As I become more cemented in the climbing community, meeting new people and expanding my “network” of fellow climber friends and acquaintances, its inevitable that I’ll know more people who will get hurt and die from our sport. Just this weekend, I learned of two falls of people … | Continue reading
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ Rachel’s put together a list of blog posts from folks’ personal websites that praise the small web. I see some familiar names there! [🔗 Rachel // projects.kwon … | Continue reading
The tech podcast where every day is Earth Day, except for that time we recorded on Mars. ⏱️⏱️⏱️ Dan Moren: Meta has rolled out its new AI Assistant in several places, including its smart glasses collaboration with Ray-Ban. Does this feel like the second coming of Google Glass, or … | Continue reading
As far as I’m concerned, this 8-minute YouTube video by Becca Farcace at The Verge is required viewing for anyone interested in the Meta Ray-Bans and will give you valuable context for this blog post. I didn’t see it until after I already had my Ray-Bans, but Farcace does an exce … | Continue reading
Speaking of drafts you discover and then decide to publish, this was from last week. So I just used ChatGPT to learn about some CSS selector concepts I was confused by and, on a whim, asked it to quiz me to make sure that I understood everything. It was a very good experience tha … | Continue reading
Speaking of cool climbing gear, if you’re getting any traditional slings for alpine draws, general extensions, or building anchors, it’s hard to beat Mammut’s Contact Slings. They’re made of dyneema, so they’re super strong and slippery, but that’s not why I like them so much. Th … | Continue reading
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ This roundup of 20 years of Google searches really brought me back. [🔗 Carmen Ang // visualcapitalist.com] 2️⃣ You’ve probably heard about MKBHD’s review of th … | Continue reading
The tech podcast that just had its gears oiled! Audio narration generated using Shortcuts. ⏱️⏱️⏱️ Mikah Sargent: What is one of the first delightful things you remember doing on the World Wide Web? Tinkering with, breaking, and eventually fixing my iServ webmail. Turns out email … | Continue reading
From my latest exchange with Ratika Deshpande: The sky is a color that refuses to be named; it is at once peach and grey and beige and white. I can’t think of anything to compare it to. In On Writing, Stephen King says that while people can go, “It was so beautiful I couldn’t des … | Continue reading
Valerie and I wrapped up our month(+) of email exchanges: And on that note, I suppose we’ll bring this part of our public conversation to a close. I’m so glad that we connected and have been able to share so much with each other. It’s been a pleasure getting to know you Valerie, … | Continue reading
Slug: /7-things-this-week-140 A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ If Keenan blogs, there’s a good chance I’m going to link to it. This time, they write about their three years working Apple Retail and ho … | Continue reading
So you like memes. (Me too!) And you like Markdown. (Right there with ya, buddy.) And you’re the sort of person who cares about web accessibility, and you do your best to add alt text (image descriptions) to all your images. (Geez, you and me are like peas and carrots!) You’ve go … | Continue reading
Say what you will about Humane’s Ai Pin1, I have to give them credit for nailing the timeline they set years ago, perhaps at the very outset of the company. Their whole brand and logo, revealed in 2018 and solidified in 2022 with their “It’s time for change” video, revolves aroun … | Continue reading
Edelrid is making some of the coolest, most forward-thinking climbing gear at the moment. My first exposure to their brand was through the Mega Jul, a belay device that offers assistive braking without any moving parts while looking and working (mostly) like a traditional tube-st … | Continue reading
My latest tiny tool is a three-action shortcut that helped me quickly get all the new descriptions for oneamonth.club formatted correctly. I had emailed all the member creators asking for their one-sentence description, so I had a bunch of messages to work through one at a time. … | Continue reading
I just watched the Apple Immersive Video MLS Highlights reel that been talked about… and I didn’t think it was nearly as bad as I expected based on the rhetoric. Sure, there were too many jump cuts that didn’t let me look long enough at any given thing. But I feel like it did a g … | Continue reading
I saw this blog post from Dominik Schwind, writing for lostfocus.de, about CSS Naked Day: It’s CSS Naked Day! And if (big if) my if works properly, you should see this website without any CSS on April 9th, 2024 in all timezones. I was intrigued, and, always being game for weird b … | Continue reading
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ Huh. Third-graders are no longer frightened of quicksand as I was. [🔗 Radiolab // overcast.fm] 2️⃣ Not sure if I’d ever actually use this web tool of pre-writt … | Continue reading
For the PenPal Project this month, I’m chatting with Ratika Deshpande, as writer’s writer — in that she’s authoring a book — and boy does it show: What does the sky look like where you are? Pictures are easy to share, but I’ve found great joy in using just words, because they don … | Continue reading
Being the Micro.blog advocate that I am (read this whole thing with that grain of salt), I’m always curious about why someone chooses to leave, as Khürt Williams did this morning: In conclusion, there are several factors leading me to withhold a full recommendation for the curren … | Continue reading
If you’re new around here, I’ll let you in on a little secret: I love building shortcuts. I have 579 of them in my personal library at the moment, and I’d guess that I built or modified about half of those at some point or another. Between my HeyDingus Shortcuts Library and my ol … | Continue reading
From my latest exchange with Valerie V.: You said, “posting a photo every day is quite a commitment”. Yes, I used to think of my blog as “posting a picture every day”. But now I think of it as “posting a picture for each day”. There are no consequences if I miss a day, or don’t h … | Continue reading
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. I was in Las Vegas all week — not to gamble, but to climb in the beautiful Red Rocks Conservation Area. It was an incredible week of climbing and descending very big rocks … | Continue reading
Manton Reese, creator of Micro.blog, with some pretty momentous news on this Easter Sunday: Some folks on Micro.blog who also actively use Bluesky have noticed something new we’ve been rolling out over the last couple of days: Micro.blog will now look for replies on Bluesky to yo … | Continue reading
I know I just shared a bunch of links in 7 Things, but then I saw this video from Scott Yu-Jan. WOW! He 3D-printed a case for the Mac Studio in the style of the original Macintosh, with a slot in the front to hold an iPad mini for the screen. As Yu-Jan says in the video, it gives … | Continue reading
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