🆕📝 24 Apple Predictions for 2024
The cards have been laid and challenge made. Who will be swayed?
The absolute values don’t ultimately matter, but it is very cool to see the trend over time coincide with the effort put in.
Man, I thought Drafts made it easy to blast off posts at the speed of thought. But I have to admit that MarsEdit’s micropost window is unrivaled on the Mac.
Hotkeys for launching and posting, and now it even has image support (with alt text!). This is dangerous.
I had a set plan for my Internet Playtime tonight, so — naturally — I’m working on something else instead.
I haven’t seen this beauty since at least October! 😮💨
I flipped my desk setup to put my iPad on the right side. Everything was going great until I realized that my macOS Dock is also on the right. Now I’m dragging through the Dock to get to the iPad and I don’t think I can abide. Even though I like my phone charger and drink coaster on the left better.
Heads up for Kagi users:
Huge yikes.
Kagi is now partnering with Brave to power its search results — and they seem to be dismissing their users’ concerns regarding this partnership with a company that’s notorious for being led by a proud anti gay rights supporter.
Just as I’ve consistently advised against using Brave’s products, I now advise against using Kagi as long as it contributes to a homophobic business.
There can be no neutral politics when it comes to people’s rights and lives.
You’ve bought your own domain name, so you might as well get the most out of it and make things easy for your audience at the same time.
Not sure if this is useful, but it is at least interesting (to me): You can view the contents of your clipboard on macOS by going to Finder → Edit → Show Clipboard
I’ve got a couple of hours. Do I
- write a blog post?
- work on the site’s design?
- start a new project?
- get distracted and complete nothing?
Whoa. The ‘Download Template…’ feature of @danielpunkass’s MarsEdit is wild. Within a few seconds, it made a temporary post to my blog and used it to download the CSS. Now post previews look exactly like they will online. With a MarsEdit for iOS, so many of my blogging nitpicks would be solved. 🤞
I’ve heard a notable number of podcasters say recently that they expect the Vision Pro announcement part deux to be imminent. I’ve been thinking it would be late in January, but perhaps they’re ready to show it off sooner? My spidey-sense is tingling.
I missed this iPhone ad when it came out a few weeks ago:
It’s so good. Very creative. I almost felt bad for the power outlet.
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This is not the first time Wilson has aired his problematic opinions as he has frequently received backlash for fatphobic, anti-Asian, and sexist comments. Famously, when speaking of Japanese people, Wilson said he named lululemon as such because:
It’s a tough pronunciation for them. […] I was playing with Ls and I came up with Lululemon. It’s funny to watch them try to say it.
Sounds like a real piece of work.
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Microsoft wants 2024 to be “the year of the AI PC,” and it’s kicking things off with a significant change to the keyboard on new laptops and PCs. A new Copilot key will ship on a variety of new PCs and laptops from Microsoft’s partners, providing quick access to Microsoft’s AI-powered Windows Copilot experience straight from a keyboard button press.
Yeah, I guess this makes sense. Will there still be a Copilot key in 10 years? I’m not sure, but I’d guess at yes.
Come on. So good.
Think of every email you send as a pebble. To you, it may seem like a comically small thing—almost non-existent in size and weight. But, to a recipient already holding hundreds of other people's pebbles, receiving even one more tiny pebble is not without a cost.
🆕📝 Crashing Clockwise #535: ‘It’s Even Embarrassing in Metric’
A new guest and news of a new human (currently in beta)? What a great way to start off 2024!
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This happened enough times that I felt broken. Clearly, I was incapable of handling a simple task like cooking, and the friction of me struggling wasn’t something my partner could tolerate. The miasma of frustration obfuscated reason or calm. I would retreat with my shame, sitting with it until it settled into another stratum. What was so wrong with me that I couldn’t get this right?
Back then, I didn’t realize how much shame informed how I operated in the world.
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Looking back on it, I actually had a productive break. I did everything I set out to do and then some. It was rejuvenating, creatively satisfying, and fun—a beneficial time for my heart, my mind, and my body. I’m thankful for the time away and glad that I used it wisely.
The week between Christmas and New Year’s used to be one of my favorites of the year in my salaried job. Everyone took the week off, so it was like a free week. I don’t have that now, but I’m super happy for those like Devon who got to tackle their personal projects.
🎙️ Ooh I do like this thesis of Robert Caro’s (of The Power Broker fame):
Power doesn’t corrupt, power reveals.
🆕📝 Year-End Surprise Product Launches Can’t Come Cheap
That Apple Watch snafu didn’t just cost them money in sales.
A recent chilly excursion to Avalanche Lake. ❄️ 📷
Question for the peanut gallery: when using emoji as hashtags (tagmoji) to categorize a post, should they be at the beginning of the post or the end?
It’s no wonder Apple spokespeople are guarded with their statements. The “just buy your mom an iPhone” phrase has been so weaponized against Tim Cook. If he’d said something more along the company line like, “We think you get the best messaging experience with iMessage and an iPhone,” I don’t think we’d still be hearing about it today.
After many hours and many, many trials, I’ve finally figured out how to automate crossposting my Instagram posts over here to my microblog. I made a version a while back, but it couldn’t handle multi-item posts. But now it works with everything and it auto-generates Alt Text for each image. 🎉