New Bluesky, who dis? (Thanks @maique!) I’m @heyjarrod.net over there, but don’t get too excited. I’ll probably just be cross-posting from Micro.blog tbh.
If I’m being honest, the inverted-T-arrows keyboard was a sideshow to the more significant keyboard issues that people identified the last few years. I think Apple overcorrected and full-sized left & right arrow keys would’ve achieved the visual symmetry they wanted without significant compromise.
A Chinese buffet restaurant reopened in our town this weekend and it brought me right back to being a kid and having the ability to shovel endless plates of delicious cuisine down my gullet. I can’t consume quite that much anymore, but I do still love me a good buffet. 🥢
Hey @viticci@mastodon.macstories.net and @johnvoorhees@mastodon.macstories.net, I’m putting together a Shortcuts library on my site and wondered if you’d mind if I reused some wording from the MacStories Shortcuts Archive? It’s been a huge inspiration, and I liked how you did the intro/legalese.
Uhh…just checked in on Reddark and over half of the subreddits have now gone private in protest of Reddit’s API decisions. This got way bigger than I expected and I’m very curious about how (if?) Reddit will respond.
Whoa, imagine a modern operating system update coming in under 30 MB. A majority of my apps have bigger file sizes than this.
Here we go again… 🏡 😬
I realized today that because the Vision Pro lacks hot-swapping the battery pack for longer sessions, the best way to keep using it beyond 2 hours and not be tethered to the wall will likely be a battery pack for the battery pack. I LOL’d.
I competed in my first-ever organized trail run race today (and first organized race in many years). I had a ton of fun! Finished with a better time than expected, felt better while racing (the key: hydrate yesterday), and took 6th in my age group. Can’t wait till next year! 🏃♂️
It strikes me that Facebook changed their company name to Meta to tell the world they were committed to AR/VR as the future. Apple silently toiled away investing in a product so compelling and advanced that it has universally flabbergasted demonstratees to show how deadly serious they are about it.
TIL that extensions can be called up with a keyboard command in Safari for iPad!
It just occurred to me that because the Vision Pro battery pack is a separate part, the battery life could get better as battery technology improves and newer, bigger packs are released. Good call, Apple.
Just don’t call Apple’s journey to their AR headset a Vision Quest.
It must suck to be a kid in Florida these days. The bills that are becoming law are sickening. I fear the state will have a big problem down the road when even fewer young people choose to live there and its already-elderly population dies out. But I s’pose it’s always going to be a snowbird refuge.