🔗 The Imperfectionist: You can’t hoard life

Sure, you can have a hundred tea ceremonies. You can eve[n] have them all with the same people. But you can only have that ceremony, that cup of tea, once. Then the moment evaporates forever.

On the days I let myself move through life in this unclenched way, things tend to feel much more naturally enjoyable. Not because I’m trying to make myself appreciate them, or self-consciously “feel grateful” for them – but simply because I’ve (temporarily) suspended the other agenda that was getting in the way.

TIL that if you don’t release from a long press to bring up a context menu in iOS, you can move your finger up and down to a menu item and it will select it on release. In use, it feels pretty close to 3D Touch, which makes me happy.

This analogy checks out. 🎙️

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Not gonna lie, it was pretty cool to see this bit on the big screen. 🍿

🔗 My Words When I Am Gone // Greg Morris

I love writing, publishing, and interacting with people about my thoughts and ideas. Many of them are formed, flexed and even broken through online discourse and I value all the time and effort it takes. Writing changes you, it helps form ideas, and I find so much about myself just by typing out my internal monologue. So much so that when the time does come to cross the rainbow bridge I think I would miss it most of all.

Hot Take Incoming: Avatar 2 was a terrible movie. A disgrace of a storyline.

🔗 theunderground.blog

theunderground.blog is an experimental blog that is only available to read through a feed reader.

If you would like to read the latest posts, you can subscribe to the feed at https://theunderground.blog/feed.xml, using the feed reader of your choice.

Consider me intrigued. 👀

Thanks, Shortcuts, super helpful.

🔗 Reverse-Engineered iMessage Comes to Android With Beeper Mini – Pixel Envy // Nick Heer

I am not defending Apple’s revenue or its likely stance; I do not much care either way. For what it is worth, I do not think Beeper Mini will actually make much of an impact because iMessage interoperability concerns are localized to the United States and a handful of other countries. But I do think Apple is protective of its network and will treat this reverse engineering exercise as a security problem. If it wants to launch iMessage on Android, it will do so on its own terms.

🔗 The Twelve South Butterfly 2-in-1 charger is what Apple’s MagSafe Duo should have been - The Verge // Antonio G. Di Benedetto

If you stare at it long enough, you realize that it kind of looks like Apple’s discontinued MagSafe Duo charger if you cut away all the ugly floppy bits.

This thing looks great, can be a stand, won’t be thwarted by a large camera bump, and might just make it into my travel bag (rather than swiping my MagSafe Duo from the bedside table for trips). Interestingly, while it’s only available as a pre-order directly from Twelve South, you can buy it right now from Apple.

🔗 Shot with Kino

When the Lux guys said on The Talk Show last month that Halide would “never, ever, ever” support capturing video, I had a funny feeling that they had something up their sleeve. Well, they did. It’s a video app called Kino and they’re building it in public over the next few months.

🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #531: ‘I, Too, Like You’

Books, health data, household chores tech, nostalgia for old software, holiday traditions, and accessibility features are all covered this installment!

🔗 The Great iMac Realignment – 512 Pixels // Stephen Hackett

Apple said it was the first Mac designed from the ground up for Apple silicon, and it showed. I adore the design of this machine:

I think the 24-inch iMac will go down in history as one of the most special computers Apple has ever made, earning a right to sit next to my G4 Cube and 20th Anniversary Mac.

Yeah, I’d say he’s right. 😍

🔗 Archive Your Old Projects // Arne Bahlo

Occasionally, you’ll need to move to a different domain, for example when re-doing a website. When talking to Ollie about this, he told me that some people leave their old websites online at <year>.<domain> and I love that idea3.

You can look up old content and redirect links, so your URIs stay cool. And in ten years it’ll probably still be online.

I don’t know how one would go about doing this, but I do think it’s a swell idea.

I’m not the only one who can’t help but notice when the logotype is in the wrong font (anything other than San Francisco), right? (The “e” is a dead-giveaway.)

🔗 Alt vs Figcaption - thoughtbot

Images, however, have one more thing to consider: Assistive technologies need words to interpret an image. People sometimes need words to better understand why an image is being displayed.

Luckily we have a few ways to describe them in a human readable manner: alt and figcaption. These items house very different writing patterns though, and can be used both together and apart, depending on the conditions.

I’ve used these HTML tags for years, and still I learned some new things today.

🔗 Reliving that Snow Leopard Magic - MacStories // Stephen Hackett

Enthusiasts of all types always have that one special obsession. For muscle car people, maybe it’s one particular year of Ford Mustang. Photographers always have a favorite lens, while baseball players may have a favored bat or glove.

Ask almost any macOS fan, and they’ll tell you that Snow Leopard is their favorite version of all time.

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#121]

If there’s one thing I learned about Napoleon tonight, it’s that he loved to play with his cannons. 🍿

Just some wildly diabolical stuff you aren’t taught about the United States' pro-Nazi bits in the lead up to our involvement in WW2. 🎙️

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🔗 Inside An Apple Lab That Makes Custom Chips For iPhone And Mac - CNBC

In November, CNBC became the first journalists to film inside an Apple chip lab, where it tests its latest M3 chips that replaced Intel processors in all new Macs. We also got a rare chance to talk with Apple’s head of silicon, Johny Srouji, and Apple’s senior vice president of hardware engineering, John Ternus, about geopolitical risks in Taiwan, slowdowns and what’s next in AI.

CNBC did their homework for this opportunity.

🔗 iA Writer 7 - iA

When you copy and paste a conversation from ChatGPT, the copied text contains “You” before every question, and “ChatGPT” before every answer. We recognize this pattern and offer to automatically mark authorship.

iA Writer offers shortcuts, menus and right clicks to get it done and keep the authorship working even when you edit your texts elsewhere. We think that the extra second is more than worth it.

An interesting idea, but I’m not convinced everyone will find that extra second on every paste to be worth it.

🔗 Writing with AI - iA

Why should someone bother to read what you didn’t bother to write?

You know, I hadn’t considered that when you allow people to say and follow terrible things on your ad-driven platform, almost by necessity will ads be served up next to that terrible content for those users. As Ben says, it does put ad-supported (vs. subscriber-only) networks in a pickle. 🎙️

Holy smokes, the lengths the Planet Earth crew went to for getting both the shot and to take care not to disturb the critters nor their habitats are jaw-dropping and heartwarming. 🎙️

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