A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ A great reminder from Rick Rubin, via Steve Ledlow. [🔗 tangiblelife.net] 2️⃣ Loved Fleabag. Definitely love it in Lego. [🔗 Trevor Carlee // youtube.com] 3️⃣ Follow this M … | Continue reading
In all the hubbub back in September wondering how Apple was going to advertise its new iPhones with Apple Intelligence when Apple Intelligence wasn’t even shipping on the new iPhones yet, I don’t recall anyone speculating how Apple Intelligence itself would be advertised. Well, w … | Continue reading
Andrew Liszewski, theverge.com: An Italian startup called Artinoise has created an unusual USB-C accessory for mobile devices that turns them into playable musical instruments. The Zefiro looks like a flash drive or a tiny vape, but by gently blowing into one end, it can be used … | Continue reading
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ What The Verge did last month to look back at the internet’s infancy in 2004 was remarkably fun. Really, go get lost in this time machine of special project. [🔗 … | Continue reading
There’s this thing that I do when I want to feel like my actions matter. I think to myself, “I am not that special.” It’s not the sort of pep talk that you might expect, and it’s pretty antithetical to what we were told as children. Back then, my teachers and parents would say, “ … | Continue reading
We’re but a handful of hours until polls open for this tumultuous Election Day, and I find myself feeling somewhere between sick with anxiety and cautiously optimistic. I doubt reading one more blog post before heading to the voting booth will change anyone’s mind about who they’ … | Continue reading
Well, it happened. I worried about it when I first got my AirPods Max, but then neglected to check on them as the years went by. It turns out that storing your AirPods Max on a stand that engages their fabric suspension will stretch it out over time. I just realized mine are enti … | Continue reading
You might remember Ratika Deshpande from my PenPal series with her. During that month, we often shared how the sky outside our windows looked, separated across the globe as they were. Well, Ratika has finished her related project, The Sky Zine. There are excepts from it on her bl … | Continue reading
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays when I can. Sometimes themed, often not. It’s been a few weeks since I’ve gotten one of these out. I’ve been a bit busy celebrating my 6th wedding anniversary with my wife and another big project. … | Continue reading
Carol Surface is out as the Chief People Officer at Apple. It was less than two years ago when I commented on Chance Miller’s post about her joining the executive team: I’m a bit surprised to see Apple hire an “outsider” for this high-profile role. I thought they had learned thei … | Continue reading
Adam Newbold, of omg.lol proprietor fame, is setting up a direct phone support line for his one-man company: I remember the days when you could just punch in a number, hear a ring or two, and talk to a person who was qualified to answer your question or help you with your problem … | Continue reading
I loved this interview and showcase of Lynn Hill on Climbing Gold. She describes the beauty and challenge of movement in rock climbing so well in this clip: But the whole point of climbing in general is to adapt yourself to the rock in the most clever way that you can using whate … | Continue reading
I loved this interview and showcase of Lynn Hill on Climbing Gold. She describes the beauty and challenge of movement in rock climbing so well in this clip: But the whole point of climbing in general is to adapt yourself to the rock in the most clever way that you can using whate … | Continue reading
Editor-in-Chief Gerald Lynch breaks the bad news in ‘One More Thing… Goodbye from iMore’: Dig out your old iPod and fire up your ‘Songs to cry to’ playlist, I come bearing sad news. After more than 15 years covering everything Apple, it’s with a heavy heart I announce that we wil … | Continue reading
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ Tyler pokes fun at the (admittedly overkill) permissions prompts in macOS Sequoia. [🔗 tyler.io] 2️⃣ Sony’s playing the nostalgia card hard with this, and I lov … | Continue reading
My barging in (and not so subtle attempt to someday be a guest) on “the tech podcast with no plans to add a new button.” ⏱️⏱️⏱️ Mikah Sargent: Are the new Instagram teen accounts a step in the right direction, or will it not have an effect at all? Speaking as someone who doesn’t … | Continue reading
