Jarrod Blundy
Holy smokes this finish on the Studio Neat pens/pencil looks amazing! I don’t need another, but wow!
Limited Edition 013 is here! Red has been one of the most requested colors, so we went all out with this edition. It’s vibrant, glossy, and has embedded metallic flakes for a glimmering effect. Available on all our writing instruments, for one week only! https://www.studioneat.com/products/limited013
New iMacs! But are those colors actually new? They look great, but I would have missed that they changed. I guess they definitely didn’t have pink before, swapped in from red. 🧵
🆕📝 PSA: Beware certain AirPods Max stands
My very expensive and already-not-the-most-comfortable headphones just got even more uncomfortable.
I just saw the use of “priority neighborhoods” instead of “troubled” or “impoverished” and, gosh, that’s so much better. Language is so important. 👍
I love the iPhone mini and this is exactly how Apple should prioritize for a new one. Battery life is paramount, regular performance is fine, and fit the best cameras you can with the space left. I’d love a Pro version, but it’s probably impossible to cram everything into a smaller chassis.
iOS 18.2 has a new ‘Copy Link with Highlight’ action in the text action menu! Via Federico Viticci:
I’m very happy to see this:
It’s a little hard to find, but Safari in iOS 18.2 beta now supports links with Text Fragments!
This feature has been in Chrome for a while, and it lets you link directly to a specific part of a webpage with a highlight.
I was going to try making a shortcut to do this, but built-in is much better! An example: heydingus.net/blog/2021…
Just watched: The Alpinist (2021) directed by Peter Mortimer & Nick Rosen 🍿🧗⛏️
Thanks to @connected@relayfm.social, I can’t stop thinking about this Mokibo keyboard which has keys that double as a trackpad. I don’t need it…I don’t need it…
Zac Hall recounts the impact of spatialized photos in visionOS 2:
I had to share this visceral experience with someone else. My son’s great grandfather lost his wife over the summer after 50 years of marriage. I used the spatial effect in visionOS 2 on photos of our visits with them from the past decade, then created an album of those photos for him to view. “There she is,” he said as he reached his arm out to her.
I concur, they’re really something.
Having passed my assessment (🎉), I must insist that you refer to me using my official certification: Jarrod Blundy, SPI. 😜
(Unfortunately, that’s not a cert in espionage, merely a Single Pitch Instructor with the American Mountain Guides Association. BUT WHAT IF IT WAS!?)
‘Dropped iPhone Causes Woman to Be Trapped Upside Down in Rock Crevice for Hours’
“Come get me! Don’t leave me down here!” her iPhone demanded, probably.
Apple forgot to document the Mind Control feature where iPhone compels people to do silly and dangerous things. 🙃
The Swanson Pyramid of Greatness shirt. Get it. Or don’t. This is America, so I can’t tell you what to do.
James questions if blogs should change with the seasons:
[C]ould a website be different as time passes? Could a website adapt to nighttime so that readers have an easier experience perusing information? In this same vein: how, more broadly, could a website adapt to the passage of time? How could a website adapt to the seasons?
This has me pondering. I go through different seasons of writing, for sure. During parts of the year, I’m perfectly happy to be parked in front of my computer, typing away. At other times, my interest wanders elsewhere. Perhaps the design should reflect that somehow.
From Make Something Wonderful, published by the Steve Jobs Archive:
Six Pixar films won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature during this third act of Steve’s life. And when he resigned from Apple, six weeks before his death from pancreatic cancer in 2011, his beloved company, with its sixty thousand employees, seasoned leadership team, and clear mission guiding its future, was the most valuable in the world.
I sometimes forget the role that Steve played at Pixar. That third act of his life was really something. 📚
Someone told me that I “brought good vibes” and it made my whole day. 😎
🆕📝 A passage from Ratika Deshpande’s ‘The Sky Zine’
She shipped it!
🔗
I think I’d be accepting the nine months of severance and taking my talents elsewhere. This whole WordPress thing is smelling more rotten by the day.
A cute bear, a window tiling tip, impressive iPhone audio, those glasses, an iPod with a camera, Lonely Island is back, and a must-see talk.
Jason Snell, sixcolors.com:
On the one hand, the fact that you can get noise cancellation on base AirPods is amazing. Their hard plastic body means that they can’t make a soft seal like the silicone tips on the AirPods Pro can, so there’s more outside audio leakage to compensate for. However, there’s a huge advantage there: If you can’t stand silicone ear tips sticking into your ears, maybe the AirPods 4 will let you finally use ANC AirPods for the first time.
That’s me! Tried the AirPods Pro a few times but they didn’t work for my ears. I love the AirPods 4 and their ANC is plenty for me.
Jay Peters, theverge.com:
Amazon has discontinued the Kindle Oasis, which was the only Kindle still available with physical page-turn buttons. The company announced a new Kindle lineup earlier today, but Amazon confirmed to The Verge that it’s moving on from the Oasis.
The old non-metal version of the Kindle Oasis is my favorite e-reader size and design of all-time, and it’s the one my wife still uses every day. I’ve since settled into my Kobo Libra 2, but I miss the incredible thinness and featherweight of the Oasis, not to mention its svelte leather battery cover. Pour one out…
🆕📝 Chief People Officer Left the Chat
I was rooting for her, but Carol Surface apparently wasn’t meant to last at Apple.
“Is it time to wake up so that we can go to bed?”
I’ll have more to say about this soon, but I’m thrilled to finally reveal that my big leap this year is to start up my own guiding service. I’m nervous and excited, but most of all I’m eager to share more outdoor adventures in this beautiful place. Coming soon to an Adirondack Park near you. Onward!
Cory Doctorow, pluralistic.net:
Did you know that, by default, your email sends information to mailing list platforms about your reading activity? The platform gets to know if you opened the message, and often how far along you’ve read in it. On top of that, they get all the private information your browser or app leaks about you, including your location. This is unbelievably gross, and you get to bypass all of it, just by reading in RSS.
I think I’m down to just one newsletter delivered via email (from someone I trust!). All the rest come in through RSS, and it’s the way to go for sure.
🆕📝 ‘Call me, maybe’: Neatnik’s New Phone Support
Of course Adam is doing this. He can’t help but do right by his customers.
