Wearing my Coach Lasso shirt in honor of the S3 finale tonight! ⚽️ Can’t wait 😁 (No spoilers!)

Me, wearing a blue shirt with an abstract image of Ted Lasso’s face on it.

Light Mrs. Maisel spoiler: My wife and I loved Mei, and her and Joel’s storyline in S4. So we were taken aback at her abrupt exit at the start of S5. Thinking about it again, we wondered if she’d landed a bigger role. Uh, yep. I’d say starring as Joy in Everything Everywhere All at Once counts!

🆕📝 Two of My Favorite Bits of Reader That I Wish Were Replicated in Every Other Reading App

I got back into some proper complex Shortcuts coding tonight. It felt real good. A little lofi helped me focus, and I had great success!

Shortcuts with advanced actions shown on an iPad mini.

🆕📝 My WWDC 2023 Wish List

I’m weirdly getting an error page when trying to access Instagram on my Mac in Safari. It made me think that Make.com’s access had been cut off, but, no, it’s browser-wide even going to the base instagram.com domain. FireFox login worked just fine. 🤷‍♂️

Error page on Instagram.com saying, "Sorry, this page isn't available. The link you followed may be broken, or the page may have been removed. Go back to Instagram."

New office addition 🥰 📷

A Grid Studio frame containing a disassembled iPhone 4 hanging on the wall.

It’s a beautiful Memorial Day weekend with a rare holiday off from work and I’m inside fighting off an illness. 🤧 I feel both proud of myself for not pushing my body, and disappointed that I’m missing out on perfect day for an outdoor adventure. At least I’m catching up on some writing and reading.

🆕📝 Apple’s Awesome Accessibility Animation

🆕📝 A Few New Experiments At HeyDingus

I couldn’t help myself, here’s where I’ve been. I love that seeing these pop up all day has felt like an ad-hoc Micro.blog community event. And it instigated me kicking off a few other little experimental projects. 👨‍🔬

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#96]

Is this app metadata layout new in App Store search? I kind of like its compactness.

App Store search listing showing the app’s rating, developer, and category on one line.

🆕📝 Escaping the Bubble With Bear Blogs

This is often what happens when I try to catch up on sleep by napping during the day. I end up staying awake way too late afterwards and perpetuate the exhaustion.

Here it is 2AM again, long past when I should’ve gone to sleep. Instead, I spent a couple hours writing a blog post that I thought would be a quickie. And then retried to troubleshoot the video upload woes I’ve had with Micro.blog. I fixed the broken posts but am still unsure of what finally worked.

🆕📝 1Password Embraces No Passwords As I Consider No 1Password

🆕📝 The Most Popular Mac Isn’t the MacBook Air. Wait, What?

Holy smokes, this privacy video from Apple in China is something else. I don’t think I’ve ever seen them have a person embody the Apple brand before. Even in the Mac vs. PC ads, the guy was a Mac, not Apple itself. Entertaining though, and seems bold to put out in notoriously un-private China.

🆕📝 7 Things (Which Are My Go-To Camping Essentials) This Week, 2023-05-26

🆕📝 CarPlay Customization Paper Cuts

Did macOS lose the animated Memoji option on the lock/login screen? My little guy used to shake his head at me when I typed my password wrong, and be overall more fun to interact with. If not, how do I turn that back on??

🆕📝 Is Ford the Goodie?

I wonder how weather app developers feel about Apple’s WeatherKit API being only halfway reliable. Maybe they don’t mind because it only costs half as much as the Dark Sky API did.

When I saw this from @robb@social.lol, I immediately thought of @alexcox@mastodon.social and @hotdogsladies@mastodon.social. So good! 😂