🎁 Folks who share gift links to paywalled articles, I appreciate you. 🙌
Or, for this crowd, “The Constitution is all very well up to a point, but the needs of [Apple] must come first.” Fuck that sentiment. theatlantic.com
🔗 It speaks to Lutron’s rock-solid performance that I now unreservedly covet $400 smart window shades. casetawireless.com
‘Blogging: you’re doing it right’ manuelmoreale.com
The Frame Pro is also getting the same litany of AI-powered features as Samsung’s other 2025 TVs. AI is such a focus this year that there’s a dedicated button on the remote for activating Click to Search, which can show you “who the actors are in a given scene, where that scene is taking place, or even the clothing the characters are wearing,” according to Samsung’s press release.
And it’ll get you recipes for foods on-screen, as well as do live translations for captions. The future is coming fast and furious. But I wonder how much of this will still be included in five years.
Adam Newbold poses a great question on syndicating posts vs. pages that he’ll answer with Neato:
Our websites have pages that don’t get syndicated (what we think of as “static” pages) and things that do (what we think of as “blog posts”). But… why? Why not just syndicate everything? If you have an “About” page and you change it, why wouldn’t you want to add that to your feed and let your readers know about the update? If you make a nice new static page, why should you have to announce it and link to it in a separate blog post when having that page appear in your feed does the job for you?
James Thomson reveals the secrets — and his role — in how the Mac OS Dock came to be. Make sure to read to the very end! 🔗 tla.systems
‘Friction is a Feature’ 🔗 Steve Ledlow / tangiblelife.net
‘Intentional Web Manifesto’ 🔗 Steve Ledlow / tangiblelife.net
Lou Plummer describes his perfect day (and it, indeed, sounds super nice). 🔗 amerpie.lol
I should probably start listening to Zane Lowe’s show on Apple Music, because I always love artist interviews when I happen across them. This one with Maggie Rogers on NPR Fresh Air was short, sweet, and wonderful. Hard to believe she’s my age. 🎙️ overcast.fm
Celeste Davis: ‘Why aren’t we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping?'
For every 1% increase in the proportion of women in the student body, 1.7 fewer men applied. One more woman applying was a greater deterrent than $1000 in extra tuition!
This post is long, and I won’t pretend I read every word, but I got the gist and was nodding along. Our institutional disregard, dislike, and devaluation of feminism will continue to bite our ass as a society. The only way it’ll change is by teaching kids by example to accept and celebrate people as they are.
🤧 I spent week 1/52 of 2025 as sick as a dog. Thankfully, it was a light week, and I could shift responsibilities around. But it was a harsh reminder not to procrastinate on yearly vaccines. My much smarter wife got hers — just one day of feeling lousy before her body bounced back. Lesson learned.
Jason Becker: ‘Banning Books that are “developmentally inapporpriate”'
“Developmentally inappropriate” is largely a term used to mean, “A topic that a child brings to an adult that they feel uncomfortable talking about with a child of that age.”
Most exposures to content that somehow becomes traumatic is only much more so when the world signals to a child that they should never talk to an adult about what they saw and how it made them feel because they were wrong to have come across it in the first place.
Hear, hear.
Manton Reece: ‘The long goodbye for Tim Cook’
Tim Cook has led Apple to incredible success, but his words are hollow. Even the principles he seems to care most passionately about, like user privacy, are in doubt. I’m increasingly thinking it’s an act.
I used to consider Tim Cook with nothing but admiration. From graceful filling the impossibly big shoes Steve Jobs left behind, to recognizing the responsibility his role gave him and coming out as the first and most prominent openly gay CEO, to his advocacy for user privacy.
The shine’s worn off over the years. Actions speak louder than words.
🆕📝 Experimenting with link posts on my microblog (and “the how” with Shortcuts)
This was gonna be a short post about emulating Dave Winer's link posts, but it, uh, grew into a peek behind the curtain.
Tired of managing screenshots in my photo library, I’ve put together this shortcut that takes a screenshot, automatically frames it with Shareshot, and sends it to the share sheet where I can save it or upload for sharing. All without littering up my library. 👌
Pixelfed is doing data exports right by offering a local HTML site to browse your photos and data like a webpage. Along with the raw files, they include a JSON file for easier imports elsewhere. More self-contained, interactive exports like this, please! mastodon.social (Via Numeric Citizen)
🆕📝 Mesh Baselayers Beat Traditional Ones
It both defies logic and makes perfect sense.
Even as a Robb Knight superfan, it slipped me by that his Lantern tool for reviewing media on Micro.blog exists. 🤯 I’m pretty content with QuickReviews.app, but this sure is handy!
🍿 Watched (back in May 2022): The Matrix (1999)
🍿 Watched (back in May 2022): Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)
Don’t mind me, just clearing out some old reviews in Drafts that I never got around to posting until now. 😅
🍿 Watched (back in May 2022): Explorer: The Last Tepui (2022)
📺 Finished watching: Slow Horses (Season 2)
