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Some Books
An internet friend asked the other day: It appears I have finally rebooted my reading hobby, after years of trying. Feels good. What’s something great you’ve read? Here’s some of my favorites (in no particular order).
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Migrating Day One Journal Entries to Obsidian
I recently moved away from Day One and am now using Obsidian to keep my daily journal. To make that possible, I needed to migrate over a decade’s worth of journal entries into an Obsidian-friendly format. When I first started using Day One, I wrote about it on this blog and said one of the requirements needed to be […]
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All Your Brand Are Belong To Us
The last iOS redesign, iOS 7 in 2013, laid the foundation for a neutral, nearly agnostic visual language that third-party developers and companies could build their own brand and corporate design on top of. It was such a clean slate that, twelve years later, most major apps look similar — if not identical — between […]
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minifeed
I recently discovered minifeed, and it has quickly become one of my favorite things on the internet. Once, maybe twice a day, I load the homepage and browse through the latest posts from real blogs written by real humans. I almost always find something surprising, delightful, weird, or just plain fun to read. Even better, I come away with a new blogger to follow.
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Advice
My son turned eleven last month. He reads all the time (fantasy books are his favorite) and has started planning and building his own worlds to write stories about. He made a to-do list in his writing notebook, and I asked him if I could share it here. It's good advice.
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Re: Music Year-End Lists
What should have been an email is now this blog post listing my top music albums from 2024. I'm not sure what to make of them other than to notice it's a much louder collection of artists than in past years. Why louder? Well, _gestures wildly at the world_
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Steve
An eighteen hour family road trip the week before Thanksgiving certainly gives your mind time to wander and the opportunity to play. So, let's play. Steve is a new, casual, puzzle game for your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro. The goal is simple. Fill the grid using the correct number of blocks. As my family and friends and (so far) five-hundred strangers will tell you, it's easy to learn. But annoyingly difficult to master.
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Little Known macOS Sequoia System Extensions
macOS Sequoia has added a surprising number of new and curious warning prompts for third-party apps.
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Here
Yesterday, we entered a new timeline. I don’t know if it’s a better one or a much worse one. But it’s something new.
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Light Switch in a Dark Room
We're over a decade into the industry's voice assistant experiment, and given the same input, the output doesn't feel reliably deterministic. Voice is an interface that is not stable or discoverable.