A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ Blogroll.social is a new site from Dave Winer with a neat way to display a blogroll: sorted by more recently updated. Blogrolls are cool again! [🔗 blogroll.soc … | Continue reading
This isn’t a novel thing to say, but I’m a big fan of AirPods. I’ve named them as my most transformational tech product in the past, and I spend multiple hours every day with them in my ears. I’ve tried every generation of AirPods, save for AirPods Pro (2nd gen), and have more au … | Continue reading
I got a nasty surprise when I purchased an “ebook” version of a climbing manual this week. I thought it was going to be great. I could load it up, along with other guidebooks and reference books, onto my Kobo, and have them all at my disposal on a small, lightweight, and waterpro … | Continue reading
Taking a page out of Maique’s book and trying a more bite-sized /now update. 🏋️♀️ A weight has been lifted off my shoulders after discussing my Leap Year plans with my wife. I wanted to have more of it figured out before I came to her and made “the pitch”, but I needn’t … | Continue reading
Date: 2024-03-18 23:01 Tags: PenPals Author: Jarrod Blundy Quip: “Being a PenPal with someone in Kyrgyzstan” is not something that I would have had on my Bingo card a couple of years ago. — “Being a PenPal with someone in Kyrgyzstan” is not something that I would have had on my B … | Continue reading
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ Apple is moving steadily toward their sustainability goals, this time updating packaging on some charging accessories to no longer use plastic bits and to implore cust … | Continue reading
When I build shortcuts, I like to think through all the usual ways that someone might want to use it. And then I try to think through the unusual ways someone might use it. To account for different preferences, many of my shortcuts now ask setup questions upon installation that p … | Continue reading
I wrote the other night, after several hours of keyboard-mashing, mouse-clicking, and DNS-wrangling: Too tired to write a proper introduction post, but I’m happy to say that oneamonth.club is now a thing that exists! It’s something I’ve wanted to put together since being inspired … | Continue reading
I’ve not weighed in on Apple’s battle with the European Commission’s Digital Markets Act because, frankly, it seems out of my depth, and I’m not a citizen of the EU so I don’t think my opinion about it counts for much. But I feel compelled to share a few that thoughts solidified … | Continue reading
Hey, would you look at that? My first PenPal of 2024 is Valerie from Micro.blog! Although we missed the first week of March, I’m happy to say that Valerie and I got things on track this weekend and kicked off our month of being PenPals. Valerie is living and working in Kyrgyzstan … | Continue reading
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ Some excellent examples of long-term running jokes. [🔗 Brendan // semi-rad.com] 2️⃣ Great, now I want a MacPad. It really seems like an ideal computer. Like a … | Continue reading
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ The perfect game doesn’t exis… [🔗 @rileytestut // threads.net] 2️⃣ David Letterman’s reactions to trying the Vision Pro had me grinning from start to finish. [ … | Continue reading
I’ve been busy the last few days, so I’m taking advantage of this extra leap day that February has provided us to catch up on my annual birthday post. The past few years, I’ve used my birthday as a chance to lay out a set of goals that I wanted to complete over the next year. It … | Continue reading
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ It’s probably the hub’s fault that your devices aren’t responding. Try to purchase hubless lights and outlets instead. 2️⃣ You probably need more remotes/switches than … | Continue reading
In which I turn one of my favorite podcasts into blogging fodder each week. “The tech podcast where we’d like you to be our valentine.” ⏱️⏱️⏱️ Dan Moren: How many peripherals do you usually have connected to your computer? Well, let’s take a look! I’ve got my monitor, a 3-in-1 c … | Continue reading
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ If you, like me, are more into Superb Owls than Super Bowls then The Atlantic has you covered. Might be my favorite webpage of the year. 😁 [🔗 Alan Tayl … | Continue reading
