🎵 I just heard this song in our shop and looked around to see who was watching the Vision Pro ad. It was just the song playing on the radio.
🧗♂️ You know those cool climbing movies you’ve seen recently? They, and safe recreation for climbers in wilderness areas are at risk from a bolt prohibition proposed by the US Forest Service and National Park System.
These policies would overturn nearly 60 years of sustainable Wilderness climbing precedent and impact some of America’s most iconic climbs in Yosemite, Rocky Mountain National Park, Joshua Tree, Linville Gorge, the Wind Rivers, Sierra Nevada, and many others.
Please help me to preserve safe climbing by submitting a comment here before tomorrow. (You can copy and paste.) Thank you.
🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #538: ‘If I Lose It, I’ll Die’
A 🚀 reunion, 📱 widgets, 🐻 controversy, 🔐 features, 🤑 for 📺, and 🚸📺 favorites.
I just updated my ‘Stand Goal Cheater’ shortcut to version 1.6:
Changed the ‘Log Workout’ action’s distance and calorie amounts from decimals to integers (1 inch and 1 calorie) to avoid errors when run in regions where a different symbol is used to designate the decimal. (Thanks Dave!)
Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.
🔗 PSA for iPhone Users:
After updating to iOS 17.3, consider enabling Stolen Device Protection for iPhone for increased security.
🧗❄️ What an incredible first time over at Poke-O-Moonshine! Positive Thinking was taken, so we hopped on The Waterfall and Goat’s Foot. Both were astounding lines. Technique is slowly improving. Followed up both with no takes, but all the stoke. 📷
Hey Micro.blog users, are you looking for a Dropshare Cloud replacement or just an easy way to quickly share files? I just released my ‘UpShare MB’ shortcut which helps you do just that:
It has several clever features (if I do say so myself) including an optional upload history so that you can easily reshare the items without uploading them again (using a self-managing text file), and a check to make sure the file being shared is supported by Micro.blog (and a fallback to upload it as a ZIP archive if it isn’t).
See it in action and get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.
A birthday message to the good ol' Macintosh as it completes its 4th decade. 🥳
Welp, I dicked around on my phone for too long today and missed out on chance to complete some outdoor objectives. Good lesson. Do the important stuff first.
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The bulk of the newly announced $13.1 million will pay for construction of the final leg of the trail. About $3 million will help support the Saranac Depot project and $4 million in improvements to the sections already opened. The whole trail is expected to cost $38 million. […]
The governor has also committed $300,000 for Lake Placid to help pay for rail trailhead parking, restrooms and a bike maintenance station.
So glad to see help come from NYS to improve and finish this 🔥 project in my backyard.
Cute! 🔋🤳
Collaborative playlists in Apple Music are here. We’ve been waiting almost 10 years (a full quarter of the Mac’s life) for this, but I’m just glad it’s finally available. This was a fun intro video by the Apple Music Radio team.
Well hot damn, the trailer for Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender actually looks quite good and (🤞) faithful to the animated series.
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Ryan Gosling getting an Oscar nom for Barbie while Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie were snubbed… well, it looks like the plot of Barbie II is all set then.
I haven’t seen the movie, but this feels both wrong and totally predictable. 🤦♂️
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Macintosh 40th anniversary celebrations continue tomorrow with a live event bringing together many key members of the original project team.
This oughta be great! Can’t wait to watch.
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Apple Maps errors have reportedly been costing small businesses thousands of dollars, by incorrectly showing them as permanently closed.
The restaurant said the mistake cost them around AU$12,000 (almost US$8,000).
A stark reminder that our reality is already augmented by the apps we use. If Maps says it’s closed, the reality almost doesn’t matter. You’re probably not going to check.
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It smiled at you as it started-up. You didn’t have directory listings, you had images of folders. You didn’t type the name of an application or file to open it, you used this strange new thing called a mouse to double-click it. When you made a word bold, it appeared in bold on the screen. You had different typefaces! It could talk to you! […]
I immediately knew this was what computers were supposed to be like. I wanted one.
Oh the delight in going from command line to GUI!
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Apple will pay up to 10% more per play in royalties for tracks where a spatial version is available. This is starting with January’s payouts.
Crucially, Apple Music users do not necessarily have to listen in Spatial Audio for the artist to be rewarded with the bonus payout.
Good. To shepard someone toward what you want them to do, you must reward them. Behavioral psychology at its most basic!
▶️ Peek Into the Emmys Night Afterparty with Apple TV+
You’re invited to the Emmys afterparty with the stars of Apple TV+
Can you say “star power”?
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More Birchtree is a way to get more Birchtree writing, ad-free browsing, and the fuzzy feeling of supporting indie writing. Member posts will be more personal pieces, as well as more raw feelings about the tech news of the day before I’m ready to share with a wider audience. I’ll also have little sections shouting out other creators I love, apps I’m loving, and more.
Congrats to @matt@isfeeling.social on launching More Birchtree! His is one of my favorite blogs on the web, and I’m excited for, well, more!
🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #537: ‘All I Found Were Three Apple TV Remotes’
This week, “we” contemplate *Clockwise* topics such as App Store drama, Apple Watch drama, Vision Pro excitement, physical media collection tendencies, snow as a concept, and iPad usage.
▶️, 🍿, 🫨, 🧑🍳, 🪟, 🔍, and 🍎. Plus 5️⃣2️⃣💿, and 🐍📦.
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The good news is that U.S. cities are starting to recognize these downsides, which are particularly troubling at a time when pedestrian and cyclist deaths have hit their highest levels in 40 years. Several local governments have recently adopted no-turn-on-red policies, and others are considering doing the same. This trend should be encouraged. Right-on-red is an ill-conceived traffic rule that needs to die.
The uncertainty and pressure of turning right on red sucks. Selfishly, I just hate getting honks for not turning.
T’was a bit brisk on my run this morning. 🥶 But loving the winter weather wonderland. 📷
