It’s so annoying how beautiful and perfect @nickheer@c.im has made his site.
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Do that for each band, and I’d be done in a few minutes. Wrong! Because each thread is its layer, the total number of layers in this project quickly grew to over 63,000 (63,158, to be exact), which hammered the Mac’s memory. Oddly enough, my MacBook Air (MBA) handled the project more efficiently than my Mac Studio, which has more cores and memory, making me think something was happening in how the software was optimized for that chip.
Just wild, both in the complexity and which computer performed better. Look great too!
🆕📝 Letters with Austin #2, December 2023
My next letter with Austin!
Found an oopsie.
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🔗 My Handwriting Can’t Keep Up // Greg Morris
In reality, I didn’t need to speed up my writing to match my thoughts; instead, I needed to slow my thoughts to match my writing pace.
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[T]his shortcut gets the current article you’re reading in GoodLinks and extracts different properties from it, such as the title of the story, its author, and URL. Using another action, GoodLinked can see if you’ve selected any text in the article and, if so, save it as your selection. By retrieving the article’s selection as Markdown, I don’t have to do anything else to prepare a blockquote for MacStories.
This, but for Reeder would be so good. Pretty please @rizzi@gloria.social?
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This version of CarPlay appears the moment the car is turned on and combines locally rendered content with features powered by the iPhone’s wireless connection to the car. Today Apple announced the first two partners on board to integrate this new generation, Aston Martin and Porsche, and showed us preliminary screens.
Well, I’ll be! They got next-gen CarPlay out the door before the end of the 2023. I really didn’t think they’d get it done.
Superb app alert! I love TextSniper and have it mapped to cmd-shift-7. Get it for free today.
🎅🏼 TextSniper is free today, thanks to IndieAppSanta.
Code, in case it doesn’t get applied automatically is FREEFOR24H.
Thank you, Marco, for the tip.
It really tickles me when text-to-voice readers pronounce Bluesky as “blue-ski”. 🤭
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A warning on this would have been nice, but I hate that they’re doing it regardless. If I want to browse TV shows or movies to purchase on my Apple TV, all the iTunes Store content is commingled with media that’s only available on streaming. Even if you stick to the “Store” section, you’ll see plenty of movies and shows that require Apple TV+ or another streaming app and subscription to view.
I haven’t played with the new Store section myself, but this sounds crappy. It should be purchasable stuff only.
🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #533: ‘I’m the App’
Kind of short and sweet this week. 😊
Two podcasts, three articles, and two videos this week, plus a game if you Take a Chance this week.
Reading a social timeline that doesn’t have threaded conversations from top to bottom, newest to oldest, is bananas in my mind. Makes absolutely no sense. I’m reading conversations in reverse, Memento-style. But without a timeline sync, it’s a fool’s errand to try to find where I last left off.
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Second, threads posted by me and a few members of the Threads team will be available on other fediverse platforms like Mastodon starting this week.
I’m fascinated by how Threads is dogfooding their Fediverse rollout. Not with fly-by-night test accounts, but with the head of the platform’s personal account — one of the more popular and watched ones on all of Threads. Kudos to them.
🔗 Happy Monday! Enjoy this dumpamine from the past week — Keenan
Anyway, Astronaut Time. It’s a system, I suppose, an agreement between two or more people to easily inform the other(s) of when you anticipate being in the zone (like I am right now, I’m in Astronaut Time) and just need minimal distractions. Particularly helpful if you […] work from home […]
The solution my wife and I decided to try was setting up automations on our phones. We created a Focus in iOS called “Astronaut Time” that would automatically send an iMessage to the other person when it’s enabled/disabled.
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This is the end of the post. Tell me which games you think I missed in the comments section.³
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³ The comments section can be found by clicking the Trash icon on your computer’s desktop.
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Systrom says the idea for Links came out of conversations about what Artifact might do with food blogs, or photo essays, or video, none of which felt quite right next to news articles from news publications. […] He cites Delicious, the social bookmarking app, as [an] example. There was plenty of news in the mix, but mostly people just shared stuff they liked on the internet.
If I didn’t already have RSS dialed, I think I would turn to Artifact for my news source / web discovery engine.
I had a premonition that I would poke a hole through my climbing pants with my crampons today, and sure enough… Luckily just a scratch underneath.
Also, potentially new options (or at least new iconography) for a long-press on a Reminders notification.
New options for Ambient Sounds? I don’t remember all these in iOS before. I’ve always been a ‘Rain’ guy myself, but might have to try something new tonight.
Speaking of deals, my sister put me onto this one. A $250 solar-powered bird feeder with smart identification camera for just $80 after a $170 discount code (70ZCYUN7). There’s probably something terribly wrong with it, but I’ve wanted to try one, so I guess I’ll find out! Coupon expires Dec 18.
Ugly!? These are just gorgeous.
Ugly Christmas Sweater Wallpapers 🎄🎅🏻
https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/ugly-christmas-sweater-wallpapers
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If you’ve got a holiday party or gathering coming up, Nanoleaf’s Essentials Matter Smart Holiday String Lights will help set the mood without putting a dent in your wallet. Typically $119.99, right now, the 65-foot string lights are only $44.99 at Best Buy, which is significantly cheaper than they were on Black Friday and a new all-time low.
Damn, now that’s a good deal!
The sky from the other evening was unreal. I can’t get enough of imposing cloud shapes. 📷
One of the best pieces of writing advice is not to overuse the word “that.” If a sentence still makes sense without it, don’t put it in. It’s glorious.
I needed to hear that.