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
I’ve got some time, I’ll write up a few of those blog posts on the back burner! [Starts writing and then — bum bum bum — hits a small speed bump in the workflow] I bet I could write a script to make that better real quick. Oh, that was a clever solution! I should share it real qu … | Continue reading
M.G. Siegler started to raise my hackles when he wrote on his 500ish blog about how Apple’s latest iPhone event cemented his feeling that the pre-recorded keynote video missed the mark — not in content, but in format: Since the pandemic, I’ve been a fan of Apple’s production of t … | Continue reading
Brent Simmons, writing for inessential.com on the viability of shoehorning his RSS reader app into also being a Mastodon client: It still seems like RSS and Mastodon could fit in the same app, though! If I were designing it, I’d start with the social media experience: the single … | Continue reading
I very much enjoyed this holiday and year-end-themed episode of Clockwise. Audio narration generated using Shortcuts. ⏱️⏱️⏱️ Mikah Sargent: What was a time that tech made you happy this year? I know I just talked about my smart home stuff a few weeks ago, but it’s those Lutro … | Continue reading
Amazon, in an email tonight: We are writing to you today about an upcoming change to your Prime Video experience. Starting January 29, Prime Video movies and TV shows will include limited advertisements. This will allow us to continue investing in compelling content and keep incr … | Continue reading
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. Happy Holidays! 🎄 1️⃣ Elf 2️⃣ How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Jim Carrey version) 3️⃣ The Grinch (Benedict Cumberbatch version) 4️⃣ The Santa Clause 5️⃣ White Chri … | Continue reading
(Image inspiration: Jose Munoz) ⌘ I’m chatting with Austin for the PenPals project this month. Our second exchange, as summarized by ChatGPT, is below: Austin reflects on his varied knowledge and potential consulting opportunities after meeting someone accidentally during a campu … | Continue reading
My first episode with the incomparable(’s) Jason Snell! Audio narration generated using Shortcuts. ⌚️⌚️⌚️ Dan Moren: Do you use any additional security measures on top of the standard recommended practices? I’ve got Advanced Data Protection turned on for my Apple devices, but … | Continue reading
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ I was captivated by this tale of Cerro Torre, an iconic peak in Patagonia, that was plagued by controversy about who actually climbed it first, and by what means. It’s … | Continue reading
There’s no reason not to call people what they want to be called. We all go through transitions of some sort throughout our lives, and most of those transitions come with a new name for ourselves. From “Bobby” to “Rob” to “Mr. Richards”. Or from “a little lady” to “a child” to “a … | Continue reading
It’s no secret that I’ve become enamored with listening to web articles being read aloud to me. I’ve been testing the narration features of Reader, Instapaper, and Omnivore. (Spoiler: Reader’s is good, Instapaper’s is okay, and Omnivore’s is next-level) But what about elsewhere o … | Continue reading
Derek Sivers: Seems we had both been told the accident was our fault, and had spent eighteen years feeling bad about it. This time she started crying, sniffled, grabbed a tissue to wipe her eyes and said, “It’s so stupid - these stories.” And Aim a laser pointer at the moon, then … | Continue reading
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ People are amazing. This guy made an AirPods Pro charging case from off-the-shelf parts and 3D prints. [🔗 Exploring the Simulation // youtube.com] (Via Nick He … | Continue reading
I’ve got a twofer tip today, and it’s all in the title. Help Siri Out a Little Bit Sometimes it’s nice to have multiple ways to run a shortcut. Apple clearly understands this as they provide many ways to launch one. We can run shortcuts from the app, the share sheet, widgets, Sir … | Continue reading
The folks in my Micro.blog timeline are a witty bunch. One day I hope to quip as well as them. I’ve rounded up a collection of my favorite jokes from during the (most of) keynote.1 Unofficial Master of Mirth: Lex Friedman This is a really sweet solution. #WWDC John Moltz https: … | Continue reading
I’ve had some things bouncing around my mind for a while that I’ve wanted to try out on HeyDingus. I’ve also been feeling under the weather the last few days. So, naturally, instead of taking my afternoon off to rest, I did a bunch of typing and formatting and tweaking, and am pu … | Continue reading
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ The idea that any species on Earth could be older than Saturn’s rings is absolutely bonkers. [🔗 phys.org] (via Jason Kottke) 2️⃣ I don’t use the Arc browser, b … | Continue reading
Keith Wagner, writing for his “kind of a climbing blog” Chasing Hawks: There’s no such thing as being lost, you’re just on a different route than the one you intended. And “should have.” Can we talk about that concept? To say you should have done something implies that there was … | Continue reading