Jarrod Blundy
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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. 📷
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.
https://www.apple.com/apple-vision-pro/guided-tour/
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. 📷
🔗 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!
