I’d give it an 80% chance.
How long before Squarespace (Wordpress, Ghost, etc.) works a personalized GPT into their built-in site search? Instead of searching for terms, visitors could ask questions that are informed specifically by everything you’ve posted to your site and read the generated text instead of your blog posts.
🔗 So Far, A.I.-Generated Images of Current Events Seem Rare in News Stories – Pixel Envy
And seeing those posts changed my mind about the use of these kinds of images. When I first wrote about this Crikey story, I suggested Adobe ought to prohibit photorealistic images which claim to depict real events. But I can also see an argument that an image representative of a tragedy used in commemoration could sometimes be more ethical than a real photograph. It is possible the people in a photo do not want to be associated with a catastrophe, or that its circulation could be traumatizing.
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When I reflect on what twenty-five years of blogging means, mostly it’s the persistence: my blog is still here, still publishing new content, at the same URL as when it was launched, and with almost all of the archives intact and readable. It’s not hard to do, but few do it, and when I’m blogging I’m continuing my commitment to digital longevity.
A worthwhile goal. He says it’s not hard, but I’m just a few years into blogging and, several migrations later, I can tell you that it’s not easy either.
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Other features include uptime monitoring, extensive filtering controls, and some fun items like old-school hit counters and webrings as well as the ability to track kudos (i.e., page “likes”). On top of everything else, Tinylytics respects user privacy. Tinylytics doesn’t store anything that could be personally identifying, such as IP addresses and user agent strings (more info), nor does it set any cookies.
So happy to see the private and simple @tinylytics start to get the attention it deserves!
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And now, checkout screens everywhere, from in-person stores to delivery apps, have added buttons designed to make it easier for you to tip.
That’s convenient, until it’s not. According to a new Pew Research Center report, tipping culture in America has seen a shift in recent years. Seventy-two percent of Americans say tipping is expected in more places than five years ago. Not all of that is tech-related, but it’s hard to deny the role checkout screens have in tipflation.
I’m still unsure, should a non-waitered meal be tipped?
🔗 The Future of My Computing // P. I. Moore
In 2007 I made my official — and what I thought would be permanent — switch to the Mac platform when I got my 24-inch iMac, and Windows became my new legacy OS. It felt somewhat weird but also cathartic to use a system that I didn’t have to mess around with. It had a powerful UNIX base which I could get my hands dirty on, but only if I wanted to. Unbeknownst to me there was a huge paradigm shift happening around this in my computing life, even if it was only subconscious at the time.
Head up! We have entered the holiday return period for Amazon when you have until Jan 31 to return most products. Or, as I call it, the “2.5-month free trial period”. This will be great for some new experiments.
Credit where it’s due, I’m finding tons of cool stuff on Threads. The concentration of great writing, photos, and videos is perhaps the best I’ve seen on any platform. I’m eager for ActivityPub support so that I can interact from my own domain, but (🙊) that For You feed might be hard to give up.
🆕📝 On TV+ and the Cunning Strategy of the Apple One Bundle Pricing
I couldn’t decide on which of these two quips to use, so you get both of them: “Did you notice when Apple sent in its Trojan Horse?” and “I daresay Apple’s done the math.”
😅 I know this is mostly because the rest of the years (currently) contain only my old Instagram posts. But it still makes me laugh. jb.heydingus.net/stats
An apt analogy from The Dirtbag Diaries describing how outward peace and balance often mask inner turmoil and a sense of being pulled in all directions.
A thought I’ve had more than once lately: If I had to replace my iPad Pro (which I use mostly as a laptop in the Magic Keyboard case), would I replace it with another iPad or with a MacBook Air instead? The power of macOS in that superlight design sure is appealing.
I created this note by navigating my watch with a series of gestures clenching my hand and tapping my fingers together, and then talking to it. I never touched the screen. We’re living in the future and technology is amazing.
🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #528: ‘The Jeweled Dung Beetle’
🎙️ tap, tap Is this thing on? Time for something completely different.
I wrapped up another fun Shortcuts commission yesterday. This time I got to play around with parsing JSON from an API request and putting that into a Charty chart to display data in a widget on the Home Screen. I love that these get me into learning new little tech skills.