It seems that if I happen to stay up until midnight, I’m very likely to stay up until at least 1 a.m. 😣
🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #565: ‘Friendship Dots’
Blogging fodder on Find My friendship or foe-ship, un-upgraded tech, Siri's second coming, tech travel lessons, time spent abroad, and AI friendship or foe-ship. #Blaugust2024
Jason Sattler, writing for FrameLab, gets so close to jumping on the POSSE train in suggesting that campaigns deprioritize X in order to sap its power and influence:
Go “Twitter Last." Campaigns from Harris for President on down should clarify that they will post to Twitter only after updating other platforms. Steering the media away from Twitter helps democracy. Announcing you will make news elsewhere will send reporters and users to these other platforms, as will every announcement the media makes that says, “As the campaign noted on BlueSky…” etc. Political strategist Murshed Zaheed calls this going “Twitter Last.” A huge announcement – like naming a vice presidential nominee – would be a great time to try this strategy.
I know news outlets don’t feel like they can leave X, but this seems like a good strategy to ween themselves off. But instead of pointing to other social networks as where the news breaks, I suggest campaigns post to their own websites first and then share the link.
Just your recommended weekly dose of weblinks! #Blaugust2024
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That not to say your iPad can’t do much more, and you’re thinking how stupid I am for not having Stage Manager float windows all over my screen, so I can edit videos and listen to background music. I think it’s remarkable that a tablet, albeit a ridiculously expensive one, can be all of these things to different people — but mine is just a full window machine, thank you very much.
My iPad is my favorite writing machine. I use multitasking, but not that often. Likewise to Greg, Stage Manager is too much for how I want to get stuff done here.
🆕📝 Belatedly Grading My Predictions for Apple’s May ‘Let Loose’ iPad Event
It didn't feel right that I never got around to reviewing how I did with my guesses. #Blaugust2024
🆕📝 Overcast’s 10th Anniversary Update
I'm sympathetic to Marco's reasoning behind and results of the foundational rewrite, I still love using Overcast, and, yes, I have some likes, dislikes, and wishes. #Blaugust2024
Kicking off #Blaugust2024 with a post about one of my favorite places in town.
I finally buckled down and put in the work for the task looming over me for the past month. I’ll probably have to do more to it, but I think I got 85% of the way there tonight. 🤞
My reward? The next big, scary task on the to-do list. But it’s at least, I think, not as big, nor as scary. #LeapYear
Currently reading: Alone on the Wall by Alex Honnold 📚
I’ve read this before, but am enjoying it a second time (as an audiobook this time). Honnold’s soloing and character might not be for everyone, but I appreciate his zero-bullshit demeanor and respect the hell out of his passion for climbing. If you want to know why he solos, it’s hard to beat going straight to the source.
You know how sometimes you look forward to a rainy day because it gives you an excuse to do all the things you’ve neglected at home? But then Mother Nature pulls a fast one and it’s actually a super nice day out and you’re so tempted to go outside and play? Today was one of those days.
Apps, music, some hot (but good) takes, and even a gadget. This issue's got it all!
🆕📝 Summer PenPals with Justin and Steve
Chatting with Justin and Steve has been so nice, even if I've been slacking as the host.
I just updated my ‘Generate Alt Text with OpenAI Vision’ shortcut to version 1.2:
- Updated to use the
gpt-4omodel (thegpt-4-vision-previewmodel is being deprecated by OpenAI)- Substituted a simple ‘Copy to Clipboard’ as the final action instead of ‘Stop and Output’ because it was creating new text files in the file system for users running it as a Quick Action
- Updated the instructional prompt to try to cut down on unnecessarily wordy transcriptions
Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.
Working moves on Roaches tonight. Devilishly tricky crux, and the top out remains thoughtful. 🧗 📷
Guides’ day off with @andrew_jarvis05 at Poke-O-Moonshine. We snagged a couple of fun onsights in perfect weather (The Sting, 5.8+ for me). Thanks for showing me around, can’t wait to go back! 📷
It tickles me that I often learn country-shaking news first from That Gay Guy Candle Company. The assassination attempt on Trump, and now Biden’s endorsement of Kamala Harris are two of the most recent that I discovered from TGGCC in my email inbox. (Their store is chock full of great designs, btw.)
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Google has revealed the Pixel 9 Pro following a series of leaks that revealed the phone in great detail, including hands-on videos and comparisons to other recent devices.
I’ve been a fan of the Pixel’s camera bar design for years, but this just looks all wrong. Weird proportions, and it really should be a round-rect.
On the plus side, if Google’s design looks this bad now, I think it opens the door for Apple to do a better version without it being a rip-off. 🙏
🔗 Everybody’s Free (To Write Websites) — Sara Joy
Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your site. The most interesting websites don’t even have an introduction, never mind any blog posts. Some of the most interesting web sites I enjoy just are.
What fun! Sara’s excellent blog post is further enhanced by Robb’s and Keenan’s video/voiceover shenanigans. Love it. 🧡
🆕📝 Jeff Perry: ‘It is time to slow down’
For the biggest news event in a while, my old habits had been broken without me even realizing.
A couple of injuries have set me back this summer, and have served as a cruel reminder about how dependent my line of work is on me being strong and healthy. It’s got me bummin’.
📺 As far as sci-fi “what if” series go, Dark Matter is way up there with Severence in my opinion. I’m a couple episodes from the end and simply riveted.
I don’t mention it often, but I do have some fun (I think, you decide) t-shirts for sale. You can get free shipping on them today with code HBDCB11! heydingus.net/store
A Wi-Fi network I saw at work yesterday. 😂
I’ve never seen this data detector before. On iOS 17 it recognized I was being asked for a photo, so clicking on “picture” opens the photo picker. Nice!