I’ll take your papercut and raise you one cardboard cut…under the fingernail. 😖

🆕📝 Overcast’s Breakout “New” Feature Is Play With a Purpose

I bet you weren’t expecting to find a game in your watch’s podcast app. (Now that’s a sentence that proves we’re truly living in the future!)

Vision Pro pre-order
Couch delivery
Car lease negotiations and travel
Rock climbing
More travel
Prep for early morning ski before work
Been a big day.

Just thinking about how they’re rendering that interior image at all the correct angles and projecting it out to look natural no matter how you look at it is mind-boggling.

First new look at EyeSight for Vision Pro since June 2023?

From Apple's Vision Pro guided tour video.

apple.com/apple-vision-pro/gui

Welp, Apple squandered another opportunity to introduce redone Magic Keyboards and Trackpads with USB-C (and multi-device pairing?) in the correct color and size. 😞

Success! 😁🥽

🔗 Artifact’s killer feature was rewriting bad headlines — sixcolors.com // Jason Snell

Back in the day, when I learned how to write headlines (for newspapers!), the goal was to give the reader enough information to decide if they wanted to read that article. […]

But in the era of the web and news aggregators, headlines that give away pertinent information have become a lost art. Whole generations of editors have been trained to write coy headlines that will earn a click, even if the people who are clicking will be immediately disappointed by the truth of the story.

⛷️ Waking up early, the chill, and effort to skin up to the top is easily worth it for the magical sunrise ski down on fresh runs. 📷

A panoramic snowy landscape with skiers descending a mountain slope, under a dramatic sky at dusk. Trees under snow cover with a background of illuminated clouds. Two people are taking a selfie in a snow-covered landscape; one in the foreground smiles broadly, and another slightly behind wears a headlamp. Trees and a mountain form the backdrop. Snow-draped trees stand under a sunset sky next to a ski lift mechanism, with mountains and clouds in the background, creating a serene winter landscape.

🔗 The one feature that would make an OLED iPad Pro worth it for me – sixcolors.com // Jason Snell

There are some things I just can’t do on my iPad Pro because of limitations in iPad software. Adding optional support for [macOS] would solve that problem in one swift stroke.

I’m not saying it will happen. I’m not saying even that it might happen. I’m just saying that among all the things that are even technically feasible, it’s the single feature that I can think of that would make the iPad Pro immediately worth whatever its much higher price tag might be.

🔗 Be loud about the things you love — robinrendle.com // Robin Rendle

But there is only one way to love something; earnestly, without forgiveness or apology. So be loud about the things you love!

📺 Finished watching: Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

A graphic for “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” displays headshots of actors, a monster, and a review, rating options below (Poor as the one selected) against an action backdrop. Text: “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters 2023 - Created by Matt Fraction & Chris Black A rare stinker from Apple TV+. I jumped in when I heard multiple recommendations, and had to wait for it to get good. And kept waiting. The plot seemed so contrived and unbelievable, and I’m not talking about the monsters. Finally things got at least interesting, if not good, near the end. Of the two storylines, the one in the past was more compelling, but still never felt cohesive. And don’t get me started on the present day characters — I didn’t like any of them. I’m not usually such a down on shows, but man. At least the monsters looked cool."

🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #536: ‘Spay and Neuter Your Pets’

🎙️: 🖥️, 📱, 🐰, 🖱️, 📺, and 📧.

🆕📝 Letters Project becomes the PenPals Project

It’s the same project where I email back-and-forth with a reader for a month, just under a new name and with fancy new project page and better pages for each penpal. Check it out, and maybe be my penpal sometime this year? 💌

🆕📝 Letters Project Becomes the PenPals Project

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#127]

Must be Sunday! Includes #2/52 of my 52 Albums Project.

🔗 The Automattic Creed

I will never stop learning. […] I know there’s no such thing as a status quo. […] I will never pass up an opportunity to help out a colleague, and I’ll remember the days before I knew everything. I am more motivated by impact than money, and I know that Open Source is one of the most powerful ideas of our generation. […] I am in a marathon, not a sprint, and no matter how far away the goal is, the only way to get there is by putting one foot in front of another every day. Given time, there is no problem that’s insurmountable.

🆕📝 The Best Top Rope Setup Video I’ve Ever Found (And Why I Think It Makes an Superb Example of an Instructional Video in General)

🧗 This is the one I keep coming back to, for good reason!

Possibly my new favorite meme! 🤣 (I love that you can see Chris Pratt almost break into a smile.)

Deciding how to spend my money: 🥽

It’s not my primary method of reading my timeline, but going through it via RSS instead of the app has advantages beyond knowing that you’ve seen everything and it won’t lose your place, such as long-press for link previews!

🆕📝 Artifact Shuts Down Just as I Was Getting Into It

The world isn’t big enough for the [many] of us [Twitter replacements].

I just updated my ‘Generate Alt Text with OpenAI Vision’ shortcut to version 1.1:

  • Added an option to show the generated description at the end — a “test mode”, if you will.
  • Added a step to convert .heic images to .jpeg before uploading them since the Vision API doesn’t support those.

Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Hmm. Micro posts? Microposts? Micro-posts? And what’s its mirror?! Macro-posts? Essays? Stories? Long posts?

I’m a guy who likes a style guide, and I can’t decide. Send help!

TV Forecast is stepping it up to vie for all my TV/movie tracking. It’s got After Credits and where-to-watch info front-and-center, inline trailers, and cast info that rivals Callsheet — all in such a clean design. I’ve been doing reviews with Quick Reviews, so I’m wondering why I need Letterboxd.

A smartphone screen displays a TV Forecast’s listing for “Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3” with a colorful group of characters, and details about the film below including the release date, rating, and viewing platforms.

She asked if I liked Friends, I guess that that was the test

I said, “Hell yeah, and Phoebe’s the fuckin' best”

🎵 I’ve heard this song god knows how many times and only just now did these lyrics click. I snorted loud enough to wake my sleeping wife. 🤣

🎵 “Baby, don’t run me ‘round and ‘round”

‘Mean It’ by Lauv & LANY