Head up! We have entered the holiday return period for Amazon when you have until Jan 31 to return most products. Or, as I call it, the “2.5-month free trial period”. This will be great for some new experiments.
Credit where it’s due, I’m finding tons of cool stuff on Threads. The concentration of great writing, photos, and videos is perhaps the best I’ve seen on any platform. I’m eager for ActivityPub support so that I can interact from my own domain, but (🙊) that For You feed might be hard to give up.
🆕📝 On TV+ and the Cunning Strategy of the Apple One Bundle Pricing
I couldn’t decide on which of these two quips to use, so you get both of them: “Did you notice when Apple sent in its Trojan Horse?” and “I daresay Apple’s done the math.”
I’m a stan for iA Writer too, but looks like Manu has really gone all-in.
😅 I know this is mostly because the rest of the years (currently) contain only my old Instagram posts. But it still makes me laugh. jb.heydingus.net/stats
📺 Lessons in Chemistry S1E2 (barely spoilers): 😨😬😐🐶☺🥰😒😙😱
An apt analogy from The Dirtbag Diaries describing how outward peace and balance often mask inner turmoil and a sense of being pulled in all directions.
A thought I’ve had more than once lately: If I had to replace my iPad Pro (which I use mostly as a laptop in the Magic Keyboard case), would I replace it with another iPad or with a MacBook Air instead? The power of macOS in that superlight design sure is appealing.
I created this note by navigating my watch with a series of gestures clenching my hand and tapping my fingers together, and then talking to it. I never touched the screen. We’re living in the future and technology is amazing.
🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #528: ‘The Jeweled Dung Beetle’
🎙️ tap, tap Is this thing on? Time for something completely different.
I wrapped up another fun Shortcuts commission yesterday. This time I got to play around with parsing JSON from an API request and putting that into a Charty chart to display data in a widget on the Home Screen. I love that these get me into learning new little tech skills.
🔗 Deaf People Teach Us Bad Words | Deaf People Tell | Cut
This was a fun watch. I’ve long been fascinated by ASL, but I hadn’t appreciated at how graphic — meaning how literal many of the signs look like the thing they’re describing — it can be. Also the expressions.
First impressions of this Magic Mouse Grip/Qi Charging Base: It’s quite comfortable, though not as night and day as I had expected. I s’pose never disliked the feel of the naked mouse anyway. The extra weight is taking some getting used to. Left it overnight on a Qi pad and it charged right up. 👍
Hey @vincent, while I’m thinking about @tinylytics today, I wonder if you’d consider throwing in an ‘All-time’ quick filter option. It’s fun to see the full history.
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Sometimes, Double Tap is simply more convenient than reaching over with your other hand. In cases where you are merely glancing down at your watch, rather than proactively doing something, fairly often it’s a good opportunity to Double Tap and get on with your day. And the accuracy of the watch sensing the gesture is very good, so you don’t get burned by failed detection attempts that often.
My favorite uses for the similar AssitiveTouch for older watches: dismissing notifications, and snoozing my alarm. 👌
Here another special Puzzmo link that gets you access if you solve the puzzle, even if access keys for today are gone (they are). It expires at midnight, so don’t dally.
TIL that this page that tracks all the active promo codes for @relay@relayfm.social sponsors exists.
I’ve been known to search back through show notes to figure out where I heard about a product and get the latest code…well, this is much better. (Related, I think I’m going to try Rocket Money…)
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I know this isn’t what Humane wants, but I kept thinking, “wow, this would be so much more compelling if it was paired to my phone,” as they showed features. One example, the camera looks decent for a very specific sort of photo or video, but I bet you it’s going to be manual work to get those into my actual photo library, which is a pain. Another is the separate phone number.
Maybe it’s exactly what they want? Get acquired so their tech can spread its wings, integrated with a fuller ecosystem. It’s the only way I see their ambitions being realized.
you can see the media strategy pretty transparently in the articles that were written off of access.
there's no deep diving on the hardware or user experience, the only story Humane wanted to tell was about its origins and ambitions.
if the product was a slam dunk, the product would be the story.
It’s true. People are interested in your origin story only after you’ve already wowed them.
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If you think of Humane’s AI Pin as just another device, it is easy to shrug your shoulders. However, when you place it in the context of the development of computing, you can see we are at the start of thinking about computing differently.
I feel this too. The Ai Pin may not be the device, but it’s certainly where our devices are going. I’m thinking iPhone + Watch + AirPods + Glasses will make a powerfully extensible and flexible platform if powered and glued together with a (vastly improved) Siri OS.
Them mountains be looking frosty. 📷
Woohoo! 🇺🇸 I’m heartened that voters are getting out and clawing back their rights. overcast.fm/+eaddsIsl…
🆕📝 First Impressions of Humane’s Ai Pin
I had Thoughts™.
🆕📝 Time to take the pin out of what Humane’s been up to
Some brief reactions to that Verge scoop on Humane’s upcoming AI Pin.
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Old ideas have a way of coming back, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Touch Bar come back in some new form down the road, and I hope that if it does it will take lessons from the Stream Deck.
@matt@isfeeling.social said everything I wanted to about the Touch Bar in this post. I like how we’re all converging on this idea that Touch Bar plus the Function Row could have been great.