I “tweeted” my first impressions of my new phone and headphones last night after about an hour of use. It all holds up still today. On the latest non-Pro AirPods: My several-sentence review of the AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation (after about 60 minutes): They seem to fit … | Continue reading
Sometimes I feel like Simon & Garfunkel wrote this song precisely so that Disturbed could perform it. Years (and many, many listens) later and it still gives me chills. HeyDingus is a blog by Jarrod Blundy about technology, the great outdoors, and other musings. If you like what … | Continue reading
My barging in (and not so subtle attempt to someday be a guest) on “the tech podcast where you can probably guess our favorite stock iPhone app…it’s the clock.” ⏱️⏱️⏱️ Dan Moren: How do you take pictures with your phone, and does the iPhone’s new Camera Control button appeal to y … | Continue reading
A list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted weekly. Sometimes themed, but often not. 1️⃣ In the department of wildly talented people, beloved Tech YouTube megastar Marques Brownlee is also a (professional) world-class Ultimate player. He recently brought home the … | Continue reading
Before we get into how I feel about the new stuff, let’s review my top picks and Bingo board results: ✅ iPhone 16 Pro with a titanium matte frame, camera parity with the Pro Max, and a capture button (ideally the size is no bigger than the 15 Pro1) ❌ Apple Watch Ultra 3 ✅ AirPods … | Continue reading
It’s Apple Event day, which means it’ll soon be time to score drafts, picks, and (for the first time here) Bingo cards! I’ve put together 24 things that I think could happen during today’s keynote video. You’ll notice, though, that some items are contradictory — I think they coul … | Continue reading
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ Steve Ledlow makes the case for the Intentional Web with this manifesto. [🔗 tangiblelife.net] 2️⃣ Matt Birchler reviewed his year-ago review of the iPhone 15 P … | Continue reading
I wanted to offer a quick follow-up to my post congratulating Marco Arment on the rewrite of Overcast, his podcast app. It’s hard to imagine you being in this corner of the blog-and-podcast-osphere and not hearing about Overcast’s 10th anniversary relaunch and how the removal and … | Continue reading
My barging in (and not so subtle attempt to someday be a guest) on “the tech podcast once again hosted by Dan Moren.” ⏱️⏱️⏱️ Mikah Sargent: What is your go-to external storage option? This is an easy one. I really only have one external storage thing in use, and it’s a Samsung T- … | Continue reading
Let’s do this. ⌘ Hey y’all! Our little corner of the internet, led by the fine folks at the Relay podcast network, is back at it again, raising funds for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. There is so much to be said for the amazing work that St. Jude does to treat kids with … | Continue reading
Getting back into reading the Make Something Wonderful book this morning, I was struck by the very first story I saw as I turned the page. It’s the “Email Exchange Between Steve, Intel CEO, and an Intel Engineer” in the 1985-1996 section. Since it’s not easily linkable, you’ll fi … | Continue reading
Holy smokes, I’ve done it! This is post #31/31 for Blaugust 2024. While it’s not my first time writing at least one post for every day of the month, this kind of volume/consistency is pretty rare for my blog. As I wrote in my halfway point check-in post, the first few weeks went … | Continue reading
As I write these words, I’m sitting in the passenger seat of my wife’s car as she drives us down I-90W out of New York State and toward Pennsylvania and Ohio. Although we’ve driven through this way before on our way back to see family in Michigan, this will be the first time we’r … | Continue reading
Writing about my work shift scheduling shortcut reminded me that I used to use another shortcut on a weekly basis in the workplace. Since I get paper paychecks with no digital paper trail, I wanted to be able to easily scan a copy the paystub into my Finances folder. Doing so was … | Continue reading
You know me, I’m always up for spending an hour to make a shortcut that’ll save a few minutes each week. In this case, I grew tired of duplicating and dragging around my work calendar events each time the schedule came out. Now, with just a couple of taps, my whole week’s work of … | Continue reading
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. I’m off to Ohio for a wedding this weekend, so (perhaps for the first time ever) you’re getting an issue of 7 Things early! 1️⃣ MereCivilian turned a 13-year-old iPad 2 in … | Continue reading
