🆕📝 How I Automatically Include a Blog Description in My RSS Feed

This one gets a little extra nerdy with HTML, Mustache, and editing the RSS feed template.

🆕📝 HeyDingus for Relay FM for St. Jude for Ending Childhood Cancer

Join me, Relay FM, and the broader Apple community in donating to St. Jude. Because cancer sucks.

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#110]

🆕📝 So That’s What They Do With All the Old iMacs

And other observations from the CBS interview with Tim Cook.

🆕📝 Viticci’s Very Good™ Lede

lol 😂 Instagram suggested creating this Reel. 📹

Hopped up Empress → Greensleeves (5.6) at Chapel Pond Slab today with the great @saw_dust_ery. Always fun to get up on tops of things! And was treated to a gorgeous sunset on the drive home. 📷

Soooo…how ‘bout that next-gen CarPlay that Apple promised would come out this year, and then hasn’t said a peep about since? ⏳

🆕📝 Brief Thoughts After Apple’s Wonderlust Event

Alright, I finally got to watch the keynote.

🆕📝 Gruber: ‘Apple’s Two-Pronged Annual iPhone Strategy’

There are a lot of new iPhones introduced each year. What they feature, and what sticks around is worth noting.

🆕📝 Brief Thoughts Before Apple’s Wonderlust Event

It’s Apple Event day! I’m not at my most excited, but I do have Thoughts™ about what’s rumored to be introduced.

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#109]

I have great news for Stewart’s Shops customers in northern New York, at least in the Lake Placid region: they finally accept tap to pay again after a multi-year hiatus. Should be great for bikers and runners.

I did a new thing today and had an absolutely grand time with it. Can’t wait to share more. 😁

Hot Take™ , coming in 🥵: I don’t begrudge this transition to (essentially) email addresses as usernames for the web. If everyone had a domain to use instead, I think that’d be best, but user@domain.name is okay in my books.

The buildup of entire little worlds on the forest floor fascinates me.

Which is taller? Distance can abstract height.

🆕📝 7 Things (Which Are All Trust Clicks) This Week [#108]

Oops, all Trust Clicks edition!

Moving day 🥲 🙂 📷

Text replacement is one of my very favorite things across the Apple ecosystem. Add it once, it works everywhere. I must have hundreds by now. The only things missing for me is variables, like for the current date. (Settings → General → Keyboards → Text Replacement)

Text Replacement settings screen showing “;p” replaced with 😜

🆕📝 Yep, Everyone Is Right. Callsheet Is Great.

Congrats to @caseyliss@mastodon.social on the launch! I have a feeling this one is going far. 🚀

🆕📝 7 Things This Week [#107]

Offshore wind potential in the US is huge but untapped // The Verge

Offshore wind resources are plentiful enough to generate up to a quarter of the nation’s electricity by 2050, in time to help meet global climate goals.

Harness the wind!

A thing that just happened. I wanted to light a candle, but my electronic plasma lighter was too low on battery. I searched through my car for a charger, but couldn’t find a micro USB plug. I walked away, defeated. Then I realized that I had moved a pack of matches out of the way while digging. 🤦‍♂️

A pack of matches next to a plasma lighter

🆕📝 Threads (Actually) Adds Auto-Generated Alt Text

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