PSA for folks looking to get the most out of a generous return period/policy:1 From Apple, you get two weeks before you need to initiate the return. And then, in my experience, another two weeks before it needs to be shipped with their free return label. I initiated a return on F … | Continue reading
It’s already been a pretty full day that started at 5AM this morning, but I have a bit of free time this afternoon before ice skating and dinner with friends. Lately, when these precious unscheduled hours present themselves, I face paralysis of choice in deciding how to fill them … | Continue reading
“The tech podcast that runs at 30 frames per second.” Audio narration generated using Shortcuts. ⏱️⏱️⏱️ Mikah Sargent: Tell me about one or two of your favorite PC or Mac apps that you really enjoy. Well, I always like giving shoutouts to my favorite apps, so I appreciate thi … | Continue reading
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ iFixit’s tear down of the Vision Pro is really something. So much tech packed into a really small space. [🔗 Charlie Sorrel // ifixit.com] 2️⃣ Spoiler, but wow, … | Continue reading
Date: 2024-02-07 23:10 Tags: Crashing Clockwise, Podcasts Author: Jarrod Blundy Quip: 🎙️: 🇪🇺🧑⚖️🍎, 🧳🖥️, 🌐, 🔗🪣, 🕑🔁, and 🖱️. — Another week, another (belated) edition of Crashing … | Continue reading
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ Pika is another new blogging platform that looks really nice for anyone who just wants to get straight to writing. Not too fiddly, but beautiful out of the box. Like S … | Continue reading
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ Uh, so Lynn Fisher made a site with an illustration of each outfit that David Rose wears throughout the entirety of Schitt’s Creek. I love it. [🔗 Dress David R … | Continue reading
What is dead may never die, so it’s so nice to see Christina and Simone together on a Relay podcast in this mini Rocket reunion episode. I can’t wait to dig in! Audio narration generated using Shortcuts. ⏱️⏱️⏱️ Mikah Sargent: Do you use widgets on your smartphone, and if you … | Continue reading
You’ve been around for a decade longer than I’ve been alive, and yet I feel a kinship in age. Maybe it’s that decade you lost, wandering the lands of Performa and Quadra. Like good wine, you’ve only gotten better with age. We once feared for your longevity and you’ve certainly ha … | Continue reading
Welcome back to the show, freshly-unfrozen host emeritus, Jason Snell. Audio narration generated using Shortcuts. ⏱️⏱️⏱️ Dan Moren: As part of the final Epic vs. Apple case decision, Apple is now allowing links to payments outside the App Store; I’m curious if you see this ac … | Continue reading
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ The Bearded Teacher made an excellent video showing off the Apple Shortcuts app. He took requests for shortcuts folks wanted made, and then walked through step-by-step … | Continue reading
Overcast, the podcast app by the internet’s Marco Arment, has long reigned supreme in the podcast nerd corner of the Apple-sphere. It’s a fast and reliable app, made by someone who cares a ton about audio quality, so it also helps your shows to sound their best. Maybe a year ago … | Continue reading
This week’s conversation was quite lively! I loved the bonus theme effects! Audio narration generated using Shortcuts. ⏱️⏱️⏱️ Mikah Sargent: Tell me about the screens that you regularly use to watch content. If we’re talking TV or movies, most of it happens on our main televi … | Continue reading
I spent some time over the last week (and a lot today) reworking the Letters project into the PenPals project. I was inspired by Kev Quirk’s organization of his emails back and forth with readers (like yours truly!) on one page. Since the project really is about the conversation, … | Continue reading
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ MrMobile (and the rest of the team at Clicks) made a physical keyboard case for the iPhone and it looks… well, it actually looks quite cool! There’s no version for my … | Continue reading
For any climbers out there, this is far and away the best video I’ve come across (and I’ve watched a ton of them) that shows how to safely set up an extended top rope anchor over an edge using an instructor tether. Bonus tips include how to cleanly deploy your rope without tangle … | Continue reading
