No Face ID nor iPad apps wrenches my iPhone Duo(?) purchase plans 🔗
The Verge’s headline sums up Mark Gurman’s latest report on Apple’s folding phone quite succinctly: ‘iPhone Fold rumor: iPad-like multitasking, but no [...]
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7 Things This Week [#182] 🔗
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ Jose Munoz has a good tip for not get [...]
You can (maybe?) save non-passwords in Apple Passwords 🔗
Ricky Mondello, from the Apple Passwords team, shared a crucial hidden feature for saving arbitrary data in their app: [I]f anyone ever wants to save [...]
Lisa Jackson leaves big shoes to fill at Apple 🔗
Note: I drafted this back on December 4th, but never got around to posting it. Just this morning, I was thinking to myself, “I wonder what Lisa Jackso [...]
Netflix’s ‘Famous Last Words’ is ingenious and not easily replicated 🔗
The premise of Netflix’s Famous Last Words is simply brilliant. From its announcement: What would you say if you knew it would be your last opportunit [...]
2025 & 2026 Fitness Goals 🔗
I’m on a flight to Vegas for New Year’s with only about 30 minutes left before touchdown, so let’s quick recap a few fitness-related goals I set out t [...]
I’m not a ring guy, but… 🔗
I’m not a ring guy. My parents had to cajole me into getting a class ring back in high school, telling me that it would be something that I would late [...]
Grandma Beck 🔗
My maternal grandmother, Laureen Ann Beck, recently passed away. We had a memorial service for her yesterday, filled with family and friends. Here are [...]
Micro.blog offers an indie alternative to YouTube with its ‘Studio’ video hosting plan 🔗
The core of Micro.blog’s mission is to make it easy for people to own their presence on the web. At first, it was a simple blog host that also incorpo [...]
7 Things This Week [#181] 🔗
A weekly-ish list of interesting things I found on the internet. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ Greg Morris points out some minor oddities in the re [...]
It’s on Apple TV 🔗
The madness just got madder. ‘Apple TV+’ is now just ‘Apple TV’. I noticed something was off right away when I saw Apple’s streaming date announcement [...]
Post-Apple Event Gadget Waffling 🔗
I enjoyed writing gut reactions to the product announcements live during the event, but here’s how things are shaping up for my apple.com shopping car [...]
Live Thoughts on Apple’s September Event 🔗
AirPods Did they say foam tips for the new AirPods? Moving away from silicone tips? In-person live translation looks amazing. But you’ll need a newer [...]
Rapid-Fire Pre-iPhone Event Thoughts 🔗
Can I publish this in the 4 minutes before the keynote starts??1 iPhone I went way too low on device storage space last year, so I’m definitely buying [...]
On Tim Cook, Cowardice, and Leadership 🔗
In these, the minutes before the September 2025 Apple Event, in which I — and many others — will fawn over the company’s latest gadgets, I felt I had [...]
7 Things This Week [#180] 🔗
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ Jamie Thingelstad got a Messages-like [...]
7 Things This Week [#179] 🔗
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ Remember that wild painting in the final episode of Seve [...]
I just don’t feel like blogging today 🔗
So I’m simply not going to do it, and you can’t make me. 😜 This is post #9/31 for Blaugust 2025. HeyDingus is a blog by Jarrod Blundy about technol [...]
One Small Improvement 🔗
So I just typed into ChatGPT, “I need an easy prompt for a Blaugust post.” Here’s what I got: What’s one small habit or tool that’s made your life not [...]
Your Time, Our Time, All Time 🔗
The extreme preciousness of time is the point of this video by the To Scale: channel, but I hope you’ll spend 10 minutes of yours to watch it and marv [...]
Burning the Candle 🔗
Here I am, again, blogging past 11pm to try to keep up with my Blaugust goal. Although I am typically a night owl, this week I’ve been both night owl [...]
Oasis Is No Longer So 🔗
12 minutes and counting to write and publish this thing to meet my arbitrary goal of writing a post every day, on the day, for Blaugust. Let’s do this [...]
7 Things This Week [#178] 🔗
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays (or sometimes Mondays). Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ Getting the Pe [...]
Keep Calm and Carry a Towel 🔗
Sorry for the clickbait title, but I haven’t read the book. The phrase just occurred to me as I was driving back from a short canoe paddle with my wif [...]
Some Sounds From My Backyard 🔗
I went outside with my MacBook today to answer some emails and work on upcoming trip logistics for my guiding service. My wife is sitting next to me, [...]
Oh Shit, It’s Blaugust 🔗
Image: aggronaut.com ⌘ Well, that really snuck up on me. Here I was, power-puttering™ around on the computer: today is the first of August. Not only [...]
Upgraded Introduces an iPad Pro Upgrade Program That Beats Apple’s Own Prices 🔗
Fans of Apple’s iPhone Upgrade Program — the one where you pay monthly for an iPhone and have the opportunity to upgrade to a new model after a given [...]
7 Things This Week [#177] 🔗
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ Got a move streak mix up on your Appl [...]
Kobo Plans a Hot Swap of Pocket for Instapaper (And Pocket Lives on as Folio) 🔗
I’m thrilled to learn (via episode #573 of the Upgrade podcast with Myke Hurley and “Mr. Kobo” himself, Jason Snell) that Kobo has announced a new par [...]
Pouring One Out for Pocket 🔗
Well, a little less than two months since Mozilla announced it was happening, Pocket, the venerable read-it-later service, has officially shut down. I [...]
7 Things This Week [#176] 🔗
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ Nick Heer does the work in dismantlin [...]