The Solar Eclipse totality had BIG bouncing-DVD-Video-screensaver-finally-hitting-the-corner energy. 🤣 There’s just something about things lining up that humans simply go wild for!
📷 #mbApr Day 08
Equal parts prevention and welcome.
📷 #mbApr Day 07
The mountains fuel my well-being. (Gah! Can’t believe I missed yesterday. The 30-day photoblogging pin will remain out-of-reach.)
My website is streaking for the next day. Care to join? 😉
🔗 Apple’s Presto system is even more sophisticated than it appeared // 9to5mac.com
When a customer buys a particular SKU (one example of a particular iPhone model, storage tier, and color), then the system prompts staff to update another one. This ensures that no matter what a customer wants to buy, there is always at least one up-to-date model in stock at any given time.
I was very curious about how stores would handle keeping the whole stock updated. One at at time for each SKU certainly seems more managable.
Back to your regularly scheduled programming.
I just heard the idea of being an “internal processor” versus and “external processor”, which I hadn’t thought about in those terms before. I’m for sure an internal processor. How about you?
📷 #mbApr Day 06
Windy? Couldn’t tell.
Taxes: filed ✅
Left it a bit late this year, but looks like we’re actually getting a refund, which is nice.
🆕📝 PenPal with Ratika: What does the sky look like where you are?
I'm going to have to work a little harder to keep up with Ratika's poetic prose this month.
I didn’t plan on getting hung up on a particular blockquote and end up writing 1100 words on my phone in bed this morning, but here we are. 😅
I just updated my ‘🔗 Get URL to Run Shortcuts’ shortcut to version 1.3.
Suppose you’re building a shortcut and just want to quickly get its run-shortcut URL without having to filter through your library for it. Now you can:
- Added a new option to share a shortcut’s title to this shortcut to generate its
run-shortcutURL on the spot- As part of that new functionality, it presents a menu of formats from which you can select to copy to the clipboard
Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.
I just released my ‘% URL Encode Text’ shortcut version 1.0:
This shortcut simply transforms text shared to it into its URL-encoded version.
For the 30th(!) entry to my Shortcuts Library, I kind of expected to release something rather more grand. But sometimes simple and utilitarian does the trick. I’ve been using it all evening to add run-shortcut URLs to all my shortcuts. I even added a little surprise for PopClip users to this one. 😉
Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.
📷 #mbApr Day 04
This foliage is more prickly than pretty. Which speaks to its excessive prickliness because it is still quite pretty.
Trying to celebrate 404 day but I keep getting redirected.
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As we previously reported, Apple announced WWDC 2024 on June 10-14. Although the event will be streamed online with pre-recorded sessions, developers had the chance to sign up to attend an in-person event at Apple Park. Now Apple is notifying the winners of the WWDC 2024 lottery who will have the chance to watch the opening event right from Apple Park.
I didn’t get an invite. 😔 Of course, I didn’t apply, but that’s a minor detail. 😝
I just updated my ‘📢 Publish Quote’ shortcut to version 2.0:
Now you copy the quote before sharing its URL, meaning the shortcut is far more flexible and can be run from anywhere (like RSS reader apps!), not just Safari
This is a massive update with a bunch of new niceties, like options to include author attribution, saving copies of each post to Drafts, and much more.
Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.
I’m kinda bummed that @macstories@macstories.net isn’t doing the Shortcuts competition for Automation April this year. 🙁 I missed the deadline last year, and vowed to get them in on time this round. I had some pretty cool stuff saved up for it too!
So far, my attempt to use my ‘Publish Quote’ shortcut on the Mac has resulted in:
- Two updated shortcuts
- A brand-new shortcut
- A started-then-scraped shortcut
- A purchased domain name
- One published quote
And now I’m inching toward releasing a huge update to ‘Publish Quote’. Stay tuned.
I’m getting sassier in my Shortcuts' comments. 😅
I just released my ‘ℹ️ Get YouTube Video Info (HeyDingus' Version)’ shortcut version 1.0:
This shortcut gets the Channel, Video Title, and URL from a YouTube video and packages them up in a Dictionary action to be used in other shortcuts.
I simplified it from the version shared in MacStories Weekly Issue 304.
Get it from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.
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Your Roku TV may one day show ads when you pause video on your Apple TV
Roku is exploring ways to show consumers ads on its TVs even when they are not using its streaming platform: The company has been looking into injecting ads into the video feeds of third-party devices connected to its TVs, according to a recent patent filing.
Ugh, so gross. 🤮
🔗 No Joke, Yahoo Buys Artifact — spyglass.org
Ultimately, what killed Artifact was the fact that the founders just thought there were probably better problems on which to spend their time. […] But Artifact also filled a void left by Twitter. Unfortunately, they probably filled it a bit too much, as the app went from early but compelling to sort of a bloated mismatch of features. A lot of them were compelling on their own, but as a part of one app and vision, they were just too much, too soon. Yahoo, as a large company, is necessarily going to slow that roll. So again, maybe this makes sense.