Kevin Systrom, CEO and co-founder of Artifact, on its Medium blog: We’ve made the decision to wind down operations of the Artifact app. We launched a year ago and since then we’ve been working tirelessly to build a great product. We have built something that a core group of users … | Continue reading
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ This is an incredible(ly clever) blog built atop of Bear Blogs. [🔗 library.xandra.cc] 2️⃣ Robb made a live word cloud for the App Defaults blogging trend! [&#x … | Continue reading
Making predictions right before each Apple event is too easy — there’s all the rumors these days! This year, I want lay my cards out on the table early so that I can bask in the glory of ‘being right points’ as soon as they happen. But let’s make this interesting by playing by Th … | Continue reading
If you have an internet presence with an RSS feed — and you should — please do yourself and all your readers a favor and use a URL for that address that’s at your own domain. For example, the RSS feed for all my posts to HeyDingus is right here at the domain I own, heydingus.net, … | Continue reading
Happy New Year y’all! And welcome, Meg; it’s always exciting when there’s a brand-new guest here on the show. 😉 Oh, and let me just say that the lack of dungeon buddy talk in the intro is going to take some getting used to. Audio narration generated using Shortcuts. & … | Continue reading
Michael Steeber, in his latest Tabletops newsletter: For a moment over the holiday break, Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 models were unavailable to purchase in-store and online in the U.S. due to a patent dispute. The disruption led to some very unusual displays in … | Continue reading
Through AJ Bourg’s site, I recently become aware of the impossible list: A bucket list is focused [on] what you do before you die, the impossible list is focused on how you live. I’ve always found bucket lists to be a bit morbid, so this clicked with me. I like the idea of achiev … | Continue reading
Ever find that your cursor is acting sluggish on screen? Maybe it jumps around slightly but you can’t figure out why. Nothing in software seems to be the issue, and you already tried shaking the pointing back and forth in a vain attempt to knock some sense back into it. Try somet … | Continue reading
Following in the footsteps of Tom Whitwell, this past year I bought a house, completed climbing goals, said goodbye to beloved family members, and learned a few things: The proper way to do a kick turn when ski skinning uphill is to (1) Turn your uphill ski to a 90-degree angle t … | Continue reading
If you’ll allow me a moment of introspection, I’d love to offer my thanks at the end of the year to anyone and everyone reading these words. I’ve been writing here on HeyDingus for three years now, but it’s only been in 2023 that I feel like finally hit my stride. I wrote the mos … | Continue reading
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ 22 2️⃣ 28 3️⃣ 7 4️⃣ 3 5️⃣ 38 6️⃣ 42 7️⃣ 69 Take a Chance Thanks for reading 7 Things. If you enjoyed these links or have something neat to share, please let me know. … | Continue reading
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ 22 2️⃣ 28 3️⃣ 7 4️⃣ 3 5️⃣ 38 15 6️⃣ 42 7️⃣ 69 Take a Chance Thanks for reading 7 Things. If you enjoyed these links or have something neat to share, please let me kn … | Continue reading
Presented without sanitization or explanation. There it is. ⌘ Adios, 2023! 🎉 HeyDingus is a blog by Jarrod Blundy about technology, the great outdoors, and other musings. If you like what you see — the blog posts, wallpapers, shortcuts, scripts, or anything — please con … | Continue reading
My pen pal for the Letters project this month is Austin Huang. You can check out his home page at austinhuang.me. Here are our first and second exchanges, and our the rest of our conversation is below. (Image inspiration: Jose Munoz) ⌘ Dear Jarrod, Eh, it’s fine. I wish I could … | Continue reading
Holy smokes, I can’t believe I never thought about doing this before. Probably because I never thought I would know how to write a bookmarklet. To be fair, I still don’t, but ChatGPT does! Update (2024-01-02): Thanks to @zsbenke on the Club MacStories Discord, I’ve got a even bet … | Continue reading
If you, like me, are considering a switch from 1Password to iCloud Passwords & Keychain, you should definitely check out Indie App Santa right now. Today’s deal (Friday, December 29) is a FREE $80 (see update below) one-time lifetime unlock for the Secrets app. The skinny: Its fe … | Continue reading