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Her: He’s probably thinking about other girls…
Me: Isn’t it wild how basically every iPod Nano and Shuffle design would actually make for a perfect AI device
Oh, the wave of nostalgia! Also, he’s not wrong.
🔗 Advice for How To Make Sure You Never Create Anything
- If you get an idea while writing a post, you should always finish this new idea before finishing the original one. This, of course, cascades to new ideas you get while working on the second one, etc.
- This also applies to expansions within an idea. You can always increase the scope of a project!
- If your website’s code requires work, this has to be completely rewritten before you can post anything new. It doesn’t make sense to add new content to an imperfect platform.
Kinda rude of @havn to call me out like this. 😂 Superb post
Alright, Verizon, you’ve redeemed yourself a bit. I canceled my service months ago, but haven’t been able to connect my watch to Spectrum. Spectrum told me it was because Verizon marked it as lost/stolen and I needed to talk to them to get it unlocked. It’s not lost nor stolen. 🙄 But Monica from Verizon’s support center followed up with me multiple times over the course of two days, across dropped calls, to make sure it was taken care of, and was just the best.
I just connected successfully! ⌚📶
When I start dreaming in code, I know I’ve been on the computer a little too much lately. 😬
🎵 The new Maggie Rogers album rules. Listened all the way through twice today! I get Sara Bareilles vibes from this one if you’re into that.
Does anyone know of an app that provides a Shortcuts action for escaping text for JSON? I’m scheming…
// cc: @matthewcassinelli@mastodon.social @simonbs@mastodon.social
📷 #mbApr Day 15
These veins may be small, but they are bringers of life.
So… is anyone still trying to #CloseYourRings on your Apple Watch? I gave up on my streak long ago and, although I feel good about the days that I do close them all, it’s not something I specifically aim for anymore.
I totally forgot about the blooming flower motif of the original Apple Watch. The watch face and these displays were quite stunning. (via @michaelsteeber@mastodon.social)
🔗 What if password managers were never allowed on iOS?
“Do you really want to trust anybody with that? No thank you, it’s actually good that Apple maintains absolute control over how our passwords are stored. If we let other companies do it, all we’d get are trashy apps that are only out to scam me and keep my passwords insecure. After all, you just said Apple’s Keychain is good, so why are you complaining?”
Based on [the] responses I’ve gotten to my pieces about wallets, I 100% guarantee the above argument would be made about password managers if they hadn’t been allowed forever already.
🔗 A tardy assessment of the Apple Sports app
Apple’s designers decided to put the headers only at the top of the Starters portion of the table, which I would applaud if they’d aligned the columns of the Bench portion of the table with the columns of the Starters portion. But they didn’t. Bench rebounds, for example, are more or less under the PTS header. This is not how you present a table of numbers, and it’s inconceivable to me that anyone would look at this mess and give it a pass.
Take a look. It’s a pretty damning issue for a design company known to consider all the details.
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…found that the company attempted to upsell the customer eight times during the tax filing process.
I got gotten by TurboTax again this year. Their “guide” said I’d need premium live help service because I bought a house. I didn’t use any live help features, the house purchase barely came up, and I was still charged over $300 to file. I’d already put in all the time and effort, so I paid it to be done, but it stung. I’ll be looking at other options earlier next year.
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I struggle with the be kind to yourself bit — I’m extremely self critical and I find it hard to get past that, I always have. I imagine it’s a blend of imposter syndrome and the lack of confidence that that stems from.
I have a friend who, whenever someone puts themselves down by saying, “I suck at this,” or similar, will respond, “Hey! Why are you talking bad about my friend like that?”
It’s a good reminder to treat yourself as you would treat a good friend. And good friends don’t disparage each other.
📷 #mbApr Day 14
Cactus.
The fediverse is getting a bit messy for me over in Micro.blog-land. No fault of the platform, but when people have and use both a MB account and a Mastodon one (or now Threads), I have to follow them all to not miss their replies to other people. And when they crosspost, I see everything twice. 😑
I’m not opposed to people using both, but it’d be better (for me) if they chose a primary place from which they do all their interactions. And if they told people which account they should follow/mention.
(By the way, I’m a proponent for the option in Micro.blog to limit what you see on the timeline to people’s original posts and their replies only to accounts that you follow. It cuts way down on the busy-ness of the timeline. 👍 But I do want to see all the replies to and from my online friends, which is tricky when they have multiple accounts.)
Heads up to Micro.blog users: For a while, I resisted @-mentions because I didn’t want those posts to end up on my blog/RSS feed. I knew replies to other posts wouldn’t, but I thought original posts would. But MB is smart and if you start a post with an @-mention, it won’t be a regular blog post. 🧵
📷 #mbApr Day 13
My favorite kind of page these days.
Sorry everyone vying for the cutest dog pic today, I didn’t expect him to just steal the show like that! 🥹 🐶 📷
Doing things for simple pleasure.
I just do it because it soothes me. By copying a drawing, I inadvertently observe the final piece in much more detail than I would just by looking at it. It makes me pay attention to the artist's choices and techniques with much more interest and love. I don’t have to create anything, I don’t have to overthink it.
No pressure, no high expectations, just lines. and appreciation.
In the department of Things It Took Me Too Long to Realize™, it just occured to me that “Howdy” is probably a compressed and slangified version “How do you do?” and not just some made up cowboy greeting. 🤦♂️
// cc: @hotdogsladies@mastodon.social @siracusa@mastodon.social
Despite the reviews, (original iPhone software keyboard creator, Humane team member, and Micro.blog user) @kocienda remains firm in his convictions about the Humane Ai Pin:
I feel like I can trust my intuition. Years ago, I made the autocorrecting keyboard for the first iPhone. There was considerable doubt about the very concept of the touchscreen keyboard. And yet, when I built the tech, I felt that it was learnable. I saw how there were people among that initial cohort inside Apple when the product was still a deep dark secret: they got it. It became easy for them with just a little time and effort. Obviously, in time, this also became easy for most humans on the planet. Then this effort opened up with whole phone screen to them, since the keyboard could disappear when they weren’t using it. This same kind of disappearing act takes place all the time with the Ai Pin. Find the touchpad, ask a question, listen to the response, put the answer to use, keep going with your life. Using the Ai Pin is so simple and free of friction. My intuition tells me that we are on track. People will get it with a little time and effort. This model will win.
I think there’s something there, but it needs more time and advancement in the foundational tech. I’m not ready to count them out.
A year of average workouts in one go? Yeah, that sounds about right. 😲
Damn. This is fantastic data https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/12/apple-watch-marathon-heart-movement-study/
Choosing to run a marathon is literally adding a year of basic movement to your life in one day
Okay, super time for bed. I’m going to regret staying up so late again in a few hours, but I did cross a few things off my todo list. 🙂🥱 Hopefully tomorrow later today will be an easy day at work.
I just updated my ‘🤣 Markdown Memes’ shortcut to version 1.1:
- Swapped ‘Micro.blog Multimedia Uploader’ shortcut for ‘Simple MB Image Uploader’ so there would be fewer menus and interactions to get through
- Added an opportunity to edit the Markdown’s alt text before it’s saved
- Clarified some menu text
Get it for free from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.
I just released my ‘Simple MB Image Uploader’ shortcut version 1.0:
No frills or menus to tap through. Just get an image into the shortcut and it spits out Markdown. Works great when run as a function from other shortcuts, like when building a blog post with an image, since it requires minimal interaction.
Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.