⛷️ 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. 📷
🔗 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
🆕📝 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? 💌
Must be Sunday! Includes #2/52 of my 52 Albums Project.
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.
🧗 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.
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”
The Rabbit r1 is intriguing.
your pocket companion
Haven’t quite wrapped my head around it yet, but the teachable “large action model” feels like a solid step forward. I don’t really want another gadget to carry around in my pocket though. It’s the sort of thing that embodies “you’re a feature, not a product” and it’s gotta be coming to smartphones soon enough.
I’m all for constraints — I think they’re where creativity sparks — but so often I’m slamming against the 300 character limit on microposts that feel appropriate for the Micro.blog timeline. They’re hard to edit without losing context. A 500 character limit, consistent with Mastodon, is so enticing.
Thanks @imyke@myke.social for giving me fresh perspective on Frozen 2, which I did not originally enjoy, but now have a new appreciation for.
As to what a “curb cut” is, it’s the cut-out in sidewalks so wheelchair users can cross the street. Colloquially, the so-called “curb cut effect” references how accessibility aids like curb cuts not only help disabled people, but they also help an abled person more easily push a stroller across the street.
For me and my reporting, the “curb cuts” phrase is meant to show people that covering accessibility and assistive technologies deserves a permanent and utterly relevant place in mainstream tech news coverage.
Blogging is a lifeline, a connection to people and a world that might not be possible offline because of the reticence to interact and the fear doing so generates. I can’t think of a better reason to do it.
⛷️ Got Jo out on her skis in all this beautiful new snowfall. So fun! Then spent the day de-Christmas treeing the house and getting the place back in order after the holidays. 📷
From what I can tell, the company does seem genuinely serious this time about getting new games simultaneously (or very shortly after launch date) released on Mac alongside PC and consoles.
“We’re innovating at this tremendous pace,” says Martin. “When you look at this from a macro level, it becomes much easier to see how all these pieces are coming together in a way that hasn’t happened before.”
I wish them the best of luck.