⛷️ Got Jo out on her skis in all this beautiful new snowfall. So fun! Then spent the day de-Christmas treeing the house and getting the place back in order after the holidays. 📷
Entry #25 to the Library is a doozy. Introducing my ‘Micro.blog Multimedia Uploader’ shortcut:
This shortcut helps you to upload any file(s) to your Micro.blog account and then copy the resulting URL(s) in the format of your choosing — including Markdown for images, HTML for videos and audio, or a plain URL for other files.
It includes niceties like allowing you to choose to upload images as either JPEGs or PNGs […], recursive encoding of videos […], and an optional function to use another shortcut to auto-generate image description[s].
Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.
I just released my first new shortcut of 2024, and it’s one I’ve been dreaming of building for months. Here’s version 1.0 of the ‘Generate Alt Text with OpenAI Vision’ shortcut:
This shortcut helps you to generate a quality image description to use as alt text for images you upload to the internet. […]
You can pass an image file or URL as input to this shortcut, and it will send it through OpenAI’s Vision API along with a specific prompt to generate a unique description for the image, including any text found in it.
Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.
I think that might’ve been nubble’s best performance yet. They bring together the best crowd with the best energy. Perfect end to one of the best days in a while. (And I loved the Avett Brothers cover — can’t wait to hear more!) 📷
🎙️ Thanks @coreint for the reminder that big goals can start small — even ones that you used to be pretty good at so now it feels silly to start over. I did 5 push-ups this morning and will do at least 5 before I go downstairs each morning. 💪
🎙️ Ooh I do like this thesis of Robert Caro’s (of The Power Broker fame):
Power doesn’t corrupt, power reveals.
🎙️ Very much enjoyed this episode of Scriptnotes with Christopher Nolan. I’ve never read a movie script and know very little about film-making. Still, his thoughts on how a script should come together and translate onto the screen are fascinating. Great interview by @johnaugust@mastodon.art!
TIL that if you don’t release from a long press to bring up a context menu in iOS, you can move your finger up and down to a menu item and it will select it on release. In use, it feels pretty close to 3D Touch, which makes me happy.
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. 🎙️
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. 🎙️
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. 🐶
🎙️ 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 😝)
🎙️ Holy smokes, great tip @viticci@macstories.net! Our PS5 has been plugged into Ethernet for…3+ years and I never knew it was falling back to Wi-Fi. 60 seconds to go through the settings and set up the wired connection and now it’s getting 6x the download speed! Sony should revisit that default.
This is exactly the out-of-the-box thinking I like to see from big companies. I’d totally sign up for those services and I wouldn’t pay for Netflix in my car. This CEO knows they should own the car experience, and it’s a different goal than owning everything people do in their car. Great interview.
🎙️ Legacy Series: Yvon Chouinard, Founder of Patagonia, Muses About His Early Days of Climbing
You probably know Yvon Chouinard as the founder of the Patagonia clothing company. But that man sure has lived a full life outside of selling outdoor sportswear, and done a lot of good. 🧗
Today’s adventure: 5 pitches of über-classic Gunks routes with a dear friend. A crisp, late fall day with gorgeus views but surprisingly few folks at the cliff to share them with. Few things can quiet my mind while simultaneously requiring intense focus and intricate movement like climbing.🧗
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.
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.
Woohoo! 🇺🇸 I’m heartened that voters are getting out and clawing back their rights. overcast.fm/+eaddsIsl…