Second Shortcuts commission done. 💪 That was a tricky one.
😳 CC: @ismh@eworld.social
And with the flurry of posts today, July 2023 has become my most prolific month on HeyDingus. And still I have so much that I haven’t found time to write!
🆕📝 Quick Tip: Get Visual Narration Anywhere There’s Text
There’s a narrator living in your phone, just waiting to be called upon.
You can’t change the past, but maybe the past isn’t quite what you thought it was anyway.
There are two neighbor children here, whose names I don’t know, that I always think of as Walker and Texas Ranger.
You learn (see?) something new everyday. Today it was two things. First, pricker weed taller than me. Second, a Tesla Model 3 towing a camper. Wish I got pics.
For the Micro.blog fans: I just released version 1.0 of the ‘Open Micro.blog Reply’ shortcut! Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.
Ever have trouble getting back to the conversation from a reply you made that’s on your Micro.blog site? This shortcut will bring you right there!
But the real reason we have to stop calling microblog posts tweets isn’t because the microblog itself is slowly shedding its micro or because X is changing the Tweet button. We have to stop using it because I’ve really tried for the last few weeks since I called for us all to call them tweets and it sucked. “Hey did you see that Thread tweet” sounds sillier than “hey did you see that Thread post” when its a 500-character screed about someone’s Diablo IV build. Ditto for “Can you believe what that lady tweeted on Mastodon?”
Vindicated. 💪
I’d really prefer for my header menu to not have this weird in-between phase where the items make a second row.
If the window is too narrow for them to be on one row, I just want it to collapse into this hamburger dropdown. Any CSS magicians out there who can help me out?
There’s something to @danielpunkass@mastodon.social’s framing here on @coreint. Maybe Musk did those of us who used to like Twitter a favor here… 🎙️ overcast.fm/+KxFFPJjw…
Wow, I hadn’t even considered real-time ad generation for each individual internet surfer before. The internet ad network is about to get even more weird and creepy. dithering.fm 🎙️
Did anyone else notice in the @atpfm@mastodon.social theme song this week where the contraction of “…and if you’re into Twitter, you can follow them…” changed from “you are” to “you were”? It was subtle, but I could tell. 😉
🎙️ It’s shit like this that makes @connected@relayfm.social the most consistently great (ostensibly tech?) podcast on the web. The japes are unreal. 🤣 Keep it up, boys. 🙌 www.relay.fm/connected…
🆕📝 “Reading” the Web Could Get Way More Intimate With Personal Voice
I can’t remember if I’ve mentioned this idea before, so I’m laying it all out here so it’s documented somewhere on this everlasting internet.
Does anyone else get a strange visceral satisfaction from using something up? The last bit of orange juice from the bottle. The final squirt of toothpaste from the tube. The last few noodles of macaroni from the box. There’s something pleasing about being able to get rid of the container.
🍿 Just watched: Oppenheimer ★★★★
It’s a far cry from The Dark Knight or Inception, but boy does Nolan know how to make a movie. I was riveted through the whole three-hour trial-that-wasn’t-a-trial.
I’m continually amazed by what humans can make, and what they can do to each other.
How I get around some silly Shortcuts limitations.
🆕📝 Instapaper Has Reentered the Ring
My quest for the best read-later app continues…
Holy smokes, how come no one told me Avril Lavine’s new album last year was full of bangers? 🤘🎵
🆕📝 Threads Graduates to Being a Social Network Where You Can Actually, You Know, Follow People
Hey, I might actually check Threads every day again!
🆕📝 Ars Technica: ‘Fed’s new instant payment system could be trouble for PayPal, Venmo’
I’m hoping that more competition from the top will push these services to offer even better rewards and features as they vie, literally, for our money.