The buildup of entire little worlds on the forest floor fascinates me.

Small mushrooms are growing amidst bright green moss on the forest floor with trees blurred in the background.

Which is taller? Distance can abstract height.

A rocky mountain peak rises under a clear blue sky with a few scattered clouds.

🆕📝 7 Things (Which Are All Trust Clicks) This Week [#108]

Oops, all Trust Clicks edition!

Moving day 🥲 🙂 📷

A person stands next to a blue car parked on a grassy area near a house, while a large white truck is parked on the adjacent road.

Text replacement is one of my very favorite things across the Apple ecosystem. Add it once, it works everywhere. I must have hundreds by now. The only things missing for me is variables, like for the current date. (Settings → General → Keyboards → Text Replacement)

Text Replacement settings screen showing “;p” replaced with 😜

🆕📝 Yep, Everyone Is Right. Callsheet Is Great.

Congrats to @caseyliss@mastodon.social on the launch! I have a feeling this one is going far. 🚀

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#107]

Offshore wind potential in the US is huge but untapped // The Verge

Offshore wind resources are plentiful enough to generate up to a quarter of the nation’s electricity by 2050, in time to help meet global climate goals.

Harness the wind!

A thing that just happened. I wanted to light a candle, but my electronic plasma lighter was too low on battery. I searched through my car for a charger, but couldn’t find a micro USB plug. I walked away, defeated. Then I realized that I had moved a pack of matches out of the way while digging. 🤦‍♂️

A pack of matches next to a plasma lighter

🆕📝 Alt Text is (Actually) Enabled on Threads

Some tests were performed.

I’m testing out transitioning from 1Password to iCloud Passwords with help from Simon Støvring and Ricky Mondello. So far, so good. 👌

Looks like we’re gonna be New Yorkers for a bit…we bought our own piece of the Adirondacks! 😁 📷

A smiling couple stands on the porch of a rustic cabin with their dog, surrounded by lush green ferns.

Why my internet presence has been quiet this past week:

A Gaia GPS satellite map view of a trek totaling 62+ miles in distance with 9000+ feet of elevation over 32 hours of travel time.

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#106]

So, I’ve been doing more tweaking to the Hello theme on my Micro.blog, but I feel a bit uncomfortable just editing the code in the browser. I got hosed once by updating the theme and losing all my changes. What are people doing for version control? Git’s kinda overwhelming.

I’m heading out into the woods tomorrow for a multiday trip and am wondering if I should update to Public Beta 2 from Beta 1. Does anyone with experience know if battery life is better, worse, or the same on B2?

🆕📝 ‘Google’s Reading Mode app for Android can save you from the worst of web design’

Based on The Verge’s description, Google is very close to nailing the reading/listening experience across its OS.

🆕📝 Alt Text Is (Maybe) Enabled on Threads

Threads’ alt text implementation could turn out to be the best yet, if only we could all try it.

Second Shortcuts commission done. 💪 That was a tricky one.

😳 CC: @ismh@eworld.social

The ‘All Shortcuts’ section in the Shortcuts app showing a total of 512 shortcuts.

And with the flurry of posts today, July 2023 has become my most prolific month on HeyDingus. And still I have so much that I haven’t found time to write!

🆕📝 Quick Tip: Get Visual Narration Anywhere There’s Text

There’s a narrator living in your phone, just waiting to be called upon.

🆕📝 ‘The past is not true’

You can’t change the past, but maybe the past isn’t quite what you thought it was anyway.

There are two neighbor children here, whose names I don’t know, that I always think of as Walker and Texas Ranger.

A child saying, “Chip, I’m all jacked up on Mountain Dew.”

You learn (see?) something new everyday. Today it was two things. First, pricker weed taller than me. Second, a Tesla Model 3 towing a camper. Wish I got pics.