My barging in (and not so subtle attempt to someday be a guest) on “the tech podcast where our favorite muppet is The Count.” ⏱️⏱️⏱️ Dan Moren: Do you buy books from Apple Books and read on your iPhone or iPad, and if not, how do you do most of your reading? While my Apple Books … | Continue reading
It’s time to jump aboard another blogging fad from those trendy guys over on Hemispheric Views. Oh, what’s that? I’m late? Shoot, I guess it was waaay back in May that Martin, Andrew and Jason spoke about their perfect albums. And then Robb, of course, put together an amazing cov … | Continue reading
[Steps up onto soap box.] I actively avoid using Snapchat because its notification system is so bad. It’s a messaging service that doesn’t show you your messages in the notification preview. Instead, you get bland and unhelpful notifications saying “John sent a message.” Great. I … | Continue reading
I’ve gotta share with you one of the small changes that my wife and I made to our home that’s had a far outsized effect on our wellbeing. A life hack, if you will. It’s to turn off your microwave. Well, not quite turn it off. But turn off two specific functions of it. First, turn … | Continue reading
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Monday (this time). Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ If you read my site, I think there’s a good chance that you also listen to a Relay podcast. They just celebrated 10 years as a network, and this is a touchi … | Continue reading
Manu Moreale, writing on his blog about how the digital world often reflects the physical one: There was a time when forums were the cities of the web but now are more like small towns. They’re the place where people congregate around shared interests. Spend enough time on one an … | Continue reading
After another (let’s be honest, expected) delay on my part, I’ve wrapped up my PenPal conversation with Steve Ledlow of Tangible Life. For our final exchange, Steve told me more about his kids’ dance competitions: Dance comps for my older two girls are pretty competitive, but eac … | Continue reading
My (not so subtle) attempt to someday guest on “the tech podcast where Dan has abandoned us once again.” ⏱️⏱️⏱️ Mikah Sargent: What is a third-party app that you think everyone should have on their phone? This was a hard one to answer because the hosts and guests picked such good … | Continue reading
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ Luke Burrage took on the Herculean task of editing the 100 episodes of the Hypercritcal podcast, hosted by John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin, into new episodes, each by s … | Continue reading
Today is August 17th, so we’re over halfway through Blaugust 2024 and I thought I would just let you know how it’s going. Bonus, it counts for my blog post for today. After a few months of mostly not blogging, having a goal to post something every day was a real jump. Kind of col … | Continue reading
My mother-in-law sent a message to the family group chat a few days ago that went something like this: “Hey, there’s still a few weeks left of summer and I think we should all play a long-distance game together. Let’s all download a license plate tracker app, and compete to find … | Continue reading
Much like I think it’s important to do hard things, I also think it’s important to make yourself do scary things from time to time. I’m a rock climber. I’ve been climbing for half my life. I earn a notable portion of my income as a rock climbing guide, helping people to get outsi … | Continue reading
My (not so subtle) attempt to someday guest on “the podcast that always arrives precisely when it means to.” ⏱️⏱️⏱️ Dan Moren: Would you consider a Mac mini in its rumored new even smaller form factor? I’m a current Mac mini user (the M1 version), and I adore it! The Mac mini’s a … | Continue reading
Morning A fairly normal morning in the shop. I arrived at 8:45am and got things opened up, set bikes out front, and pulled in eBike batteries to recharge. Organized the rental bikes so that the road and gravel bikes were all on one side and the mountain bikes on the other. Caught … | Continue reading
So you remember how I installed that smart bird feeder camera a few days ago? Well, I filled it up with birdseed the next day and was delighted to see it capture videos of cute birds coming in for a snack. But birds aren’t the only thing hungry around here it seems. When I checke … | Continue reading
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays (or Mondays if I fall asleep early and forget to publish). Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ This would indeed be a perfect Deadpool moment. [🔗 threads.net] 2️⃣ This animal/human safety Instagra … | Continue reading