I'm undoubtedly guilty of flaunting my own status symbols, but after living most of my life here in the South, I found myself nodding along and agreeing with every tweet in this thread.
There's a level of toxicity that goes along with truck culture that you don't see with other hobbies (for lack of a better word).
(I'm extra motivated to link to this after one of those $90k testosterone rides ran me to the side of the road last night for "only" doing 80 in a 65.)
Exceptionally well put by @drewcrawford.
This is the narrative of the last decade.
All that happened and all that we’ll never know we missed out on - over a paranoid, institutionalized fear of not making enough profit.
I am dead now.
I mean, goddam, that's a perfect way to phrase it.
That tweet by William Herold was in response to this one by Peter Steinberger lamenting about Apple removing iDos from the iOS App Store.
Lovely piece about habits, UI changes, and OS stagnation from Riccardo Mori. I'm not sure which part to quote, so just go read the whole thing instead.
Vin Sculley in the Los Angeles Times:
"I would say that I’m healing to reality, and I will try to do the best that I can for as long as I have."
"... I have been so grateful for the life that I’ve had. My relationship was as good as it could possibly be. The pain is part of the price."
"I don’t feel like I really have done anything except I’ve lived a long time."
This is something I’ve long intuited based on my own web browsing habits but never really put into words. When I stop and think about it, modern web browsers drive me crazy by limiting tabs to a maximum width because that width is almost never enough to show the full page title.
Well, except one web browser: Safari.
If Safari on macOS Monterey is heading in a similar direction where web page titles are going to be even more truncated, that’s going to make me sad. I guess we should do something about it.
Continue reading →A few weeks ago I built a niche little app idea dubbed MeetingBuddy. You choose a target app from a pre-defined list (or pick any app on your Mac) and a time interval and MeetingBuddy starts screenshotting that app’s windows.
Each recording session goes into its own folder where all of the screenshots are organized by date. But! while this is all going on, MeetingBuddy is also OCR-ing any text found in the screenshots and storing that alongside each image in a sidecar file.
You end up with a folder of recordings for each session. Images and their corresponding text contents.
Why is this useful? Honestly, I’m not exactly sure that it is just yet. But here’s what I’ve been using it for.
Continue reading →Need some good vibes tonight. For no other reason than that, here are five short videos that bring me joy.
My three favorite Letterman musical performances:
The funniest scene in movie history. (I'd argue the best ever.)