Don’t mind me, I’m just testing a thing and hoping I’ll get a notification over at @HeyDingus@mas.to.
@mactanaka@mastodon.social continues to knock it out of the park with Play.
It was Christmas tree hunting day, one of my favorite days of the year. We got a real honker to fill up our new tall ceilings, and the house has never smelled better! David Sparks’ ‘Yule’ playlist served as background for the festivities. 🎄📷
Today I was reminded that I’ve found the right life partner. I’d been sheepishly dreading broaching my desire to spend that ridiculous sum of money on a Vision Pro. I’d buy it with “extra” income (tips & side projects), still—it’s huge. Her only question: “Would it make you happy?” She’s the best. 🥰
I just updated my ‘How Much Do I Have to Save for Vision Pro?’ shortcut to version 1.2:
- Added a congratulatory message when you reach your savings goal, and the math and checks necessary to know when you’ve done so.
- Removed the dashes from the list of need-to-save amounts so they don’t look like negative numbers.
- Added import setup questions for the cost of the Vision Pro you want, the local tax rate, and the launch date.
Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.
Holy shit. Stripe’s real-time Black Friday weekend stats: bfcm.stripe.dev 🤑
🆕📝 Two-Sentence Reviews of Some Gizmos I Got
None of these were Black Friday deals, but I still wanted to get in on the fun. (Is it fun?) Instead of long-winded, extensive reviews that I’ve put off writing of all these gadgets, you get just a couple of (sometimes run-on) sentences for each.
I just discovered Blogit from Yuexun’s App Defaults blog post. It looks like a super simple way to make a blog out of your Notion database. I don’t use Notion, but I imagine it’d be appealing to people who entrust their life to that app. And I’m all for more folks blogging!
Since the Vision Pro was announced in June, I’ve been dutifully stashing away any tips I’ve made from guiding, plus proceeds from selling off stuff and Shortcuts commissions. Today, my savings tracker shortcut returned negative numbers, so I had to update it to account for that surprise. 😁
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I’ve already shared this on Mastodon earlier today, but thought it would be worth sharing here also.
The theme is avaialble as dark mode theme only, for now, but should you want to use it yourself, open THIS which should open Mona on your device and apply the theme.
I don’t even use Mastodon very often (occasionally for the @HeyDingus@mas.to account) and I’m still probably going to pay to unlock Mona’s pro features just so I can use @andyn@social.lol’s gorgeous theme.
I know I just said that I love ‘Smart Speed’ in Overcast, but I’ll be damned if Keenan doesn’t have me rethinking things.
I’ve been getting great use out of Kobo’s native Pocket integration. But if you’re using a Kindle, this KTool app looks pretty good for getting articles, newsletters, and RSS feeds over to your e-reader.
I thought that the Defaults fad was dying down after about 100 posts. Oh how wrong I was. Today alone there were 13+ new entries, and now 188 posts in total catalogued in the trend. The snowball keeps growing…
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I find that Safari tends to cache websites aggressively. Other browsers recognize the change immediately when I publish updates to my site’s CSS, but Safari often does not.
Great little tip from @ericgregorich!
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The experience was absolutely delightful, and it was really exciting to be able to get this sort of feedback in a conversational format. I was naturally able to pick up on something the bot said and then ask a follow up question to dig down a little deeper or to get it to clarify something it said. This is one way that LLMs are different from a blog post or a book and they’re more like choose your own adventures where you get to choose where things go.
Great idea to use conversational LLMs to dive into what specifically you want to learn.
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Shame on the folks at Mountain Dew. Shame on PepsiCo. Shame on Elon Musk, because this shit is so bad that he must be involved somewhere along the line. If there is any greater indication that we’re speeding head on into full societal collapse, I don’t know what it is.
This is the most fun I’ve had reading a blog post in quite a while. I could almost taste the disgust in their voice.
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That’s it. Nine steps to audiobook freedom. Also, shoutout to Libro.fm for being cool and a not-so-friendly “sup?” to those annoying publisher restrictions. Who needs borders on stories, anyway?
Bookmarking this for later use. 📚 🎧
Got the first ski of the season in today and, boy, are those legs in protest! One day earlier than last year’s start, so maybe an even longer ski season this year. 🤞⛷️❄️
🎙️ The first half of Connected this week had me giggling like an idiot. One of the highlights of every week. (Out of respect for @ismh@eworld.social’s strong feelings, this will not be cross posted to Threads 😝)
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OK, there are clear benefits to taking the new Meta Quest 3 to the bathroom, though. As Redditor Tall_Whole_5777 describes: You don’t need to touch screens or buttons to watch and control a YouTube video.
I guess I can’t disagree, even if I want to. 😂